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Revelation chapter 18 · Scripture Unscripted

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Revelation chapter 18. Let us pray.
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Father, you are breath, You are life.
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You are sustaining your power. You are the great I am.
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You're the Most High God, your Lord, your King.
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You are the only uncreated Lord. You are moving mightily in this
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world, all over the globe, in the universe.
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Father, I pray you'll do the things here on this earth, just
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as you have them planned out there in heaven.
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Father, let us be the ones who actually go out and actually do
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the things that you've asked us to do.
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God, let us be your ambassadors. Father, I pray that we will
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actually believe every single syllable, every jot, and every
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title. That we will actually believe
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them, God, and not try to explain them away and not try to
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reason them away, God, but that we will actually live in light
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of the revealed will that you have given us, Father, in your
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Raymond Logos, the inspired word, Father, that you spoke
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through the prophets and apostles.
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Father, I pray that you will help us, Lord, to be sold out,
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laid down, lovers of Yeshua. Father, I pray that your Kingdom
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comes to this earth. Father, tear down all
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strongholds of opposition in the mighty name of Jesus.
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I pray God that you will not let your people who are called by
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your name be overtaken with fear and anxiety and depression.
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God, I pray against the pharmakeia.
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God, I pray, Lord, against all drug addiction and drunkenness.
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Father, I pray, Father, against the spirit of suicide.
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Father, I pray God, that you alone will be our inheritance
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and our worth, and we will be filled with you, filled with the
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Holy Ghost today, overflowing. God, let us prophecy to those
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all around us. Father, I pray that we'll speak
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the truth and love and that we will only push and we will only
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propagate Christ and Christ crucified, not vanity and pride.
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Father, I pray against all of the schemes of the enemy.
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Father, I pray that you'll form a hedge of protection and help
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us to be those who actually radiate the light that we take
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in. Father, I pray that we will not
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be duplicious and hypocrites. Father, I pray against
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hypocrisy. God, I pray that you alone,
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Lord, will be the loudest voice in the room.
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Hide me and hide my words. Father, give us manna.
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Give us the daily bread. Father, let us feast upon the
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flesh of Christ today. Drink God in the blood as we
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remember what he has done for us.
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Lord, I pray that we will be there with you the supper of the
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Lamb. Father, I pray that you will
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prepare a banquet for us in the presence of our enemy, God.
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Yeah, though we walk through the valley of the shadow of death.
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Father, you will be with us as we walk through the waters, and
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they will not overtake us. God, it's all about you, King.
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Jesus, it's not about me. Hide my words and hide my
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thoughts. Father, give a sound doctrine
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and sound theology. I decrease as you increase.
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Jesus, we're not worthy to tie the latches on your sandals.
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You are the King of kings and the Lord of Lords.
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Eyes like fire and hair like wool.
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The voice of many multitudes. We serve you.
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We are your bond servants. We willingly choose to do the
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work of an evangelist. Father, it is you that we lift
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up higher than our own emotions and will.
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And it is you, Father, that we are here for.
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Teach us your eternal paths. And it's in Jesus Christ, holy
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and precious and powerful and awesome name that I pray.
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Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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And after these things, I saw another Angel come down from
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heaven having great power, and the earth was lightened with his
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glory. So this angel's coming out of
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the presence of God and is radiating God's glory to
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mankind. And if you remember, whenever
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all the plagues were getting poured out upon the earth, there
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was this darkness that fell upon the Antichrist Kingdom.
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And here you see this Angel coming, and he's full of the
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light of the glory of God, and he lights upon the earth friends
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too. And he cried mightily with a
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strong voice, saying, Babylon the Great has fallen, has
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fallen, and has become the habitation of devils in the hold
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of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful
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bird. So this Babylon we learned a
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little bit about in the last chapter when we were talking
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about the false religion of the world, the false prophet.
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So now you can see that Babylon is twofold.
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There is the religious apostasy and there is also the
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materialism and commercialism with the greed that is
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associated with the system, the world system.
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This consumerism, friends, that has consumed many, It's eating
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us up, it's dragging us away from a holy God and we have
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allowed Mammon to become our God.
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And Jesus Christ himself told us that you cannot serve 2 masters.
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You will love 1 and you will hate the other and that is what
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is at stake here. And you can see when greed
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creeps in. We have no need for a holy God
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because we become our own gods because we have all that we ever
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need. We have security, we have the
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best healthcare, we have everything, and we do not even
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give God any consideration because we've been swept away
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with materialism, friends. And what happens is when a demon
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is driven out, he goes and finds seven more evil than himself.
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And they come back and they find the house swept and clean.
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And the final state of that man is worse than the first.
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And that is what you will see here is that when we moved from
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the judeo-christian values and we moved into the state of
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lukewarmness, which he said that he will vomit out of his mouth.
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What happened is those demons found the house nice and clean
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and swept and the seven more evil than the one came in and
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the final state is worse than the first friends.
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And that is what you're seeing here, this habitation of devils.
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And this is a world wide phenomenon that happens at the
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end during the time of the Antichrist and the first part of
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Babylon. The religious part is done away
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with it the first 3 1/2 year mark and then this is the part
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that continues on through the entirety of the seven years.
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Friends, this materialism and greed and this is where the
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kings of the earth, This is why they hand it all over to the
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Antichrist. This is why they have it in
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their hearts to rule the way that they do.
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It is greed and it is luxury, and it is for their own demise,
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and it will actually eat as a canker worm does.
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It's cancerous to the bones when we allow Mammon to rule over us.
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3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her
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fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed
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fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed
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rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
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That is what is mentioned friends, this is all luxury.
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This is all pomp and circumstance.
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This is look at me and vanity is what it all boils down to.
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This is our own self willed reign.
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This is the world the way that we want it without God.
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This is trying to worship the creation over the Creator, and
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it never works out. Friends, he's the one that put
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the OR in the earth that we'd make the value of our currency
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after. Friends, he's the one that put
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the strands in the atmosphere that we're able to move digital
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currency around. Friends, it is preposterous to
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believe that we can do away with God Almighty, the One who
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created everything and sustains everything.
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Friends, it is best for us to get in line.
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It is best for us to surrender unto Him and allow Him to be the
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One who dictates our every move, our every step, and our every
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word. We cannot get rid of God as some
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are in the habit of trying to do.
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It never works that way. Four.
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And I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out of her,
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my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that
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you receive not of her plagues. We saw this before God rang down
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upon Sodom. He called Lot and his family out
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of that place before the destruction came.
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And we are called to not participate in the systems of
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the world, friends, so that we do not get swept away from them.
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We are called to live on fire for God.
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We are called to have God as our provider.
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We are called to let Him be the one that provides for all of our
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needs, friends. And if He calls you out of your
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career path because it is not pleasing unto him and he's
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calling you into the ministry, friends, if he's calling you
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into missions, if he's calling you into running a soup kitchen,
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if he's calling you out of what you're doing because it's not
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pleasing to him, I pray that you have the strength to leave those
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places and to actually do what he's asking you to do.
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Friends. And that is the call for us.
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It's not a call to live a nice, cushy, comfortable life.
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There's nothing wrong with having possessions, but you
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cannot let your possessions possess you, friends.
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And that is where many have gotten to.
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They like God, they like the fact that they don't have to go
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to hell, but they're not willing to get rid of of all of their
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possessions if the Lord tells them to.
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Sometimes we are like the rich young ruler and we are told to
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come and to follow me, and we go away empty handed.
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We go away sad because we have great wealth and possessions and
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that is where a lot of us are. We are the rich young rulers,
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and we think that we want to follow after Him until He tells
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us to come out of those systems that are unholy and unpleasing
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to Him. There are many who will tell you
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that it is perfectly fine and OK to play both sides, but the Lord
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is very clear that we are to not participate in the systems of
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Babylon, in the systems of idolatry.
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These are not pleasing unto God. We rely on him for our very next
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meal. We rely on him for heat.
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We rely on him for clean drinking water.
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We rely on him for our next breath.
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We rely on him for tomorrow. We don't even know if we're
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going to be here. Life is but a vapor.
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And that is what you need to understand is that he's saying
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come out of those idolatrous Pagan practices that are in the
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world and they're all culminating to this point in
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this time. And praise God, Hallelujah, the
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church, the capital C, the ecclesia will be called up and
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out before all of it culminates in this seven-year tribulation.
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But it is high time for us to be the example and for us to
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actually believe that God's Word is true and it is reliable and
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that if he says it, we're going to actually do it and we're not
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going to try to explain it away. Friends come out of those
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disgusting practices where we worship Mammon over God.
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By for her sins have reached to heaven, and God has remembered
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her iniquities. So this is the reversal of the
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Tower of Babel. They wanted to build a tower to
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reach the heavens, and it was really to study astrology and to
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escape a future flood and to get out from underneath God's
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powerful protection. And you can see here that now
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instead of building a tower unto heaven, which they never could
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do, and he knocked it down and he confounded the tongues, and
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people had to go in different directions.
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And now you can see that they have built something that has
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reached heaven, and it is their sins.
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And he remembers them, friends, because they're not covered in
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the blood of Jesus Christ. They're hostile towards a loving
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God, and He will do away with them.
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Six reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto
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her double according to her works in the cup which she has
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filled filled to her double. This is the retribution of a
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thief. And that is how the world
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systems of Babylon, the commercialism of Babylon got to
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the where they're at is by theft friends.
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And now God is saying, pay her back double for all of the times
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that she has stolen. 7 How much she has glorified herself and
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lived deliciously. So much torment and sorrow give
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her. For she says in her heart, I sit
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as a queen. I'm no widow and shall see no
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sorrow. This is pride and this is
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vanity. This is autonomy, and this is
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trying to get out from underneath God's powerful
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protection. They want to do things on their
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own terms, their own ways, and it will never result in
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anything, only their destruction and demise. 8 Therefore shall
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her plagues come in one day, death, mourning, famine, and she
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shall be utterly burned with fire.
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For strong is the Lord God who judges her.
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There is no fighting against God.
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He is omnipotent. He has all power, friends, and
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whenever He looks as if it's weakness, it's actually
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meekness. It's all the power under control
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and bridled because he's giving the world space and time to
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repent and to turn towards a loving God and to make it right
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and to confess and to return back to the Father's house.
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But there is a finite time, and then destruction will come,
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nine. And the kings of the earth, who
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have committed fornication and live deliciously with her, shall
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bewail her, lament for her. And when they see the smoke of
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her burning, 10 standing far off for the fear of her torment,
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saying, alas, alas, the great city, Babylon, that mighty city,
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For in one hour your judgement has come.
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So here, this is the end of it all, the destruction of the
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commercialism of Babylon. We've already seen the religious
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go by the wayside, and now all of the luxuries go by the
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wayside. And everyone in the earth stands
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with their mouth and gate because they did not believe
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that it could happen. But what they did is they judged
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God wrongly and thought that he was weak and powerless.
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And they had forgotten that God is long-suffering, and His
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loving kindness is the only reason that we can draw another
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breath. And we need to, while there is
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still time, turn our lives over to Him, submit to Him,
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completely sell out to Yahweh, so that we can escape the things
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that are coming upon the earth this hour of temptation that has
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come to try All the inhabitants of the earth. 11 And the
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merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her, for no
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man buys their merchandise anymore.
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So this is the systems of the world that have gone by the
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wayside. They're completely disrupted.
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The judgement has come, and now all the people who have things
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to sell are mourning and crying because they realize that the
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game is up. They realize that there is no
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opportunity beyond this point. For their vast amassment of
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wealth and greed, God has put a stop to it. 12 The merchandise
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of gold, silver, precious stones and pearls, fine linen and
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purple silk and scarlet. All thigh on wood, and manner of
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vessels of ivory, and manners of vessels of the most precious
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wood. Brass and iron and marble,
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cinnamon, incense and ointments, Frankincense and wine and oil,
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flour and wheat, Beasts and sheep, horses and Chariots,
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slaves in the souls of men. So you can see here that all of
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the things that get traded, even all the way down to human
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trafficking, God sees it and he will do away with it. 14 And the
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fruits that you lusted after are departed from you, and all
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things which were dainty and goodly are departed from you,
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and you shall find them no more at all.
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God finally does away with all of our pseudo luxury, that we
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think that we can escape the eyes of God and live our own
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way, and that we can create our kingdoms on this earth, that we
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can create heaven for ourselves on this earth apart from God.
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And he does away with it and burns it all to the ground. 15
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The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her,
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shall stand far off for the fear of her torment, weeping and
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wailing. So this is utter destruction of
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all of the different ways that the merchandise traveled around
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the world from one place to the other.
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It's all destroyed, and the merchants stand far off and they
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weep and wail because the game is up. 16 a saying last, alas,
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that great city that was clothed in fine linen, purple scarlet
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deck with gold and precious stones and pearls, That was the
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Mystery Babylon, the whore that was done away with as she was
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riding the beast. And then you see the second fold
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of Babylon, which is the commercialism and materialism
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and consumerism. You see it done away with and
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it's all in the outset. On the outside it looks as if it
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is beautiful, but God sees it for what it truly is.
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It's blasphemous and it's idolatry, and it is Mammon 17 in
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one hour so great riches it's come to nothing.
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And every shipmaster and all the company and ships, sailors and
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as many trade by the sea stood far off 18 and cried when they
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saw the smoke of her burning, saying, What city is like unto
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this great city. So Babylon all the way back at
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the Tower of Babel and even Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar's
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Kingdom and even the modern day attempt to try to rebuild it
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through Iraq. All of that is just a prototype
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of the actual Babylon, which is the world system that was
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started all the way back with Nimrod whenever he tried to get
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out from underneath God's control.
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That is what Babylon is represented as, and it will be a
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global, worldwide economy that God judges. 19 And they cast
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dust on their heads and cried, weeping and wailing, saying,
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alas, alas, that great city wherein we're made rich and all
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that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness.
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For in one hour she's made desolate.
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Quickly, quickly, quickly. It comes in one hour.
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Swift judgment, friends, And that is what will happen by and
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by 100% facts that it will happen, friends, and it'll
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happen exactly the way that God has prescribed it here in the
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Book of Revelation, and they will not see it coming, and it
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will be sudden. 20 Rejoice over her, you heaven, you holy
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apostles and prophets, for God has avenged you on her.
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So heaven rejoices over Babylon's fall.
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You can see that the blood of the martyrs and the blood of the
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prophets that were spilled, they cry out to God, and God Avengers
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them. And they rejoice over the fall
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of all the evil that's in the world, and the greed that's in
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the world. 21 And a mighty Angel took up a stone like a great
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millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence
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shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found
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no more at all. That is a promise, friends.
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It shall be found no more at all.
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There will never be another Babylon to creep up out of the
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ashes. Friends, it is settled and it is
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done and it is finished, and God will make sure that there is
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never another revolt that results in this much chaos, in
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this much destruction, in this much greed and vanity and pride
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ever again in the history of mankind. 22 And the voice of
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Harpers, musicians, pipers, and trumpeters shall be heard no
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more at all in you, And no Craftsman of whatsoever craft he
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be shall be found anymore in you.
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And the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in
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you. So all of the busyness, all of
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the busyness, all of the trade and commerce, all of the things
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that brought Babylon center stage will be done away with to
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assure that there is never another opportunity for this to
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happen again. 23 In the light of a candle shall shine no more at
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all in you, and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride
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shall be heard no more at all in you.
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And for your merchants were the great men of the earth, and for
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by your sorceries were all nations deceived.
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So we can see as we're getting set up for the thousand year
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reign of Christ, there will not be the Babylon system of
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apostasy and commercialism at play during that thousand year
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reign. The tempter will be taken out of
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the way. 24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and of
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Saints, and of all they that were slain upon the earth.
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So you can see why the judgment has come, and God's judgments
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are just and true and faithful, and we can bank on them and we
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can build our life on them and we can know that the stock of
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this world is going down, friends, it is not going up.
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We do not put our trust in the almighty dollar.
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We do not put our trust in the systems of the world.
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We do not serve mammon, friends, but we serve the one true living
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God. The God of Abraham, Isaac and
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Jacob, the God of the Jews is who we place our entire faith in
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and will never be put to shame. And I've never seen the
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righteous begging for breast bread.
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Abide in him and he in you, and you will produce much fruit.
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I hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter in God's
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Word. I know I sure have.
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I'm praying for every single one of you.
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I love you. We'll see you back here
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tomorrow. God bless you.