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Series Code: ICJ
Program Code: ICJ190018B
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00:01 So now we go to these seven last plagues
00:03 that will deliver God's people and demonstrate 00:06 His justice against those who have pushed 00:10 the mark of the beast. 00:11 Very fascinating, these seven last plagues. 00:13 So the first one says in Revelation 16:2, 00:16 "So the first went and poured out his bowl 00:18 upon the earth, and a foul and loathsome sore 00:22 came upon men who had the mark of the beast, 00:25 and who had worshiped his image." 00:27 So those who have received the mark of the beast, 00:29 or accepted it are going to get this, 00:32 then this is not just people, 00:33 religious people, this is going to include the atheists, 00:36 they're not going to escape, they've accepted the mark 00:38 of the beast, because it was convenient. 00:41 There's many other people who've accepted it, 00:43 maybe not because they believed it, 00:45 but because they needed to work, 00:48 or they needed the economic advantages. 00:51 Many Christians have accepted it 00:52 because they didn't check out the Bible. 00:54 They didn't test... 00:56 They're clergy, by the scripture. 00:59 And so they just took what the clergy told them, 01:02 and they receive it. 01:04 Pagans believe it, and they receive it, 01:07 because of the great many miracles 01:10 that's been performed by this image 01:12 to the beast that's been given breath to live. 01:15 And so the second plague comes, Revelation 16:3, 01:19 "Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, 01:22 and it became blood as of a dead man, 01:26 and every living creature in the sea died." 01:29 So this is against the sea. 01:31 Not long ago, I was in Panama. 01:34 And someone very kindly took me to the Panama Canal, 01:37 I've never been. 01:38 And it is an amazing thing to see these huge ships. 01:42 They've constructed not too long ago, 01:44 another canal now to handle these larger ships, 01:48 they're so large, they had to have 01:50 a new canal for them. 01:51 It's amazing the tonnage that's coming through there, 01:55 coming from Asia, 01:56 sweeping into North America, into Europe, 02:00 unbelievable amounts of cargo going through there. 02:04 So the world is tied together globally, 02:09 through trade, people hope to get rich. 02:10 If you read the 18th Chapter, Revelation talks about Babylon, 02:14 and it talks about how the merchants 02:17 and the sea merchants weep because of the fallen Babylon 02:21 because nobody buys their goods any longer. 02:24 So let me go down to this. 02:26 So this shuts down trade is what it does. 02:29 And everything that people depend on for luxury, 02:32 or for wants, it's put a stop to. 02:35 You know, some people worry about 02:37 "What am I gonna do 02:38 if I receive the mark of the beast 02:39 and, you know, economically I get destroyed?" 02:42 Well, let me tell you this, in the end of time, 02:45 everybody's going to get destroyed economically. 02:48 Those who receive the mark of the beast certainly will, 02:50 now, they may not do it at first, 02:52 God's people may suffer all of that economic hardship, 02:55 may be losing their lives and persecution, 02:57 they may receive it first. 02:59 But before it's all done, and said, 03:01 the whole world is going to be destroyed. 03:04 Its economics on which the mark of the beast promised 03:08 the world great plenty, 03:10 and great hope and great wealth, 03:13 all that's going to be destroyed. 03:15 So this plague is against that. 03:19 So let's go to the next one, the third plague, 03:22 Revelation 16:4-6, 03:24 "Then the third angel poured out his bowl 03:26 on the rivers and the springs of water, 03:28 and they became blood.` 03:29 And then the angel goes on to say, 03:32 'Oh Lord God, they deserve it,' 03:34 because they shed the blood of prophets, 03:38 and of Your people.' 03:40 " So God, He's not been asleep. 03:45 When He's seen all the blood of the martyrs, 03:47 He's seen the Inquisition, 03:49 He's seen the millions of people 03:50 who've given up their lives for God's truth. 03:54 And in the end of time, the people that refuse 03:56 to receive the mark of the beast, 03:57 many of them are going to lose their lives. 04:00 God understands everyone and that blood cries out to God 04:03 from the ground. 04:04 And God is going to say to the world, 04:07 "You shed the blood of My people, 04:11 you treated them terrible, and awful, 04:14 and now you are going to drink this blood," 04:18 not their blood, but this blood. 04:20 You know, Moses made Israel after the golden calf, 04:23 he ground up that golden calf and made them drink it. 04:27 Why? 04:28 Because it's the cup of justice, as it were. 04:33 So in the fourth plague, Revelation 16:8-9, 04:36 "Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, 04:39 given to him to scorch men with fire. 04:43 And men were scorched with a great heat, 04:45 and they blasphemed the name of God 04:48 who has power over these plagues, 04:50 and they did not repent or give Him glory." 04:54 As we learned earlier, we talked about 666. 04:59 We know that Sunday is the chief god of the pagans, 05:04 and his special number is 666. 05:07 We know how the Christian church 05:09 in its embracing of paganism 05:11 changed the Sabbath of the Ten Commandments 05:15 from Saturday, the seventh day of the week, 05:18 to Sunday, the first day of the week. 05:20 Sunday is the day that the great pagan gods 05:24 were honored on. 05:26 You can find it in the Roman Empire. 05:27 You can find it in ancient history. 05:30 But it's also a symbol of the pagans, 05:33 who rejected God as creator. 05:37 And that's what Babylon 05:38 and the ancient pagans were all about, 05:40 it's the reason they didn't embrace 05:41 the Ten Commandments. 05:42 That's the reason they hated the Jewish people, 05:44 is because they did not want God being in charge. 05:48 Like the evolutionists, 05:49 they don't want a divine foot in the door, 05:51 but there will be a divine foot in the door, for sure. 05:56 And so now the sun... 05:58 remember those charms, 06:00 those charms from ancient Babylon 06:02 with the 666 on one side, and then the sun god 06:06 on the other side, that it would protect them 06:08 from these evil powers, 06:10 but there's no protecting now. 06:13 This sun is a terrible plague, and men blasphemed God 06:19 because of it. 06:21 And then the fifth plague, very interesting one, 06:24 Revelation 16:10-11, 06:26 "Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl 06:28 on the throne of the beast, 06:30 and his kingdom became full of darkness." 06:33 Now, this is a plague poured out 06:35 on the religious leaders, 06:37 these religious leaders. 06:39 So when this darkness comes, these people that are bent 06:43 on destroying God's people are suddenly going to wake up, 06:48 they're going to wake up and say, "What? 06:50 We've been on the wrong side of this, 06:53 the clergy, he and the priest, and everybody have told us 06:56 that we were okay, we were doing God's will, 06:58 but now we can see this plague of darkness," 07:02 and they're going to wake up. 07:06 It's poured on the kingdom of the beast. 07:10 "And they gnawed their tongues because of the pain. 07:12 They blasphemed the God of heaven 07:14 because of their pains, 07:15 and their sores, and they did not repent 07:18 of their deeds." 07:19 Now that fifth plague is tied into the sixth plague, 07:22 which is a very fascinating one as well. 07:25 Revelation 16:12-14, 07:27 "Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl 07:29 on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, 07:34 so that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared." 07:38 Now, I want to go back and say we'll talk about 07:40 that river Euphrates in just a moment 07:42 and what that means. 07:43 "And I saw three unclean frogs..." 07:46 This one has a lot of symbolic language in it, 07:48 it's very interesting. 07:49 "Three unclean spirits like frogs, 07:52 coming out of the mouth of the dragon, 07:54 out of the mouth of the beast, 07:55 out of the mouth of the false prophet," 07:58 that's that trilogy, the false trilogy again, 08:02 "for they are spirits of demons, performing signs." 08:06 Jesus said, "In the end of time, 08:07 they would perform miracles, and deceive many people. 08:11 "Performing signs, which go out to the kings 08:13 of the whole world and gather them to the battle 08:18 of great God almighty," the battle of Armageddon. 08:21 So some of this takes place before that, 08:24 because all this deception before you ever get 08:26 into the seven last plagues, 08:28 has been going on with these demons. 08:30 And they are performing all these wonderful signs, 08:33 making fire come down from God out of heaven, 08:36 and the kings of the earth are deceived, Babylon, 08:39 that woman, also another picture of the same thing, 08:44 and she deceives them by her charms. 08:47 So the great deception all over the world, 08:50 and they're being gathered to that final battle, 08:53 but the ways of the kings 08:55 of the east are being prepared. 08:56 Now, let me just... 08:57 I'll talk more about this on another subject 08:59 but let me just give you a little bit right now. 09:01 Ancient Babylon set on a river, the Euphrates. 09:06 In the Book of Revelation, this new Babylon, 09:08 Chapter 17, sits on a river, but it's not a literal river, 09:12 it's a river of people, 09:14 you can read it in Chapter 17 for yourself. 09:17 And so they deceived, 09:19 these demons and this false trinity 09:22 through the religious leaders deceived the world. 09:26 And so it collapses, 09:28 the support for Babylon collapses, 09:32 you can read that in Chapter 17. 09:35 And so people are very upset and angry. 09:38 And now these plagues prepare the way 09:42 for the final approach of the kings of the east, 09:46 like Cyrus who came to overthrow ancient Babylon, 09:49 and he dried up the river 09:51 and was able to overthrow Babylon. 09:52 So this plague dries up the support for the clergy, 09:58 all kinds of clergy that have deceived people. 10:01 Listen, it's a very responsible thing 10:03 to be a minister, to be a priest, 10:06 it's very responsible thing. 10:07 And so this is dried up and people, 10:11 they totally lose support, and then Jesus is coming 10:15 with the final seventh plague, 10:18 but there's some special instructions here, 10:21 special instructions for the righteous, 10:24 for those who are going through this. 10:26 And He says here, "Behold, I am coming as a thief," 10:31 unexpectedly but I'm coming. 10:34 "Blessed is he who watches," that's the words of Jesus. 10:37 He said, watch and pray, stay on the alert. 10:42 "Blessed is He who watches." 10:44 Are you watching? 10:45 Are we praying, reading our Bibles every day? 10:48 Are we in constant communion with God like Daniel was? 10:52 Are we endeavoring in our life by the grace of the Lord Jesus 10:54 and by the indwelling of spirit, to be obedient 10:57 to the precious Savior, to follow His instructions? 11:00 Are we watching? 11:02 Are we praying? 11:03 And then He goes on, "Blessed is he who watches 11:05 and keeps his garments." 11:07 Where did those garments come from? 11:09 Those garments are the garments that Jesus has given us. 11:11 It's His righteousness, it's not our righteousness. 11:15 But are we keeping those garments? 11:17 Are we getting sin out of our life? 11:19 Are we getting disobedience out of our life? 11:21 We don't want to spoil these garments 11:24 with more rebellion in our hearts, our life. 11:27 Jesus blesses this person who keeps His garments. 11:29 Then when the clothes of probation comes, 11:31 my dear friends, we have got to be 11:34 so settled in our mind, and we got to be so filled 11:36 with the Spirit of God, 11:38 and so filled with the living Christ, 11:40 that we are not going to choose, 11:42 by the grace of God, won't choose to sin 11:45 between then and the coming of Jesus. 11:46 So it says, 11:48 "Blessed is the person who keeps his garments." 11:50 In the end of time sin is a spoiler, 11:53 it's always been a spoiler, it's a horrible thing. 11:55 Look at what it's done to the world, 11:57 look what it's done to all of us. 11:59 So He says, "Lest he walk naked, 12:02 and I see shame..." 12:03 unless somehow, we don't keep our garments, 12:06 we're not ready for the clothes of probation, 12:07 we're not ready for Jesus to come, 12:10 and then we will be put to shame. 12:13 We lose our garment that Jesus has given to us. 12:18 And the seventh plague simply says, 12:21 "The seventh angel poured out his bowl in the air, 12:24 and there was a loud voice 12:25 from heaven saying 'It is done.' 12:27 " And it pictures Babylon as a city 12:29 that falls into three parts. 12:32 It pictures a terrible plague of hail and appalling, 12:35 I think this is what we're seeing when Jesus comes, 12:38 this hail precedes the coming of Jesus. 12:41 Held the weight of a talent, 50, 60, 70 pounds, 12:44 I don't know exactly. 12:46 But there's nothing 12:47 that can stand in the way of that. 12:49 It's just destroying the armies of the earth 12:52 who are now no longer listening to their clergy, 12:55 they're just mad, they're mad at God, 12:57 and they hate His people. 12:59 But these plagues are going to save God's people, 13:03 they're going to deliver God's people, 13:04 they're going to destroy Babylon, 13:07 who's persecuted God's people. 13:09 But we must never forget the admonition. 13:12 We must stay awake. 13:15 We must stay on the alert. 13:17 We must keep our garments white. 13:20 We must get sin out of our life and put our trust every moment, 13:25 every hour in our precious incredible, 13:29 marvelous Savior. |
Revised 2019-08-27