Participants: Pr. Kenneth Cox
Series Code: RJC
Program Code: RJC000021
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00:22 And welcome to each one of you.
00:25 We're glad that you're back to take a look at the 00:28 end of the 14th chapter 00:31 of the book of Revelation 00:33 in this series that we're doing 00:35 on the Revelation of Jesus Christ. 00:38 And we have just chapter by chapter 00:42 gone through the book of Revelation. 00:45 And we will continue going through the book of Revelation. 00:50 But it tells us a lot of wonderful things 00:53 that God has in store for you and for me and all. 00:58 So if you're watching by television 01:01 we thank you for joining us. 01:03 We pray that what you're learning will be a help to you. 01:06 Or if you're listening by radio 01:08 and in this day and age you can be sitting at your computer 01:12 and watching it by the Internet. 01:15 So we just... whatever method by which you're 01:18 watching the program we're welcoming you 01:21 and glad that you have tuned in and all. 01:25 As I mentioned, we're down to the last part 01:28 of the 14th chapter. 01:31 And our subject today is entitled: 01:36 Because the end of the 14th chapter 01:39 talks about Jesus coming back 01:43 and that's what we'll be looking at. 01:45 Uh, after this we move into a subject that 01:50 uh, carries a lot of... how should I say? 01:54 not very pleasant things, 01:56 and that is the seven last plagues. 02:00 Seven last plagues that will be poured out 02:03 at the end of time. 02:07 I want to just say to you before even we get into this 02:09 next subject on the seven last plagues 02:13 remember the seven last plagues do not fall on the righteous. 02:20 You understand that? 02:22 Seven last plagues do not fall on the righteous. 02:25 Psalm 91 makes it very clear. 02:28 Says: "No plague shall come nigh your dwelling. " 02:31 So that the righteous aren't going to receive 02:36 any of the seven last plagues. 02:38 But you will observe them. 02:41 And I'm sure a lot of things will be happening all around. 02:44 But you need to understand what they are, 02:47 and that's what we'll be looking at in our next presentation. 02:50 But today we're talking about the coming of Jesus Christ... 02:55 an event that we look forward to. 02:58 Christ is going to come back, set up His kingdom. 03:03 And He has certain things that He's looking for... 03:07 certain things that He's waiting on, folks. 03:11 And that's what we're going to look at here in this 03:14 presentation: some of the things that He's waiting on 03:17 and all before He comes back. 03:20 So get out your Bible. 03:23 Get you a pad and pencil and take notes 03:27 and follow as we talk about the coming of Jesus Christ. 03:32 Over the years, 03:35 I personally have been blessed 03:39 in a special way by the music of Dona Klein. 03:44 Playing the organ and then also singing for us. 03:49 It has just been a real, real blessing to work with her. 03:55 And we thank her for giving her life to the Lord 03:58 and serving Him and sharing her talent with each one of us. 04:03 And she's going to sing for us in this presentation. 04:08 And her song is going to be 04:09 Heaven's Sounding Sweeter All The Time. 04:13 Beautiful, beautiful song. 04:15 But before she does, Chuck Allgaier is going to come 04:19 and he's going to read to you the scripture 04:22 that deals with our subject here in this presentation. 04:25 And then Dona will sing. 04:30 Good afternoon. Afternoon. 04:32 And if you have your Bibles, we're going to continue on 04:34 in Revelation, Revelation chapter 14. 04:37 So if you have your Bibles, let's turn to Revelation 04:40 chapter 14. We're going to read 14 through 20. 04:45 Verses 14 through 20. 04:47 Let's read together: 06:19 My life that once was good 06:25 is not the same. 06:30 But when I'm down God gives me strength 06:37 to rise again. 06:43 And when I'm weary 06:46 with the struggle of it all 06:55 then I listen... 06:59 how I listen for His call. 07:08 Heaven is sounding sweeter 07:14 all the time. 07:19 It seems like lately 07:24 it's always on my mind. 07:33 And someday 07:36 I'll leave this world behind. 07:45 Heaven is sounding sweeter 07:51 all the time. 08:10 I know the joy 08:12 and know that Jesus is coming again. 08:16 But I know how hard it is to lose a loved one to the grave. 08:22 But I know, too, that we have a precious promise 08:26 that Jesus gave. 08:33 That God will wipe these teardrops 08:40 from our eyes 08:45 when we meet Him 08:49 in that land beyond the sky. 08:55 Sing with me... 08:58 Heaven is sounding sweeter 09:04 all the time. 09:08 It seems like lately 09:12 it's always 09:16 on my mind. 09:22 And someday 09:25 we'll leave this old world behind. 09:34 Heaven is sounding sweeter 09:40 all the time. 09:45 Yes, heaven 09:48 is sounding sweeter 09:52 all the time. 10:17 Father in heaven, we look anxiously 10:21 towards that day when You're coming back. 10:28 We ask that each of us may purpose in our hearts 10:34 to be in Your kingdom. 10:37 Not to permit anything to stand in our way. 10:44 We invite You, Lord, to be with us. 10:50 May the Holy Spirit come in. 10:55 May His presence be felt. 10:59 May each one of us be given wisdom and understanding 11:05 and enlightenment that we may understand 11:10 Your voice and Your Word 11:13 and to walk in the light of what Your Word teaches. 11:19 Keep us... keep us, Lord, close to You 11:23 and direct our lives. We pray in Christ's name, Amen. 11:35 Well, we have looked at three angels. 11:39 Those three angels have given their message 11:45 that God had given them with a loud voice. 11:49 That message - the scripture makes it clear - to go to 11:54 all the world, because in Bible prophecy 11:57 when it uses angels in this sense, it represents a message 12:01 that's to be carried to the whole world. 12:03 And these three angels had messages 12:06 that the whole world is to hear in preparation for Jesus Christ, 12:11 for His return. 12:13 And they've sounded their message... they've given it. 12:16 And now the next thing it says is to take place 12:19 is the coming of Jesus Christ. 12:22 And so we read here in Revelation the 14th chapter 12:27 and the 14th verse... it says: 12:42 So here sits One on this cloud 12:49 like the Son of Man. 12:53 Actually the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords. 12:58 Has a crown on His head, 13:01 sickle in His hand. 13:03 He's coming back. 13:05 I'm so thankful... I'm so thankful that that text says 13:10 that "One like the Son of Man. " 13:16 I'm glad it didn't say: "some being from another planet. " 13:22 You know? I'm glad it says: "One like the Son of Man. " 13:26 One that I know. 13:29 One that can by sympathetic with me. 13:33 One that can understand the trials and the heartaches 13:37 and all the things that we go through. 13:39 He's been here... He's gone through it. 13:42 He's experienced it. He knows what those are. 13:45 And so this is One that you and I 13:50 know. 13:52 You see, it's very, very important that you know Him. 13:57 And when I say know Him 13:59 I don't... I'm not talking about on a casual acquaintance. 14:03 I'm talking about knowing Him and knowing Him 14:07 in a very, very intimate way. 14:11 Because it says very clearly that when He comes back, 14:15 one of the... as far as I'm concerned the 14:17 most terrible words in all the scripture is when He says: 14:20 "I don't know you. " 14:21 You know, you need to know Him. 14:25 And here's "One like the Son of Man" that was here. 14:28 Walked among us... cared for us. 14:31 Died for us, and day by day is willing to be with us 14:36 and care for us and direct us and help us and comfort us 14:40 and give us those things that we need to walk and live for Him 14:45 day by day. 14:46 Does that. The same Jesus 14:51 that loved the little children. 14:55 The same Jesus that healed the sick. 15:00 The same Jesus that came and died for you and me 15:05 is coming back. 15:07 "One like the Son of Man. " 15:11 But it says that He has in His hand a sickle. 15:17 A sickle is used for reaping, 15:22 so He's coming back to reap. 15:26 And the picture here in Revelation the 14th chapter 15:29 is a picture of Him coming to reap the harvest. 15:34 That's what He's coming to do. 15:36 So He has a sickle in His hand 15:38 and He's there to reap the harvest of the earth. 15:42 And it tells us clearly that this is what has happened: 15:52 speaking of Christ... 16:02 So one thing that's necessary for the coming of Christ 16:06 is the harvest has to be ripe. 16:10 And he says: "The harvest is ripe. 16:12 Come, thrust in Your sickle. Reap, for the harvest is ripe. " 16:18 OK. So who... who is being reaped here 16:24 when it talks about it? 16:25 Well, it's clear that the time has come because it says: 16:40 So all those who go contrary to God, 16:46 are opposed to the Word of God, 16:48 are opposed to the Lord... 16:50 these people are all following the beast. 16:56 Going with the beast. 16:58 These... all of the wicked... They have made their decision. 17:05 They have sealed their decision; 17:08 therefore, that time has come. 17:11 The cup - if you please... God is so merciful, 17:15 so kind, and He has waited - patiently waited - 17:20 till the cup of iniquity was full. 17:24 And when that cup of iniquity is full 17:27 then that is when the curtain falls and it's done. 17:31 And in this case, they've done that. 17:34 They've all turned... followed the beast 17:37 and doing what he says. 17:40 At the same time it says: 17:59 So here they are... there are all the righteous. 18:04 They have put themselves on the side of the Lamb. 18:09 They are followers of Christ 18:12 and they have victory over the beast and over his image 18:15 and over his mark. They have chosen which side they're on. 18:19 So both sides have made their decisions 18:22 and the time has come for Him to reap the harvest. 18:28 This is what is taking place. 18:39 When Jesus was here on earth 18:41 He told a parable. 18:44 He told a parable about this harvest 18:48 that He is going to reap. 18:50 And He said that a man went out 18:53 and sowed his field, 18:56 and that he sowed it with good seed. 19:01 And while he was asleep 19:06 the enemy came and sowed tares or weeds in the field. 19:13 And when the wheat began to come up, so came up the tares. 19:19 And his servants went to him and they said: "Lord, 19:22 when you sowed the wheat, didn't you use good grain? " 19:26 And he said: "Yes. " 19:28 And they said: "Well, there's tares in with the wheat. 19:33 What do you want us to do... go and pull them up? " 19:36 And he said: "No, let the wheat and the tares 19:42 grow together until the harvest 19:46 and then we will separate the wheat from the tares. 19:53 The tares will be bound into bundles and burned. " 19:57 Well, after Christ had told that parable to the people 20:01 and all and after they had left 20:05 His disciples came to Him and they said: 20:07 "Tell us what You meant by this parable. 20:10 Explain it to us. " 20:12 And so Jesus explained the parable to them, 20:16 and this is what He said: 20:25 So it's very, very clear that Christ is the One 20:29 that sows the good seed. 20:32 This is the seed. Christ is the One that sows it, 20:36 and therefore you and I are to come and we are to find 20:41 what the good seed is. 20:44 OK. Sowed good seed. 20:47 All right, let's go on. He says: 21:10 And so He's clearly divided up, and as I told you 21:15 previous one... there isn't three sides, folks. 21:20 We... we mustn't... we mustn't try to make three sides. 21:26 There's either the wheat and the tares. 21:28 They're one or the other. That's the way the scripture is. 21:31 It does that all the way through... 21:33 it talks about the sheep and the goats. 21:35 Talks about the righteous and the unrighteous. 21:37 Never talks about a third one. 21:40 Talks about two: one side or the other. 21:43 So that's what you have here. 21:45 OK. Seed - good seed - are the righteous, sons of the kingdom. 21:50 The tares are the sons of the wicked one. 22:15 OK, so it's lined everything up. 22:18 We've got the good seed: this is the righteous. 22:22 The tares are the wicked. 22:24 The harvest is the end of the age, 22:29 and the reapers are the angels. 22:32 This is how it's divided up. 22:43 So scripture makes it clear at the end all the tares 22:48 are going to be gathered and gathered into bundles 22:51 and they will be burned. 23:07 In other words He said He's going to send out His angels. 23:11 They're the reapers. They're going to gather 23:13 all those that offend. They'll be bound into bundles 23:18 and burned. That is how it will come to an end. 23:32 Going to take them and cast them into the furnace 23:35 and that will be the end of them. 23:51 This is what Christ describes is to take place 23:56 when He comes back and the reaping is to take place. 24:00 It behooves you and me 24:05 to make sure that we are what? 24:11 That we are the wheat... not the tares. 24:15 Got to be the wheat... that's most important 24:19 that we are. All right: 24:30 So He who sat on the cloud... 24:32 Christ who is sitting on the cloud... 24:34 is going to thrust in His sickle, and the earth 24:37 is going to be reaped. 24:41 This is what is going to happen. 24:56 Who... when Christ thrusts in His sickle 25:00 and reaps the earth... 25:02 who is He reaping? 25:07 Well if you read it carefully, He's reaping the righteous. 25:11 That's who He's reaping here is the righteous. 25:14 Cast in... thrust in His sickle, began to reap the earth. 25:19 And who He is reaping is the wheat. 25:23 That's what He's gathering here. 25:26 And it speaks of them here 25:27 that these wheat... or those that follow the Lord... 25:31 have the seal of God. 25:54 So it says here, you know: "Don't reap it... " 25:57 don't do... "leave it alone 25:59 until we have sealed the servants of our God 26:03 on their foreheads. " 26:07 Now dear friends, this takes place before Jesus comes. 26:13 The sealing here of God's people does not take place 26:18 after He comes. 26:20 This takes place before He comes. 26:22 This is what is supposed to be going on 26:27 now. 26:30 This is what is supposed to be going on now. 26:33 God is supposed to be sealing His people. 26:38 Do you know what it means by sealing? 26:40 Do you know what that's talking about? 26:42 That is a settling in to the truth. 26:46 That's what the sealing is: the settling in into the truth. 26:51 That means that I pick up the Word of God 26:56 and I read it and I understand what it's saying. 27:02 And I settle into that and I say "This is what I believe. " 27:07 "This is what I believe. This is what the Word of God teaches. " 27:13 And I settle into that, 27:15 and by settling into that I mean I don't permit 27:19 anything to change me. 27:24 I run onto people that... they... 27:28 they talk to me and they give all kinds of excuses 27:33 for not doing what the scripture says. 27:38 You know, no... 27:41 I have to settle into the truth and I don't let those things 27:46 keep me from doing what the scripture says. 27:51 I'll be very honest with you, 27:53 I've been a lot of times and cases 27:56 where I did not like the circumstances. 28:02 I didn't like the circumstances what was happening at all, 28:07 but I still had to stand for what the Word of God says. 28:14 And so I have to settle into the truth. 28:17 And this is what He means by sealing the servants of our God 28:21 in their foreheads. That means that in my belief 28:25 I am solid... I don't deviate from that. 28:30 OK. 28:40 I settle into the truth. I say: "This is what it says; 28:45 this is what I believe, " and I follow it by faith. 28:50 That's how I follow it: by faith. 28:52 Even though the way may not be clear, 28:56 I still follow by faith. 29:00 I walk with Him in faith 29:04 knowing that He is more than capable of taking care of me. 29:09 Now folks, what I'm talking to you about 29:11 is what needs to be going on in your life today 29:17 because you need to be preparing for the coming of Jesus. 29:21 And this is what needs to be going on in your life 29:24 right now today. Not some other time... 29:29 but now we need to be doing this. 29:41 You see, He gave us the Sabbath to be a sign. 29:46 A sign - if you please - of this very thing. 29:50 It's a sign that you and I have committed our life 29:56 to God regardless of what the world has to say. 30:01 The world goes a different direction all together. 30:04 I CANNOT go by what the world is saying. 30:10 I have to go by what the Word of God says, 30:15 and therefore the Sabbath is a sign 30:21 that He is able to sanctify us. 30:27 Now, when it says He is able to sanctify us, folks, 30:32 that means that He's able to... 30:36 You know what that means? 30:39 He's able to change you and me. 30:45 That's what it means... He's able to change us: 30:48 to make us into what He wants us to be. 30:54 And the Sabbath is a sign of this because He said 30:59 "I took a day and I made a day holy... 31:03 so I can also make you holy. " 31:14 It's a protection. 31:18 You see, as long as the Sabbath's there, folks, 31:23 and kept, it is a protection. It's a barrier against humanism, 31:29 against evolution. 31:31 It's a barrier against pride and arrogance of man. 31:35 It's a barrier against all of those things 31:38 because I have to accept that by faith. 31:44 That's how I have to accept it is by faith 31:48 that God is more than capable of taking care of me. 31:54 That He - if you please - 31:58 can put food on my table, 32:01 clothes on my back. 32:05 That He is capable of doing this. 32:09 It does one other thing, too. 32:12 Every Sabbath that rolls around 32:16 it is a constant reminder to you and to me 32:22 that God 32:26 is the One who makes something holy. 32:31 That He's the One who changes things. 32:34 That it is the work of God; it is NOT the work of man. 32:40 This is what He does for each one of us. 32:49 Now you can't have... well, I shouldn't say you can't... 32:52 but you shouldn't. You shouldn't have a harvest 32:55 until the fruit is ripe. 32:59 See? And so Christ is patiently waiting on the fruit 33:05 to get ripe. 33:07 That's what He's waiting on. 33:09 And so it says... it's here. It says here: 33:32 Now it says that the righteous 33:37 are going to be purified. 33:41 Made white, refined. 33:47 I don't know how to say this and get across to you 33:52 how absolutely important it is: 33:56 now is the time when this should be going on 34:03 because if you do not do it now 34:10 then you're going to do it 34:12 under very severe circumstances. 34:18 All you have to do is just continue on 34:21 and not be concerned 34:25 and dear friend, we'll have to face it under very severe times. 34:31 Listen to this: 34:48 If you and I do not 34:53 day by day learn 34:56 to surrender our lives to the work of the Holy Spirit 35:01 and let Him do His work in our lives, 35:04 then we are going to be refined but it will be by fire. 35:10 It won't be a very pleasant experience at all. 35:25 You see, He is just simply waiting for His people. 35:30 He's waiting for His people to come to the place 35:35 that their lives are changed 35:39 and made different and they become like Him. 35:43 Then He can come back and He can reap it. 35:47 But if we don't do it now 35:51 then as we looked at the last session or two 35:57 those are going to be very, very, very hard times. 36:01 That's the reason the Lord says: 36:03 "Blessed are those that die in the Lord, " 36:05 because it's going to be a rough period of time. 36:09 And these characters of ours 36:14 will be changed. OK. 36:34 But now these fruits of the Spirit... 36:38 before they can be reaped they have to be what? 36:45 They've got to be ripe. 36:47 So therefore you and I must let the Holy Spirit 36:52 come into our lives and do its work in our lives 36:56 that we will bear the fruits of the Spirit. 37:02 In other words, 37:06 have to learn to be loving. 37:11 To be kind... longsuffering. 37:16 Peace. 37:20 You cannot let the old carnal nature 37:25 run rampant. 37:29 You have to day by day 37:33 surrender it to the Lord Jesus Christ 37:38 and ask His Holy Spirit to come into your life 37:42 and change your life and make it different. 37:47 It bothers me when I hear churches 37:51 praying for the baptism of the Holy Spirit. 37:57 That bothers me. 38:01 The Bible is very, very clear on that subject, folks. 38:05 God has given us the Spirit already. 38:10 That's been given; that was given at the Day of Pentecost. 38:14 That's why Peter said 38:18 that... "Repent and be baptized 38:21 and you SHALL receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. " 38:24 That's why Paul said: "Have you received the Holy Spirit 38:26 since you believed? " 38:28 That was given to the church. 38:32 And I find that people... putting that off 38:36 praying that something's going to happen there. 38:38 That's already been given. 38:39 What has to happen is you and I need to surrender 38:42 our lives so the Holy Spirit can come in and work in our lives. 38:47 And He will do His work in us 38:50 and will change us and make us different. 38:54 He wants in every way to do that for you and for me. 38:59 But if I'm over here praying for something that's 39:02 already happened, you're not getting anywhere. 39:07 I need to keep my life in His hands 39:11 and let the Holy Spirit change me and make me different. 39:17 If you're gettin' up ornery, out of sorts, 39:22 on the wrong side of the bed, 39:25 then get back in bed and get out on the other side. 39:29 But don't... don't continue 39:32 to let that run rampant in your life. 39:35 If you're unkind, then dear friends 39:38 surrender your life to the Lord 39:40 and let Him handle the circumstances and be kind. 39:43 Squelch your pride! 39:46 If you have a hard time going to somebody and saying 39:50 "listen, I'm sorry; forgive me for what I did, " 39:54 then squelch that pride and go! 39:56 You've got to let the Holy Spirit work and do its work 40:01 in your life and my life to prepare us for the 40:03 coming of Christ because when He comes 40:06 He's going to reap His harvest now. 40:09 And I can tell you right now 40:11 character is not developed after Christ comes. 40:16 Character is developed now. 40:20 Those fruits of the Sprit must be working in our lives. 40:29 If He does that, what will happen? 40:52 You see, this transformation of our characters 40:57 does not take place by trying. 41:03 It doesn't take place by will power. 41:07 That will never work. 41:10 The transformation of character takes place 41:14 by beholding Christ... 41:17 by spending time with Him. 41:19 Let me tell you a little secret: 41:22 if you spend time thinking about all your sins, 41:28 you're going to do it more. 41:33 Don't spend time on all your sins. 41:38 Spend your time looking at Christ. 41:42 Dwelling upon Him... spending time with Him. 41:46 And as you behold the Lord, this transformation 41:50 will begin to take place in your life. 41:52 We'll be changed. 41:54 It'll be made different as you behold Jesus. 41:58 If you're not very kind, if you're not very loving, 42:01 spend time with Jesus. He'll change that. 42:05 He'll make you that way. 42:07 But you've got to spend time with Him, 42:10 and this is the way that character is formed 42:15 and developed so that when Christ comes 42:18 it will be ripe and He will be able to reap the harvest. 42:24 OK, now: 42:37 Interesting. 42:40 Who had the sickle and who thrust it in and reaped it 42:45 to begin with? 42:47 Christ. 42:50 See Christ is the One who reaps the righteous. 42:56 Christ is the One who reaps the righteous. 42:59 Now this starts the reaping of the wicked... 43:05 the lost. 43:07 That's what this angel is about to do. 43:52 So it says that this was the reaping of the wicked 43:58 took place. Now there's a number of things here. 44:03 To begin with, the wicked have made their decision. 44:10 They have decided that they're going to follow the beast, 44:14 the false prophet, the dragon. 44:26 This cup of iniquity is completely full. 44:31 There's no reason for time to go on any longer. 44:35 God has been patient. For 6,000 years He's waited, 44:41 and now He's ready to thrust in His sickle. 44:45 When He does this, these four angels... 44:49 four angels that God has that He has given commission 44:54 to hold back... hold back the winds of strife. 45:13 These angels are patiently holding back 45:17 the winds of strife. 45:22 They've been holding them for a long, long time. 45:28 As far as I'm concerned, 45:31 I believe a little bit of those winds 45:36 are beginning to seep through. 45:39 And you and I are beginning to see some of these winds 45:44 of strife that are going to happen. 45:47 But the day's going to come 45:48 when He's going to tell them: "Let them loose. " 45:51 And when God lets those loose 45:54 terrible will be the results. 46:20 Here the wrath of God is contained in these seven plagues 46:26 or seven bowls: 46:40 The wrath of God is going to be poured out 46:44 upon this earth 46:47 like mankind has never seen. 46:52 You know, we talk about weapons of warfare. 46:57 We don't have any idea. 47:00 We don't have the slightest concept 47:03 of what the weapons of God are. 47:06 I mean, we talk about the force of an atom bomb. 47:12 It's nothing compared to the forces that God has. 47:17 And when He unleashes them and the seven last plagues 47:21 mankind will have never seen anything like it 47:25 or ever will see anything like it again. 47:28 "For in it the wrath of God is complete. " 47:40 So you have two angels here. 47:42 You have one angel that has a sickle 47:46 and you have another angel that has power over fire. 47:50 Those are the two that have come to reap the earth 47:55 of the harvest of the tares. 47:59 That's what those two are doing. 48:00 That's why it says the angels are the reapers. 48:04 They come to reap it. 48:14 That's going to happen... going to reap it. 48:19 So it will be at the end of this age. 48:39 Now let me explain. This is projecting 48:43 right down at the very end in the destruction of the wicked. 48:49 When there it speaks of the wicked 48:53 coming up and surrounding the city. 49:05 Here all the wicked are 49:07 that have ever lived since the beginning of mankind. 49:11 There they are and they have come up and they have 49:15 surrounded the city of God. The Bible says 49:18 that the rest of the dead did not live again 49:21 until the thousand years were finished. 49:23 And when that thousand years is finished 49:26 all the wicked are resurrected from their graves 49:29 and the devil will marshal them and they'll go up 49:32 and they will surround the city of God. 49:37 This is what this is talking about. 49:41 And then it says: 49:50 One of those angels has the power of what? 49:53 Fire. 49:55 He comes. This is the very end 49:59 when they will be thrown into the fire - 50:03 the tares will be - and burned up. 50:06 They will be no more. 50:08 This is what happens, takes place. 50:10 I want you to read a statement from the book entitled 50:13 The Great Controversy 50:14 that speaks of this very period of time. 50:18 This is what it says: 50:51 Here these people - the devil and his agents 50:55 who have deceived the people, 50:57 who told them they didn't need to do this - 51:00 as they're there faced at that city and they see all this 51:04 and they understand that their case is lost, 51:06 that it's hopeless - 51:08 they turn their wrath and their anger upon the devil 51:13 and his agents. 51:15 And the Bible describes exactly what happens to them 51:20 because this is what it tells us: 51:38 Talks... they're there. 51:42 It's going to be of blood, and that blood is fuel for fire. 51:59 Terrible will be that. I mean, folks, 52:03 here is all the wicked that have ever lived outside that city. 52:06 So you're not talking about one or two people. 52:09 You're talking about billions 52:11 that are gathered outside that city. 52:14 And there are thousands - millions and millions 52:19 of people who have been agents of the devil 52:23 to deceive the people. 52:24 And when the people turn upon them, 52:26 terrible will be the slaughter that takes place. 52:31 Talks about the blood coming up as high as 52:34 the bridles of horses. 52:36 It will run for... for 184 miles. 52:41 That's what it says. 52:44 Terrible will be the slaughter that takes place there. 52:59 This is what will happen at the end 53:02 when the whole thing comes to an end and it's reaped. 53:07 God in His mercy puts an end to all of it. 53:28 This old earth will be burned. 53:31 All the wicked will be as... 53:37 snare... be as weeds. 53:42 They will be burned up. 53:52 Going to come back. Going to put an end to all the sin 53:57 and never again throughout the ceaseless ages of eternity 54:03 will there be such a thing as sin any more. 54:06 There will be no more heartache. 54:09 There'll be no more sorrow. 54:11 All that will be gone, 54:14 and the righteous will reign with Him supremely 54:17 throughout eternity. 54:19 Let us pray. 54:21 Father we thank you 54:23 for the promise that You're coming back. 54:26 May each one of us here 54:29 give our allegiance to You. 54:33 May we follow You and walk with You in all that we do. 54:38 May we be settled into the truth of Your Word. 54:42 For this we ask in Christ's name, Amen. 54:49 Well, we're coming down to the very end of this session. 54:54 And this evening our subject is 54:58 The Seven Last Plagues. 54:59 We're going to take a look at these plagues 55:02 that these angels turn loose and what happens on the earth. 55:06 So we hope you can be here for that 55:08 and that you'll continue to follow God's Word. 55:12 God bless you; thank you for being here. 55:22 All around us we see want and suffering. 55:25 In large cities, millions of human beings 55:28 do not receive as much care and consideration 55:31 as we give beasts of the field. 55:34 Families are herded together in miserable projects. 55:37 Children are born into these terrible places. 55:40 They see nothing of the beauty God has created 55:43 to delight their senses. 55:45 They are left to grow up molded and fashioned by 55:48 wretched and wicked examples all around them. 55:52 They hear the name of God only in profanity. 55:55 Impure words and fumes of liquor and tobacco 55:58 and immoral behavior of every kind 56:01 pervert their tender senses. 56:04 Wretched and pitiful cries for food and clothing are heard 56:08 by parents who know nothing about prayer or a loving Savior. 56:12 But these cries do not go unheard in heaven. 56:16 God sees... God hears. 56:19 Friends, our loving Father has entrusted us 56:23 with abundance to supply the necessities of all. 56:26 But sadly, we're not always faithful stewards. 56:30 Many who have taken on the name of Christ 56:33 spend His money for selfish pleasure, 56:36 extravagant homes and clothing. 56:38 They hardly give a suffering human a look of pity 56:42 or a word of sympathy. 56:44 We are to show the kindness of the Samaritan 56:47 in food, clothing, and shelter for the poor. 56:50 As Christians, our work is to reach the people who 56:54 are neglected and win them to Christ. 56:56 That's the goal of this ministry. 56:59 We want them to know that He is able to save to the uttermost 57:03 and restore them to His image. 57:05 But in order to do this, we need your help. 57:09 Please consider what you can do for those 57:12 who still don't know about Jesus. 57:14 As the Holy Spirit impresses, 57:15 please send your tax-deductible gifts to: 57:31 Thank you for helping us spread the light of God's Word 57:34 through television. 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