Participants: Ivor Myers (Host), James Rafferty (Host), Yvonne Lewis, Jason Bradley
Series Code: SISS
Program Code: SISS000065A
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00:29 So we left off in Revelation 16
00:31 we haven't quite finished it yet, 00:33 so we want to sew that up 00:35 and then we're going to jump 00:36 right into Revelation chapter 17. 00:37 Jason, you want to lead us in prayer? 00:39 Sure, "Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for the opportunity 00:42 and privilege of studying your Word, 00:44 we ask that you would be with us 00:45 and help us to fully comprehend what we're studying 00:48 and to retain the information, in Jesus' name we pray, amen. " 00:51 "Amen. " 00:52 So we've learned that the seven last plagues 00:55 are a revelation of the wrath of God... which... 00:58 God is not arbitrary in afflicting these plagues, 01:01 He's actually honoring the choices 01:04 that human beings have made. 01:05 They want to worship the sun, 01:07 they want to shed the blood of saints, 01:08 they want darkness rather than the light... 01:10 all of these... trust in the flesh... 01:12 all of these are the consequences 01:14 of the decisions that we made... the choices we've made 01:17 and remember Revelation chapter 22 reminds us 01:21 that God does not honor these choices to be lost 01:24 and to receive these plagues 01:25 until there's nothing else that He can do to save us. 01:28 Yeah. 01:29 Go ahead... go ahead... go ahead. 01:31 Sounds like every single human has made a decision 01:33 for or against Christ and He closes it all up. 01:35 Remember this also, 01:36 we actually addressed this earlier on 01:40 when we... in one of our first studies 01:44 but remember that... who is God's people on earth this time? 01:49 It's His bride... remember we talked about it? 01:51 Yeah, the bride of Christ. 01:53 Yeah the bride... these plagues are actually designed 01:55 to protect His bride right... 01:58 because remember, at this time, 02:00 what are the wicked trying to do? 02:03 Oh... 02:04 Right... they're trying to destroy God's people 02:07 and these plagues are basically God saying, 02:09 "Don't touch... my bride. " 02:14 Right... 02:15 Right, you will not touch my bride 02:17 and it's not a... like God is angry... 02:20 we've already said, "God is love" 02:21 but for those who have rejected Him... 02:24 at this point He's saying, 02:26 "Okay, you've made your decision... 02:28 but I'm not going to allow you, right, 02:29 to touch my bride... at this time... 02:32 him that is righteous... let him be righteous still 02:33 him that is filthy, let him be filthy still. " 02:35 There will be... none of His saints will die 02:37 from this point on... they are sealed 02:40 and He's saying, 02:41 "Hmmm... hmmm, don't touch them I'm protecting them. " 02:45 From the point of the plagues on... 02:49 there's no death of the saints, no martyrs... 02:52 No martyrs... That's right... 02:54 No martyrs... and a good verse for that is Daniel 12 verse 1, 02:57 because that depicts the same basic event in history 03:01 Michael stands up... 03:02 that's when Michael comes into His kingdom 03:05 and it says there's a time of trouble such as never was... 03:08 that's the seven last plagues. 03:09 It's time such as... trouble such as never was... 03:12 is the seven last plagues 03:13 "and thy people shall be delivered... 03:15 every one that shall be found written in the book... " 03:18 written in the Lamb's Book of Life... 03:19 you remember in Revelation 13, 03:21 everyone receives the Mark of the Beast... 03:22 worships the beast... follows the beast... 03:23 except for those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life 03:26 and we're going to see that again 03:27 right here in Revelation 17 as we get into that 03:29 so the very last plague here, let's just read the verses... 03:33 Jason, can you read verses 17 03:36 all the way to the end of the chapter... verse 16? 03:39 Okay, "And the seventh angel 03:41 poured out his vial into the air; 03:43 and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, 03:46 from the throne, saying, It is done. 03:49 And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; 03:51 and there was a great earthquake, 03:53 such as was not since men were upon the earth, 03:58 so mighty an earthquake, and so great. 04:00 And the great city was divided into three parts, 04:03 and the cities of the nations fell: 04:05 and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, 04:09 to give unto her the cup of the wine 04:12 of the fierceness of his wrath. 04:14 And every island fled away, 04:16 and the mountains were not found. 04:18 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, 04:22 every stone about the weight of a talent: 04:24 and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; 04:28 for the plague thereof was exceeding great. " 04:30 Okay, a couple of points I want to make here 04:33 before we go any further, 04:34 "men blaspheming God... " 04:35 that's the point that's made right here 04:38 when you go back to verse 9 and the sun scorching men, 04:42 it says that they blasphemed the name of God 04:46 but they repented not to give Him glory 04:49 and when you go back also to verse... where is it? 04:54 Anyway, the point I want to make here in these two verses 05:00 is that it's obvious at this point 05:02 that even though the plagues are falling upon men, 05:05 they're not repenting... they're not turning back... 05:08 and that's just confirmation... for us it's confirmation 05:11 that even though men are receiving these plagues, 05:14 they still are against God... they're blaspheming God... 05:16 and they're not repenting and turning away from their deeds, 05:18 it's confirmation... 05:19 they are settled in their rejection of the gospel. 05:21 Hmmm... Hmmm. 05:22 It's a good point that... this is not God saying, 05:26 "I'm not giving you anymore chance to repent... " 05:29 it's really showing that 05:32 the human heart has settled in on its own. 05:37 So it's not like people... there won't be people who are like, 05:39 "Man, if I could change my mind I would... 05:41 but God is not allowing me" 05:43 because that's not who God is right, 05:45 these people have made their minds up 05:47 and are settled of their own free will... yeah. 05:51 And then we have this division in verse 19... 05:54 "the great city was divided into three parts... " 05:57 why is the city divided into three parts? 05:59 Well, we've noticed in the previous verses 06:02 that there are three unclean spirits like frogs, 06:04 you've got the beast... you've got the dragon... 06:06 and you've got the false prophet. 06:08 So Babylon is a symbol 06:09 of this rebellion against heaven... if you will... 06:12 the city of the Tower of Babel where it all began 06:15 was a rebellion against heaven... 06:16 a rebellion against God... God's decrees... 06:18 and this rebellion against heaven 06:20 is divided into three basic powers... 06:22 the beast... the dragon and the false prophet 06:24 so the division of the city into three parts... 06:27 as it receives recompense for its rebellion 06:30 is designating these three powers 06:32 that have come against God and come against heaven. 06:34 Hmmm... 06:35 That's right... that's right. 06:38 So we move into Revelation 17. 06:41 Do we want to cover Revelation, the 6th plague 06:48 speaking of the support of Babylon? 06:51 Yes... yes... let's talk about that. 06:53 So, verse 12... "And the sixth angel 06:55 poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; 06:57 and the water thereof was dried up, 06:58 that the ways of the kings of the east might be prepared. " 07:00 And we... Ivor took us to the Old Testament 07:03 the waters of... the literal waters of Babylon... 07:07 the Euphrates River was the support base for Babylon 07:11 and when Cyrus came to conquer that city... Babylon... 07:15 there was no way he could have been able to get in 07:18 because they had support through the waters for food for years 07:22 the walls were thick enough to race chariots side by side 07:26 what he had to do was... 07:28 he had to divert the Euphrates River 07:30 and when he diverted the Euphrates River 07:31 and the riverbed dried up, 07:33 he was able to take his men 07:35 through the gates that were unlocked 07:38 underneath the foundations of the city 07:40 and into the city to conquer it. 07:42 So, Revelation is borrowing from that story... 07:44 Cyrus is a type of Christ... God's anointed... 07:47 coming to deliver... we talked about Isaiah 44 and 45 07:52 coming to deliver His people bringing them... 07:54 the captives to Jerusalem 07:55 so that they can go back and rebuild Jerusalem... okay... 07:57 in this picture right here... 08:00 the rivers of the waters represent peoples, nations 08:03 multitudes and tongues according to Revelation 17:15 08:06 the fact that they're dried up... 08:07 is indicating that their support for Babylon is drying up. 08:10 They're receiving these plagues, 08:12 and they're realizing we've been deceived 08:14 and so, they're turning on to one another... 08:16 they're turning against the woman, 08:17 we're going to see that in Revelation 17... 08:19 the support base for Babylon is drying up 08:20 and that's preparing the ways of the kings of the east 08:23 and the kings of the east would be Christ and His Father... 08:26 they're coming... and when they come 08:28 eventually every tongue will confess... 08:31 everyone's going to acknowledge that God and Christ... 08:33 that this is... they are the... He is the true God 08:35 and Christ is the true Messiah 08:37 and they're going to acknowledge that every knee is going to bow 08:39 according to Philippians chapter 2 08:41 so, receiving the consequences of our sins... 08:45 receiving the consequences of our rejection of a lie 08:47 helps us to realize... God was right after all. 08:49 Hmmm... 08:50 God was right after all. Hmmm... hmmm... 08:52 And that acknowledgment will be made by everyone. 08:53 Now, Revelation 17 continues on really with what we're... 08:58 see, when you look at Revelation 15 and 16, 09:01 let's be honest... these are pretty horrendous judgments 09:04 that God is allowing to come to those who are lost. 09:07 So what basically... what John is receiving in 17 and 18 and 19 09:12 he's receiving a fuller explanation... 09:16 why has God allowed this to come 09:18 so in Revelation chapter 17, 09:20 let's just open up there and read a few verses now, 09:22 I think you'll get this. 09:23 Revelation 17, Yvonne, would you read for us 09:26 verses 1 all the way through verse 6. 09:30 Hmmm... hmmm... 09:32 "Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls 09:35 came and talked with me saying to me, 09:37 Come... I will show you the judgment of the great harlot 09:40 who sits on many waters with whom the kings of the earth 09:44 committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth 09:46 have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. 09:50 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: 09:53 and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast, 09:56 which was full of names of blasphemy, 09:58 having seven heads and ten horns. 10:00 This woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet 10:03 and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, 10:06 having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations 10:10 and the filthiness of her fornication: 10:12 And on her forehead a name was written, 10:15 MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS 10:18 AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 10:20 I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints, 10:23 and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: 10:25 and when I saw her, 10:27 I marveled with great amazement. " 10:29 Okay, so... start to get the picture here, 10:32 we're overwhelmed with the seven last plagues 10:35 and so one of the carriers 10:37 of the vials of the seven last plagues comes to John and says, 10:39 "I'm going to show you why this is... 10:41 why this is happening" 10:43 and he shows a woman that is filled with blasphemous names 10:48 and has this wine cup filled with abominations 10:51 and has committed fornication... 10:54 unfaithfulness to God with the kings of the earth 10:57 and out of her comes all of this pain and suffering 11:01 so much so 11:02 that this woman is drunk with the blood of the saints... 11:05 with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus, 11:07 I mean... it's so... 11:09 the picture is so incredible that John says, 11:11 "Wow," he just wondered about this... this woman is wealthy, 11:14 she's decked with pearls and gold 11:16 and yet, she's doing these abominable things 11:19 and she's bringing all this pain and suffering 11:21 especially upon God's people and the followers of Jesus. 11:24 So it's... when we get a picture of this... 11:26 so, we're looking at God and we're going... 11:27 "hmmm... " by the way, the angels aren't doing that. 11:30 When the plagues are poured out the angels are saying, 11:33 "Righteous and just are your ways, O LORD of hosts" 11:35 see... because they've seen all this... 11:37 the angels in heaven... they've seen all this 11:39 but we haven't seen it so what we see is... 11:42 we see a woman... a church that's wealthy 11:45 and it looks... "Oh yeah, look... wow... " 11:47 we're taken in by that 11:48 but the angel takes us one step further, 11:51 we know how she's wealthy, 11:52 she's drunk with the blood of the saints 11:54 and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus, 11:55 she has committed fornications with the kings of the earth... 11:58 she's got... she is the mother of abominations, 12:01 can you imagine? 12:02 The source of the abominations of the world... 12:05 now, this is... this is one picture... 12:08 when you get to Revelation 18, it gets even worse, 12:11 I wanted to show you what she's really involved with 12:13 and what it says there... that Babylon is involved with is 12:16 all the merchandising 12:18 and the selling and the buying of the souls of men... 12:21 it's just incredible... the iniquity that is in this System 12:26 and what God is saying is, "This System has to go... " 12:30 in Revelation 18... it clarifies that... 12:33 "And I'm calling my people out of it... 12:35 if you don't come out of it, you're going with it 12:36 because this System is going down. " 12:39 One interpretation... and I don't know 12:42 where you stand on this so I'd be interested in seeing, 12:45 is that... this is the same woman of Revelation 12 12:49 that she has now become apostate... what do you think? 12:54 Totally disagree... 12:56 So that view... yeah, the woman of Revelation 12... 13:00 we've already seen her history... 13:03 so, this answers the question. 13:05 Where is John taken when he... 13:08 do you remember where the Bible says that he was taken? 13:11 Revelation 17... just look at it in verse 2. 13:13 Hmmm... hmmm... 13:16 I'm sorry... verse 3... verse 3, 13:18 "So he carried me away in the spirit into the... " 13:20 where? Wilderness... 13:22 Wilderness... okay... so let's think... wilderness... 13:24 wilderness... "Oh hey, wait a minute... 13:26 if we go back to Revelation 12, we see that the woman fled... 13:31 where? "Into the wilderness. " 13:33 So, what is her condition in the wilderness in Revelation 12? 13:37 She's being fed of God... she's being nourished... 13:41 but she's also being persecuted... for how long? 13:44 1260 years... 13:46 okay, so, we see this power chasing her into the wilderness 13:51 right, sending out waters of flood 13:54 after her in the wilderness. 13:55 John in Revelation 17 is taken back into the wilderness 14:00 and now he's shown another woman... 14:02 this woman is drunk with the blood of the saints... 14:06 oh! so this is another woman, this is not the devil's bride... 14:11 this is not Jesus' bride... this is the devil's girlfriend. 14:15 Ah... 14:16 This is the woman that was 14:17 chasing the other woman in the wilderness... 14:19 persecuting the other woman raining the blood of the saints 14:22 there's a contrast... and in fact, in Revelation 12 14:25 there's a remnant of the woman 14:28 that keep the commandments of God and keep the faith of Jesus 14:29 the testimony of Jesus... 14:31 so how could that woman be the woman in Revelation 17? 14:33 Exactly. 14:34 And the woman of Revelation 17 14:35 is existing at the same time as the woman in Revelation 12 14:37 and the wilderness journey is the same period... 14:41 so it has to be two different women... 14:42 it has to be two different women. 14:44 So that brings us... that we now know who that woman is, 14:49 that woman is Mystery Babylon, 14:50 that woman is the same power 14:52 that persecuted the people of God during the Dark Ages 14:54 it's the Papal Power... 14:56 so we've identified who the woman is... right, 15:01 this brings us down to verse 7 which is where... 15:05 or rather... verse 8... 15:07 did we read verse 7? 15:08 We did read verse 7 so it starts at verse 7... 15:10 Yeah, let's go ahead and read that, 15:11 we'll read verse 7 and verse 8. 15:14 and get ready for a brain twister. 15:16 Okay, chapter 17... 15:18 "And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? 15:22 I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, 15:25 and of the beast that carrieth her, 15:27 which hath the seven heads and ten horns. 15:31 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; 15:34 and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, 15:37 and go into perdition: and they that dwelleth on the earth 15:40 shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life 15:44 from the foundation of the world 15:46 when they behold the beast that was, 15:48 and is not, and yet is. " 15:50 Okay, how do you feel? 15:52 Confused. 15:54 Yeah, what in the world? The beast that was and is not... 15:59 and yet is... 16:00 So, this is what... from verse 8 down to about verse 11, 16:05 you've got this... in fact, 16:06 we may as well just go ahead and read it... 16:08 why don't you go ahead and keep reading... verse 9, 10 and 11. 16:12 "And here is the mind which hath wisdom. 16:14 The seven heads are seven mountains 16:17 on which the woman sitteth. 16:18 And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, 16:22 and the other is not yet come; 16:24 and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. 16:27 And the beast that was, and is not, 16:30 even he is the eight, and is of the seven, 16:33 and goeth into perdition. " 16:35 What are you following now? How do you feel now? 16:40 Oh... okay... 16:42 So, this is... James and I were talking 16:45 and we agreed, 16:46 this is probably the most brain-twisting part 16:48 of the book of Revelation 16:49 and there are a lot of opinions out there 16:53 and James and I were talking... we just... phew... 16:55 I mean... it's by the grace of God we were able to say, 17:00 "Yeah, we think this... this is what it is... " 17:02 from our study of the Scripture so it is confusing 17:05 but there are certain key phrases in here that 17:09 really take out the confusion and help us to realize, 17:12 "Ah, this is what we're talking about here. " 17:15 So let's go back up and look at verse 8 again... 17:18 "The beast that thou sawest was... " and what? 17:21 "And shall do" what? 17:24 "ascend out of the bottomless pit and go into perdition" 17:27 okay, so all right... we don't know what that is 17:29 but check out the next part of that verse. 17:30 This is key... 17:32 Okay, what does it say? 17:33 "Those who dwell on the earth will marvel, 17:35 whose names are not written in the book of life 17:38 from the foundation of the world, 17:40 when they see the beast that was, 17:42 and is not, and yet is. " 17:44 Okay. 17:45 You recognize that phrase from anywhere else in Revelation? 17:47 That's the question we have to ask, 17:49 and the answer is, "Yes... " 17:50 that phrase is found in Revelation 13. 17:53 Notice this, Revelation chapter 13... 17:56 and just read here... Revelation chapter 13... 17:59 pause... 18:02 verse 3 and then verse 8, 18:06 now, we'll start with verse 3, 18:08 it's talking about the Papal System again... as a beast 18:11 "I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; 18:14 and his deadly wound was healed: 18:17 and all the world wondered after the beast. " 18:19 Verse 8, "They that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, 18:22 whose names are not written 18:24 in the book of life of the Lamb slain 18:25 from the foundation of the world. " 18:27 Now I want to go back to Revelation 17, 18:29 "and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, 18:31 whose names were not written in the book of life... 18:34 from the foundation of the world, 18:37 whose names were not written in the book of life 18:39 from the foundation of the world... 18:41 when they behold the beast that was, 18:42 and is not, and yet is. " 18:44 Was in power... 18:46 is not in power because it received the deadly wound 18:48 and yet is... it's still alive... 18:49 Hmmm... You see... 18:50 Okay... Yes... 18:52 So, we've identified this beast 18:53 in connection with Revelation chapter 13. 18:55 Yeah. Okay... 18:56 So now we know... okay... so the beast that was... 18:58 and is not... and yet is... 19:00 is the same power in Revelation 13 19:03 that reigned for 1260 years, received the deadly wound 19:08 "is not... but still was... 19:11 but shall do... " what? 19:13 "shall ascend... " 19:15 all right, so notice in Revelation 17:8, 19:18 it says, "when they behold" 19:20 what does it mean, "to behold?" 19:22 See... 19:24 all right, so what is that talking about? 19:25 Your senses... 19:27 You see with your eyes... 19:28 When they see something, 19:30 the whole world wonders when they see this. 19:34 What is that thing that they see? 19:36 We've already said, 19:38 "the healing of the deadly wound is this three-fold union 19:42 of Satan himself... appearing as Christ... 19:46 the Papacy... and the False Prophet... 19:49 apostate Protestantism... 19:50 when these three come together, 19:52 so now we're seeing... whoa... 19:54 we're seeing this connection here 19:56 and it's very interesting because 20:00 if you look at verse... verse 8... 20:03 I'm sorry... verse 10... verse 10... 20:08 the Bible says here... let's see... 20:12 no, no, no... let's stay here for just for a moment 20:15 because this verse in verse 8 says, 20:18 "it shall ascend out of the bottomless pit... " 20:21 let's talk about that for a moment... 20:22 so James and I were talking and we're like, 20:24 "You know what? there are two beasts that... 20:26 there is a beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit 20:29 and that beast is specifically Revelation 11, 20:31 so, is this the beast that is rising up out of Revelation 11 20:34 because if we go with 20:36 "ascending out of the bottomless pit... " 20:38 then, Man! that would mean 20:39 that this is the French revolution, 20:41 this is Atheism... which we described in Revelation 11 20:44 but, "was and is not... and yet is... " 20:46 and this is what you do when you study the book of Revelation, 20:49 you work these things out, you're looking at... 20:51 "well, it could be here... but ah! 20:53 I just don't know because... 20:55 is there some other definition of this bottomless pit?" 20:59 Hmmm... hmmm... 21:00 And this is actually very, very interesting 21:02 because as we were looking at this... 21:04 when we happen to go over to the book of Romans chapter 10 21:09 because Romans chapter 10 21:11 tells us something very, very interesting, 21:13 Romans 10 and verse 7, Romans chapter 10 verse 7, now, 21:17 while you're going there, the Bible says that this beast 21:21 "was... " and what else? 21:24 "is... or is not... " and... or "is to come... " 21:30 "was... is not... shall ascend" 21:35 that very phrase is used four different times 21:38 in the book of Revelation. 21:39 Guess who it points to? 21:41 It points to Jesus. 21:43 Hmmm... Hmmm. 21:44 "Who was... and is... and is to come... " 21:49 right... that's talking about His identity... 21:55 "He was... is... is to come" 21:57 "was... is... is to come... " 21:58 He died... was buried... resurrected... 22:01 four times He's described once... "the One who was 22:05 and is... and is to come... " 22:07 so, hmmm... I wonder if this beast 22:10 that was... and is... and yet is not... but is to come 22:15 is a counterfeit of Jesus Christ. 22:19 Ah... 22:20 "Deadly wound... " was... comes back to life... 22:24 "and is to come" so look at Romans 10... 22:28 read Romans 10 verse 7. 22:29 "Or, Who shall descend into the deep? 22:33 that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead. " 22:35 Okay, simple verse but... 22:38 the word here for deep is the same Greek word 22:42 used to describe the abyss back in the book of Revelation. 22:47 Okay, "or the bottomless pit" 22:50 but here it's talking about bringing Christ up from the... 22:54 from the dead... 22:55 what happened to the beast in Revelation chapter 13? 23:01 He was wounded unto death but comes up out of death... 23:07 in other words... this term, 23:09 "he ascends out of the bottomless pit... " 23:12 refers to him coming back from the dead. 23:15 And it's important because he receives the wound from Atheism 23:18 and Atheism is the beast that ascends 23:19 out of the bottomless pit. 23:21 That's right... 23:22 So he receives the wound from Atheism 23:24 so we know this is the timeframe when he's wounded... 23:25 by Atheism... and he ascends out of that... 23:27 he recovers from that wound by Atheism. 23:29 Yes. 23:30 That's why we have the bottomless pit... 23:32 ascending out of the bottomless pit 23:33 correlating with the power of Atheism in Revelation 11. 23:36 So when he ascends... he's this... 23:39 well, we're going to... let's go ahead and go over 23:44 verse 8 of Revelation... I'm sorry Revelation 10... 23:49 Revelation 17 verse 10... 23:51 and I want to just focus on another thing here, 23:53 let's go ahead and read verse 10. 23:55 "There are also seven kings... " 23:57 You know what? I'm sorry... 23:59 go back to verse 9 and then... verse 10. 24:01 "Here is the mind which has wisdom. 24:04 The seven heads are seven mountains, 24:06 on which the woman sits. 24:08 Here are also seven kings: five are fallen, one is, 24:13 and the other has not yet come; 24:14 and when he comes, he must continue a short time. " 24:18 Okay, so, just hold your thought here, 24:20 so now we got these seven kings, right... 24:22 which are mentioned as the seven mountains 24:25 or with the seven mountains, 24:26 but we can, again, simplify... "five were... " 24:30 that's the what? "that was... " right, 24:35 "one is... and the other is... to come... " 24:40 it's the same thing... "was... " the beast that was... 24:43 "is... and is to come... " 24:45 but five... we're not going to cover this in this Program, 24:49 I think, but I want you to notice about this, "is to come" 24:54 when the seventh one comes, 24:56 that's the one that ascends out of the bottomless pit, 24:59 notice what it says, "he must continue a... " what? 25:03 "a short space... " 25:04 remember how we talked about in the last couple of Programs, 25:06 remember the short time? 25:08 Hmmm... hmmm... Hmmm... hmmm. 25:09 In Revelation 12, when it says, 25:10 "the dragon is come down unto you... 25:12 because he knows he has but a 25:13 short time... " 25:15 do you know what it's talking about? 25:16 Put it all together... 25:18 wow... they wonder when they see this. 25:20 Hmmm... hmmm... 25:22 Power... rising up... out of the abyss... 25:25 "the dragon has come down unto you 25:27 knowing he has but a short time." 25:29 This time period... all the world wondered... 25:33 this is all relating to the same time... 25:36 the seventh king who is yet to come... 25:39 is the dragon... Satan himself... 25:42 combined with the Papacy and... 25:45 in other words... it's what we would call the three-fold union 25:48 of the dragon, beast and false prophet... 25:51 that causes the whole world to wonder 25:53 when they "behold this beast. " 25:58 Hmmm... hmmm... 26:00 Yeah, and that is... clearly what is taking place right here 26:05 because this... then unfolds... 26:07 it incorporates all of the horns... 26:10 which is what is left of the beast to be identified, 26:14 it says in verse 12... 26:16 "And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, 26:18 which have received no kingdom as yet; 26:20 but receive their power as kings one hour with the beast. " 26:22 Or again, for a short time, they have one mind... 26:24 and they give their power and their strength 26:26 unto the beast and they make war with the lamb... 26:29 so this miracle and this unity that takes place 26:32 between these two, three powers causes the entire world 26:35 to give their power to the beast. 26:37 All of the kings that have received no kingdom as yet... 26:40 we know that these ten horns 26:42 are different from the ten horns of Revelation 13, 26:44 those ten horns are pointing back to Daniel... 26:45 they have crowns... 26:47 these ones haven't received a kingdom as yet 26:48 so this is definitely future. 26:50 What this is pointing us to is the time 26:52 when the wound is healed, 26:54 the book of Revelation, chapter 13 talks about 26:57 how the lamb-beast gives it's power to the sea-beast... 27:01 so they become one... 27:02 he makes an image to the beast, they become one... 27:04 and the dragon, of course, 27:05 has already given its seat and power to this beast 27:07 so it's one... 27:08 so what Ivor's bringing out here is this is a three-fold union... 27:11 that's taking place right here 27:13 which is a counterfeit of the three-fold union of heaven. 27:15 There's a three-fold union 27:16 and it gains the support of the entire world... 27:18 all the kings of the earth... 27:20 the entire world give their support 27:21 to this three-fold union. 27:23 And James, the only way the entire world comes together, 27:25 it would have to take a miracle... 27:27 with our divided world... it would have to take a miracle 27:30 to bring the whole world together 27:32 and that's exactly what we see happening... 27:34 this is why they give their power to this beast. 27:37 And it takes place... they come out of the bottomless pit, 27:39 the bottomless pit is a place of darkness and confusion, 27:42 that's what our world looks like today. 27:43 So the contrast... 27:44 of the darkness and confusion of this world, 27:46 the alienation... the strife... the war... 27:48 the bloodshed... the division... 27:49 and then this unity coming out, this power coming out... 27:52 miracles coming forth... 27:53 just draws the whole world together in its grip. 27:59 That's right. |
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