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Genesis Pillars Of Revelation's Prophecies

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01:00 Hello and welcome. We're coming to you live once again
01:03 from Thompsonville, Illinois
01:06 from the Thompsonville SDA Church which also serves
01:09 as the 3ABN Worship Center.
01:12 Thompsonville is a small town of about 600 people
01:16 and we're grateful to the Lord for 3ABN that God is using
01:21 to bring the everlasting Gospel all over the world, Amen
01:24 Amen. We have a wonderful congregation here
01:27 and they have come to listen to the preaching of God's Word
01:31 to be inspired by the music and the testimonies of great things
01:35 that God is doing. During this hour we have a message
01:39 from Pr. Hiram Rester. Pastor Rester serves as pastor
01:46 of the Springfield SDA church and he's the Senior Pastor
01:51 the sermon entitled Genesis Pil- lars of Revelations Prophecies
01:56 is the message for the hour. So we'd like to encourage you
01:59 to get your Bible ready and pen something to write with
02:04 and some of you may want to record this message to
02:06 hear it again. And one of the things about 3ABN is that
02:11 if you didn't catch it now you may catch it later on.
02:14 And so we'd like to encourage you to pray for each and every
02:21 presenter that is here during our Spring Camp Meeting 2012
02:27 Pillars of Prophecy. At this time we'd like to invite you to
02:31 pray. We invite you if it's possible for you to stand
02:36 and we're going to pray. We'd like to invite our viewers
02:39 and listeners all over the world to join us in prayer
02:41 because we really need God's blessings. Let us pray together.
02:45 Our loving heavenly Father. You are great and marvelous.
02:53 We worship you we honor you Lord and we ask you Father
02:59 to make your presence known to your children.
03:03 We pray Lord that as we open the scriptures
03:06 just as the 2 disciples who were marching, they were walking
03:12 on the road to Emmaus, that our hearts will burn within us
03:16 as we search the scriptures. We pray that you will be
03:20 with your servant, Pr. Hiram Rester. Bless him
03:24 with the Holy Spirit Lord we pray, and that every word
03:29 will come from your Throne of Grace. And Father,
03:33 we pray that all will be blessed all that are willing
03:40 and join in searching the scriptures.
03:43 Father there may be some that are confused and lost
03:47 looking for hope, looking for encouragement
03:50 and we pray that as they listen to this message
03:53 listen to the music that they will be inspired and encouraged
03:57 We pray for these blessings in Jesus' name. Amen.
04:02 You may be seated. At this time we're going to be blessed
04:09 by an instrumental piano piece by Sister Jill Morikone
04:15 and it is entitled "Gentle Shepherd Medley"
04:19 After this the next voice you will hear will be that of our
04:23 our Speaker for this hour, Pr. Hiram Rester.
04:26 May the Lord bless us as we study His Word.
08:19 Amen. What a blessing. Thank you Jill. Gentle shepherd medley.
08:24 As Jesus leads us as our gentle shepherd.
08:28 I'd like to welcome you here to- day to the 3ABN Camp Meeting
08:32 It's a blessing to be here. I'm having so much fun.
08:34 Is anyone else having fun at Camp Meeting?
08:36 Oh the Lord has just blessed. I've seen people as we traveled
08:40 in the years in evangelism, people from Indiana
08:43 people from Florida and really people from all over the place
08:47 There are some folks here from my home church in Springfield MO
08:50 to support us and encourage us and we're just thankful to
08:53 being here and people from church I used to pastor in MS
08:59 It's just great to come to camp meeting. I mentioned those
09:01 because each of you have folks that you're seeing probably here
09:05 at camp meeting that you might not have seen for a few years
09:08 How many of you are catching up with some folks and saying
09:10 this is just great! Well it's a privilege to be with you
09:14 and to have a moment to share something from the Word of God
09:18 that I'm excited about and I hope that it's a blessing to you
09:24 I'd like to encourage you to open your Bibles to Revelation
09:30 Revelation 14. Now here at 3ABN camp meeting
09:35 Three Angels Broadcasting Network here, we may think
09:39 that folks have heard enough and learned enough about
09:41 the 3 Angels Messages already but that's going to be
09:45 nonetheless the core of what we're going to talk about
09:48 here today, and I'd like to invite you to open your Bibles
09:51 to Revelation, chapter 14. I grew up down in South Mississippi
09:56 and when I was a teenager, me and my buddies Josh and Eli
10:00 would often go to a rope swing on Black Creek. We had two
10:05 major creeks in our town, Black Creek because you couldn't see
10:09 the bottom, it looked black and Red Creek because you could
10:11 and so that's what we called them I guess, I don't know
10:15 maybe they're named for some other reason
10:17 but we went to Black Creek because there was a rope swing
10:20 and we were going to go and enjoy swinging off the rope
10:22 swing and swimming for a little while. As Josh and Eli and I
10:26 my good buddies, we showed up there we discovered that at
10:29 the swim hole there were some teenage girls there
10:32 that we didn't know which immediately meant one thing
10:36 fellows, and what's that? We had to make complete idiots
10:42 out of ourselves. We were teenage boys. Why is it
10:45 that teenage boys think that to impress young ladies
10:49 they need to make idiots out of themselves? I don't know.
10:52 But we did. We showed up, we got ready to head into the water
10:57 and you know took off the shirts swam across trying to look cool
11:02 you know. This particular rope swing hung from a big water oak
11:08 that went out over the big, dark swim hole, some person that
11:13 was crazy I'd say, had climbed up there and tied a 3/4 inch
11:18 steel cable up in this tree. I'd say crazy because I'm horrified
11:21 of heights. My two fears are claustrophobia and heights
11:25 Worse thing that could happen to me is being thrown out
11:27 of an airplane in a box, it would just be awful ok.
11:30 But, somebody had climbed up in that tree and had hung
11:36 this cable. Every year someone would go and tie a new rope
11:39 to the eyelet at the end of the cable and on that rope would be
11:43 a metal bar or whatever we could get a hold of
11:47 an old bicycle handlebar was on there one year you know
11:50 but it worked. And if you swung off the bank you'd be up 15 feet
11:55 that was nice you know, you could do a little flip
11:57 then there was another oak tree which was at a slant
12:00 and you could crawl up that oak tree and stand there and
12:03 get the rope and you swing out and you might be up, you know
12:06 about 20-25 feet above the water and that was kinda
12:09 that would get you goin and then way, way back away from the bank
12:14 there was a skinny, I'm gettin outta the lights there,
12:17 there was a skinny pine tree that went up that someone
12:21 had come and nailed little pieces of 2x4s about this long
12:24 to this long, they weren't all the same length
12:27 on this little pine tree, and you could climb up it
12:31 as you held on to it for dear life because it was a skinny
12:33 little pine tree and they would throw you the rope and when
12:36 you caught it you would swing out and you might go 35 feet
12:40 above the water. You know you see on TV where people scream
12:43 when they fall all the way from a skyscraper down to the no, no
12:47 you can run out of air in 35 foot worth of screaming
12:50 Look, I had practiced back flips and I knew what I was gonna do
12:56 I was gonna go off the skinny pine tree and do a back flip.
12:59 Usually it took me several times to build up the adrenalin rush
13:02 before I would go off the pine tree. But I was a teenage boy
13:06 and there were teenage girls here, I already had the
13:08 adrenalin rush, I was ready to go off the pine tree. I had to
13:12 impress these young ladies. Well the problem is Josh beat me
13:17 over to the other side and he swung off and did the back flip
13:20 which is what I was gonna do right off the bank
13:23 I said, forget this I'm going for the big one, I'm going
13:26 on the one up the pine tree. I climbed up Eli threw me the rope
13:29 I caught it the first try al- though I almost fell when I did
13:33 and then instead of letting go and swinging I pushed backwards
13:38 off the pine tree to get the extra lift, I was gonna go for
13:42 a double back flip. You gotta impress them you know
13:46 faint heart never won fair lady right?
13:52 And as I came down outta that tree I'm rushing to the ground
13:56 and all of a sudden it begins to pull up and you know it's
13:59 now you go down and now you you're going against gravity
14:02 and it begins to go against your biceps, pull and all of a sudden
14:07 I felt this huge feeling of freedom come over me
14:13 the rope had broke and since I had done a belly flop
14:21 from about 40 foot in 6 inches of water
14:28 coz I hadn't got out over the swim hole yet.
14:31 No doubt the girls were impressed.
14:37 I was laying there in the most exquisite pain
14:42 Josh and Eli came running over are you ok? are you ok?
14:46 and I'm you know growling, don't touch me, I'm gonna kill ya
14:49 and they kinda grabbed me and drug me up to where my
14:52 head's on the sand so I won't drown and then
14:54 they went swimming with the girls!
14:58 But I discovered something that day and that is
15:01 I had trusted something would hold me up that didn't hold up
15:08 Now that's fine if it's a rope swing and it's a kid's story
15:12 it happened when you were a teenager
15:13 but what if you're trusting some thing to hold you up
15:15 your life alone, spiritually speaking,
15:18 and it doesn't hold you up? We are talking about Pillars
15:22 of Prophecy. The Pillars hold up a foundation. Yes or no?
15:29 Whether it's a rope holding you from above
15:31 or a pillar holding you from below, we're talking about
15:33 something to hold you up that won't let you down
15:36 Well my friends, as we get into the Word of God
15:40 what I'm here to share with you is that you have the stories
15:45 of the book of Genesis as a platform, or rather the pillars
15:50 to hold up the platform of the prophecies of the book
15:53 of Revelation. The title of our message
15:55 Genesis Pillars of Revelation's prophecies.
15:59 As we get into this my friends we're going to see
16:03 that the book of Genesis, my friends, is fundamental
16:09 foundation or pillar that holds up the prophecies of Revelation
16:14 What I'm about to tell you is this. We're gonna see it
16:17 we're gonna look at it. It's gonna be new for some of you
16:20 to look at for the first time but it's nothing new
16:22 it's been there all along in the Word of God
16:24 and that is that the Three Angels messages
16:28 contain an outline of the book of Genesis.
16:30 Now there's so much more. And there God's end time message
16:35 for a lost and dying world the 3 Angels messages are
16:38 but they're also are an outline of the Book of Genesis.
16:42 Now why is that so important?
16:44 Because Genesis is under attack today.
16:47 In fact those two books Genesis and Revelation
16:50 there are no two books that are attacked more than
16:54 Genesis and Revelation. Which is interesting for Jesus said
16:56 He's the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end.
16:58 The first and the last, right? And the beginning and the end
17:01 the first and the last are under attack.
17:03 Particularly the first 11 chapters of the book of Genesis
17:08 are said to be just allegories.
17:12 That they're just made up stories to represent something
17:16 that they didn't literally happen but my friends the fact
17:19 that they did literally happen is of vital importance
17:22 by the time you get to Revelation's prophecies.
17:25 Because if God didn't tell you the truth about
17:27 where you came from, what makes you think He's gonna tell you
17:30 the truth about where you're going?
17:31 Now let's dig into this. I'm going to give you a synopsis
17:36 very quick and then we'll go through it step by step by step.
17:39 You find that in the three Angels Messages
17:42 are outlined the creation, the global flood of Noah's day
17:46 the Tower of Babel and then Sodom and Gomorrah
17:51 right through the three Angels Messages and those are the very
17:54 stories in Genesis that are said to be allegories.
17:57 My friends, they are the found- ation, the pillars
18:01 of Revelation end time vital messages.
18:05 Let's look at this here, Rev 14 Have you had time to find it yet
18:09 Rev 14:6 and it says I saw another Angel flying
18:15 in the midst of heaven having everlasting Gospel to preach
18:19 to them that dwell on the earth and every nation and kindred and
18:22 tongue and people, saying with a what kind of voice, class?
18:25 That's right, with a loud voice Fear God and give glory to Him
18:31 for the hour of His judgment is come. Now if you have your Bible
18:35 with you you might want to circle the word judgment
18:37 if it's not circled already, it is going to be significant in
18:40 just a few moments, the hour of His judgment is come. Now
18:43 and worship Him that made heaven and earth and sea
18:48 and the fountains of waters or if you have another translation
18:52 it might say springs of waters that word fountains or springs
18:56 if you don't have it circled in your Bible you might wanna do so
18:59 it's gonna jump out at you and later when you review this
19:02 you're gonna wanna be able to remember it and see it
19:04 and so fountains or springs of water and you'll wanna keep
19:08 a finger or a bookmark or a ribbon or something
19:11 right here in Revelation 14 for entirety of our message today
19:16 We will come back to it constantly. With that in mind
19:19 go with me to the Ten Command- ments, Exodus 20 verse 11
19:23 Exodus 20:11, let's look there It says here, for in 6 days
19:31 the Lord made heaven and earth the sea and all that is in them
19:36 Exodus 20:11, it says in 6 days the Lord made heaven and earth
19:41 Now in the 1st Angel's message we find creation
19:44 Does it not say in Revelation 14 Worship Him that made
19:50 heaven and earth, the sea and the fountains of water.
19:57 Now as we look at this, it's very intriguing.
19:59 and you'll see it's very, just astounding, I mean
20:03 I decided to share it with you look here my friends, as we get
20:08 into this understand there's lot of ideas different places people
20:11 that are teaching that creation didn't happen in 6 literal days
20:16 and then God rested on a 7th day They say it happened over eons
20:20 over long ages and all of these kind of things, my friends
20:23 a couple of thousand years at least after creation
20:29 God wrote in stone with His own finger that He did it in 6 days.
20:34 And rested on the 7th. You're not just allegorizing
20:39 away the first few chapters of Genesis. The 10 commandments
20:43 are the only part of the Bible that God wrote down for us
20:46 Himself. Now the whole Bible is inspired no one's questioning
20:49 that here today, but the 10 commandments were written
20:52 Exodus 31:18 by the finger of God, yes or no?
20:57 And He said he made it in six and rested on the seventh.
21:00 And so, Rev 14:7 you know this quotes the 4th commandment
21:06 Worship Him that made heaven and earth and sea
21:09 But then John the Revelator, if you wanna compare
21:12 back and forth in your Bible Exodus 20 and verse 11
21:15 to Revelation 14:7 you'll see there is a difference
21:19 an intentional difference. You see John the Revelator said
21:23 Worship Him that made heaven and earth, the sea
21:26 and the fountains of waters. But God wrote on stone
21:32 what? all that in them is. John wrote fountains of waters
21:39 God wrote on stone all that in them is. So John quotes
21:45 part of it and breaks away, why is that? Did John not know the
21:49 whole commandment? No, that's not it.
21:52 He quotes the commandment partially in Revelation 10
21:55 and he has it same there or closer or he reflects that he
22:01 he knows it there but under inspiration of God he breaks
22:07 and he says fountain of waters why? because my friends it is a
22:13 reference to the flood. Go with me would you? I'm in Exodus 20
22:20 I'm going to Genesis 7:11 now The word for fountains there
22:25 in the Greek is the same word used in the Septuagint,
22:29 the Old Testament translated into Greek for
22:33 fountains of waters that broke up at the time of the flood
22:39 That's right. Now look at this Genesis 7:11, In the 600th year
22:44 of Noah's life, in the second month, the 17th day of the month
22:49 the fountains of the great deep were broken up.
22:54 And the windows of the heaven were opened.
22:58 That word fountains in the Septuagint
23:02 the Old Testament translated into Greek is the same word
23:06 used in Revelation 14:7 where it says Worship Him that
23:11 made heaven and earth, the sea and the fountains of waters
23:15 Incidentally, Rev 14:7 says the hour of His what has come?
23:19 Judgment. Now if you put fount- ains of waters from the flood
23:23 and the word judgment together, was there a judgment time
23:27 in the Old Testament? The world was judged in the time of Noah
23:32 Yes or no? Yeah. This begins to come alive. The 3 Angels Message
23:37 contain an outline of the book of Genesis, that's why Genesis
23:41 is so important. Genesis pillars of Revelation's prophecies.
23:46 Now as we dig into this I just want to point out, first of all
23:49 what does creation say about who God is? That's one of the reason
23:52 it's important. You see creation is not just about arguing
23:56 about what the Bible says though that's important
23:59 it's also important to go what does it say about who our God is
24:03 Did He create through millions and millions of years of pain
24:07 and suffering and death or is death a result of sin
24:12 because God gave free will and people chose to rebel against
24:16 God. My friends what you believe on either one of those
24:21 is a big deal because it goes right to the heart of what
24:24 what you believe who God is. Did God create death
24:28 or is the wages of sin death?
24:32 That's right. You see and by the way if you believe that death
24:36 existed before sin then you believe death exists before
24:39 it's Biblical cause which is sin and therefore you've denied
24:44 the underlying premise the under girding of the Gospel Message
24:48 that we need to be saved from sin because the wages of sin
24:53 is death. Yea there's so much more that could be said but the
24:56 clock's ticking and watch is coming so let's move ahead.
24:59 Alright? Praise the Lord for that. At the flood now you see
25:03 God's longsuffering. It says here in Genesis 7:11
25:08 that the flood came in the 600th year of Noah. Let's look at
25:11 something very quickly, very quickly ok. It came in the 600th
25:14 year of Noah. Go to Genesis 5 and it says in verse 25
25:19 Methuselah lived 187 years and begat Lamech.
25:23 Okay write down 187 and put a plus sign. You're gonna
25:28 put another number under that and add it up.
25:30 Now I'm from Mississippi so you are gonna help me with addition
25:34 No, I'm just jokin. It says here now in verse 28
25:37 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech 782 years
25:41 and begat sons and daughters and all the days of Methuselah
25:44 were 969 years and he died. He lived longer than anyone else
25:48 that ever lived. 969 years. Now it says here that he lived
25:53 187 years and begat Lamech. Now v.28, Lamech lived 182 years
25:59 so write 187 you've got that and underneath that write the + sign
26:04 and the number 182. Lamech lived 182 years and begat a son and he
26:10 he called his name, what? Noah Alright now most of you
26:15 have seen this before I'm not pointing out anything new
26:17 I'm just pointing out the long suffering of God and
26:19 the attribute of the character of the awesome God that we serve
26:23 And I'll show you how in just a moment.
26:25 If you add those 2 numbers together 182 and 187 you have
26:31 what? 369. Now how old was Methuselah when he died?
26:38 969. The flood came, we just read it in Genesis 7:11
26:44 in what year of Noah's life? 600 969 minus 600 and you have what?
26:52 369. That's how much older Methuselah was than Noah
26:59 Methuselah died the year of the flood.
27:03 The old man was a walking prophecy. When he passed the
27:08 end would come and he lived longer than anyone else
27:13 because God is longsuffering and merciful and wants to save
27:17 every person He possibly can.
27:20 Now there are some implications for that. We ask, why does
27:23 the Lord yet tarry just now. My friends the Lord is not tarrying
27:26 except for any reason that He wants to save as many people
27:29 as He possibly can, He passion- ately loves mankind though we
27:33 can't possibly understand how when we look at how we treat
27:36 each other. Go with me to a prophecy about the flood
27:39 in the New Testament. Very quickly now, we go to 2 Peter
27:42 chapter 3, 2 Peter and then we'll be going back to Rev 14
27:47 We see this here in 2nd Peter 3 2 Peter chapter 3
27:52 2nd Peter 3 we see it here together, something very
27:56 interesting. This is a prophecy that you will recognize
27:59 the beginning of from most 'A Prophecy Seminar' you might've
28:02 ever attended. Check this out. It says in 2 Peter 3,
28:06 knowing this, when? I guess I should've told you the verse
28:11 not just the chapter, would that be helpful? 2 Peter 3, verse 3
28:22 And so here we are, it says in 2 Peter 3:3, knowing this, when?
28:27 Now you're there, Praise the Lord. Knowing this first
28:31 that there shall come in the what days? Last days
28:34 what kinda folks? Scoffers walking after their own lust and
28:38 saying where is the promise of His coming?
28:40 For since the fathers fell asleep all things continue
28:43 as they were from the beginning of the creation.
28:46 Now we hear that in prophecy seminar, you know
28:48 we need to know this first, that there are scoffers
28:50 and they're scoffing at the idea that Jesus is coming again
28:53 But why are they scoffing? It has the promise of His coming
29:00 Since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were
29:03 As far back as you care to go in other words
29:05 from the beginning of the creation the uniformitarian
29:08 principle. The idea that this earth has been evolving for
29:12 eons, that for millions and millions of years
29:15 roughly 570 million years is how old they say the geologic column
29:20 supposedly is with the entombed fossils, the dead creatures
29:23 Ha! It predicts that they would deny the flood and buy into
29:31 deep age of the earth all things continue and these gradual
29:34 processes. In other words there was not a cataclysmic event
29:38 that did this, it was a slow gradual processes which means
29:42 death has existed supposedly for millions and millions of years
29:45 before man evolved and sinned. See the implications?
29:51 All things continue as they were from the beginning of creation
29:54 Say, are you wedging this in here, aren't you no, no.
29:57 Read on. For this they're will- ingly ignorant of
29:59 they willingly choose to ignore marine fossils
30:02 on every continent and the list goes on and on and on
30:05 that there was a global water catastrophe.
30:08 They're willingly ignorant of 'that by the Word of God
30:11 the heavens were of old and the earth standing out of the water
30:13 and in the water, the world that then was overflowed with water
30:17 or what? perished. But the heavens and the earth
30:21 which are now by the same order kept in store reserved unto fire
30:25 against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men
30:27 My friends, it's talking about the flood. It's a prophecy that
30:31 people will deny the flood, they will be willingly ignorant
30:36 that it happened. There is scientific evidence to point
30:39 that there was a global water catastrophe, that's the best
30:42 explanation. How else do you get fossil fuels?
30:47 I do creation conferences, I could spend several times, just
30:52 talking about this, just think about it.
30:53 How do you bury enough organic material to become oil and coal?
30:58 A cow that dies out in the pasture buzzards eat him,
31:00 he doesn't turn into oil. It has to be buried en masse
31:04 together for it to then go through the processes
31:09 to become fossil fuels. A global water catastrophe is the only
31:13 explanation that can logically be looked at when you look at
31:19 all the evidence I mean, it does not mean that the folks
31:21 that don't believe aren't smart there are some very, very smart
31:24 people with IQs off the charts that don't believe in creation
31:27 we understand this, but the Bible said and it prophesied
31:30 there'd be scoffers that would be willingly ignorant
31:32 they would deny the flood and as they denied he flood,
31:36 they then scoff at the idea that Jesus is coming soon.
31:39 This ties Genesis to end time events. Yes or No?
31:43 and it's a prophecy for right where we're at. Right now
31:46 in the text books they're teach- ing that these things developed
31:49 slowly over millions of years, I say no, they developed in
31:51 weeks and months at the flood.
31:55 Now, as we move along here this becomes interesting as well.
31:59 Go with me to Revelation 14:8. Revelation 14:8. The creation
32:03 and the flood go together. You see it's like this.
32:06 You hear a lot about intelligent design. Have you heard about
32:09 intelligent design today? Every one that is a creationist
32:14 believes in intelligent design. But not everyone that believes
32:16 in intelligent design believes in creation.
32:19 You know like all poodles are dogs but not all dogs are poodles.
32:26 It's that simple. Some people that believe in intelligent
32:29 design believe in something called theistic evolution.
32:32 That God guided the process of evolution, supposedly.
32:36 ok? No, creation means you believe the Bible story.
32:40 You believe God made the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th.
32:45 There is a difference. All creationists believe in
32:48 intelligent design but not all those that believe in
32:50 intelligent design are creation- ists. Now, with this in mind
32:54 creation and the flood go hand in hand.
32:56 Do you realize that if there was a global water catastrophe
32:59 that killed all the land animals that weren't on Noah's ark
33:05 that Natural Selection, Darwin's theory would have had to start
33:09 over when they got off of the ark?
33:15 You can't believe in deep time evolution and in the flood.
33:18 That's the crux. If the flood didn't happen then it must've
33:23 took millions of years for all those fossils under our feet
33:26 right here to form in the earth's crust.
33:30 But, if there was a flood it formed very rapidly.
33:33 And it's there as a testimony that God has judged the world
33:36 once for sin and will do so again. Hence it's tied together.
33:40 Now we've got to move along here Go with me to Revelation 14:8
33:43 Revelation 14:8. This gets interesting I'm telling you.
33:47 The 3 Angels messages are an outline of the book of Genesis
33:52 They contain so much more but the important end-time messages
33:56 to a lost and dying world from a loving, passionate God
34:00 actually contain an outline of Genesis.
34:02 That's the pillar, the found- ation under Revelations prophecy
34:06 We look here in verse 8, Rev 14 and there followed another angel
34:09 saying Babylon is fallen, is fallen that great city
34:12 because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath
34:15 of her fornication. Babylon. Now think of this as you turn
34:19 with me to Genesis 11. Keep your finger here, keep it marked
34:22 maybe a ribbon or something book mark there. Babylon was built
34:26 near the abandoned Tower of Babel and in Genesis 11
34:30 Genesis 11, a passage I went to many times over the years
34:34 in Prophecy Seminars we see this. Genesis 11
34:38 and look with me here in Genesis 11, verse 7, Go to let us go
34:42 go down and there confound their language that they many not
34:45 understand one another's speech so the Lord scattered them
34:47 abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth and they left
34:51 off to build the city. Therefore the name of it is called Babel
34:54 because the Lord did there con- found the language of all the
34:58 earth and from thence the Lord did scatter them abroad
35:01 upon the face of the earth. Babel means confusion. Therefore
35:07 spiritual Babylon is religious confusion in the last days.
35:11 This is what we often call a proof text for that
35:14 going right here. He called it Babel because He confounded
35:18 the language. It means confusion
35:22 Well the city of Babylon was built near the abandoned tower
35:27 It got its name from that. Now Revelation 18:4 tells us
35:33 In Revelation 18:4, turn with me to Genesis 15
35:36 while I quote that for you. It says in Revelation 18:4
35:39 And I heard another voice from heaven. If you hear a voice from
35:42 heaven you ought to listen. E.F. Hutton ain't got nothin on that ok
35:44 And so Revelation 18:4, and I heard another voice from heaven
35:48 and saying, come out of her, who? my people that you be not
35:54 partakers of her sins and that you receive not her plagues.
35:56 God calls His people out of Babylon. Now, remember
35:59 the 3 Angels messages contain an outline of the book of Genesis
36:02 Look here, in Genesis 15:7. And He said unto him, I am the Lord
36:06 that brought thee out of where? Ur of the Chaldees
36:12 You might want to underline that Ur of the Chaldees
36:14 to give thee this land to inherit it
36:18 Remember when Nebuchadnezzar couldn't remember his dream
36:20 and he called for the Chaldeans to come, the wise men, etc
36:26 Ok, Ur was in the territory of Babylon.
36:34 God called Abraham out of Babylon.
36:39 Abraham is called Father of the Faithful in the New Testament
36:42 Yes or no? If you are in Christ you are Abraham's seed and
36:47 heirs according to the promise Galatians says.
36:52 And Abraham the father of the faithful
36:55 was called out of Babylon as God's people are in Revelation.
37:00 Pretty neat isn't it? Now let's keep going. Go back with me
37:04 to Revelation 14:9 and 10. That is an important lesson for me.
37:08 I grew up in the Baptist church and I'm gonna tell you when
37:10 God confronts you with truth and you realize you have to make a
37:14 change, I was young it didn't impact me as much. My parents
37:18 were obviously old enough to be my parents, and so,
37:21 it was a much bigger deal for them in the Baptist Church
37:24 it was like leaving family, do you understand that?
37:27 Sometimes we go, oh that's being too harsh
37:29 to preach a message where folks may have to come apart you know
37:32 and separate themselves from, if they come to a point that truth
37:36 separates. But Abraham was called to leave his family
37:40 today we have a nomadic society, well it's not nomadic
37:42 a traveling society. I might go to this place and live
37:46 and then I'm talkin on the phone or I'm on the internet talkin
37:50 to family, right? Not then. To leave your family
37:55 was almost an unthinkable thing in Bible times. And Abraham
37:59 was called to do just that, yes or no?
38:01 Ok. As God called me to more truth the Sabbath truth
38:05 and others, I face that now. Revelation 14:9-10, you've had
38:09 time to turn there, to save time I'll just quote it.
38:11 And the 3rd Angel followed him saying with a what kinda voice?
38:14 Loud voice, if any man worship the beast and his image
38:16 or receive his mark in his fore- head or in his hand
38:19 the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God
38:21 which is poured out without mixture into the cup of His
38:23 indignation and he shall be tor- mented with fire and brimstone
38:26 in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of
38:30 the Lamb. The third angel. Go with me right here in
38:35 Genesis, to Genesis 18. Genesis 18. It says the Lord appeared to
38:42 him in the plains of Mamre, the Lord appeared to Abraham
38:45 ok? And he sat in the tent door in the heat. As he sat in the
38:50 tent door in the heat of the day and he lifted up his eyes and
38:52 looked and lo three men stood by him. And when he saw them he
38:56 ran to meet them from the tent door and bowed himself
39:00 toward the ground. You have the LORD and the Jehovah's Witness
39:05 Bible it will be translated Jehovah.
39:08 They have their own Bible right In case any of you get mixed up
39:11 SDA's and Jehovah's Witnesses, we often times get mixed up
39:15 with groups folk aren't familiar with, we're not the same
39:20 In fact I'm going to share with you a verse that if you have
39:24 friends and family that are Jehovah's Witness or
39:26 somebody comes knockin on your door trying to be a witness
39:29 their hearts in the right place Praise God, that you could share
39:31 with them right here. I'll point that out to you in just a second
39:35 Look at verse 20. Genesis 18:20 And the Lord said, because the
39:39 cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great and because their sin
39:42 is very grievous I will go down now and see whether they have
39:45 altogether according to the cry of it which is come unto me
39:48 and if not, I will know. And the men turned their faces from
39:53 thence and went towards Sodom but Abraham stood yet before
39:56 the Lord and Abraham drew near and said, Wilt Thou also destroy
39:59 the righteous with the wicked? And you again see a glimpse
40:02 into the heart of God, the character of God as Abraham
40:06 negotiates with Him. About saving the righteous people.
40:10 And in the end, although some of us might debate a little bit
40:14 as you look at the behavior of Lot's family whether righteous
40:17 people were saved but that's not for us to judge.
40:19 Can you say amen? God did save people out of that city.
40:25 He did. God is compassionate and loving and as we look at this
40:29 my friends, notice he talks with the Lord. Go to Genesis 19:24
40:35 Genesis 19:24. I hope you don't mind looking in your Bibles and
40:38 going from passage to passage as we see this come alive for us
40:41 today in Bible Prophecy. Check it out. Then the LORD Jehovah
40:47 rained upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord
40:51 LORD Jehovah out of heaven. Your Jehovah Witness friends
40:56 ask them about the two Jehovah's
40:58 I've tried, who are the two Jehovah's, those two
41:01 The LORD who is on earth talking to Abraham, yes or no?
41:06 rained fire and brimstone from the LORD out of heaven.
41:11 Jesus is not a god, a little god Jesus is GOD my friends
41:15 He's part of the Godhead. Can you say Amen?
41:18 You had Jehovah on earth and you had Jehovah in heaven
41:21 at the same time. I've seen they will look at you,
41:24 they'll look back at it. Jehovah on earth, Jehovah in heaven.
41:30 That's right. Jehovah in two different places at the same time
41:35 It's this verse, the one we're
41:40 Genesis 19:24 but you want to read the earlier
41:43 and show that the Lord was on earth talking to Abraham
41:46 Right? And then you show the Lord who's on earth talking to
41:49 Abraham rained fire and brim stone from the Lord Jehovah
41:51 out of heaven. Now with this in mind what I want to point out
41:55 to you is it says the 3rd angel people that receive the mark
42:00 of the beast, they're going to receive fire and brimstone
42:05 that comes from, this is the only other place I'm familiar
42:08 within Scripture where speci- fically talks about it like that
42:10 fire and brimstone from heaven. OK? Except at the very very end
42:15 Now also pay attention to this. It says that they receive fire
42:23 and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the
42:25 presence of the who? the Lamb and that is Jesus
42:28 who was the LORD that was talking to Abraham here, the
42:31 pre-incarnate Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin
42:33 of the world, yes or no? And then angels went ahead to Sodom
42:37 and Gomorrah. Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed with fire
42:40 and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels
42:42 and in the presence of the Lamb.
42:45 So it all begins to come to- gether. The 3 Angels messages
42:48 though they're so much more are an outline
42:51 of the book of Genesis and the battle over beginnings
42:54 is so important my friends. These first few chapters
42:59 if you allegorize away these first few chapters of Genesis
43:02 you have no foundation for your end time message.
43:07 That's why the devil is attacking it.
43:09 The devil wants to just turn termites loose in your basement
43:12 That's what he's trying to do, yes or no?
43:15 They just eat, eat, eat and you are up there living, Oh man
43:18 I got a nice strong house while your foundation is beginning
43:21 to cave in. This is so import- ant I cannot over emphasize it
43:25 for you today. Revelation 14:12 Let's look there. Rev 14:12.
43:31 we see it together in the Word of God. Check it out. It says
43:34 in Revelation 14:12, here is the patience of the saints
43:38 here are they that what? keep the commandments of God
43:45 and have the faith of Jesus. Folks I just misread that verse
43:49 I'll let you think about that for a moment
43:51 You said no you read exactly what was there, yes I did and I
43:55 I misread it. But we'll come back to that
43:57 hang that on a hook in your mind
43:58 Genesis 26:5, I'm just going to turn there and come right back
44:03 if you want to read it with me I could quote it for you
44:05 but I want to turn there, give you time to turn there
44:07 or at least make an attempt to get there
44:09 We are trying to get done, see the Production Managers
44:13 think we're trying to get done in the next few minutes
44:15 because we go off air, but the rest of us know it's because
44:17 lunch is served when this is over, right?
44:20 And so we go to Genesis 26:5 Because Abraham obeyed my voice
44:30 and kept my charge, my what? my commandments, my statutes
44:34 and my laws and so again in Genesis, Abraham is keeping
44:39 God's commandments. You continue to see that the 3 Angels Message
44:44 are an outline, of at least parts of the book of Genesis.
44:47 Wow! When I began to see this I am like this is amazing!
44:52 I was doing creation conferences you know I do prophecy seminars
44:56 and after doing that several years God began to show me that
44:58 everything that you preach with prophecy emphasis
45:01 you can start with Genesis because everything that ends
45:04 in Revelation starts in Genesis. Mark of the Beast,
45:08 you got the mark of Cain, that's where it came from
45:10 right there in Genesis 4. Sabbath, yeah you can look at
45:13 that in Genesis 2, right? State of the dead - what Adventist
45:16 evangelists doesn't use Gen 2:7 and it's right at the beginning
45:20 in the state of the dead message State of the Dead is not Florida
45:22 where Americans move and die it's a condition of man in death
45:25 Just for those of you that did not know. Genesis 2:7
45:28 The Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and
45:29 breathed in his nostrils the breath of life and
45:31 man became a living soul, right? You start right there. All of
45:34 these great truths, even modesty you find there. When Adam
45:37 and Eve made themselves aprons and girdles of fig leaves
45:40 then God clothed them with coats of skins
45:44 Contrast the word girdle or apron with coat
45:47 and sometimes when people today are wearing girdles I think
45:50 the Lord would prefer for them to put a coat on.
45:52 And so you can see all of it it all comes right there, right?
45:55 It all comes right from Genesis.
45:59 And you can go right to Revelation and then when you tie
46:02 in and show, let me show you Revelation's outline in Genesis
46:05 in a creation conference, now you can share with them the
46:08 the prophecies. I will say that I did not have success
46:11 just preaching the message from the creation standpoint
46:14 as an evangelist, I would get to the end and people would
46:16 they didn't make decisions right then like an evangelist
46:20 like I was hoping to see. Today is the day of salvation
46:23 choose you this day whom you will serve etc
46:25 It wasn't until I put it back in a prophetic context
46:28 and showed them this outline prophecy creates a framework in
46:31 which people realize the need to make a decision now.
46:34 That's why we have a prophetic message no matter how you teach
46:38 our message it needs to have the prophetic undergirding friends
46:42 Now we're talking about pillars of prophecy that's appropriate
46:45 right? Now back to Rev 14:12 You said you misread that verse
46:50 Yes I did and some of you helped me do it.
46:53 And that's the only way I read it for years.
46:57 You said you misread it? Let's try it again.
47:00 Here is the patience of the saints, you're all gun shy
47:03 to help me now, are you? Are you gonna help me?
47:05 Help me out. Here is the patience of the saints
47:08 Here are they that keep the commandments of God
47:13 and the faith of Jesus. Now why is that misreading the verse?
47:19 It is the wrong emphasis.
47:25 What is the emphasis of that verse?
47:27 In the Three Angels Messages, the farther you go into them
47:31 the more important the issues get. Especially in the third
47:34 angel's message. The faith of Jesus is a most important thing
47:39 in these messages. The mark of the beast, the Sabbath,
47:42 all of that is important, but folks people cannot do anything
47:46 from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday and still go to hell.
47:50 You didn't say Amen to that one did I step on your toes?
47:54 My friends it's only through Jesus we're gonna get there.
47:58 John 14:6, He says I am the way the truth and the life
48:02 No man cometh unto the Father but by Me.
48:06 In fact my friends, the Jewish people even right now observe
48:09 and don't do anything. They keep it more strict than we do, they
48:12 won't turn on the light switch or drive a car on the Sabbath
48:14 hours a lot of times, do they? But they haven't accepted Jesus
48:19 by and large as their personal Savior
48:22 My friends, there is none other name given among men whereby
48:25 ye must be saved. That's Jesus. Now no doubt the Lord can work
48:29 with people that have never had opportunity, nobody's talking
48:32 about that right now. But you understand the point. The faith
48:35 of Jesus. See, Here's the way and that's the way I read it
48:38 for 10 years as I traveled on the road as an evangelist,
48:41 for ten and a half years, that's the way I read it.
48:43 The commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
48:46 No my friends, they keep the commandments of God
48:51 Why? Because they have the faith of Jesus.
48:55 The faith of Jesus. Jesus must be exalted, higher
49:00 and yet higher still. My friends you're not going to draw anyone
49:05 to Jesus with true conversion through legalism, through
49:09 pushing the law down their throats
49:11 You're gonna have to show them a deliverer that frees them from
49:16 Egypt, from sin and then gives them the commandments
49:20 because He loves them. That's my God, that's my Savior,
49:24 that's the God I worship and as we look here at this,
49:26 this is amazing. Now notice the three Angels Messages begin
49:31 and end with the Gospel. Revelation 14:6, look at it.
49:35 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven having the
49:38 everlasting gospel, the ever- lasting what? Gospel to preach
49:42 to proclaim to those who are on the earth.
49:47 And then it ends with the Gospel, does it not?
49:48 Rev 14:12, Here's the patience of the saints, here are they
49:54 that keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.
50:02 My friends, have you ever read under the pen of inspiration
50:08 how it says that justification by faith is the third angel's
50:13 message in verity? Have you read that?
50:16 Have you like me ever wondered how in the world that could be?
50:21 I'm not jokin. I was preaching the message folks. Seeing people
50:25 baptized in my meetings. And I'd read that and go,
50:30 I believe it, it says it but I ain't figured that one out yet.
50:32 I mean, how could justification by faith be, And the third angel
50:39 followed him saying with a loud voice if any man worships the
50:41 beast and his image and receives his mark on his forehead or
50:42 his hand, the same shall drink wine of the wrath of God
50:44 which is poured out without mixture into the cup of His
50:46 indignation and he shall be tor- mented with fire and brimstone
50:48 in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence
50:50 of the Lamb. How is that justification by faith?
50:56 I believe it, I read a quote, it made sense
51:00 except I didn't get it. So I guess it didn't make sense
51:02 But, I was working on it. I have to be one of those people
51:06 that when I have questions I can put them on a shelf till
51:08 God decides to answer them for me and keep on movin.
51:12 If you can't do that then you're likely to get tripped up
51:15 somewhere coz we have things we don't have answers for
51:19 God finally gave me the answer and some of you got it
51:21 right away, first time you ever read it you probably got it.
51:23 And it was hid from me as if there were some glasses on
51:27 I just didn't see it until God decided to open my eyes.
51:30 As the scales fell from my eyes here's what I saw
51:36 The third Angel's message does not end in verse 9 or 10
51:39 it ends in verse 12. Here's the patience of the saints
51:47 The patient endurance of the saints. Here are they that keep
51:50 the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus
51:56 There's your justification by faith, faith of Jesus
52:02 The third Angel's message in verity in truth is what it means
52:09 My friends that's the third Angel's message in truth,
52:12 in verity is justification by faith. The other has to be
52:18 preached to all the world. It all has to be preached
52:20 though, not just the tough part. The hard part, you know
52:27 I discovered something in Adventist or like other churches
52:30 We, and I see this in the begin- ning of prophecy seminars
52:33 if I'm talking for instance, about homosexuality, or
52:36 you know what the Bible says about that or I'm talkin about
52:39 shackin up, you call it that around here, that's what they
52:42 call it down in Mississippi, when two folks
52:44 live together, shouldn't be living together
52:45 they're shackin up. And the Baptists and the Pentecostals
52:50 will shout Amen louder than anything you've ever heard
52:52 but when you start steppin on their own toes
52:54 even though they still know it's true it gets quiet.
52:57 We like it when someone tells it like it is as long as
53:02 they're tellin it about somebody else.
53:06 Yes or no? Yes. So if you get quiet, I don't worry I just know
53:12 that the Holy Spirit is finally speaking to us, and praise God
53:15 for that, we need it in our hearts and lives.
53:18 My friends, this is so important
53:23 As the scales fell from my eyes I realized that justification
53:26 by faith is the third Angel's message in verity
53:29 I had been emphasizing the first part of the third Angels message
53:33 above the last part. And the last part is God's main emphasis
53:39 It all must be preached. No one is trying to take anything away
53:42 you understand that? But my friends as I saw this
53:45 it's impacted my ministry, it's changed the way I view things
53:49 I will tell you that. And those stories in Genesis, creation
53:54 worship Him that made heaven and earth, the flood, the seas
53:57 and the fountains, the Greek word, for the fountains that
54:01 broke up in judgment in that and then Babylon's fallen, the tower
54:06 of Babel and Abraham literally being called out of Babylon.
54:10 And then the third Angel said with a loud voice,
54:14 and of course it has destruction with fire and brimstone, and
54:18 you have Sodom and Gomorrah, and you go on and Abraham's keeping
54:22 the commandments. These are literal stories that Genesis
54:25 is based upon and each of these stories has something
54:28 interesting to say about who God is. Tower of Babel, God didn't
54:31 just decide to wipe em out. He gave them new languages and
54:35 gave them another chance. Yes or no? You can see the compassion
54:41 you can see keys to the character of God
54:44 in each of these stories that brings it out to us
54:47 And even as God calls people out of Babylon right now
54:49 He says come out of her, who? the majority of God's people
54:53 right now we're told are in spiritual Babylon, did you know?
54:56 And they're His people. That's right. Now as we delve into this
55:03 this is going to be interesting to finish up, we're not done.
55:08 My friends, as we consider this closing point today
55:14 I want you to see something and that is in Genesis you find
55:18 the gospel. You have Abraham and God said, take thine only son
55:24 Isaac. Now he had Ishmael but Isaac was the son of promise.
55:27 and that emphasis, thine only son Isaac, there was an emphasis
55:30 in that for later as well. And God was actually contrasting, He
55:34 didn't let Abraham sacrifice Isaac because the true God
55:38 was not like the pagan gods, or like people thought the supposed
55:41 pagan gods were. He wouldn't want to accept human sacrifice.
55:45 He was stopped at the last moment and that ram was caught
55:49 by his horns in the thorns, he was wearing a crown of thorns
55:54 if you will, and that ram took Isaac's place, you see the
55:57 substitutionary death of Jesus on our behalf, justification
56:02 by faith. We are told Abraham believed God and it was counted
56:05 to him for righteousness. Well, I want you to see this. This is
56:10 very important in the story line my friends,
56:16 John 3:16, God so loved the world that He gave His only
56:19 begotten son that whosoever believeth in Him should not
56:23 perish but have everlasting life As Abraham thought he was giving
56:28 up his son, he was in a small way wrestling through what God
56:33 did, to give up Jesus for you and me.
56:36 I have a son. I have three kids, I can't imagine giving up any
56:40 one of em for anybody else on the planet. Just thinking about
56:44 that will stretch your mind beyond where you wanna go.
56:48 But I'm going to close now with four things God doesn't know.
56:52 You say, wait God knows every thing. Yeah, except the four
56:56 things He doesn't know. He does not know a sin He doesn't hate
56:58 He doesn't know a sinner He doesn't love
57:01 He doesn't know anything else He could do to save you
57:04 and He doesn't know a better time than right now.
57:07 For today is the day of salvation.
57:10 Make Him the Savior of your heart and life right now.


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