Revelation 16:16,
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"Then they
gathered the kings together
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to the place that in Hebrew
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is called Armageddon".
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Armageddon, ever since
John penned these words
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on the Isle of
Patmos 2000 years ago,
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men have
pondered the significance,
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the meaning of Armageddon.
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Where is Armageddon?
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When is
Armageddon, the last Great War,
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the war that will end all wars?
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Practically every major
war has been called Armageddon.
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World War I was
thought to be Armageddon,
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World War II Armageddon
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the war that was
supposed to end all wars.
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There are so
many get it so wrong.
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And how can we be
sure that we get it right.
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The answer to that question is
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that we have to apply the
keys to understanding Revelation
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and cracking the code.
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We have to apply the keys
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that we got from the
Book of Revelation itself.
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It begins with the words
the Revelation of Jesus Christ,
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that means
Revelation must centre in
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and focus on whom?
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Jesus Christ.
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The Book of
Revelation quotes or alludes
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to the Old
Testament over 600 times.
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You got it.
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Therefore we have to have
an Old Testament foundation
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before we will ever understand
Armageddon of Revelation.
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No private interpretation,
let the Bible interpret itself.
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We do that by comparing
scripture with scripture.
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Very good,
Revelation is a symbolic book
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and we have to
interpret the symbols.
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How do we know we
get the symbols right?
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By comparing
scripture with scripture.
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Armageddon is found
only one time in the Bible,
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this is the only
place that you will ever see
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the word Armageddon in scripture
right here in Revelation 16:16.
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You will not find it
in the Old Testament,
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you will not find
it in any place else
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in the New
Testament, it's just right here.
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Now, when a word is mentioned
only one time in the scripture,
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then you have to
be exceedingly careful
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in interpreting what it
means in order to get it right.
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First of all, we have to look
at it in its immediate context.
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The immediate
context is that Armageddon
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and the gathering for Armageddon
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is the sixth of the
seventh last plagues.
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The actual battle of Armageddon
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is the seventh of
the seven last plagues.
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The plagues are found in
the 16th chapter of Revelation,
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so we need to understand
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Armageddon in the setting
of the seven last plagues
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within the largest setting
of the Book of Revelation
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and then within the
even largest setting
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of the entire Bible
including the Old Testament.
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So let's begin
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with the immediate
context of Armageddon
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which is the sixth of
the seven last plagues.
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I want to start
reading in verse 12
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and I want you to picture
in your minds what we read.
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It's important
to get a clear image
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just sharp
focus of this prophecy
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of the sixth of
the seven last plagues.
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And I also would like
for you to ask yourself
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the question as we read
through the sixth plague.
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Where is Jesus?
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Because He is the center
of all the prophecies, right?
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So ask yourself where is Jesus?
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Revelation 16:12,
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"The sixth angel
poured out his bowl
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on the great river Euphrates,
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and its water was dried up
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to prepare the way for
the kings from the East."
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And then I saw
three evil spirits
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that look like frogs
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they came out of
the mouth of the dragon,
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out of the mouth of the beast
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and out of the mouth
of the false prophet.
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They are the spirits of demons
performing miraculous signs
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and they go out to the
kings of the whole world
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to gather them for battle on
the great day of God almighty.
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Verse 16, they
gathered the kings together
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to the place that in
Hebrew is called Armageddon.
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So picture, three evil spirits
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coming out of the
mouth of the dragon
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the beast and the false
prophet performing miracles
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and they gathered
the kings together
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for battle on the
great day of God almighty
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that is Armageddon.
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Picture, the angel pouring out
his bowl on the Euphrates River.
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The waters of the
Euphrates are dried up
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and that prepares the way
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for the kings that
come from the east.
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So where is
Jesus in all of this?
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Hold on, you are going to see
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an awesome powerful prophecy.
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The picture to keep in mind,
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the angel pouring out his
bowl in the Euphrates River.
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The river dried up
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and the drying
up of the Euphrates
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prepares the way for
the kings from the east
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and the battle of Armageddon.
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The Book of Revelation quotes
the Old Testament 600 times
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and that's one place.
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Daniel, the prophet Daniel
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we are going to
review a little bit.
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Daniel 1:1. Look at it with me.
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In Daniel the first
chapter we review a little
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and then we will
see some new things.
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Verse 1, "In the third
year of the reign of Jehoiakim
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the king of Judah,
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Nebuchadnezzar,
the king of Babylon
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came to Jerusalem
and he besieged it.
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And the Lord
delivered Jehoiakim,
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the king of Judah into his hand,
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along with some of the articles
from the temple of God."
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Remember those golden cups.
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"These he took back to the
temple of his God in Babylon
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and put them in the
treasure house of his God."
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So Nebuchadnezzar that wicked,
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pagan king
captured God's people,
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captured God's city,
he captured the temple,
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he took the golden
cups from the temple,
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he took the people of
God captive back to Babylon
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and put those cups in
the Babylonian temple.
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As we learned in another lesson
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we saw Belshazzar in a
middle of a drunken orgy
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asked for those golden cups
filled them with Babylonian wine
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began to drink to
the Babylonian Gods,
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taking the cups
that God had set aside
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and made holy and using them
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in a common ordinary way
as though they were not holy.
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Just as he lifted
the cup to his lips,
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he saw a man's hand cut
off and writing on the wall,
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"Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin".
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I am just reviewing
from the previous lesson.
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Daniel came before the
king to interpret the message
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that was written on the wall
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and he said
remember the words verse 22,
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"Your father acknowledged
that the Lord was God
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but you O
Belshazzar, you knew all of this
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and in spite of that
you have set yourself up
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against the God of heaven.
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And you had those goblets
from his temple brought to you,
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and you and your nobles,
your wives and your concubines,
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you drank wine from them.
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You praised the gods of
silver, gold, bronze, iron,
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wood and stone that
cannot see, hear or understand.
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But you did not honor the God
who holds in his hand your life
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and all of your ways."
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That's why he sent a
message what did it say?
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"Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin."
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Mene, God has
numbered the days of your reign
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and brought it to an end.
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Tekel, you have been weighed on
the balances and found wanting.
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In other words the
hour of God's judgment
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has come, isn't it?
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Your kingdom is divided
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and given to the
Medes and the Persians."
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In other words
Babylon has fallen.
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Here are the
Three Angels' Message
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already in a little bit
of a nutshell preview form
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in the Old Testament.
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He knew what he was
doing in spite of the fact
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that he knew it was wrong,
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he trampled on those holy cups
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and therefore the hour
of God's judgment has come,
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he was judged and
Babylon has fallen,
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your kingdom is
divided and given to the Medes
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and the Persians. Why?
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Because he didn't believe God,
because he didn't trust God,
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God said those cups were holy
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and he said no I can
do with them as I please,
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it's up to me to
decide, which day to keep holy.
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Are you beginning to
see the picture here?
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Babylon has fallen,
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he has brought
your kingdom to an end,
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but Babylon was still standing
when he made that announcement.
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How can God say
Babylon has fallen
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when Babylon is still there?
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In fact it wasn't until
later that night in verse 30,
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"That Belshazzar of
the Babylonians was slain
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and Darius the Mede of
the Medo-Persian Empire
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took over his kingdom,
at the age of sixty-two."
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So Babylon fell that very night,
Darius the Mede took over.
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Now, how did Babylon fall
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that's what we
need to understand,
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how did Babylon fall?
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You see the Bible tells
us and history confirms it.
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Babylon was a city that was
built on the Euphrates River.
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The Euphrates went underneath
the gate into the city
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and then out underneath the gate
on the other side of the city.
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The Euphrates River was
the lifeline of Babylon,
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without the
waters of the Euphrates,
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Babylon would die.
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So how did Babylon fall?
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King Cyrus one of
the Medo-Persian kings
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from the east built a dam.
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Did you catch that?
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One of the kings
from where, from the east
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because that's where
the Medo-Persian Empire was,
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it was at the east of Babylon.
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He built a dam
across the Euphrates River,
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diverting it
around the city of Babylon
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and drying up the
waters of the Euphrates.
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That enabled Cyrus's armies to
march into the city of Babylon
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on the dry river
bed of the Euphrates
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underneath the gate
into the city catch them
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in the middle of
their drunken orgy
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and capture Babylon without
firing a shot so to speak.
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Now does that
sound familiar to you?
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The kings came from the east
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dried up the
Euphrates and captured Babylon.
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The sixth angel poured out
his bowl on the Euphrates River,
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its water was dried up
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to prepare the way for
the kings from the east.
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Wow!
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Now we can begin to
understand this prophecy
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except for one
more thing, Cyrus.
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Who was that king
Cyrus who came from the east
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and dried up
the Euphrates River?
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That's the exciting
part of this prophecy.
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Turn to Isaiah, in Isaiah 41:1,
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He speaks and says
"Let us meet together
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at the place of judgment."
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Now he is talking
about a place of judgment.
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Watch verse 2,
"Who has stirred up one
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from the east calling him in
righteousness to his service?"
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So here is one
serving God in judgment
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and he comes from the east.
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Chapter 42:1, "And he comes
in righteousness from the east."
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Chapter 42:1,
"Here is my servant,
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whom I uphold, my
chosen one in whom I delight."
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So he is called a servant,
He is called the chosen one.
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Watch this, Chapter 44:27,
"Who says to the watery deep,
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be dry, and I will
dry up your streams."
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Who says of
Cyrus, 'He is my shepherd
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and he will
accomplish all that I please
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he will say of
Jerusalem, "Let it be rebuilt,
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and of the temple, "Let
its foundations be laid."
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Remember when Israel
was captive in Babylon
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Jerusalem was in ruins
and the temple was in ruins.
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So here he says
Cyrus let it be rebuilt.
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Cyrus said let the
foundations be laid.
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Verse 1 in Chapter 45,
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"This is what the Lord says
to his anointed one to Cyrus,
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whose right
hand I take hold of."
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Verse 13, "I will raise
up Cyrus in my righteousness,
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I will make all
his ways straight.
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He will rebuild my city
and set my exiles free."
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Interesting that
Isaiah refers to Cyrus
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as a servant,
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the shepherd, the
righteous one the chosen one,
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the one who God
took his right hand.
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But the Bible says
in the New Testament
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that Jesus is a servant,
Jesus is the righteous one,
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Jesus is the chosen one,
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Jesus is the one
whose right hand God took.
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You see Cyrus is a type
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or a shadow of a greater king
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who would come from
the east King Jesus.
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And dry up the Euphrates
River and set his people free.
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Why did God raise
up the pagan king Cyrus
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to capture Babylon dry up
the Euphrates, capture Babylon.
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Why did God raise up
this pagan king to do that?
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Because Jerusalem was in ruins
and the temple was in ruins.
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And as long as the
temple is in ruins,
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then the true
worship of the true God
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doesn't exists on the earth
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Because the temple is
the center of God's worship
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and so Cyrus
was raised up by God
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in his
righteousness to capture Babylon
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and to set God's exiles free,
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so they could go
back rebuilt the city,
00:17:02.25\00:17:05.14
rebuild the temple and restore
the true worship of a true God.
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That's the purpose
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every prophecy
has to have a purpose.
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God doesn't just
predict the future
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like Sun
magazine tries to predict.
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God's prophecies are
for a reason, for a purpose.
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Why did he raise up Cyrus?
00:17:27.57\00:17:29.59
He raised him up, so
that he could capture Babylon,
00:17:29.62\00:17:33.54
rebuild Jerusalem,
let God's people free
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to restore the temple
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and restore the
true worship of God.
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That's God's
purpose for the prophecy.
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You know there is something else
00:17:48.56\00:17:49.63
about this
prophecy that I really like.
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Did you notice it
called Cyrus by name,
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who says of Cyrus he
is my shepherd to Cyrus,
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whose right hand I take hold of?
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It mentioned Cyrus by name.
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Now why is that so exciting?
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Well to me it's exciting
because Cyrus wasn't born
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till hundreds of years later.
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So that means that
God knew Cyrus by name
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hundreds of years
before he was even born.
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Why is that exciting?
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It's exciting because
if God knew Cyrus by name
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hundreds of years
before he was born,
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then God must know you by name
00:18:51.11\00:18:54.86
even before you
were born God knows you,
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He knows everything about you.
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He knows your name.
00:19:00.88\00:19:01.98
He knows what you do.
00:19:02.01\00:19:03.29
He knows where you
are before you were born.
00:19:03.32\00:19:06.13
He knew you would
be sitting right here
00:19:06.16\00:19:07.99
listening to the word of God.
00:19:08.02\00:19:09.73
He knew what your
decisions would be
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as you heard the
word of God unfold.
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He knew whether you
would follow the lamb or not.
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God knows you, that
doesn't take away your choice,
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He just knows us
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and He knows what
we are going to do
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but we still have a choice.
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Wow!
00:19:27.30\00:19:28.61
What a God.
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He knows me, He knows you,
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He knows the disappointments,
00:19:33.59\00:19:36.44
the heartache that you
are suffering right now
00:19:36.47\00:19:38.91
at this very moment.
00:19:38.94\00:19:42.09
He has walked that path; He
knows what rejection is like.
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He knows what abuse is
like, He has been here.
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And He knows what
you're feeling right now.
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What a God, amen?
00:19:54.12\00:19:56.17
So picture it again,
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Cyrus King from the east
dries up the Euphrates River,
00:20:03.03\00:20:08.26
captures Babylon,
sets God's exiles free
00:20:08.29\00:20:12.77
back to Jerusalem
to rebuild the temple
00:20:12.80\00:20:16.23
and to restore the
true worship of God.
00:20:16.26\00:20:19.42
Cyrus then is a type
or a shadow foreshadowing
00:20:22.05\00:20:30.05
a greater king who
would come from the east.
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Didn't Jesus say
as lightning flashes
00:20:36.19\00:20:40.05
from the east to the west,
00:20:40.08\00:20:42.39
so will the coming
of the son of man be.
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Cyrus foreshadowed the
coming of a greater king
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who sees his end time
people captive in Babylon.
00:20:51.82\00:20:59.11
Dries up the
Euphrates to deliver His people
00:20:59.14\00:21:05.01
and restore the true
worship of the true God.
00:21:05.04\00:21:10.71
How does it all unfold?
00:21:13.67\00:21:16.21
Now we are ready to see it.
00:21:16.24\00:21:17.73
Let's go back to Revelation,
this time Revelation 19,
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in Revelation 19...
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verse 7, "Let us
rejoice and be glad
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and give him glory!"
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Why, what's the big event?
00:21:43.07\00:21:46.13
"Because the wedding
of the Lamb has come,
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and the bride has
made herself ready,
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fine linen, bright and
clean, was given her to wear."
00:21:55.17\00:21:58.15
Fine linen stands
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for the righteous
acts of the saints.
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Who is the bride?
00:22:03.42\00:22:05.25
Verse 9:21, "One
of the seven angels
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who had the seven bowls."
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So one of the angels
with the last plagues
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came to explain things
and he said to me "Come,
00:22:14.94\00:22:20.63
and I will show you the
bride, the wife of the Lamb."
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Who is the bride?
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Verse 10, "He
carried me away in the Spirit
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to a mountain great and high,
and he showed me the Holy City,
00:22:28.99\00:22:33.29
coming down out
of heaven from God."
00:22:33.32\00:22:36.23
So who is the bride?
00:22:36.26\00:22:37.77
It's the Holy City,
it's the New Jerusalem.
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The Heavily Jerusalem is coming
down out of heaven from God.
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But when we compare
scripture with scripture
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and we go to
Hebrews 12:22 it tells us
00:22:51.14\00:22:56.40
"You have come to Mount
Zion, to the heavenly Jerusalem,
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to the city of the living God."
00:23:01.23\00:23:03.97
So you church when
you come to Jesus he said,
00:23:04.00\00:23:08.86
you have come to Mount Zion,
00:23:08.89\00:23:11.05
you have come to
the heavenly Jerusalem,
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you have come to the
city of the living God.
00:23:13.41\00:23:15.79
Verse 23 "You have come to
the church of the firstborn,
00:23:15.82\00:23:19.47
whose names are
written in heaven.
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You have come to
God, the judge of all men,
00:23:22.56\00:23:25.08
you have come to Jesus."
00:23:25.11\00:23:26.30
So the moment we come to Jesus
00:23:26.33\00:23:28.34
our names are written in heaven
00:23:28.37\00:23:30.24
and we are citizens
of the New Jerusalem
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the heavenly Jerusalem,
the city of the living God,
00:23:33.11\00:23:36.72
we are citizens in that city,
our names are written there,
00:23:36.75\00:23:40.42
but we are still down here.
00:23:40.45\00:23:41.75
But, the bride has
made herself ready.
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The New Jerusalem is the
bride but the people aren't,
00:23:52.47\00:23:55.79
their names are
just written there.
00:23:55.82\00:23:59.08
And so Jesus is
saying it's time for Me to go
00:23:59.11\00:24:02.34
and to get My bride.
00:24:02.37\00:24:04.93
It's time for Me to go and to
get My people, they are ready.
00:24:04.96\00:24:10.77
The Three Angels' Messages
have gone to the whole world,
00:24:10.80\00:24:13.81
my people have responded,
they are following the Lamb.
00:24:13.84\00:24:17.28
They have demonstrated what
it means to follow the Lamb.
00:24:17.31\00:24:20.40
I am going to go
and get my people.
00:24:20.43\00:24:24.38
Problem is His people
are in the claws of Babylon,
00:24:24.41\00:24:32.38
trying to destroy them.
00:24:32.41\00:24:35.90
No problem
because verse 11 tells us,
00:24:35.93\00:24:40.88
"I saw heaven standing in open
00:24:40.91\00:24:42.73
and there before
me was a white horse,
00:24:42.76\00:24:44.66
whose rider is
called Faithful and True.
00:24:44.69\00:24:48.39
With justice he
judges and makes war.
00:24:48.42\00:24:50.90
His eyes are like blazing fire,
and on his head are many crowns.
00:24:50.93\00:24:54.59
He has a name
written on him that no one
00:24:54.62\00:24:56.54
but he himself knows,
00:24:56.57\00:24:58.20
He is dressed in a
robe dipped in blood,
00:24:58.23\00:25:00.17
and his name is the Word of God.
00:25:00.20\00:25:04.00
The armies of
heaven are following him,
00:25:04.03\00:25:05.58
riding on white horses
and dressed in fine linen,
00:25:05.61\00:25:08.65
white and clean.
00:25:08.68\00:25:09.77
And out of his
mouth comes a sharp sword
00:25:09.80\00:25:12.41
with which to
strike down the nations.
00:25:12.44\00:25:14.88
And He will rule
them with an iron scepter.
00:25:14.91\00:25:17.24
He treads the
winepress of the fury
00:25:17.27\00:25:19.42
of the wrath of God Almighty.
00:25:19.45\00:25:21.17
And on his robe and on his
thigh he has this name written,
00:25:21.20\00:25:24.83
King of kings, Lord of lords,
00:25:24.86\00:25:27.42
Jesus Christ is coming
riding on a white horse
00:25:27.45\00:25:31.19
to capture His
people from Babylon,
00:25:31.22\00:25:34.55
to snatch her
from the jaws of death
00:25:34.58\00:25:37.57
and to bring her
to the New Jerusalem
00:25:37.60\00:25:40.30
to the wedding
Supper of the Lamb.
00:25:40.33\00:25:44.35
Wow!
00:25:44.38\00:25:47.01
Revelation is all about Jesus,
00:25:47.04\00:25:50.65
He is the king who
comes from the east.
00:25:50.68\00:25:55.16
Verse 19, "I saw the beast
00:25:58.38\00:26:02.23
and the kings of
the earth all of them,
00:26:02.26\00:26:06.24
and their armies
gathered together
00:26:06.27\00:26:09.85
to make war against the rider
on the horse and his army."
00:26:09.88\00:26:15.66
Now you got to picture this.
00:26:15.69\00:26:17.86
Jesus is coming for His
bride, He is coming for us.
00:26:17.89\00:26:22.63
The kings of the
earth, the beast,
00:26:22.66\00:26:26.33
the false
prophet all their armies
00:26:26.36\00:26:29.57
are gathered together
to make war against whom?
00:26:29.60\00:26:34.11
Not against Israel,
00:26:34.14\00:26:37.39
it never says the
war is against Israel,
00:26:37.42\00:26:40.73
they are gathered together
00:26:40.76\00:26:42.03
to make war against the rider
on the horse, that's Jesus.
00:26:42.06\00:26:48.03
Armageddon is the devil
and his armies against Jesus
00:26:48.06\00:26:52.71
or Jesus against them,
however you want to look at it,
00:26:52.74\00:26:55.96
because they are
trying to crush the life
00:26:55.99\00:26:59.35
out of the bride of the Lamb
and He is coming to deliver us,
00:26:59.38\00:27:04.37
that's what
Armageddon is all about.
00:27:04.40\00:27:06.56
It's not over
geographic boundaries
00:27:06.59\00:27:09.58
set by the United Nations
00:27:09.61\00:27:11.54
and fought over by the
Middle Eastern countries.
00:27:11.57\00:27:14.72
It's not about
that, it's about Jesus
00:27:14.75\00:27:17.53
and His bride
00:27:17.56\00:27:18.71
and those who are trying
to crush the bride of Christ.
00:27:18.74\00:27:23.11
So watch it again,
00:27:26.74\00:27:28.64
"Saw the beast and
the kings of the earth
00:27:28.67\00:27:30.47
and their armies
gathered together
00:27:30.50\00:27:33.14
to make war against
the rider on the horse."
00:27:33.17\00:27:37.71
If you ever gets discouraged
read Revelations 17:15,
00:27:40.58\00:27:45.64
actually read
Revelation 17:12 and following,
00:27:47.49\00:27:53.39
"Ten horns you saw are ten kings
00:27:53.42\00:27:55.56
who have not yet
received a kingdom,
00:27:55.59\00:27:57.52
but who for one hour
will receive authority
00:27:57.55\00:27:59.45
as kings along with the beast.
00:27:59.48\00:28:00.59
They have one purpose,
they will give their power
00:28:00.62\00:28:02.38
and authority to the beast."
00:28:02.41\00:28:04.06
All the kings of the earth,
00:28:04.09\00:28:05.54
they are not
fighting against each other.
00:28:05.57\00:28:07.34
No, they give all of
their authority to the beast,
00:28:07.37\00:28:10.49
they are fighting against whom?
00:28:10.52\00:28:12.00
Verse 14, "They will
make war against the Lamb,
00:28:12.03\00:28:16.23
don't get discouraged.
00:28:16.26\00:28:18.43
Sometimes he attacks us,
he is going to attack us,
00:28:18.46\00:28:22.66
he is going to
keep attacking us,
00:28:22.69\00:28:25.10
but watch, "But the
Lamb will overcome them,
00:28:25.13\00:28:31.19
because he is King of
kings and Lord of lords
00:28:31.22\00:28:34.99
and with him will be his called,
chosen and faithful followers."
00:28:35.02\00:28:39.72
Follow the Lamb.
00:28:39.75\00:28:41.12
You want to win this
war, follow the lamb,
00:28:41.15\00:28:43.77
He is going to win.
00:28:43.80\00:28:45.65
So the dragon, the
beast, the false prophet,
00:28:47.82\00:28:51.30
the kings of the earth
and all of their armies
00:28:51.33\00:28:53.97
are gathered together to
make war against the Lamb,
00:28:54.00\00:29:00.49
against Jesus.
00:29:00.52\00:29:02.18
The rider on the white
horse where they gathered to?
00:29:02.21\00:29:07.75
We have already read
that but let's read it again.
00:29:07.78\00:29:12.04
Verse 13, "I saw
three evil spirits
00:29:12.07\00:29:14.49
that looked like frogs;
00:29:14.52\00:29:15.55
they came out of the
mouth of the dragon."
00:29:15.58\00:29:17.49
You know what, I
want to start at verse 12
00:29:17.52\00:29:19.43
because that gives us
a bigger picture here.
00:29:19.46\00:29:21.74
Verse 12, "The sixth
angel poured out his bowl
00:29:21.77\00:29:24.54
on the great river Euphrates."
00:29:24.57\00:29:25.97
Is it getting clear to you now?
00:29:26.00\00:29:28.15
"He poured out his bowl
on the great River Euphrates,
00:29:28.18\00:29:30.52
its water was dried
up to prepare the way
00:29:30.55\00:29:32.76
for the kings from the East."
00:29:32.79\00:29:34.08
That's Jesus "And then
I saw three evil spirits,
00:29:34.11\00:29:37.35
they looked like frogs,
00:29:37.38\00:29:38.41
they came out of
the mouth of the dragon,
00:29:38.44\00:29:39.82
the beast, the false prophet.
00:29:39.85\00:29:41.12
They are spirits of demons
00:29:41.15\00:29:42.72
and they perform
miraculous signs,
00:29:42.75\00:29:44.78
they go out to the
kings of the whole world,
00:29:44.81\00:29:46.91
to gather them for the battle on
the great day of God Almighty."
00:29:46.94\00:29:51.07
So where are they
gathering them to?
00:29:51.10\00:29:52.80
Verse 16 says, "Then they
gathered the kings together
00:29:52.83\00:29:55.95
to the place that in
Hebrew is called Armageddon."
00:29:55.98\00:30:00.82
The beast, the
kings of the earth,
00:30:00.85\00:30:03.91
the false prophet
all of their armies
00:30:03.94\00:30:06.97
are gathered together to
a place called Armageddon
00:30:07.00\00:30:12.52
to make war against the Lamb.
00:30:12.55\00:30:16.35
He is going to
loose that one every time.
00:30:18.64\00:30:21.14
But where is Armageddon?
00:30:22.69\00:30:25.76
When we did Revelation
now over in the Middle East
00:30:25.79\00:30:29.31
after we are finished we
went to--towards through Israel
00:30:29.34\00:30:33.31
and went up to the
northern parts of Israel
00:30:33.34\00:30:37.65
to a little
place called Megiddo.
00:30:37.68\00:30:39.68
You may have heard about it,
00:30:39.71\00:30:42.10
and there is a little hill
00:30:42.13\00:30:44.32
overlooking the
big valley of Esdraelon
00:30:44.35\00:30:46.75
and we were there on
Megiddo and there was a sign,
00:30:46.78\00:30:53.08
this is Armageddon, the
place of the last Great War.
00:30:53.11\00:31:01.08
But it was a
plane in the little hill
00:31:01.11\00:31:08.76
and it was
Megiddo not Armageddon,
00:31:08.79\00:31:14.49
so do we want
to trust the Rabbis
00:31:14.52\00:31:21.44
who don't accept
Jesus Christ as their Savior
00:31:21.47\00:31:25.39
to interpret a
New Testament prophecy
00:31:25.42\00:31:28.71
that centers on Jesus Christ,
00:31:28.74\00:31:32.36
practically the
whole Christian world does.
00:31:32.39\00:31:36.79
But I see something else there
00:31:36.82\00:31:38.81
when I look
through the eyes of Jesus.
00:31:38.84\00:31:43.07
Where is Armageddon?
00:31:43.10\00:31:45.26
Remember that word is only
found in one place in your Bible
00:31:45.29\00:31:48.01
that's Revelation
00:31:48.04\00:31:51.00
and actually
John gives us a clue,
00:31:51.03\00:31:53.69
He said, "They
gathered the kings together
00:31:53.72\00:31:57.45
to the place that in
Hebrew is called Armageddon."
00:31:57.48\00:32:04.49
Now this is a New Testament.
00:32:04.52\00:32:07.17
The New Testament was
not written in Hebrew.
00:32:07.20\00:32:12.76
So I think John is telling us
00:32:12.79\00:32:14.85
if you want to
understand Armageddon,
00:32:14.88\00:32:16.58
you better know a little Hebrew.
00:32:16.61\00:32:18.75
At least one word
or actually two words,
00:32:18.78\00:32:24.78
Armageddon is from the
Hebrew Har there H is silent
00:32:24.81\00:32:29.49
and it means mountain.
00:32:29.52\00:32:32.96
Magedon, the
Megiddo means slaughter.
00:32:32.99\00:32:40.83
The dragon, the beast,
00:32:40.86\00:32:43.22
the kings of the
earth and their armies,
00:32:43.25\00:32:48.21
all the wicked are gathered
to the mountain of slaughter
00:32:48.24\00:32:55.20
to make war against the Lamb.
00:32:55.23\00:32:59.12
God's people are
gathered to Mount Zion
00:33:01.29\00:33:06.01
to worship the Creator of
the heavens and the earth.
00:33:08.02\00:33:13.66
There are two
mountains in Revelations,
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two gatherings in Revelation.
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One to Mount
Zion, the Lamb is there
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and one to Armageddon,
the mountain of slaughter
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and the beast is there.
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That's the last Great
War and it will end all wars.
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Now, we're ready to go
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to the broader
scope of that prophecy
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in the wider
context of Revelation.
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Now I want to
kind of sweep through
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from Revelation
12 up until the end.
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I am going to paint in
broad strokes the big picture,
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because when you
have the big picture
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then you can go
through and study the details.
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Then the beast
and 666 and the mark
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and Armageddon
all fall into place.
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But if you just take
one here and one there,
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without a big picture you
don't know where to hang it
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and it gets confusing.
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But watch how simple and clear
Revelation is now Chapter 12:7,
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"There was war in heaven.
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Michael and his angels
fought against the dragon,
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and the dragon and
his angels fought back.
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He was not strong enough,
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they lost their
place in heaven."
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We know about that war,
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that war was over
who is going to rule,
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Satan want to
sit on God's throne,
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God's laws are laws of love.
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Satan wanted to put his
laws in place of God's laws.
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God could have destroyed Satan
rights then in heaven remember?
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We talked about all
this, why didn't he?
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When Lucifer that
perfect angel in heaven
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was trying to
deceive all the angels
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into following
him instead of God,
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and trusting him instead of God,
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God could have walked in
and destroyed him right then.
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Why didn't he?
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Wouldn't it had been better
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if He would have stopped
this thing before it started?
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No, because if He
would have destroyed Lucifer,
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then all the other
angels would be worshipping God
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out of fear instead of love
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and they would have never known
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that God's laws
are laws of love.
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So, He had to let Lucifer go.
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He had to give him
time to demonstrate
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what it would be like if he
really had a kingdom to rule
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and the bad news is that he
was hurled down to the earth
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and his evil angels
with him, bad news for us.
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You say, well, that's not fair.
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Why didn't He send him to some
other Pluto or some place out.
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There is nothing fair about sin,
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but there is
everything fair about God
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and He is going to make it
up to you far greater than what-
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what you could
ever dream or imagine.
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Verse 13, "When the dragon saw
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he had been hurled to the earth,
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he pursued the woman who had
given birth to the male child."
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Now remember we studied
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and learned that the
woman symbolizes God's people
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if she is the pure woman.
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That harlot dressed
in scarlet and purple,
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the adulterous woman symbolizes
a counterfeit to God's people.
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So this time we see a woman
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is a pure woman
clothed with the sun.
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In the Old Testament that
woman is a nation of Israel.
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In the New Testament
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that woman symbolizes
the church of Jesus Christ.
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So we have to ask ourselves
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when John saw the
dragon pursuing this woman
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is it in Old Testament time
or is it in New Testament times.
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Old Testament,
it would be Israel,
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New Testament, it
would be the church.
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You see the cross is
the determining factor
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as to how to
understand Revelation.
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When we see that "The dragon
had been hurled to the earth,
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and he pursued the woman
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who had given
birth to the male child."
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Jesus had already come,
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so it must be the
New Testament woman
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the church of Jesus Christ.
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Shouldn't surprise us
because we had already studied
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that "the woman
was given in Verse 14
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the wings of the great eagles,
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so that she
might fly to the place
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prepared for her in the desert,
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where she would be
taken care of for a time,
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times and half a time"
same thing that Daniel saw
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the antichrist
would be in power time,
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times and half a time.
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So during that time,
times and half a time
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that we have already studied was
1260 years from 538 until 1798.
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The woman is
hidden in the desert;
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God has always had followers,
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believers who
would follow the Lamb.
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Always, even in the
darkest times of the Dark Ages.
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So now we are through the
Dark Ages 1798 after that,
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"From his mouth the serpent
spewed water like a river,
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to overtake the woman sweeps
her away with the torrent."
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And we know that symbolizes war,
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trying to
destroy the people of God
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that happened
during the Dark Ages.
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Europe just about
wiped the true believers
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off the face of the earth.
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During the Spanish Inquisition
St. Bartholomew massacre
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and all the other
times when those who stood
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on the scripture
were slaughter their blood
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was flowing in the streets,
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"But the earth helped the
woman by opening its mouth"
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the first beast
came up out of the water
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representing
multitudes of people,
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but this second beast
comes up out of the earth,
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after the deadly wound so
around the turn of the century
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the late 1700s we
see another beast rising,
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quite uninhabited
part of the world.
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Relatively compared to Europe
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and he had two horns like a lamb
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we already identified
that one is protestant America.
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The United States of America
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when the pilgrims
came to this country
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to escape the
persecution, establish a nation
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where they have the freedom
to worship God as they choose.
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"But, she spoke
like the dragon."
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America is going to change.
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America is changing and
we are seeing our freedoms
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eroding away slowly but surely.
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We still have the right
to worship as we please.
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Praise God for that.
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But there are some in
very influential circles
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in government
that would consider
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the prophecies that we
have been talking about
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as hateful, and
would even ban them.
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Did you know that
your United States Senate
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and your United States
House of Representative
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had a motion on the floor to ban
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and make it illegal any
interpretations of prophecy
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that pointed to the Vatican
as the antichrist and the beast?
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Fortunately it was voted down
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but one of these days
it's going to be voted up.
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We have already seen as I
read to you from the document
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produced by the
Department of Homeland Security,
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we have already seen that
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those who focus on
end time prophecies
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are more likely to be
candidates for terrorism
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than other parts
of the population.
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We've already singled out.
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Our freedoms are
being stripped away.
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I want to show you some things.
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How could that ever happen here
in the United States of America?
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I found this when
I was reading a book
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that was written about 300
years before Christ was born,
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wasn't written
by a Bible prophet,
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it was a written by
a pagan philosopher,
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his name was Plato,
the book was The Republic.
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And I had chills going up
and down my back when I read it.
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See if you think he
wasn't talking about our times.
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It's a little
long but bear with me.
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All forms of
government destroy themselves
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by carrying their
basic principles to excess.
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The first form is
monarchy, that's a king ruling,
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and the
principle is unity of rule.
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Carried to excess,
the rule is too unified.
00:42:12.72\00:42:16.65
And the monarch or the king
takes too much power to himself.
00:42:16.68\00:42:23.40
Leading families' rebel and
they establish an aristocracy
00:42:23.43\00:42:29.30
whose main principle is
that selected families rule.
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The principle of
selection is carried to excess
00:42:35.11\00:42:38.91
and somewhat large numbers
of able men are left out,
00:42:38.94\00:42:42.68
the middle class
join them in rebellion,
00:42:42.71\00:42:45.36
and they establish a democracy,
00:42:45.39\00:42:48.43
whose principle is
liberty and that's us.
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But, this principle too
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is carried to excess
in the course of time.
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The democracies become too free.
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Now this was written
350 years before Christ.
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This principle is carried to
excess in the course of time.
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The democracies become
too free until at last,
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even the puppy
dogs in our own homes
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rise on their hind legs
and demand their rights.
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Watch out now, it's
called animal rights.
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Now don't misunderstand me.
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I believe that God made
us stewards over this earth
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and the animals and we
need to take care of the animals
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and protect them,
they're God's creatures.
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But it's possible to
go to extremes and excess
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and people have done jail time
00:43:57.86\00:44:01.62
for plowing up
accidentally, a Kangaroo rat.
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It was an endangered
species in that cornfield.
00:44:06.42\00:44:09.48
And there are so many
things now that can't be done
00:44:12.70\00:44:15.35
because it might
infringe on animal rights
00:44:15.38\00:44:19.28
and scare the rattlesnakes
out of their natural habitat.
00:44:19.31\00:44:23.38
Some people don't even
want me to go scuba diving,
00:44:26.17\00:44:29.51
because when I jump off the boat
it causes trauma to the fish.
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Now, we can go to extremes
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and that's what
Plato was talking about.
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So everybody is demanding
their rights, picture this,
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everybody thinks they
have something comes to them.
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So what happens
when they don't get,
00:44:51.29\00:44:53.61
what they think
they have coming to them?
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That's when you
start seeing demonstration
00:44:57.74\00:45:00.83
that turn into
riots and anarchy.
00:45:00.86\00:45:05.96
We have almost
had that a few times
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in some of our elections
00:45:07.64\00:45:09.12
when people thought
their vote wasn't counted.
00:45:09.15\00:45:11.20
You remember the Chads,
00:45:11.23\00:45:13.69
we were on the brink of anarchy
in some places in rioting.
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Disorder grows to such a point,
00:45:19.85\00:45:22.24
that a society will
abandon all of its liberties
00:45:22.27\00:45:25.58
to anyone who can restore order.
00:45:25.61\00:45:28.63
And then comes the
fourth form of government,
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tyranny, dictatorship.
00:45:31.11\00:45:33.32
And the
monarchy may be restored,
00:45:33.35\00:45:35.38
and the process begins
all over again, not this time.
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There will be a
monarch, there will be a king
00:45:40.43\00:45:43.47
but this process isn't
going to happen all over again.
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In this kind of environment
and then the political
00:45:49.53\00:45:53.37
and economic crisis that
we are facing in this country
00:45:53.40\00:45:57.32
and are oing through now
00:45:57.35\00:45:59.55
it doesn't take much
of an imagination to see
00:45:59.58\00:46:03.23
people believing that they
are not getting their rights.
00:46:03.26\00:46:08.03
Getting anxious, demonstrating
00:46:08.06\00:46:11.42
and even rioting to get what
they believe is their right.
00:46:11.45\00:46:19.42
The stage is ripe for a
powerful political leader
00:46:19.45\00:46:24.94
to emerge performing miracles,
saying I have the answer,
00:46:24.97\00:46:31.72
people will
abandon their freedoms
00:46:31.75\00:46:33.87
to anyone who can
promise them order.
00:46:33.90\00:46:38.03
The stage is set folks
for a worldwide super church.
00:46:38.06\00:46:45.63
And this is from
an email newsletter
00:46:45.66\00:46:47.80
that I get from Dr.
Robert Moynihan from Rome
00:46:47.83\00:46:50.76
called Inside the Vatican.
00:46:50.79\00:46:52.59
He announced that the
Protestant Anglican Church
00:46:52.62\00:46:57.87
is now being invited by
Rome to reunite with Rome
00:46:57.90\00:47:01.88
and keep their
Anglican traditions,
00:47:01.91\00:47:04.56
the priest can
continue to marry,
00:47:04.59\00:47:06.25
these things will still be okay,
00:47:06.28\00:47:08.32
but they must recognize
00:47:08.35\00:47:10.07
the authority of the
pope in matters of truth.
00:47:10.10\00:47:16.09
He said this will be seen as
one of the historic documents
00:47:16.12\00:47:18.59
of Pope
Benedict XVI pontificate,
00:47:18.62\00:47:21.32
we are watching
history unfold here.
00:47:21.35\00:47:24.34
But this he
said, is just one part
00:47:24.37\00:47:26.21
of a larger papal
strategy in vision
00:47:26.24\00:47:28.18
which opens outward
towards orthodox churches,
00:47:28.21\00:47:31.34
other protestant churches
00:47:31.37\00:47:33.20
and which also has to do with
mysterious message from Fatima.
00:47:33.23\00:47:37.39
An appearance of
Mary with prophecies
00:47:37.42\00:47:39.74
they were locked up and no
one really knew what they were
00:47:39.77\00:47:44.00
but now they are beginning
to unfold those prophecies.
00:47:44.03\00:47:48.62
But Mary died 2000 years ago.
00:47:48.65\00:47:52.82
Messages that come
from beyond the grave.
00:47:52.85\00:47:55.01
Remember I saw demon
spirits performing miracles
00:47:55.04\00:47:59.86
gathering the world
together bringing them together
00:47:59.89\00:48:03.91
for the battle on the
great day of God Almighty.
00:48:03.94\00:48:06.10
Are you seeing what's happening?
00:48:06.13\00:48:08.68
And that isn't all,
the next day he said,
00:48:08.71\00:48:12.57
He was on a train
approaching Tatarstan,
00:48:12.60\00:48:15.89
gateway to the Stan countries,
00:48:15.92\00:48:18.45
beyond Tatarstan is Kazakhstan,
00:48:18.48\00:48:20.51
Turkmenistan,
Afghanistan, Pakistan
00:48:20.54\00:48:23.97
countries that are all
part of the Muslim world,
00:48:24.00\00:48:26.93
He was going to Kazan,
the capital of Tatarstan
00:48:26.96\00:48:30.39
and Kazan reflects that it's
half of its population is Muslim
00:48:30.42\00:48:34.79
and the other half
Orthodox Protestant Russians
00:48:34.82\00:48:38.83
of the Orthodox
Protestant Church.
00:48:38.86\00:48:42.57
The first glimpse of
Kazan that I catch at dawn
00:48:42.60\00:48:45.20
as the train pulls into the city
is the mosque with its minarets
00:48:45.23\00:48:49.31
and the domes of the
cathedral, side-by-side.
00:48:49.34\00:48:53.30
Mosque and the protestant
cathedral side by side.
00:48:53.33\00:48:57.61
But the
fascinating thing about Kazan
00:48:57.64\00:48:59.63
is that it is known
throughout the world
00:48:59.66\00:49:01.55
as a city of
tolerant coexistence.
00:49:01.58\00:49:04.18
There is no
evident tension whatsoever
00:49:04.21\00:49:07.30
between the Muslims in the city
and the Christians in the city.
00:49:07.33\00:49:11.07
And this, I believe
is part of the mystery
00:49:11.10\00:49:13.54
of the icon of Kazan
which came from Fatima.
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So here we are using
spirits from beyond the grave
00:49:19.55\00:49:23.55
to bring peace and harmony
between Muslims and Christians
00:49:23.58\00:49:29.72
and they are attributing it to
a vision from beyond the grave.
00:49:29.75\00:49:34.67
I don't know how
prophecy can unfold
00:49:37.20\00:49:39.51
any clearer
than it is right now.
00:49:39.54\00:49:41.50
We are living in the last days
00:49:41.53\00:49:43.06
and folks our freedoms
are going to be stripped away
00:49:43.09\00:49:45.71
and you are going
to be forced to worship
00:49:45.74\00:49:48.46
in a way that is
contrary to the word of God
00:49:48.49\00:49:51.66
and you will be
threatened with boycott,
00:49:51.69\00:49:53.72
you will be
threatened with a death decree.
00:49:53.75\00:49:55.88
And there are miracles
happening all over the place,
00:49:55.91\00:49:58.92
the devil is
the master at making
00:49:58.95\00:50:00.36
wrong look right
and right look wrong.
00:50:00.39\00:50:02.02
Everything inside
of you is going to say
00:50:02.05\00:50:04.11
that it must be right,
that you are following the lamb
00:50:04.14\00:50:06.96
when it's actually the beast
00:50:06.99\00:50:08.33
and the lamb is going to
be made to look like the beast
00:50:08.36\00:50:11.08
only those who know
the lamb from the scripture
00:50:11.11\00:50:15.21
can tell the
difference between the two.
00:50:15.24\00:50:17.37
In Chapter 14,
here comes a good part,
00:50:22.48\00:50:25.49
Verse 6 "I saw another
angel flying in midair,
00:50:25.52\00:50:28.29
he had the eternal gospel
to proclaim to every nation,
00:50:28.32\00:50:30.75
tribe, language and people".
00:50:30.78\00:50:32.10
Every living being on earth is
gonna hear the truth about God
00:50:32.13\00:50:36.06
when the beast is
doing his deceptions
00:50:36.09\00:50:38.91
to try to gather the world
into worshipping the beast,
00:50:38.94\00:50:41.41
God has a message, the
hour of God's judgment has come.
00:50:41.44\00:50:44.71
Now is the time, worship
the creator not the creature.
00:50:44.74\00:50:48.72
The beast is the
creature, God is the creator,
00:50:48.75\00:50:51.30
Worship him who
made the heavens,
00:50:51.33\00:50:52.83
the earth, the sea
and the springs of water,
00:50:52.86\00:50:55.28
because the hour of
God's judgment has come."
00:50:55.31\00:50:57.74
Second angel Babylon has fallen,
00:50:57.77\00:50:59.79
come out of her my people.
00:50:59.82\00:51:01.25
Third angel, if
anyone worships the beast
00:51:01.28\00:51:03.20
and his image and
receives his mark,
00:51:03.23\00:51:04.72
he will also drink the
wine of the wrath of God.
00:51:04.75\00:51:07.18
The whole world
is forced to choose
00:51:07.21\00:51:09.59
either worship the
beast, the beast says or die,
00:51:09.62\00:51:12.53
there will be a death decree
00:51:12.56\00:51:14.14
or God says, worship the creator
of the heavens and the earth
00:51:14.17\00:51:18.15
or you will drink the
wine of the wrath of God.
00:51:18.18\00:51:21.38
There will be no straddling
offence, just follow the Lamb,
00:51:21.41\00:51:24.45
don't follow me, don't
follow grandma, grandpa,
00:51:24.48\00:51:27.25
anyone, follow the Lamb.
00:51:27.28\00:51:30.42
It's the only safety we going
to have through times like this.
00:51:30.45\00:51:34.00
And then Chapter 15,
00:51:36.95\00:51:39.17
Three Angels Messages
go to the whole world.
00:51:39.20\00:51:41.05
Everyone has been forced
to choose one way or the other
00:51:41.08\00:51:44.86
and the Bible tells us
verse 5, "I looked in heaven,
00:51:44.89\00:51:49.19
that's the tabernacle,
the temple was opened
00:51:49.22\00:51:51.69
and out of the
temple came the seven angels
00:51:51.72\00:51:53.66
with the seven plagues.
00:51:53.69\00:51:54.82
They were dressed
in clean, shining linen
00:51:54.85\00:51:57.20
and wore golden sashes,
00:51:57.23\00:51:58.59
one of the four living creatures
gave to the seven angels
00:51:58.62\00:52:01.51
seven golden bowls
filled with the wrath of God,
00:52:01.54\00:52:04.31
who lives for ever and ever.
00:52:04.34\00:52:05.91
And the temple was filled
with smoke from the glory of God
00:52:05.94\00:52:09.45
and from his power, no
one could enter the temple
00:52:09.48\00:52:12.19
until the seven
plagues were completed."
00:52:12.22\00:52:15.06
In other words every
decision has been made
00:52:15.09\00:52:17.47
everyone has had the
opportunity to choose,
00:52:17.50\00:52:19.85
everyone you see is worshipping
either the beast or the creator,
00:52:19.88\00:52:24.23
everyone has either
the mark of the beast
00:52:24.26\00:52:26.37
or the seal of God
on their foreheads,
00:52:26.40\00:52:28.78
then the plagues are poured out.
00:52:28.81\00:52:32.45
Why? What purpose could God
have with these awful plagues?
00:52:32.48\00:52:38.63
Chapter 16:1, "I heard a
loud voice from the temple
00:52:38.66\00:52:41.65
saying to the seven angels,
00:52:41.68\00:52:44.01
"Go, pour out the seven bowls
of God's wrath on the earth.
00:52:44.04\00:52:48.42
The first angel went and
poured out his bowl on the land,
00:52:48.45\00:52:50.64
and ugly and painful
sores broke out on the people
00:52:50.67\00:52:53.44
who had worshiped
the beast and his image."
00:52:53.47\00:52:56.10
Not on God's people,
00:52:56.13\00:52:57.72
only on those who
worshipped the beast.
00:52:57.75\00:53:00.05
The great
tribulation won't come to you
00:53:00.08\00:53:02.14
if you have a seal
of God on your forehead.
00:53:02.17\00:53:06.35
"And then the second angel
poured out his bowl on the sea,
00:53:06.38\00:53:08.59
and it turned to blood,
00:53:08.62\00:53:09.80
the third angel on the
rivers and springs of water,
00:53:09.83\00:53:12.20
and they became blood."
00:53:12.23\00:53:13.77
And verse 5, "Then I
heard voice of the angel
00:53:13.80\00:53:16.09
in charge of the waters saying,
You are just in these judgments,
00:53:16.12\00:53:19.15
you who are and
who were, the Holy One,
00:53:19.18\00:53:20.91
because you have so judged,
00:53:20.94\00:53:22.44
for they have shed the blood
of your saints and prophets,
00:53:22.47\00:53:25.03
you have given
them blood to drink,
00:53:25.06\00:53:26.62
"Yes, Lord, just and
true are your judgments.'"
00:53:26.65\00:53:29.36
Now God is showing that
he is doing the right thing
00:53:29.39\00:53:32.90
and everyone agrees
when he destroys the wicked
00:53:32.93\00:53:35.58
and delivers
His people, Verse 8,
00:53:35.61\00:53:38.08
"The fourth angel
poured out his bowl on the sun,
00:53:38.11\00:53:40.00
and was given power to
scorch people with fire."
00:53:40.03\00:53:42.52
But look at the end of Verse 9
00:53:42.55\00:53:44.06
"They refused to
repent and glorify God."
00:53:44.09\00:53:47.44
You see Babylon claims
to be the people of God
00:53:47.47\00:53:50.71
but as the
plagues are poured out
00:53:50.74\00:53:52.62
they are
beginning to demonstrate
00:53:52.65\00:53:54.24
now they refuse to repent
00:53:54.27\00:53:56.43
"They cursed the name of God,
they refused to glorify God".
00:53:56.46\00:54:00.64
Verse 10, "The fifth
angel poured out his bowl
00:54:00.67\00:54:03.22
the beast was
plunged into darkness.
00:54:03.25\00:54:05.36
Men gnawed their
tongues in agony;
00:54:05.39\00:54:07.34
they cursed the name of God".
00:54:07.37\00:54:09.24
Now we can
understand the sixth plague.
00:54:11.12\00:54:13.44
"The sixth angel
poured out his bowl
00:54:13.47\00:54:15.01
on the great river Euphrates,
00:54:15.04\00:54:16.39
and its water would dried up
00:54:16.42\00:54:17.45
to prepare the way for
the kings from the East."
00:54:17.48\00:54:20.43
There is only one thing
00:54:20.46\00:54:21.60
preventing Jesus
from coming right now,
00:54:21.63\00:54:24.13
He has to give Satan time
00:54:24.16\00:54:26.44
to demonstrate what
his kingdom was like,
00:54:26.47\00:54:28.91
he has to give his people time,
00:54:28.94\00:54:30.95
to demonstrate what
it's like to follow the Lamb.
00:54:30.98\00:54:34.06
Watch this, Chapter 17:1,
00:54:36.03\00:54:39.75
"One of the seven
angels who had seven bowls
00:54:39.78\00:54:41.85
came and said to me, 'Come,
00:54:41.88\00:54:43.07
and I will show
you the punishment
00:54:43.10\00:54:44.35
of the great prostitute,
who sits on many waters.'"
00:54:44.38\00:54:47.10
So one of the
angels with the seven bowls
00:54:47.13\00:54:49.38
is going to tell us
about this prostitute
00:54:49.41\00:54:51.78
and interpret it for
us, she sits on many waters.
00:54:51.81\00:54:55.74
What's her name? Verse 5.
00:54:55.77\00:54:57.51
"Mystery Babylon, the Great,
00:54:57.54\00:54:58.95
the mother of prostitutes
and abominations of the earth."
00:54:58.98\00:55:01.74
So here is Babylon the
harlot the counterfeit church
00:55:01.77\00:55:04.68
sitting on many waters
just like Babylon of old.
00:55:04.71\00:55:08.82
What are the waters symbolize,
Verse 15 "The waters you saw,
00:55:08.85\00:55:12.18
where the
prostitute sits, are peoples,
00:55:12.21\00:55:14.23
multitudes,
nations and languages."
00:55:14.26\00:55:16.66
So there is the
harlot sitting on waters
00:55:16.69\00:55:18.71
the people are the ones
who give her, her support,
00:55:18.74\00:55:21.69
they give her, her power,
00:55:21.72\00:55:23.61
but the prophet said that
the waters were going to dry up
00:55:23.64\00:55:26.93
to prepare the way for
the kings from the east.
00:55:26.96\00:55:29.23
So, Babylon will lose her power.
00:55:29.26\00:55:31.69
She will lose her support,
the people will recognize it,
00:55:31.72\00:55:35.04
how does it happen,
he continues on verse 10,
00:55:35.07\00:55:38.12
"The beast and the ten horns
you saw will hate the prostitute
00:55:38.15\00:55:41.35
they will bring her to
ruin, they will leave her naked,
00:55:41.38\00:55:43.80
they will eat her flesh,
they will burn her with fire."
00:55:43.83\00:55:46.19
Because the
people finally recognize
00:55:46.22\00:55:48.62
that they have been
lead astray by their leaders,
00:55:48.65\00:55:51.93
by their
pastors, by their teachers
00:55:51.96\00:55:54.26
that's the darkness,
the darkness of the plague
00:55:54.29\00:55:57.53
is the realization that
the people they are persecuting
00:55:57.56\00:56:01.20
are not receiving
the plagues we are,
00:56:01.23\00:56:03.97
we have been deceived,
we have been lead astray.
00:56:04.00\00:56:07.10
And now, there are
those who worship God
00:56:09.70\00:56:13.12
and those who worship
the beast, they are marked,
00:56:13.15\00:56:17.92
they don't repent
because they love God,
00:56:17.95\00:56:21.61
they don't repent
because they trust God,
00:56:21.64\00:56:25.19
they repent because they want
all the privilege of being saved
00:56:25.22\00:56:29.46
but they don't want
to have to trust God
00:56:29.49\00:56:32.10
to live their
lives the way He made us.
00:56:32.13\00:56:35.69
But it's too late now,
everyone had their opportunity.
00:56:38.00\00:56:42.08
It's going to be a
dark time for God's church,
00:56:44.85\00:56:48.37
it's going to be a time
00:56:48.40\00:56:49.44
where it seems like that
if one more minute goes by
00:56:49.47\00:56:52.82
the church will be
crushed away into darkness,
00:56:52.85\00:56:56.22
Babylon is so
powerful and strong.
00:56:56.25\00:56:59.42
But at the darkest hour
God's people are gonna look up
00:56:59.45\00:57:06.69
and see a rider
on a white horse.
00:57:06.72\00:57:14.27
His name is the word of God,
on his head are many crowns,
00:57:14.30\00:57:21.58
He is dressed in a robe,
00:57:21.61\00:57:23.91
spotless and
white dipped in blood
00:57:23.94\00:57:27.59
and he has his name on his thigh
King Of kings and Lord Of lords
00:57:27.62\00:57:32.79
and God's people are delivered
00:57:32.82\00:57:37.41
at a place that in
Hebrews is called Armageddon.
00:57:37.44\00:57:43.51