If you'll open your
Bibles to Revelation chapter 16,
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in Revelation the 16th
chapter, verse 12. The sixth
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angel poured out his bowl
on the great river Euphrates.
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Now, I want you to get
your mental cameras rolling
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tonight and get an
image. A good way to study
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Revelation is to try
to picture in your minds
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exactly what it is that
you're reading, so get an
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image of what's unfolding here.
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The sixth angel pours
out his bowl on the great
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river Euphrates and the
water is dried up to prepare
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the way for the kings
that come from the East.
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And, then I saw three
evil spirits that looked like
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frogs that came out of
the mouth of the dragon,
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out of the mouth of the
beast and out of the mouth
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of the false prophet.
They are the spirits of
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demons performing signs
and miracles, as they go
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out to the kings of the
whole world to gather them
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for battle on the great
day of God Almighty. And, they
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gathered them to the
place that in Hebrew is called
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Armageddon. In verse 16,
ever since John pinned these
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words on the Isle of
Patmos, nearly 2000 years ago,
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men have pondered the
significance, the meaning
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of Armageddon. Where is
Armageddon? When will this
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great battle on the great
day of God Almighty take place.
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What is Armageddon?
And, once again tonight
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minds are running,
speculation is going at a
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feverish pitch, are we
now in Armageddon? Well,
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I'm so thankful that
we don't have to turn to
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newspapers, national
enquirers like we saw the
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other night.
Armageddon has begun or even
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politicians. General Dwight,
General Douglas MacArthur
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standing on the deck of
the USS Missouri, when he
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signed the treaty
bringing an end to World War II.
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He made a statement,
military alliance, balance
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of power, league of nations,
all in turn have failed,
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we've had our last
chance and if we do not device
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some greater, more equitable
system, Armageddon will
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be at our door. Now, I
wonder is it possible for
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politicians using diplomatic
finesse and negotiations
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to put off the battle of
the great day of God Almighty?
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower,
our president, Dwight D.
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Eisenhower in 1961 reported
in the Forth Worth Times.
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He said, "looming in
the background is a grim
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reality, nuclear tip missiles
place all of us even Chicago
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within 30 minutes of
Armageddon. And, again
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I wonder, is it possible
for some mentally deranged
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lunatic to press the buttons
igniting the fuse for the
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battle of the great day
of God Almighty or is there
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something more, if
they're missing and once again
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at this very moment as
the tanks are rumbling down
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the highways and the
deserts of Iraq. Speculation is
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brewing at a feverish
pitch, is this Armageddon?
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Is this the final countdown
to the final war? The best
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way to answer that question
is to let the Bible answer
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it for us, Amen. "Amen."
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And to compare scripture
with scripture and line up
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fence posts like we've
been doing at Revelation Now
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and we're gonna discover
a surprising and exciting
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answer. Let's look in
the immediate context of the
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Book of Revelation.
First in the immediate context
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of the chapter of
the Battle of Armageddon,
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then we wanna look in
the whole book and finally
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the whole Bible, all
the way through and then
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you'll see crystal
clear, what is the significance,
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the meaning, where is
Armageddon and what does it
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have to do with you?
That's the most important
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question. I wanna begin
again, let's read that verse
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that we started with
in verse 12, chapter 16.
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The sixth angel poured
out his bowl on the great
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river Euphrates and
its water was dried up to
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prepare the way for
the kings from the East and
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I saw evil, unclean
spirits coming out of the mouth
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of the dragon, the
beast, and the false prophet,
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deceiving the whole
world gathering them for
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battle on the great day of
God Almighty. Now, remember
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the first principle for
understanding Revelation
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is that all prophecies
must focus in and center on
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Jesus Christ. Well, where
is Jesus here? Three angels
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coming out of the
beast, mouth of the beast,
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the dragon, the false prophet
deceiving the whole world,
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where is Jesus here?
Pouring out his bowl on the
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Euphrates River, drying
up the water, preparing the
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way for the kings from
the East. Where is Jesus here?
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Hold on, hold on, you're
gonna see something precious
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and special in this prophecy.
The word Armageddon is only
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found one place in the
Bible and that's right here.
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So the only way we can
really understand it, is to
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find it and look at it in
its immediate context. Here it's
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found as the sixth of
the seven last plagues.
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Otherwise, known of
as the great tribulation,
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as poured out on this
earth. The seventh plaque, we
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read in verse 17. When
the seventh angel poured out
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his bowl in the air and
out of the temple came a loud
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voice from the
throne, saying, "It is done!"
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it is done, what is done?
It is done he said, and then
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there came flashes of
lightning, rumbling, peals
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of thunder and a great
earthquake like never has
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occurred on earth
since man has been here so
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tremendous was the
quake. Verse 19, the great
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city was split into three
parts and the cities of the
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nations collapsed. And, God
remembered Babylon the Great.
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So, the ultimate final
end result of the battle of
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Armageddon is the
destruction of Babylon
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the Great. God remembered
Babylon. Now, why is it
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important that Babylon
is destroyed, why is it
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important that God remembers
Babylon and brings this
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final destruction on her
as the sixth and the seventh
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plaque, because in
chapter 18 verse 20,
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talking about the
destruction of Babylon, "rejoice
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over her, oh! Heaven!
Rejoice, saints and apostles
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and prophets!" God has
judged her, why? For the
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way she has treated you.
In other words, in verse 24,
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in her Babylon was found
the blood of the prophets
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and of the saints, and
of all who have been killed
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on the earth. Sometimes,
it seems as though the
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bad things happen to
good people and the wicked get
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a free pass. It seems as
though God has forgotten,
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but finally he says,
I'm here. I remember, I know
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the suffering you've
been through and Babylon
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is history. In order
to understand Armageddon
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we've got to fully
understand the meaning of the
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destruction of Babylon.
And in order to do that,
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remember our second
principle was, that the
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Book of Revelation
quotes the Old Testament,
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one more time, how many?
Over 600 times and here's
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another one of those places,
he is referring to Daniel.
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In Daniel the 5th chapter,
we find the fall of Babylon
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in the Old Testament.
We've already talked about
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that so I'm gonna go
quickly and kind of review
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several things tonight,
but remember the background
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for the Book of Daniel is
in Daniel chapter 1 verse 1,
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King Nebuchadnezzar send
his armies into Jerusalem,
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they captured the city,
they captured the people,
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they went into the
temple, and they took those Holy
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cups and they
brought them back to Babylon
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along with the people
captive, put them in the
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Babylonian temple,
used them to drink to the
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Babylonian Gods.
Thus profaning the things,
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putting to a common
use that which God has
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said is Holy. And,
finally God sent a message
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to Babylon. In chapter
5 verse 1, King Belshazzar
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gave a great banquet for
a thousand of his nobles and
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he drank wine with
them. And, while he was in the
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mist of this drunken stupor,
he gave the order to bring
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in those gold and silver
goblets that Nebuchadnezzar
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had brought from the temple
of God, then put them in the
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Babylonian temple and he
filled them with Babylonian
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wine and began to
drink to the Babylonian Gods.
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Again trampling underfoot
the thing that God had set
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aside and made Holy,
treating it in a common
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ordinary way, so God
sent him a message remember,
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it was a hand, just a
hand of a man and it wrote a
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message on the wall,
Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin
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and Daniel interpreted,
he translated the message,
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he said to King Belshazzar,
he said, you knew what
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you were doing Belshazzar.
You knew about the Most
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High God, but you've
not humbled yourself.
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In verse 23, you've
set yourself up against the
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Lord of heaven. Now, how
did Belshazzar set himself up
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against the God of heaven.
You brought those vessels,
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you brought those goblets
from the temple and you and
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your nobles and your
wives and your concubines drank
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wine from them. You praised
the Gods of silver and gold,
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of bronze, iron, wood,
stone, which cannot see, hear
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or understand. But you did
not honor the God, who holds
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in his hand your
life and all of your ways.
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Therefore, he sent
the hand that wrote the
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inscription. And, this
is what it says Mene, Mene,
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Tekel, Upharsin. Mene:
God has numbered the days of
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your reign Belshazzar
and brought it to an end.
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Tekel: You've been weighed
in the balances and found
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wanting. Upharsin: Your
kingdom is divided and given
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to the Medes and the
Persians. In other words
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Babylon has fallen.
Belshazzar, you knew
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all of this, it wasn't
as though you were ignorant,
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it wasn't as though you
didn't understand, it wasn't
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as though you didn't
realize what you were doing,
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when you drank from
those golden cups, you knew
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that you were profaning
God and trampling underfoot
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the things that he had
said were holy, Belshazzar
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you knew. And, that's why
he said, Babylon has fallen.
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Now, notice that when
Daniel made the proclamation
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that Babylon has
fallen. Babylon was still there.
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It wasn't until later
on that night that Babylon
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actually fell. So, why did
God let time elapse between
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the announcement that
Babylon has fallen and
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the actual destruction of
Babylon. Let's take a look,
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in verse 30. That very
night Belshazzar, king of the
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Babylonians was slain,
and Darius the Mede took over
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the kingdom at the age of
62. Now, history tells us and
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the Bible confirms it,
we'll see it in a moment, how
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Babylon actually
fell. King Cyrus sent Darius
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the Mede, he was a
king from the Medo-Persian
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Empire to capture
Babylon. Now, I want you to get
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that picture back in
your minds that we had when
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we read the first few
verses tonight. Because you
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see the Medo-Persian
Empire was the kingdom
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that lay to the East
of Babylon. And Cyrus was
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the king who came from
the East to attack the City
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of Babylon. And, the way
he did it was that Babylon
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was built on the waters of
the Euphrates River. In fact
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the river went under the
gate on one side of the city,
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through the city and
out under the gate on
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the other side. The Euphrates
River was the lifeline of
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Babylon, without the
Euphrates there could have
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been no city there. But
the king, who, Cyrus the
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king who came from the
East put a dam across the
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Euphrates River, drying
up the water, diverting it
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around the City of
Babylon and his armies marched
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through on a dry river
bed underneath the gates into
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the city just in time to
catch them in the mist of
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their drunken celebrations
and captured Babylon without
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firing a shot, so to
speak. Now, put together
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in your mind what you're
seeing with the verse we've
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read in the beginning.
The sixth angel poured out
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his bowl on the great
river Euphrates, its water was
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dried up to prepare the way
for the kings from the East.
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You see it, see heads
nodding all over the place.
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You see it, but what
does it mean? Well, the key to
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understanding what
it means is the identity
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of King Cyrus. Who was Cyrus?
Who was this king that came
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from the East, dried up
the Euphrates River, captured
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Babylon? Isaiah chapter
41, verse 2, who has stirred
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one up from the East,
calling him in righteousness
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to his service. Chapter 42,
verse 1, here is my servant,
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whom I uphold, my
chosen one in whom I delight.
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Look, chapter 44, chapter
44, verse 27, who says of the
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watery deep be dry, and
I will dry up your streams,
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who says of Cyrus, he
is my shepherd and he will
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accomplish all that I please
and he will say of Jerusalem,
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let it be rebuilt and of
the temple, let its foundations
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be laid. This is what
the Lord said to his anointed
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one, to Cyrus, whose
right hand I take hold of. Now,
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this is a
remarkable prophecy folks, why?
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Because Isaiah wrote that
prophecy, hundreds of years
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before Cyrus was even
born and identified him as the
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one who would dry up the
Euphrates River and capture
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Babylon. Now, why is that
important, I'll tell you why?
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If God knew who Cyrus
was by name before he was
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even born then it means
that God knows who you are,
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by name, and he knew you
even before you were born.
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He knows everything
about you. In fact he even
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knew before you were
born that you would be
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sitting right here in
this place tonight. Nothing
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happens to you that God
isn't aware of. Sometimes
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it seems like it, sometimes
it seems like he is long ago
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and far away. Sometimes
it seems like our prayers are
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just bouncing off
the ceiling, sometimes it
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seems like life is just
caving in all around us,
00:18:53.35\00:18:56.61
sometimes it seems as though
the devil has nothing at all
00:18:58.06\00:19:00.86
to do on this earth
expect camp at our doorstep.
00:19:00.89\00:19:03.94
What about you? You lost a
loved one? Are you battling
00:19:06.94\00:19:12.65
a life threatening disease,
cancer. Babies, perhaps die
00:19:13.83\00:19:20.57
before he takes his first
breath. Is the devil camping
00:19:20.60\00:19:24.66
at your doorstep, is
your home about to fall apart,
00:19:24.69\00:19:29.71
are the bills stacking
up and the checks getting
00:19:31.22\00:19:33.48
smaller, does it feel
like you're on the brink of
00:19:33.51\00:19:36.97
financial ruin. Is the
devil camping on your doorstep.
00:19:37.00\00:19:42.34
Take courage, God
knows what's happening.
00:19:45.84\00:19:49.76
He knows you, in
fact, when Saul went out and
00:19:51.21\00:19:55.76
persecuted all the
people, Christians, believers in
00:19:55.79\00:20:00.79
Christ when he persecuted
them, Jesus caught him
00:20:00.82\00:20:04.58
and struck him blind
he said, Saul, why are you
00:20:04.61\00:20:08.78
persecuting me?
Whatever happens to you,
00:20:08.81\00:20:12.70
happens to him. He knows
you, he loves you, he cares for
00:20:12.73\00:20:17.38
you, he is right next to you
and he is gonna make it right
00:20:17.41\00:20:22.51
and that's what Armageddon
is all about. Now, why did
00:20:24.85\00:20:29.53
God raise up Cyrus,
what purpose did he have?
00:20:29.56\00:20:35.06
Verse 13 of chapter
45, chapter 45:13 tells us,
00:20:36.15\00:20:42.06
I will raise up Cyrus in my
righteousness and I will make
00:20:42.38\00:20:47.31
all of his ways straight.
Notice, I'll make all of his
00:20:47.34\00:20:52.39
way straight and he
will rebuild my city and set
00:20:52.42\00:20:56.31
my exiles free. In fact
in chapter 44, verse 25, it
00:20:56.34\00:21:02.49
says he will say of Jerusalem
let it be rebuild and the
00:21:02.52\00:21:05.55
temple, let its
foundations be laid. Why did God
00:21:05.58\00:21:09.66
raise up Cyrus?
Because Jerusalem was in ruins
00:21:09.69\00:21:14.67
and God's people were in
Babylon. And, the temple was
00:21:14.70\00:21:19.14
the focal point of Israel's
worship, that's where the
00:21:19.17\00:21:24.56
Ark of the Covenant
was, that's where the mercy
00:21:24.59\00:21:27.56
seat was, that's where
the Shekinah glory of God
00:21:27.59\00:21:30.79
was, that's where God
met with his people and
00:21:30.82\00:21:33.72
as long as that temple
was in ruins then the true
00:21:33.75\00:21:36.83
worship of the true
creator God was not found
00:21:36.86\00:21:40.56
on this earth. But when
God said, I will raise up
00:21:40.59\00:21:45.05
Cyrus and he will set my
people free and sent them
00:21:45.08\00:21:49.23
back to Jerusalem to rebuild
the temple then they would
00:21:49.26\00:21:53.62
restore the true worship of
the true God, and that's why
00:21:53.65\00:21:58.49
he raised up Cyrus. You
must always look for the purpose
00:21:59.42\00:22:04.79
behind the prophecy.
God isn't just a crystal
00:22:04.82\00:22:08.43
ball gazer saying,
here's what's gonna happen in
00:22:08.46\00:22:11.47
the future. God has a purpose
for everything that he says
00:22:11.50\00:22:15.11
and his word contains
the power to make it happen.
00:22:15.14\00:22:18.44
Now, I don't know if you
caught it, but just in case
00:22:21.23\00:22:25.01
you didn't, let me make
it crystal clear. Isaiah said
00:22:25.04\00:22:29.43
that Cyrus was the servant.
The Cyrus was the Shepherd.
00:22:29.83\00:22:36.87
Cyrus, the anointed
one. Cyrus, the chosen one.
00:22:38.12\00:22:43.33
Cyrus, the righteous one.
But the New Testament says,
00:22:43.69\00:22:51.88
Jesus is the servant.
Jesus is the Shepherd,
00:22:53.46\00:23:00.53
Jesus is the righteous
one, Jesus is the chosen one,
00:23:01.69\00:23:06.51
Jesus is the anointed
one. You see Cyrus was a type,
00:23:08.54\00:23:13.84
a shadow pointing forward
to a greater king who would
00:23:14.62\00:23:18.93
come from the East,
King Jesus, now you see
00:23:18.96\00:23:25.06
Jesus in Revelation 16.
The angel poured out his
00:23:25.09\00:23:29.12
bowl on the Euphrates
River. The water was dried up to
00:23:29.15\00:23:32.27
prepare the way for the kings
from the East, that's Jesus.
00:23:32.30\00:23:35.30
It's not the Chinese or
the Japanese or the Arabs,
00:23:36.61\00:23:40.10
it's Jesus? He is the
center of Revelation. Now, Cyrus
00:23:42.63\00:23:50.50
was not the Messiah, he
was not a Messiah, he was a
00:23:50.53\00:23:56.00
type of the King Jesus,
a shadow pointing forward
00:23:56.31\00:24:02.91
to Jesus, not in what
he was, but in what he did.
00:24:02.94\00:24:07.54
Because God's people
were captive in Babylon,
00:24:09.50\00:24:12.28
he captured Babylon, he
destroyed it, and he set
00:24:12.49\00:24:15.65
God's people free to go
back to Jerusalem, rebuild the
00:24:15.68\00:24:18.80
temple and restore the
true worship of the true God.
00:24:18.83\00:24:21.71
He says I'll raise up
Cyrus in my righteousness and
00:24:22.28\00:24:25.27
I'll make all of his ways
straight, and he'll rebuild
00:24:25.30\00:24:28.39
my city, and set my exiles
free, but this prophecy was
00:24:28.42\00:24:32.51
not fully fulfilled,
because all of his ways were not
00:24:32.54\00:24:37.33
straight, not Cyrus, but
all of 'his ways' were straight.
00:24:37.36\00:24:45.88
You see the Old Testament
as I've said before and
00:24:48.98\00:24:52.33
I want to make it clear
tonight; it's like one giant
00:24:52.36\00:24:55.19
arrow that points forward
to Jesus. Jesus is the King
00:24:55.22\00:25:02.39
that comes from East.
Jesus even said, Jesus even
00:25:02.42\00:25:04.83
said, as lightening flashes
from the East to the West,
00:25:04.86\00:25:08.97
so will the coming of the
son of man be. In Revelation
00:25:09.00\00:25:12.08
chapter 7, look at it
with me, in Revelation
00:25:12.11\00:25:14.81
the 7th chapter, verse 1,
I saw four angels standing
00:25:14.84\00:25:18.16
at the four corners of the
earth, holding back the four
00:25:18.19\00:25:21.18
winds of the earth to
prevent any wind from blowing
00:25:21.21\00:25:23.55
on the land or the sea
or on any tree. Look at the
00:25:23.58\00:25:26.67
angels, they're holding
back the winds of destruction,
00:25:26.70\00:25:29.49
they're holding it
back, why? Because God said
00:25:29.52\00:25:32.13
in verse 2, I saw
another angel coming from the
00:25:32.16\00:25:34.82
East, having the seal
of the living God. You see
00:25:34.85\00:25:38.64
God's messengers are
always portrait as coming from
00:25:38.67\00:25:42.18
the East, because
that's where Jesus comes,
00:25:42.21\00:25:46.18
from the East and we read
about it in the 19th chapter
00:25:47.24\00:25:50.10
of Revelation. In Revelation
chapter 19 verse 11, I saw
00:25:50.13\00:25:55.22
heaven standing open
and there before me was a
00:25:55.25\00:25:57.92
white horse, whose rider
is called Faithful and True.
00:25:57.95\00:26:03.06
With justice he judges
and makes war. He even says
00:26:05.46\00:26:11.39
in verse 15, he treads
the wine press of the fury of
00:26:11.42\00:26:14.12
the wrath of God Almighty.
On his robe and on his thigh
00:26:14.15\00:26:17.42
he has this name
written, "King of Kings
00:26:17.45\00:26:20.30
and Lord of Lords." Jesus
is the king, who comes from
00:26:21.48\00:26:27.29
the East riding on a white
horse, his name is Faithful
00:26:27.32\00:26:32.49
and True. You can
trust Jesus, he is faithful,
00:26:32.52\00:26:39.21
you can trust God, he
is true and he has promised
00:26:39.76\00:26:45.37
that one day, no matter how
bad life gets on this earth,
00:26:45.40\00:26:49.91
no matter how much the
devil beats up on you, one
00:26:49.94\00:26:53.41
day he is going to come
and set you free, you can
00:26:53.44\00:26:57.17
trust him with your
life. But, who does he come to
00:26:57.20\00:27:03.54
make war against, it
tells us in verse 19. Then I saw
00:27:03.57\00:27:11.37
the beast and the kings of
the earth and their armies,
00:27:11.40\00:27:16.63
all the wicked
gathered together to make war
00:27:17.21\00:27:21.55
against the rider on the
horse and his army. So, he
00:27:21.58\00:27:27.31
comes to make war against
the beast, the kings of the
00:27:27.34\00:27:33.48
earth, cause they
wanna make war against him.
00:27:33.51\00:27:37.05
It's our last chance, they
don't wanna let it slip away.
00:27:38.94\00:27:43.47
Notice where they are?
They're gathered together,
00:27:44.41\00:27:49.98
the beast, the kings of
the earth, the army, all every
00:27:50.85\00:27:54.10
wicked person on this earth
is gathered together to make
00:27:54.13\00:27:57.51
war against the rider
on the horse, that's Jesus.
00:27:57.54\00:28:00.16
So, where are they
gathered to? Back to
00:28:01.49\00:28:07.49
Revelation, chapter 16
in verse 12, the sixth angel
00:28:07.52\00:28:13.28
poured out his bowl on
the great river Euphrates and
00:28:13.31\00:28:15.66
the water was dried up to
prepare the way for the kings
00:28:15.69\00:28:18.21
from the East, it's Jesus.
And, then I saw three evil
00:28:18.24\00:28:22.52
spirits that looked like
frogs, that came out of the
00:28:22.55\00:28:24.91
mouth of the dragon,
the beast, and the false
00:28:24.94\00:28:26.79
prophet, they're the
spirits of demons performing
00:28:26.82\00:28:29.84
miraculous signs and they
go out to the kings of the
00:28:29.87\00:28:32.74
whole world. You see
the kings of the East cannot
00:28:32.77\00:28:37.48
be China or Japan or the
Arabs or any other nation
00:28:37.51\00:28:42.43
on this earth because
the kings of the whole world
00:28:42.46\00:28:44.92
are gathered together by
the demon spirits coming out
00:28:44.95\00:28:48.97
of the mouth of the
dragon, the beast and the
00:28:49.00\00:28:50.49
false prophet. The kings
in the East are Jesus and his
00:28:50.52\00:28:53.41
armies. So, they're gathering
them to battle on the great
00:28:53.44\00:28:59.80
day of God Almighty. Now,
remember in Revelation 19,
00:28:59.83\00:29:03.07
the rider on the white
horse comes to make war with
00:29:03.10\00:29:05.33
justice to judge and
make war and the kings of the
00:29:05.36\00:29:07.62
earth and the beasts are
gathered together to make war
00:29:07.65\00:29:10.18
against him, and here we
see the evil spirits coming out
00:29:10.21\00:29:13.61
of the mouth of the dragon,
the beast, the false prophet,
00:29:13.64\00:29:15.68
gathering them together
to make war, against who?
00:29:15.71\00:29:18.19
The rider on the
horse. Now, where are they
00:29:18.43\00:29:22.62
gathered to. Verse 16,
they gathered the kings
00:29:22.65\00:29:26.57
together to the place that
in Hebrew is called Armageddon.
00:29:26.60\00:29:31.58
Where is that? Where
is Armageddon? John gives
00:29:34.73\00:29:48.69
us a clue. Notice what he
says, they were gathered to
00:29:48.72\00:29:54.11
the place that in
Hebrew is called Armageddon.
00:29:54.14\00:29:58.51
That's an interesting.
The New Testament wasn't
00:29:59.90\00:30:02.78
written in Hebrew, it
was written in Greek. So, why
00:30:02.81\00:30:08.56
did he say in Hebrew. He
is saying if you want to know
00:30:09.08\00:30:16.91
where Armageddon is,
you need to know Hebrew,
00:30:16.94\00:30:21.73
at least one word, actually
two, because Armageddon is
00:30:22.84\00:30:28.38
two Hebrew words. Ar
in Hebrew means mountain.
00:30:28.41\00:30:34.42
Mageddon from the
Hebrew Megado means slaughter.
00:30:36.32\00:30:42.70
The Dragon, the beast,
false prophet gathered the
00:30:45.35\00:30:50.59
kings of the earth and
their armies to make war against
00:30:50.62\00:30:55.67
the rider on the white
horse, and they gathered them to
00:30:55.70\00:30:59.73
the place that in
Hebrew is called Armageddon,
00:30:59.76\00:31:03.75
the mountain of slaughter.
Armageddon is no single
00:31:03.98\00:31:13.84
place on this earth.
Armageddon is every place that
00:31:13.87\00:31:19.35
there is someone who is an
enemy to the people of God.
00:31:19.38\00:31:23.71
Well, then where are
God's people during all of this?
00:31:27.08\00:31:30.89
Revelation chapter 14
verse 1, I looked and there
00:31:31.92\00:31:36.30
before me was a lamb
standing on Mount Zion and with
00:31:36.33\00:31:39.70
him the 144000 who had
his name and his father's
00:31:39.73\00:31:43.89
name written on their
forehead, who are they?
00:31:43.92\00:31:46.46
Verse 4, these are
those who did not defile
00:31:46.49\00:31:48.82
themselves with
women, they did not go after
00:31:48.85\00:31:51.56
the Babylonian harlot and
the filth of her adulteries and
00:31:51.59\00:31:54.70
unfaithfulness to
God. What did they do? They
00:31:54.73\00:31:57.58
followed the
lamb wherever he goes.
00:31:57.61\00:31:59.89
"Amen." And so God's people are
00:32:00.60\00:32:03.03
standing on Mount Zion and
practically the whole world
00:32:03.06\00:32:08.65
is gathered to the
Mountain of Slaughter.
00:32:08.68\00:32:11.03
In other words, the time
is coming when the whole world
00:32:12.22\00:32:14.83
would be assembled on
two mountains, Mount Zion,
00:32:14.86\00:32:17.58
those who follow the lamb
and worship God, the creator
00:32:17.80\00:32:21.11
of the heavens and the
earth, and has his name
00:32:21.14\00:32:23.00
on the forehead and
the hand and those who are
00:32:23.03\00:32:25.71
gathered to the Mountain
of Slaughter, cause they
00:32:25.74\00:32:29.29
worship the beast and
have his name on their
00:32:29.32\00:32:32.43
foreheads and their
hands. So, which mountain are we
00:32:32.46\00:32:41.24
gonna to be gathered to?
Mount Zion? Or the Mountain
00:32:41.27\00:32:47.15
of Slaughter? They gathered
the kings together to the
00:32:47.18\00:32:52.29
place that in Hebrew
is called Armageddon.
00:32:52.32\00:32:55.67
Now, I want you to
notice something that often goes
00:32:56.89\00:32:59.64
unnoticed, because
you see in our little book
00:32:59.67\00:33:04.71
series Left Behind, it
sold over 50 million copies.
00:33:04.74\00:33:08.95
They tell us that
church isn't here for the great
00:33:12.20\00:33:16.54
tribulation, church
isn't here for the seven last
00:33:16.57\00:33:20.99
plagues. Because Jesus
comes like a thief in the
00:33:21.33\00:33:26.09
night, remember, he
comes like a thief in the night
00:33:26.12\00:33:30.02
and snatches the church
out of the way and everybody
00:33:30.05\00:33:33.46
is wondering where did
they go. Watch this, here we
00:33:33.49\00:33:39.74
are in the middle of the
great tribulation, the seven
00:33:39.77\00:33:42.82
last plagues, last
because with them the wrath of
00:33:42.85\00:33:46.17
God is complete,
there is no more after this.
00:33:46.20\00:33:48.94
So, this is the great
tribulation, here we are,
00:33:50.32\00:33:52.98
the sixth of the seven
last plagues almost at the end
00:33:53.01\00:33:56.75
of the great tribulation.
Chapter 16 verse 16, they
00:33:56.78\00:34:02.36
gathered the kings
together to the place in Hebrew
00:34:02.39\00:34:04.90
called Armageddon, the
final climax of the great
00:34:04.93\00:34:07.81
tribulation is the
battle of Armageddon, where the
00:34:07.84\00:34:10.37
wicked are slaughtered on
the Mountain of Slaughter.
00:34:10.40\00:34:12.57
So, where is the
church, look in verse 15, just
00:34:12.80\00:34:16.17
before that in the
middle of the spirits gathering
00:34:16.20\00:34:19.15
the whole world, the beast,
the kings of the earth to do
00:34:19.18\00:34:21.62
battle on the great day
of God Almighty to the place
00:34:21.65\00:34:24.88
called Armageddon, in
the middle of that verse 15,
00:34:24.91\00:34:27.61
look its written in red if
you've a red letters edition,
00:34:27.64\00:34:30.05
that's Jesus words,
"behold I come like a thief."
00:34:30.08\00:34:33.79
Hey, I thought he
already came like a thief
00:34:36.19\00:34:39.08
before the tirbulation.
00:34:39.11\00:34:42.88
It doesn't fit, does it,
00:34:44.59\00:34:46.06
here we are at the
end of the tribulation
00:34:47.02\00:34:49.13
and he says behold
I come like a thief,
00:34:49.16\00:34:52.73
blessed is he who stays awake
00:34:52.76\00:34:54.37
and keeps his clothes with him,
00:34:54.40\00:34:56.50
so that you will not go
naked and be shamefully exposed.
00:34:56.53\00:34:59.44
That's exactly what he
said to the church of Laodicea,
00:34:59.47\00:35:02.65
the last of the seven churches.
00:35:02.68\00:35:04.27
He says, buy from
me clothes to wear
00:35:04.30\00:35:06.78
to cover your
shameful nakedness,
00:35:06.81\00:35:08.93
you see those
only can stand through
00:35:08.96\00:35:11.47
through the battle of Armageddon
00:35:11.50\00:35:12.68
are the ones who are
clothed in their white robe
00:35:12.71\00:35:14.92
of the righteousness of Christ.
00:35:14.95\00:35:16.42
Clinging to the cross of Jesus,
00:35:17.11\00:35:19.65
holding to the
Gospel and the good news
00:35:19.68\00:35:21.99
that we are saved by
grace through faith in Jesus,
00:35:22.02\00:35:24.70
because those who obey
the commandments of God
00:35:24.73\00:35:27.63
are the ones that
are being attacked
00:35:27.66\00:35:29.58
by those who worship the beast.
00:35:29.74\00:35:31.22
There's the church,
00:35:33.55\00:35:35.42
right in the middle
of the great tribulation
00:35:35.86\00:35:37.99
don't let anybody tell you
that the church isn't there.
00:35:38.58\00:35:41.66
Don't let anybody tell you
the church got Raptured out.
00:35:41.76\00:35:44.72
In John 4:1, when
John heard a voice saying
00:35:45.12\00:35:48.21
John come up here and in
the spirit he went up there,
00:35:48.24\00:35:51.27
that's not the
Rapture of the church,
00:35:51.30\00:35:53.07
that's just
John having a vision.
00:35:53.71\00:35:55.22
Other places he is
back down here again,
00:35:55.78\00:35:58.15
did he get unraptured,
00:35:58.18\00:35:59.63
he's a yo-yo, up down, up down.
00:36:00.36\00:36:03.33
Here is the church
00:36:05.00\00:36:06.62
right in the
middle of the tribulation.
00:36:06.65\00:36:09.41
Verse 14, the woman
who was given the wings,
00:36:10.78\00:36:13.51
of the two, of a
great eagle so she would fly
00:36:13.54\00:36:15.26
to the place
prepared for in the desert
00:36:15.29\00:36:17.11
and she was there
time, times and half a time,
00:36:17.14\00:36:19.73
out of the serpent's reach.
00:36:19.76\00:36:20.79
Remember, God during
the time of the Dark Ages,
00:36:21.35\00:36:23.68
when the church was
trying to persecute,
00:36:23.71\00:36:25.09
the Spanish Inquisitions,
Saint Bartholomew Massacre,
00:36:25.12\00:36:28.70
trying to destroy God's people,
00:36:28.73\00:36:30.29
wipe those who are
faithful to the word
00:36:30.32\00:36:31.99
of God off of the
face of this earth.
00:36:32.02\00:36:33.90
God still had
people on this earth
00:36:33.93\00:36:36.29
that were faithful to him.
00:36:36.32\00:36:37.56
Always hidden,
hidden in the wilderness,
00:36:38.40\00:36:41.21
but they were faithful to God
00:36:41.24\00:36:43.49
and then out of serpent's mouth
00:36:43.52\00:36:45.43
he spewed water like a river,
00:36:45.46\00:36:47.37
waters represent
multitudes, nations, people.
00:36:47.40\00:36:49.87
So here in this mass multitude,
00:36:49.90\00:36:52.19
this strive of Europe
trying to devour and destroy
00:36:52.22\00:36:55.34
the people of God
and overtake the woman
00:36:55.78\00:36:58.24
sweep her away with a torrent,
00:36:58.27\00:36:59.83
but the earth helped the woman,
00:36:59.86\00:37:01.50
a quite
uninhabited part of the world
00:37:01.53\00:37:03.39
the pilgrims came to
the United States of America
00:37:03.66\00:37:06.60
in the late 1700s,
00:37:06.63\00:37:08.41
they established a
nation guaranteeing the freedom
00:37:08.44\00:37:11.66
and the right to
worship God as we please.
00:37:11.69\00:37:14.64
Wow! That,
isn't this good stuff?
00:37:14.67\00:37:18.43
And then the dragon
is angry at the woman,
00:37:23.91\00:37:27.45
he goes to make
war against the remnant
00:37:28.96\00:37:31.75
of her offspring,
00:37:31.78\00:37:33.39
those who obey
God's commandments
00:37:33.42\00:37:35.17
and have the testimony of Jesus.
00:37:35.20\00:37:36.78
Do you want to be a
faithful and obedient
00:37:41.39\00:37:43.89
to the commandments of God.
00:37:43.95\00:37:45.06
And hold to the faith
in the testimony of Jesus,
00:37:46.60\00:37:49.13
then the dragon's at
war with you here tonight.
00:37:49.94\00:37:53.63
Some of you have
already begun to recognize that.
00:37:55.09\00:37:57.95
He doesn't let
go without a fight.
00:37:59.58\00:38:01.09
So how does he fight that war.
00:38:02.92\00:38:04.64
I saw another beast,
00:38:04.67\00:38:06.16
a beast coming
up out of the sea,
00:38:06.19\00:38:07.78
he had ten
horns and seven heads;
00:38:07.81\00:38:09.73
we have already
identified that beast,
00:38:09.76\00:38:11.70
he antichrist,
false system of worship.
00:38:11.73\00:38:14.05
He gave his
authority to the beast so that
00:38:14.16\00:38:16.74
those who worship the beast
actually worship the dragon,
00:38:16.77\00:38:19.75
because he gave
him his authority.
00:38:19.78\00:38:21.95
And the whole
world worships the beast
00:38:22.88\00:38:24.68
and say who is like him,
00:38:24.71\00:38:25.90
who can make war against him
00:38:25.93\00:38:27.42
and I saw 144000 on
Mount Zion with the lamb,
00:38:27.45\00:38:31.60
those who can stand against him.
00:38:31.63\00:38:33.48
And so the battle rages,
00:38:34.08\00:38:36.82
the whole world is
worshiping the beast.
00:38:36.85\00:38:39.30
How does he get his
power, after the 1260 years,
00:38:39.79\00:38:43.74
a deadly wound is inflicted,
00:38:43.77\00:38:45.88
it looked as though
this counterfeit system
00:38:45.91\00:38:47.74
of worship is gone forever.
00:38:47.77\00:38:49.55
Then in verse 14,
another beast comes up
00:38:49.58\00:38:52.00
out of the earth,
00:38:52.03\00:38:53.00
he had two horns like a lamb
00:38:53.27\00:38:55.04
but he spoke like a dragon,
00:38:55.86\00:38:57.34
the beast comes
out of the earth,
00:38:57.37\00:38:58.43
we've identified
this beast didn't we,
00:38:58.46\00:39:00.99
quite, relatively
uninhabited portion of the world
00:39:01.02\00:39:04.39
and he exercised
all the authority
00:39:05.15\00:39:06.87
of the first beast
and he made the earth
00:39:06.90\00:39:08.40
and its inhabitants
worship the first beast
00:39:08.43\00:39:11.43
whose fatal
wound had been healed
00:39:11.46\00:39:13.05
sometimes after 1798,
00:39:13.08\00:39:15.41
the infliction of
that deadly wounds
00:39:15.44\00:39:17.19
sometime after that we
see this nation rising,
00:39:17.22\00:39:21.97
that is rising to
power, it looks like a lamb.
00:39:22.00\00:39:24.68
It has two horns like a lamb
00:39:26.04\00:39:27.40
and we've already learned
00:39:28.87\00:39:30.00
that this is Protestant America,
00:39:30.03\00:39:32.24
the country that God
raised up to establish
00:39:33.15\00:39:36.11
the freedom and the
right to worship God,
00:39:36.14\00:39:38.47
but now she begins
to speak like the dragon
00:39:38.50\00:39:41.32
and forces all
who refuse to worship
00:39:42.08\00:39:44.41
the dragon to be killed.
00:39:44.44\00:39:46.42
How can that be?
00:39:48.77\00:39:49.93
Who cares about
how we worship God?
00:39:52.76\00:39:55.51
Some say, well we
live in a free county,
00:39:56.00\00:39:57.88
we have the right to worship,
00:39:57.91\00:39:58.88
we're pleased that
could never happened here.
00:39:58.91\00:40:00.29
It will happen here,
00:40:00.32\00:40:01.57
how it happens maybe
study and understanding
00:40:02.91\00:40:06.37
and we'll see more
and more as we unfold,
00:40:06.40\00:40:08.05
but I'm telling you
this, it will happen here,
00:40:08.08\00:40:10.30
it will happen
everywhere on this earth.
00:40:10.33\00:40:12.27
Because the false prophet erects
00:40:12.30\00:40:14.59
image in honor of the beast
00:40:14.62\00:40:15.59
and he forces
everyone on earth to worship
00:40:15.60\00:40:18.37
the image or
they'll be threatened
00:40:18.40\00:40:19.92
with a death
decree, it will happen here.
00:40:19.95\00:40:23.54
Why does anybody
wanna kill somebody
00:40:26.83\00:40:28.83
over the way they worship?
00:40:28.86\00:40:30.51
Who cares if I keep the Sabbath
00:40:31.83\00:40:33.78
a Sunday or why do
people worry about that?
00:40:33.81\00:40:37.27
I'll tell you why,
00:40:37.84\00:40:39.02
First John chapter 3 verse 12,
00:40:41.12\00:40:42.92
do not be like Cain who
belonged to the evil one
00:40:42.95\00:40:47.76
and murdered his brother.
00:40:47.79\00:40:49.15
Why did Cain
murder his brother Abel?
00:40:49.78\00:40:53.08
And why did he murder him,
00:40:54.28\00:40:56.16
he says because his
own actions were evil
00:40:56.65\00:40:59.65
and his brother's
actions were righteous
00:40:59.68\00:41:02.10
What did Cain do
that was so evil.
00:41:04.03\00:41:06.49
He worshiped, he worshiped God,
00:41:07.54\00:41:11.64
but he didn't do it God's way,
00:41:13.04\00:41:14.80
he did it his way,
00:41:14.83\00:41:16.63
instead of a lamb he
substituted vegetables,
00:41:17.58\00:41:20.25
his brother
Abel sacrifice a lamb
00:41:22.71\00:41:25.40
and God accepted it,
00:41:27.16\00:41:28.13
rejected Cain and
Abel, Cain became so angry
00:41:28.14\00:41:30.70
he murdered his brother,
00:41:30.73\00:41:31.77
over the issue of worship.
00:41:32.44\00:41:34.73
Don't be surprised my brothers
00:41:35.84\00:41:38.15
if the world hates you.
00:41:38.18\00:41:39.59
Folks Satan hates the Sabbath,
00:41:43.12\00:41:45.67
he hates it,
00:41:47.49\00:41:48.46
because it's a symbol
of the memorial to the
00:41:49.10\00:41:50.98
creative power of
God and he can't do that.
00:41:51.01\00:41:53.65
It's a reminder of
memorial that the God
00:41:55.20\00:41:57.12
who made us,
00:41:57.32\00:41:58.29
is the God who
fixes us when we break
00:41:58.30\00:42:00.92
and recreates us
again and he can't do that.
00:42:01.61\00:42:03.99
And he hates it and
he hates the Sabbath.
00:42:04.69\00:42:07.03
Some of you have discovered that
00:42:07.64\00:42:09.26
learned about the
Sabbath and you ran to share it,
00:42:09.98\00:42:12.13
all the good news
with people that you love
00:42:12.16\00:42:14.22
and care about and they
were not that excited to hear
00:42:14.25\00:42:16.91
and its gonna get worse.
00:42:18.36\00:42:19.70
The world will hate
those who do things God's way.
00:42:21.28\00:42:25.86
How was it gonna happen,
00:42:26.95\00:42:28.35
I don't know exactly
how it's gonna happen,
00:42:28.38\00:42:30.84
but I read, I read
something in a book,
00:42:30.89\00:42:33.44
it was written 300
years before Christ
00:42:33.47\00:42:35.73
came and it wasn't in the Bible.
00:42:35.76\00:42:37.67
Written by a pagan
Greek philosopher named Plato.
00:42:38.69\00:42:42.07
Listen to this,
00:42:43.02\00:42:44.31
in the course of time the
democracies become too free,
00:42:44.78\00:42:49.43
free in politics,
00:42:52.01\00:42:54.62
anything goes,
00:42:55.60\00:42:57.17
promise them whatever
it takes to get in there.
00:42:58.02\00:43:00.20
Free in economics,
money rules, free in morals,
00:43:02.85\00:43:08.78
have you noticed lately,
00:43:09.78\00:43:11.18
even the Washington
Post says that the number
00:43:12.22\00:43:15.36
one problem in
America is the moral decline.
00:43:15.39\00:43:18.41
Free in even
literature and art, free,
00:43:20.50\00:43:26.64
until it lasts even the
puppy dogs in our own homes
00:43:27.80\00:43:32.25
rise up on their hind
legs and demand their rights.
00:43:32.28\00:43:35.20
Today we call it animal rights.
00:43:37.94\00:43:41.41
People are in prison
today for such things
00:43:42.87\00:43:45.66
as plowing up their field
and killing a kangaroo rat.
00:43:45.69\00:43:49.53
Now, I am all in
favor of animals,
00:43:53.71\00:43:55.78
don't misunderstand.
00:43:55.81\00:43:56.90
But watch this,
00:43:59.71\00:44:00.81
disorder grows to such a
point and the disorder comes
00:44:01.99\00:44:07.63
from groups
demanding their rights,
00:44:07.66\00:44:10.11
does it sound familiar today.
00:44:12.46\00:44:14.00
Deny them those
rights and they riot
00:44:16.92\00:44:21.97
and now watch, disorder grows
00:44:22.00\00:44:24.05
to such a point that a
society will then abandon
00:44:24.08\00:44:27.65
all of its liberties to
anyone who can restore order
00:44:27.68\00:44:32.22
and that's the false prophet.
00:44:33.91\00:44:35.72
And then comes the
fourth form of government,
00:44:37.98\00:44:41.08
tyranny or dictatorship
and the monarchy maybe restored
00:44:41.11\00:44:45.95
and the process begin over
and over again, not this time.
00:44:45.98\00:44:49.88
In other words,
the rebellion grows,
00:44:50.57\00:44:53.81
the riots grow and then
the people in the street
00:44:53.84\00:44:57.63
begin to fight and to kill
00:44:58.29\00:45:00.49
and to bring
disorder to the country,
00:45:00.52\00:45:03.64
so that now they're
ready to virtually surrender
00:45:03.67\00:45:07.77
their rights to anyone
00:45:07.80\00:45:09.66
who can promise them peace
00:45:11.60\00:45:12.76
and I am looking for my
note and I can't find it,
00:45:13.66\00:45:16.13
I just got it a
couple of days ago.
00:45:16.16\00:45:17.70
I'll just tell you what it says,
00:45:18.90\00:45:20.45
it was an article
in the Atlanta Journal,
00:45:20.48\00:45:23.29
the war is not about Iraq,
00:45:25.31\00:45:26.93
the war is not
about Saddam Hussein,
00:45:27.93\00:45:30.56
the war is not about oil,
00:45:31.41\00:45:32.74
the war is not about terrorists,
00:45:32.80\00:45:35.51
the war is about establishing
00:45:36.35\00:45:38.78
the United States of America
as the global peace-keeper.
00:45:38.81\00:45:42.30
I don't know if
that's true or not,
00:45:44.77\00:45:46.62
I'd rather believe
and have more confidence
00:45:47.36\00:45:49.22
in our leaders in our
administration then that,
00:45:49.25\00:45:51.23
I don't believe that.
00:45:51.26\00:45:52.23
But folks whether
we believe it or not
00:45:53.28\00:45:54.95
it's gonna happen
00:45:55.75\00:45:57.20
and the more
powerful the presence
00:45:58.17\00:46:00.46
of the United
States is, the more capable
00:46:00.49\00:46:03.12
we are of enforcing
our ways on the world
00:46:03.15\00:46:07.31
and the time is coming
when Protestant America
00:46:08.03\00:46:10.87
will be involved as
the false prophet arises
00:46:10.90\00:46:13.94
performing miracles
saying that God is punishing us
00:46:13.97\00:46:16.96
because we are away
from the commandments of God.
00:46:16.99\00:46:19.71
The United States of
America will be in the position
00:46:20.78\00:46:23.83
to launch
global national decrees
00:46:24.79\00:46:29.22
demanding the
worship of the state
00:46:29.80\00:46:33.46
and the whole world
will honor the beast.
00:46:35.16\00:46:37.64
In Revelation chapter 16,
00:46:39.27\00:46:41.06
the three angels
messages have gone
00:46:41.09\00:46:42.69
to every living
person on this earth,
00:46:42.72\00:46:44.34
everyone has the
opportunity to learn about God,
00:46:44.37\00:46:46.68
to know God and to trust God.
00:46:46.71\00:46:48.37
And everyone has been
warned about the deceptions
00:46:49.41\00:46:51.60
and the errors of Babylon
00:46:51.63\00:46:52.88
and everyone is warned
don't worship the beast
00:46:52.91\00:46:54.85
and take his mark,
00:46:55.09\00:46:56.06
worship the creator of
the heavens and the earth.
00:46:56.07\00:46:58.04
Everyone is
gathered on two mountains,
00:46:58.87\00:47:00.69
the Mountain of
Slaughter, and the Mount Zion,
00:47:00.72\00:47:03.58
the Mountain of God.
00:47:03.61\00:47:04.58
Everyone has the mark of God
00:47:04.59\00:47:07.72
or the mark of the beast, then.
00:47:07.75\00:47:11.23
Then, in chapter 16 verse 1,
00:47:11.93\00:47:14.10
I heard a loud
voice from the temple
00:47:14.13\00:47:15.55
saying to the seven angels,
00:47:15.58\00:47:16.95
go and pour out the
seven bowls of God's wrath
00:47:16.98\00:47:19.18
on the earth,
00:47:19.21\00:47:20.18
the first angel went
and he poured out his bowl
00:47:20.19\00:47:21.83
on the land and ugly,
painful sore was broke out
00:47:21.86\00:47:24.01
on the people who
had the mark of the beast
00:47:24.04\00:47:25.97
and worshiped the image,
00:47:26.00\00:47:27.05
only those who take the mark
00:47:27.08\00:47:29.24
receive the wine
of the wrath of God.
00:47:29.27\00:47:31.28
The others are
sealed with the seal of God,
00:47:32.72\00:47:35.48
obeying the commandments of God.
00:47:35.51\00:47:37.29
First angel poured
out his bowl and ugly,
00:47:38.42\00:47:39.78
painful sore was broke
out on those who had the mark,
00:47:39.81\00:47:42.16
second angel poured
out his bowl on the sea
00:47:42.19\00:47:44.34
and it turned into blood
00:47:44.37\00:47:45.87
like a blood of a dead man,
00:47:45.90\00:47:46.88
every living
thing in the sea died,
00:47:46.91\00:47:48.97
third angel poured
out his bowl on the rivers
00:47:49.00\00:47:50.89
and springs of water
and they became blood why?
00:47:50.92\00:47:53.53
Why is God pouring out
these bowls on the earth
00:47:53.56\00:47:56.36
and then I heard the angel
in charge of the waters say,
00:47:56.39\00:47:58.74
you are just in these judgments,
00:47:58.77\00:48:01.49
you who are and who
were the holy one, why?
00:48:01.52\00:48:04.56
Because you've so judged them
00:48:04.59\00:48:07.15
for they have shed
the blood of your saints
00:48:07.18\00:48:08.91
and prophets and
you've given them
00:48:08.94\00:48:10.77
blood to drink as they deserve.
00:48:10.80\00:48:12.72
Now God is settling the score
00:48:13.12\00:48:15.74
and now God is
answering the question,
00:48:15.77\00:48:18.03
where are you God? How are you
00:48:18.06\00:48:20.41
letting this happen to us God.
00:48:20.44\00:48:22.40
Now he is saying, here I am.
00:48:22.43\00:48:24.91
And I heard the altar respond,
00:48:26.70\00:48:28.12
"yes Lord, God Almighty,
00:48:28.15\00:48:29.80
true and just are your
judgments on this earth,''
00:48:29.83\00:48:33.32
fourth angel
poured out this bowl
00:48:33.35\00:48:35.05
on the sun and the sun was given
00:48:35.08\00:48:36.20
power to scorch with fire
00:48:36.23\00:48:37.41
and they were
seared by the intense heat
00:48:37.44\00:48:39.58
and they cursed the name of God,
00:48:39.61\00:48:41.45
but they refused to
repent and glorify him.
00:48:41.48\00:48:44.36
Now we have the
answer, because you see
00:48:44.39\00:48:46.82
these people who took
the mark are persecuting
00:48:46.85\00:48:49.78
those who are sealed by God,
00:48:49.81\00:48:51.34
because they
believe that they are
00:48:51.37\00:48:54.17
the people of God
and that God is punishing
00:48:54.20\00:48:57.11
and destroying this earth,
00:48:57.14\00:48:58.85
because of this
people who go along
00:48:58.88\00:49:01.39
with God's law
and God's commandments
00:49:01.42\00:49:03.98
instead of the
traditions of the state
00:49:04.01\00:49:05.76
and the religions of the state
00:49:05.79\00:49:07.33
they've been persecuting them,
00:49:07.36\00:49:08.91
thinking they are carrying out
00:49:08.94\00:49:10.29
the righteous judgments of God,
00:49:10.32\00:49:11.99
but now they begin to
show their true colors.
00:49:12.02\00:49:16.31
Now they cursed the name of God.
00:49:17.32\00:49:19.76
Remember Jesus, God
could have destroyed
00:49:20.10\00:49:22.60
Lucifer the moment
he rebelled in heaven,
00:49:22.63\00:49:24.57
but he couldn't really,
00:49:25.40\00:49:26.93
because if he did
00:49:26.96\00:49:28.03
everyone would be worshiping him
00:49:28.06\00:49:29.52
out of fear instead of love.
00:49:29.55\00:49:31.37
So he had to let sin
go, he had to let it grow,
00:49:31.40\00:49:34.58
he had to let it
demonstrate to the world,
00:49:34.61\00:49:36.74
how wicked, how wild,
00:49:36.77\00:49:37.97
how evil sin is, he
had to let us suffer,
00:49:38.00\00:49:40.67
he had to let us die,
00:49:40.70\00:49:41.85
he had to let us
do battle with cancer,
00:49:41.88\00:49:44.06
he had to let babies die
00:49:44.09\00:49:45.28
before they were even born,
00:49:45.31\00:49:46.63
but he is
remembering all of this,
00:49:46.66\00:49:48.29
he hasn't forgotten,
00:49:48.32\00:49:49.76
and he is gonna
make it up to us.
00:49:51.32\00:49:52.49
Now Babylon showing it,
00:49:54.53\00:49:56.41
now the devil is
showing his true colors,
00:49:56.44\00:49:58.64
now we can see what it's like
00:49:58.67\00:50:00.20
and they cursed the name of God.
00:50:00.23\00:50:02.02
Fifth angel poured out his bowl
00:50:02.91\00:50:04.80
on the throne of the beast
00:50:04.83\00:50:05.80
and the kingdom was
plunged into darkness,
00:50:05.81\00:50:07.58
men gnawed their
tongues in agony,
00:50:07.61\00:50:09.73
cursed the name
of God of heaven,
00:50:09.76\00:50:11.58
because of their
pains and their sores,
00:50:11.61\00:50:13.98
but they refused to
repent of what they had done,
00:50:14.01\00:50:17.14
their hearts were hard,
they rebelled against God.
00:50:17.17\00:50:19.97
They claim to be
the children of God,
00:50:20.00\00:50:22.08
but now they are
showing who they really are.
00:50:22.11\00:50:24.53
You see, God can't come
00:50:24.56\00:50:26.40
and put an end to
sin until everyone knows
00:50:26.43\00:50:29.13
that those who
are finally destroyed
00:50:29.16\00:50:30.80
are in fact the ones who
have rebelled against him.
00:50:30.83\00:50:33.46
And now Babylon is
showing her true colors.
00:50:34.10\00:50:37.15
And then sixth
angel poured out his bowl
00:50:37.78\00:50:39.73
on the great river Euphrates
00:50:39.76\00:50:40.91
and its water was
dried up to prepare
00:50:40.94\00:50:42.47
the way for the
kings from the East.
00:50:42.50\00:50:44.25
What is that, kings
from the East are Jesus,
00:50:46.24\00:50:48.68
so how does drying
up the Euphrates prepare
00:50:49.98\00:50:52.87
the way for Jesus,
00:50:52.90\00:50:54.02
can't he get across
without drying it up.
00:50:54.05\00:50:56.09
The Euphrates is a symbol,
00:50:57.57\00:50:58.79
Babylon is a
symbol, Babylon is a symbol
00:50:59.47\00:51:02.79
of a corrupt
church, a harlot church,
00:51:02.82\00:51:05.99
unfaithful to
God. The Euphrates,
00:51:06.02\00:51:09.22
what does it mean?
He explains this plague
00:51:09.25\00:51:12.27
in the 17th
chapter of Revelation,
00:51:12.30\00:51:14.02
chapter 17 verse 1,
one of the seven angels
00:51:14.05\00:51:16.45
who had the seven
bowls came and said to me,
00:51:16.48\00:51:18.69
come and I will
show you the punishment
00:51:18.72\00:51:21.08
of the great prostitute
who sits on many waters.
00:51:21.11\00:51:23.83
Verse 5, says this was
written on her forehead,
00:51:23.86\00:51:26.17
mystery Babylon the great,
00:51:26.20\00:51:28.15
her name is Babylon,
the mother of prostitutes
00:51:28.18\00:51:31.10
and her abominations
here is the super church,
00:51:31.13\00:51:33.24
Protestant and
Catholic uniting together,
00:51:33.27\00:51:35.37
persecuting the people of God
00:51:36.67\00:51:38.46
because they stand on
the commandments of God
00:51:38.49\00:51:41.01
alone instead of
the traditions of man.
00:51:41.04\00:51:43.40
Well, what does it all mean?
00:51:45.22\00:51:46.53
Chapter 17 verse 15,
the angel said to me,
00:51:47.11\00:51:49.97
the waters you saw
where the prostitute sits
00:51:50.62\00:51:52.58
are people, multitudes,
nations and languages.
00:51:52.61\00:51:56.27
The beast and the ten horns
00:51:56.30\00:51:57.45
you saw will
hate the prostitute,
00:51:57.48\00:51:59.08
they will bring her to ruin
00:51:59.11\00:52:00.19
and they'll leave her naked,
00:52:00.22\00:52:01.19
they'll eat her flesh
and burn her with fire,
00:52:01.20\00:52:02.82
for God has put it in
their hearts to accomplish
00:52:02.85\00:52:05.22
his purpose by
agreeing to give the beast
00:52:05.25\00:52:07.39
their power to rule
until God's word are fulfilled.
00:52:07.42\00:52:09.78
The woman is the
great city that rules over
00:52:09.81\00:52:11.73
the kings of the
earth. They'll hate her flesh,
00:52:11.76\00:52:15.01
they'll devour her, you see Rome
00:52:16.15\00:52:19.67
and the super
church has no power,
00:52:19.70\00:52:22.01
except as the
people support her.
00:52:22.24\00:52:25.02
But when the waters of
00:52:25.05\00:52:27.34
the Euphrates are dried up,
00:52:27.37\00:52:28.98
she has no support anymore.
00:52:29.56\00:52:31.51
What dries them up,
the sudden realization,
00:52:32.38\00:52:35.87
the darkness that
comes when they realize
00:52:35.90\00:52:39.67
the people they
have been persecuting
00:52:39.70\00:52:41.34
are the ones that are
not receiving the plagues.
00:52:41.76\00:52:44.25
And they have been deceived,
00:52:44.73\00:52:45.94
they have been
deceived by their leaders,
00:52:46.69\00:52:48.31
they have been
deceived by the false prophets,
00:52:48.34\00:52:50.07
they have been
deceived by the false miracles,
00:52:50.10\00:52:52.12
they have been
deceived by the smooth words
00:52:52.15\00:52:54.26
and they'll turn
against their leaders,
00:52:56.98\00:52:59.65
and Babylon loses her power
00:52:59.68\00:53:02.02
and the Euphrates is dried up.
00:53:02.05\00:53:04.03
And God can finally
come in and remove sin
00:53:07.61\00:53:12.16
from this universe forever
00:53:12.19\00:53:13.67
and everyone will know
that it's an act of love.
00:53:14.38\00:53:17.10
Don't go after
the false prophets,
00:53:18.88\00:53:21.48
go after the lamb.
00:53:22.84\00:53:24.17
A man is coming to Revelation
00:53:25.57\00:53:27.47
Now, about a year
ago and he believed
00:53:27.50\00:53:32.12
what the Bible said,
00:53:32.15\00:53:33.12
he believed
Saturday was the Sabbath day
00:53:33.13\00:53:35.23
and he took his
stand to keep the Sabbath
00:53:36.15\00:53:39.22
and he went back
and told his pastor
00:53:39.25\00:53:40.95
and his pastor told
him, oh! It's not important,
00:53:42.32\00:53:44.69
just love Jesus
and love the people
00:53:44.72\00:53:46.43
and that's all you
need to worry about,
00:53:46.46\00:53:47.64
doctrines aren't important.
00:53:47.67\00:53:48.76
You know the same thing,
00:53:48.79\00:53:49.93
we are not under the
law, we're under grace,
00:53:49.96\00:53:51.43
it doesn't
matter. So, he came back
00:53:51.46\00:53:53.61
and asked me and we sat down
00:53:53.64\00:53:55.84
and studied it out again
00:53:55.87\00:53:56.86
and he was convinced, I see it,
00:53:56.89\00:53:58.85
God expects us to
obey the commandments.
00:53:59.17\00:54:01.03
If we really love
him, we're gonna do it,
00:54:01.06\00:54:03.27
so he went back and
told his pastor again
00:54:03.95\00:54:05.88
and his pastor got angry at me,
00:54:06.61\00:54:08.30
sent me a nasty letter
00:54:08.33\00:54:09.38
and I wrote him
a nice letter back.
00:54:10.03\00:54:11.89
And I explained to
him and the pastor said,
00:54:12.35\00:54:14.34
I agree Saturday
is the Sabbath day,
00:54:15.00\00:54:17.00
but you can keep any day,
00:54:17.03\00:54:18.02
you pick the day and I said,
00:54:18.05\00:54:20.48
but wait a
minute I explained how,
00:54:21.13\00:54:22.61
in Sabbath, in the Bible times
00:54:22.64\00:54:25.03
in the New Testament
00:54:25.06\00:54:26.03
the Greek word for
the first day of the week
00:54:26.04\00:54:27.45
is the first day
after the Sabbath.
00:54:27.48\00:54:29.57
So you can't just Pick any day
00:54:30.25\00:54:31.78
it has to be the Sabbath day
00:54:31.81\00:54:33.22
and here is what he said.
00:54:34.78\00:54:35.83
The Greek text that
you refer to is man's word,
00:54:37.08\00:54:40.83
what can I say,
his word is God's word
00:54:44.26\00:54:48.94
and the Bible is man's word.
00:54:48.97\00:54:50.41
And my friend
listened to his pastor,
00:54:51.82\00:54:55.39
he listened to his friend
00:54:56.50\00:54:58.11
instead of
listening to the word of God.
00:54:58.85\00:55:00.73
Don't follow any pastor,
00:55:03.04\00:55:05.40
Don't follow any pastor,
00:55:06.21\00:55:08.36
don't follow any Evangelist,
00:55:08.98\00:55:10.88
don't even follow Jac
Colon, follow the lamb.
00:55:11.92\00:55:15.94
Because he is the one
00:55:17.37\00:55:18.34
that's gonna
take you on to safety,
00:55:18.36\00:55:20.31
it's going to be a dark time,
00:55:22.28\00:55:23.86
it's going look as though
00:55:24.46\00:55:25.43
God's people are
going to be wiped off
00:55:25.44\00:55:26.67
of the face of the earth
00:55:26.70\00:55:27.84
and we are going
to be crying out,
00:55:29.87\00:55:31.30
Lord, how long,
fifth seal, they cried out,
00:55:31.33\00:55:35.73
Lord, how long till you avenge
00:55:35.76\00:55:37.21
the blood of those who slay us,
00:55:37.24\00:55:39.01
how long? Jesus said
00:55:39.88\00:55:42.66
hold on just a little longer.
00:55:42.69\00:55:44.23
You know, one time I was,
00:55:45.93\00:55:48.44
took my boy to
the doctor's office
00:55:48.47\00:55:51.35
because he was
riding his little bike
00:55:51.38\00:55:52.97
and caught it under the handle
00:55:53.00\00:55:55.42
in between the bottom of our RV,
00:55:55.45\00:55:57.39
it was kind of rough,
sliced through his hand.
00:55:57.42\00:56:00.36
So I took him to the doctor,
00:56:01.38\00:56:02.74
had it all wrapped
up, and the doctor came,
00:56:02.77\00:56:05.22
had that big needle cabinet,
00:56:06.13\00:56:07.76
so he could sew him up.
00:56:07.79\00:56:08.81
My son's eyes got big as saucers
00:56:09.79\00:56:12.61
and the little
lips started quivering,
00:56:14.45\00:56:16.14
you know, how they do
00:56:16.17\00:56:17.18
and he looked up at
me, he didn't say it,
00:56:18.02\00:56:21.95
but I knew what he was saying.
00:56:21.98\00:56:23.29
Daddy, you're not
gonna let him do this to me
00:56:24.15\00:56:27.42
are you? Boy, I am telling you
00:56:27.45\00:56:30.27
Everything Inside of me
wanted to take that thing
00:56:30.30\00:56:32.57
and smash it on the ground,
00:56:32.60\00:56:33.89
you are not gonna
stick my boy with that,
00:56:33.92\00:56:35.63
but I knew in
just a little while
00:56:36.68\00:56:39.73
it would all be
okay, sometimes it hurts,
00:56:41.02\00:56:44.17
it'll be okay and
my heart was aching
00:56:46.38\00:56:49.39
when he stuck that
needle in my boy's hand.
00:56:51.05\00:56:53.23
God hears us,
just a little while,
00:56:55.76\00:56:59.45
just a little while,
but God they're hurting us,
00:57:00.71\00:57:03.56
how long, how long?
00:57:03.59\00:57:06.47
God, they're killing
us and we are looking up
00:57:07.09\00:57:11.85
with those big expectant eyes,
00:57:11.88\00:57:13.41
do something God.
00:57:13.44\00:57:14.90
Finally he says, that's enough,
00:57:16.31\00:57:20.83
I'm done. And God's
people are delivered
00:57:22.10\00:57:28.48
at a place that in
Hebrew is called Armageddon.
00:57:29.58\00:57:35.33