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Revelation chapter 17. Let us pray.
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Father God, who reigns on high, we thank you, Lord, We thank you
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for who you are. We thank you for what you
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represent. We thank you, God, for the
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eternal words that you've given us to look at, to meditate upon,
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to study God, to allow, to absorb into the soil God of our
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lives. Let it produce fruit.
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We break up the fallow ground to day in the mighty name of Jesus
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Christ. Father, rain down upon us.
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Lord, I pray in the mighty name of Jesus that you will help us.
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Lord, help us to see you high and lift it up above every
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entity, above all people, God, above all dominions, above all
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governments, God, above every single system.
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God, you are high and lifted up above money, high and lifted up
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above vanity, high and lifted up above power and greed, high and
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lifted up above all false religion.
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Lord, I pray that you will help us, help us to see you, God, in
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the way that we ought to. Lord, help us to see you on the
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sea of glass mingled with fire. God, help us to see you.
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Lord, with the train of your robe filling the temple.
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God, help us to see you. We cry, Holy, holy, holy are
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you, Lord God Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come?
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Lord, you have all power and all wisdom.
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Lord, it is all about you, Yahweh Hashem, the name that is
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above all names, Jesus Christ. Lord, I pray for a supernatural
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power and zeal to consume this house.
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Lord, let it eat us up. Father, I pray you'll fan the
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flame. God, set us ablaze.
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Set us on fire for your holy name.
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Help us to go out into the highways and the hedges and the
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byways. Help us to go out, Lord, and
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snatch the firebrands out of the fire.
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God, I pray that you'll clothe us and put a robe and a ring
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upon us. Lord, we are yours, we are
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called by your name. We are Christian, we belong to
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Christ. He is our everything.
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He's the center of it all. It all revolves around Christ.
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He is the all sufficient sacrifice.
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He is the atonement for our sins.
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He is our justification and our righteousness.
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We robe ourselves with Christ's righteousness, not of anything
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that we have done, not of anything that we have not done,
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but it is all in the perfection and the finished work of the
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cross that Jesus Christ wrought for us at Calvary.
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And so, Lord, we walk in that bridal identity today.
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Father, give us sound doctrine and sound theology.
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Help us to evangelize our neighbors.
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Help us to love our neighbors, God.
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Help us Lord, to walk on fire and not be burned.
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God, Help us to go through the waters and not be overtaken.
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God, it's all about you and your power and your glory.
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It's all about your Kingdom and let it come upon this earth.
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We're yours, we're your laid down lovers, we're your bond
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servants. God, we willingly submit
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ourselves and we willingly are submissive unto the words that
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are possessed in this word. Father, from Genesis to
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Revelation 66 Canon God, you are our everything.
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You are the very light unto our feet.
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Lead us Father, lead us as we go.
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Lord, we acknowledge you today, so direct our path, direct our
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steps. Help us Father.
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Help us to know that you are fighting our battles and that
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you Lord, are encamped all around us.
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Lord, send the angels. Lord, form a hedge of protection
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around us. Father, I pray that we will go
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into the hardest and the darkest places.
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Lord, and to tell every single man, woman and child that we
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meet about the good news of Jesus Christ and what He did for
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us, He can do for them. We love you, King.
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Jesus, open our eyes up today. God, open our hearts up today.
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Open our minds up today. Father, open our mouths up today
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and let us speak Jesus over this lost and dying and perverse
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world. Father, it's all about Christ
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and it's in his holy and precious and powerful and
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awesome name that we pray. Amen.
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Well, let's start in verse one. And there came one of the seven
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angels which had the seven vials and talked with me, saying unto
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me, come here, and I will show you the judgment of the great
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horror that sits upon many waters.
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So here we get to see John being privileged again to get another
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vision, to catch another glimpse, this divine revealing
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of what is to come in the future.
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And we can see here in the chapter 17 of Revelation that
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the apostate church will be judged false Christendom will be
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judged. This is what happens in the end
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whenever people are duped by false religion, this one world
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world religion, the false prophet that comes on the this
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idol Pagan worship that will come up and be mainstream and
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people will flock to it because of the new age, new morality.
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They will flock to it because it seems as if it's inclusive.
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And here God is going to show you that it is blasphemous and
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it is noxious in the nose of a holy God.
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Verse 2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed
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fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made
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drunk with the wine of her fornication.
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So you can see here that this is false religion and this is how
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God sees it. It's all heaping and piling up
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for judgement, and he knows what is happening.
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Nothing is missed upon him. And he's telling us here that
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these vials are full. He's telling us here that he's
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going to show us the judgement of the great whore.
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And that is how he sees it. All of this pornography, all of
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the sexual immorality, all of this human trafficking, all of
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the sex slave industry, it is noxious unto a holy God.
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And we are made in his image, Imago Dei, and he sees us as his
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masterpiece. And far be it from us to take
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advantage of others. And here you can see the systems
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in place, and people think that they're going to have freedom
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from throwing off the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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And that is what happened all the way back at the Tower of
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Babel when Nimrod LED a rebellion against God after the
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flood and tried to build a tower so they could escape the flood
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if it ever came again. And they were ignorant of the
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promise of God that he would never flood the earth, and they
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wanted to escape God's powerful hand and that God can do
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anything. And here you can see that human
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beings have not changed very much since then.
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And here they are trying to overthrow God and trying to
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overthrow the Judeo-christian values, and it'll never work. 3
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So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness.
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And I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast full of
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names of blasphemy, having 7 heads and 10 horns.
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We're going to visit these 7 heads and 10 horns.
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But you can see that this idolatrous woman, this great
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mother whore is riding the beast.
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So the beast, we've already been told is the Antichrist and she
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is false religion. And that is how the Antichrist
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will come on the scene. He'll use the religious systems
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to try and get in. And that is how he will get in
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friends. And you can see she's riding it.
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So it seems as if she has control of the beast.
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But we're going to find out what happens to her for.
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And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color and
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deck with gold, precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup
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in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her
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fornication. So here you can see she is
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dressed in this scarlet which speaks of dignitaries, this
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speaks of power. And that is how she will be
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presented, as if there's nothing that can stand against her and
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she's going to make people bow down unto the beast.
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And that is how it'll we'll all look in the beginning.
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And she looks as if everything is luxurious because she has the
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gold and the stones and the pearls.
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She has the golden cup. But God sees what's in that cup.
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It's not power, it is abominations.
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It is blasphemy against the holy God.
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Five. And upon her forehead was a name
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written Mystery Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and
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abominations of the earth. So that is the true character of
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her. She is not religious and pious.
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She is not reverent. She is full of the prostitution.
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She is full of all of the perverseness that's in this
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world. And she's made drunk on the
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blood of the Saints who stood up for God.
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They stood up for everything that was right and good and
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holy. They stood up and she caused
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them to be cut down, and that is what she reveled in.
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And God finally has had enough. 6 And I saw the woman drunk with
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the blood of the Saints, with the blood of the martyrs of
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Jesus. And when I saw her, I wondered
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with great admiration. So here the Angel has taken John
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into the wilderness. He's taken John out of all of
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the commotion, and he's given him this vision in a very
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desolate place so that he can lock in and he can actually
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study it. And when he gets done studying
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it, he cannot believe what he's seeing and hearing.
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His entire mind is dumbfounded because he's seeing the very
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systems that should be standing for good and they are actually
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being used for great evil. And that is why if you go all
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the way back to the book of Genesis, whenever God was
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talking about the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, it
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is A2 edged sword. And religion has been used for
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great evil in this world, and it is noxious unto a holy God, and
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woe to you who call evil good and good evil, And God will
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finally have his fill of it, and he will bring upon the judgment
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that is due, and is just. 7 And the Angel said unto me, Why did
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you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of
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the woman and of the beast that carried her, and which has the
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seven heads and 10 horns. So you saw it back there when
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she was riding that beast. And she sat upon this scarlet
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colored beast, And the beast looked as if he had all the
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power, which is why he had the scarlet on.
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That was a denotion of power and dignity.
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That was a denotion of having the military might and and
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having all the power of the state.
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That is where you see that color scarlet, and it looks as if
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she's controlling him. But let's see how it ends. 8 The
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beast that you saw was and is not, and shall ascend out of the
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bottomless pit and go into perdition.
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And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder whose names were
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not written in the book of life from the foundation of the
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world, when they behold the beast that was and is not and
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yet is. So This speaks of the Roman
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Empire and the fall of the Roman Empire and then the revived
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Roman Empire which Daniel talked about when he was talking about
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the legs of the statue after Babylon and after the Medo
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Persians and then after the Greeks.
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And then came the Rome which was western and eastern represented
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by the 2 iron legs. And then came the 10 toes of
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iron and clay that try to mix in the end, but it'll never happen.
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And this is what we're seeing here in this description in
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chapter 17 of Revelation, when he's talking about was and is
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not and will be and ascends out. This is the revived Roman Empire
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that will come about at the end of time.
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This is the uniting of all of the countries of the world
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coming together, represented by 7 at 1st, and then they'll be 10
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powerful leaders that all hand their authority over to the one
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blasphemous little horn, the Antichrist. 9 And here is the
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mind, which has wisdom. The seven heads are 7 mountains
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on which the woman sits. This is not the Roman
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Catholicism, and this is not Rome, friends.
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This is the world's superpowers from Egypt and Babylon, the
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Medo, Persians, the Greeks and Rome as a whole is represented
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in the five 10 and there are 7 kings.
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Five are fallen, one is and the other is not yet come.
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And when he comes he must continue a short space.
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This is the Antichrist, friends is getting painted here.
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He was, which is the spirit of the Antichrist has gone out into
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the world and then he's going to come and that is verse 11, the
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beast that was and is not even he is the 8th and is of the
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seven and he goes into perdition.
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That's the spirit of the Antichrist.
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It's gone out into the world but will be manifested in human form
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at the end of a one world global super leader friends, and that
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is what is referenced here. 12 and the 10 horns which you saw
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are 10 kings which have received no Kingdom yet but receive power
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as kings. One hour with the beast.
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So everything that you're seeing in the world, the geopolitical
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realm that we see in our day and our hour with moving into
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digital currency, everything that you're seeing in the world
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today, friends, is culminating in the fact that there will be
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10 leaders who come on the scene.
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And they will be tyrannical leaders who usurp their
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authority over the entire globe. And it is a supernatural ability
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to overtake the world. And then they only are in power
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for a short time because their entire purpose is to hand their
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authority over to the Antichrist.
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And we see it all shaping up in our day and our hour.
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How many times have we seen a totalitarian government rise up
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and the person in charge refuses to give up and relinquish the
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power? This is a prototype of what is
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coming friends. And there will be 10 of them. 13
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These have one mind and shall give their power and strength
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unto the beast. It's all wrapped up in greed and
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power and lust, and at first it seems as if they're doing it for
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the right reasons, and then they get incensed with that power and
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greed. But it all boils down to the
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spirit of the Antichrist that's already gone out into the world.
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14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall
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overcome them. And he is Lord of Lords, King of
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kings, and they that are with him are called and chosen and
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faithful. That's you, St. that's us
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Christians. We are called, we are elect, we
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are chosen. Praise God, Hallelujah.
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Our names are written in the Lamb's book of light.
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We are called and chosen. Let's so let's be faithful.
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Do not let your faith wane, friend.
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Do not let it go by the wayside. Keep your lamps full, keep your
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love hot. 15 And he said to me, the waters which you saw, where
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the horse sits, our peoples and multitudes, nations and tongues.
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So this Angel is so kind as to explain it all to John, And John
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could pin it all down for the edification of the Saints, for
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all time's sake. So we can sit and we can read,
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and heaven and earth shall pass away, but not one of these
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words. And we see that the waters that
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the horse sat upon represents all of the nations of the earth.
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16 And the 10 horns which you saw upon the beasts, these shall
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hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and
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shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire.
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So this is whenever the Antichrist turns on the one
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world religion, because ultimately his entire goal can
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be found out in Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28, whenever Satan
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himself demands to be worshipped as God.
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And that is the goal of the Antichrist, the abomination of
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desolations, where he sits in the temple, the third temple,
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and he demands to be worshipped as God. 17 For God has put in
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their hearts to fulfill his will, and to agree and give
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their Kingdom to the beast until the words of God shall be
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fulfilled. Read that verse again.
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Highlight it, underline it, circle it.
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Who gives them these inclinations?
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It's no different when it says that God sends them a powerful
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delusion so that they will believe the lie because they
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delighted in evil and refused to love the truth.
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And For these reasons God gave them over to a reprobate mind.
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You see here in verse 17 of chapter 17 of Revelation.
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You see that God? Has put into their hearts to
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fulfill His will. You can't box God in.
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You cannot try and make God into morality.
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You can't try to tell God how to behave and how to act.
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You will not call God into the courtroom and tell him to give
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you an account of how he has been orchestrating things.
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God is in heaven and does whatever he pleases. 18 will end
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here. And the woman which you saw is
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the great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.
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This is Babylon the religious system fallen.
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This is Babylon, the religious system that's being turned on by
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the Antichrist because ultimately he wants the worship.
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I hope you've been edified by this amazing chapter in God's
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Word. I know I sure have.
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We could spend a lifetime reading it and understanding it
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and dissecting it, but suffice to say it is yet in future.
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I love you and I'm praying for you.
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God help you, bless you today to understand His words.
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Let the Holy Spirit fill you and give you discernment today and
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understanding in the mind of Christ today.
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Let these words saturate your life.
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I love you. We'll see you back here
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tomorrow. God bless you.