Participants: Steve Wohlberg
Series Code: HVT
Program Code: HVT000013A
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00:09 Will God send one final message before the end of the world
00:12 to get human beings ready for the return of Jesus Christ? 00:15 You are about to find out on His Voice Today. 00:19 Welcome to another His Voice Today 00:22 with Steve Wohlberg. 00:29 Human history is checkered with great discoveries. 00:32 In the year 1492, Columbus discovered America. 00:35 In the year 1947, there was a young Bedouin shepherd boy 00:39 out in the Middle East near the Dead Sea, 00:41 and he was throwing rocks into caves, 00:43 and he heard a clink sound and that led to the discovery 00:47 of the Dead Sea Scrolls. 00:48 In the year 1985, there was a group of French Researchers 00:53 on a ship way out in the Atlantic ocean, 00:55 they were closely monitoring the ocean floor 00:57 with very sophisticated video equipment, 00:59 and lo and behold, 01:01 as they were looking into the monitor 01:02 one night, they saw these words materialize 01:06 on the side of the wreckage of a ship, 01:09 and it was SS Titanic. 01:11 The discovery went from ship to shore 01:15 and then from shore to shore all around the world. 01:17 Great discoveries... but believe it or not, 01:21 there is a greater discovery that lies waiting for us 01:25 in the waters 01:27 of God's last book, 01:28 which is the book of Revelation, 01:30 the deep waters of God's truth 01:32 and it is the message of the three angels... 01:36 three angels' messages which we're told, in Revelation, 01:40 have been specifically sent by God to prepare human beings 01:44 for the return of Jesus Christ. 01:46 Revelation chapter 14 verses 6 to 12 01:51 contain these powerful messages 01:53 and I'll just read them right now 01:55 just by way of introduction and overview... 01:57 and then we'll go a little bit more carefully 02:00 into the details in a little while. 02:02 Hold on to your seats and listen to this. 02:04 Revelation 14 verse 6, the Bible says: 02:33 In verse 8 we have the Second Angel's message. 02:48 Verse 9 to 12 contains the message of the Third Angel. 03:40 Those are the three angels' messages in Revelation 14 03:44 and when you look at verses 14, 15 and 16 03:47 which follow right after, 03:48 it tells us that right after 03:49 these messages sound out to the world, 03:52 this is followed by the great event 03:54 of the return of Jesus Christ. 03:56 Verse 14 says: 04:26 So, in Revelation 14, we have three angels, 04:29 that send messages to the whole world, 04:31 and in verses 14, 15 and 16, we have a powerful description 04:36 of the final return of Jesus Christ 04:39 in the clouds of heaven. 04:40 So, three angels... return of Jesus. 04:42 And this is God's way of telling us 04:45 that He is sending these messages 04:48 to help people to understand the issues 04:50 and to get ready for the return of His Son. 04:54 It makes sense, if you think about it 04:57 that God would send a special final message 05:00 to His world before the end 05:01 because He always sends messages to humanity 05:04 before any major event that happens in human history. 05:08 In the days of Noah, God looked upon the world 05:12 and He knew that it was wicked 05:14 and it was time for a cleansing flood 05:18 to wash wickedness away from His planet 05:21 and so God raised up a man named Noah 05:24 and He gave him a special message about building an ark 05:27 and calling people to get in 05:29 to that ark before the water came down. 05:32 When Jesus Christ was born, many hundreds of years later 05:37 in fulfillment of Bible prophecy 05:39 God sent angels to announce to shepherds 05:42 that in Bethlehem, the baby... 05:45 the baby of all babies had been born 05:47 and that baby was Christ the Lord. 05:52 When Jesus Christ began His public ministry, 05:55 he raised up a man named John the Baptist 05:57 and John the Baptist was called by God to give a special message 06:02 to announce the coming of the Messiah. 06:06 We read about this in Mark chapter 1... it's very clear 06:10 that God had a messenger with a message. 06:13 Mark chapter 1 verse 1 says: 06:34 And then verse 4 and onward talks about John the Baptist 06:37 and God raised up a man with a special message 06:40 to announce that the Messiah finally had come 06:43 to appear in a public ministry to the world. 06:46 The greatest event of all events was when Jesus Christ 06:50 the Messiah, heaven-sent Savior 06:54 finally gave His life upon the cross, 06:56 He died on the cross, He said, "It is finished" 06:58 and then on the third day He rose from the dead 07:00 on the day of Pentecost, 07:01 the Holy Spirit came down with power 07:03 upon the early Christian church 07:05 and the disciples went out with a message 07:08 a powerful message which lightened the world 07:11 in those days, that the Messiah had come 07:14 that Jesus Christ had died 07:15 and that He had risen from the dead 07:17 and that He was, indeed, the Savior of the world. 07:22 Two thousand years have come and gone 07:24 since the days of John the Baptist 07:26 and the days of Jesus Christ, 07:27 Jesus is up in heaven and we are not far away 07:30 from the day when He will return 07:33 and when you study the book of Revelation carefully 07:36 it's very clear that the second coming of Jesus 07:40 is a big event 07:41 and God wants people to get ready for this event 07:44 just like He raised up John the Baptist 07:46 to announce the first coming of Christ 07:47 to give a special message, so He has sent 07:51 in Revelation 14 three angels' messages 07:54 with special information 07:57 that human beings need to know to help them to avoid deception, 08:01 help them to avoid Babylon and the beast 08:04 and the mark and help them to get ready 08:06 for the return of Jesus when He comes 08:08 in the clouds of glory, 08:10 this is what Revelation chapter 14 is all about... 08:13 the sending of God's special message. 08:16 Now, let's go back to the days of Noah, 08:18 and let's look at the parallels because Jesus, in Matthew 24, 08:23 specifically said that what happened in Noah's day 08:26 would be very similar to what will happen 08:29 at the end of the world. 08:31 In Genesis chapter 6, 08:33 we find the Lord looking down upon His world, 08:37 and it was a sad sight. 08:39 He saw that life was a lot different from the 08:43 days of the Garden of Eden 08:45 when Adam and Eve were first created, 08:47 when the animals were all friendly, 08:49 and human beings were pure. 08:51 After Adam and Eve sinned, humans multiplied 08:54 and history... fallen human history... 08:57 our world... onward... in Genesis chapter 6 09:01 in verse 5 we find that God looked upon the earth: 09:32 Can you imagine... God's crowning work of creation 09:35 had strayed so far away from Him, 09:38 human beings were so reflecting the image of the devil 09:42 instead of the image of God, 09:44 that the Lord looked at man and said, "Enough is enough," 09:48 there is just too much sin, I have to wipe the earth clean 09:51 from humanity's wickedness, 09:54 but thankfully in verse 8 the Bible says that 09:58 there was a man named Noah, 10:00 and it says that Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. 10:04 God found a man, and this man was a faithful man 10:08 and He raised him up and He gave him a special 10:11 message to help people... 10:13 at least those that were willing to listen 10:15 to get ready for the big event 10:17 which was... the flood. 10:19 In verse 14, Genesis 6 verse 14, 10:24 God gave Noah special instruction about what to do. 10:29 He told him to make an ark, 10:31 God said, "Make an ark of gopher wood" 10:33 and He gave him the dimensions of the ark... 10:36 the length, the breadth, the width of the ark, 10:38 and in verse 16... this is very interesting, 10:42 verse 16 says that the ark was to be made up of 10:45 three different stories, 10:47 "there was a lower, a second and 10:50 third stories, you shall make of it. " 10:54 A three-story ark 10:56 that God told him to make in the days of Noah. 11:00 Now, if you think about it, 11:02 God didn't tell Noah to make 11:04 five boats or ten boats, 11:07 He didn't tell Noah to give a message to people and say, 11:10 "Pick a boat, whichever boat you like... 11:12 that's the boat that you can get in. " 11:15 No, how many boats were there in the days of Noah? 11:18 The answer is obvious, there was only one boat 11:21 and that was the boat that Noah was building. 11:24 I'm sure he had friends, people that... 11:26 before the flood hit that helped him 11:28 his family helped him, his sons helped him, 11:30 and they built and built for a hundred and twenty years, 11:34 finally at the end of those 120 years, 11:38 the Bible tells us in verse 17 and 18, 11:42 that it was almost time for the flood to come 11:46 and God gave instructions about what to do. 11:51 Verse 17 says, 11:52 "Behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters 11:54 upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, 11:56 wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; 11:59 and every thing that is in the earth shall die. 12:02 But with you I will establish my covenant; 12:04 and you shall come into the ark, 12:07 you and your sons, and your wife, 12:10 and your sons' wives with you. " 12:13 So God gave Noah a special message 12:15 and He said, 12:17 "When you're done building this boat, 12:18 I want you to call as many who are willing 12:22 to get into the ark. 12:24 Sadly, only eight people got in 12:27 and a vast majority of the people 12:29 that watched Noah build that ark for a 120 years, 12:32 and heard him preach and 12:34 heard the sound of the hammer hitting the nail, 12:36 hitting the nails day after day, year after year, 12:40 their hearts were hardened 12:41 and when the Holy Spirit spoke to them... one last time, 12:43 and said, "This is it, now is the time, 12:45 now is the time to get into the one three-story ark 12:49 because the flood's about to come. " 12:51 Sadly, the majority of people... they rejected the call, 12:54 and they didn't want to get in, 12:56 and when Noah and his family entered, 12:58 the Bible says that the door of the ark finally closed 13:02 seven days went by, 13:03 and then the rain began to come down, 13:05 the water hit and then everybody changed their mind 13:08 they realized that Noah was right, 13:10 he wasn't just a crazy old lunatic with a wild idea 13:13 but he really was God's messenger 13:15 with God's message, and... 13:16 by that time, it was too late 13:19 and there was no way to get in 13:20 because the door had been closed 13:22 and it was closed for good 13:25 and so the water continued to come down 13:27 and then finally all the worldly-wise men 13:29 and all the mockers and all the scoffers 13:30 and all the people that laughed 13:32 and everyone thought he was just a crazy deluded fanatic, 13:34 eventually they ended up under water and they died 13:38 and God cleansed His world with the waters of the flood. 13:44 Now, the Bible story of what happened in Noah's day 13:47 is not just history, 13:49 it's just not academic history 13:51 for us to just enjoy and tell our children about the story 13:55 of Noah and the ark, 13:56 but when we look at the New Testament, 13:58 you look at the book of Matthew, 14:00 Jesus made a profound statement. 14:02 In Matthew chapter 24 verses 36 to 39 14:09 in reference to His return, 14:11 Jesus said, "But of that day and hour 14:14 knoweth no man, no not the angels of heaven, 14:17 but my Father only. 14:19 But as the days of Noah were," back in the past... 14:23 "so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be" in the future 14:27 "For as in the days that were before the flood, 14:29 they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, 14:32 until the day that Noah entered into the ark, 14:35 and they knew not until the flood came 14:38 and took them all away," 14:39 and then Jesus gives His punch line... 14:41 He said, "so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be" 14:48 so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. 14:51 In other words, according to Jesus Christ 14:54 there is going to be a perfect parallel 14:58 between what happened in Noah's day 15:00 and what will happen at the end of the world 15:02 when Jesus Christ returns. 15:05 In Noah's day, the world was wicked, 15:07 in our day, the world is wicked. 15:09 In Noah's day, God saw that an end was coming, 15:12 as God looks upon the world right now, 15:14 He sees that another end is coming. 15:16 In Noah's day, God raised up a man, 15:17 and He gave him a message, He told him to build a boat, 15:21 that had three stories... a three-story ark... 15:24 and He called people to come in to that boat 15:27 to be protected from the water when it came down. 15:30 And it's the same in the book of Revelation 15:34 chapter 14 verses 6 to 12 we find messages 15:37 very clearly... messages of three angels 15:41 instead of a three-story boat, it's a three-story message 15:44 and that message is designed, 15:46 instead of preparing people for the time of the water, 15:48 when the flood hits, 15:50 the three angels' messages are sent by God 15:52 to prepare human beings for the great apocalypse, 15:56 for the grand finale, for the return of Jesus Christ 15:59 in the clouds of heaven, and to help us to understand 16:02 what the issues are so we can be on God's side 16:06 and not on the side of the enemy 16:08 when the final crisis hits. 16:10 So, let's go back to Revelation chapter 14 16:14 and let's take a closer look at these three angels, 16:17 and as we go on into future programs on His Voice Today, 16:21 we'll go deeper and we'll look even more closely 16:25 at these messages. 16:27 But let's get a brief... again... a brief overview 16:31 and look at a few more details. 16:33 In verse 6 the Bible says, "I saw another angel" 16:37 now the word "angel" in the Greek... it's "angelos" 16:40 which is... can literally be translated 16:44 "Messenger" and it's significant 16:45 that it's the same word that's used 16:47 in Mark chapter 1 in reference to John the Baptist, 16:49 when the Bible says, "Behold, I send my messenger 16:51 the word is "angelos," 16:53 John the Baptist was a messenger with a message 16:56 to get people ready for the first coming of Christ 16:58 when the Messiah came and in Revelation 14:6 17:01 we have another "angelos" another messenger with a message 17:05 and he's seen flying in the midst of heaven 17:09 which means he's center stage right in the middle of heaven 17:13 and he has the everlasting gospel 17:17 which we'll talk more about in our next program. 17:19 The everlasting good news, 17:21 to preach to them that dwell upon the earth 17:24 to every nation, tribe, tongue and people, 17:26 in other words... this message is to go 17:28 to the whole world... it's a special burst... 17:31 of final good news to the planet 17:34 before the end comes. 17:36 In verse 7, the angel says with a loud voice, 17:39 "Fear God, and give glory to Him; 17:42 for the hour of His judgment 17:46 is come:" 17:48 we'll talk about that in the next program 17:50 the hour of judgment... 17:51 God says that we're in a special time 17:53 "the hour of His judgment is come" 17:55 and then it says, 17:57 "and worship Him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, 18:00 and the fountains of waters," there's a special call 18:03 to worship the Creator of heaven and earth. 18:06 And then verse 8 goes into the second angel, 18:08 and it's a warning... a warning about something 18:11 mysterious called "Babylon. " 18:13 Verse 8 says, "there followed another angel, 18:16 and he said, 'Babylon is fallen, is fallen'" 18:18 is fallen away from God... 18:20 "that great city, because she made all the nations... " 18:24 the whole world is involved in this deception, 18:27 "all nations drink of the wine of the wrath 18:30 of her fornication. " 18:32 So, verse 6 and 7 18:35 goes out to all the world announcing the gospel 18:37 and that we're living in the judgment time 18:39 and that we need to worship the Creator 18:41 and then verse 8 warns about Babylon falling away from God 18:45 and deceiving all the nations... 18:47 those same nations that need the gospel 18:49 are being deceived by 18:51 something called, "the wine of Babylon" 18:54 and as we'll see later on, 18:55 the "wine of Babylon" represents the false teachings 18:58 of a conglomeration of false religion 19:01 that is designed to lead people away 19:03 from the gospel of Jesus Christ 19:06 and the worship of the Creator of heaven and earth. 19:10 Verse 9 is the most solemn warning in the Bible. 19:14 Verses 9, 10 and 11... 19:15 "... the third angel followed them, with a loud voice, 19:18 and when it says "loud voice" 19:20 God does not want these messages to be stuck in a corner, 19:23 He doesn't want them to be given with a whisper, 19:25 He wants them to be heard loudly all over His planet, 19:30 just like Noah didn't whisper, 19:33 when he said "the flood is coming" 19:34 Noah gave a very clear definite warning 19:36 and God wants a definite warning to be given 19:39 to humanity before Jesus Christ comes back again. 19:43 The third angel followed them, saying 19:45 with a loud voice, "If any man... " 19:47 this applies to the whole world, 19:50 "worships the beast and his image, 19:53 and receives his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, 19:56 the same shall drink the wine of the wrath of God, 19:59 now, here we have two wines, we have the wine in Babylon, 20:01 those that drank the wine of Babylon 20:03 which means her false doctrines and deceptions that lead away 20:07 from the Bible and Jesus, and if they get the "Mark" 20:10 then they will drink the wine of the wrath of God. 20:12 I don't want to drink the wine of Babylon 20:16 and I don't want to drink the wine of the wrath of God, 20:20 I want to drink into my life the pure truth of Jesus Christ 20:24 and I hope you do too 20:26 and that's what these messages are all about. 20:27 "the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, 20:31 which is poured out without mixture 20:33 into the cup of His indignation. 20:35 He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone 20:37 in the presence of the holy angels 20:40 and in the presence of the Lamb," 20:42 when it mentions the "lamb" there, 20:44 the "lamb" is Jesus Christ, He is our Savior, 20:46 and what Revelation is doing is 20:48 ultimately it's saying 20:49 that people have to make a final choice 20:51 between the beast or the lamb. 20:52 I don't want to follow the beast, 20:54 I want to follow the lamb don't you? 20:56 If you had a choice between a beast or a lamb, 20:58 who would you choose? 21:00 God wants us to choose the lamb representing His Son. 21:04 Verse 11 says, "And the smoke of their torment 21:06 ascends up for ever and ever: they have no rest day nor night, 21:10 who worship the beast and his image, 21:12 and whoever receives the mark of his name. " 21:14 And then verse 12 is the verse that describes the safety zone. 21:18 It's describing a final people who don't follow the beast, 21:22 they don't get the mark, they're not part of Babylon, 21:25 they're not drinking the wine 21:26 but they are getting ready for Jesus to come. 21:29 Verse 12 says, "Here is the patience of the saints; 21:32 here are they that keep the commandments of God 21:36 and the faith of Jesus. " 21:39 We'll talk more about his in future programs 21:41 but God is looking for people 21:43 who believe in Jesus, who trust in Jesus... 21:46 the word and name "Jesus" is the last name before the period 21:50 at the end of the third angel's message, 21:52 He's the foundation of the message... 21:53 the everlasting gospel, 21:55 He's at the middle of the message... He is the lamb 21:57 and He is at the end of the message... 21:59 and that we need to have faith in Jesus, 22:02 but it also says that we need to become saints 22:04 who keep the Commandments of God... 22:06 we need to become moral people whose lives are changed 22:09 by the grace of Jesus Christ. 22:11 We don't to just talk and say that we're Christians 22:14 but we want to really live for Christ 22:16 just like Noah did, he lived for his God 22:19 and he was faithful... he prepared an ark 22:21 he gave God's message... he called people to get in, 22:24 and he was protected when the water came down 22:27 and God is going to be protecting 22:30 a final group of people 22:32 during the final hours of human history, 22:34 who are faithful to Jesus, who love the Lord, 22:37 who love the Bible, 22:38 who stay away from the doctrines and deceptions of Babylon, 22:42 who worship the creator of heaven and earth, 22:44 who want nothing to do with the beast or the mark 22:47 but who want to follow Jesus Christ 22:49 and 22:51 the Commandments of God 22:52 as written in the Bible... 22:54 they are the ones that will be prepared 22:57 for the return of Jesus in verse 14... 23:00 where it says: 23:10 It's harvest time... 23:11 harvest time... at the end of the three angels' messages. 23:16 Verse 16 says: 23:25 Jesus is coming... 23:26 I don't know when He's coming, I'm not a prophet, 23:28 but I know that one of these days... 23:30 He will come and the Bible 23:32 describes Him coming with a sharp sickle, 23:34 representing the harvest where He will separate 23:38 the world into two classes, 23:40 those who follow the beast... those who follow Babylon... 23:42 those who follow the doctrines of the devil, 23:44 in contrast, 23:46 we have those who are His true followers, 23:48 who truly love Him, 23:49 who believe the good news of the gospel, 23:50 who don't just talk, but who walk their talk, 23:53 and who have given their whole lives to Christ. 23:55 They not only believe in Jesus, 23:58 but their belief and their faith is manifested 24:01 by their works of obedience to the Lord... 24:03 they love God... and they love their neighbor as themselves 24:07 as Jesus says we should do in His Book. 24:10 The three angels' messages... 24:12 they're in the book of Revelation, 24:14 this is a greater discovery than the discovery of America, 24:20 than the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, 24:22 or the discovery of the Titanic in the waters of the Atlantic... 24:27 this is a Titanic discovery in God's last Book... 24:31 the message of the three angels. 24:33 I found that a little bit humorous... 24:35 some time ago when I read an article 24:37 that came out of the Associated Press, 24:39 about a swarm of crazy ants that invaded Houston. 24:45 Here's the article... it says, "In what sounded like a... 24:47 sounds like a low-budget horror film, 24:49 voracious swarming ants that apparently arrived in Texas 24:53 aboard a cargo ship are invading homes and yards 24:56 across the Houston area, 24:57 they are shorting out electrical boxes, 24:59 messing up computers, 25:00 the hairy, reddish-brown creatures 25:03 are known as 'Crazy Rasberry Ants' 25:05 'crazy' because they wander erratically 25:07 instead of marching in regimented lines, 25:10 and "Rasberry" after Tom Rasberry, an exterminator, 25:13 who did battle with them early on. 25:16 'They are itty, bitty things, about the size of fleas 25:19 and they're just running everywhere,' 25:21 said Patsy Morphew of Pearland 25:24 who is constantly sweeping them off her patio 25:27 and sweeping them out of her pool by the cupful. 25:29 'There's just thousands and thousands of them,' she said, 25:32 'they're going fast, fast, fast, they're crazy... '" 25:36 and then the article concludes by saying that the 25:38 Texas Department of Agriculture is working with the 25:41 Environmental Protection Association 25:43 to stop the ants, 25:45 stop the ants... ants all around the world... 25:48 as I think about those ants, 25:49 I can't help but think about the devil 25:51 and his deceptions and his delusions 25:53 which are all around the world which have invaded Planet Earth 25:56 which are trying to distract us and to lead us away 25:59 from the truth of Jesus Christ and the message of heaven 26:03 to get ready for His return. 26:04 God has a message that will stop the ants, 26:07 it will stop the Babylonian delusions of this world 26:09 and the message is the message of the three angels 26:13 in Revelation 14 verses 6 to 12, designed to prepare us 26:16 for the return of Jesus Christ. 26:18 Just like in Noah's day, 26:19 God had a boat with three stories 26:21 so in the last days He has a message of three angels 26:25 to prepare you and me for the return of Jesus Christ. 26:29 May God help us to study these messages, 26:32 to discover them, they're bigger than the Titanic, 26:34 or the Dead Sea Scrolls or America, 26:36 and through discovering them, we'll be ready for His return. 26:39 You have just heard His Voice Today. 26:42 One of the most astonishing predictions in the Bible 26:46 is that the United States would one day rise to power, 26:49 some 2,000 years before America became a nation, 26:53 the implications of this prophecy 26:55 are critical to understand today. 26:57 Don't miss this free offer, 26:59 "The United States in Bible Prophecy" 27:01 by Steve Wohlberg. 27:02 To order your copy, call 1-800-78-BIBLE 27:06 or you can write to: 27:07 White Horse Media PO Box 1139, Newport, WA 99156. 27:12 We hope you've enjoyed this timely message 27:15 from Pastor Steve Wohlberg and we want you to know 27:18 that White Horse Media is deeply committed 27:20 to bringing you many more simple messages 27:23 straight from the Bible designed to educate the mind, 27:26 inspire the heart, and help bring our Viewers 27:28 and their families closer to God. 27:30 To learn more about White Horse Media, 27:32 or to watch more of Pastor Steve's 27:34 television programs online 27:36 including his powerful new series of two-minute talks 27:39 visit hisvoicetoday. com 27:41 If you've been blessed 27:44 by today's program, and would like to help 27:46 White Horse Media with your financial support, 27:48 you can call our toll-free number 27:50 listed on the screen or donate online 27:52 at whitehorsemedia. com 27:54 We solicit your prayers for our ministry. |
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