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Series Code: ICJ
Program Code: ICJ190017B
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00:01 Moses had stretched out
00:02 that rod or was told to stretch out 00:04 that rod because the Lord had done something else. 00:06 He had lifted that cloud of darkness. 00:09 And Pharaoh now looks out 00:12 and sees Israel escaping through the Red Sea. 00:17 Now, you would think that would be enough to say, 00:19 I'm finished, I'm not going into that Red Sea. 00:21 But notice, stubbornness, sin makes people stubborn. 00:26 And his sins goes with his whole army 00:28 right into the Red Sea, 00:30 the chariots leading the way and it looks like, 00:34 in the morning light, 00:35 they're gaining, gaining, gaining, 00:38 and then the Bible says that, "God troubled the wheels." 00:43 He messed up the wheels, you mean, He tear the wheels. 00:46 I don't know if He started letting the place 00:47 get muddy, I don't know. 00:49 But the Egyptians all of a sudden said, 00:51 "The Lord is fighting." 00:53 There's that word, fighting, fighting for Israel, 00:57 and they turn and they begin to go back. 01:01 They were rushing right toward the middle of the Red Sea, 01:05 and that's when Moses stretches out that rod 01:09 and that sea swallows them. 01:12 The Bible says, "There's not one left." 01:14 Archeologists have by the way gone down 01:16 and found remnants of chariot wheels, 01:19 and other things in that area. 01:22 But I wanna come back to this point of the scripture, 01:25 because when this is all done, 01:27 Israel is standing there 01:28 on the other side of the Red Sea. 01:31 Their mouths must have been open. 01:34 They must have been hugging each other 01:36 because those Egyptians would have destroyed them 01:40 and the sea swallows them and their enemies. 01:46 The stubborn Pharaoh and his army is gone. 01:52 The Lord is a mighty warrior. 01:55 And Moses put together a song 01:57 and they began to sing that song. 02:00 And here's how that song went. 02:02 We don't have time to get into all of it. 02:04 It's found in Exodus 15:1-3, "I will sing to the Lord, 02:09 for He has triumphed gloriously! 02:13 The horse and its rider He has thrown into the sea!" 02:18 And then he says, 02:19 "The Lord is my strength and my song." 02:23 We're gonna sing that in the New Jerusalem. 02:25 We're gonna sing that on the sea of glass. 02:29 We're gonna sing that song with Moses and the Israelites, 02:32 but we're gonna be singing it over something else. 02:35 We're gonna be singing it over Babylon. 02:41 "And He has become my salvation, 02:43 He is my God, I will praise Him, 02:45 my father's God, and I will exalt Him. 02:48 The Lord is a man of war, 02:51 the Lord is His name." 02:54 And it says in Chapter 15, continuing that song, 02:57 "Who is like You, O Lord, among the gods?" 03:02 And then the end of the song gives us the result. 03:04 It's a wonderful result, and it says here that, 03:07 "You will bring them..." 03:08 verse 17 of Chapter 15 of Exodus, 03:11 "You will bring them in and plant them in the mountain 03:15 of Your inheritance, in the place, O Lord, 03:17 which You have made for Your own dwelling, 03:20 The sanctuary, O Lord, 03:21 which Your hands have established." 03:23 Yes. 03:25 We're going to go through a lot of trouble. 03:27 But Jesus said something similar. 03:29 He said "Don't let your heart be troubled, 03:32 let not your heart be troubled. 03:33 You believe in God, believe also in Me. 03:35 In My father's house are many mansions 03:39 which I have gone to prepare for you." 03:41 Jesus is preparing a place for us. 03:44 Just like God promised Israel, that He had a place for them 03:48 in that Promised Land that they were being taken to. 03:54 So we go back to the song of Revelation. 03:56 Let's go back to that song of Revelation, 03:59 song of the Lamb in 15:3. 04:02 Now we don't have all... 04:04 I don't think, we don't have all the song 04:06 of the Lamb yet because we haven't been 04:08 through the experience. 04:10 So only once we go through the experience 04:12 of the terrors of Babylon in the final time of trouble 04:16 and the issues of the mark of the beast, 04:20 then we're gonna be able to sing the song of the Lamb. 04:25 'Cause I want to tell you that in the end of time 04:27 Jesus is going to take charge. 04:29 He's in charge of His church. 04:31 I don't mean that in the wrong sense. 04:32 He's in charge of His church now. 04:34 But in a unique sense, I believe that Jesus, 04:37 just like He took charge 04:38 of ancient Israel on that cloud. 04:40 That Jesus is somehow in a unique way, 04:43 I don't know how, I can't explain it. 04:46 But He's going to take charge of His church. 04:48 He's gonna guide His church 04:49 through this terrible time of trouble. 04:51 God's people from every nation, 04:53 kindred, tongue and people scattered all over the world, 04:56 suffering terrible time of trouble, 04:58 terrible persecution, 05:00 not knowing what's going to happen. 05:02 Thinking that perhaps they are all just going to die, 05:05 they're all going to give their life, 05:06 but pleading with God, pleading with Him, 05:08 Jesus come soon. 05:10 Jesus is going to lead His church 05:13 through that terrible time in the future. 05:16 And that's why this is going to be 05:17 the song of the Lamb 05:20 that's going to join the song of Moses, 05:23 that song of the Lamb. 05:24 In fact, someone noted the parallels 05:27 between the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb. 05:30 I want to give those to you very quickly. 05:32 The song of Moses was sung beside the Red Sea, 05:35 but the song of Lamb will be sung 05:38 by the crystal sea. 05:40 And the song of Moses was sung over Egypt. 05:43 But the song of the Lamb will be sung over Babylon. 05:47 The song of Moses described how God bought 05:50 His people out and the song of the Lamb 05:52 would describe how God brought His people in. 05:57 The song of Moses was Scripture's first song, 06:00 and the song of the Lamb is Scripture's last song. 06:04 And that comes from 06:06 Willmington's Guide to the Bible. 06:08 So I wanna come back to these seven trumpets 06:09 for just a moment. 06:11 Now obviously, I could spend three hours 06:13 on the seven trumpets. 06:15 But we're just... 06:16 I'm just gonna give you quick overview. 06:18 Those trumpets, we have the seven churches, 06:21 the seven seals and the seven trumpets. 06:23 They all repeat and enlarge, and they cover that time period 06:28 between the time of John and the coming of Jesus. 06:31 So we are in... 06:33 I believe right now, we're in the seventh trumpet, 06:36 we're in the end of time. 06:38 But I wanna explain to you how this works, 06:40 and this is how this works. 06:44 The trumpets are trumpets of judgment. 06:48 God's judgments don't wait till the end of time. 06:50 The seven last plagues are part of that judgment. 06:52 I'll talk a little bit more about that tomorrow, 06:54 or the next time we have a session I should say. 06:57 So anyway, let me go back to these seven trumpets. 07:01 The first four are God's judgments 07:05 on ancient pagan Rome. 07:08 Rome in the New Testament, in the Book of Revelation, 07:11 Rome is the enemy, Rome and Babylon 07:14 is the enemy of God's people. 07:18 Just like Egypt was the enemy of God's people 07:21 in the Old Testament. 07:23 So the first four bring in the barbarians, 07:28 remember it's pagan Rome that was trying to destroy 07:30 the Christian church, throwing them to the lions, 07:33 and so the barbarians come in and those first four trumpets 07:36 and they destroy the Roman Empire. 07:42 The last three trumpets are God's judgments against, 07:46 I'll say it kindly, papal Rome. 07:51 And each judge about something like itself. 07:54 The last trumpet, of course, 07:56 is the God's judgment on Babylon, 07:58 but the fifth and sixth 08:00 are God's judgments on papal Rome. 08:03 God... 08:05 And I say this kindly again, often God let something come up 08:10 like itself to judge, it's way it works. 08:14 But we have now the rise of the Muslims, 08:16 and I don't have time to get 08:18 into that marvelous time prophecy. 08:19 But it was right on schedule, and it's a fascinating story. 08:24 But the rise of the Muslims put a check on the spread 08:28 and the power of the papacy, and the prophecy pictured them, 08:34 and I don't have time to get into this detail. 08:36 But basically the Muslims overcame the Byzantine Empire, 08:42 and then it became a great threat 08:46 to Western Europe 08:47 and it checked the papacy. 08:52 And the emperor of the Byzantine Empire 08:54 wouldn't take the throne unless he got the permission 08:57 of the Muslim sultan. 08:59 But that would change at the end of the prophecy, 09:02 it just turns around. 09:04 And I don't have time to tell you the story, 09:05 it's a fantastic, fascinating story. 09:09 But the Muslim empire comes under the control 09:13 of the Christian powers of Europe. 09:18 What was happing here was the rise 09:20 of the Protestant Reformation. 09:22 As the Protestant Reformation, and the reason Charles V 09:25 couldn't stop the Protestant Reformation... 09:27 One of the reasons I should say, 09:28 couldn't stop the Protestant Reformation 09:30 was the rise of the Muslims. 09:33 He had to go fight the Muslims. 09:34 I'm saying this in quick generalities here. 09:37 He had to go fight the Muslims 09:38 and while He is dealing with the Muslims, 09:40 the Protestant Reformation grows till it's unstoppable. 09:47 But now as the western world and you have the growth 09:50 of the Protestant America 09:52 becomes a great Protestant power. 09:55 But now as America is turning back 09:57 to embrace the popes of the Dark Ages. 10:02 We're beginning to see the power 10:04 of the Muslims rise again. 10:08 Very fascinating. 10:09 Let me share something with you 10:12 that I got from the public broadcast. 10:15 They gave three different phases. 10:18 This is not my invention by the way, 10:20 three different phases of the rise of the Muslims. 10:24 But I looked at the visits of the popes 10:28 to the United States, 10:30 and there's a very interesting parallel to that. 10:34 So phase one, according to the public broadcast, 10:38 was from 1968 to 1979, 10:41 and that was the dawn of modern Muslim terrorism. 10:46 Interesting enough Vatican II stopped in 1965, 10:50 and the first papal visit to the United States 10:53 was in October of 1965. 10:56 And then this dawn of Muslim terrorism 11:01 starts in 1968 to 1979. 11:06 And then phase two, 11:07 we have that very popular superstar pope, 11:10 Pope John Paul II, 11:13 he visits the United States in 1979 for the first time, 11:16 would visit seven times I think. 11:19 In phase two, they said, 11:21 now they didn't put these two together, 11:22 I'm putting the two together. 11:24 But they are the one that came up 11:25 with these different phases, 11:26 and I had nothing to do with the visits of a pope 11:28 to the United States. 11:31 So in phase two started also in 1979, 11:35 starting with a visit 11:36 of Pope John Paul II to 1991. 11:41 And then in 1991, and I could go 11:44 over some of the terrorist things, 11:46 I don't have time for that. 11:47 Phase three, 1991 to 2001, the rise of global terror. 11:53 And, of course, it was in 1993 that John Paul II 11:57 held that great Youth Day in Denver, Colorado. 12:02 And then you have 1994 12:04 with evangelicals and Catholics together, 12:06 and then of course 12:08 we know all about the World Trade Center. 12:10 I remember that day and I said, "This will be a watershed. 12:13 It's going to change the world." 12:16 And it has changed the world. 12:18 You can't fly in an airplane without knowing that 12:20 this thing has changed the world. 12:24 And so here we are in the end of time. 12:27 And I want to tell you that God is going to unmask 12:30 the sins of Babylon. 12:31 But people are going to be stubborn, 12:33 they're gonna continue go down the road, 12:35 just like that ancient Pharaoh 12:37 even when they see these things. 12:40 So I want to ask the question, 12:42 and we should each be asking ourself this question. 12:45 Are we going to stand on the sea of glass someday 12:49 and sing the songs of Moses and the Lamb? 12:51 Victory over evil, Gods church is going to be triumph. 12:55 Evil is a terrible thing, 12:58 and Jesus is going to put an end to it. 13:01 And we should rejoice over that. 13:02 That is something to be happy about. 13:04 And that's what we're going to be doing 13:06 on that sea of glass. 13:07 Were gonna be singing the song of Moses 13:09 and the Lamb because of the great victory 13:12 this marvelous Jesus, this incomparable Jesus 13:15 has won over Babylon, and the enemies of truth. 13:20 Here is the real question that you and I must ask. 13:24 Are we going to be there standing on that sea of glass 13:28 singing the song of Moses and the Lamb? |
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