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Elijah Has Returned

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Participants: Hiram Rester

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01:00 Well, hello and I want to welcome every one of you
01:03 back this afternoon to hear Cameron--
01:06 to hear not Cameron, but who?
01:09 Hiram Rester, minister to us.
01:14 This is the session that he is going to bring us
01:17 "Elijah Has Returned."
01:18 And I think we're all excited
01:20 to hear him minister on this subject.
01:23 But I want to welcome all of you back,
01:25 you that are here in Southern Illinois,
01:27 and I always like to welcome all of you
01:30 that are watching from around the world.
01:32 Do you know that the potential viewing audience
01:35 I'm told for 3ABN is close to two billion people.
01:39 So we look here in our auditorium
01:41 and we praise God for the number of people
01:44 that God has sent to Southern Illinois
01:46 to our Spring Camp Meeting.
01:48 But we have to realize that as this program
01:51 is going out live all over the world
01:54 that it's ministering to multiple
01:56 hundreds of thousands of people.
01:58 You are part of a much larger congregation of people
02:02 that is viewing this and we've already prayed
02:04 and our prayer is that many souls will be touched
02:07 and drawn to the Lord Jesus Christ
02:10 through the ministry of Hiram Rester this afternoon.
02:14 Now I want to tell you a little about him,
02:16 I feel like that probably most of you know all about him
02:20 but there maybe some in viewing audience that doesn't.
02:23 First of all how many of you
02:25 are able to listen to 3ABN Radio?
02:28 Good.
02:30 He has a program on 3ABN Radio,
02:33 he's heading there for about two years
02:34 and it's called "Affirming Creation."
02:37 So those of you that are able to listen to 3ABN Radio
02:41 already know about his ministry.
02:43 He's also been on 3ABN a number of times.
02:46 He's the senior pastor of the Springfield
02:49 Seventh-day Adventist Church in Springfield, Missouri.
02:52 He's an evangelist, he's been a church planter
02:55 but from the time that I've spent talking with him
02:58 something that I see is a heart
03:00 that's consecrated and dedicated to God.
03:02 So we're honored to have him
03:04 come and minister to us this afternoon.
03:07 But before he comes we have a beautiful lady
03:09 that God has graced the congregation here
03:13 in Thompsonville, Illinois,
03:14 well that is Thompsonville, Illinois
03:16 Seventh- day Adventist church.
03:17 Her name is Celestine Barry
03:21 and she's a member of our church
03:22 and we are so pleased to have her come this afternoon.
03:26 And, Celestine, I believe you're gonna minister
03:28 "Why Have You Chosen Me?"
03:30 Thank you so much.
03:47 Why have You chosen me
03:54 Out of millions Your child to be
04:00 You know all the wrongs
04:06 That I have done
04:12 Oh, how could You pardon me
04:19 Forgive my iniquities
04:25 To save me
04:28 give Jesus Your son
04:38 But, Lord, help me be
04:44 What You want me to be
04:51 Your word
04:53 I will strive to obey
05:04 My life I now give
05:10 For You I will live
05:16 And walk by Your side
05:22 All the way
05:56 I am amazed to know
06:02 That a God so great could love me so
06:08 Is willing and wanting
06:14 To bless
06:21 His love is so wonderful
06:28 His mercy so bountiful
06:34 I can't understand it
06:41 I confess
06:47 But, Lord, help me be
06:53 What You want me to be
06:59 Your word
07:02 I will strive to obey
07:12 My life I now give
07:19 For You I will live
07:25 And walk by Your side
07:31 All the way
07:38 My life I now give
07:44 For You I will live
07:53 And walk by Your side
08:00 All the way
08:16 Amen, amen. What a blessing.
08:20 Well, Mollie was telling stories on me there.
08:24 Well, what do I do about that?
08:26 You want to hear some stories about Mollie?
08:31 No, we better not, okay. Let's move ahead though.
08:34 How many of you are having a great time
08:36 at camp meeting once again this year?
08:37 What a blessing, amen. Praise the Lord.
08:41 I snuck away from camp meeting
08:42 for just a little bit this morning,
08:43 it was sermon prep time.
08:46 After I had read over my notes a few times
08:48 that is, Danny told me where a pond was
08:52 that I could dip a hook in
08:53 and the Lord blessed with 14 largemouth bass
08:57 that are still alive, we turned them back loose.
09:00 And, you know, that helped me get ready for today.
09:04 I'm much more relaxed
09:06 and fishing is a blessing to me.
09:08 Just getting out and being with God, you know?
09:11 What a blessing and relaxing time
09:13 being here, seeing people.
09:15 I haven't seen for years here at camp meeting,
09:18 it's absolutely awesome.
09:20 It's great and I know that you're getting a blessing
09:23 with all of these wonderful speakers
09:25 that have been here and the things they've shared.
09:27 I'm excited to share with you again today
09:30 and I would like to invite you to open your Bibles
09:32 to Malachi Chapter 4,
09:34 Malachi Chapter 4 as we get into our message titled
09:39 "Elijah Has Returned."
09:43 When I was 16-years-old,
09:44 it was the first day of spring break
09:47 and I had borrowed my dad's car.
09:51 It was an exciting thing.
09:52 I had a driver's license, first day of spring break.
09:55 Guess how I started that day out.
09:58 Bass fishing, yeah, it's true.
10:02 It stuck with me for quite a while now.
10:04 I went fishing that morning and back then I kept them,
10:07 you know, I brought them home and made sure
10:10 they were ready for me to check on them later.
10:12 And well, I then was going to town,
10:18 there'd been a little bit of a rain
10:19 and my friend Chris,
10:20 we were teenagers, he called me and said,
10:22 let's go play some tennis in the afternoon.
10:23 I said that's great, let's play some tennis.
10:26 And he said the court's will be dry in a bit,
10:28 why don't you pick up a pizza come over to my house,
10:30 we'll play some videogames
10:32 and then we'll go play tennis this afternoon.
10:34 That sounded exciting to me
10:35 so I headed off in the little Toyota Corolla of my dad's.
10:39 It had a little sunroof on it and I thought it was cool,
10:41 you know, to roll that sunroof back
10:43 and I had the music up loud,
10:45 it was country music back then--
10:47 I know, please forgive me
10:49 and I was down in the seat relaxed
10:54 with my arm up just cruising.
10:59 I was going about, I started around this curve
11:02 in backwoods south of Mississippi
11:05 and as I was going around this curve,
11:07 there's some potholes in the curve
11:09 and so everyone kind of just moves over automatically
11:11 to the center of the road to miss the potholes
11:13 which is what I did.
11:15 And then I look up as I'm adjusting the radio
11:17 trying to get the tunes a little more livelily.
11:19 I look up someone is out there too
11:21 in the middle of nowhere coming from the other direction.
11:23 What are they doing out here? It's the middle of nowhere.
11:26 Well, now I have to choose a side of the road
11:27 and so you can't go wrong going, right.
11:29 So I jerk it to the right, I wasn't going all that fast,
11:32 it was a sharp curve, I was only going 80, 85,
11:34 something like that and I missed the car
11:39 but the car I was in began to fishtail,
11:42 as an inexperienced driver there and I overcorrected
11:46 when I tried to get back onto the road.
11:49 And as the car began to fishtail
11:50 and went off the road, hit a ditch,
11:52 I went through the windshield head first,
11:57 hit out in front of the car
11:59 just to the right of the electric pole.
12:03 The car went just to the left
12:04 as it flipped over and over and over and.
12:08 Actually hitting the front yard of my Baptist preacher's house,
12:12 the porch edge and I come up running from the car,
12:15 I knew it was coming behind me, I run right up on the porch,
12:17 I hear screaming inside, someone had heard the collision
12:20 and seen the carnage and I rang the doorbell
12:24 'cause I didn't know what else to do.
12:26 They came out, they got me laid down,
12:29 started putting rags on me, you know,
12:31 I was cut up from my knees to the top of my head
12:34 having gone through the windshield head first
12:37 which is typically not very healthy.
12:43 Oh, my 147 stitches from here to here,
12:48 but before they put the stitches in,
12:49 they brought me the phone to call my mom.
12:51 I said if you call my mom
12:52 and you'd tell her I've had an accident,
12:53 she'll wreck getting here.
12:54 So let me call her, right?
12:56 So, mom, you know the car's in pretty bad shape
12:58 and well, the important thing is
13:00 as you can talk, you're gonna be okay.
13:02 And she gets there in record time.
13:03 They take me in the ambulance and they began to do the x-rays
13:08 and since I went through the windshield head first,
13:12 they turned me, they swayed my neck
13:14 right after everything it began to kind of knit and dry
13:18 but before they you know,
13:19 they started stretching this way
13:20 and that way taking the x rays, right.
13:23 They determined a miracle, nothing was broke,
13:25 I was just all cut up and they put me
13:27 under for seven hours of plastic surgery
13:30 as they dug glass out of my face.
13:33 Plastic surgery, you think they could do better than this,
13:36 but it's what I have to work with.
13:39 I think the mistake that my mom made
13:40 was she gave them a picture of what
13:43 I looked like before the accident
13:45 instead of a picture of what someone better
13:46 looking looked like before the accident.
13:50 But just before I went under for seven hours of surgery,
13:54 my dad came in, you see,
13:56 when he'd heard I had an accident,
13:58 he ran out to get in his car to come check on me.
14:04 It was his car I had borrowed.
14:07 That was the first day he'd ever loan me his car
14:09 when he went to work so he wasn't used to his car
14:11 not being in the parking lot when he went out there.
14:13 He had to borrow a car and come over
14:15 and my dad, he just didn't get it right.
14:17 He just messed up a little bit.
14:18 You see there is this script
14:22 that you don't even have to look at
14:23 to know how to follow.
14:25 That's right, the teenager says mom, dad,
14:28 I'm sorry about the car, right.
14:31 And then the parents, I mean, if the kid's gonna be okay,
14:35 says, that's all right, don't worry about the car,
14:39 the important thing is you're gonna be all right.
14:42 Mom got it right, daddy, you know, he just missed it.
14:46 As I was getting ready to be
14:47 put under for seven hours of plastic surgery,
14:50 he started out right,
14:51 he said don't worry about the car now.
14:58 But we will deal with this later.
15:03 Well, see I went off course
15:05 and it caused a severe accident.
15:07 Now I could tell you just really quick
15:09 that accident is what began a series of events
15:13 that caused my family to begin to study
15:17 and we studied ourselves from the Baptist church
15:20 to the Seventh-day Adventist Church
15:22 as Adventist Christians now.
15:25 In fact, my dad had to ride with someone else
15:28 to work for a few days and he heard
15:30 a 30 second Amazing Facts ad for a seminar
15:35 by a speaker by the name of Brian McMahon
15:37 down on the coast
15:39 and they didn't mail flyers out
15:41 where we were so he was riding with someone else
15:44 when he heard about it,
15:45 I had a few days off from Piggly Wiggly
15:47 where I worked, they still have those.
15:50 They didn't want me with 147 stitches
15:52 from here to here around open food
15:54 so they told me to take a few days off
15:56 and I got to go and hear the Amazing Facts speaker.
16:00 And I thought it was pretty good
16:02 but I didn't get to keep going, my dad did.
16:04 And I basically learned these are really nice people
16:07 and it seems like they really understand the Bible
16:09 but it seems like they go to church on the wrong day
16:11 and don't eat anything that taste good.
16:13 So that was my impression
16:16 and so it took me a few years of continued study.
16:20 But what happened with me
16:21 as I had gotten off track, right.
16:23 I ran off the road and it caused severe problems.
16:27 I had gotten off course.
16:30 Well, Israel many, many, many years ago
16:34 had gotten off course
16:36 and God sent a mighty prophet
16:39 to try to brain whelm back on course.
16:44 That prophet's name was Elijah.
16:47 Our message today "Elijah Has Returned."
16:52 About 2,800 years ago
16:54 in the northern part of Palestine,
16:56 there lived a mighty prophet of God by the name of Elijah.
17:02 Elijah was courageous and bold.
17:04 He faced head on the current of popular thought.
17:08 His soul was weighed down with a burden for God's people,
17:14 they had forsaken the Commandments of the Lord,
17:17 they had followed Baal.
17:20 And he called them back to the true worship of God.
17:24 At this time Ahab was the king of Israel.
17:27 He had married the wicked princess of Phoenicia, Jezebel.
17:34 Now Jezebel had killed all of God's prophets that she could.
17:37 She made it illegal to worship the true God properly
17:40 upon the penalty of death.
17:43 The people were serving God a little bit
17:46 while mixing in much of the pagan world
17:48 around them just like we see
17:51 much of the Christian world doing today.
17:55 Well, as you move ahead
17:56 and study the prophecy of Elijah,
17:59 he was not popular in his day, to those who were against God
18:04 and he was not even popular to many of those
18:06 who professed to be following God.
18:10 There was a death penalty upon his head
18:12 for three and a half years,
18:14 three years and six months for 42 months,
18:20 for some of you that just gave you a clue
18:22 as to where we're going
18:26 and then when his work was finished,
18:28 he was translated directly to heaven
18:31 without ever seeing death.
18:33 And once Elijah was translated to heaven,
18:36 the Bible is completely silent
18:38 about Elijah until you come down
18:42 to the last two verses of the Old Testament.
18:47 And like a show that you may have been watching years ago
18:51 and right when he came to a climactic point
18:53 and you're thinking, oh, oh, my, what happens.
18:59 Then it says to be continued. That's what God did.
19:04 The last two verses of the Old Testament
19:06 he says, by the way Elijah is coming back, the end.
19:10 For 400 years-- what if you've had to wait for 400 years
19:12 to see the next episode?
19:14 Oh, my.
19:16 But look here and let's read it.
19:18 Malachi 4:5, "For behold,
19:21 I will send you Elijah the prophet
19:22 before the coming of the great
19:24 and dreadful day of the Lord,
19:25 and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children,
19:28 and the heart of the children to their fathers,
19:29 lest I come and smite the earth with a curse."
19:34 Before the second coming of Jesus
19:36 empowering great glory, Elijah is going to return.
19:42 But what did God mean by saying Elijah would return?
19:44 How would it be fulfilled?
19:46 Well, regardless of how, the fact remains
19:49 if God said Elijah is gonna return,
19:52 then Elijah is gonna return.
19:53 Can somebody say amen?
19:55 Amen. Yes.
19:56 But, my friends, as we look here,
19:57 I can think of four options, maybe you can think of a fifth,
20:00 perhaps God might send Elijah personally.
20:04 Number two, perhaps God might send someone
20:06 who looks like Elijah.
20:07 Number three, a highly doubt these
20:10 but these last couple but maybe
20:12 Elijah be reincarnated into someone else
20:15 some have suggested.
20:17 Fourthly, perhaps Elijah's message
20:20 might need to be repeated
20:21 and the repeating of that message
20:23 would serve the function of Elijah's return.
20:26 Regardless of which option
20:27 we discovered to be the truth though,
20:29 the fact remains the prophecy will be fulfilled.
20:33 Now Elijah's mentioned 28 times in the four gospels
20:37 and he's mentioned 30 times
20:39 in the entirety of the New Testament
20:42 and there's one studies those verses from the Word of God,
20:46 you come face to face with a startling fact
20:51 and that is that the prophecy of the return of Elijah
20:55 has a dual fulfillment.
20:56 That is it has a double fulfillment.
20:59 It has how many fulfillments? Two fulfillments, that's right.
21:04 As we look here, go with me to Matthew Chapter 17,
21:07 Matthew Chapter 17 as we dig into this
21:10 amazing prophecy from the Word of God,
21:12 we look here in Matthew 17:10.
21:15 "And his disciples asked Him"
21:17 The disciples of Jesus asked Jesus,
21:19 "saying, why then say the scribes that Elias,
21:22 Elijah, must first come?
21:24 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias,
21:27 Elijah, truly shall first come, and restore all things.
21:30 But I say unto you, that Elijah is come already,
21:32 and they knew him not, but have done unto him
21:34 whatsoever they listed.
21:37 Likewise shall also the Son of man,
21:38 Jesus, suffer of them.
21:40 Then the disciples understood
21:42 that he spake unto them of" who?
21:46 "John the Baptist."
21:47 So you go and ask Jesus, who is Elijah?
21:50 And He refers to who? John the Baptist.
21:55 Well, let's ask John about it
21:56 as it's recorded right here in the gospel of John,
22:00 not written by John the Baptist
22:02 but written by the apostle John,
22:04 John the Beloved, John the Revelator.
22:07 That's right, John 1:19
22:10 and we find the question being asked here
22:12 of John the Baptist right here in the Word of God,
22:15 in the Bible today we see it crystal clear.
22:18 We look here in 1 John, not in 1 John,
22:21 the gospel of John 1:19 and it says,
22:26 "And this is the record of John,
22:28 when the Jews sent priests and Levites
22:29 from Jerusalem to ask him, who art thou?
22:32 And he confessed, and denied not,
22:33 but confessed, I am not the Christ.
22:37 And they asked him, what then?
22:39 Art thou" who? "Elias?"
22:42 Or you Elijah? What did he say?
22:47 "No.
22:50 Then they said unto him, who art thou?
22:51 That we may give an answer to them that sent us."
22:54 Let's reread it.
22:55 "They asked him, what then?
22:56 Art thou Elias? He saith, I am not.
22:58 Art thou that prophet? He answered, no.
23:01 Then they said unto him, who art thou?
23:03 That we may give an answer to them that sent us.
23:05 What sayest thou of thyself?
23:07 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness,
23:10 make straight the way of the Lord,
23:11 as said the prophet Esaias."
23:13 Or Isaiah.
23:15 And so Jesus, you ask Him who's Elijah
23:19 and he refers to John the Baptist.
23:21 You go to John the Baptist,
23:22 you straight up ask him, are you Elijah?
23:25 And he says, I am not.
23:29 We've stumbled upon one of those seemingly
23:31 apparent contradictions in scripture
23:33 but there's no contradiction there whatsoever.
23:35 As serious Bible students
23:36 we know what to do right away, do we not?
23:38 And that is to look at more verses on the topic
23:40 and let the Word of God make it clear.
23:43 In this case we only need one more verse.
23:45 Go with me to Luke Chapter 1.
23:47 Luke Chapter 1 as we look here together today Luke Chapter 1.
23:52 And in Luke Chapter 1, we're gonna start in verse 13,
23:55 Luke 1:13 today here it is.
23:58 Luke 1:13, "But the angel said unto him, fear not, Zacharias,"
24:03 this is the father of John the Baptist.
24:06 "For thy prayer is heard,
24:08 and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son,
24:11 and thou shalt call his name" what?
24:15 "John.
24:16 And thou shalt have joy and gladness,
24:19 and many shall rejoice at his birth.
24:23 For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord,
24:25 and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink,
24:27 and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost,
24:29 even from his mother's womb.
24:31 And many of the children of Israel
24:34 shall he turn to the Lord their God."
24:38 Remember he said he will turn
24:39 the hearts of the fathers to the children
24:41 and the children to their fathers.
24:42 He is going to turn the hearts of Israel
24:44 to the Lord their God.
24:46 "And he" this is John the Baptist,
24:49 "shall go before Him," Messiah Jesus Christ,
24:53 "in the spirit and power of" who?
24:57 "Elias or Elijah to turn the hearts
24:59 of the fathers to the children,
25:01 and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just,
25:03 to make ready a people prepared for the Lord."
25:09 And so it's clear.
25:11 John the Baptist was not the same man as Elijah.
25:15 He did not, it doesn't say look like Elijah.
25:19 He was Elijah reincarnated, he came with the same message.
25:26 He would come in the spirit and power of Elijah
25:30 and so we have our answer.
25:33 My friends, you are looking for the message of Elijah.
25:37 Now as we talk about this, remember John
25:39 when he was asked who he was,
25:40 he said I'm a voice.
25:42 What is the function of a voice?
25:45 To communicate, yes or no?
25:47 He said my identity is not important,
25:50 it's my message that is important.
25:53 As Christians, my friends,
25:54 we each in our own heart must come to the point
25:57 that self is not important but it's the message
26:00 that points to Jesus that's important.
26:03 Amen.
26:04 John the Baptist had that down,
26:06 praise God, and he said I'm a voice.
26:10 Well, as we move into this,
26:11 we're gonna talk about the prophecy of Elijah.
26:14 We're gonna look back at Elijah,
26:16 the original prophet.
26:17 To keep it simple today
26:18 we're gonna call him Elijah number one,
26:22 then we're gonna have John the Baptist,
26:25 we're gonna call him Elijah number two,
26:28 all right, there's logic here, good.
26:30 And ultimately we're looking
26:33 for the fulfillment of this prophecy
26:35 and in this prophecy it's amazing to note
26:38 that it says the ultimate fulfillment of Elijah's message
26:41 is just before the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
26:44 Not the first coming of Christ,
26:46 but just before the second coming of Jesus, right.
26:52 And so we are looking for Elijah number...
26:56 Three. Three, that's right.
26:59 Elijah, my friends, has returned
27:02 but I ask you, have you seen him yet?
27:06 You say, oh, I don't know if I've seen him yet or not.
27:09 My friends, what if I said that you may have seen him
27:12 when you've looked in the mirror.
27:17 Are you to give the message of Elijah
27:20 in this world today, yes or no?
27:22 Yes. Yes, you are.
27:24 Remember you are not looking
27:25 for the return of the same person,
27:28 you are looking for the return of the spirit and the power.
27:31 You are looking for the return of the message of Elijah.
27:36 And I'm here to tell you, my friends,
27:38 that to this lost and dying world,
27:40 God has sent the message of Elijah.
27:43 Let's dig into this and begin to unpack it.
27:46 First off, I want to share with you
27:48 that Elijah himself is used very uniquely in Scripture.
27:55 Some of you may have studied and read how the Hosea,
27:58 the relationship between Hosea and his wife
28:00 as God told him to go marry a harlot
28:02 was to represent the relationship
28:04 between God and Israel
28:06 who was unfaithful to him, right.
28:09 Well, Hosea lived out a literal prophecy
28:13 that represented something
28:14 that would take place with God's people.
28:16 Did you know although it's not as overt,
28:19 that it necessarily just jump out at you
28:21 the first time you read about Elijah,
28:23 that Elijah in some respects did the same thing
28:27 and that his life would actually represent
28:31 and play out what would happen to God's people.
28:34 Oh, it's true. There are some symbols here.
28:37 Don't miss this fact.
28:39 Elijah was in the wilderness hiding from Jezebel
28:42 for three years and six months, 42 months.
28:46 We're gonna look at that in Revelation
28:47 in just a moment and when Elijah's message
28:50 and mission were complete on earth,
28:52 he went directly to heaven
28:53 without ever seeing death, yes or no?
28:56 As will happen with the Christians
28:58 who are still alive when Jesus comes.
29:02 With this in mind let's go to the Book of Revelation.
29:06 We're gonna look at some of the symbols first
29:07 before we jump right into the literal story of Elijah.
29:10 Now, look here Revelation 2:20.
29:13 Looking at the clock I need to move ahead
29:14 a little more quickly for you today
29:16 so Revelation Chapter 2:20-23.
29:21 It says, "Nevertheless I have a few things against thee,
29:23 because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel,
29:24 which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach
29:27 and to seduce my servants to commit fornication,
29:29 and to eat things sacrificed unto idols.
29:30 And I gave her space to repent of her fornication,
29:32 and she repented not.
29:33 Behold, I will cast her into a bed,
29:35 and them that commit adultery
29:36 with her into great tribulation,
29:37 except they repent of their deeds.
29:39 And I will kill her children with death,
29:40 and all the churches shall know
29:42 that I am he which searcheth the reins and the hearts,
29:44 and will give unto every one of you
29:45 according to your works."
29:48 Notice Jezebel, the original Jezebel
29:50 in the Bible had died long before.
29:53 This is a prophetic symbol.
29:54 This is a woman in Bible prophecy.
29:56 What is a woman in Bible prophecy?
29:58 A church. A church.
29:59 This is a corrupt woman
30:00 so this would represent a church
30:02 with corrupt teachings.
30:03 This is over the time of Thyatira, my friends,
30:06 which if you study the seven churches
30:08 is the time of the Dark Ages,
30:10 a corrupt woman that would rule
30:12 over God's people during the middle ages.
30:14 That's what you're reading about here,
30:16 Jezebel, when we go to the story of Elijah,
30:18 is a symbol of that same power
30:21 that's also represented by a woman in Revelation 17,
30:25 Revelation's great Harlot, who also has children there,
30:28 she's the mother of harlots
30:30 and commits fornication there as well.
30:33 Now with this in mind,
30:35 I would like to have you turn with me here
30:37 for just a moment and look at another verse.
30:40 As we look here together
30:41 go with me to Revelation Chapter 12.
30:43 Historically Jezebel of Revelation
30:46 persecuted God's people.
30:49 And it's happened already,
30:50 it will happen again according to Bible prophecy.
30:53 Now we look here in Revelation Chapter 12,
30:56 Revelation 12:6.
30:59 It says "And the woman fled into the wilderness,
31:00 into a place, where she hath prepared of God,
31:04 that they should feed her there
31:05 a thousand two hundred and threescore days."
31:06 1,260 days.
31:08 Repetition and enlargement,
31:10 it's repeated again in verse 14 with a fair terminology.
31:12 "And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle,
31:15 that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place,
31:16 where she is nourished for a time,"
31:18 That's a year of times, that's plural,
31:19 that's two years, "and half a time"
31:21 that's half a year, "from the face of the serpent."
31:23 That is three and a half years or 42 months
31:27 which on a biblical calendar was 1,260, how many days?
31:31 How many days?
31:32 Yes, and then of course we saw in prophecy,
31:34 I have seen that Numbers 14:34,
31:36 Ezekiel 4:6 a day in prophecy is a year
31:39 but we're just talking about days right now, 1,260 days.
31:42 You say what does this have to do?
31:43 I thought you were telling me Elijah,
31:44 Elijah has returned, why are we sitting here,
31:46 why are we looking at this?
31:47 Go with me to the Book of James Chapter 5
31:49 and then we're going into the story of Elijah, I promise.
31:52 Go me with to James Chapter 5, if you're looking for that,
31:55 you'll get there by going Revelation,
31:56 Jude, 3, 2, 1 John, 2 Peter,
31:58 and then James, right after the Book of Hebrews
32:01 coming from the other direction, okay.
32:03 We want to give you time to find it,
32:04 we'll see it here together
32:05 and we read it here in the Word of God.
32:07 And we see it in the Bible today it says in James 5:17,
32:13 it says, Elijah, "Elias," Elijah,
32:17 "was a man subject to like passions as we are,
32:20 and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain,
32:23 and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years
32:28 and" how long?
32:31 "Three and a half years."
32:32 That's 42 months, yes or no? Yes.
32:35 Now Jezebel is used as a symbol
32:38 of the persecuting church in Revelation
32:42 and Elijah was literally in the wilderness
32:45 for the same amount of time
32:47 the church will go into the wilderness
32:49 in the Book of Revelation.
32:50 Time, time and dividing of time.
32:52 Time, time and half a time, 1,260 days, 42 months.
32:57 Now as we delve into the story of Elijah,
33:01 you've seen what the two major players here
33:03 literally represent to us.
33:05 Elijah represents God's faithful people
33:07 throughout the New Testament
33:09 and Jezebel represents the persecuting
33:12 corrupt church of Revelation.
33:16 Now let's go to 1 Kings Chapter 18
33:18 and have some fun getting into the Word of God.
33:20 Let's go here together.
33:22 1 Kings Chapter 18, we look at it in the Word,
33:25 we're gonna start in verse 17.
33:27 1 Kings 18:17, "And it came to pass,
33:32 when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him,
33:36 Art thou he that troubleth Israel?"
33:39 Now why would he be asking him if he's troubled Israel?
33:41 You see here's what happened.
33:43 God told Elijah to go tell King Ahab
33:45 that it's not gonna rain for three and a half years.
33:47 He didn't say stay, he just said go.
33:51 And so what did he do?
33:52 He went marching into the throne room of King Ahab.
33:55 King, it's not gonna rain for three and a half years.
33:58 Then you know what he did? He left.
34:01 You see you should always listen
34:02 to exactly what God says.
34:03 God didn't say go and stay, He said go.
34:08 So what did Elijah do?
34:10 He left, he probably figured a good run
34:12 is better than a bad stand, at least that's what I figure.
34:15 Now if God says stand, we stand
34:16 but God didn't say stand, right.
34:17 And He said deliver the message,
34:19 he got out of there.
34:20 They looked for him for three years
34:21 and six months trying to kill him
34:24 and then when that time period's up,
34:26 Elijah confronts King Ahab.
34:29 And Ahab says are you the one who's troubling Israel.
34:32 Now Elijah was no panzi.
34:36 He said no, "I have not troubled Israel."
34:41 Verse 18, "but thou, but you, and thy father's house,
34:44 in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord,
34:48 and hast followed Baalim."
34:51 Notice the one who was keeping
34:53 God's commandments was blamed for the trouble going on.
34:57 We'll develop that one possibly later
35:00 but let's move ahead.
35:02 Now the union of Ahab to Jezebel represents
35:06 the last day union or fusion
35:09 or amalgamation of not only Christianity with paganism
35:13 but the union of church and state.
35:18 Now we move ahead and we see it clearly.
35:21 It says here in verse 19,
35:23 "Now therefore send, and gather to me
35:25 all Israel unto Mount Carmel,
35:26 and the prophets of Baal four hundred and fifty,
35:28 and the prophets of the groves four hundred,
35:30 which eat at Jezebel's table.
35:32 So Ahab sent unto all the people,
35:35 all the children of Israel,
35:36 and gathered the prophets together unto Mount Carmel."
35:39 Now history tells us that Mount Carmel
35:42 was a center for sun worship for the Egyptians,
35:45 the Phoenicians, the Canaanites,
35:46 the Greeks and the Romans,
35:48 they all considered it a sacred place
35:50 for the worship of the sun as you in God.
35:55 But Elijah was not afraid of their god,
35:57 he happened to know a little known secret
36:00 and that is that one with God constitutes a majority.
36:05 Amen. That's right.
36:08 And so he went up there,
36:10 one man against 850 false prophets,
36:13 that's right, 450 prophets of Baal
36:15 and 400 prophets of the grove.
36:20 Now we read on here,
36:21 they were worshiping the prophets of the grove,
36:23 Canaanite goddess, okay?
36:25 And they were still worshippers of Baal
36:28 but they did it a little differently
36:29 and that they were dedicated to the goddess,
36:31 okay, a futility.
36:32 Now verse 20,
36:34 "So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel,
36:36 and gathered the prophets together unto Mount Carmel.
36:39 And Elijah came to all the people,
36:41 and he said, how long halt ye between two opinions?
36:45 If the Lord be God, follow him, if Baal, then follow him.
36:48 And the people answered him not a word."
36:52 Now let's think about that for just a moment.
36:56 As we look here at this, this is very intriguing.
36:59 They answered him not a word.
37:03 Sometimes God confronts people with the message of truth,
37:06 calling them to Jesus their Lord and Savior
37:09 to make decisions and to put away false teachings
37:12 and false practices, wrong practices
37:15 and when they look at the decision,
37:19 they are halting between two opinions
37:22 and they don't have a thing to say,
37:23 they're just frozen.
37:26 That's what was happening here.
37:28 But notice God, the true God
37:31 is different from the false god,
37:33 the sun god Baal, the prophets of Baal
37:37 and Jezebel had been killing those
37:39 who were faithful to God, yes or no?
37:42 Yes.
37:43 The prophets of Baal, they said,
37:44 you know, Baal is cruel,
37:46 he is mean, he is rigid, he is harsh
37:49 and they were just acting the way
37:52 they thought their god was.
37:56 But what just God do, He is longsuffering.
37:58 All this time Elijah's been hiding in the wilderness.
38:02 From Jezebel, God has been laboring with His people,
38:06 He is longsuffering, He is loving, He is merciful.
38:11 As a Christian you're probably gonna act like most of the time
38:15 the way you relate to people
38:16 what you think your God is like.
38:18 If you think God is rigid and mean and cruel,
38:22 then you're gonna treat other people at home
38:23 and at church that way.
38:26 Therefore if you don't understand
38:27 the loving character of God,
38:29 it's important that you get that together
38:31 because you're misrepresenting God if you don't see it.
38:34 But if you believe that God is loving and merciful
38:37 and He is calling you to Him
38:38 because He loves you with an undying love.
38:41 And He loves you so much
38:43 that He would rather lay down His life
38:45 even if it would mean losing eternity Himself
38:50 than enjoy heaven without you.
38:53 That's my God, that's the one that I serve.
38:56 I look forward to spending all eternity with Him
38:58 and that's what heaven's about, it's about being with Jesus.
39:01 That's the longsuffering, loving awesome God we serve
39:05 and I am drawn to serve Him
39:07 because I love Him, not because I have to.
39:11 Now as we dig into this, we see here verse 22,
39:14 "Then said Elijah unto the people,
39:16 I, even I only, remain a prophet of the Lord,
39:18 but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men."
39:20 Later we learned they're 7,000
39:22 that have not bowed their knee to Baal
39:23 but you know what the point of this is,
39:25 it's very simple,
39:26 in the last days there is one truth.
39:31 What is that truth?
39:32 My friends, the truth, it's very simple.
39:34 Jesus, I am the way, thou what?
39:37 Truth and the life.
39:38 Well, the word of God, the Bible, John 17:17,
39:42 "Sanctify them through thy truth,
39:43 thy word is the truth,"
39:46 And God's law-- Psalms 119:142,
39:50 "Thy righteousness is an everlasting righteousness,
39:52 and all thy law is the" what?
39:55 "Truth."
39:56 My friends, when you read one Bible,
39:59 one set of Ten Commandments
40:00 and you worship one savior that leads you in unity
40:04 to the truth of the Word of God.
40:07 That's right my friends, as we dig into this he said
40:11 I only remain a prophet into the Lord.
40:13 There's just a hint there of something for us to see.
40:16 Now verse 23 "Let them therefore give us two bullocks,
40:19 and let them choose one bullock for themselves."
40:22 So they each took a calf and then they would call on God
40:27 and the God did answer by fire let him be God
40:30 and the people they said it's well spoken
40:32 if you read on down in the narrative
40:34 or skipping down to save a little bit of time here.
40:37 It says here in verse 26
40:40 "And they took the bullock which was given them,"
40:42 the prophets of Baal "and they dressed it,
40:44 and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon,
40:47 saying, O Baal, hear us."
40:54 I'm just trying to read it right.
40:57 "But there was no voice, nor any that answered.
41:00 And they leaped upon the altar that was made."
41:05 Did you get this?
41:07 Now folks, I'm trying to get you to go there in your mind,
41:09 use your imagination just a little bit here today.
41:12 You're on top of the mountain all Israel is gathered
41:14 and you've got 850 false prophets,
41:17 450 prophets of Baal, 400 prophets of the Grove
41:21 and they say what "oh, Baal, hear us"
41:26 and they're leaping and they're jumping around
41:29 you know "wow, wow."
41:32 You'd say you're acting up. No, I'm not acting.
41:34 I'm trying to get you to see that.
41:36 You're not seeing it yet 850
41:40 sweaty screaming men before the days of daily baths
41:48 and deodorant 850 smelly, sweaty,
41:54 screaming prophets, false prophets.
42:02 Well, verse 27 "And it came to pass at noon,
42:05 that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud,
42:07 for he is a God, either he is talking,
42:08 or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey,
42:10 or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked."
42:13 Your God's taking a nap or your God's on vacation.
42:18 So God told Elijah to go stay there all day
42:20 but he didn't say be bored and he didn't have CNN,
42:22 or Fox News, or nothing and so what does he do?
42:25 He kind of stirs it up a little bit.
42:28 Verse 28 "And they cried aloud, and cut themselves
42:31 after their manner with knives and lancets,
42:33 till the blood gushed out upon them."
42:35 They cried how? Aloud.
42:38 Now you've got 850 bloody,
42:43 sweaty, screaming men.
42:48 Are you with me? Are you there?
42:51 Are you alive today? Yes.
42:53 Check this, this is amazing.
42:57 Notice they shed their own blood to please their god.
43:02 Look at the difference between the god
43:05 these false prophets worshiped and the true God.
43:11 My friends, I was asked by a man
43:13 at the gym the other day
43:14 what's different about your church?
43:15 And I usually would just say well, Seventh-day
43:18 and the Sabbath and Adventist, Jesus is coming soon.
43:21 I decided to have a little bit of fun.
43:23 I said well, what's different about my church
43:25 is what we believe about who God is
43:28 and then I stopped
43:31 and he sat there five minutes in the sauna
43:35 and he was shifting his weight he was bated
43:38 and he was trying not to ask.
43:39 He finally said "okay, I have to ask.
43:42 What do you mean that what is different about your church
43:45 is what you believe about who God is?"
43:48 And I said "we believe God is a lot more awesome,
43:51 and a lot more loving and a lot more kind
43:53 than a lot of other churches believe."
43:54 Amen. That's what we believe.
43:56 And then I began with Seventh-day
43:59 and the Sabbath and what creation
44:00 as supposed to theistic evolution says about
44:03 who God is all the way to Adventist
44:05 and Him coming soon just said it all straight
44:07 and said it all right and throughout
44:10 the ceaseless ages of eternity.
44:11 He would never take away your freedom of choice
44:13 or my freedom of choice
44:15 but He's doing it in such a way
44:16 that sin will never rise up again.
44:18 Amen.
44:21 He said, I hadn't been a religious fellow,
44:22 but my wife is and I like the sound of that
44:25 I might come see you one Saturday morning.
44:26 I know where you're at and hadn't seen him yet
44:28 but we're hoping to see him sometime.
44:30 Now check this out, we move ahead verse 29
44:35 "It came to pass, when midday was past,
44:36 and they prophesied until the time of the offering
44:38 of the evening sacrifice,
44:40 that there was neither voice, nor any to answer,
44:42 nor any that regarded."
44:43 And verse 30 Elijah repaired
44:45 the altar of the Lord that's broken down.
44:47 What do you at an altar? You worship.
44:49 Notice Elijah's message always restores true worship, okay.
44:55 Now, then he put the wood in order
44:58 and he prepared the sacrifice,
45:00 the sacrifice points forward to Jesus.
45:04 That's right, you see Jesus all in this prophecy
45:07 the loving character of God is here
45:09 dripping from every page.
45:11 We see it he said now pour four barrels of water over it.
45:16 Is that generally the Boy Scout youth you use?
45:19 You know what Boy Scout youth says, right.
45:22 You know some fire started liquid
45:23 you know like when you grill in--
45:25 Boy Scout youth, maybe some diesel
45:26 don't use gasoline not to blow up in face literally, okay.
45:31 Four barrels water, he said
45:32 do it the second time, they did it the second time.
45:33 Do it the third did, they did the third time.
45:35 Twelve barrels of water, 12 stones for the altar,
45:39 12 barrels of water.
45:40 We are lively stones, yes or no?
45:42 Water represents cleansing.
45:44 They're some perhaps some illusions here to the 144,000
45:48 if you see this as not only a literally story
45:50 but having prophetic value.
45:53 I do not have time to fully develop
45:55 that thought right now but let's look here.
45:58 Then it says verse 37 "Hear me, O Lord, hear me,
46:01 that this people may know that thou art the Lord God,
46:03 and that thou hast turned their heart back again."
46:06 Remember when it said Elijah was gonna come
46:08 and he's gonna turn the hearts of the people back to God.
46:11 That's what Elijah's message the key portion of it is.
46:16 "And when all the people saw it,
46:17 they fell on their faces and they said,
46:18 The Lord, he is the God, the Lord, he is the God."
46:22 And that's verse 39.
46:24 My friends, let's look at the couple of parallels
46:25 very quickly here
46:27 and then we'll go into some final important points.
46:29 You have Jezebel, which is used as a prophetic symbol
46:33 a woman in Bible prophecy as a church.
46:35 You see Jezebel's role as a prosecuting power here,
46:38 okay.
46:39 And you see her ultimate end.
46:42 Oh, incidentally at the hand of her own people
46:45 just as you find after plague, after plague,
46:47 after plague is poured out that the waters dry up
46:50 that ultimately Jezebel in Revelation
46:52 meets an end at the hands of her own people
46:55 who turn against her, okay.
46:58 Three years and six months, you see that right,
47:00 Elijah in the wilderness as the church
47:02 would be in the wilderness for three years and six months.
47:06 Famine, there was a famine for 1,260 days.
47:09 My friends, and the days of Elijah
47:11 and while the church was in the wilderness
47:13 there was a famine of the Word of God.
47:16 Ahab's marriage to Jezebel a symbol of the union
47:19 or fusion or amalgamation of Christianity
47:22 and paganism as well as church and state.
47:28 The showdown on Mount Carmel,
47:29 I believe it represents the Protestant Reformation
47:32 and the finishing of the Protestant Reformation
47:34 because I don't believe it's done yet.
47:38 I believe we're still Protestants by God's grace.
47:44 The prophets of Baal shed their own blood
47:46 to please their God's salvation by works.
47:49 The 12 stones and the 12 barrels,
47:52 I believe you find a cleansing
47:53 and a purification of God's people.
47:56 The fire that falls my friends,
47:58 we're waiting for the fire of the Holy Spirit to fall
48:01 for the later rain to go forth in power and glory
48:07 and I believe the drops of rain are beginning
48:09 to fall incidentally along with the fire
48:11 actually came a rain right after the fire in this case.
48:15 Remember he went and prayed seven times for rain.
48:21 Seven times, seven completion
48:23 when all of God's people are seeking
48:24 and pleading for God's spirit to be poured out,
48:27 it will be poured out.
48:28 That last time a servant said,
48:30 I see a cloud about half the size of a man's hand.
48:35 Oh, wow, and he said get up it's about to rain
48:39 and he runs and the rain begins to fall.
48:44 My friends,
48:45 although it was a challenge of faith for Elijah,
48:49 do not miss this point,
48:51 Elijah fled Jezebel the second time.
48:56 The church has went into the wilderness for 1,260 days
48:58 already has come forth
49:01 but once again there will be a time
49:03 to flee to the mountains and rocks
49:04 and a time of tribulation, yes or no?
49:07 Elijah fled Jezebel the second time,
49:10 its there don't miss it.
49:12 Then my friends, Elijah when his work was done
49:16 was translated to heaven without ever seeing death
49:21 and those of us alive to see
49:22 Jesus come that had been faithful to Him
49:25 and given our hearts and lives to Him
49:27 we like Elijah will be translated to heaven
49:30 without ever seeing death.
49:31 Amen. Praise the God.
49:34 And looking for Elijah number three,
49:35 you're looking for the same message.
49:37 What was he saying?
49:38 Elijah said, you forsaking the commandments of the Lord
49:40 and has followed Baalim.
49:43 Don't miss this point
49:45 and the days of Elijah number one
49:47 and Elijah number two all of God's people
49:49 lived in an area roughly 30 miles wide
49:51 by 90 miles long called the land of Israel
49:54 and one man could take the message
49:56 to all of those people.
49:57 In fact, the old circuit riding preachers
49:59 in the early time of the United States
50:03 they would cover two or three counties
50:05 or four counties
50:06 which is easily 30 miles wide by 90 miles long, yes or no?
50:10 But we live in a prophetic time where the gospel message
50:13 is gonna go to every nation and kindred
50:16 and tongue and people.
50:18 It's going to take an army.
50:20 It's gonna take a movement to preach Elijah's message
50:23 and thankfully today that movement
50:25 is almost 20 million strong and growing
50:28 fulfilling every criteria of Elijah number three.
50:31 And that movement my friends, is the Adventist church,
50:33 the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
50:35 Amen.
50:36 Raised by God of movement of destiny
50:39 and we're calling Seventh-day Adventist
50:41 an all Christians back to the true worship of God.
50:44 And yes, I've said Seventh-day Adventist too,
50:46 because there are some Seventh-day Adventist
50:48 that aren't worshipping God according to the way
50:50 they know, they need to.
50:52 They aren't being faithful in following the Lord
50:54 and walking with Jesus step by step.
50:57 And we're living in the last days my friends,
50:59 we'll soon be with the Lord
51:01 and this prophecy is being fulfilled very rapidly.
51:04 I have 10 points for you to consider.
51:07 Number one, Elijah's message comes
51:10 at a time of great religious apostasy.
51:14 There was great religious apostasy
51:16 in the days of Elijah number one.
51:18 What about when Elijah number two,
51:19 John the Baptist came along was there religious apostasy?
51:22 Was Jesus at all pleased with the outward form of religion?
51:26 They knew what to eat and they what to wear
51:28 but they didn't have their hearts, right.
51:33 Yeah, oh, ho, my friends, we ought to know
51:37 what to eat and we ought to know
51:38 what to wear but it ought to be
51:39 because our hearts are right.
51:40 Amen.
51:41 That's right, praise the God.
51:43 Number two, Elijah's message comes at a time
51:46 when many worship services are loud and full of commotion.
51:51 Now they're not all that way today
51:53 but there's enough to see the parallel, yes or no?
51:55 Yes.
51:56 My dad was talking to a fellow that told him man,
51:58 we were at church and we got to singing
52:02 because that's the way they say it down
52:03 where I'm from, singing and now the Holy Spirit fell
52:08 and we started jumping pews.
52:10 They would jump pews at this particular church
52:12 and one fellow jumped the pew
52:14 and went almost all the way across the room
52:15 and hit this elderly lady,
52:17 knocked her down and broke her arm.
52:18 Man, that was a powerful church service.
52:22 My dad said well, you ought to come go to church with me.
52:24 He was inviting dad to church
52:26 that's why actually you ought to come go to church with me
52:28 I'll introduce you to one
52:29 that will set you down fully clothing in your right mind.
52:35 Number three, Elijah's message stands in the minority.
52:43 The majority follow a fault system.
52:47 Number four, Elijah's message
52:49 is directed to the professed people of God.
52:54 Seventh-day Adventist Christians,
52:56 let me speak to you for a moment.
52:58 We hear this idea out there today
52:59 that we just need to preach to the un-churched.
53:02 Let me tell you,
53:03 God passionately loves the un-churched.
53:05 We should be preaching to the un-churched.
53:08 But the call out of Babylon
53:10 is a call to away from any religious confusion
53:13 that exist out there even among the popular churches of today.
53:18 And if you my friends,
53:20 turn your back on issuing that call,
53:23 you've turned away from Elijah's message.
53:26 Elijah's message was directed to the professed people of God
53:30 who had forsaken the commandments of the Lord,
53:33 that's right.
53:35 Number five, Elijah's message proclaims
53:38 that the majority of God's people have done
53:40 just that forsaking God's commandments.
53:43 Number six, Elijah's message would be
53:45 unrecognized by most of the religious world.
53:49 John the Baptist preached and they cut off his head
53:51 and even the 12 disciples were asking Jesus,
53:53 when is Elijah coming
53:57 unrecognized by most of religious world.
54:00 Number seven, Elijah's message
54:02 preaches righteousness by faith.
54:04 Coming to Jesus and being forgiven
54:06 just as you are or as the prophets of Baal
54:09 shed their own blood to please god
54:11 indicative of salvation by works, that's right.
54:17 Number eight, the people of Elijah's message
54:20 are blamed for the trouble in the world.
54:22 I wish I had time to develop that now, but I don't.
54:25 Number nine, Elijah's message proclaims
54:29 that the coming of the Lord is at hand.
54:34 Jesus is coming soon.
54:36 It's time to get ready for Jesus to come.
54:42 Are you doing that?
54:44 Are you spending time with Jesus everyday?
54:49 Are you walking with Him?
54:51 Do you get up and have time with Him
54:53 before life gets hectic everyday?
54:57 Are you falling in love with Jesus anew?
55:01 I mean, it's one thing to study doctrines.
55:03 I study them every day my friends,
55:05 but I've come to realize we don't need to use
55:08 Jesus to teach the doctrines,
55:11 we need to use the doctrines to teach Jesus.
55:15 Growing closer to our Savior, uplifting Him higher
55:20 and yet higher and higher still.
55:24 Our Savior will be lifted up.
55:26 In fact, in Revelation Chapter 18,
55:29 look there with me for just a moment.
55:32 Revelation Chapter 18 we see it here,
55:35 Revelation 18:1, Revelation 18:1,
55:42 and we'll look at it together very quickly.
55:45 Revelation 18:1 it says "And after these things
55:49 I saw another angel come down from heaven,
55:52 having great power,
55:53 and the earth was lightened with his glory."
55:56 Just like the three angels messages,
55:58 this loud cry of the third angel,
55:59 this fourth angel some might say
56:02 this repeating of the second angel's message verse 2
56:05 when it says, Babylon is falling my friends,
56:09 this angel represents a movement
56:11 among God's people and it says
56:14 that the earth will be lightened with His glory.
56:16 When Moses asked to see and in Exodus 33
56:19 I believe it is the glory of God.
56:21 God calls His goodness, His mercy, His love,
56:25 His character to pass before Moses.
56:28 My friends, we're gonna take these truths
56:30 that we've been preaching in the three angels message
56:33 and we're gonna lift them up to exalt the glory
56:36 and the love of God, the character of Jesus
56:38 and the earth will be lightened with His glory.
56:40 And Babylon will fall verse 2 Babylon fallen, is fallen,
56:44 but my friends,
56:45 not because we bash other people better
56:49 than we have in the past
56:52 but because they see Jesus uplifted in the truth
56:56 and the false doctrines appear destitute.
56:59 And lastly my friends,
57:01 Elijah's message calls for a decision.
57:05 Now the decision is yours,
57:08 will you make Jesus the Lord and Savior of your life?
57:13 Thank you for your time.


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