So we left off in Revelation 16
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we haven't
quite finished it yet,
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so we want to sew that up
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and then we're going to jump
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right into
Revelation chapter 17.
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Jason, you want
to lead us in prayer?
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Sure, "Dear Heavenly Father,
we thank you for the opportunity
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and privilege of
studying your Word,
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we ask that you would be with us
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and help us to fully
comprehend what we're studying
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and to retain the information,
in Jesus' name we pray, amen. "
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"Amen. "
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So we've learned that
the seven last plagues
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are a revelation of the
wrath of God... which...
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God is not arbitrary in
afflicting these plagues,
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He's actually
honoring the choices
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that human beings have made.
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They want to worship the sun,
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they want to shed
the blood of saints,
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they want darkness
rather than the light...
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all of these...
trust in the flesh...
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all of these
are the consequences
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of the decisions that we
made... the choices we've made
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and remember
Revelation chapter 22 reminds us
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that God does not honor
these choices to be lost
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and to receive these plagues
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until there's nothing
else that He can do to save us.
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Yeah.
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Go ahead... go
ahead... go ahead.
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Sounds like every single
human has made a decision
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for or against Christ
and He closes it all up.
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Remember this also,
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we actually
addressed this earlier on
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when we... in one
of our first studies
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but remember that... who is
God's people on earth this time?
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It's His bride...
remember we talked about it?
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Yeah, the bride of Christ.
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Yeah the bride... these
plagues are actually designed
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to protect His bride right...
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because remember, at this time,
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what are the
wicked trying to do?
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Oh...
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Right... they're
trying to destroy God's people
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and these plagues
are basically God saying,
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"Don't touch... my bride. "
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Right...
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Right, you will
not touch my bride
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and it's not a...
like God is angry...
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we've already
said, "God is love"
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but for those who
have rejected Him...
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at this point He's saying,
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"Okay, you've
made your decision...
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but I'm not going
to allow you, right,
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to touch my
bride... at this time...
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him that is righteous...
let him be righteous still
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him that is filthy,
let him be filthy still. "
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There will be... none
of His saints will die
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from this point
on... they are sealed
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and He's saying,
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"Hmmm... hmmm, don't touch
them I'm protecting them. "
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From the point
of the plagues on...
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there's no death of
the saints, no martyrs...
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No martyrs... That's right...
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No martyrs... and a good verse
for that is Daniel 12 verse 1,
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because that depicts the
same basic event in history
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Michael stands up...
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that's when Michael
comes into His kingdom
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and it says there's a time
of trouble such as never was...
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that's the seven last plagues.
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It's time such as...
trouble such as never was...
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is the seven last plagues
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"and thy people
shall be delivered...
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every one that shall be
found written in the book... "
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written in the
Lamb's Book of Life...
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you remember in Revelation 13,
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everyone receives
the Mark of the Beast...
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worships the
beast... follows the beast...
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except for those who are written
in the Lamb's Book of Life
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and we're going
to see that again
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right here in Revelation
17 as we get into that
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so the very last plague here,
let's just read the verses...
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Jason, can you read verses 17
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all the way to the end
of the chapter... verse 16?
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Okay, "And the seventh angel
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poured out his
vial into the air;
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and there came a great voice
out of the temple of heaven,
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from the throne,
saying, It is done.
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And there were voices,
and thunders, and lightnings;
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and there was a
great earthquake,
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such as was not since
men were upon the earth,
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so mighty an
earthquake, and so great.
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And the great city was
divided into three parts,
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and the cities
of the nations fell:
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and great Babylon came
in remembrance before God,
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to give unto her
the cup of the wine
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of the fierceness of his wrath.
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And every island fled away,
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and the
mountains were not found.
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And there fell upon men
a great hail out of heaven,
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every stone about
the weight of a talent:
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and men blasphemed God because
of the plague of the hail;
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for the plague
thereof was exceeding great. "
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Okay, a couple of
points I want to make here
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before we go any further,
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"men blaspheming God... "
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that's the point
that's made right here
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when you go back to verse
9 and the sun scorching men,
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it says that they
blasphemed the name of God
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but they repented
not to give Him glory
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and when you go back
also to verse... where is it?
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Anyway, the point I want to
make here in these two verses
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is that it's
obvious at this point
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that even though the
plagues are falling upon men,
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they're not repenting...
they're not turning back...
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and that's just confirmation...
for us it's confirmation
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that even though men
are receiving these plagues,
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they still are against God...
they're blaspheming God...
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and they're not repenting and
turning away from their deeds,
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it's confirmation...
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they are settled in
their rejection of the gospel.
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Hmmm... Hmmm.
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It's a good point
that... this is not God saying,
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"I'm not giving you
anymore chance to repent... "
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it's really showing that
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the human heart has
settled in on its own.
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So it's not like people... there
won't be people who are like,
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"Man, if I could
change my mind I would...
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but God is not allowing me"
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because that's
not who God is right,
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these people have
made their minds up
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and are settled of
their own free will... yeah.
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And then we have this
division in verse 19...
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"the great city was
divided into three parts... "
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why is the city
divided into three parts?
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Well, we've noticed
in the previous verses
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that there are three
unclean spirits like frogs,
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you've got the beast...
you've got the dragon...
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and you've got
the false prophet.
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So Babylon is a symbol
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of this rebellion
against heaven... if you will...
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the city of the Tower
of Babel where it all began
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was a rebellion
against heaven...
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a rebellion against
God... God's decrees...
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and this
rebellion against heaven
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is divided into
three basic powers...
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the beast... the
dragon and the false prophet
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so the division of the
city into three parts...
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as it receives
recompense for its rebellion
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is designating
these three powers
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that have come against
God and come against heaven.
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Hmmm...
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That's right... that's right.
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So we move into Revelation 17.
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Do we want to cover
Revelation, the 6th plague
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speaking of the
support of Babylon?
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Yes... yes...
let's talk about that.
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So, verse 12...
"And the sixth angel
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poured out his vial upon
the great river Euphrates;
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and the water
thereof was dried up,
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that the ways of the kings
of the east might be prepared. "
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And we... Ivor took
us to the Old Testament
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the waters of... the
literal waters of Babylon...
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the Euphrates River was
the support base for Babylon
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and when Cyrus came to
conquer that city... Babylon...
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there was no way he
could have been able to get in
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because they had support through
the waters for food for years
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the walls were thick enough
to race chariots side by side
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what he had to do was...
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he had to divert
the Euphrates River
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and when he
diverted the Euphrates River
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and the riverbed dried up,
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he was able to take his men
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through the gates
that were unlocked
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underneath the
foundations of the city
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and into the city to conquer it.
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So, Revelation is
borrowing from that story...
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Cyrus is a type of
Christ... God's anointed...
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coming to deliver... we
talked about Isaiah 44 and 45
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coming to deliver His
people bringing them...
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the captives to Jerusalem
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so that they can go back
and rebuild Jerusalem... okay...
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in this picture right here...
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the rivers of the waters
represent peoples, nations
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multitudes and tongues
according to Revelation 17:15
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the fact that
they're dried up...
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is indicating that their support
for Babylon is drying up.
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They're receiving these plagues,
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and they're
realizing we've been deceived
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and so, they're
turning on to one another...
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they're turning
against the woman,
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we're going to see
that in Revelation 17...
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the support base
for Babylon is drying up
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and that's preparing the
ways of the kings of the east
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and the kings of the east would
be Christ and His Father...
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they're coming...
and when they come
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eventually every
tongue will confess...
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everyone's going to acknowledge
that God and Christ...
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that this is... they are
the... He is the true God
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and Christ is the true Messiah
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and they're going to acknowledge
that every knee is going to bow
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according to
Philippians chapter 2
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so, receiving the
consequences of our sins...
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receiving the consequences
of our rejection of a lie
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helps us to realize...
God was right after all.
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Hmmm...
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God was right after
all. Hmmm... hmmm...
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And that acknowledgment
will be made by everyone.
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Now, Revelation 17 continues
on really with what we're...
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see, when you look
at Revelation 15 and 16,
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let's be honest... these
are pretty horrendous judgments
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that God is allowing to
come to those who are lost.
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So what basically... what John
is receiving in 17 and 18 and 19
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he's receiving a
fuller explanation...
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why has God allowed this to come
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so in Revelation chapter 17,
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let's just open up there
and read a few verses now,
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I think you'll get this.
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Revelation 17,
Yvonne, would you read for us
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verses 1 all the
way through verse 6.
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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"Then one of the seven
angels who had the seven bowls
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came and talked
with me saying to me,
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Come... I will show you the
judgment of the great harlot
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who sits on many waters
with whom the kings of the earth
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committed fornication, and
the inhabitants of the earth
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have been made drunk with
the wine of her fornication.
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So he carried me away in
the spirit into the wilderness:
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and I saw a woman
sitting on a scarlet beast,
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which was full of
names of blasphemy,
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having seven
heads and ten horns.
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This woman was
arrayed in purple and scarlet
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and adorned with gold and
precious stones and pearls,
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having in her hand a
golden cup full of abominations
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and the filthiness
of her fornication:
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And on her
forehead a name was written,
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MYSTERY, BABYLON THE
GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS
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AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
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I saw the woman drunk
with the blood of the saints,
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and with the blood
of the martyrs of Jesus:
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and when I saw her,
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I marveled with
great amazement. "
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Okay, so... start to
get the picture here,
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we're overwhelmed
with the seven last plagues
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and so one of the carriers
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of the vials of the seven last
plagues comes to John and says,
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"I'm going to
show you why this is...
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why this is happening"
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and he shows a woman that is
filled with blasphemous names
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and has this wine cup
filled with abominations
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and has committed fornication...
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unfaithfulness to God
with the kings of the earth
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and out of her comes all
of this pain and suffering
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so much so
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that this woman is drunk
with the blood of the saints...
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with the blood of
the martyrs of Jesus,
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I mean... it's so...
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the picture is so
incredible that John says,
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"Wow," he just wondered about
this... this woman is wealthy,
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she's decked
with pearls and gold
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and yet, she's doing
these abominable things
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and she's bringing all
this pain and suffering
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especially upon God's people
and the followers of Jesus.
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So it's... when we
get a picture of this...
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so, we're looking at
God and we're going...
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"hmmm... " by the way,
the angels aren't doing that.
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When the plagues are poured
out the angels are saying,
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"Righteous and just are
your ways, O LORD of hosts"
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see... because
they've seen all this...
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the angels in
heaven... they've seen all this
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but we haven't seen
it so what we see is...
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we see a woman... a
church that's wealthy
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and it looks... "Oh
yeah, look... wow... "
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we're taken in by that
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but the angel takes
us one step further,
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we know how she's wealthy,
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she's drunk with
the blood of the saints
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and the blood of
the martyrs of Jesus,
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she has committed fornications
with the kings of the earth...
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she's got... she is
the mother of abominations,
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can you imagine?
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The source of the
abominations of the world...
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now, this is...
this is one picture...
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when you get to Revelation
18, it gets even worse,
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I wanted to show you what
she's really involved with
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and what it says there...
that Babylon is involved with is
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all the merchandising
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and the selling and the
buying of the souls of men...
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it's just incredible... the
iniquity that is in this System
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and what God is saying is,
"This System has to go... "
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in Revelation 18...
it clarifies that...
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"And I'm calling
my people out of it...
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if you don't come out
of it, you're going with it
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because this
System is going down. "
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One interpretation...
and I don't know
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where you stand on this so
I'd be interested in seeing,
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is that... this is the
same woman of Revelation 12
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that she has now become
apostate... what do you think?
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Totally disagree...
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So that view... yeah,
the woman of Revelation 12...
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we've already
seen her history...
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so, this answers the question.
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Where is John taken when he...
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do you remember where the
Bible says that he was taken?
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Revelation 17... just
look at it in verse 2.
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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I'm sorry... verse 3... verse 3,
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"So he carried me away
in the spirit into the... "
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where? Wilderness...
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Wilderness... okay... so
let's think... wilderness...
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wilderness... "Oh
hey, wait a minute...
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if we go back to Revelation 12,
we see that the woman fled...
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where? "Into the wilderness. "
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So, what is her condition in
the wilderness in Revelation 12?
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She's being fed of
God... she's being nourished...
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but she's also being
persecuted... for how long?
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1260 years...
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okay, so, we see this power
chasing her into the wilderness
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right, sending
out waters of flood
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after her in the wilderness.
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John in Revelation 17 is
taken back into the wilderness
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and now he's
shown another woman...
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this woman is drunk with
the blood of the saints...
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oh! so this is another woman,
this is not the devil's bride...
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this is not Jesus' bride...
this is the devil's girlfriend.
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Ah...
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This is the woman that was
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chasing the other
woman in the wilderness...
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persecuting the other woman
raining the blood of the saints
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there's a contrast...
and in fact, in Revelation 12
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there's a remnant of the woman
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that keep the commandments of
God and keep the faith of Jesus
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the testimony of Jesus...
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so how could that woman be
the woman in Revelation 17?
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Exactly.
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And the woman of Revelation 17
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is existing at the same time
as the woman in Revelation 12
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and the wilderness
journey is the same period...
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so it has to be
two different women...
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it has to be
two different women.
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So that brings us... that
we now know who that woman is,
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that woman is Mystery Babylon,
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that woman is the same power
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that persecuted the people
of God during the Dark Ages
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it's the Papal Power...
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so we've identified
who the woman is... right,
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this brings us down to
verse 7 which is where...
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or rather... verse 8...
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did we read verse 7?
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We did read verse 7 so
it starts at verse 7...
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Yeah, let's go
ahead and read that,
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we'll read verse 7 and verse 8.
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and get ready
for a brain twister.
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Okay, chapter 17...
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"And the angel said unto
me, Wherefore didst thou marvel?
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I will tell thee the
mystery of the woman,
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and of the beast
that carrieth her,
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which hath the
seven heads and ten horns.
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The beast that thou
sawest was, and is not;
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and shall ascend out
of the bottomless pit,
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and go into perdition: and
they that dwelleth on the earth
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shall wonder, whose names were
not written in the book of life
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from the foundation of the world
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when they behold
the beast that was,
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and is not, and yet is. "
00:15:48.84\00:15:50.85
Okay, how do you feel?
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Confused.
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Yeah, what in the world?
The beast that was and is not...
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and yet is...
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So, this is what... from
verse 8 down to about verse 11,
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you've got this... in fact,
00:16:05.29\00:16:06.86
we may as well just
go ahead and read it...
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why don't you go ahead and keep
reading... verse 9, 10 and 11.
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"And here is the
mind which hath wisdom.
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The seven heads
are seven mountains
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on which the woman sitteth.
00:16:17.47\00:16:18.81
And there are seven kings:
five are fallen, and one is,
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and the other is not yet come;
00:16:22.94\00:16:24.78
and when he cometh, he
must continue a short space.
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And the beast
that was, and is not,
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even he is the
eight, and is of the seven,
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and goeth into perdition. "
00:16:33.99\00:16:35.69
What are you following
now? How do you feel now?
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Oh... okay...
00:16:40.26\00:16:42.36
So, this is...
James and I were talking
00:16:42.40\00:16:45.33
and we agreed,
00:16:45.37\00:16:46.70
this is probably the
most brain-twisting part
00:16:46.74\00:16:48.40
of the book of Revelation
00:16:48.47\00:16:49.94
and there are a lot
of opinions out there
00:16:49.97\00:16:53.07
and James and I were
talking... we just... phew...
00:16:53.11\00:16:55.81
I mean... it's by the grace
of God we were able to say,
00:16:55.84\00:17:00.52
"Yeah, we think
this... this is what it is... "
00:17:00.55\00:17:02.52
from our study of the
Scripture so it is confusing
00:17:02.55\00:17:05.85
but there are certain
key phrases in here that
00:17:05.89\00:17:09.09
really take out the confusion
and help us to realize,
00:17:09.12\00:17:12.16
"Ah, this is what
we're talking about here. "
00:17:12.19\00:17:15.40
So let's go back up and
look at verse 8 again...
00:17:15.43\00:17:18.93
"The beast that thou
sawest was... " and what?
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"And shall do" what?
00:17:21.80\00:17:24.27
"ascend out of the bottomless
pit and go into perdition"
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okay, so all right...
we don't know what that is
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but check out the
next part of that verse.
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This is key...
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Okay, what does it say?
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"Those who dwell on
the earth will marvel,
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whose names are not
written in the book of life
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from the
foundation of the world,
00:17:38.35\00:17:40.29
when they see
the beast that was,
00:17:40.36\00:17:42.26
and is not, and yet is. "
00:17:42.29\00:17:44.19
Okay.
00:17:44.23\00:17:45.56
You recognize that phrase from
anywhere else in Revelation?
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That's the
question we have to ask,
00:17:47.73\00:17:49.06
and the answer is, "Yes... "
00:17:49.10\00:17:50.70
that phrase is
found in Revelation 13.
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Notice this,
Revelation chapter 13...
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and just read here...
Revelation chapter 13...
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pause...
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verse 3 and then verse 8,
00:18:02.08\00:18:06.78
now, we'll start with verse 3,
00:18:06.82\00:18:08.18
it's talking about the
Papal System again... as a beast
00:18:08.22\00:18:11.49
"I saw one of his heads
as it were wounded to death;
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and his deadly wound was healed:
00:18:14.82\00:18:17.29
and all the world
wondered after the beast. "
00:18:17.33\00:18:19.89
Verse 8, "They that dwell upon
the earth shall worship him,
00:18:19.93\00:18:22.86
whose names are not written
00:18:22.90\00:18:24.23
in the book of
life of the Lamb slain
00:18:24.27\00:18:25.60
from the
foundation of the world. "
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Now I want to go
back to Revelation 17,
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"and they that dwell
on the earth shall wonder,
00:18:29.40\00:18:31.94
whose names were not
written in the book of life...
00:18:31.97\00:18:34.48
from the
foundation of the world,
00:18:34.51\00:18:37.75
whose names were not
written in the book of life
00:18:37.78\00:18:39.78
from the
foundation of the world...
00:18:39.81\00:18:41.15
when they behold
the beast that was,
00:18:41.18\00:18:42.52
and is not, and yet is. "
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Was in power...
00:18:44.75\00:18:46.29
is not in power because
it received the deadly wound
00:18:46.32\00:18:48.22
and yet is...
it's still alive...
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Hmmm... You see...
00:18:49.62\00:18:50.96
Okay... Yes...
00:18:50.99\00:18:52.33
So, we've identified this beast
00:18:52.36\00:18:53.70
in connection with
Revelation chapter 13.
00:18:53.73\00:18:55.16
Yeah. Okay...
00:18:55.20\00:18:56.53
So now we know...
okay... so the beast that was...
00:18:56.56\00:18:58.53
and is not... and yet is...
00:18:58.57\00:19:00.34
is the same
power in Revelation 13
00:19:00.37\00:19:03.10
that reigned for 1260
years, received the deadly wound
00:19:03.17\00:19:08.51
"is not... but still was...
00:19:08.54\00:19:11.08
but shall do... " what?
00:19:11.11\00:19:13.62
"shall ascend... "
00:19:13.65\00:19:15.25
all right, so
notice in Revelation 17:8,
00:19:15.28\00:19:18.35
it says, "when they behold"
00:19:18.39\00:19:20.59
what does it mean, "to behold?"
00:19:20.62\00:19:22.79
See...
00:19:22.82\00:19:24.16
all right, so what
is that talking about?
00:19:24.19\00:19:25.53
Your senses...
00:19:25.56\00:19:27.06
You see with your eyes...
00:19:27.10\00:19:28.80
When they see something,
00:19:28.83\00:19:30.47
the whole world
wonders when they see this.
00:19:30.50\00:19:34.00
What is that
thing that they see?
00:19:34.04\00:19:36.67
We've already said,
00:19:36.71\00:19:38.04
"the healing of the deadly
wound is this three-fold union
00:19:38.07\00:19:42.84
of Satan himself...
appearing as Christ...
00:19:42.88\00:19:46.01
the Papacy... and
the False Prophet...
00:19:46.05\00:19:49.15
apostate Protestantism...
00:19:49.18\00:19:50.52
when these three come together,
00:19:50.55\00:19:52.42
so now we're seeing... whoa...
00:19:52.45\00:19:54.42
we're seeing
this connection here
00:19:54.46\00:19:56.26
and it's very
interesting because
00:19:56.29\00:20:00.00
if you look at
verse... verse 8...
00:20:00.03\00:20:03.67
I'm sorry...
verse 10... verse 10...
00:20:03.70\00:20:08.04
the Bible says
here... let's see...
00:20:08.07\00:20:12.37
no, no, no... let's stay
here for just for a moment
00:20:12.41\00:20:15.21
because this
verse in verse 8 says,
00:20:15.24\00:20:17.98
"it shall ascend out
of the bottomless pit... "
00:20:18.01\00:20:21.48
let's talk about
that for a moment...
00:20:21.52\00:20:22.85
so James and I were
talking and we're like,
00:20:22.88\00:20:24.65
"You know what? there
are two beasts that...
00:20:24.69\00:20:26.59
there is a beast that ascends
out of the bottomless pit
00:20:26.62\00:20:29.12
and that beast is
specifically Revelation 11,
00:20:29.16\00:20:31.49
so, is this the beast that is
rising up out of Revelation 11
00:20:31.56\00:20:34.56
because if we go with
00:20:34.60\00:20:36.46
"ascending out of
the bottomless pit... "
00:20:36.50\00:20:38.00
then, Man! that would mean
00:20:38.03\00:20:39.43
that this is the
French revolution,
00:20:39.50\00:20:41.07
this is Atheism... which
we described in Revelation 11
00:20:41.10\00:20:44.27
but, "was and is
not... and yet is... "
00:20:44.31\00:20:46.51
and this is what you do when you
study the book of Revelation,
00:20:46.54\00:20:49.31
you work these things
out, you're looking at...
00:20:49.34\00:20:51.85
"well, it could
be here... but ah!
00:20:51.88\00:20:53.92
I just don't know because...
00:20:53.95\00:20:55.35
is there some other definition
of this bottomless pit?"
00:20:55.38\00:20:59.09
Hmmm... hmmm...
00:20:59.12\00:21:00.49
And this is actually
very, very interesting
00:21:00.56\00:21:02.52
because as we
were looking at this...
00:21:02.56\00:21:04.03
when we happen to go over to
the book of Romans chapter 10
00:21:04.09\00:21:09.30
because Romans chapter 10
00:21:09.33\00:21:11.03
tells us something
very, very interesting,
00:21:11.07\00:21:13.23
Romans 10 and verse 7,
Romans chapter 10 verse 7, now,
00:21:13.27\00:21:17.54
while you're going there,
the Bible says that this beast
00:21:17.57\00:21:21.81
"was... " and what else?
00:21:21.84\00:21:24.31
"is... or is not... "
and... or "is to come... "
00:21:24.35\00:21:30.62
"was... is not... shall ascend"
00:21:30.65\00:21:35.39
that very phrase is
used four different times
00:21:35.42\00:21:38.33
in the book of Revelation.
00:21:38.36\00:21:39.89
Guess who it points to?
00:21:39.93\00:21:41.43
It points to Jesus.
00:21:41.46\00:21:43.03
Hmmm... Hmmm.
00:21:43.06\00:21:44.40
"Who was... and
is... and is to come... "
00:21:44.43\00:21:49.94
right... that's
talking about His identity...
00:21:49.97\00:21:55.54
"He was... is... is to come"
00:21:55.58\00:21:57.05
"was... is... is to come... "
00:21:57.08\00:21:58.48
He died... was
buried... resurrected...
00:21:58.51\00:22:01.72
four times He's described
once... "the One who was
00:22:01.75\00:22:05.09
and is... and is to come... "
00:22:05.12\00:22:07.19
so, hmmm... I
wonder if this beast
00:22:07.22\00:22:10.19
that was... and is... and
yet is not... but is to come
00:22:10.23\00:22:15.83
is a
counterfeit of Jesus Christ.
00:22:15.86\00:22:19.27
Ah...
00:22:19.30\00:22:20.77
"Deadly wound... "
was... comes back to life...
00:22:20.80\00:22:24.54
"and is to come" so
look at Romans 10...
00:22:24.57\00:22:28.18
read Romans 10 verse 7.
00:22:28.24\00:22:29.58
"Or, Who shall
descend into the deep?
00:22:29.61\00:22:33.28
that is, to bring up
Christ again from the dead. "
00:22:33.31\00:22:35.92
Okay, simple verse but...
00:22:35.95\00:22:38.15
the word here for
deep is the same Greek word
00:22:38.19\00:22:42.19
used to describe the abyss
back in the book of Revelation.
00:22:42.22\00:22:47.40
Okay, "or the bottomless pit"
00:22:47.43\00:22:50.17
but here it's talking about
bringing Christ up from the...
00:22:50.20\00:22:54.17
from the dead...
00:22:54.20\00:22:55.84
what happened to the
beast in Revelation chapter 13?
00:22:55.90\00:23:01.64
He was wounded unto death
but comes up out of death...
00:23:01.68\00:23:07.38
in other words... this term,
00:23:07.42\00:23:09.08
"he ascends out of
the bottomless pit... "
00:23:09.12\00:23:12.22
refers to him
coming back from the dead.
00:23:12.25\00:23:15.32
And it's important because he
receives the wound from Atheism
00:23:15.36\00:23:18.16
and Atheism is
the beast that ascends
00:23:18.19\00:23:19.89
out of the bottomless pit.
00:23:19.93\00:23:21.26
That's right...
00:23:21.30\00:23:22.63
So he receives
the wound from Atheism
00:23:22.66\00:23:24.00
so we know this is the
timeframe when he's wounded...
00:23:24.03\00:23:25.50
by Atheism... and he
ascends out of that...
00:23:25.53\00:23:27.94
he recovers from
that wound by Atheism.
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Yes.
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That's why we have
the bottomless pit...
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ascending out of
the bottomless pit
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correlating with the power
of Atheism in Revelation 11.
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So when he
ascends... he's this...
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well, we're going to...
let's go ahead and go over
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verse 8 of Revelation...
I'm sorry Revelation 10...
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Revelation 17 verse 10...
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and I want to just
focus on another thing here,
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let's go ahead
and read verse 10.
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"There are also seven kings... "
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You know what? I'm sorry...
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go back to verse 9
and then... verse 10.
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"Here is the
mind which has wisdom.
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The seven heads
are seven mountains,
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on which the woman sits.
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Here are also seven
kings: five are fallen, one is,
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and the other has not yet come;
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and when he comes, he
must continue a short time. "
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Okay, so, just
hold your thought here,
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so now we got these
seven kings, right...
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which are mentioned
as the seven mountains
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or with the seven mountains,
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but we can, again,
simplify... "five were... "
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that's the what?
"that was... " right,
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"one is... and the
other is... to come... "
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it's the same thing...
"was... " the beast that was...
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"is... and is to come... "
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but five... we're not going
to cover this in this Program,
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I think, but I want you to
notice about this, "is to come"
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when the seventh one comes,
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that's the one that ascends
out of the bottomless pit,
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notice what it says, "he
must continue a... " what?
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"a short space... "
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remember how we talked about
in the last couple of Programs,
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remember the short time?
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Hmmm... hmmm... Hmmm... hmmm.
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In Revelation 12, when it says,
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"the dragon is
come down unto you...
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because he knows he has but a
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short time... "
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do you know what
it's talking about?
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Put it all together...
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wow... they wonder
when they see this.
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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Power... rising
up... out of the abyss...
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"the dragon has
come down unto you
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knowing he has
but a short time."
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This time period...
all the world wondered...
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this is all
relating to the same time...
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the seventh king
who is yet to come...
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is the
dragon... Satan himself...
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combined with the Papacy and...
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in other words... it's what we
would call the three-fold union
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of the dragon,
beast and false prophet...
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that causes the
whole world to wonder
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when they "behold this beast. "
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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Yeah, and that is... clearly
what is taking place right here
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because this... then unfolds...
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it incorporates
all of the horns...
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which is what is left of
the beast to be identified,
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it says in verse 12...
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"And the ten horns which
thou sawest are ten kings,
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which have
received no kingdom as yet;
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but receive their power as
kings one hour with the beast. "
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Or again, for a short
time, they have one mind...
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and they give their
power and their strength
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unto the beast and they
make war with the lamb...
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so this miracle and
this unity that takes place
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between these two, three
powers causes the entire world
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to give their
power to the beast.
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All of the kings that have
received no kingdom as yet...
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we know that these ten horns
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are different from the
ten horns of Revelation 13,
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those ten horns are
pointing back to Daniel...
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they have crowns...
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these ones haven't
received a kingdom as yet
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so this is definitely future.
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What this is
pointing us to is the time
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when the wound is healed,
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the book of Revelation,
chapter 13 talks about
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how the lamb-beast gives
it's power to the sea-beast...
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so they become one...
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he makes an image to the
beast, they become one...
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and the dragon, of course,
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has already given its
seat and power to this beast
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so it's one...
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so what Ivor's bringing out here
is this is a three-fold union...
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that's taking place right here
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which is a counterfeit of
the three-fold union of heaven.
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There's a three-fold union
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and it gains the
support of the entire world...
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all the kings of the earth...
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the entire world
give their support
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to this three-fold union.
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And James, the only way the
entire world comes together,
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it would have to
take a miracle...
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with our divided world...
it would have to take a miracle
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to bring the
whole world together
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and that's exactly
what we see happening...
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this is why they give
their power to this beast.
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And it takes place... they
come out of the bottomless pit,
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the bottomless pit is a
place of darkness and confusion,
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that's what our
world looks like today.
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So the contrast...
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of the darkness and
confusion of this world,
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the alienation...
the strife... the war...
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the bloodshed... the division...
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and then this unity coming
out, this power coming out...
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miracles coming forth...
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just draws the whole
world together in its grip.
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That's right.
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