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The Final Harvest of Judgement | Revelation 14:14-20 | Pastor Daniel Batarseh (Revelation Series) · Bible Study with Pr. Daniel Batarseh | Verse by Verse Series | Maranatha Bible Church - Chicago

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  What a fitting song for what we're about to discover today in
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  God's Word. And with that being said, I
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  gladly invite you to take God's Word and meet me in the Book of
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  Revelation chapter 14. By God's help, we're going to
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  accomplish and complete this chapter together as we look at
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  the final verses of it, beginning in verse 14 of chapter
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  14. Now we have to remember that
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  although the Book of Revelation is generally chronological, what
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  chapter 14 does is pauses that sequence and offers us a few
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  previews of coming events that have not yet been realized.
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  And so the play button to the general storyline of Revelation
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  is going to be pressed again in chapter 15.
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  But for now, what we find in this text, in this chapter in
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  particular, is a Lord providing encouragement to his people,
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  especially after encountering the very bleak prophecy of the
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  Antichrist in Revelation chapter 13.
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  That's why when you come to chapter 14, you get the series
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  of forward-looking predictions and prophecies of what's yet to
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  come, like Christ standing on Mount Zion, victorious and
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  reigning the destruction of the Babylonian system that was
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  exporting all the filth and the sin.
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  Of the world. The eternal doom of the unsaved,
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  and with that, the eternal rest of those who die in the Lord.
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  This is the Lord by the Holy Spirit, reminding the believer
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  who's reading this that we will be victorious in the end.
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  Do not lose hope. And yet John receives a final
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  vision before the natural. Flow of the text of this book
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  continues and it deals with. The final judgement that Christ
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  will bring to the wicked, not in eternity, but upon the earth.
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  Another way of understanding what we're about to read is that
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  John is describing to us in summary, what we are going to
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  find out in greater detail from chapters 15 through chapters 19.
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  And what we're going to see here is essentially a summation of
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  the final, of the final acts of God's holy wrath toward those
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  who have denied him just before the return of the Son of God.
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  Remember, we learned that there are a total of three major sets
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  of judgments that will be unleashed upon the earth, each
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  consisting of seven acts. And we already completed the
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  first two series. We looked at the seven seal
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  judgments. We consider the seven trumpet
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  judgments. But there is one more, the seven
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  bowls of God's wrath, the most intense succession of God's
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  judgments. Again just before Christ
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  returns. They will serve to put the last
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  things in order before He establishes His.
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  Reign in this world and these verses that we're about to look
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  at are a trailer to those judgments, A prelude for us to
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  consider. Let's read from verse 14 down to
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  verse 20. Then I looked, and behold the
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  white cloud. And seated on the cloud, like a
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  son of man with a golden crown on his head and a sharp sickle
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  in his hand. And another Angel came out of
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  the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the
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  cloud. Put in your sickle and reap, for
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  the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is
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  fully ripe. So he who sat on the clouds
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  swung his sickle across the earth, and the earth was reaped.
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  Then another Angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too
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  had a sharp sickle. And another Angel came out from
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  the altar, the Angel who has authority over the fire.
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  And he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp
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  sickle. Put in your sickle and gather
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  the clusters from the vine of the earth, for its grapes are
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  ripe. So the Angel.
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  Swung his sickle across the earth and gathered the great
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  harvest of the earth and threw it into the great wine Press of
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  the wrath of God. And the wine press was trodden
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  outside the city, and blood flowed from the wine press as
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  high as a horse's bridle. For 1600 Stadium Lord, we ask
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  oh, how we need your help with this text, how we need your
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  wisdom, how we need your protection.
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  Lead us to the right conclusions.
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  Guide us to the right interpretation.
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  And Lord, we pray that even if we do come to the clarity of
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  these verses that it would not just sit in our minds where we
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  pray that they would move our hearts to worship.
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  You can only do this by the power of the Holy Spirit.
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  And we pray that his power would be known in this message.
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  In Jesus name we pray, Amen. Isn't it interesting that the
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  way that the holy. Spirit wants to describe the
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  concluding acts of God's judgement upon the earth before
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  his Son returns is by depicting a harvest, the reaping of a
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  harvest. Now most of us in here are
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  familiar enough with the Word of God to understand that the
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  harvest or a harvest is regularly recognized as a
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  positive thing, the in gathering of souls saved by the gospel.
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  And we just sang about it, right?
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  The harvest is white, it's ready, and that is true in many
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  cases. A harvest does speak about a
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  move of God, the salvation of souls, the gathering in of more
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  into his Kingdom. At the same time, there are many
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  places in the Bible that depict a harvest and the reaping of a
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  harvest as an act of judgment. You find this throughout the Old
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  Testament. You even find in some some of
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  Jesus parables. And the diligence student of the
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  Scripture, then, should not be so surprised to consider how
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  God's. Outpouring of wrath is
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  illustrated here through this act of harvesting.
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  But there is another challenge with this text, however.
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  And the challenge lies in the fact that it seems as though
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  there are two harvests being explained here.
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  Did you notice that? Look again at verse 16.
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  So he was sat on the clouds, swung his sickle across the
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  earth, and the earth was reaped. OK, that's one.
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  That's one reaping, and it's across the whole earth, so there
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  should be nothing left. And then you keep reading and
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  what do you stumble upon? Look at verse 19.
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  So the Angel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered
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  the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the great
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  winepress of the wrath of God, just in case nobody sees it.
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  There is a clear distinction here.
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  What you have with verse 16 is 1 like a son of man sitting on a
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  cloud, and he swings his sickle and he reaps from the earth,
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  which strongly suggests that this is speaking about a grain
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  harvest. It's from the earth.
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  No added details. Then you go on and you realize
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  that there is another Reaper, but it's not one like a son of
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  man, it's an Angel. And he does have a sharp sickle
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  himself, but when he swings it across the earth, he doesn't
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  gather in grain. He gathers in what grapes.
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  So a lot of people interpret it in this way.
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  This is speaking about two different kinds of harvest.
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  The first one with the grain, the one that the Son of Man is
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  orchestrating, refers to a harvest of righteousness.
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  This is the Lord sweeping in the remaining of the redeemed just
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  before he pours out his wrath. Meanwhile, the grape harvest
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  speaks about a harvesting of the final of the wicked before the
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  Son of God comes and establishes his government.
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  And while that may seem plausible, there is evidence in
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  this text that would suggest a different conclusion.
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  And there are two main important observations that we have to
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  acknowledge in order for us to be open to something else.
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  Number one, what John is doing here is something that he does
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  so regularly throughout his writings in this book.
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  He's alluding to an Old Testament prophecy, and the Old
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  Testament prophecy that he seeks to connect is that of what Joel
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  said in Joel chapter 3. Turn with me to Joel chapter 3
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  and look here with me beginning at verse 12 of Joel chapter 3,
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  because when we turn there, we're going to get more clarity
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  of what John seems to be communicating here in this
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  vision in Revelation chapter 14, Joel chapter 3.
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  Look at verse 12. It's not a common book, so it
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  may take you some time to get there.
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  That's OK. Joel chapter 3 verse 12.
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  Let the nation's stir themselves up and come up to the Valley of
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  Jehoshaphat, for there I will sit to judge all the surrounding
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  nations. Put in the sickle, for the
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  harvest is ripe. Go in tread for the winepress is
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  full. The vats overflow for their evil
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  is great. Did you notice how verse 13 is
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  almost a perfect summary of what John seems to be elaborating on
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  in his vision? Here you have a sickle.
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  A sickle. For a ripe harvest.
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  More than that, it's followed by the description of an
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  overflowing winepress, just like the two types of reapings that
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  we saw in our main text. And if you're willing to accept
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  that, then you also have to understand that what Joel is
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  speaking about here is judgement.
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  Everything surrounding this picture is judgment.
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  There is no hint here of a righteous harvesting or
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  salvation. Everything surrounding this
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  imagery speaks of wrath. And it could be that what John,
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  John is doing is taking and borrowing from this prophecy and
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  expanding it by the Spirit to convey that the fulfillment of
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  this prophecy of a comprehensive judgment of all nations is at
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  hand. Here's a second important
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  observation. That may lead to a different
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  conclusion of the two types of harvest in Revelation 14.
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  It's found in a word in Revelation 14.
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  So go back to that text and look again at verse 15 and consider
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  something with me that is so important to unpack.
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  Revelation 14, verse 15. John sees and writes and another
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  Angel. Came out of the temple calling
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  with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud.
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  Put in your sickle and reap, for the hour to reap has come.
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  For the harvest of the earth is fully ripe.
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  Underline that word ripe. Do you know what that word
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  means? Well, at face value, seems like
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  a good thing that the harvest has reached its full maturation,
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  that it's ready. It's ready to be plucked.
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  It's ready to be gathered in. It's fulfilled its purpose.
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  But here's where word studies help.
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  When you actually look at the original word for ripe here, it
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  does not mean ready. It actually means.
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  Over ripe. In other words, it means that it
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  it's past it's due. More specifically, it says
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  something that is dry. It speaks of something that is
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  withered. This is not a good description.
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  So whatever this harvest is, it's not being gathered in with
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  joy. It's not being gathered in
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  because there's good use. It's being gathered in to be
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  discarded. Here's what's amazing that word
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  right? In verse 15 is only used in one
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  other place in all of the Book of Revelation.
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  Would you like to know where it is?
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  Go to chapter 16. Look at verse 12, Revelation
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  1612. Another vision of another
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  prophecy, but it has a word that's important for us to
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  understand. The 6th Angel.
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  Poured out his bull on the great river Euphrates and its water
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  was dried up. That's the word dried.
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  It's the same word used for ripe in Revelation 1415, dried up to
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  prepare the way for the kings from the East.
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  So when we take all this in consideration, it's very
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  difficult to arrive at the place and thinking that this first
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  harvest in this vision is a good one when the ripeness is more
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  accurately to be understood as rottenness.
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  How can you think that this is the Lord Jesus gathering in the
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  redeemed when they are described in such a way?
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  Does this make sense? So then if John is borrowing
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  from Joel a prophecy about wide scale universal judgement,
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  sickle, harvest, grape overflowing, and if this word
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  ripe actually means something that is dried and withered.
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  No longer of good use. Then what do these two harvests
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  mean? If it's not about the righteous
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  and the wicked, it's not about gathering in the good and
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  judging the evil, what do we have before us?
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  What we have before us is a. Description of judgment in two
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  major phases. That's what we have.
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  What we have here is God's final judgment against the wicked.
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  Occurring just before Christ's return in two massive segments.
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  And that makes more sense when you think about it a little
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  further. Remember how he said Revelation
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  14, especially these verses previews what we're going to
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  find, chapters 15 down through chapters 19.
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  What's in chapters 1516? Primarily the seven bowls of
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  God's wrath. And those bowls will be poured
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  out until Christ himself comes and directly deals with his
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  enemies on the earth. And it seems as though these two
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  harvests are indicating those two major manifestations of
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  God's wrath. In other words, the first
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  harvest could be pointing to the seven bowls.
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  And then the grape harvest right after seems to be paving the way
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  and describing Christ personal confrontation with his foes.
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  This is what seems to be making the most sense here.
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  But that's not where we want to end.
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  What we want to consider, and the rest of this time here
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  together is these two types of harvest in more detail.
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  What do we learn about God through them?
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  How do they speak to our hearts? What message do they convey for
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  our day-to-day lives? And that's how we're going to
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  split our thoughts today. I want us to look at the first
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  harvest reaping and then the second one.
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  The first one again is a preview of the seven bowls that are
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  going to be poured out. And then the second one, which
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  is much more graphic, is it not? Did you notice the imagery here?
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  The grapes being trodden, blood being splattered, a river of
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  blood it seems to be gushing forth.
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  Why is the second one more graphic than the first one?
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  Because as severe as the bold judgments will.
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  Be what Christ is going to do directly is going to be much
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  more intense. Let's reel back here.
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  What can we learn? From the first harvest there are
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  two descriptions here that are interesting.
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  We see one like a Son of Man who is seated on a cloud, and he has
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  a golden crown. Now one, like a Son of Man, only
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  appears in one other place in the Book of Revelation, in the
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  very first chapter, where Jesus is described in his glorified
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  state. And one of the characteristics
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  that he emulates is that he has this golden sash around them and
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  he has this robe and it speaks about His Majesty.
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  And it's in that place in Revelation 113 where we read
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  that one like a son of man is carrying these these garbs.
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  So John is making it very plain here.
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  I I'm referring to to Christ in this vision, the one who is
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  seated 1 like a son of man. That's Jesus.
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  Not just because of Revelation chapter 1, but because of Daniel
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  Chapter 7, where he too saw one like a Son of Man descending
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  with the clouds, approaching the Ancient of Days.
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  Which tells us that John and his prophecies are in total
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  alignment with the old. Prophecies.
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  He is not writing anything new. He's in total alignment with the
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  prophets of old. And more than that, however, it
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  tells us something about Jesus that we often neglect.
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  He is a judge. He is a coming judge.
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  The Lord doesn't want us to skim over this so quickly because He
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  provides these descriptions around Christ's judgement that
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  we have to meditate on. There are three things about
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  Christ being judge and how he judges that we have to face that
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  we have to come to terms with. And the first thing is this.
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  Christ Jesus judges with divine authority that golden crown.
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  Him sitting on that cloud speaks of his divine origin, and it
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  speaks about the divine authority that he possesses now
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  and that he will manifest in the days to come.
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  This is Christ, the one who died.
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  Yes, this is Christ, the one who created the world and the One
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  who upholds the universe with the power of his Word.
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  But this is also Christ who will come and deal with the wicked
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  once and for all. Here's why that's important.
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  You and I are making a very serious mistake.
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  If we're willing to believe in a God who has created the world
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  and save the world, but not judge the world, our God is a
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  judge. He will hold this world
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  accountable. And though in a very broken way,
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  this world is set up where we have mutual accountability.
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  We have judicial systems. What the Bible teaches is all
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  systems in this world are ultimately answerable to God
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  himself. And there's a day coming of
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  reckoning. Now some take issue of this
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  being Jesus because he seems to be taking orders from an Angel.
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  Did you notice that in verse 15? And another Angel came out of
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  the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the
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  cloud. And so.
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  They do all these gymnastics with who this one like a Son of
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  man is. There's no way that Christ can
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  be taking orders from a created being, even if it's an angelic
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  being. But read your bibles carefully.
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  This is not an Angel speaking from his own authority.
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  Where did the Angel come from? And another Angel came out of
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  the temple. This is the temple in heaven
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  according to the context. So what is this Angel doing?
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  Well, he's coming out of the very place where God's presence
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  dwells. So it seems to suggest that this
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  Angel is relaying a message from God the Father.
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  And we know that throughout the Bible, angels are messengers in
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  many ways. They, they participate in God's
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  Word, even in delivering a message or two.
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  So this Angel is delivering a message from the temple, and the
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  Father is signaling to the Son that the hour of judgement has
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  come. And here's all you need to know
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  at this point. Jesus will judge the world
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  because he has divine authority to do so.
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  But the second way that he judges is with perfect
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  precision. You know, when we look at Christ
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  in the Book of Revelation, there are a lot of things that he
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  holds in his hand symbolically. And now we have something new,
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  something that perhaps we've never thought about.
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  In this vision, Jesus holds a sickle.
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  Have you heard of a sickle? It's a single handed
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  agricultural tool. It has kind of a swoosh.
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  It's like a hook and it's used to harvest or to cut.
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  What moves me though, is that Jesus with this sickle, as
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  strange as that might be, furthermore, is holding a sharp
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  sickle. Why do I need to know it's
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  sharp? In fact, that appears more than
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  once in this vision. Sharp sickle.
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  Sharp sickle because the sharpness indicates something
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  about the effectiveness and the precision of his judgement.
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  Jesus Christ is not dull in his discernment.
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  He's not dull in his perception. He's not dull with his verdicts.
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  Jesus Christ is error free with his justice.
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  He's razor sharp. He's always accurate.
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  He never exaggerates, he never goes overboard.
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  It is surgically precise and how he.
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  Evaluates men's hearts and what he determines concerning their
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  fates, and this is shown throughout the scriptures in so
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  many different ways. One of the.
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  Ways that has ministered me the most as a follower of Jesus
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  Christ is seeing how Christ handles a particular case in the
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  Old Testament. How the Lord appears to Abraham
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  with two angels, and before he judges Sodom and Gomorrah, he
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  decided to actually tell Abraham what he was going to do to.
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  Sodom and Gomorrah and when he explains it to Abraham, he says
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  something that is so insightful about his character as a judge.
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  Genesis 18. Look at this with me in verse
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  20. It says here in Genesis 18,
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  verse 20. Then the Lord said, because the
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  outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great and their sin
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  is very grave, I will go down to see whether they have done
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  altogether according to the outcry that has come to me, and
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  if not I will know. You know, when I first read
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  this, it surprised me because this is clearly the Lord
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  speaking to Abraham and he's telling Abraham, hey, I've come
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  down. I've descended upon the earth to
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  actually examine what's going on in these cities to see if they
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  match the outcry that has arisen because of them.
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  I have heard, and I have read of some people who use this text to
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  teach that God can't be all knowing.
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  Why? Because it seems as though he
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  needs to descend into creation and verify the facts at a closer
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  look. Is that what's happening here?
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  Is that what the Bible teaches about God?
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  No, what you have here instead is the Lord graciously revealing
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  something about His character in a way that we would understand,
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  going out of His way to exemplify something so crucial
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  about His nature. And here's what that means.
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  Before executing judgement, he takes great care to gather all
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  the evidence before rendering A verdict.
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  He takes time to investigate in way every matter.
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  That's what he is showing here. It's not that he needs to do it,
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  but he wants to show us what he's willing to do, the length
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  that he's willing to go to, what he is willing to provide in
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  terms of his patients and his his care and his fairness.
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  It's meant to show that he is never cruel or impulsive and how
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  he deals with the wicked. He is precise, He is perceptive,
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  and he is perfectly just the sharp sickle.
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  So we learned that Jesus, according to this vision, judges
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  with divine authority. He judges with perfect
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  precision. And lastly, he does so with
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  incredible patience. Remember that word ripe in
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  Revelation 1415? That's the true condition of the
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  harvest. It's overdue.
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  And though that says something about the wickedness of the
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  generation that Christ will deal with, it also says something
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  about His heart. God waited for the harvest to
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  get to that point. He didn't even wait for it to
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  get ripe. He waited till it became over
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  ripe. What does that tell you about
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  God? That he's not hasty in
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  judgement. He's not quick, He's very slow.
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  He is steadfast. He waits and he waits and he
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  waits, and he convicts and he convicts, and he provides
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  presentation of the gospel after presentation of the gospel.
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  And when you deny, deny, deny, ignore, ignore, ignore,
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  suppress, suppress, suppress, then God.
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  Sees your unwillingness and is willing to act accordingly.
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  And this is true about God for nations, and this is true for
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  God with individuals. Do you remember the seven
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  letters to the churches earlier in this book?
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  One of them was being plagued by a false prophetess whose name
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  was Jezebel, and she was leading the congregation, at least most
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  of them, into sexual immorality. She was teaching them strange
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  things, contrary things to the truth.
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  And God has John write this letter to this church in
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  Thyatira, and he says something so staggering about her in a
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  single verse in Revelation 221. Listen to these words.
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  This is what Jesus says about this woman.
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  I gave her time to repent. I gave her time to repent.
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  Now be honest with yourself. If you were in charge of a
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  church and there was somebody who took control of the
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  leadership, that was false, that was in blatant disobedience to
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  what God designed for the local church, what God wants to be
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  said in the local church, how swift would you be in dealing
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  with the matter? And yet Christ, in his perfect
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  wisdom, in this specific case, I gave her time.
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  We don't know what He did in that time, but this seems to
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  suggest that in that time he warned her, He convicted her, He
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  revealed Himself to her and what happens in the rest of hers.
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  But she refuses to repent of her sexual morality.
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  She refuses. The fact that these seven bulls
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  are going to be poured out is because this final generation of
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  the Tribulation period refused, refused, refused, refused.
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  Can I ask you something today before we move on?
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  Are you rejecting Christ today? How many times have you heard
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  the gospel presentation from this pulpit alone?
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  How many times down deep inside you know, you know that your
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  conscience is ringing because what you're doing, how you're
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  living, is wrong? You haven't surrendered.
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  You haven't. You haven't given up that sin
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  yet. You haven't given your heart to
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  Christ yet. Don't test his patience.
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  Translate. His patience as His great love
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  to you and give yourself to Him. Don't waste any more time
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  because you and I can never determine exactly when Christ
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  will change His mind of how He deals with us in our sin.
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  He judges, judges with incredible patience.
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  So this order of reapings show us that this is how the Lord is
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  actually going to deal with the last group of people on the
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  earth before the 2nd harvesting will take place.
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  And that is going to show Christ's judgement at His
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  coming. You're saying?
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  Is that really what's about to be said in this next harvest?
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  Yes. Let me give you a clue.
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  Can you look at something with me here?
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  Consider this verse in Revelation 14, verse 19.
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  So the Angel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered
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  the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the great
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  winepress of the wrath of God, and the winepress was trodden
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  outside the city. Fast forward to Revelation 19.
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  Now this is the chapter, at least half of it, that shows us
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  the actual coming of Christ. And notice a similarity between
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  the preview in chapter 14 and the realization in chapter 19.
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  Look at verse 15 of chapter 19. From his mouth comes a sharp
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  sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule
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  them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of
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  the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
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  Do you see it? Do you see how the first harvest
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  is speaking about the seven bowls?
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  And then this next one that we're about to look at in
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  greater detail speaks about what's going to happen when
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  Christ comes himself. There are so many details from
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  verses 17 down to verse 20. We don't have enough time to
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  look at all of them. So I have a feeling that some
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  may approach me after this and say what about this and what
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  about that? Unless you want to stay here
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  longer. We can look at them.
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  But let's carve out a few key things just with the time that
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  we have left. So the Son of Man who is going
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  to do this reaping is now eclipsed by another Angel in
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  verse 17. Look at this.
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  Then another Angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he.
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  Too had a sharp sickle and another Angel came out from the
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  altar. The Angel has authority over the
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  fire and he called it a loud voice to the one who had the
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  sharp sickle. So you have now 2 angels
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  interacting with one another. Beforehand you had an Angel
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  relaying a message from the Father to the Son.
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  Now you have another Angel who comes out of the temple, and
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  another Angel is coming out of the altar in heaven.
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  Now, what's that all about? Well, we've learned at this
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  point that the altar in Revelation in Heaven signifies
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  the intercession of the Saints. So in one way, what we're about
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  to see with this preview of a judgment.
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  Is God fulfilling the answers to those prayers of the martyrs who
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  said vindicate us, do something with our murders?
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  Who shed all this blood? And this, this little subtle
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  hint is, is a sign for us to see.
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  Jesus is about to answer that. God is about to answer that.
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  But notice that these angels are interacting and saying, listen,
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  put it, put in your sickle and gather the clusters from the
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  vine of the earth for its grapes are ripe.
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  Now the grapes are ripe. The harvest was ripe.
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  And we looked at that original word.
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  It's over ripe, it's dry, it's withered.
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  There's nothing good about it, and the grapes now are ripe.
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  Here's the thing. The word ripe here is not the
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  same as the first one. This word for ripe concerning
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  the grapes actually speaks about ready.
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  They're full. They have reached a point of
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  completion. The normal sense of ripe is
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  what's in view here. Why the difference?
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  Well, obviously to convey a different message.
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  So when it comes to this grape harvest, which speaks about what
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  Christ is going to do with the wicked, it means here that
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  because of humanity in this time has reached the bursting point
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  of wickedness, Christ is going to meet them in that state.
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  Which is an amazing thing to consider.
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  After all the seal judgments, after all the trumpet judgments,
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  after the witnesses and the miracles and the obvious crying
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  out to the loss to be saved, what does this grape harvest
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  teach us? That humanity, experiencing all
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  of that, will only become more and more evil.
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  They're going to grow more and more in the rebellion, that
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  they're becoming more and more vicious and vile and despicable.
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  And what this word right means according to?
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  The judgement it signifies as Jesus is going to say enough is
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  enough. I've given them enough chances,
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  they don't seem to be changing, and so I'm going to harvest them
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  in and discard them from the earth.
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  And this presents a very difficult challenge for those
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  who believe that the world is only going to get better and
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  better before Jesus returns. There are people who believe
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  that. You know, how do you reconcile
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  that notion with this vision? Humanity is only going to swell
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  up more and more in their sin, to the point where it reaches a
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  peak that invites the swift and sudden judgement of Christ
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  Himself. And notice where the grapes came
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  from in verse 18, the second part where the Angel actually
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  speaks. Put in your sickle and gather
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  the clusters from the vine of the earth, for its grapes are
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  ripe vine of the earth. What an interesting way to
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  describe the systems and the philosophies of this world.
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  What is this trying to teach? Well, it shows here that these
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  grapes who speak about the wicked derive their sustenance
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  and life flow from the world as their source.
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  They have attached themselves to the ideologies of this world.
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  They have connected themselves to the ambitions of this
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  unbelieving realm, and they are producing the fruit according to
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  its influence, the vine of the earth.
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  The Lord wants us to make a connection here.
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  There are different vines in the Bible.
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  Did you know? Do you remember what Jesus said
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  of himself in John 15 verse one? I am the true vine and the
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  Father is the vine dresser. I love that because Jesus didn't
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  just say I am a vine, He says I'm the true vine.
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  I am the. True source of life, of
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  sustenance, of the fruit that your soul yearns for.
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  I am the true vine that you must abide in.
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  I'm the true vine that can offer the satisfaction and the joy and
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  the peace and the love and the wholeness that you're craving.
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  Don't link yourself to the vine of the earth.
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  Link yourself to the heavenly one for Christ to to speak in
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  this way. And, and John was the one who
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  wrote it. He wrote John obviously, and
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  he's writing the Book of Revelation.
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  And you and I are the branches. According to John 15 verse five,
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  I'm the vine, you are the branches, and the only way that
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  you can draw out the glories of this vine who is Jesus, is if
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  you abide in him, you allow Him to dwell in your heart, you live
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  for Him, you walk. With him.
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  And here's the question I want to ask in light of this truth in
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  Revelation 14. Which vine are you attached to?
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  Every single one of us in this place and the sound of my voice
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  is attached to 1 Vine. You are drawing out life from
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  one thing or another, and if you're drawing it from Christ,
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  it will show. The way to verify which vine am
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  I linked to is not by verbal confession, it's by the evidence
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  of the fruit in your. Life, it's observable and it's
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  no different if you are attached to the vine of this earth,
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  whether you intend to or not, it's going to show.
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  There's no way around it. But Jesus, never forget this
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  says I'm the true one. I'm the true vine, so the choice
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  is yours. Will I go to the vine of the
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  earth, or like, disconnect from that false cheap substitute and
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  link myself to the true vine? And to reject the true vine is a
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  very foolish choice, because there's a day coming when all
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  who have done the opposite will be gathered into the great
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  winepress of God's wrath. For those who have replaced
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  Christ with something else will be held accountable for it
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  because you are denying God, you're rejecting His will, you
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  are despising His provision, and you are claiming there's
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  something else that can give me what only God himself can grant
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  me. Notice what's going to happen
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  with these grapes that are going to be removed from the vine of
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  the earth. It says here in verse 19.
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  So the Angel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered
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  the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the great
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  winepress of the wrath of God. And the winepress was trodden.
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  Trodden. What does that mean?
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  Means to step on means to walk on the way.
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  In many places in the world today, grape juice and wine is
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  made where you have these vast you have these.
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  Hewn out stones and you would step on it and it would create
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  the juice. And this is very vivid imagery
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  here. It's actually very graphic that
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  this preview of the judgement that will come when Christ
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  arrives on the scene. Will be like one who is stepping
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  on grapes. The question is who's doing the
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  treading here? And the answer is actually in
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  Isaiah. You know, one of the most famous
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  prophecies of Jesus Christ in Isaiah, Isaiah what, 53 But you
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  know what doesn't get as much attention?
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  Isaiah 63. Isaiah 63 holds the answer of
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  who's doing the treading here in Revelation 14.
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  Look at Isaiah 63. Isaiah gets this astounding
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  glimpse of Messiah in a way that makes a lot of people
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  uncomfortable. Notice what he says in Isaiah 63
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  verse one. Who is this?
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  Who comes from Edom in Crimson garments from Basra.
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  Basra is believed to be the capital of Edom.
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  Edom is located in modern day Jordan, the southern part.
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  But let's read it again. Who is this who comes from Edom
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  in Crimson garments from Basra? He who is splendid in his
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  apparel, marching in the greatness of his strength.
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  It is I speaking in righteousness mighty to save
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  that exclusive language. This is no ordinary man.
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  And Isaiah now has more questions.
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  Verse 2. Why is your apparel red and your
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  garments like his? Who treads in the wine press?
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  Verse three I have trodden the wine press alone and from the
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  people's. No one was with me.
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  I trod them in my anger. I trampled them in my wrath.
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  Their lifeblood spattered on my garments and stained all my
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  apparel. And you look at the context of
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  speaking about the judgment of many peoples.
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  You see what John is doing here Now by the Spirit, he's taking
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  the same kind of description and he applies it to the Lord Jesus.
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  You don't see that clearly in chapter 14.
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  It's in chapter 19 when when Christ actually comes, his
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  garments are stained with blood. Here's what's the most
• 40:55
  interesting part. Look at verse 4 of Isaiah 63.
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  The Lord is continuing to speak and he says for the day of
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  vengeance was in my heart and my year of redemption had come.
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  Does that bother you? This is Jesus.
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  Do you know what Jesus says? The day of vengeance is in my
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  heart. He's saying wait.
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  I understood Christ's heart way differently than this.
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  You're saying it's in his heart to actually judge?
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  Yes. Why?
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  Because of the second part of verse 4.
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  And my year of redemption had come because by way of
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  judgement, there will be a greater redemption for those
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  that. Belong to Him.
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  The judgement will lead to a greater salvation, will lead to
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  a greater rescue, will bring to completion the salvation that He
• 41:54
  began at his first coming. And Speaking of his first
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  coming, do you remember which passage Jesus quoted early on in
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  his ministry to authenticate his Messiahship?
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  Well, since you're in Isaiah, just scroll back a couple of
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  chapters in Isaiah 61. You remember this right?
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  And Isaiah 61 verse one. Jesus quoted these verses.
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  What does it say? The Spirit of the Lord God is
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  upon me because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news
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  to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the
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  broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and the
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  opening of the prison to those who are bound.
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  Look at verse 2, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor and the
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  day of vengeance of our God to comfort all who mourn.
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  Now when you look at when Jesus quotes it in the book of Luke,
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  he stops it at a certain point. He stops it after to proclaim
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  the year of the Lord's favor. Why?
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  Because at his first coming, the day Avengers of our God was not
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  supposed to happen, He closed the book.
• 42:56
  He closed the scrolls after that first part in chapter 61 verse
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  2. Because he's not coming in his
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  first coming to judge. He came to bring salvation.
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  But did you notice something between Isaiah 61 and Isaiah 63?
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  Oh, just look at it again. Look at Isaiah 63, verse four.
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  What does the Lord say there? For the day of vengeance was in
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  my heart, and my year of redemption had come.
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  Did you notice the order difference?
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  Go back to Isaiah 61, verse 2 to proclaim the year of the Lord's
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  favor and the day of vengeance of our God.
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  It switched. So in Isaiah 61, what is
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  presented first? The year of the Lord's favor.
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  But in Isaiah 63, what's presented first?
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  The day of vengeance. Isaiah 61 speaks of Christ's
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  first coming. Isaiah 63 speaks of Christ's
• 43:52
  second coming. When he comes again, it's with
• 43:57
  vengeance. When he comes again, it's going
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  to be to judge, not to save, not to die for sin again, but to
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  deal with sinners once and for all.
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  And through the day of vengeance, the year of
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  redemption will come. But notice again, yes, the day
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  Avengers is in his heart, but look how?
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  Look how precise the Holy Spirit is in both cases, Isaiah 61 and
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  Isaiah 63. When it comes to the vengeance,
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  it's a day. When it comes to redemption and
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  salvation, it's a year. Did you notice that He's much
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  more excited and much more longing to save than to judge?
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  Yes, it's in his heart, but the reason why it's in his heart is
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  because that day needs to come for the year of redemption to be
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  experienced. So Christ ultimately wants to
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  save. He he wants none to perish, none
• 44:53
  to experience his holy wrath but his holy love, his embrace, his
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  compassion, his salvation. But.
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  There will be many who will refuse.
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  Now, everything that we've seen up to this point in Revelation
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  14 is highly symbolic, right? I mean, it's almost a mix.
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  But I don't think we need to understand Christ sitting in
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  heaven with an actual sickle. It's something that we need to
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  fight for to be totally literal. It's it's symbolic imagery.
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  And yet, with all the symbolism, there's something quite literal
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  about the last part of Revelation 14.
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  Let's go there and end our time together.
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  Look at verse 20. And the winepress was trodden
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  outside the city. What city?
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  Jerusalem. Why?
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  Because there's Old Testament prophecies and New Testament
• 45:55
  clues that show that Christ is coming specifically to Israel.
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  And more than that, look at this description.
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  And blood flowed from the winepress as high as a horse's
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  bridle for 1600 stadia, a horse's bridle talking about
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  that instrument by the horse's mouth, you're, you're looking at
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  something about four to five feet from the ground.
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  So when this judgement is actually realized, whom we know
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  to be Christ issuing it, the result of it will be from just
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  the face value, a river of blood 4 feet deep for how long and how
• 46:42
  wide? According to 1600 Stadium, if
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  you translate that in miles, you're looking at 180 something
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  miles. Now this is this is really
• 46:51
  confounded people. It seems incomprehensible.
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  You're telling me that there's going to be so much bloodshed
• 46:57
  that you can essentially swim in that blood for miles upon miles?
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  One, that suggests that whenever Christ does come, there's going
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  to be a lot of people there who are going to try to face him.
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  And we're preparing for that in Revelation 16, where all the
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  nations are going to be led by demonic spirits to come to
• 47:21
  Armageddon, north of Jerusalem. But when you consider these
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  other prophecies, like Isaiah 63, it seems as though the
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  masses of the allies against Christ will be so grand that it
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  might even reach down to Basra. It might even spill over into
• 47:41
  Jordan and they will surround this holy city to one try to
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  Vanquish the Jewish people. And more than that, the Jewish
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  Messiah. So is this actually going to be
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  a deep, long river of blood? We don't know.
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  It could be that he's speaking about the blood splattering up
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  to the bridles of horses. It could even be speaking about
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  the bodies piled up that high. But one thing is for certain,
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  when Christ came the first time, he actually came into this world
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  to die and to raise from the grave.
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  And when Christ comes the second time, we're not talking about
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  some invisible return. We're not talking about some
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  spiritual advent. We're talking about a real
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  bodily return of Christ. Who's going to deal with real
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  people with real judgment? Do you know Jesus Christ today?
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  I know this isn't a popular message, but I am tethered to
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  this word. I will be held accountable and
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  every preacher too, who dares to get up on a pulpit and say, Thus
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  says the Lord, and here's what I'm bound to say.
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  According to the scriptures, judgement is coming.
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  Sinners will be judged, and those who have not placed their
• 49:15
  faith in Christ will be harvested in to be trampled upon
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  by the Holy Son of God. But here's what I want to tell
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  you also. The same one who has a sickle on
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  his hand, with those same hands were pierced, And the same one
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  who will use his feet to trample on his enemies, were put
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  together and nailed to a cross. And the same one who has a
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  golden crown in this vision took upon himself a crown of thorns.
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  He suffered under God's wrath. He took and absorbed the fury of
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  the Holy One for you, for you, for every single one of us here
• 49:55
  in this place, no matter how gross and disgusting your sin
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  may be, no matter how hideous your past looks like Jesus
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  Christ knows it all. And because of His Holiness,
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  there is a day of vengeance. But I want to let you know what
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  makes his heart really beat. And that is your salvation, your
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  redemption, your renewal. And listen, this is the hour of
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  salvation. Today is the day, now is the
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  time we're looking at what's ultimately going to come.
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  But we have this window of grace and I make this appeal to you on
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  the Sunday afternoon, Come to Christ, come to Jesus.
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  Listen, I'm talking about a real Savior here.
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  What what are we doing here? What do you do?
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  You think we just, let's just look at another lesson today.
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  And this isn't tradition, This is God's word telling us about a
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  real God who's going to do real things in this world.
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  So I want to let you know that this isn't a game.
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  This isn't a social club with a little bit of religion sprinkled
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  on it. This is a matter of life and
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  death. This is a matter of eternity.
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  I believe with all my heart. Because I believe this book that
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  there's a real judgement coming. I don't want you to experience
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  it. You can be delivered from it.
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  Oh, I pray that you would take this seriously.
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  I pray that you would realize that this is indeed true.
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  And if it is true, what are you going to do about it?
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  Just sit there and think about lunch.
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  Come to Christ today before it's too late.
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  Bend your knee, receive Him. And I can give you the absolute
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  assurance, based on the authority of this word, that if
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  you are sincere in your repentance.
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  You will know not a flow of judgement, a flow of love that
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  you've never experienced before, that this holy, brilliant, pure
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  being is more amazing in His love than you've ever
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  experienced in this life. And that's what He wants to
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  offer you today. His heart and love come to
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  Christ. Let's pray.
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  Lord, we thank you that your word is true.
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  And Lord, in your presence we declare that we are not
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  embarrassed about your word. We're not ashamed of it.
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  In a world so filled with lies and confusion and deception,
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  make us more bold about the truth than ever.
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  Your word has never failed. And Lord, at this moment, you've
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  given us a text about judgement. We will not downplay it.
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  We will not ignore it. We will not skip over it.
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  We will come to terms with it. And Lord number one, we want to
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  thank you that you've saved us from our sin.
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  Thank You that because of Christ we are no longer objects of your
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  wrath, but we are adopted as children forever.
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  But Lord, that is not true for 1,000,000 today.
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  And we ask, Lord, that in this place that if there's anybody
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  who does not have the absolute confidence that they are saved,
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  that they would not be so foolish or stubborn to deny the
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  free gift of salvation. That they would realize that
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  you've died for them and that they would give themselves to
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  this truth, that they would receive your love.
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  So Lord, we pray as we've done what we can in the service.
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  We've sung the songs and we've preached the message, and we've
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  given Scripture quotation after Scripture quotation.
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  But only you can convict. Only you can touch the heart,
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  Lord, and we admit that gladly. So, Lord, move freely in this
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  place and bring more into the harvest of righteousness.
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  Bring more into the fold of God through your love.
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  We give you thanks Lord, and help us be ambitious to be
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  ambassadors to those who only have judgment to look forward to
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  if they don't give their lives to Christ.
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  We ask these things in Jesus name, Amen.
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  Amen. Let's stand together.
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  God is so real that at any point in this service moving forward,
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  if you, if you were to just speak to him, he hears you, even
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  if you don't sing these songs right now and you sit in your
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  seat, you sit in that Pew and you say, Lord, I just, I need to
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  be saved. Forgive me.
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  God will hear that prayer. And believer, I hope your song
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  will be strong at this point because you were reminded today
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  of what you were saved from. You have heaven, you have
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  eternal life because of Christ. Let's sing about it together.