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  Speaker 1: Four angels are chained beneath the Euphrates River. The day
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  Speaker 1: they are released, over two billion people will die. And
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  Speaker 1: most people have never heard of this prophecy. The Euphrates
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  Speaker 1: is not the only prison. The Bible describes five, five
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  Speaker 1: locations where fallen angels are locked away right now. Different crimes,
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  Speaker 1: different sentences. But the four at the Euphrates are the
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  Speaker 1: only ones given an exact release date, an hour, a day,
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  Speaker 1: a month, a year, already fixed on God's calendar. What
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  Speaker 1: did they do? And why, when the time comes, does
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  Speaker 1: God himself give the order to let them go? By
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  Speaker 1: the end of this video, you will know who they are,
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  Speaker 1: why that river, and what their release means for every
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  Speaker 1: person alive today. If you are new here, please subscribe
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  Speaker 1: and let us begin. To understand what is happening at
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  Speaker 1: the Euphrates, you need to see the full picture first.
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  Speaker 1: You need the map. Scripture presents a structured system of
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  Speaker 1: imprisonment for fallen angelic beings. Not a single dungeon. Not
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  Speaker 1: one generic underworld. A system with jurisdiction, with geography, with
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  Speaker 1: sentences calibrated to the severity of the crime. 2 Peter 2.4
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  Speaker 1: Peter uses a word that appears nowhere else in the
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  Speaker 1: entire New Testament, the Greek verb tartaru. He says God
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  Speaker 1: did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them
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  Speaker 1: into Tartarus and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness
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  Speaker 1: to be kept until the judgment. This is not Hades.
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  Speaker 1: This is not Gehenna. Peter borrows a term from Greek
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  Speaker 1: cosmology called to describe a place lower than Hades, a
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  Speaker 1: subterranean prison of absolute darkness. And the inmates are specific,
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  Speaker 1: angels who sinned, past tense, a completed action. They are
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  Speaker 1: not being punished for ongoing rebellion. They are being held
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  Speaker 1: for something they already did. Next, Jude verse 6. Jude
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  Speaker 1: describes angels who did not keep their proper domain, but
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  Speaker 1: left their own abode. He says God has reserved them
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  Speaker 1: in everlasting chains, under darkness, for the judgment of the
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  Speaker 1: great day. Notice the language. Everlasting chains, under darkness, reserved.
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  Speaker 1: These angels are not wandering. They are locked down. And
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  Speaker 1: the crime Jude identifies is not generic rebellion. It is
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  Speaker 1: a departure. They left their station. They crossed a line.
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  Speaker 1: Then there is Dudayel. First Enoch chapter 10, verses 4
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  Speaker 1: through 6. The angel Raphael receives a command from God.
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  Speaker 1: Bind Azazel hand and foot, cast him into the darkness,
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  Speaker 1: make an opening in the desert which is in Dudael,
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  Speaker 1: and cast him in. Place upon him rough and jagged rocks,
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  Speaker 1: and cover him with darkness, and let him abide there
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  Speaker 1: forever until the great day of judgment. Now, First Enoch
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  Speaker 1: is not canonical scripture in most traditions, but Jude quotes
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  Speaker 1: from it directly. Peter echoes its language. The early church
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  Speaker 1: fathers treated it as significant, and the picture it paints
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  Speaker 1: is consistent with what Peter and Jude describe. Angelic beings,
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  Speaker 1: found in specific locations, under specific conditions, for specific durations. Fourth,
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  Speaker 1: the abyss. In Luke chapter 8 verse 31, Jesus encounters
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  Speaker 1: a man possessed by a legion of demons in the
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  Speaker 1: region of the Gerasenes. When Jesus prepares to cast them out,
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  Speaker 1: the demons beg him, and the word in Greek means
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  Speaker 1: they pleaded, they implored, not to command them to depart
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  Speaker 1: into the abyss. They would rather enter a herd of
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  Speaker 1: pigs and drown than go to the abyss. That tells
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  Speaker 1: you something about what the abyss is. It is a
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  Speaker 1: place demons fear. In Revelation chapter 9, the abyss has
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  Speaker 1: a king, Abaddon in Hebrew, Apollyon in Greek, the destroyer.
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  Speaker 1: It is not empty. It is a realm, and it
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  Speaker 1: has hierarchy. And then there is the fifth prison, Revelation
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  Speaker 1: chapter 9, verse 14. Four angels bound at the great
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  Speaker 1: river Euphrates, not in a pit, not in darkness, not
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  Speaker 1: under rocks, at a river, a river with coordinates, a
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  Speaker 1: river with history, a river that stretches from the mountains
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  Speaker 1: of eastern Turkey to the Persian Gulf, running through the
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  Speaker 1: cradle of civilization itself. Now here is what most people miss.
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  Speaker 1: There are two categories of fallen angels in Scripture. There
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  Speaker 1: are those who are bound, imprisoned, chained, held in reserve,
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  Speaker 1: and there are those who are free, The free ones
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  Speaker 1: are the principalities, the powers, the rulers of the darkness
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  Speaker 1: of this age, the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the
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  Speaker 1: heavenly places that Paul describes in Ephesians chapter 6 verse 12.
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  Speaker 1: These are the fallen angels still operating, still active, still
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  Speaker 1: engaged in the cosmic war. The bound ones are different.
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  Speaker 1: They are not imprisoned for what they might do, They
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  Speaker 1: are imprisoned for what they had already done. They crossed
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  Speaker 1: a boundary. They committed a transgression so severe that God
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  Speaker 1: removed them from the field entirely, not at the end
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  Speaker 1: of time, but immediately. Whatever they did, it was not
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  Speaker 1: just rebellion. Rebellion alone does not get you chained. Satan rebelled,
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  Speaker 1: and he still walks the earth. These beings did something worse.
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  Speaker 1: And to understand what that was, you have to go
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  Speaker 1: back to the beginning, before the flood, before the world
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  Speaker 1: as we know it existed. Genesis chapter 6 opens with
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  Speaker 1: one of the most disturbing passages in the entire Bible.
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  Speaker 1: Verses 1 through 4. The sons of God saw that
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  Speaker 1: the daughters of man were attractive, and they took as
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  Speaker 1: their wives any they chose, the sons of God. In Hebrew,
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  Speaker 1: bene ha-elohim. The same phrase used in Job chapters 1
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  Speaker 1: and 2 is where the sons of God present themselves
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  Speaker 1: before the Lord, and Satan is among them. In the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament context, the phrase refers to angelic beings, divine
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  Speaker 1: council members, heavenly entities created to serve in the presence
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  Speaker 1: of God, and they looked at human women, and they
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  Speaker 1: took them. The Hebrew verb lakach, they seized, they acquired,
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  Speaker 1: they took for themselves. There is no courtship in this passage.
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  Speaker 1: There is crossing. A boundary between heaven and earth, between
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  Speaker 1: the angelic and the human, was violated. First Enoch chapters
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  Speaker 1: 6 and 7 fill in the details that Genesis compresses
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  Speaker 1: into four verses. Two hundred angelic beings called Watchers descended
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  Speaker 1: on Mount Hermon, a real mountain on the border of
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  Speaker 1: modern Israel and Syria. Their leaders were Shemihazah and Azazel.
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  Speaker 1: Before they descended, They swore a mutual oath. They knew
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  Speaker 1: what they were about to do was irreversible. They bound
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  Speaker 1: themselves to each other because they understood that the punishment
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  Speaker 1: would be catastrophic, and none of them wanted to bear
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  Speaker 1: it alone. They took human wives. They fathered offspring, the Nephilim, giants,
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  Speaker 1: beings that were neither fully human nor fully angelic, hybrids
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  Speaker 1: that Genesis describes as the mighty men of old, the
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  Speaker 1: men of renown. But the text does not celebrate them.
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  Speaker 1: It mourns them. Because what follows the Nephilim is violence, corruption,
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  Speaker 1: a world so saturated with evil that God says in
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  Speaker 1: Genesis chapter 6 verse 5 that every intention of the
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  Speaker 1: thoughts of the human heart was only evil continually. But
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  Speaker 1: the watchers did not just corrupt the human bloodline. They
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  Speaker 1: taught forbidden knowledge. First Enoch details the curriculum. Azazel taught
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  Speaker 1: the making of swords and shields, the technology of war.
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  Speaker 1: He taught the use of cosmetics and the art of deception.
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  Speaker 1: Other watchers taught sorcery, enchantments, the cutting of roots, astrology,
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  Speaker 1: the reading of signs in the stars, knowledge that was
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  Speaker 1: not theirs to give. Technology transferred from the heavenly realm
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  Speaker 1: to the earthly. without authorization, for purposes of corruption. The
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  Speaker 1: result was catastrophic. The earth filled with violence. The bloodshed
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  Speaker 1: of the Nephilim stained the ground. And God looked at
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  Speaker 1: what had become of His creation and determined that the
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  Speaker 1: only remedy was total reset. The Flood Jude identifies the
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  Speaker 1: crime with precision. Verse 6. Angels who did not keep
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  Speaker 1: their proper domain, but left their own abode. The Greek
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  Speaker 1: word for domain is arch, their original position, their assigned rank,
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  Speaker 1: their station. And the word for abode is oikaterion, their dwelling,
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  Speaker 1: their habitation. Jude says they left it, voluntarily, deliberately. They
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  Speaker 1: vacated the position God assigned them and entered a domain
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  Speaker 1: they were never designed to inhabit. 2 Peter chapter 5. 2.4
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  Speaker 1: confirms the consequence. God did not spare them. The verb
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  Speaker 1: is emphatic in Greek. He did not hold back. He
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  Speaker 1: did not issue a warning. He did not give a
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  Speaker 1: second chance. He cast them into Tartarus and committed them
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  Speaker 1: to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment.
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  Speaker 1: This was not just rebellion. Satan rebelled, and he retained
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  Speaker 1: his freedom to operate. This was a category violation. The
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  Speaker 1: boundary between the angelic and the human was a load-bearing
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  Speaker 1: wall in God's creation, and the Watchers demolished it. They
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  Speaker 1: corrupted the human race at the genetic level. They introduced
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  Speaker 1: forbidden knowledge that accelerated violence and wickedness. They produced offspring
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  Speaker 1: that were an abomination, beings that should not have existed.
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  Speaker 1: And in doing so, they made the flood necessary. That
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  Speaker 1: is the crime, not disobedience in the abstract, invasion, contamination,
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  Speaker 1: the deliberate corruption of everything God had made and called good.
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  Speaker 1: God's response reads like a court transcript, clinical, measured, final.
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  Speaker 1: 1 Enoch 10, verses 4-6 says, The angel Raphael receives
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  Speaker 1: the sentence for Azazel. Bind Azazel hand and foot, and
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  Speaker 1: cast him into the darkness. Make an opening in the desert,
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  Speaker 1: which is in Dudael, and cast him therein. Place upon
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  Speaker 1: him rough and jagged rocks, and cover him with darkness.
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  Speaker 1: Let him abide there forever, until the great day of judgment,
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  Speaker 1: when he shall be cast into the fire, hand and foot.
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  Speaker 1: ROUGH AND JAGGED ROCKS, DARKNESS, FOREVER, UNTIL. THERE IS A TERMINUS,
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  Speaker 1: BUT IT IS NOT FREEDOM. THE TERMINUS IS FIRE. FIRST
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  Speaker 1: ENOCH CHAPTER 10, VERSES 11-13. THE SENTENCE FOR SHEMIHAZA AND
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  Speaker 1: THE LEADERS. BIND THEM FAST FOR SEVENTY GENERATIONS IN THE
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  Speaker 1: VALLEYS OF THE EARTH, TILL THE DAY OF THEIR JUDGMENT
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  Speaker 1: AND OF THEIR CONSUMMATION, WHEN THE JUDGMENT THAT IS FOREVER
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  Speaker 1: AND EVER IS CONSUMMATED. IN THOSE DAYS, THEY SHALL BE
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  Speaker 1: LED OFF TO THE ABYSS OF FIRE, AND TO THE
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  Speaker 1: TORMENT AND THE PRISON IN WHICH THEY SHALL BE CONFINED FOREVER.
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  Speaker 1: SEVENTY GENERATIONS. VALLEYS OF THE EARTH. THEN FIRE. THEN FOREVER.
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  Speaker 1: NOTICE THE ARCHITECTURE OF THESE SENTENCES. THERE IS NOTHING HASTY
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  Speaker 1: ABOUT THEM. NOTHING REACTIVE. GOD DOES NOT SENTENCE IN ANGER.
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  Speaker 1: HE SENTENCES IN PRECISION. EACH PUNISHMENT IS CALIBRATED not just
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  Speaker 1: to the crime, but to the nature of the criminal. Azazel,
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  Speaker 1: who taught humanity to forge weapons and adorn themselves for seduction,
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  Speaker 1: is buried under jagged rocks in a desert, stripped of beauty,
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  Speaker 1: stripped of influence, buried in ugliness. Shemihaza, who led the
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy and organized the oath on Mount Hermon, is bound
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  Speaker 1: for 70 generations. a number that mirrors the generations of humanity,
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  Speaker 1: his transgression corrupted. The punishment echoes the crime. The sentence
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  Speaker 1: is a mirror. And this raises a question that almost
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  Speaker 1: no one asks. Why does God bind fallen angels in
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  Speaker 1: specific places rather than simply destroying them? He is omnipotent.
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  Speaker 1: He could unmake them with a word. He could erase
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  Speaker 1: them from existence the way you delete a line of text.
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  Speaker 1: but he does not. He preserves them. He imprisons them.
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  Speaker 1: He holds them in reserve for judgment. 2 Peter 2,
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  Speaker 1: verse 4 says they are kept until the judgment. Jude
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  Speaker 1: says they are reserved for the judgment of the great day.
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  Speaker 1: There is a judicial process still pending, a final court
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  Speaker 1: date still on the calendar. God does not skip the trial.
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  Speaker 1: Even for beings whose guilt is absolute, He maintains the
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  Speaker 1: order of his own justice. The sentence is interim. The
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  Speaker 1: verdict is coming. And the delay is not leniency. It
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  Speaker 1: is process. Divine process. Because God is not merely powerful.
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  Speaker 1: He is just. And justice has a procedure. Read these
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  Speaker 1: sentences the way they are written. Not with emotion. Not
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  Speaker 1: with drama. with the cold precision of a judge who
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  Speaker 1: has weighed the evidence, heard the case, and rendered a
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  Speaker 1: verdict that will never be appealed. Because these sentences were
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  Speaker 1: not negotiated, they were pronounced by the sovereign God of
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  Speaker 1: the universe, and there is no higher court. And notice
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  Speaker 1: something critical. The binding is geographic. Azazel is not cast
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  Speaker 1: into a vague spiritual void. He is placed in a
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  Speaker 1: specific desert, in a specific location, under specific physical features.
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  Speaker 1: Shemihaza and the leaders are bound in valleys, geographic features
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  Speaker 1: with coordinates on the earth. The spiritual realm, according to scripture,
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  Speaker 1: has structure. It has territory. It has jurisdiction. Angelic beings
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  Speaker 1: do not float in an abstract metaphysical space. They are placed.
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  Speaker 1: They are located. They are held in specific positions for
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  Speaker 1: specific reasons. This is not how most people think about
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  Speaker 1: the spiritual world. Most people imagine it as formless, boundaryless,
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  Speaker 1: overlaid on the physical world like a fog. But the
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  Speaker 1: Bible describes it with the precision of a surveyor. Principalities
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  Speaker 1: have territories. Daniel chapter 10 tells us that the prince
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  Speaker 1: of Persia, a high-ranking fallen angel, ruled over the geographic
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  Speaker 1: region of the Persian empire. Michael the archangel is described
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  Speaker 1: as the prince who stands over the people of Israel.
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  Speaker 1: There are assignments, there are zones, there are borders, so
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  Speaker 1: the watchers are bound, some under deserts, some in valleys,
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  Speaker 1: some in cosmic darkness, chained, held, awaiting a judgment that
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  Speaker 1: was fixed before they were locked away. But four of them,
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  Speaker 1: four specific angels, were not chained in a desert. not
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  Speaker 1: buried in a valley, not cast into the abyss. They
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  Speaker 1: were chained at a river, a river that still flows
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  Speaker 1: through the land where Eden once stood, where Babel was built,
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  Speaker 1: where Babylon rose and fell, and where every empire that
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  Speaker 1: ever threatened the people of God was born. The Euphrates.
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  Speaker 1: Why that river? The Euphrates is mentioned by name 21
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  Speaker 1: times in Scripture. It is the first river named in
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  Speaker 1: the Bible and one of the last geographic features mentioned
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  Speaker 1: in Revelation. And when you lay every reference on the table,
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  Speaker 1: a pattern emerges that is impossible to ignore. Layer 1.
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  Speaker 1: The River of Eden. Genesis chapter 2 verse 14 identifies
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  Speaker 1: the Euphrates as one of the four rivers flowing from
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  Speaker 1: the garden. This is the region where humanity first walked
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  Speaker 1: with God. where Adam and Eve lived before the fall,
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  Speaker 1: where innocence existed. The Euphrates is not just a river.
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  Speaker 1: It is a marker. It says, this is where it began.
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  Speaker 1: Creation itself is tied to this waterway. And when four
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  Speaker 1: angels are bound here, you are looking at a connection
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  Speaker 1: between the very origin of the world and its final judgment.
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  Speaker 1: Layer 2. Babylon. Babylon. The city of Babylon was built
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  Speaker 1: on the Euphrates, not near it, on it. The river
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  Speaker 1: ran through the center of the city. And Babylon is
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  Speaker 1: not just a historical empire in Scripture. It is the
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  Speaker 1: archetype of human rebellion against God. Isaiah chapter 14 places
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  Speaker 1: the king of Babylon in parallel with the fall of Lucifer.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah chapters 50 and 51 pronounce God's judgment on Babylon
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  Speaker 1: and in language that Revelation later echoes word for word.
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  Speaker 1: Babylon is where false worship was systematized, where human pride
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  Speaker 1: was institutionalized, where the name of God was replaced with
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  Speaker 1: the names of idols, and its lifeblood was the Euphrates.
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  Speaker 1: Layer 3. The Eastern Boundary of the Promised Land. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: chapter 15, verse 18. God makes a covenant with Abraham...
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  Speaker 1: and defines the borders of the land he is giving
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  Speaker 1: to Abraham's descendants. From the river of Egypt to the
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  Speaker 1: great river, the river Euphrates. The Euphrates is the line.
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  Speaker 1: East of it, enemy territory. West of it, covenant territory.
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  Speaker 1: It is a border drawn by God himself between his
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  Speaker 1: people and the nations that would try to destroy them.
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  Speaker 1: Layer 4. The Invasion Highway Every existential threat to Israel
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  Speaker 1: came from beyond the Euphrates. Assyria rose from Mesopotamia and
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  Speaker 1: destroyed the northern kingdom. Babylon rose from the same region
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  Speaker 1: and destroyed Jerusalem and the temple. Persia conquered Babylon and
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  Speaker 1: ruled the entire Near East from the Euphrates basin. The Parthians,
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  Speaker 1: whom Rome feared, more than any other enemy, operated east
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  Speaker 1: of the Euphrates. In Israel's historical memory, the Euphrates was
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  Speaker 1: not just a geographic feature. It was the direction from
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  Speaker 1: which destruction came. Layer 5. The Tower of Babel. Genesis
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  Speaker 1: chapter 11. The plain of Shinar, between the Tigris and
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  Speaker 1: Euphrates rivers. Humanity's first organized rebellion after the flood. They said,
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  Speaker 1: let us build ourselves a city and a tower whose
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  Speaker 1: top reaches to the heavens and let us make a
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  Speaker 1: name for ourselves. This was not architecture. This was theology.
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  Speaker 1: They were constructing a rival to God's dwelling place. And
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  Speaker 1: God came down, confused their language, and scattered them across
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  Speaker 1: the earth. The birthplace of false religion, of organized idolatry,
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  Speaker 1: of the human impulse to replace God with something built
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  Speaker 1: by human hands. It sits between the Tigris and the Euphrates.
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  Speaker 1: Layer 6. Nimrod's Kingdom. Genesis chapter 10, verse 10. The
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  Speaker 1: beginning of Nimrod's kingdom was Babel, Erech, Akkad, and Kalnei.
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  Speaker 1: in the land of Shinar, every city in the Euphrates region. Nimrod,
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  Speaker 1: the first mighty man after the flood, the first empire builder,
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  Speaker 1: the first king who consolidated power and set himself against
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  Speaker 1: the order God had established. Jewish and Christian tradition has
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  Speaker 1: long identified Nimrod as a type, a foreshadowing of the Antichrist.
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  Speaker 1: The first in a long line of rulers who would
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  Speaker 1: use the Euphrates region as a base for to wage
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  Speaker 1: war against God's purposes. Layer 7. Territorial Spirits. Daniel Chapter 10.
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  Speaker 1: Daniel prays and fasts for 21 days. An angel finally
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  Speaker 1: arrives and explains the delay. The prince of the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of Persia withstood me 21 days. A high-ranking fallen angel
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  Speaker 1: assigned to the geographic and political territory of the Persian Empire,
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  Speaker 1: which was centered on the Mesopotamian region, which is centered
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  Speaker 1: on the Euphrates, the same zone, the same territory. Are
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  Speaker 1: the four angels bound at the Euphrates connected to these
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  Speaker 1: territorial powers? Are they the principalities that once ruled the
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  Speaker 1: empires of the Euphrates basin? Assyria, Babylon, Persia, and whatever
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  Speaker 1: comes next? Layer 8, Revelation chapter 16, verse 12. The
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  Speaker 1: Euphrates appears again. Not at the sixth trumpet this time,
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  Speaker 1: but at the sixth bowl. The sixth angel poured out
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  Speaker 1: his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water
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  Speaker 1: was dried up to prepare the way for the kings
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  Speaker 1: from the east. Two different judgments, two different moments, the
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  Speaker 1: same river. At the sixth trumpet, angels are released from
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  Speaker 1: the Euphrates. At the sixth bowl, the Euphrates itself is removed,
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  Speaker 1: dried up, to clear the path for an invading army.
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  Speaker 1: The river that served as God's boundary line is erased,
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  Speaker 1: and the east floods in. Eight layers, eight connections. The
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  Speaker 1: Euphrates is not random. It is the single most theologically
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  Speaker 1: loaded geographic feature in all of Scripture. It is where
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  Speaker 1: creation began and where judgment originates. It is where humanity
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  Speaker 1: first walked with God and where humanity most consistently rebelled
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  Speaker 1: against him. And it is where four angels sit in chains,
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  Speaker 1: waiting for their appointed hour. Judgment emanates from the same
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  Speaker 1: place rebellion originated. Revelation chapter 9 verse 13. The sixth
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  Speaker 1: angel sounded his trumpet. And John hears a voice, a
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  Speaker 1: single voice, coming from the four horns of the golden
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  Speaker 1: altar that is before God. Stop there, the golden altar.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a random piece of furniture. Revelation chapter
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  Speaker 1: 8 verse 3 tells you what happens at this altar.
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  Speaker 1: An angel stands at it with a golden censer, and
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  Speaker 1: he is given much incense to offer with the prayers
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  Speaker 1: of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne.
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  Speaker 1: The prayers of the saints rise before God from this altar.
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  Speaker 1: And in Revelation chapter 6 verses 9 through 11, John
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  Speaker 1: sees under the altar a THE SOULS OF THOSE WHO
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  Speaker 1: HAD BEEN SLAIN FOR THE WORD OF GOD AND FOR
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  Speaker 1: THE WITNESS THEY HAD BORN, THE MARTYRS, THE PERSECUTED, THE
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  Speaker 1: MURDERED FAITHFUL, AND THEY CRY OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE,
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  Speaker 1: HOW LONG, SOVEREIGN LORD, HOLY AND TRUE, UNTIL YOU JUDGE
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  Speaker 1: THE INHABITANTS OF THE EARTH AND AVENGE OUR BLOOD? THEY
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  Speaker 1: WERE TOLD TO WAIT A LITTLE LONGER. until the full
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  Speaker 1: number of their fellow servants and brothers and sisters who
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  Speaker 1: were to be killed as they had been was completed.
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  Speaker 1: Now the wait is over. The voice from the golden altar,
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  Speaker 1: the altar of prayer, the altar of the martyrs, gives
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  Speaker 1: the command. The sixth trumpet is not arbitrary destruction. It
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  Speaker 1: is an answer. The prayers of the persecuted triggered this release.
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  Speaker 1: Every believer who was tortured, burned, beheaded, fed to lions, crucified,
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  Speaker 1: their prayers collected on that altar like evidence in a
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  Speaker 1: case file. And when the file is complete, the verdict
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  Speaker 1: is executed. The voice says to the sixth angel who
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  Speaker 1: had the trumpet, Release the four angels who are bound
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  Speaker 1: at the great river Euphrates. Release, not create, not summon. Release,
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  Speaker 1: they have been there. waiting, bound, held in place by
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  Speaker 1: the sovereign command of God at a precise location on
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  Speaker 1: earth for a span of time so exact that John
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  Speaker 1: describes it with four definite articles in a row. They
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  Speaker 1: had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month,
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  Speaker 1: and the year. In Greek, every one of those nouns
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  Speaker 1: carries the definite article, the hour, the day, the month,
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  Speaker 1: the year, not an hour, not a day. the hour,
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  Speaker 1: the day, the month, the year, a single, unrepeatable point
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  Speaker 1: on the timeline of the cosmos, fixed before the angels
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  Speaker 1: were bound, fixed before the river was named, fixed before
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  Speaker 1: the world was made. God does not schedule loosely. The
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  Speaker 1: four angels are released for a single purpose, to kill
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  Speaker 1: a third of mankind, not to torment, not to frighten,
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  Speaker 1: to kill. a third of the human race eliminated in
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  Speaker 1: a single campaign, and the army they command is staggering.
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  Speaker 1: John hears the number, 200 million. The Greek is literally
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  Speaker 1: two myriads of myriads, 10,000 times 10,000 doubled. And the
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  Speaker 1: cavalry John sees is not human. The riders wear breastplates
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  Speaker 1: of fiery red, dark blue, and sulfur yellow. The horses
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  Speaker 1: have heads like lion's, From their mouths come fire, smoke,
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  Speaker 1: and sulfur. Their tails are like serpents with heads that
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  Speaker 1: inflict harm. This is not a human army. No first
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  Speaker 1: century reader and no careful modern reader would mistake this
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  Speaker 1: for tanks or helicopters or any human technology. The four
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  Speaker 1: commanders are bound angels. The army is supernatural. The weapons
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  Speaker 1: are fire, smoke, and sulfur. the signature elements of divine
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  Speaker 1: judgment throughout Scripture, from Sodom to the Lake of Fire.
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  Speaker 1: Some interpreters have tried to read this as a literal
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  Speaker 1: human army from the East, perhaps China, perhaps a coalition.
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  Speaker 1: But that reading requires you to ignore the four angelic commanders,
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  Speaker 1: ignore the supernatural description of the cavalry, and ignore the
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  Speaker 1: fact that the entire context is angelic release from supernatural imprisonment.
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  Speaker 1: the strongest reading is the most straightforward one. This is
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  Speaker 1: a demonic cavalry, led by four angelic generals who have
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  Speaker 1: been restrained at the Euphrates since the ancient world, now
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  Speaker 1: unleashed at the exact moment God ordained. And there is
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  Speaker 1: a mirror here that is too precise to be coincidence.
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  Speaker 1: In Revelation chapter 7, verses 1 through 3, John sees
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  Speaker 1: four angels standing at the four corners of the earth,
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  Speaker 1: holding back the four winds so that no harm comes
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  Speaker 1: to the earth, the sea, or the trees until the
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  Speaker 1: servants of God are sealed on their foreheads. Four angels
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  Speaker 1: restraining destruction, holding it back. In Revelation chapter 9, four
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  Speaker 1: angels are bound at the Euphrates, and when they are released,
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  Speaker 1: they do not hold back destruction. They are destruction, same number,
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  Speaker 1: opposite function. In chapter 7, four angels protect. In chapter 9,
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  Speaker 1: four angels annihilate. John builds this contrast deliberately, and the
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  Speaker 1: symmetry is devastating. The same God who commands angels to
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  Speaker 1: hold back the wind commands angels to unleash the fire.
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  Speaker 1: And that is the point that most people miss about
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  Speaker 1: this passage. the four angels at the Euphrates are terrifying
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  Speaker 1: but they are not autonomous they do not break free
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  Speaker 1: they do not overpower their chains they are released by
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  Speaker 1: a command from the altar of prayer at a time
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  Speaker 1: that was fixed before they were ever imprisoned Even the
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  Speaker 1: most devastating demonic forces in the cosmos cannot act one
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  Speaker 1: second before or one second after their appointment. They are
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  Speaker 1: on a leash. The leash is held by the hand
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  Speaker 1: of God, and the length of that leash was measured
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  Speaker 1: before time began. Revelation chapter 9, verses 20 and 21.
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  Speaker 1: After the fire, after the 200 million, after a third
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  Speaker 1: of the human race is dead. John writes the most
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  Speaker 1: devastating sentence in the passage, and it is not about
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  Speaker 1: angels or armies or rivers. The rest of mankind, who
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  Speaker 1: were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of
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  Speaker 1: the works of their hands, nor give up worshipping demons
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  Speaker 1: and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone
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  Speaker 1: and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk. Nor
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  Speaker 1: did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or
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  Speaker 1: their sexual immorality or their thefts. Read that again, slowly.
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  Speaker 1: A third of humanity is dead. The survivors watched it happen.
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  Speaker 1: They saw the fire. They saw the smoke. They buried
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  Speaker 1: the bodies, or could not bury them, because there were
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  Speaker 1: too many. And when the dust settles and the sky
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  Speaker 1: clears and the screaming stops, they look at the wreckage
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  Speaker 1: of their world, and they do not repent. They do
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  Speaker 1: not turn. They do not cry out. They do not
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  Speaker 1: fall on their faces. They double down. They keep worshipping
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  Speaker 1: the idols, gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood,
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  Speaker 1: objects that cannot see, cannot hear, cannot walk, cannot save.
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  Speaker 1: They continue offering their devotion to things that have no
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  Speaker 1: capacity to respond, while the living God who just demonstrated
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  Speaker 1: his absolute authority over angels, armies, and the machinery of
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  Speaker 1: death stands with open hands. They keep murdering. They keep
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  Speaker 1: practicing sorcery. The Greek word is pharmakia, the root of pharmacy,
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  Speaker 1: pointing to the occult drug practices woven through ancient pagan worship.
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  Speaker 1: They keep committing sexual immorality. They keep stealing. The same
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  Speaker 1: catalog of sins that provoked the judgment in the first
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  Speaker 1: place continues without interruption, as though nothing happened. as though
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  Speaker 1: a third of the world did not just die. This
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  Speaker 1: is the most terrifying verse in Revelation chapter 9. Not
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  Speaker 1: verse 15, with its appointed hour. Not verse 16, with
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  Speaker 1: its 200 million. Not verse 18, with its fire and
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  Speaker 1: smoke and sulfur. This, verse 20, the human heart staring
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  Speaker 1: at the consequences of its rebellion and choosing rebellion again.
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  Speaker 1: The tragedy of the Euphrates angels is not that they exist.
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  Speaker 1: It is not that they will be released. It is
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  Speaker 1: not even that a third of mankind will die. The
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  Speaker 1: tragedy is that it will not be enough. The evidence
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  Speaker 1: will be overwhelming. The verdict will be undeniable. The sentence
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  Speaker 1: will be visible to every living person on earth, and
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  Speaker 1: the survivors will shrug. They will turn back to their idols.
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  Speaker 1: They will go back to their sorceries. They will choose
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  Speaker 1: the gods that cannot see over the god who sees everything.
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  Speaker 1: Four angels chained at a river since the ancient world.
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  Speaker 1: Two hundred million riding behind them. A third of the
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  Speaker 1: human race cut down in a single campaign. And the
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  Speaker 1: ones left standing learn nothing. That is not a story
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  Speaker 1: about angels. That is a story about you. about what
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  Speaker 1: the human heart is capable of refusing, about the God
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  Speaker 1: who sends judgment not because he delights in it, but
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  Speaker 1: because mercy was offered first and declined, declined again and again,
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  Speaker 1: until the only thing left to send is what was
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  Speaker 1: chained beneath the river. The Euphrates is still flowing. The
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  Speaker 1: four angels are still bound. The hour, the day, the month,
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  Speaker 1: and the year are still on the calendar. And when
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  Speaker 1: the voice from the golden altar finally speaks the word, release,
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  Speaker 1: it will not be because God has run out of patience.
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  Speaker 1: It will be because the prayers piled on that altar
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  Speaker 1: have finally reached their measure. Every cry of every martyr,
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  Speaker 1: every prayer of every believer who suffered and did not
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  Speaker 1: see justice, every voice that whispered, How long, O Lord?
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  Speaker 1: They are heard. They are recorded. They are answered. Not yet,
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  Speaker 1: but the hour is fixed. If this has opened your
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