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- 0:03This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
- 0:08Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,
- 0:12County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
- 0:16continues teaching through God's Word.
- 0:37When we skip into Revelation now and we start reading about
- 0:40what's happening in Chapter 9, sometimes you might be here or
- 0:43you might be in a church and you're saying.
- 0:45Man, this God sounds so terrible and so angry and so impatient,
- 0:50so unloving. Why would anybody want to know
- 0:52him? Let's catch up in time.
- 0:54This is. Around the corner I.
- 0:57Believe, but there's been 2000 years of God's patience before
- 1:01these things begin to be poured out in the human race.
- 1:04A quick read of the Book of Revelation might give you the
- 1:06wrong idea of the God that we serve.
- 1:09In fact, many people have called him cruel and vindictive.
- 1:14As we just heard from Pastor Clark, that's the farthest thing
- 1:17from the truth. First, the events in Revelation
- 1:20haven't happened yet. And second, God has provided
- 1:24over 2000 years for people to respond.
- 1:28So while the end times will be a horrific time here on earth, we
- 1:34know that God has extended His love, grace, and mercy for those
- 1:39who wish to receive it now. Here's Pastor Clark in
- 1:43Revelation Chapter 9 with today's edition of Living Waters
- 1:47of Grace. As we study this Book of
- 1:49Revelation, I don't know about you, but as a pastor, I'm
- 1:53responsible to be in the Word all the time when we all are.
- 1:57We all are responsible to be in the Word all the time.
- 2:00But I knew when I wasn't a pastor, I wasn't in the word as
- 2:04much as I am, that I am a pastor because of the busyness of life.
- 2:09And, and I was thinking this morning as I got up that
- 2:12whenever we teach these things, I'm coming at them from maybe a
- 2:15different perspective than you, because you've been busy all
- 2:19week. You've been thinking about a lot
- 2:20of things. And and here I come at times
- 2:23with such. Intensity or passion?
- 2:25About what the Bible's teaching or what?
- 2:27It's saying because I've had to pray.
- 2:28About it all week I've had to think about it it's in my heart
- 2:31it's in my conscience and you guys might be at times like whoa
- 2:34like back up a little bit you know, why are you so excited
- 2:37about this or why is why are you so passionate about this but.
- 2:40The Lord is serious about His word.
- 2:43And everything it says. Is a for every one of us, for
- 2:46the whole human. Race.
- 2:47And whenever we think about the judgments of God in the.
- 2:51Book of Revelation. They can seem very harsh if
- 2:54you're not thinking about it. Why would God be so angry with
- 2:58the human race? Why is God so patient with the
- 3:02human race? Why is he so loving and so
- 3:04merciful and at the same time angry at times and so?
- 3:08I'd like to sort of think about that for a minute.
- 3:11This is a precursor before the study and if you want.
- 3:15You can flip over in your Bible, just hold where you are in.
- 3:17Revelation go to Romans. Chapter 1 for a minute.
- 3:20Romans chapter one, verse 18 Well, Paul starts out in. 16 He
- 3:24says, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the
- 3:27power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the
- 3:31Jew 1st and also for the Greek. For in it the righteousness of
- 3:35God is revealed from faith to face as it is written, the just
- 3:39shall live by faith. Now this is where.
- 3:41It gets intense. For the wrath.
- 3:44Of God meaning the anger of God. Is revealed from heaven against
- 3:49all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who
- 3:52suppress the truth and unrighteousness, because what
- 3:56may be known of God is manifested in them, for God has
- 3:59shown it to them. For since the creation of the
- 4:02world, His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being
- 4:05understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power
- 4:09and Godhead, so they are without.
- 4:11Excuse. So the whole human race,
- 4:13everybody, you know, they can tell you they don't believe or
- 4:15they don't think there's a God. They can give you all kind of
- 4:18smoke and mirror type answers, but every one of them know in
- 4:22their conscience that there is a God that they're accountable to.
- 4:27When you were an unbeliever, and I was an unbeliever, I had
- 4:29conscience and conviction and guilt for the way I lived.
- 4:34I knew that I was a Sinner, but I didn't want to have to deal
- 4:37with the consequences of that. I tried to stuff that, push it
- 4:41out of my mind so I could continually do things that I
- 4:43knew I shouldn't do. And that's what compels God.
- 4:49For this. Kind of heart.
- 4:51He's so broken. He's given everybody the
- 4:53opportunity. To understand that he exists and
- 4:56He wants us all to come to Him. He's not willing that any should
- 4:59perish, but that all should come to repentance.
- 5:02But so few come to repentance. The Bible says the road is
- 5:06narrow that leads to life, right Broad is a road that leads to
- 5:10destruction. So there are few interested in
- 5:13repenting and responding to his. Grace and His love.
- 5:17And so because although they knew God in verse 21, they did
- 5:21not. Glorify him as God.
- 5:22Nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and
- 5:26their foolish hearts were darkened.
- 5:28Professing to be wise, they became fools and changed the
- 5:31glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like
- 5:34corruptible man and birds, and four footed animals and creeping
- 5:38things idolatry. Therefore, God also gave them up
- 5:42to uncleanness in the lusts of their hearts to dishonor their
- 5:45bodies. Among themselves.
- 5:47Who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshipped and
- 5:50served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed
- 5:53forever. Amen.
- 5:54For this reason God gave them up to vow passions.
- 5:58For even their women exchanged the natural use for which for
- 6:01what is against nature. Likewise also the men, leaving
- 6:05the natural use of the woman burned in their lust for one
- 6:08another. Men with men committing,
- 6:10committing what is shameful and receiving in themselves a
- 6:13penalty of their error which was due, And even as they did not
- 6:17like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to
- 6:21a debase mind to do the things which are not fitting.
- 6:24Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual
- 6:26immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness,
- 6:30full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil mindedness, They
- 6:34are whispers back brighters, haters of God, violent, proud
- 6:39boasters, inventors of evil things.
- 6:42Disobedient to parents. Undiscerning.
- 6:44Untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful, who
- 6:48knowing the righteous judgment of God that those who practice.
- 6:52Such things are deserving. Of death not only do the same,
- 6:56but also approve of those who practice.
- 6:58Them. So you have the whole human race
- 7:00in cosmic treason against the God of the universe.
- 7:03God shows his love. He manifests His patience, his
- 7:07mercy to every human being, the whole human race.
- 7:10And we're like this, shaking our fists at Him.
- 7:12We don't want you to reign over us.
- 7:14We don't want you to roll over us.
- 7:16We don't want to hear what you have to say.
- 7:17A matter of fact, 2000 years ago, the majority of people had
- 7:22a plan to crucify him, which they did.
- 7:24They figured if we could kill Jesus and get rid of him, we
- 7:27never have to hear what he has to say again.
- 7:30Can't kill God, can you? Jesus rises from raises from the
- 7:34dead three days later, proclaiming the message to his
- 7:38witnesses, his disciples as apostles.
- 7:40That's us telling us to continually go out and tell the
- 7:43world. And preach the gospel to every
- 7:45living creature. So.
- 7:46The message we have? When we go through.
- 7:47Revelation, we don't sit. Here like self-righteous people
- 7:50and say these people, they, they deserve it.
- 7:53Lord, come and get them. You know they're no good and
- 7:55they're this and that. By the grace of God, that's us,
- 7:57right? It's only his mercy.
- 7:59So what we do now, we want to go and tell people, as Paul said in
- 8:03Corinthians, that God is not angry right now in the sense of
- 8:07pouring out his wrath at this moment.
- 8:09But there's a time period of his patience and his mercy.
- 8:13And Paul says he begged people to be reconciled to God today.
- 8:17Let God show you his love, let him bring you back into right
- 8:22relationship with him and be forgiven.
- 8:25This is good news. This is a good news of gospel.
- 8:27So we can go out and and you know, most people are used to
- 8:29hearing people saying. Hey, God's really angry at.
- 8:31You and you better repent, turn or burn, all that kind of stuff.
- 8:34And an aspect of element of truth, those things are real.
- 8:38But the hope we have right now is that for God so loved this
- 8:41world right now that he gave his only Son.
- 8:44So there's mercy and grace so we can go to people and say we have
- 8:47good news. God isn't angry with you.
- 8:49Because most people think God hates them and that's why they
- 8:53don't want to have anything to do with them.
- 8:54They got a twisted mind. The devil tells them about a God
- 8:58who doesn't exist, a God in the figment of people's minds.
- 9:02And so we go and tell people there's good news.
- 9:04God loves you and he's not angry with you.
- 9:07That's a good way to start a witness, right?
- 9:10Lots of times we don't think about that right away.
- 9:12We're on their case. You realize you're a Sinner and
- 9:14they're thinking like, well, they mustn't think they're
- 9:16sinners. They're telling me they're
- 9:18Sinner. We're sinners, but they think
- 9:20they're holy rollers, right? I mean, that's how people think.
- 9:23We were out in the neighborhood. This week using the all the
- 9:25tracks on the table back there from the.
- 9:27Agents for Christ who were here. And this is $1,000,000 question.
- 9:30You know, it's, it looks like real money.
- 9:32People get excited when you give it to them.
- 9:34And then you read it and it says like, you know, if you would die
- 9:36today, where would you go? Would you go to be with God or
- 9:40not? And most people say, well,
- 9:42that's $1,000,000 question. I, you know, I guess only God
- 9:44knows that, you know, well, how would you like to know that you
- 9:46can know where you're going? And then you start in with the
- 9:49mercy of God, the fact that God's forgiving, that we're all
- 9:53sinners. And you include yourself in that
- 9:55when you're talking to the people, when we.
- 9:57Skip into Revelation. Now we start reading about
- 10:00what's happening in Chapter 9. Sometimes you might be here, or
- 10:03you. Might be in a.
- 10:04Church and you're saying? Man, this God sounds so terrible
- 10:07and so angry and so impatient, so unloving.
- 10:10Why would anybody want to know him?
- 10:12Let's catch up in time. This is around the corner, I
- 10:16believe. But there's been 2000 years of
- 10:19God's patience before these things begin to be poured out in
- 10:22the human race. That's a God of incredible love
- 10:26and patience. We wouldn't have that kind of
- 10:28patience with people. As soon as someone cuts us off
- 10:31in traffic, we're shaking at them, you know, and shaking our
- 10:33fists and using sign language sometimes that we shouldn't be
- 10:37using and you know. And we're we're.
- 10:39Unmerciful we're. Not patient.
- 10:41We're not gracious. Right.
- 10:43Someone does something to us to to embetter us right away.
- 10:46We cop an attitude and have a wall up and don't want to have
- 10:48anything to do with certain. People the rest of our life.
- 10:50Because of some miniscule thing they've done to.
- 10:53Us, and here we are, like these. People in Romans.
- 10:56All the things that Paul declared that the.
- 10:58Human heart was like. I know exists in me and exists
- 11:03in you because we're human. Beings and so now.
- 11:06We we catch up with these judgments in Revelation Chapter
- 11:109 and I'm just going to read this chapter and then we'll
- 11:13catch up in 13 where we left off last week.
- 11:16Verse one. Then the 5th Angel sounded, and
- 11:18this is the trumpet. Judgments coming now the. 7 seal
- 11:21judgments have already transpired.
- 11:23We're into the trumpet judgments now.
- 11:25The next. Judgments will be the bowls of
- 11:27wrath. The.
- 11:28Judgments are getting increasingly.
- 11:29More intense and more violent. In the sense of trying to get
- 11:33the human race to still repent, there's still time, even in the
- 11:36midst of the tribulation, the people who are left.
- 11:39Here on earth during the tribulation, God is still
- 11:42working these things out in order for them to finally look
- 11:45up and say I give up, I know I need you Lord.
- 11:48And he says, I saw a star fall from heaven and the earth to him
- 11:52was given the key to the bottomless pit.
- 11:54And he opened the bottomless pit and smoke rose out of the pit
- 11:57like the smoke of a great furnace.
- 11:59So in the. Core of the earth somewhere.
- 12:02All the demons that fell, all the angels that fell from the
- 12:05throne and the Kingdom prior to creation.
- 12:08Are in a holding. Pattern they're locked up until
- 12:11this day of judgment. They can't wait to get out and
- 12:14and raise literal. Hell in the face.
- 12:16Of the Earth havoc. And so this person who is given
- 12:20the key to open this pit and keep in mind that God has the
- 12:23whole universe under control it. Isn't that the devil's winning
- 12:27today and God might win? Tomorrow.
- 12:28And there's this. Tension back and forth.
- 12:30God is sovereign. He's already accomplished.
- 12:33His purpose When Christ said it is finished, it is finished.
- 12:36The Bible says in Colossians that the power of Satan was
- 12:39deactivated. In the sense of what?
- 12:41Christ did at the. Cross.
- 12:43But the enemy. Still has capabilities.
- 12:45That's why it tells us in Ephesians we're not wrestling
- 12:48against flesh and blood, but against principalities and.
- 12:51Powers the rulers of darkness. The angelic demonic beings who
- 12:54aren't in the. Abyss who are out.
- 12:57Flying around trying to. Create havoc in the.
- 12:59World the demonic activity that is going on.
- 13:02Principalities and powers. The rulers of darkness and that
- 13:05dimension. That we can't see, but it's
- 13:06real. But then he's going to let these
- 13:08other ones out of this pit. Some people wonder what who is
- 13:12this? A fallen Angel is a Satan
- 13:14certainly isn't the emissary of the the Most High God.
- 13:18God you know allows the evil ones that do their work.
- 13:21He doesn't sanction. It but he allows it.
- 13:23He doesn't create it. He doesn't start it.
- 13:26But you know, the mystery of life is that we have a free
- 13:28will. Some people say why didn't God
- 13:30just create us perfect? Well, in a way he did.
- 13:33Before the fall, he. Created this.
- 13:34Immortal with a nature. That was pure and.
- 13:38We were creating the likeness and image of God, but God.
- 13:42Didn't create robots. He wanted to create people who
- 13:45would truly love him and want to follow him for who he is.
- 13:48That's the mystery. And so Adam and Eve decide to
- 13:52make the wrong choice. And because of that, the whole.
- 13:54Human race has fallen into the condition that it is today, and
- 13:58yet God in His mercy had. Planned even before the earth
- 14:02was created, knowing that we were going to do that, that he
- 14:05would send Jesus to die for us, to restore us back to the place
- 14:09that we were before the fall. And you might say, well, why did
- 14:15he create Satan or why is there a choice?
- 14:21I don't know about you, but I'm glad that God has given me a
- 14:24will and a choice because. Every day I make.
- 14:28Decisions. I'm glad that I chose Cindy
- 14:32Alexander 39 years ago to be my wife.
- 14:34I'm glad that I had a free will to find the woman that God had
- 14:39for me in this life and the special No one other.
- 14:42No other woman but her for me, and me for her choosing where I
- 14:48want to live. Where I want to.
- 14:49Worship choosing what I want to do with my resources, choosing
- 14:54what type of work I want to have a choosing how I want to spend
- 14:57my days with my kids and my grandkids.
- 14:59I mean, when you think about the privilege, think if you had none
- 15:02of that and every day you just got up and.
- 15:05You heard this voice. You're going to do this whether
- 15:06you like it or not. I mean, what kind of life would
- 15:09that be? That would be a bondage.
- 15:11It would be a horrible existence.
- 15:13But to have the. Freedom that God has given us to
- 15:16choose. And yet in this situation here,
- 15:18these demons are going to come out and it's going to be so
- 15:21horrendous. If you remember in the Old
- 15:23Testament the judgments during the time of Moses delivering the
- 15:26children of Israel out of bondage to Pharaoh, the locusts
- 15:29were so numerous. That people couldn't, actually.
- 15:32See where they were. Gone and they.
- 15:34Completely ate all the vegetation and this situation is
- 15:38going to be different to them as given the power as a scorpions
- 15:42of the earth have power. They were commanded not to harm
- 15:45the grass or the earth or any green thing or any tree, but
- 15:48only those men who do not have the seal of God on their
- 15:51foreheads. Now we studied several weeks ago
- 15:54about the 144,000 the special chosen people of God during that
- 15:59tribulation. Born again Jews who are.
- 16:02On fire for the Lord like 144,000 Billy grams.
- 16:06Going all. Over the earth to witness and to
- 16:09tell people you still can repent.
- 16:11God's mercy is still available. You can still be forgiven of
- 16:14your sin, and God will. Be gracious to you and that's
- 16:17their job. Well, they're not going to be
- 16:19touched by these scorpion like locust creatures.
- 16:23They were not given authority to kill them but to torment them
- 16:27for five months. So anyone who doesn't have this
- 16:30seal on their forehead is fair game to these demonic beings.
- 16:33So that means all the unbelievers on the face of the
- 16:36earth at. This time and.
- 16:37This isn't God doing this to the.
- 16:39People, this is Satan and his demonic crew going out to create
- 16:44torment and havoc on the face of the earth to all those who don't
- 16:47know Christ. Some people say, Oh well,
- 16:49whenever I die, I'm going to be done in the hell with my buddies
- 16:52and and Satan and everybody. We're just going to have a good
- 16:55time and party forever. It's not going to be that way.
- 16:57Satan hates our guts, the Bible says.
- 17:00He's come to rob, to steal, to kill.
- 17:04And to destroy it says their torment was like the torment of
- 17:09a scorpion when it strikes a man.
- 17:11In those days, men will seek death and will not find it.
- 17:14They will desire to die and death will flee from them.
- 17:17It sounds like in this case it's even.
- 17:19Going to be impossible to take your life.
- 17:21It's going to be so. Horrible at this time when
- 17:23you're on the earth. If you're an unbeliever, you
- 17:25can't get away. From these scorpions.
- 17:26You think, well, I'm going to stay inside all day and and wait
- 17:30this out for to five months. They won't get me.
- 17:31Somehow they're going to be able to get in the windows, under the
- 17:34doorway, whatever. So no matter.
- 17:36Where you are. You're going to get stung.
- 17:38And tortured by these things. Just not.
- 17:40Once you get stung once and that's it's.
- 17:42Going to be a continual horrible torment.
- 17:45To drive you. To your knees, but the enemy
- 17:48wants to destroy you, but he can't, and you can't even find
- 17:50death at this time. It says the shape of the locust
- 17:53was like horses prepared for battle.
- 17:55On their heads were crowned something like gold, and their
- 17:58faces were like the faces of men.
- 18:00They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like a
- 18:03lion's teeth. And they had breastplates like
- 18:05breastplates of iron. And the sound of their wings was
- 18:08like the sound of Chariots, with many horses running into battle.
- 18:11They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their
- 18:15tails. Their power was to hurt men.
- 18:17Five months and they had his king over them.
- 18:20The Angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon,
- 18:24and in Greek his name is Apollyon.
- 18:27That name means the Destroyer. Literally the destroyer.
- 18:33The New Testament Greek word Apollyon is the one who is
- 18:36destroying and again. That ties with what Jesus said
- 18:40about the devil. He comes to steal and to kill
- 18:44and to rob. And to destroy and.
- 18:46I'll tell you he's trying to destroy.
- 18:48Our lives every day. He's trying to destroy the
- 18:50Church of Jesus Christ, and I'm so thankful it's not.
- 18:54My job or your? Job to build the Church of
- 18:56Christ, Jesus said I will build my church and the gates of hell.
- 19:01Hades will not prevail against it in verse 12 one woe is past
- 19:06so you we think that's bad. This situation with these
- 19:09scorpion like creatures in the description John says the
- 19:12apostle that they are like this in other words.
- 19:15He's seeing something that he's never seen.
- 19:17Before in his life, he's trying to use descriptive words to give
- 19:20us some kind of insight what these creatures are like.
- 19:24Because. Again, it's like nothing he's
- 19:26ever seen before. Some people believe that these
- 19:29will be. Fallen demonic beings that.
- 19:32Are inhabiting whether it's an animal like creature or a human.
- 19:36Creature Some people commentators describe it as as
- 19:40perhaps men in certain types of. Suits with gas masks and the the
- 19:45stinging aspect of this scorpion like creature is really a
- 19:49chemical. Warfare, you know, that's coming
- 19:51upon people. I mean, none of us are going to
- 19:53know these things until they occur Her.
- 19:55But these are descriptive terms that will one day come to pass.
- 19:59And so John's saying this one was past.
- 20:02Behold, still two more woes are coming after these things.
- 20:05This is where we'll pick up where we left off the last time
- 20:08we were in this book. Then the six angels sounded, and
- 20:11I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar, which
- 20:14is before the throne of God. This altar and a wonderful
- 20:19picture again of the throne room of Heaven.
- 20:22The 6th Angel sounds and I hear a voice from the four horns of
- 20:25the golden golden altar, which is before God, saying to the 6th
- 20:29Angel who had the trumpet, release the four angels who are
- 20:32bound at the great river Euphrates.
- 20:34So this altar is the altar. Of incense.
- 20:37It stands before the throne of God and the incense, as I
- 20:41mentioned, about a month. Ago is the.
- 20:44Representation of the. Prayers of the Saints Incense
- 20:48will be prevalent in the Kingdom of Heaven, the early Church.
- 20:52Use incense. All the time.
- 20:54Someone asked me why we don't use incense.
- 20:56I don't know. I don't know who said not.
- 20:57Use it or who? Said you know some.
- 20:58People use it, think it's magic, and you know, other people use
- 21:01it as. A understanding that represents
- 21:04the prayers of the Saints. But it really does.
- 21:06In God's Kingdom, in his worship setting.
- 21:11Within the throne of. God, there's incense, and every
- 21:13time the incense is sense before.
- 21:15The throne of God. It represents the prayers.
- 21:17Of the. Saints being lifted up to the
- 21:19throne of God. Matt Redmond had a neat song.
- 21:22Let the prayers of the Saints be like sweet smelling incense.
- 21:25To your heart. Remember that song?
- 21:26Beautiful. Song, and so it represents that
- 21:29to. God, but the four horns
- 21:30represent the place where the blood was applied on the Day of
- 21:34Atonement for the sake of the the nation of Israel.
- 21:37And so a very clear picture again of the things that are
- 21:41lost in our time that will be again prevalent in the in the
- 21:45Kingdom when we get there. And so he's telling this Angel
- 21:49to release these angels to release what is bound at the
- 21:52great river Euphrates. So the four angels and 15 who
- 21:56have been prepared for the hour and day and month, and these are
- 22:00evil angels by the way, and year were released to kill 1/3 of
- 22:04mankind. Now the number of the army, the
- 22:06horseman, was 200 million. I heard the number of them, and
- 22:11thus I saw the horses in the vision, those who sat on them in
- 22:15breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur
- 22:18yellow. And the heads of the horses were
- 22:20like the heads of lions, and out of their mouths came fire,
- 22:23smoke, and brimstone. By these 3 plagues 1/3 of
- 22:26mankind was killed by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone
- 22:30which came out of their mouths. For their power is in their
- 22:34mouth and in their tails. For their tails are like
- 22:37serpents having heads and with them that do harm.
- 22:43So we we see the intensity of of this battle and what's going to
- 22:47come upon the face of the earth 1/3.
- 22:52I can't imagine that. Some commentators, they they
- 22:55look at China and the East. And.
- 22:58The river Euphrates throughout. Biblical history was.
- 23:01Always recognized as a. Central place of of God's wrath,
- 23:07and also of of. Of miraculous occurrences and
- 23:10Israel you know the the borders of the Holy Land, Euphrates
- 23:16flows near and you have the original Babylonian.
- 23:19Empire that was very. Significant with the the river
- 23:23Euphrates and we see in Revelation 1612 that this river
- 23:27will actually be dried up. Why is it going to be dried up?
- 23:30The capacity to actually travel. By tank or.
- 23:34By some kind of vehicle or horses or whatever the potential
- 23:37of 200 million. And there's no other nation that
- 23:39could have the size of an army except that nation in the east
- 23:43wiping out 1/3 of the human race.
- 23:49In the Book of Revelation, Pastor Clark is taking us
- 23:52through all kinds of events and happenings that are predicted
- 23:55for the future. But for those who believe and
- 23:58follow Jesus, there's much to look forward to in heaven with
- 24:02Jesus. However, for those who are here
- 24:05on earth during the Tribulation, there's all kinds of chaos that
- 24:09will unfold. The Bible talks about an
- 24:12Antichrist, a false prophet, and of course that evil enemy Satan.
- 24:18You see how there are such clever attempts for the enemy to
- 24:21disguise himself as God and even the Trinity, the true Savior of
- 24:26the world is God and how he comes to rescue through his
- 24:30triune nature, God the Father, Jesus the Son, and God the Holy
- 24:35Spirit. Just like Satan tried to take
- 24:39over for God in heaven was cast out, Satan will try to convince
- 24:43people on earth that he is the triune God to be worshipped
- 24:47instead of the legitimate God in heaven.
- 24:50It's an attempt, and although he will capture plenty in his
- 24:54schemes, he will not win. The true God wins, and
- 24:59Revelation unpacks how that will all happen in detail.
- 25:03Be encouraged because there's a way out for all of this madness
- 25:07that will ensue on this earth. But you don't want to wait
- 25:11indefinitely to make that decision about Jesus.
- 25:15We don't know when the church will be raptured, and you want
- 25:18to be ready to be with Jesus. To learn more about this, head
- 25:22over to calvarychapelonline.com. We're so glad you've been with
- 25:28us today. And if you'd like to connect
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