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Revelation chapter 16. Let us pray.
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Father God, here we are, Lord, we are coming to you, Father,
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for wisdom from on high, power from on high.
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God, I pray that you'll wash over us with your word.
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God, we stand upon your word. We know that it is a firm
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foundation. God, we do war with the enemy to
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day. God for all of the times that he
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comes up against us. Lord with falsehoods.
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Lord twisting scripture. God, I pray in the mighty name
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of Jesus today that you will breakdown all the strongholds.
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God, I pray that we will be sold out, laid down, lovers of
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Yeshua, the way has Shem, the name, the name that is above all
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names. God, that every knee will bow
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and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord.
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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 continue to build us up.
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God, continue to give us divine counsel.
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Father, that only comes from you.
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It is not the wisdom of man. It is not morality, God, it is
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not our own understanding. But we get out of the way, Lord,
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We give you the center stage, we give you the entire space, We
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give you all of ourselves. We empty ourselves of ourselves
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and we only want to be filled to day with the Holy Ghost.
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God. I pray that we will not rely on
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our own understanding. God, I pray that we will not
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rely on our preconceived notions, God, our ideas of what
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we want and where we want this world to go, God, but we will
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get out of our own way and we will allow you to be the loudest
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voice in our minds and in our hearts and in our lives.
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God, we give you complete authority.
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We give you complete access, God, to all of ourselves, Lord,
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you have access to all passwords and databases.
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God, you have access to every single thing inside of our
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lives, Lord. So I just pray right now, in the
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mighty name of Jesus, that we will surrender all.
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Not some and not most, but that we will surrender all, even the
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things, Lord, that we have been taught God, we will surrender
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them unto You. And we will allow Your word to
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dictate Your word to mandate our steps and our lives.
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And we will view this world through the biblical lens from
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Genesis to Revelation. God, everything that's going on
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in the world through the lens of your Word, heaven and earth
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shall pass away, but not one of these words.
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So, God, as we open up your Word today, speak to us loudly and
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boldly. Today.
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Speak to us in a way that you never have.
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Father, whisper to us with the still small voice.
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Lord, speak through the chaos. And God, I pray in the mighty
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name of Jesus that we will have enough wherewithal and mental
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fortitude to actually obey the things that you are telling us.
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Lord, I pray that we will not explain them away.
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I pray that we will not marginalized them.
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I pray that we will not ignore them and harden our hearts and
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see our consciences. God, I pray that we will not
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grieve the Spirit, but God, that we will actually walk in the
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light and we will actually obey your words.
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We love you, King Jesus, we thank you God for life.
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Heal us God. Heal our broken bodies.
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God, I pray that you will be the great Physician today.
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God, restore marriages and families.
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God, I pray against childhood trauma.
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In the mighty name of Jesus, heal those that are struggling
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today with depression and anxiety.
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Heal those today that are turned around in their theology.
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God, I pray, Father, that you'll continue to show up and show off
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and reveal truth today. For you are a mighty rushing
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wind. Lord, set us ablaze today.
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Fresh wind and fresh fire fanned the flames today, God, And I
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pray that you will continue to use us to advance the hill,
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advance the Kingdom, God, for all generations.
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Lord, I pray that you, Lord, will have all the glory and the
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honor and the power forever and ever.
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And it's all about King Jesus. It's not about me.
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Hide me, Father, hide my words and hide my thoughts.
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Hide my motives. God and I pray that King Jesus
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alone will be glorified and magnified through the reading of
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your word to day. And it's in Jesus Christ of
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Nazareth. Holy, amazing, awesome name we
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pray to day. Amen.
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Well, let's start in verse one. And I heard a great voice out of
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the temple saying to the seven angels, go your ways and pour
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out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
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So we're going to see this final succession here, and John, who
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was privileged to receive this revelation of Jesus Christ, John
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here has taken us to the end, and then he's reversed the tape
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and he's given us more details. And we've seen time and space
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for man to repent. And ultimately what you're going
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to find in the next couple chapters is that man refuses to
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repent. Even in all of the plagues and
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all of the discipline and all of the judgment that's coming upon
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the earth, they still shake their fists at a holy,
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righteous, and good God. And you would think that through
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all of the pains and the troubles that they're going
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through, that they would have enough sense to be able to
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repent and to see the error of their ways and to confess and to
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admit that Jesus Christ is Lord. But they've already made a love
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decision for the world and they want to explain God away.
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They want to explain religion away.
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They want to explain the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the
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God of Israel a way they don't want anything to do with him.
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All you have to do is a study on Psalms 2 and you will find the
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history of mankind. You will see that the nations
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are railing and raging against the holy God.
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They want to throw off religion, friends, but God laughs and he
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makes all of Jesus's enemies a footstool for him.
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And it says kiss the Son unless he be angry.
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And his temper flares up. And you need to know, friends,
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that Jesus Christ is kind and loving and he is peaceful, and
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he wants us to come to Him. Let the little children come to
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him, praise God. Hallelujah.
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But ultimately what God is going to paint the picture of here
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through the Book of Revelation is that He will finally have the
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end for mankind who does not want anything to do with Him.
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They want complete and total separation from Yahweh, and He
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is going to grant them that wish because they have free will, and
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He's given them enough time and space to repent and to turn, But
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they refuse Him. Even after the truth has been
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revealed, and the gospel has been preached to the whole
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world, they still refuse a loving God.
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Verse 2. And the first went and poured
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out His vial upon the earth, and there fell a noisome and
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grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and
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upon them that worshipped His image.
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So for those who have chosen to take the mark of the beast so
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that they could buy and sell and they can participate in the
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world's economy under the Antichrist, there comes these
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very sore grievous sores on them.
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And you can see that it is judgment upon the people who
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turn their back on God, and they don't care anything for Him.
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Verse 3 And the second Angel poured out his vial upon the
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sea, and it became as the blood of a dead man, and every living
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soul died in the sea. Can you even imagine every
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living creature inside of the ocean dying and washing up in
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the putrid in the stink of the earth during this time for and
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the third Angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and
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fountains of waters, and they became blood.
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So even all of the fresh drinking water in the earth is
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undrinkable, friends, and it's going to cause many to shake
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their fists at a holy God who could have prevented all of
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this, but he does not. It is the judgement that finally
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comes upon a wicked and perverse earth.
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Five. And I heard the Angel of the
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water say, You are righteous, O Lord, which are and was shall
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be, because you have judged thus.
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So it is not that God needs anyone to tell him that he is
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just in all of his judgments, but this Angel is letting God
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know that it is time. He's letting God know that he is
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just in all of his ways and the Lord is perfect and the Lord
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knows what he's doing. And the Lord has been
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long-suffering. But it there is a finite time,
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friends, to be able to receive the Lord Jesus Christ as your
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Savior. You do not get to make that
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decision after you breathe your last breath.
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And here during this seven-year tribulation, there will be an
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opportunity for people to give their life over to the Lord
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Jesus Christ. But it will be much harder for
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them. And they'll have to go through
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all of the things that the Bible tells us of the persecution and
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all of the hard times, friends. And it will be worse than it's
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ever been since the beginning of time.
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It'll be worse than the days of Noah, and in the days of Noah,
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the Bible tells us that every thought continuously was evil,
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and it grieved God that he had made mankind think about it.
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Friends, it'll be worse than that, but praise God,
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Hallelujah, it is only for a short time, or no one would
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survive. 6 For they have shed the blood of Saints and
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prophets, and you have given them blood to drink, for they
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are worthy. So you can see the despicable
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evil that is upon earth during the seven-year tribulation,
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where the blood of the martyrs are speaking out and crying out
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to God, and God repays them. 77 And I heard another out of the
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altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are
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your judgments. Not that God needs someone to
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tell him that His judgments are true and worthy, but it is of
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great solace to us to know that God is good.
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Ultimately in the grand scheme of things.
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When you look at it all and you plug it all into an algorithm,
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it is good. He is good.
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Everything that He does is good. Friends, you can see it all the
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way back at the beginning of creation when God created the
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heavens and the earth, and it is good and it is good and it is
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good and we are Saints who are going to spend eternity with a
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good and loving God. He created hell to throw all of
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the wicked, demonic, prideful entities in.
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And it is the greatest tragedy when people will not love the
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truth, when they delight themselves in evil.
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And God gives them over to the reprobate mind and He gives them
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over to the deception, friends. And that is one of the greatest
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tragedies that we see in the history of mankind.
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And we on this side, we don't quite understand it, but all we
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have to do is go back to the time where we were once hostile
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towards a loving God. And that is why we spread the
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good news of the Lord Jesus Christ, and we tell every single
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man, woman, and child that what He did for us, He can do for
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them. Aid in the fourth Angel poured
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out his vial upon the sun, and power was given unto him to
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scorch men with fire. So there was a passage back
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there in Revelation where it said that we will be with Him
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and the sun will not touch us. That is in connection with this
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verse. Here you can see that power was
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given, that the sun does not just warm us and does not just
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give us the light, but it actually is burning the men and
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women of the earth during the seven-year tribulation, and it
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will be horrific. 9 And men were scorched with great heat and
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blasphemed the name of God, which had power over these
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plagues, and they repented not to give him glory.
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There it is, friends. That's the hinge point of the
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entire chapter here. It's really the hinge point of
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all of Revelation. When you think about it friends,
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is that mankind will not repent and they continue to blasphemy
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God, and it is because they are hostile towards him, because
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they have made a love decision for this world. 10 And the 5th
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Angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast, and his
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Kingdom was full of darkness, and they gnawed their tongues
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for pain, and they still would not repent, they still would not
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relent, they still would not turn to a loving Savior.
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And even during this time, there is the space and the time for
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them to do so. And we are encouraged by the
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myriad of hundreds and thousands and millions, the innumerable
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amount that will give their life to the Lord during the
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seven-year tribulation. But you can see here that it is
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not the totality of mankind. You can see here this darkness
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has set in, and a lot of this is mirrored and modeled all the way
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back in the plagues of Egypt when God was leading the
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captives out of bondage. And you can see here that this
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is all in God's character. This is not out of His
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character. When Jesus Christ came on the
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scene, He did not come as a new kind.
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God is the same. He is immutable, friends.
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He never changes. And you can see the same
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characteristics here in Revelation that you see all the
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way throughout all of Scripture. And we praise God on all of our
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senses. We praise God in the highest
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with everything we have in us, because He is good, and He
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remains good through all time, even in his judgments. 11 and
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blasphemy, the God of heaven, because their pains and their
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sores, and they repented not of their deeds.
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That was the ministry of John the Baptist.
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If you go back and you look, it was the Kingdom of heaven.
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Is it near? And for us to repent and repent
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is not a dirty word. Repent is not a negative.
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Repent is beautiful, friends. It is 2 parts to re and the pint
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which is to re turn. And then pint is the penthouse.
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It's the top. It's our inheritance.
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We are sons and daughters of the Most High God, and we do not
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need to squander our inheritance for a mess of pottage.
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Friends, we return back just like the prodigal.
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We return back to the father's house and he puts the ring and
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the robe on us, and he slaughters the fattened calf.
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Friends and he throws us a party because we were lost.
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And now we are found. Praise God.
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Hallelujah for repentance. And they refused to repent even
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though Imago day they were made in his image.
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They did not want anything to do with the loving God, the God of
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Israel. 12 And the 6th Angel poured out his vial upon the
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great river Euphrates, and the water of it was dried up.
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That the way of the kings of the East might be prepared.
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So a very interesting geography lesson hear that the Bible is
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painting during the seven-year tribulation and it's setting the
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stage for Armageddon. And what you're going to find
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out is that the great river Euphrates, which you see all the
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way back at the beginning in the Garden of Eden, whenever God had
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put Adam and Eve and told him to till the soil and told them to
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work the land. And here you can see that this
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great river Euphrates, at the very end of it all, is dried up
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to allow access for the kings of the East to come up and against
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the Lamb and against this church, which is a battle that
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is already won. And we do not fight for victory.
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We fight from victory because the battle is already won.
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Friends 13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come
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out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the
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beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.
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So this unholy Trinity here Satan the Antichrist and the
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false prophet. And you can see here that
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they're going to use propaganda, friends, and that's not hard for
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us to see. That is not far fetched in our
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modern day for this propaganda to be worldwide to deceive the
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masses, to take the mark of the beast, to fight against the
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church, to fight against the lamb, to fight against
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everything that is good and holy, to call things that are
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evil good and call things that are good evil.
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And the war against the family unit and all of the garbage that
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gets propagated in our day and our hour will be ramped up.
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Friends. 14 For they are the spirits of devils, working
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miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of
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the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day
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of God Almighty. The battles already won,
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Friends. It's marked out.
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It's clear as a bell. Friends.
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We do not need to fear. We do not need to be anxious.
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They are being led to this literal geographical place on
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planet Earth called Megiddo Franz and you can visit it
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today. It is the greatest battlefield
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that is on planet Earth, and this is where the blood will be
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heaped up to the horse's bridle. 15 Behold, I come as a thief.
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Blessed is he that watches and keeps his garments, lest he walk
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naked and they see. A shame.
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OK, friends. Wow, Jesus Christ, he's going to
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come like a thief in the night. No one knows the day or the
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hour. We must, emphatically, we must
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keep our lamps full, trim our Wicks.
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Do not fall asleep. Look up.
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See your redemption is drawing near.
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The leaves are on the fig tree. And here is a description of
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those who make everything all about the wrong things, friends.
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They're making it about money. They're making it about comfort
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and pleasure. They're making it all about the
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things of the world. And though they might be there
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with us and saved, it is as if they had escaped out of a fire.
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16 And he gathered them together to a place called Hebrew, in the
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Hebrew tongue Armageddon. So here we can see that this is
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the battle right before the thousand year reign of Christ.
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This is whenever the beast and the false prophet are thrown
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into the lake of fire, and this is when Satan is bound for 1000
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years, and the tempter is removed out of the world. 17 And
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the 7th Angel poured out his vial into the air, and there
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came a great voice out of the temple of heaven from the
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throne, saying, It is done. God knows what he's doing.
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Nothing is a surprise to him. He is not pacing back and forth
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in heaven trying to figure out what his next move is.
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He put it all down. He wrote it all down.
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He inspired the prophets, He inspired the apostles, and he
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inspired the writers of the Word of God to write down all of his
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plans. And he gives it to us, friends.
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And that is why Revelation is such an amazing book, because it
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is the revealing. It is the curtain being opened
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up and allowing us to peek and to peer into all of the things
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of the spiritual realm and what God has planned.
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And he wrote it all down for our comfort.
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It is done. There's nothing that Satan and
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all of his demonic cohorts could ever do to thwart the plans of
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God. It is done.
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It is finished. To Telesty, it is going to
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happen in the exact order that God has told us that it would.
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18 And there were voices and thunders and lightnings, and
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there was a great earthquake, such as was not, since men were
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upon the earth so mighty an earthquake and so great.
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We've seen all of these things happening, the sores that have
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come upon man, the sun that is scorching them, everything in
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the entire ocean dying. We've seen that the fresh water
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is not able to be drunk. We see it all turned to blood.
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We see all of the disgusting things happen, the demons going
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out in the propaganda. And now we see this earthquake
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that is unlike anything that the earth has ever experienced.
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And this earthquake will actually cause Jerusalem to be
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able to house the Mile square Ezekiel temple that Jesus Christ
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will rule and reign from for 1000 years. 19 And the great
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city was divided into 3 parts, and the cities of the nations
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fell, and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give
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unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath.
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So this Babylon is the world system.
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It is Pagan idolatry and false religion all wrapped up,
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friends. It is all the way back at the
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Tower of Babel, whenever there was rebellion against God right
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after the flood, and they're trying to build a tower and
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opposition to God ever flooding the earth again.
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And here you can see that same spirit, that same sentiment,
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friends, in this Babylon, which is the antithesis of everything
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that is good and wholesome and holy and pure.
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God will deal with it. 20 And every island fled away, and the
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mountains were not found. So here you can see there is
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great geological distress in the world, unlike anything that the
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world has ever known, and it sets the stage for the thousand
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year reign of Christ. We'll end on 21.
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And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone
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about the weight of a talent. And men blasphemed God because
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of the plague of the hail, for the plague thereof was
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exceedingly great. It cannot be more clear,
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friends. It would be wrong of us to view
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God as being too harsh upon the earth during this time.
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You can see it three times. It's mentioned 1-2 and three.
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They would not repent. They continue to blasphemy God.
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They are hostile towards God, friends, and even after all of
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the judgments, they refuse to put their faith in a loving God
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who could keep them from experiencing eternal separation
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from Him. But they will not, and they
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would not. But we need to understand that
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we were once those people, and so we have a heart for them.
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And while there is still time, we give them the good news.
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And the good news is that Jesus Christ came and died and fully
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satisfied the wrath of God at the cross.
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And for those that are in Christ Jesus, there is no more
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condemnation that we can be at one with a loving God, and we
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can be justified before a holy God.
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And that is the good news, and it is by being covered in the
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blood of Jesus Christ from the top of our head to the soles of
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our feet. Friends, it's not getting dunked
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in water, but it's getting washed in the blood.
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I pray that you have been, and I pray that you will be able to
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stand in the day of judgment, and I pray you'll be able to
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escape these things that are coming upon the earth.
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Put your faith in Him today and be saved.
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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. Don't take my word for it, just
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take a look. It's in the book.
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We'll see you back here tomorrow.
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God bless you.