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Revelation 10 - Aaron Cozort - April 5, 2026 · Admonition Podcast

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Good morning.
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Good to see everyone out this morning.
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It's good to have a bright sunny day.
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that we can uh enjoy.
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Take your Bibles, if you will, and open them to Revelation chapter 10.
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As we have done previously, we will briefly discuss a few of the things that we have mentioned already, and then we'll get into our study, but let's begin with a word of
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prayer.
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Our gracious Lord, God and Father of all mankind, we bow before you, humbled in our hearts by your magnificent existence and glory, considering the world and the universe that you
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have created, the power of the very words that you speak to create all that exists.
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And we...
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We bow before you and offer you praise and honor and glory for you are worthy of such.
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We also praise and honor your son who came and died on the cross for our sins to purchase our redemption, who also is worthy of that honor, that glory, who was the creator in the
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beginning by whom all things were made.
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and we praise you and glorify your name.
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We ask that you will forgive us of our sins when we fail and fall short of your glory as you have been ah straightforward in your word to tell us that you're faithful and willing
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to do if we will confess those things and Lord we do recognize.
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and understand that we sin, that we fall short of Your glory by the words that we speak, the thoughts that we have, the deeds that we participate in and sometimes fail to
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participate in.
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And yet at the same time, we are thankful for Your grace, Your mercy, and Your bountiful love and tender kindness that You have shown to each and every one of us who are servants
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of Your Son.
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Lord, we pray that you will be with us as we go through this day.
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May the things that we say honor you and may the things that we do be right in your sight.
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All this we pray and ask in Jesus' name, amen.
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In Revelation chapter one, John is on the Isle of Patmos.
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He is on the Lord.
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He is there on the Lord's Day in the spirit as the text says, that is, is by all indications.
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The idea is he is worshiping as he is worshiping.
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He hears a voice behind him and he turns to see the one who was speaking and the description of the representation of Christ in the text is one of a glorified.
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Christ.
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And he sees that glorified Christ and he hears the message and he hears that this is the one who holds the seven stars in his hand, the one who's surrounded by the seven golden
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lampstands or candlesticks.
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And the one who is speaking to him, Christ, tells him, you're going to write to the churches.
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So John begins to write to the churches of Asia Minor.
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And he begins to tell them the things that they are commended by God for, the things that they are condemned by God for, the things that they are warned about, that if they do not
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repent, then they will become the enemies of God.
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And the ones who he says, I put nothing else on you because of the burden they were already bearing.
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But in all of this, he's telling these Christians.
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that they are in a moment of peace and persecution is coming.
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So chapter three concludes with that last letter to the church at Laodicea and chapter four opens and John sees an open door in heaven and the primary visionary part of the
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language of the book begins, though there's been visionary elements throughout the book already.
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And John, as the text indicates, though it doesn't specify it, goes through the door.
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As he enters...
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Through the door, he sees the throne room of God.
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And we mentioned last week, as we were discussing, hold on to that picture of the throne room of God, because you're gonna see the rainbow that was surrounding the throne show up
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again.
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Well, show it up today here in chapter 10.
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But as he looks at the throne of God and he sees the glory of the one who sits on the throne, there's this emerald rainbow.
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that surrounds the throne.
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There's a sea of glass that is before the throne.
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There's the seven lamps of the Spirit of God that are before the throne.
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There's the four living beasts that are before the throne.
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There's the 24 elders that are before the throne.
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And all they do continually is offer God
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glory and honor and praise.
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And whenever the glory and the honor and the praise comes forth from the four beasts that are before the throne, the 24 elders take their crowns of victory and they throw them
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before the throne and they offer praise and honor and glory to the one who sits on the throne.
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And then chapter five opens.
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In chapter five, as that...
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uh
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section is open, John looks back to the throne and the one who's sitting on the throne has in his right hand a scroll written inside and outside.
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It's got the revelation, the message of God, and John wants to know what it says.
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The problem is there's nobody found in heaven or on earth or under the earth that is in the grave that can open the scroll because there's no one worthy.
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John begins to weep.
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One of the elders comes to John and says, don't weep, we found the one who's worthy.
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And John looks again to the throne and now before the throne is the lamb standing but appearing to have been slain.
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The lion of the tribe of Judah, Christ, is before the throne and he's worthy to take the scroll and he's declared worthy and he takes the scroll.
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And so then chapter six.
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Chapter 6 opens up and the scroll begins to be opened.
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Seal 1 is open and the picture is Christ going forth to conquer.
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Seal 2 is open and persecution and judgment begins and hardship begins and another degree of hardship begins and another degree of hardship begins.
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And when you finally get to the fifth seal in chapter 6, you've got the souls of the saints who have been killed for the cause of Christ.
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and they're beneath the altar of God and they're crying out, how long, Lord?
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Are you going to allow this to continue?
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And God will give them through those servants of the Lord a message to rest, to wait.
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They're clothed in white robes, they're told to wait because God's going to deliver the judgment that they're crying out for.
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So then the sixth seal is opened and you have the Old Testament picture of the fall of a nation.
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The sky is rolled up.
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The sun turns dark.
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The moon turns to blood.
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There's fire and hail and smoke and all of these things and the rich and the great and the powerful all run to the mountains and they cried for the mountains to fall on them because
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they want to be hidden from the wrath of the lamb.
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of all the creatures in God's creation.
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Outside of an overly rambunctious lamb that might nip at you, who, what adult is afraid of lambs?
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You see the paradox there?
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They cry out, and they don't cry out to be hidden from the wrath of the lion.
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They don't cry out to be hidden from the wrath of the four beasts before the throne.
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They cry out to be hidden from the wrath of the Lamb.
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Because the lamb is not dead.
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The lamb appears to be slain, but is alive forevermore, and he is sitting on a throne.
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And He offers peace and comfort to His people and judgment such that the wicked of the earth, the inhabitants of the earth are afraid of His very presence.
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But the question's asked at the end of chapter six, in the day of the wrath of the Lamb, who's able to stand?
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So chapter seven, we find a pause and that great angel comes up as he tells the four angels that are standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the wind, the
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judgment of God in the Old Testament pictures.
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And he tells them, don't let the wind blow.
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Don't let anything be touched until we mark all the people of God.
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We're gonna put God's name on their forehead.
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You don't have to guess what it means.
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Just go back to Revelation chapter three and you'll read about the church with the name of God written on their foreheads.
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And it wasn't the fact that that church singularly in the New Testament went around and tattooed God's name on their forehead.
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All the churches had God's name on their forehead.
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They all belong to Him, except the name was a spiritual name.
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The angel comes up and he says, let any of the judgment start till we mark all of God's people.
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So the marking begins and all of God's people are marked.
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God knows everybody that belongs to him.
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And then...
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The seventh seal.
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As Revelation 8 begins, the seventh seal begins to be opened and everything you see in the rest of the book happens in the seventh seal.
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Remember, the revelation was written inside, now the scroll was completely covered.
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Well, if it was completely covered, then it was a really short scroll if we're just gonna read this little bit about the seventh seal and then it's done.
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Now the picture is, all of this is wrapped up in what John wants to know and what the throne has to say.
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So the seventh seal is open and inside the seventh seal, you find seven angels given seven trumpets and they're going to prepare to blow.
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And they're going to blow.
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And as those seven trumpets are blown, you're going to find partial judgment, partial judgment, partial judgment, partial judgment, partial judgment, and trumpet number seven
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inside the seventh trumpet.
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We're gonna read this in chapter 10.
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we find complete judgment pronounced, okay?
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So the people of God are prepared, the multitude is innumerable in heaven and on earth, and God's people are all marked, they're not gonna be touched with the judgment, they're
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going to suffer hardship through the judgment.
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They're gonna be surrounded by it, they're gonna deal with it, they're gonna live through it, and some of them are gonna die in it.
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but the judgment isn't coming on them.
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God doesn't judge the righteous.
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God doesn't bring punishment in judgment on the righteous.
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Now the Hebrew writer does tell us that God brings chastisement upon the righteous.
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What's the difference between judgment and chastisement?
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Now, all right, so if we were to put it on a spectrum, judgment is the judge sends you to prison or to death for your crimes, and chastisement is the parent who spanks you to
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correct you.
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That's what the Hebrew writer, by the way, tells us.
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It's unpleasant for the time, but it helps us do what we ought to do.
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And so while the Christians are gonna go through chastisement, they're gonna go through trials, they're gonna go through tribulations, and they're going to be made better by
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them, the wicked, the inhabitants of the earth are going to be judged by the same events.
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So the first trumpet sounds and it's fire and hail and all of the pictures are Old Testament pictures and a third of the things are burned up.
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Then the second trumpet sounds and a burning mountain is cast into the sea and you have a partial judgment upon all of the sea things.
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Then the star named Wormwood is cast down.
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All the water turns bitter.
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It's an Exodus 18 picture of the bitter waters of Maraba, those who test God.
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And then you have trumpet number four that sounds and darkness comes upon the earth.
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And again, it's an Old Testament Egyptian picture.
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And chapter nine, verse 13, chapter eight, verse 13, a woe is pronounced saying the first four judgments are passed, three more are coming.
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And these three are not only three trumpets.
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There are three woes.
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Okay.
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So chapter nine opens and trumpet five and trumpet six will sound which are woes one and woe two.
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And you find in Revelation chapter nine verses one through 12, the fifth trumpet sounds and this is moral decay that is eating up the nation from inside.
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Moral decay is one of those things that it doesn't come from outside.
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It doesn't break down walls.
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It doesn't cause people to die in the streets, generally speaking.
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It's not a disease.
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It's not a plague.
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It's not a foreign nation.
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It doesn't rampage an entire city and lay it flat where you see the visual destruction.
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It eats a nation inside out.
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and Rome was eat up with it.
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And God is going to make it clear that their tolerance of the wickedness around them, their embracing of the wickedness around them was going to be part of their judgment.
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We often look for external reasons why the world around us is the way that it is.
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By that I mean when the suicide rate goes up, people start looking for external reasons.
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When the depression rate goes up, when the mental...
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uh illness rate goes up.
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When the school system starts going off the rails by way of the ability to control the children that are inside it, we start wondering what's wrong with the diet?
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What's wrong with this?
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What's wrong with that?
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And all of those things may have something to play in it, but I'll tell you, when you look at the moral picture of the home, it doesn't take long to figure out what's wrong.
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Because when you look at America and you look at the moral picture of the home,
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It is this.
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It is a nation given over to every form of wickedness, every form of idolatry, every form of self, pleasure, and pride.
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and even the good quote unquote people.
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in the nation are those who embrace the immorality.
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Even the generally just and upright people in the way they treat others as a whole are given over to the sin and the wickedness.
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and it is pervasive.
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Rome didn't fall from the outside.
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Rome fell from the inside because they couldn't sustain the opposition of the outside forces because of the moral decay happening within.
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and you say, Aaron, I'm just not sure that America's quite on the same par as Rome.
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Well, maybe not.
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I'll grant you a maybe not at best.
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But when you look at our history just in the time that I've been alive.
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when you look at the fact that we can't even be honest with the thing that we interact with every day called money?
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We are $39 trillion in debt as a nation and you think we're morally upright as a nation?
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What does God say about people who don't pay their debts?
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Does he call them just and upright?
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Do you think there's any possibility, any chance in the world that our government intends to ever pay the actual debt off?
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No.
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And if the thing that we all use every day to sustain our very lives and to buy the things that we need in order to function in life isn't a moral and upright and just system.
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Now what do you think the rest of the system looks like?
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Verse 13-21
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the sixth trumpet sound.
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and you have an invading army.
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And it comes in and you've got the one who's described as the destroyer in two different languages.
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He rises up out of the bottomless pit and goes to war.
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and you have this continuing picture of destruction, but a third of mankind die.
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Again, just more pictures of partial judgment.
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A third of the things die, a third of this dies, a third of this dies, a third of this is judged.
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Chapter 10.
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You're going to have an interlude.
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You're going to have a pause.
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This happens in the book of Revelation quite often.
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Here comes this judgment and this judgment and this judgment and this judgment as pictured in Revelation chapter six, you've got seal one, two, three, four, five, six.
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And before seal seven is open, wait a minute, pause, hold on.
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We gotta talk to the people of God.
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We've gotta let them know they win.
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We've gotta let them know they are being cared for.
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and taken care of by God.
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So chapter eight, you have a pause.
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Sorry, chapter seven, you have a pause.
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Then chapter eight, judgment continues.
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So in chapter eight and nine, you get partial judgment, partial judgment, partial judgment, six trumpet sound.
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Then wait, pause.
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Chapters 10, 11, and 12 are a reassurance to the Christians.
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God's got you.
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You win, but it's not going to be easy.
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You get through it as the church, but not without going through the tribulation and the hardship of the chastisement and the difficulties of this life.
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So chapter 10 opens.
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and I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven clothed with a cloud." Now, how did Jesus ascend to heaven?
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in a cloud, right?
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You're gonna see these pictures and this angel, and we're told it's an angel, so what I'm going to assume is it's an angel.
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But this angel is a mighty angel.
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This, as brother Jim McGuigan pointed out, it's a high representative of the throne.
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You know, you could get a messenger from uh a person of power and it might be a lowly person.
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It might just be somebody who hands off a message, this comes from President Trump, he'd like you to open it.
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Or you might have the Secretary of State with all his people show up.
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There's a difference in the two.
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They're both the messengers from President Trump, but there's a difference between the two.
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This isn't just an angel, this is a mighty angel and he comes showing up like Jesus left.
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And notice we read, was clothed with a cloud and a rainbow was on his head.
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Where's the last time we saw a rainbow?
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It was behind the throne.
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It was the picture of the glory of God.
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Revelation chapter four, verse three.
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This is a representative of the throne.
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This is a representative of Christ.
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We're not done with the picture.
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A rainbow was on his head and his face was like the sun.
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Where's the last time we saw somebody whose face was shining like the sun?
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It was Christ.
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and his feet were like pillars of fire.
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He had a little book open in his hand and he set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land.
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As the picture opens up, as John sees the vision, he sees this mighty angel and he has all the elements of being a representative of the throne.
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And he's got a message.
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Now, this isn't new pictures.
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This isn't new language.
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This is Ezekiel's language.
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Turn to Ezekiel chapter 2.
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Ezekiel chapter 2
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We read in verse one, He said to me, now, you got to go read chapter one and read about the war wagon of the Lord and the presence of God before Ezekiel, but we're going to pick
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up in chapter two.
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You got to read chapter one on your own.
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He said to me, son of man, stand on your feet and I will speak to you.
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Then the spirit entered me when he spoke to me and set me on my feet and I heard him who spoke to me.
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and he said to me, of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against me.
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They and their fathers have transgressed against me to this very day.
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They are impudent and stubborn children.
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I am sending you to them and you shall say to them, thus says the Lord God." Notice this is a commission that is being enacted here.
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Ezekiel is being sent with a message.
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He is being commissioned to declare a message on behalf of God.
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As for them, whether they hear or whether they refuse, for they are a rebellious house, yet they will know that a prophet has been among them.
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And you, son of man, do not be afraid of them, nor be afraid of their words, though briars and thorns are with you.
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And you dwell among scorpions, do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their looks, though they are rebellious house.
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You shall speak my words to them, whether they hear or whether they refuse, for they are rebellious.
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But you, son of man, hear what I say to you.
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Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house.
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Open your mouth and eat what I give you.
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Now, when I looked, there was a hand stretched out to me and behold, a scroll of a book was in it.
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Then he spread it out before me and there was writing on the inside and on the outside and written on it were lamentations and mornings and woe.
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Moreover, he said to me, Son of man, eat what you find, eat this scroll and go speak to the house of Israel.
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So I opened my mouth and he calls me to eat that scroll.
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And he said to me, Son of man, feed your belly and fill your stomach with this scroll that I give you.
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So I ate and it was in my mouth like honey in sweetness.
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Then he said to me, Son of man, go to the house of Israel and speak with my words to them.
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For you are not sent to a people of unfamiliar speech or of hard language, but to the house of Israel.
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Not to many people of unfamiliar speech or of hard language whose words you cannot understand.
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Surely had I sent you to them, they would have listened to you.
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But the house of Israel will not listen to you because they will not listen to me.
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For all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted.
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Behold, I have made your face strong against their faces and your forehead strong against their foreheads.
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Like adamant stone, harder than flint, I have made your forehead.
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Do not be afraid of them, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are rebellious house.
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Moreover, he said to me, son of man, receive into your heart all my words that I speak to you and hear with your ears.
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And go get the captives to the children of your people and speak to them and tell them, thus says the Lord God, whether they hear or whether they refuse.
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Then the Spirit lifted me up and I heard behind me a great thunderous voice, blessed is the glory of the Lord from his place.
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I also heard the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another and the noise of the wheels behind them and a great thunderous noise.
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So the Spirit lifted me up and took me in a way and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit, but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me.
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Then I came to the captives of Tel Aviv and he continues on through that.
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description of those events.
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But notice, Ezekiel's given a commission.
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He's sent to the children of Israel.
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He's sent to a rebellious house.
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He's given a message.
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It's written on a scroll of a book and it's given and laid out before him and it's written on the front.
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Sound like something we've seen before?
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Written on the front and on the back and he's told, eat the book.
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consume the Word of God because you're about to go preach it.
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And when he consumes the book, what did it taste like?
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Honey is as sweet as the stuff Joe gives us.
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Sweet is honey.
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Psalmist writer, Psalm 19, says the word of the Lord is sweeter than the honey and the honeycomb.
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He tastes the Word of God and it's sweet.
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But as it goes down and he begins to process the message he's going to have to speak, it's bitter because the message is judgment.
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Turn back over to Revelation chapter 10.
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Notice the picture.
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This is just Ezekiel's language, Ezekiel's scenario brought forward to John's application.
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So he saw this mighty angel and in his right hand was a little book open in his hand.
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And he set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land and cried with a loud voice as when lions roar.
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When he cried out, seven thunders uttered their voices.
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Now in the seven thunders uttered their voices, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying to me,
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Seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered and do not write them.
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There's another passage that you need to mark down.
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We're gonna get back to the little book in just a minute.
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But before we do, we gotta deal with the seven thunders.
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Thunders in the Old Testament, you go back to the Old Testament prophets and the thunders that were pronounced, the things that were visionary and prophetic when the thunder
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occurred, it was God's judgment coming.
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And God was going to judge.
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God was going to speak.
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You remember when God spoke from the Mount in Mount Sinai in Exodus chapter 19, the voice that the Israelites heard was so harsh and so great that they came to Moses and they said,
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listen, we can't listen to the voice of God anymore.
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You're going to have to go up.
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and you're gonna have to hear the voice of God and you're going to have to receive the message and then you come back down and tell us because if we continue to listen to this
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we're gonna die.
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and God commends them for their awareness of their own frail state and says, that's probably a good idea.
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Why don't you send Moses up?
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So Moses is going to go up on the mountain and be there for 40 days.
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And in the midst of the 40 days while he's up on the mountain, they conclude he's not coming back.
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And what do they do?
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They go build a golden calf.
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Yeah, it's probably a good idea they didn't hear the voice of God anymore.
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So the thundering that John hears is God declaring judgment.
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Seven thunders occur.
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John's sitting there.
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Now picture it.
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John's sitting there and you know how earlier John saw a vision and then the angel came to him and said, what do these things mean?
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And he said, you know what they mean.
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He doesn't answer, why don't you tell me what they mean instead of me telling you what they mean?
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That's not what happens here.
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Here the seven thunders are uttered and John sits down, he's about to write it all down, he understands it perfectly.
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except he's told not to write it down.
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This also is an Old Testament picture.
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Turn to Daniel chapter 11.
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Daniel chapter 11.
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In chapter 11, you're dealing with the king from the north, and there's Old Testament history combined with the gap between the Old Testament, the New Testament, and the events
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that will occur to Israel during that 400 years of silence that's all wrapped up in here.
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We're not going to focus on that.
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We're going to deal with the part that begins when he starts talking about Rome.
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In Chapter 11, verse 36, then the king shall do according to his own will.
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He shall exalt and magnify himself above every god, shall speak blasphemies against the God of gods and shall prosper till the wrath has been accomplished for what has been
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determined shall be done.
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He shall regard neither the God of his fathers nor the desire of women nor regard any god, for he shall exalt himself above them all.
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But in their place he shall honor a god of fortresses.
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a God which his fathers did not know.
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He shall honor with gold and silver, with precious stones and pleasant things.
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Therefore he shall act against the strongest fortresses with a foreign God, which he shall acknowledge and advance its glory.
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And he shall cause them to rule over many and divide the land for gain.
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At the time of the end, the king of the south shall attack him and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind.
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with chariots, horsemen and with many ships, and he shall enter the countries, overwhelm them and pass through them.
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He shall also enter the glorious land and many countries shall be overthrown.
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But these shall escape from his hand, Edom, Moab and the prominent people of Ammon.
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He shall stretch out his hand against the countries and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
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He shall have power over the treasuries of gold and silver, over all the precious things of Egypt.
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Also, the Libyans and Ethiopians shall follow at his heels.
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But news from the east and from the north shall trouble him.
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Therefore he shall go out with great fury to destroy and annihilate many.
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He shall plant the tents of his palace between the seas and the glorious Holy Mountain.
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Yet he shall come to his end and no one will help him.
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As the picture here of the expansion of the Roman Empire occurs and their defeat over Egypt and their control over the whole region, we find in Chapter 12, verse one, at that
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time, Michael shall stand up.
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the great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people.
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Now notice, here's the picture.
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Here's an angel of God.
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What's his task?
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He watches over God's people.
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All right, you see the connection?
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Thou, there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation, even to that time.
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and at that time your people shall be delivered.
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Everyone who is found written in the book.
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Now wait a minute, who were the people who were marked with the name of God?
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the ones who had their name in the book of life, the ones who belong to God, the Christians.
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So here's Michael.
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His responsibility is making sure the Christians, the people of God don't receive the judgment.
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That's what's going to occur.
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He says, and many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake some to everlasting life, some to shame and everlasting contempt.
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those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars of heaven.
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Notice there's going to be people who are resurrected to eternal life, there are going to be people who are resurrected to judgment, and there are going to be people going forth
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and converting people.
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Interesting picture, isn't it?
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But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book until the time of the end.
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Many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall increase.
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Then I, Daniel, looked and there stood two others, one on this riverbank and the other on the other riverbank.
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And one said to the man clothed in linen who was above the waters of the river, How long shall the fulfillment of these wonders be?
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Then I heard the man clothed in linen who was above the waters of the river when he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven and swore by him who lives forever that it
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shall be for time, times and half a time.
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And when the power of the Holy people has been completely shattered, all these things shall be finished.
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Here's the picture.
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God sends His messenger to Daniel and he says, you are about to get hammered.
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You are about to be taken out and beaten and killed and persecuted, but don't you worry.
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I've got my people watching over you and you're not gonna lose.
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You're gonna come through it with flying colors.
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You're gonna be resurrected to everlasting life.
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You're gonna be converting more than you've ever converted before.
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But it's not gonna be easy.
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And God is going to tell Daniel, now, this revelation that I'm giving you, go ahead and seal it up.
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Time's not yet.
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It's not for Daniel's day.
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It's not for 600 BC.
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It's not for 525 BC.
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It's not for 400 BC.
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It's for a time way off at the end.
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End of what?
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The end of the Mosaic system?
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The end of the Old Testament covenant?
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the start of the covenant that God said he would establish because Daniel's revelations all begin with what?
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A picture of four kingdoms in the vision that Nebuchadnezzar has.
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And in the days of these kings, God shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed.
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You got to be careful with the term end.
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Because it could be the end of one thing or it could be the end of something else.
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And sometimes people see the word end and they think, oh, end of time.
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He didn't say the end of time, did he?
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He said, these things shall come at the end.
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Now, he says, when this occurs, here's what you're gonna be looking for.
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You're gonna be looking for time, times and half a time where God's people are going through it.
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You say, what in the world does time, times and half a time mean?
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Well, I could tell you, but we're out of time.
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Let me just say this.
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If you were to ascribe to that phrase the word year instead of time, what would you get?
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Year, years, and half a year.
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So if you had one year and then years, plural, two years, and then half a year, what would you have?
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Three and a half years.
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I don't know how to make, how do you do half with a finger?
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I don't know, half, three and a half years.
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Interestingly, before we get out of the next few chapters, you're gonna be reading about 42 months, which is three and a half years.
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You're gonna be reading about a number of days, which is three and a half years.
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You're gonna be reading about time, times, and a half a time, which is three and a half years.
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What is three and a half, half of?
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What is seven in God's prophetic writing?
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Perfection.
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God's going to tell His people, you're about to suffer, but it's temporary.
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It's limited.
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Now we just saw two chapters of limited judgment on the earth.
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Daniel and Daniel 12 is going to be told about limited punishment or limited hardship coming against God's people, but warned in advance, don't worry, I know who belongs to me.
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and Michael's watching over you, but you're still going to go through the hard time.
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It's temporary, but it's hard.
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But you're going to come out the other side and you're going to be glorified.
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So chapter 10, 11, and 12, we're opening this picture, is the seventh trumpet about to sound.
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God's judgment is about to come on the nations and on Rome.
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And God says, hold on.
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Hold on, you're gonna go through hardship and John, you're gonna have to tell them about it and it's gonna be God's word, it's gonna be sweet in your mouth but the message is not
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going to be pleasant but you're gonna have to tell them anyway.
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But don't worry, I told Daniel 600 years ago that you were going to get through this.
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John's about to go reach back to Daniel chapter 12 and pull it forward to the book of Revelation and go, here you go.
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It was sealed up back then because the time wasn't yet.
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But here's the message.
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OK, thank you for your attention.