00:00I think we all understand the evil that
00:02exists in the world we're seeing it at a
00:07level like um we have never seen in our
00:11lifetime before in this uh sort of
00:14postchristian anti- Christian time of
00:18corruption we are we are seeing an
00:21entire Society an entire Globe catapult
00:25headlong into gross kinds of corruption
00:29and immorality at every level and the
00:32powers that be supporting all of that
00:35and um and taking aim at those who are
00:39righteous in the culture this is exactly
00:42what Isaiah talked about in chapter 5
00:45when he said bitter has replaced sweet
00:48and everything is upside down and inside
00:51overturned the things that we always
00:54considered to be good are now considered
00:56as evil and the things that were evil
00:57are now good so we understand manifest
01:02evil in the world we understand there's
01:03a battle between good and evil we as the
01:06children of God have been made New
01:09Creations and we love righteousness and
01:12we are set against a world that is bent
01:15on evil at a level that has never been
01:18seen before because evil men get worse
01:22and worse through history as the Bible
01:24says we understand what we see and what
01:28experience but what we we might not so
01:30readily understand is that beneath the
01:33surface in the spiritual
01:35realm there's a massive massive conflict
01:38going on it's a conflict that involves
01:41Holy Angels who are ministering Spirits
01:45sent to minister from the Throne of God
01:47for the well-being of the Saints and
01:50carrying out the will of God and there
01:52is another spiritual force a massive
01:54force of fallen angels that we know as
01:58demons who in engage themselves in the
02:01perpetration and the expansion of
02:04everything that is wretched and evil
02:06this is the Unseen World the Bible gives
02:10us a glimpse into that Unseen World in a
02:13number of places in scripture we can as
02:16we go through the Bible see the activity
02:18of Satan and fallen angels in a lot of
02:21places particularly manifest most
02:24dramatically during the ministry of
02:26Christ on Earth it's as if that when he
02:29showed up all the demons came out of
02:31their their hiding their clandestine
02:34places and exposed themselves when they
02:36came face to face to
02:38him but we have to understand that there
02:41are these two Mighty fortresses working
02:43in the Unseen World spiritual
02:47spheres and um all of us are on one side
02:53other we either are a companion to God
02:55or a companion to Satan we are either
02:59those who who take part with the Holy
03:01Angels in the Enterprise of the advance
03:03of God's kingdom or we are engaged with
03:06demons in the expansion of the power of
03:10Satan you're either a saint or a sinner
03:13and there's nothing in
03:15between and to doubt this reality is the
03:18most momentous mistake that a person can
03:21ever make and most fatal error that you
03:24can ever make because it has Eternal
03:27consequences Eternal results you might
03:30sort of simplify it by saying Heaven is
03:33calling you through Jesus Christ and the
03:36gospel at the same time hell is calling
03:39you through Satan and his lies and
03:43deception that's going on all the time
03:46so it's overt in our society but it's
03:48also beneath the surface in all the
03:51subtleties that Satan can
03:54manufacture now the voices of hell have
03:56always been loud enough
03:59and alluring enough to charm and seduce
04:02the world of Sinners who are born into
04:05the kingdom of darkness to start
04:08with so that Satan flourishes in his
04:11kingdom and all who follow him all who
04:13are children of the devil follow his
04:17lead and so to one degree or another
04:21every human being in this world is
04:25either a part of the kingdom of God and
04:28the ministry of Holy Angels on on their
04:30behalf or the kingdom of Satan and the
04:33ministry of demons on their
04:37behalf that's existing even now we don't
04:40wrestle against flesh and blood Paul
04:42said but against principalities and
04:43Powers the rulers of the darkness of
04:45this world spiritual wickedness in the
04:48heavenlies you have to understand the
04:51Unseen World is real and it is vast and
04:56powerful but again we don't see it in
04:59our time the the Outburst came in the
05:02ministry of Christ and even after that
05:05in the ministry of the Apostles but
05:07since that time Satan has been much more
05:11covert in his operations although from
05:14time to time it's unmistakable to
05:16understand what he is
05:19doing as bad as it is now as powerful as
05:22Satan is as effective and successful as
05:24he is there is coming a time in the
05:31Beyond this era even at its very worst
05:37there is coming a time when virtually
05:39all of Hell will come to
05:43Earth and there will come demons with
05:49overwhelming virtually
05:52irresistible power and
05:54seduction they will successfully drown
05:57out all the preachers who are
06:00proclaiming the gospel and calling
06:02people to come to Christ and come to God
06:07heaven when this time comes the people
06:11who are alive at this time will already
06:19warnings dramatic warnings inescapable
06:22warnings from those who preach the
06:25gospel the 144,000 Jews who are
06:28converted as the Book of Revelation
06:30tells us from two witnesses described in
06:33chapter 11 from an Angel flying in
06:36heaven who will proclaim the gospel
06:38across the face of the Earth there will
06:40be people converted and saved from every
06:43tongue and tribe and people and Nation
06:45as chapter 7 of Revelation says so there
06:48will be a force of Believers proclaiming
06:51gospel they will be martyred many of
06:54them not all of them some of them will
06:56come under the power of the Antichrist
06:59and he will slay them and they will be
07:02killed for the cause of Christ but
07:04others will survive through that time in
07:06the future to enter into the kingdom of
07:09Christ when he returns so the people who
07:13are alive at that time and we're talking
07:15about a time the Bible calls the
07:17tribulation a seven-year period in the
07:20future the second half of which is
07:23Tribulation just to set it in your mind
07:26the church will have been raptured the
07:27church will be taken out of the world
07:29world we see that in the chronology of
07:31Revelation the church is in the first
07:33three chapters on Earth the church is in
07:36chapter 4 and five in heaven and then
07:38back on Earth in chapter 6-9 all hell
07:41breaks loose in the final judgments that
07:45God unleashes on the world so the people
07:49who are left after the church is gone
07:52some of them as I said will be converted
07:55Jews will come to finally acknowledge
07:57Christ as their Messiah people from
07:59every tongue and tribe will be saved as
08:01I said many will be martyred some will
08:04remain alive and preach the gospel the
08:06gospel will be preached throughout that
08:08period of time but at the same time the
08:11gospel is being preached judgments will
08:13be Unleashed like never before and we
08:18saw those judgments in the Seven Seals
08:21that started in chapter 6 we won't go
08:23back over all of that seal judgments the
08:27seals symbolize a scroll scoll a title
08:30deed to the Earth Christ takes the
08:32scroll because he's the heir to the
08:34Earth he unrolls the scroll and each
08:37time he breaks a seal a judgment comes
08:40that is horrendous and devastating so
08:43the people who are alive by the time we
08:45get to chapter n will have seen Divine
08:50judgment they will have heard the gospel
08:53being preached they will have heard
08:56calls for forgiveness and mercy and
09:00Grace to those who will repent they will
09:03see death like never before they will
09:07have already experienced the immediate
09:11killing of essentially a huge portion of
09:22unavoidable by the time they get to
09:25nine they they will have seen judgment
09:29coming relentlessly without
09:32relief and they will hear the gospel
09:35being preached with the same
09:37relentlessness so God will be judging
09:40and and offering salvation at the same
09:43time so let's step into that future
09:45period of time by coming to chapter 9
09:4913 and as we come here we we come to the
09:53sixth trumpet now remember there were
09:56seven seal judgments and the seventh
09:59seal judgment becomes the seven
10:03trumpets seven trumpet
10:05judgments the seventh trumpet judgment
10:08launches the seven bold judgments which
10:11carry us all the way to the return of
10:13Christ so in a series of telescoping
10:16judgments seals trumpets and judgment by
10:20the pouring out of bowls of Wrath we see
10:24the unfolding Divine Judgment of the
10:27Book of Revelation in the future time
10:29called the tribulation but as we come to
10:32chapter 9: 13 we come to the sixth Angel
10:36and just so you have a bit of a
10:38perspective the seventh seal is opened
10:42and when the seventh seal is opened back
10:44in chapter 8 look at verse one the
10:48opened and immediately you have seven
10:51angels in verse two stand before God in
10:54seven trumpets so the seven trumpet
10:56judgments come out of that seventh seal
11:00and each of these seven angels blow
11:04trumpets and these judgments are
11:06Unleashed if you want to be reminded of
11:08those judgments go down to verse 7 of
11:12chapter 8 the first sounded there came
11:15hail and fire mixed with blood they were
11:18thrown to the Earth and a third of the
11:19Earth was burned up a third of the trees
11:22were burned up all the green grass was
11:24burned up the second Angel sounded and
11:27something like a great Mountain burning
11:28with fire was thrown into the sea and a
11:31third of the sea became blood and a
11:33third of the creatures which were in the
11:35sea and had life died and a third of the
11:37ships were destroyed the third Angel
11:39sounded and a great star fell from
11:41heaven burning like a torch and it fell
11:43on the third of the rivers and on the
11:45Springs of waters the name of the star
11:47is called wormwood and a third of the
11:50waters became wormwood and many men died
11:52from the waters because they were made
11:54bitter the fourth Angel sounded a third
11:57of the sun third of the Moon third of
11:59the stars were struck so that a third of
12:02them would be darkened and the day would
12:03not Shine for a third of it in the night
12:09Devastation then in chapter 9 verse one
12:11the fifth angel sounded and a star from
12:14Heaven which had fallen into the Earth
12:16and the and the key of the bottomless
12:18pit was given to him this is an Angelic
12:20being and he opened the bottomless pit
12:22and smoke went up out of the pit like
12:24the smoke of a great furnace and the Sun
12:26and the air were darkened by the smoke
12:28of the pit and and out of the smoke came
12:30locusts upon the Earth and power was
12:33given them as the Scorpions of the Earth
12:41unleashing of demons depicted so when
12:46you get to the fifth trumpet you have
12:49this unleashing of demons who are
12:52described as if they were
12:54locusts so we've already had an
12:56unleashing of demons who had been bound
12:59bound since all the way back in the Book
13:01of Genesis so there are millions of
13:04demons in the world today there will be
13:06at that time as well but there will be
13:09some who have been bound since the Book
13:10of Genesis who will be released
13:13increasing the massive size of Satan's
13:16force during the Great
13:19Tribulation now that gets us to the
13:21sixth trumpet in verse 13 six Angels
13:24sounded and I Heard a Voice from the
13:27four horns of the golden an altar which
13:30is before God one saying to the sixth
13:35Angel who had the trumpet released the
13:37Four Angels who were bound at the great
13:38river Euphrates and the Four Angels who
13:41had been prepared for the the hour and
13:45day and month and year were released so
13:47that they would kill a third of
13:51mankind the number of the armies of the
13:55was 200 million I heard the number of
13:59them and this is how I saw in the vision
14:02the horses and those who sat on them the
14:04Riders had breastplates the color of
14:07fire and of hin and of Brimstone and the
14:10heads of the horses are like the heads
14:12of lions and out of their mouths proceed
14:16fire and smoke and brimstone and a third
14:18of mankind was killed by these three
14:20plagues by the fire and the smoke and
14:23the brimstone which proceeded out of
14:24their mouths for the power of the horses
14:26is in their mouths and in their ta tails
14:29for their tails are like serpents and
14:31they have heads and with them they do
14:35harm the rest of mankind who were not
14:37killed by these plagues did not repent
14:41of the works of their hands so as not to
14:43worship demons and the idols of gold and
14:45silver and of brass and of stone and of
14:48wood which can neither see nor hear nor
14:51walk they did not repent of their
14:54murders nor of their sorceries nor of
15:03theft the first unleashing of bound
15:06demons came in the first half of chapter
15:089 the second half of chapter 9 200
15:12million more demons are
15:18million so let's look at this text and
15:21we'll start with the release of demons
15:22in verse 13 then the sixth Angel sounded
15:25and I Heard a Voice from the four horns
15:27of the golden altar which is before
15:31God five have already sounded and the
15:36inconceivable devastating everything
15:40everything in Earth and
15:43Sky land plants animals sea freshwater
15:49Sky Heavenly Body sun moon
15:55tormented by the unleashing of demons
15:58and he SE seeks death but can't find it
16:02as that first barrage of demons brings
16:06pain but not death hell has spewed out
16:09millions of captive demons and here come
16:13even more in the sixth
16:2114 one saying to the sixth Angel who had
16:24the trumpet release the Four Angels who
16:26are bound at the Great River
16:30Euphrates now we have two interesting
16:32points to think about here first of all
16:35is the golden Altar and secondly the
16:39Euphrates as we go back to verse 13
16:42these judgments begin with a voice from
16:46the four horns of the altar literally in
16:48the Greek One Voice a solitary voice
16:51maybe the voice of God maybe the voice
16:52of the Lamb of God it may be the voice
16:56of an Angelic being but it is a voice
17:00nonetheless and it comes from the for
17:04horns of the golden altar which is
17:06before God what is the significance of
17:09this well we've already seen the golden
17:11altar twice in the Book of Revelation we
17:14saw it back in chapter 6 veres 9 to1 11
17:17where some saints who had been martyred
17:19during the tribulation are under the
17:21Altar and they're praying for vengeance
17:25they're under the altar praying for
17:27vengeance they want God to
17:33avenge the enemy if you go back to verse
17:379 of chapter 6 I saw John writes at the
17:41fifth seal underneath the altar that
17:43same altar Souls of those who had been
17:45slain because of the word of God and
17:47because of the testimony which they had
17:48maintained so this is the Martyrs from
17:51that period of time and what are they
17:54crying out for how long oh Lord holy and
17:56true will you refrain from judging and
18:00avenging our blood on those who dwell on
18:02the earth so now we find this altar
18:06which is the golden altar Before the
18:09Throne of God in chapter 6 is an altar
18:12of Vengeance it's an altar where the
18:15Saints who have been martyred cry for
18:18vengeance now look back at the beginning
18:20of chapter 8 it appears again
18:24there verse three another
18:27angel Cay and stood at the altar holding
18:31a golden sensor and much incense was
18:34given to him so that he might add it to
18:37the prayers of the Saints from back in
18:39chapter 6 on the golden altar which was
18:42before the throne and the smoke of the
18:45incense with the prayers of the saints
18:47went up before God out of the Angel's
18:49hand then the angel took the sensor
18:52filled it with the fire of the Altar and
18:54threw it to the Earth and there followed
18:59and sounds and flashes of lightning and
19:03an earthquake and then the seven
19:05trumpets in chapter six it's an altar of
19:08Vengeance and in chapter eight it's an
19:12judgment but what is it referring to
19:14what is this golden altar in verse
19:1813 well this is a Visionary replica of
19:22the golden alar in Exodus chapter 30 in
19:25the opening few verses of Exodus we are
19:27introduced to this piece of furniture in
19:30the temple in the Tabernacle a golden
19:32altar it was located in the Holy place
19:35you had the outer Courtyard in the
19:37Tabernacle and the temple then you had
19:39the holy place then you had the holy of
19:40holies where God dwelt according to
19:43Exodus chapter 40 so located in the Holy
19:47place just before entering into the
19:49presence of God is this golden altar
19:53there are two altars set up in the
19:59first altar is the we could call it the
20:01great altar the the more familiar
20:05altar it was called the Brazen altar it
20:07was called the altar of burnt offering
20:10it was called the altar of sacrifice
20:13it's the altar where the animal
20:15sacrifices were constantly made on
20:18behalf of the sins of the people this
20:21altar was outside the holy place in the
20:25courtyard this is the familiar altar of
20:28sacrifice and it was it was just flowing
20:32with blood all the time as priests
20:35slaughtered animals every morning and
20:36every evening symbolizing the need for
20:40the atonement for sin that's different
20:43than the golden altar the golden altar
20:45was inside the holy Place smaller made
20:51brass inside the golden altar was where
20:55the high priest went
21:00because he would then take incense from
21:03the sacrificial altar put it on the
21:06golden Altar and it would rise as
21:10incense to God what's the symbolism of
21:13that prayers for grace and mercy prayers
21:17for grace and mercy are only possible if
21:22sacrifice for sin has been
21:25made fiery coals from the outside altar
21:28the altar of sacrifice were placed in
21:30the golden altar of incense symbolizing
21:35God and the priests did this every
21:40evening the symbol symbolism of this is
21:43is very clear access to God prayer to
21:48God worship of God seeking mercy and
21:51Grace from God communion with God the
21:55right to plead to God
21:58were related to the provision of blood
22:03sacrifice sin had to be dealt with
22:05before communion could be established
22:07before there was Grace before there was
22:09Mercy there had to be
22:11sacrifice sacrifice opened the way to
22:14God so the priest would offer the
22:16sacrifice take from the altar a portion
22:20of the burning coals take them in and
22:23place them on the golden altar
22:24symbolizing the fact that prayer could
22:26rise to God based upon a sacrifice for
22:29sin being made the book of Hebrews says
22:33Jesus by the sacrifice of himself opened
22:37the way to God completely and finally so
22:41the work of the golden altar essentially
22:43was opened by the work of the Brazen
22:46altar it was an altar where you sought
22:50Mercy in fact in First Kings 1:50 it
22:52talks about people would literally cling
22:54to the horns of that altar crying to God
22:59it was an altar of Mercy it was an altar
23:01of Grace based upon sacrifice once the
23:05sins had been atoned for God could
23:07deliver the people from the consequence
23:10of their sin and show them
23:12Mercy but when you come to the Book of
23:15Revelation there is a dramatic change we
23:20see the golden altar again in chapter
23:22six but it's not an altar of Mercy it's
23:26Vengeance it's an altar Vengeance the
23:29Saints are praying for Vengeance on
23:34Sinners and now in chapter 8 it becomes
23:41judgment an altar of judgment where
23:44violence takes place as the Angels throw
23:48down the censor and unleash the trumpet
23:52judgment just mark it this is a horrible
23:55time in human history when the altar of
23:58Mercy and the altar of Grace has been
24:00turned into an altar of Vengeance and an
24:10terrible this is the
24:12end when there's no more grace and
24:18Mercy the implication is that God's
24:20appointed way of Salvation has been
24:23totally and finally rejected the
24:25wickedness of the world has risen so
24:27high that even the place of Mercy
24:29becomes a place of Vengeance and a place
24:37judgment with that understanding we come
24:4014 and the sixth Angel who had the
24:45trumpet is told release the Four Angels
24:48who are bound at the great river
24:51Euphrates now who are these angels well
24:54they're not Holy Angels because nowhere
24:56in scripture Are Holy Angels ever bound
25:00ever these are Fallen Angels who are
25:03bound we already met some like that in
25:05the first half of chapter N9 those who
25:07were Bound in the time of Genesis and
25:09had been bound all the time since
25:12Genesis until the future tribulation
25:14when according to chapter N9 they are
25:16released well here are some more of
25:21demons and the perfect tense in the
25:23Greek means they have been bound for a
25:26long time that is their condition bound
25:29demons Fallen Angels
25:32another segment of Satan's force and
25:37apparently each of these four bound
25:40demons has an army because the armies
25:44that are with them in verse 16 in the
25:49plural who are these and what is the
25:52meaning of the river
25:54Euphrates these are demons who have
25:57demon armies that have been bound going
26:00all the way back to some ancient time
26:06Euphrates we know there are demons who
26:09have been free and worked throughout all
26:12history we know there are demons who
26:16heaven we know there are demons who in
26:19chapter n as I said came up out of the
26:21pit but here is a new force of 200
26:25million of them set loose
26:28but why are they bound at the great
26:30river Euphrates that seems like a very
26:34important note and it is why are they
26:40place well that is the area of the
26:45Garden of Eden of course it was one of
26:47the four rivers of the Garden of
26:49Eden so it was the place of Satan's
26:52deception of Adam and
26:54Eve it was the place where
26:56Adam was tempted and fell and the whole
27:00human race with him it was the place
27:03where the first assault on God and man
27:08place the river Euphrates rises from
27:10sources near Mount Ararat in Turkey the
27:13Euphrates flows more than 1,700 miles
27:17before emptying into the Persian Gulf
27:19the longest and most important river in
27:21the Middle East it figures prominently
27:24in the Old Testament starting in Genesis
27:26chapter 2 as it was part of the
27:28Topography of the Garden of Eden it was
27:31near the Euphrates that sin
27:34began that the first lie was told that
27:37the first murder was committed that the
27:40Tower of Babel was built the complex of
27:43false religions that has since spread
27:46world the Euphrates was the eastern
27:48boundary of the promised
27:50land and the Israel's influence extended
27:53to the Euphrates during the reign of
27:58the region near Euphrates was also the
28:00central location of world powers ancient
28:03world powers Babylon Assyria and Meo
28:09Persia so it's a very important place it
28:12could be that the demons who basically
28:15ran the empires of Syria Babylon and Meo
28:20Persia may have been bound at that time
28:23and have been bound along with their
28:25armies ever since then
28:30it is the river Euphrates again over
28:32which the enemies of God will cross in
28:35the future when they engage in the
28:40Armageddon so it's it's like the focal
28:45evil and God bound some demons and held
28:50them in captivity there until this
28:53future time along with their army of 200
28:59as bad as the world is it's not as bad
29:02as it could be if 200 million more
29:04demons were set loose just think of
29:11that it's right at the place where the
29:14Tower of Babel initiated Pagan
29:19religion the very place where Pagan
29:23religion today is still headquartered
29:28what do I mean by that the Middle East
29:32is still the home and going east from
29:34there of the major false religions of
29:37the world Islam Hinduism Sikhism
29:41Buddhism Confucianism taism Shinto
29:44Shamanism animism on and on and on and
29:52go it's still the focal point of
30:01religions so there's some demons and
30:03their armies bound there and in the
30:05future they will be released for what
30:10purpose verse 15 the Four Angels who had
30:14been prepared for the hour and day and
30:15month and year were released so that
30:18they would kill a third of
30:21mankind now they're going to unleash
30:25death back in chapter nine the first
30:28barrage of demons were not permitted to
30:30kill anyone chapter 9 verse 5 only to
30:34torment them for a period of time now
30:37they're given the power to
30:41kill who has prepared these it says they
30:46were prepared for the hour the day the
30:48month and the year God he's the one who
30:51bound them he's the one who released
30:53them he's the one who will use them as
30:55agents of his judgment
30:59God will use them in the continuing
31:01destruction of the world before Christ
31:05returns to set up his kingdom and the
31:08day the hour the month the year has been
31:12established and so has the number verse
31:1416 notice the number 200 million and
31:17then John says as you looked at the
31:18vision I heard the number of them as if
31:25guessing at the precise moment
31:28they will be released to kill a third of
31:31mankind that's the 13th mention of
31:34onethird of something in connection with
31:37judgment now back in chapter 6:8 under
31:40the fourth seal a fourth of the Earth
31:45killed since then many more have been
31:48killed in the terrible
31:51judgments but this Slaughter will
31:54take a third of those in the world that
31:59left unimaginable in a brief period of
32:03time the pile up of bodies will be
32:06inconceivable I can't imagine how they
32:08would even begin to dispose of billions
32:16force to kill like nothing in
32:21history and there's no power on Earth
32:23that can withstand this because they are
32:28operating as instruments of God's
32:33will verse 17 gives us a description of
32:36them as John sees them as if they were
32:40armies he's not talking about literal
32:42people or armies but rather these demons
32:46but he describes them in terms that
32:51obviously God used in the
32:54vision the vision gave him a picture of
32:57horse es and those who sat on them and
33:00the Riders had breastplates the color of
33:02fire and of hin and of
33:05Brimstone and the heads of the horses
33:07are like the heads of lions and out of
33:09their mouths proed fire and smoke and
33:14brimstone John's just telling us what he
33:18saw he looked at them and he saw fire
33:21and hin and brimstone red blue and
33:26yellow the colors of
33:28of fire red obviously the color of fire
33:32hin which is blue the deepest color of
33:37the hottest fire and brimstone is yellow
33:40like a sulfuric gas it's as if hell
33:43arrived on Earth and in describing their
33:47heads like the heads of lions he is
33:49demonstrating that these demons are
33:51Fierce strong determined
33:56slaughter and out of their mouths
33:58proceed fire and smoke and brimstone and
34:01those are the three things that kill a
34:03third of the population of the the
34:07world it doesn't describe exactly how
34:12occurs we can only say what the Bible
34:15says but the people will be killed by
34:18the fire the smoke and the brimstone
34:21that these demons generate asphyxiated
34:24by the hellish fiery
34:28arrival of Hell on Earth burned
34:31suffocated with smoke and
34:35gas and what about the description of
34:38their mouths and their tails simply to
34:40say that they have one function and it
34:44comes from every angle and that is the
34:48function of death they do
34:51harm they do harm they do deadly
34:56harm so the the sixth trumpet will bring
34:59the releasee of demons and the return of
35:02death and then this passage closes in
35:0621 with the reaction of
35:08Defiance the rest of mankind who were
35:10not killed that are still alive that
35:14means the 2/3 that remain when the
35:18killed the rest of them who were not
35:21killed by these plagues did not
35:24repent did not repent
35:28even with that they didn't repent which
35:31means they could have repented which
35:33means the gospel is still being preached
35:36in the world God is still communicating
35:41forgiveness but they don't
35:44repent this is the most severe warning
35:47in scripture to any person who thinks
35:49that there's not an urgency about coming
35:51to Christ you might be able to figure
35:53out the truth when you're in the
35:54tribulation and not have to do it now
35:57when you get into that particular part
36:02plan you may be among those who have no
36:07repent like the 2third you would wonder
36:10why wouldn't they repent why wouldn't
36:13they repent what have they seen they've
36:18judgment they've seen false peace and
36:22then war and then famine and then death
36:25and then the destruction of their entire
36:27Earthly environment and the destruction
36:29of the sky as they know it they've
36:33seen the whole of the human race begin
36:36to disappear a fourth of them being
36:38killed and others being
36:41slaughtered they've seen the
36:43demons harming people and making them so
36:46sick they wish they were
36:48dead everything is chaos
36:54disorder at the same time there will be
36:56many who believe the gospel
36:58chapter 7 says from every tongue and
37:00tribe and people and nation and Israel
37:02will be saved so they they've also met
37:05Believers some of whom are martyred some
37:08of whom Will Survive to enter into the
37:12returns but by the time you get to this
37:16unfolding they're so
37:18hard-hearted two-thirds of them the
37:21implication is could still repent but
37:24they in a prolic way it says they did
37:29repent they didn't repent repentance is
37:32always the issue back to the Gospel of
37:34Luke CH 24 verse 47 the Great Commission
37:38tell people to repent for the
37:42sins they won't have anybody to blame
37:44but themselves for their lack of
37:46repentance it gets worse under the uh if
37:49that's possible under the Bold judgments
37:53if you go over to chapter
37:5516 the final judgment of all the
37:58judgments the final bold judgment the
38:03Judgment of the three categories huge
38:07hailstones 100 pounds come down from
38:10heaven upon men and men
38:14God they still don't
38:17repent as judgment escalates and
38:21mounts what do they cling
38:24to why wouldn't they repent well we're
38:28told they wouldn't repent go back to
38:31verse 20 they did not repent of the
38:32works of their hands that's a phrase
38:34used often in the Old Testament to
38:36describe Idols because Idols were made
38:38by men's hands there are five sins
38:43representative of these defiant Sinners
38:46they choose hell they choose demons they
38:48choose death they choose Satan they
38:50choose sin they are worshippers of Satan
38:53they have the mark of the beast they
38:54worship the Antichrist they worship the
38:58they're completely engulfed in control
39:07demons and so there are five things that
39:10Mark them five sins one
39:13idolatry they do not repent of the works
39:15of their hands that's Idols they make so
39:17as not to worship demons which is to say
39:19idol worship is demon worship an idol is
39:22no one it is nothing but a demon will
39:25impersonate the idol that The Sinner
39:27creat creates and he winds up worshiping
39:35demons in the idols of gold and silver
39:37and brass and stone and wood which can
39:40neither see nor hear nor walk they'll be
39:45completely committed to demon Worship in
39:52idolatry and secondly they did not
39:55repent verse 21 of their
40:01murders murder will be rampant there's
40:04so much death going on so Much Death God
40:08is killing people in judgment Antichrist
40:11is killing people in
40:13persecution the world is running a muck
40:16in evil it's completely out of
40:20control they've been killing the Jews
40:23they've been killing
40:26believers violent crime is completely
40:31control it's worldwide blood
40:36angry population of the
40:39world and they will be
40:42angry will turn that anger on each
40:46other they'll kill those in their own
40:50family so their sins will be idolatry
40:57and they will not be restrained from
40:59those sins even in the midst of
41:02judgment the third sin is sorceries
41:05verse 21 it's the word Pharmaca they're
41:13drugs they'll be engulfed in drugs
41:18drunkenness drug induced
41:20sters to make the horrors of their
41:24life perhaps tolerable to some extent
41:28people take drugs today because they
41:30can't tolerate Life as We Know It think
41:32of what life then will be like and how
41:35they'll head for the medicine
41:37cabinet to escape the horrors of that
41:41reality they'll cling to their
41:44drugs their hatred and their demon
41:48worship and then the fourth sin in verse
41:5021 is immoralities that's the Greek word
41:58that's that's going to be the worst of
41:59all times the whole remaining population
42:01of the world is engulfed in worshiping
42:08drugs and in pornography sexual sins
42:12without restraint rape child molestation
42:15pedophilia homosexuality beastiality
42:18every conceivable and inconceivable
42:21expression of sexual
42:24evil and then the end of vers 21 a fifth
42:29theft stealing Honesty will be
42:33non-existent property rights will
42:39ignored I look at the world around us
42:43see forboding realities of this
42:49worship rampant crimes of
42:52murder drugs immorality
42:58theft we're we're getting a little taste
43:02even in America of life like
43:09future only then it'll be
43:17turn so what do we say to all of
43:21this well I want to say this first of
43:27as surely as I live declares The
43:32Lord I take no pleasure in the death of
43:40that I take no pleasure in the death of
43:43the wicked but rather that they turn
43:47from their ways and live turn turn from
43:52your evil ways why will you die
43:58God is saying you don't have to die turn
44:04turn God finds no pleasure in the death
44:12wicked now how does this apply to us
44:16well the real test of uh what you
44:19believe about this is how you respond to
44:24it and since this is true our response
44:27should be to warn people to flee from
44:31right that's what I was trying to say
44:33last Sunday when we talked about what
44:35the churches in the world to do is not
44:41politics we're in the world to warn of
44:49come a church will be taken out of this
44:53world we will be taken to glory to the
44:56marriage supp sheer of the Lamb to dwell
44:59forever in Bliss and joy and that is
45:02offered to Anyone who puts his or her
45:05Christ turn turn from your sin repent
45:11Christ so that you don't end up in this
45:15setting of judgment and the hopelessness
45:23possibility of repenting
45:28if this is true and it is and we believe
45:33do this defines what Believers are in
45:41for we're here to warn of the Wrath to
45:48come Jesus did that the apostles did
45:51that all faithful believers do that as
45:54well that's our calling
46:06pray Our Father we thank you again
46:16future so that we understand what is to
46:19come we have no excuse not to be
46:23captivated by the urgency of warning
46:30Horrors give us the faithfulness the
46:38love to warn and to call Sinners to
46:43repentance and faith in
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