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Revelation 9 - Aaron Cozort - March 29, 2026 · Admonition Podcast

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begin with a word of prayer.
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Our gracious Father in heaven, we bow before your throne, grateful for the day that you've granted to us the life that we have as we strive diligently to follow your word, to open
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the scriptures, to know what you would have us to do and how you would have us to live, how you would have us to worship, how you would have us to serve you and serve one
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another.
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Lord, we pray that as we look through this book of the book of Revelation that we might
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understand the things that are written in it, that we might be able to apply the things that we read to our lives, that we might understand both how the Christians in the first
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century endured suffering and persecution and hardship and how we also might be able to do so in a way that's in accordance with your will and right in your sight.
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Lord, we pray that you be with those who are recovering from illness, from injury, from surgeries and
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from procedures, we pray that you be with them and help them to regain their full and complete health.
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Lord, we pray that you be with those who are struggling with ongoing or chronic uh issues.
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We pray that you give them strength to endure in the difficult days and in the hard times that they have on a continual basis.
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Lord, we pray that you be with this congregation.
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May its works be those which are right in accordance with your will.
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and may we strive diligently to remain sound in the faith.
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We also pray that you give us open doors of opportunity to reach the lost, to preach the gospel, and to help those who are learning, uh yearning to learn the truth to be able to
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do so.
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All this we pray and ask in Jesus' name, amen.
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We're in Revelation chapter 9, ah just by way of, especially since we have visitors, we're going to do a brief review.
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ah Don't expect you to write all of this down, but anyone who would like it, you're welcome to the PowerPoints or the things that we have by way of handout material um and to
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review on your own.
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As you get into the book of Revelation, John is going to see one who is standing.
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in his presence.
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And for some reason I'm not getting any text.
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Okay, so I messed something up.
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me just a minute.
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Yeah, let me go fix one thing.
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That's what happens when you fix something right before you walk up and then you don't look at it.
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Okay, there we go.
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I just realized I put a black background behind everything only to...
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realized that there were some slides with some black text on them and that's kind of going to be important.
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Okay, so uh as Revelation chapter 1 opens, John finds himself on the Isle of Patmos and he is there for his testimony of Christ.
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He is by all indications of history and tradition in exile on that island.
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As he is in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, that is he is worshiping on the Lord's Day, uh he sees and hears a voice or he
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a voice, turns around and sees one who is Christ and describes him.
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And as he sees Christ, Christ is holding seven stars in his right hand.
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He's surrounded by seven golden lampstands.
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And this represents the seven churches of Asia Minor.
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We know it represents the seven churches of Asia Minor because we keep beating this drum.
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We know it because the book tells us it does.
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When the book tells us what
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something is and what that means, what should we know?
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What it is and what it means.
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When it doesn't tell us what something is and what it means, then the first thing we should do is keep it in its context.
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And after we keep it in its context, we should understand that part of the context of Revelation is the Old Testament prophets.
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the prophets of Daniel, the prophet Ezekiel, the prophet Isaiah, because the visionary language of Revelation is Old Testament visionary language.
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Not all of the items are identical, but they carry forward Old Testament concepts.
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to apply to the current generation.
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Now, we read in Revelation chapter one that the things which Jesus is telling John, that John is going to tell to the church are things which must shortly come to pass.
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These are things that must take place in a near future point of time.
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from the point that John is writing the book in the late 70s, early 80s AD, first century.
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So, we get into chapter four.
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In chapter four, after the letters have been written to the seven churches of Asia Minor, John sees an open door and essentially is told, come through the door.
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So, he goes through the door and he finds himself into the throne room of God.
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As he describes the throne room of God, he's going to describe the glory of the one who sits on the throne, but he's not going to describe the one who sits on the throne.
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He's going to describe his glory
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Now, you remember that he describes in chapter four a rainbow as an emerald, okay?
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So a greenish colored rainbow he sees in chapter four.
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I mentioned that, you're gonna need to hold on to that.
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We're gonna need that in chapter 10, okay?
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uh And so he sees the throne, he sees the spirit of God before the throne, he sees the beasts that are before the throne, he sees the 24 elders that are before the throne, and
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he sees the multitudes
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as it fills in throughout the progression of the next chapters.
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In chapter four as well, he will see the 24 elders.
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Every time the four beasts praise and offer worship to God, the 24 elders take their crowns, their crowns of victory, they're not crowns of kings, they're crowns of victors,
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and they're going to cast them before the throne and praise God.
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And then an angel shows up because John looks
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into the beginning of chapter five, he looks at to the throne and there the one who's sitting on the throne has in his right hand a scroll and the scroll sealed with seven
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seals and the angel is going to search heaven and earth to find someone worthy to open the seals but nobody is found.
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No one in heaven, no one on earth, no one under the earth, nobody's worthy to open the revelation that comes from God.
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And so John begins to weep.
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The angel comes and tells John, weep.
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We found the one who's worthy.
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It's the lion of the tribe of Judah.
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It is the lamb who appears as though he has been slain, yet he's standing upright and he's alive.
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And so the lion, Christ, goes before the throne, takes the book, and is declared worthy to open the book.
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So he begins to open the book.
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And in the first seal, we showed the picture earlier and I think it may be in the slide deck a little bit later, the idea of a scroll where there's a progression.
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You open one seal and a few rolls undo and you can read what's there, but then you gotta open the next seal and that's what's happening.
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You're getting a progression of revelation.
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The very first scroll that's opened, you see a white horse and the one who goes forth is conquering and we describe the fact that the one who goes forth is conquering.
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the one who rides the white horse in the book of Revelation, the one who's described by perfect purity is Christ, okay?
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If you're going to interpret the first seal and the riding of the white horse and the one who's going forth and conquering to be anything other than Christ, you're going to have to
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argue with yourself through the whole book of Revelation.
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Because every time you see a singular white horse,
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and a person riding on it and conquering it's Christ.
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Okay?
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And we're gonna get into that a little bit later.
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We're gonna see that clearly defined.
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But the next seal opens and we've got wars.
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And the next seal opens and we've got economic destruction.
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And the last seal opens or the fourth seal opens and we've got persecution.
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We've got all of these things happening because the church went forth conquering and now
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Satan is on the attack.
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Chapter, sorry, not chapter five, we're still in chapter six.
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Chapter six, the fifth seal is opened and John sees in the vision the altar before the throne of God and under the altar are saints crying out because they've been killed as a
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result of persecution.
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They're crying out, how long, Lord, are you going to allow this to continue on?
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They're told to rest for a little while.
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They're given white robes.
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They're told, listen, it's under control.
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So then the sixth seal opens and God begins to bring forth the wrath of the lamb and the wrath of the one who sits on the throne upon those who are on the earth.
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And it's a preview of what's coming, but it describes in Old Testament language,
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the fall of a nation.
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That's all it is, it's fall of a nation.
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God is saying there is someone persecuting my people and I'm going to judge them the same way I judged Babylon, the same way I judged Edom, the same way I judged Israel, the same
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way I judged Jerusalem.
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I'm going to deal with them like I always have.
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But the question's asked at the end of chapter six, in the day of the wrath of the land,
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Lamb, who's able to stand?
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So chapter seven opens and we begin to see the people of God sealed with the seal or the name of God.
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The point of chapter seven is none of the judgment's going to start until God has clearly identified everyone who belongs to Him.
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Because if you belong to God, you might endure the hardship of the judgment, but you're not the recipient of the judgment.
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God's not judging you.
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Now, let's step back in time and just ask ourselves the question, in the days of Daniel, Hananiah, Azariah, and Mishael, in the days of Ezekiel, did the faithful people of Judah
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who were faithful to God, did they endure hardship as a result of Babylon coming and overthrowing Judah?
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Absolutely.
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They went through suffering.
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Some of them died in the middle of it.
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Some of them were imprisoned like Jeremiah.
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Some of them were carted off in their old age down to Egypt after being left behind in Jerusalem.
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All of these things happened to good people who were faithful to God who endured hardship during the judgment, but were they the ones being judged?
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Matter of fact, God will tell Habakkuk before it ever begins, Habakkuk chapter 2 verse 4, that the just shall live by faith.
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God's going to make it clear to Habakkuk, I know who belongs to me.
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That's Revelation chapter 7.
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Revelation 7 is a pause, a break, a wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, don't start the judgment yet because I'm going to answer the question, who can stand in the day of the wrath of the
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Lamb?
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The answer is
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those who wear the name of Christ.
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Okay?
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So then chapter eight, chapter eight, the seventh seal is opened because there was a pause between the opening of the sixth seal, which forecasted what was coming and the opening of
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the seventh seal.
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Now, everything that happens for the rest of the book happens inside the seventh seal.
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Okay, the book is in outline form.
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when we're here in a moment, we're about to get to the seventh trumpet and everything that happens after that happens inside the seventh trumpet.
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And the seventh trumpet and all seven trumpets happen inside the seventh seal.
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It's a progression, okay?
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So the seventh seal is open, the first four trumpets begin to sound and in these soundings of these trumpets, you have
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partial judgment and it's pictured in uh judgments from the book of Exodus.
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These are all Egyptian pictures from God judging Egypt.
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He's going to use the Old Testament picture to say, I dealt with Egypt and I'm gonna deal with these people now.
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Okay?
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So we open the first.
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where we find the first trumpet and verses 1 through 6, you've got the trumpets being handed out to the angels, they're going to prepare to sound, you see the multitude in
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heaven, first trumpet sounds and it's hail and mixed with fire and a third of something is destroyed, right?
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The point that you're going to see through all of the trumpets is a third of something, a third of something, a third of something, it's partial judgment.
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but it's partial judgment looking back at that Egyptian judgment in the days of Exodus.
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So, hail mixed with fire.
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We remember there was a plague of hail, right?
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And by the way, you read the text in Exodus, it was hail and it was mixed with fire.
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eh All indications, was lightning and hail and the lightning was such that when the hail hit the ground, the lightning ran across the ground.
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just based upon the way the text reads.
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And then the trumpet number two, a burning mountain.
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Where do you see a burning mountain in the book of Exodus?
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Sinai.
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When they get to Sinai and God begins to speak, what does Israel experience?
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This mountain that's on fire, that's burning and the voice of the Lord coming forth.
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But the burning mountain where God speaks is cast into the sea and a third of everything in the sea dies.
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Okay?
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Then you have the third trumpet.
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A star falls from heaven, it's called wormwood and it falls upon the earth.
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It falls upon the sea and a third of the sea is turned to bitterness.
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Well, where do you see bitterness in the Old Testament?
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In the form of water, you see it in Exodus 18.
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You see it in the days of Israel as they're going from Mount Sinai and they're not trusting God, okay?
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Just Old Testament pictures.
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Then you see trumpet number four and you have darkness.
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and all the land is turned dark.
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Where do you see that?
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In the 10 plagues, the plague of darkness, in the book of Exodus.
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These are Exodus images, all right?
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Chapter eight, verse 13, and I looked and I heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven.
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saying with a loud voice, woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth because of the remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound.
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Now, if you were to go through and do a study of the book of Revelation and you were to go read and look for the concept or the terms throughout the book, inhabitants of the earth.
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You should notate that under discussion in every single one of those contexts, it's not the Christians alive on the earth.
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It is a reference all throughout the book to the ungodly people on the earth.
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It is those who are alive who are in direct disobedience to God.
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They are inhabitants of the earth.
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The Christians, the faithful people, where is their home?
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Their home's in heaven.
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Their inhabitants of an eternal location.
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They are sojourners on the earth.
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The ungodly are the inhabitants of the earth.
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So the woe goes out to the ungodly saying, you've just gotten four and the next three are coming.
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So chapter nine opens.
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In chapter nine, you're going to have trumpets five and six, woes one and two, because again, he said, woe, woe, woe, woe one goes with number five, woe two goes with number
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six, woe three goes with number seven, okay?
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So we open chapter nine, verse one, then I saw the fifth angels, or sorry, then the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to the earth.
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To him was given the key to the bottomless pit, and he opened the bottomless pit and smoke arose out of the pit like the smoke of a great furnace, so the sun and the air were
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darkened because of the smoke of the pit.
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Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth, and to them was given power as the scorpions of the earth have power.
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They were commanded not to harm the green grass of any of the earth.
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or any green thing or any tree, but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
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Okay, so as we open this seal, or sorry, as we hear this trumpet, let me get my words out.
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You've got the one who comes forth, this star fallen from heaven who comes forth and he's got an army.
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His army is what?
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Locus, all right, where do we see locusts in the Old Testament?
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In Egypt, what did the locusts do in Egypt during the plague of locusts?
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They came in and they ate everything.
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You go back and you read the text and if it had green, it was consumed.
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Every plant, every crop, everything.
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you do any research to locust plagues, when they start to migrate and the devastation that is left behind, is utter.
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Devastation because they eat everything except these locusts are different aren't they?
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The locust army comes and guess what?
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God tells them don't eat any of the green stuff.
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Wait a minute, what do locusts eat?
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The green stuff.
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They eat all the plants.
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Not these locusts, because guess what they're not Physical locusts.
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These are a judgment from God and they're not going to do any damage to the plants.
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By the way, if you go back and look in the prior partial judgment plan, a third of all the plant life's already been destroyed.
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But these locusts are gonna ignore the plants, who are they going to attack?
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All right.
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He says, notice as they come upon the earth, they were given the command to go forth in verse four and not harm any green thing or any tree or only the men who do not have the
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seal of God in their foreheads.
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God sends forth this judgment with the one who has the key of the bottomless pit.
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And it up comes out of the bottomless pit, the smoke and all these things, and out of the smoke comes the locust, but the locusts aren't locusts because they don't eat anything
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green.
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Also, the locusts aren't locusts because what do they also have by way of their nature?
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They have the power of the scorpion.
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Where is the power of the scorpion?
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In his tail.
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So you've got a locust with a tail of a scorpion.
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And he comes forth and the army comes forth and it doesn't touch any of the green stuff.
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It only affects the people who weren't sealed in chapter seven.
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These are the people who don't have the name of God on their forehead.
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These are the people who aren't faithful to God and this partial judgment comes.
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But notice verse 5, they were not given authority to kill them.
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but to torment them for five months.
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Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man.
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In those days, men will seek death and will not find it.
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They will desire to die and death will flee from them.
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The shape of the locust was like horses prepared for battle.
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Now we've got a third imagery here of a third animal, the locust.
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are locusts that don't eat anything green, they only attack humans, they've got tails like a scorpion, and now when you look at them, they're the size of a horse.
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Can you imagine a locust plague where all of the locusts were the size of a horse?
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He says...
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the shape of the locusts were like horses prepared for battle.
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On their head were crowns of something like gold, and their faces were like the faces of men.
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They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like lion's teeth, and they had breast plates like breast plates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the sound
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of chariots with many horses running into battle.
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They had tails like scorpions, and they were, and their...
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and there were stings in their tails.
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Their power was to hurt men for five months and they had as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit whose name is in Hebrew is Abedon, but in the Greek he has the name of
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Polyon.
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One woe is past, behold still two more woes are coming after these things.
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So we've got this plague, we've got this trumpet sound.
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It doesn't kill anybody, but it attacks the ungodly.
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What is it?
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It's represented like a locust plague.
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It's got a sting of pain that afflicts people but doesn't kill them.
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The ones who approach with this plague have the appearance like horses that have armor all over them.
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They've got breastplates that appear to be like iron.
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They've got heads that appear like men, hair that appears like a woman.
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What are they?
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Let me ask it this way, who's in charge of them?
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So the star that had the key to the bottomless pit, the one whose name in Hebrew is Avedon, the one whose name in the Greek is a Pollyon, which by the way means destruction
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and destroyer.
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Who is it?
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Satan.
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You know, wait a minute, hold on a minute.
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uh The angel is the one who sounded, he blew the trumpet, you can't have Satan working on behalf of God.
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Really?
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Because we see that all the time in the Old Testament.
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Except that when Satan works on behalf of God, who does Satan think he's working for?
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Himself.
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So what is Satan's number one tool for destroying a nation?
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Think about all the things represented in the image.
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The locust, the scorpion, the armor, the indestructibleness.
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the face of men, the hair of women?
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What is it that Satan uses to destroy nations?
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moral decay.
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You can read from history.
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What is it that took the nation of Rome down?
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Outside forces or inside forces?
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Inside.
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What is it that is Satan's primary use of destroying men and making them miserable to the point that they would desire death and not find it?
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sin, wickedness, and immorality.
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You see, this plague, this trumpet comes forth and this is the nation tearing itself apart through sin.
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Notice this plague doesn't affect any of the Christians.
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It doesn't affect anybody whose names, who carries the name of God because they don't give their lives over.
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to the sin and the moral decay of Satan.
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But the world does.
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And the nation is persecuted perpetually without dying.
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by the actions of Satan.
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Have we ever known God to use the moral decay of a nation to bring about the destruction of a nation?
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absolutely, go back to Judah.
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Go back to Israel.
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Go back to what God would tell them if you don't follow me.
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go back to the book of Exodus and remember that when Moses stood between the two mountains, Mount Evil, Mount Gerizim, and he gave the blessings and the cursing, he said,
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if you follow my word, if you keep my covenant, then these are the things that are going to happen and you're going to be blessed and I'm going to cause you to prosper and you're
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going to dwell in a land that is assured and you're going to have your inheritance and you're going to be at peace.
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And if you don't...
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You're going to get this and this and this and this and this and this and this.
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Why?
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Because you rejected my covenant and you would not follow my law and you decided to side with sin and abomination instead of God.
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Essentially what the picture is is God says, Satan, they're yours.
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They're gonna do what you tell them to do.
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And I'm going to use it as their judgment.
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So then you have the next trumpet.
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Yes.
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It's partial.
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Yeah, so bear in mind, everything about these trumpets are partial.
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It's not perpetual, it's partial.
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Just like the destruction only comes on a third of the men, it's not everybody, it's partial.
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This is, by the way, this is the partial one when you get to trumpet number seven.
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You're gonna get the seven bowls being poured out and they're not gonna be partial anymore.
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These are the warning shots.
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By the way, if anybody were to uh decide to go visit a city that gives itself over to sin and you see and observe that and you see the way the people live and you see the suffering
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that is just inundated around that location.
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and then you leave it, you go, I sure am glad I left.
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Now imagine if you couldn't leave because everywhere you went it was the same way.
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Imagine life in the days of Noah.
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You go from village to town to city to this group of people to that group of people and every God says every thought of every man's heart was only evil continually.
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What must that have been?
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So this is partial.
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This is a portion of them.
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And they're supposed to be the warning sign that wakes everybody else up and says, hey, repent.
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It's not gonna work.
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So then notice the six trumpet sounds, verse 13.
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Then the six angels sounded and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar, which is before God.
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And wait a minute, where was the last place we saw the altar before this?
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Go back to chapter 6.
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Verse 9, when he opened the fifth seal, saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held.
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The last time you saw the altar, the altar of burnt offering, the last time you saw the altar of burnt offering, represented from Exodus,
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forward into heaven, into the vision, into the picture.
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The last time you saw it, you saw a whole bunch of dead Christians under it crying out to God asking, long are you gonna let this go on?
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Yes.
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The altar in 8.3 most likely is the Altar of Incense.
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Either way, in eight, you find the prayers of the saints offered on the altar.
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And so you have the crying out of the altar of the saints under the altar in chapter six, you have the prayers of the saints in chapter eight as the judgments begin.
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So everywhere you see the altar, you're seeing God's people being persecuted and God's answer.
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Okay.
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So.
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Then the sixth angel sounded and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar, which is before God saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, release the four angels
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who are bound at the great river Euphrates.
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God sits on the throne, the altar before the throne, the sounding comes forth, you go release the four angels.
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Where was the last time we saw four angels?
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Chapter seven, chapter seven open.
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After these things, I saw the four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth or on the
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sea or on any tree.
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Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God.
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And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea.
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saying, not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads." You've got four angels standing there and they're pictured in
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chapter 7 holding back the wind.
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They're holding back the judgment on the earth and the sea and the trees and everything because God's people have to be marked.
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Now you have in the sixth trumpet that one who comes from before the altar comes to the one who's on the throne and he's told, let him go.
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Let them have at it.
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All my people are sealed.
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Now notice these individuals, these four angels are bound at the what?
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Great River Euphrates.
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It is of interest that excluding all of the southern attackers of the nation of Israel, almost every enemy and invasion of the nation of Israel in Old Testament history came from
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a nation that crossed the river Euphrates.
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Babylon crossed the river Euphrates.
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Assyria crossed the river Euphrates.
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The Medo-Persian Empire crossed the river Euphrates.
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All of them crossed the river Euphrates to come and invade Israel.
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Obviously that wasn't their only destination, but the point was all the enemies of God's people historically in the Old Testament came across the river Euphrates except Egypt.
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They came across the Nile.
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But the picture is,
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God's judging nations and armies come across the River Euphrates to bring about their judgment.
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So here you have the four angels, they're standing, they're bound up at the river Euphrates.
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And notice he says, release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates.
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So the four angels who had been prepared for the day, the hour, month and year were released to kill a third of mankind.
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So what you need to do, because this is what the book of Revelation says, and therefore, since that's what it says, that's what it means, you need to go find a moment in history
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where one third of all humanity dies, and there's the fulfillment of this passage, right?
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Shake your head this way.
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Because if you were going to do that right before that, you would have needed to find where one third of mankind was persecuted.
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You would have needed to find where one third of the sun and the stars and moon fell from the sky.
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You would have needed to find one third of this that died and one third of that that died.
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The point consistently is not that one third of all humans on the earth suddenly fell over and died.
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The point is,
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It's not all, it's judgment and not everybody's dead.
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It's judgment and it's partial, okay?
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So now the number of the army of the horsemen.
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Okay, so what do we know about this thing, this uh judgment that comes across the river Euphrates?
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It's an army, it's horsemen.
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But notice, he says,
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uh So the number of the army of the horsemen was 200 million.
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In the Old King James, you're gonna get, uh somebody read it.
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All right, 200,000,000.
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So in other words, if you have 200,000, you multiply it by a thousand, what do you get?
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200 million, okay.
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They just did the math for you.
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Okay, so the number of the army of the horsemen was 200 million.
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I heard the number of them and I saw the horses in the vision.
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Oh, by the way, John tells you,
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I'm seeing a vision, right?
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Did he say he was seeing the events in history as they actually unfolded with an army of 200 million horsemen?
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No, he said I saw in the vision.
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I just was impressed that he could count all of them.
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All right.
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So I saw in the horses in the vision, those who sat on them had breastplates like fiery red, hasent blue and sulfur yellow.
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And the heads of the horses were like the heads of lions.
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Out of their mouth came fire, smoke and brimstone.
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Guess what?
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In the vision, even the horses aren't horses.
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In the vision, he sees 200 million horsemen and every single one of their horses has a head like a lion.
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And when they open their mouths, out come fire and brimstone and smoke.
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And a premillennialist says, see, it's nuclear weapons.
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As brother Jim McGuigan said, you can't even spell nuclear weapons that way.
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to which the premillenials would say, well it's figurative.
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really?
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If it's figurative then why is it nuclear weapons?
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But notice what happens.
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Verse 18, by these three, what?
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Fire, smoke, brimstone.
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By these three, a third of mankind was killed by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone which came out of their mouths.
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their power is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents having heads with them, they do harm.
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But the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues did not repent of the works of their hands, that they should not worship demons and idols of gold, silver, brass,
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stone and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk.
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They did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.
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Army of 200 million comes across the River Euphrates.
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They're on horseback, except the horses have heads of lions.
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And when they open their mouths, fire, smoke, and brimstone come out.
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And guess what the destruction comes from?
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their words.
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their words.
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You see...
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God saying, I'm going to unleash.
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those who are going to bring about people's destruction through their words.
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If
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If you were to listen to a false prophet, if you were to listen to a false teacher, if you were to obey their commands and do what they said, where would you end up eternally?
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Hell!
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Why?
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Because instead of worshipping God, you're going to worship demons and idols of gold and silver, brass, stone, wood.
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You're going to involve yourself in murders and sorceries and adulteries and fornication and all things that God oppose
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and God's telling His people, I'm gonna send them lesson one, lesson two, lesson three, lesson four, lesson five, lesson six, and by the time we get to the end of lesson six,
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after we've seen all of this partial judgment, guess what?
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They're not gonna.
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and because they don't repent, chapter 10 through chapter 12.
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God's going to begin to comfort His people.
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because had the wicked of the earth repented, just like in the days of Jerusalem and Judah, had they repented, then the judgment would have stopped.
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But God's gonna tell Jeremiah, they're not gonna repent.
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And so the words that you speak are going to tell them of the judgment that's going to come.
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And chapter 10, you're going to see God saying to His people, you're about to go through it.
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You're about to suffer.
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You're going to be killed.
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You're going to be hurt.
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You're going to be persecuted.
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And don't you think for a moment that I don't know.
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As a matter of fact, I'm going to tell you it before it ever begins.
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Okay?
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That's where we'll pick up.