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And welcome back this week.
Woo, it's cold.
It's cold.
Yes, it is.
So, uh, hopefully we have uh, some folks that'll
be uh, uh, if not watching the live stream tonight.
Uh, maybe we'll have some folks picking up the uh, uh,
recorded uh, stream from last week when it goes live,
um, here in uh, about an hour, uh,
right about the time we wrap up.
The one from last week goes live.
So maybe we'll have plenty of people sitting around going, what are we going
to do that instead of sitting around and be cold?
Sit around the heat and listen to something good.
Oh, brother Dennis, how you doing today?
doing all right, man.
Doing all right.
Dime's off work today.
They closed the water department.
So we just hung out for a while.
Hey, you know it's cold when the water department says, we're just gonna,
we're just not going to bother today.
We're frozen, man.
That poor that poor on call cruise, though.
Oh, you know they had it run.
That's awful man.
Imagine having that job on a day like this.
Wow.
Or power lines.
The guys are working on powerline.
Don't forget those natural gas guys.
Oh, yeah, you know.
Oh, yeah, because you're getting calls constantly.
If that gas isn't flowing.
hey, we need it going now.
It's cold.
my heater store up.
I haven't used it in 16 years, but I tried to light it today and it wouldn't work.
I don't understand why that wouldn't work, you know?
How you doing tonight, brother Brian?
Chronicles from a natural gas bank.
Good, good.
Yeah, doing great.
Nicole was off today.
She had she had a grandbaby, so she was
on cloud nine.
I think Tatum went in about 10 o'clock.
I had to go in about 10 o'clock today.
They delayed it a little bit.
Well, that was nice.
Yeah, I was all over the place.
Bridgeport this morning.
All up in Bryant, all
that area out there.
So.
Oh, so you got to go in the area where it was likely to be frozen.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And it was, I mean, roads are pretty good.
We had a lot of wind last night.
I guess it dried a lot of that.
Yeah, yeah, I think so.
He was funny.
So I went in this morning and because I was concerned
about, you know, the possibility of it icing, so I'm going to drive all
the way, Chattanooga, and it's like, oh, you know, I normally go 75
and I go up and I drop off there at Sligo and, you know, on
the other side of Trenton, so it just drives straight across the mountain.
And I'm thinking, that's not going to be a fun drive today.
I don't think I'm going to do that.
going to go down, get on the interstate and I'll do that for a couple of days till it dries
up and has time for all this to go away.
And I'm like, okay, so I go out to 75
here, get out for Rainesville, get on 35.
And I'm like, all right, this will be nice and easy and doggone it.
If I didn't pick the one possible way that was absolutely had
about 2 or 3 big, huge ice
patches that were thick enough that I
was seeing people hitting it and they're just and I'm watching them
going, why are y'all driving that fast across that?
It's not going to work out.
I'm just saying, just, and I can tell they've let off, they, they let off the
brakes and gas and everything, thankfully, and I'm just seeing them slide
cross it, and I'm going, oh, man.
When I say I went into,
when I went into the sticks today, I did.
I went to a place called Hog Jaw Valley today.
Nice.
Yeah, yeah, I didn't even know it was.
That's a place in Alabama
It's a place in Alabama, around Bridgeport and Stevenson
between those 2 places.
So right on the river right there.
So...
Yeah.
Oh, general.
Oh, job, that.
Well, that's a, that's a surprising,
yeah, I start to say, you hear banjos out there.
Maybe a mandolin or two.
Oh, God.
You don't want to offend anybody in Hog Job Valley.
Good place.
Very pretty out there.
Hey, I will say that the northern
part of Northeast Alabama, as you
move towards the Western area there, going into Tennessee, some
of the prettiest country you can drive through is up in there.
Down in the valleys are real nice.
And then, of course, if you're up on the mountain, any of the mountains there are just gorgeous.
And it's weird.
It's weird because we, you know, we've spent most of our lives down here around it and
don't think about it, but I know people that come down from,
you know, if they've lived in other places that all of
us go to vacation in to see the pretty scenery and they're like, what are you talking about?
Why would you leave this?
And I'm like, well, come
back during the summer and you'll figure it out real quick.
110 degrees at 70
or 80% humidity, it's a little uncomfortable.
Absolutely.
Well, tonight we are, we're about to dive
into Revelation chapter 9, verse one.
Definitely looking forward to jumping into this.
straight out of chapter 8 last week.
I do want to, again,
ask for people to be praying for the country.
We had another shooting this weekend the
ice agent was involved with.
I'm seeing a lot of people say a lot of things,
and at the end of the day, I actually watched one of
the real clear videos of what happened, and it's,
it's, it's, it's a dumpster
fire of nobody can really explain what happened.
It was very confusing.
There was a lot going on.
And I think that's why I, and I
want to read something, since you brought it up, I, uh,
but I mean, and I
start to say, before you read that, I want to make it very clear
that I bring that up because I respect our people in law enforcement.
I respect our people in authority and you
will never see me get up in a police officer's face.
I'm just not going to do it because at the end of the day, they're a person,
they're a human being and it's a person with a gun.
And I'm not going to challenge that.
You know, that's a good way to get shot, even if they don't,
they're not necessarily looking to do that because you're putting yourself in a bad situation.
But at the same time, I'm not
I'm also not the kind of person that will just go along with everything and say, yeah,
yeah, it was 100% on this or 100% on that.
This is a very unclear situation of what went on.
I hope that we come up with some answers.
I'm really disappointed in uh, hearing
2 people that are part of our current administration standing
up and going out on TV and saying, well, you know,
you you can't go to a, uh, protest and take a gun with you.
And I'm like, do you not understand how the Second Amendment works?
I'm sorry, you're you're somebody that's one of the, I
mean, Cash Patel said that in an interview.
And I'm like, I'm real disappointed in this.
And so you're not going to see me supporting either of the
sides that are saying stuff right now, but I'm pray,
pray, pray, is where I'm going with that.
Pray for it because that is a dangerous
situation to be in and I'm hoping we get it.
This powder cake's gotta go away.
I think, yeah, because I think we can be, boy, we can be
real quick to jump on the internet and and give our
opinion on something, especially before we know all the facts and what happened.
And so that, you know, to me, that, we got to be, got to be super careful.
I didn't even hear about it until yesterday morning.
And then I started looking at trying to find some
clips and I looked at Fox and I looked at the
CNN just to get, you know, both sides of the story.
But, uh, uh, and they all showed that one clip
that was completely, you couldn't see anything because it was all the way across the street.
So, you know, trying to figure out what both sides was playing and
look, I'm as ultra conservative as there can be.
But I've seen something,
I thought about it during the day to day, you know, and I've seen the different sides
of it and people are ranting and raving over it.
Uh, and, and, uh, I want to read this.
This is from a fellow pastor, a local fellow
pastor that wrote this, and I thought it was really, really good.
He done a great job, articulating
some thoughts here about this in general, I guess.
It says, you weren't meant to know everything
about everything.
There's always some injustice,
some insane headlines, some new thing happening here
or somewhere else in the world that demands your outrage.
There's no shortage, and the news knows it.
It's uh, it, it keeps you hooked by convincing
you that this one is the thing,
this one is the thing that you must be angry about right now.
It reminds me of the Chester and
quote, journalism largely consists
in saying, Lord Jones
is dead to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
Now, I thought that was pretty good, you know.
Outrage is easy when it
cost you nothing, no responsibility, no follow
through, just a reaction for everyone to know where you stay in.
Try investing where you actually are.
Love the people in front of you, ten, the
relationship, the responsibilities, churches,
and local systems, God has placed or has
already put you in and are and around to influence.
And then he says, P.S.
God knew what he was doing when he told us to be slow to speak.
Odds are, you don't have enough information or
context to pontificate on
whatever you watch for 2 minutes
on TikTok, CNN, Fox reels, or
wherever else you've been convinced that the most important thing in the world is happening.
Absolutely.
And that's, you know, my stance on pretty much everything
with the news lately has over the last year and a half
has started becoming weight.
Wait and see and wait until all the information
comes out because it starts one way and
then by the end of the story, you're like, wait a minute, what happened?
And it turns out to be something totally different.
And like I say, those clips they were showing all weekend.
It blew my mind because it was always that one person that was standing like
all the way across the street filming it and you couldn't see anything.
Assumptions at all.
And, you know, and then I actually see the
clips that they, that they had this whole time, uh,
yesterday and today, uh, finally got to see something that was somebody standing
right next to it as it was going on.
And when I say a dumpster fire, what in the world is going on here?
It was, like, the guy that got killed was,
you know, standing up for this woman that was,
one of the ice agents was pushing, which, you know, hey,
you know, if you're putting your hands on them, you need
to have the authority to arrest them, and if you're putting your hands on them, you should be arresting them or getting them out of danger.
And neither of those things was happening.
It was just a guy being a little bit of a bully.
So, okay, you're standing up, say, hey, man, knock it off.
But he went a little bit further than that, got in the
guy's face and got maced for it.
And then the next thing I see is the guy standing up for the woman is grabbing
the woman and dragging her across the street as he's being dragged away
with the ice and I'm like, what is going on here?
Like, why?
It was the most insane.
I could tell nobody in that situation had a clue what
was going on right then in the moment, and there is
no way you can look back at that and say, either everybody
made exactly the right call or everybody made exactly the wrong
call because they were reacting in real time to
things that were happening in seconds.
And I mean, that's a that's a powder keg.
And I do.
My prayer for the country right now is that people will slow
down, get all the facts, get your,
you know, find out what's happening before you offer an opinion.
And hey, just like I just said, I will gladly stand
up with somebody and says, hey, why were you going around shoving people?
Like, I get that you were you were wanting, they were annoying you.
They were getting in your face.
But, you know, I would be charged with assault for doing that.
I expect you to treat people with the same level of respect.
Don't be putting your hands on them unless you're going to arrest them.
You know?
And that's the standard I've held for every police
officer ever my whole life.
If they go to put their hands on somebody.
I assume that person's going to jail.
Now, they may be let out in 5 minutes, you know,
because the police officer overstepped or whatever, it happens.
But at least there was a time in this country where those decisions
were made with the intent of, and again, I've
got friends that are police officers, and I've been raised around police officers
that I've known over the years that have told me stories about
situations where they're like, yeah, okay, I kind of, I
kind of reacted, and it wasn't the greatest reaction, but, you know,
I also was aware that I was reacting, and it wasn't the greatest
thing, and I stopped once I realized, hey, this is about to blow up.
So, I mean, I get it.
And any officer that has spent any time doing
that stuff will tell you, those kind of situations are never the one you want
to be in the middle of because nobody makes the right decisions.
Neither the protesters nor the police are making good decisions at that point.
You don't believe you can ask some of the guys that dealt with the riots back in Chicago in the 60s.
They'll tell you none of us were making good decisions.
And it's awful, and I do not want to see that happening in
our country, and I'm seeing Christians.
That's the part that's really bothering me is I'm seeing
Christians who are very quick.
to get angry about it one way or the other.
And I'm like, everybody slow down.
It's okay for nobody to be a good guy in a situation.
It's okay for everybody to have made mistakes and
I say, okay, let's try to keep that from happening again.
But that means everybody has to calm down.
It means the protesters you need to learn how to protest the right way.
Go out, hold your signs, but stay out of the way.
Don't be clogging the street.
Don't be getting up in the face of a guy with a badge and a gun because
if he feels threatened, he's going to react accordingly and I can't blame him.
So remember that, when you're out there
doing this stuff, we have the right to speak.
That's what gives us the right to do this, and I'm thankful
for the First Amendment.
I am so, so thankful that we live in a country that we can sit down
and have a Christian podcast where we talk about the Bible.
We cannot do that everywhere in the world.
We can hear.
And the same right that lets us do that.
It lets people go out and protest.
If you want to come out and protest in front of a church somewhere, I
may disagree with you, but I also get it as long as you stay outside.
If you go marching into the church, understand
that they're going to kick you out and when you say no, you're now trespassing.
And, um, there are some states
you don't want to be caught trespassing in because they can get real rough with you.
And you, you know, do it the right way.
And I may disagree with you, but I will defend
your right to do it the right way every time.
So I'm praying that Christians, let's
come together and try to not be arguing with
each other out there in front of people online where
everybody can see us.
That's not good.
If you want to have conversations at home, amongst your friends in
private, that's fine.
It's just like when you work for a place, you know, I was always taught when I was younger.
If I work somewhere, don't argue with the boss in front of people.
Wait until the customer's gone, and then you and the
boss can go have a conversation, but don't do it out here in front of everybody.
Same thing.
We're, we're, we're all family.
We're all worshiping God together here.
Let's let's keep those arguments in house.
Let's not be airing our dirty laundry out in front of people.
So praying for everybody.
Cool heads prevail, and we can all hopefully get
through this before things, because I would hate to be in
the state we're in now, uh, when when the end starts
rolling in and things get real bad, because it's just going to get real bad real
fast, if we keep staying in that state.
Let's try to, you know, keep things civil.
It's going to get bad enough.
I'm trying to get focused off of this.
is what it is.
Exactly.
It's trying to take us away from what's true.
Exactly.
We don't want to do that.
So Revelation chapter 9,
verse one is where we're starting this week.
We finished up Revelation 8.
Now, uh, Revelation 8, uh, ended with,
um...
I have to flip back over here.
It was the 4th trumpet was blown.
So we have these angels that are the book was open.
The last seal was released on the book, and these trumpets start being blown,
and then we've had 4 of them blow, and we're about to have the
5th trumpet blow, and that's
where we pick up this week.
Yeah, and it just starts out with a whoa, whoa, whoa.
Right.
We ended up at 4th trumpet and then he says, whoa,
whoa, whoa to those who dwell on the earth because the remaining blasts the trumpet.
And this is really where it switches gears, I think.
So if you agree with me, it looks like it's mostly natural disasters.
This is about to get spiritual.
Absolutely.
It's about to get supernatural.
Yes, it is.
It is.
Absolutely.
Yeah, the stuff leading into this.
That was the stars falling from the sky.
That was the seas turning to blood, stuff like that.
But that was clearly like the earth,
the earthquakes, the famine, the things like that were all, was what's happening.
a star, but it's a different kind of star.
That's right, yeah.
Yeah, the last the last 3 trumpets are separated from
the other 4 because they're woe trumpets.
So that, you know, we're getting into this chapter.
This chapter begins the deepest,
darkest times that the world has ever known.
Um, there's, there's, there's many interpretations
of this chapter, but that can sometimes, some of them
can get out of hand, but, uh, one, I read a quote from J.
Vern McGee, and he said, let's just keep our feet on the ground.
So, you know, and look at it and see it for what it is.
Yeah, yeah.
Don't don't try to take the stuff too far out of context.
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
All right.
We won't hit it.
Hit it, brother.
All right.
Then the 5th angel sounded.
And I saw a star from heaven, which had fallen to the earth.
And the key of the bottomless pit was given to him.
He opened the bottomless pit and smoke went up out of the pit
like the smoke of a great furnace, and the
sun and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.
So there's the 5th angel sound.
And then we see a star that has already fallen to the earth
that says it's used a, what they call it,
a perfect, uh, perfect tense where it's something that's already complete.
Right.
That star is already fallen.
Now we've seen stars previously in here that look like heavenly
beings or heavenly objects.
Objects, right.
Right.
But this one, I think, has got a little more personal twist to it.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, because I think, you know, let's look
at the figurative of this verse.
You know, earlier, we recognize stars following
as literal stars or meteors, like you said, but if
we if we see that, this star is no
inanimate object, it's it's, it
is according to this verse a a hymn,
uh, and I believe that him is, is Satan,
not that, not the Antichrist, as some believe,
uh, is what we're looking at here.
So, uh, I saw the 5th sound, and I saw a,
I saw a starfall from heaven under the earth, and to him was
given the key of the bottomless pit.
Uh, so there, so there's a, there's a hymn here.
Now, why?
Let us back up.
back it up with scripture.
Isaiah 1412.
How art there fallen from heaven of Lucifer, son of the morning?
How art thou cut down to the ground?
Thou didst weaken the nations.
Luke 10, 18 says, and he said unto them,
I beheld Satan as lightning falling from heaven.
2nd Corinthians 11, 14, and
no marvel, for Satan himself is transformed into
an angel of light.
And then, uh, and then Revelation 12, 7, and 9.
We read forward there a little bit, and there was a war in heaven,
Michael and his angels fought against the dragon.
The dragon fought his angels and prevailed not.
Neither was there a place found in them for heaven in heaven.
And the great dragon was cast out.
That old serpent called the devil Satan, which to see with the whole world.
He was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him.
Uh, so, so, we now
see that he's given the key to the bottomless pit
and and a key, that denotes
power and authority.
We don't need to, we don't need to sell Satan short, right?
Right.
The power that he has.
And the only way he has this authority, though, is
because God has allowed him to have it.
Exactly.
Yeah.
We're reading in Sunday school in Jude, where it
talks about Satan and Michael the Archangel arguing over the body of Moses.
Yeah.
It's like an oral tradition way back.
I dont know that it's in scripture at all.
Right, right.
But except for Jude.
Yes.
But he respected Satan to the point.
He the one that's going to kick Satan's butt here officially, right?
Yes.
And he's the one that said,
the Lord rebuke you.
He didn't say it himself.
He's like, Lord rebuke you.
And convincing telling us, we don't
need to be saying things to Satan that we ought not be saying.
Because he's gotten a lot more power, a lot more.
Yeah, we need to let the spirit of God go before us.
You know, when you say, when you say Satan,
get behind me, you better, you better say in the name of Jesus.
Not because Brian said it or Dennis said it or anyone
else, you know, Tyler said it, but because,
because he, uh, he does hold a certain amount of power.
Now, he is not an equal with God.
No, I don't want us to think that at all.
But he holds a certain amount
of power and he's got more power than we do.
But he is, he is and was an angel.
And he was one of the highest level angel.
He was an archangel.
He was one of the top dogs.
I mean, God didn't God did
not divide them up and set them into a hierarchy for no reason.
And he was right there at the top.
I mean, he was right there, not equal with God,
but under God, obviously, but as far as the angels went, there
wasn't any that were up there with him.
I mean, he was he was top dog and just wanted more.
He wanted more.
And goodness.
It's not that he should hold fear for us
as Christians because we can say, in the name of Jesus, get behind me.
And, you know, and I rebuke you in the name of my father.
Right.
We have that.
And that is enough.
Let's be clear about that.
That is enough.
But we're talking about a being that, you know, quite frankly, could,
you know, I don't think messing with a planet and,
you know, possibly pulling things out of orbit and doing damage stuff is
really anything he would think about.
It's just, it's nothing to him.
I mean, this is a lot of power and a being that did some pretty incredible things.
And because of the decisions he made,
that's why he's at where he's at today.
Well, and we see this.
So we say he's given these keys.
So what's going on in the abyss that Satan
even has anything to do with?
Um, uh, well, we know that that
there are demons who have been cast there.
Um, 2nd Peter chapter 2, verse 4, uh,
for if God spared not the angels that sin, but cast them
down to hell and delivered them into chains
of darkness to be reserved unto judgment.
And again, we see in Luke 8, 30 and 31,
and Jesus asked him, saying, what is thy name?
And he said legion.
Because many devils were entered into him, and they besought
him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.
So Satan is given more power at
this time than he ever has been before, and there's a reason for it.
Right?
There's a reason for it to carry out God's plan.
That's right.
And this is where Satan is going to end up for a 1000 years.
Yes, it is, isn't that ironic?
And I started saying, and the interesting thing is, notice it says he was given the key.
That means he doesn't have the key.
Right.
That means he has no access to this right now.
But here he's given access.
Right.
So that's that's the figurative.
But, and when you look at verse 2 and he opened
the bottom pit, and there rugs the smoke out of the pit, and the smoke of the
great furnace, and the sun, there, we're talking to a reason, the smoke of the pit.
So this is the literal.
We open we open the
pathway to Hades to release more evil
than we've ever known that
will that will fill the earth with the worst smog and
smoke it has ever known.
I mean, we think Los Angeles is bad.
Just wait till this happens, right?
I started to say you think China's bad today, wait until this
happens because...
And understand that this again, this is not an allegory.
Right.
This is something that's actually happened, whether it's in the physical
realm, the spiritual realm.
This is actually happening.
Yes, absolutely.
100% 100%.
Amen.
I read 3 and four.
Go ahead.
Okay.
Uh, and and there came out of the smoke locusts upon
the earth and then to, and then to them was given power
as the scorpions of the earth have power, and it was commanded
them that they should not, uh, that they should not hurt the grass of
the earth, neither any green thing, neither any
tree, but only those men which have
not the seal of God in their foreheads.
Now, who are those, those are the 144,000, right?
He sealed them.
That's what we talked about previously.
Um, he, that was where that, uh, that,
that Lowell was or that, uh, that quiet time, that,
that, uh, that pause button and all the things that were going on.
So he, God took time to seal them.
Those 144,000.
Uh, and, and so then we see
these, these, uh, locusts coming out and and
he tells them, he says, you're not going after, you're not going after
greenery this time.
You're not going after the crops.
These creatures are more savage.
than anything that
we could ever imagine.
As normal locusts would prey on vegetation.
These creatures only will prey on man.
So, so they, they're still uh, they're
going to sting like, like scorpions.
and cause more pain than you could ever imagine.
Isn't that crazy?
Yeah.
What's coming up's even worse, isn't it?
Yeah, yeah, look at verse five.
Yeah, let's do verse 5 and 6 and they were
not permitted to kill anyone.
But the torment for 5 months.
And their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings a man.
And in those days, men will seek death and will not find it.
They will long to die and death flees from them.
That awful.
Yes.
Yeah.
There's some differences of opinion on this too.
whether these are literal physical beings in
the physical realm or the spiritual realm, right?
And people have thrown out there that this could be like demon possession on all these people.
Yeah. and describing something spiritually going on inside.
I happen to believe it's a physical.
I do too.
I think I think it's a creature.
I think it's something.
The description he gives.
Yeah, it's too detailed, didn't it?
Well, the description he gives, and then that statement that the
sting of it is going to be like a scorpion sting for that lasts for 5 months.
I mean, that...
Yeah, that's and they're seeking death.
I, I, I, I, I, I, I, you possessed person doing that.
Yeah, you know, you think about a real scorpion.
I mean, scorpions, they'll sting you, but they won't kill you, right?
I mean, under normal circumstances, but
for 5 months, they're going to torment man and he'll have no relief.
And this is another thing that just screams, this is not an allegory.
Where did 5 months come from?
That's specific.
It is.
You know, it's not.
And it's not a number that occurs elsewhere.
No, it's not.
It's not a combat.
Yeah.
5s are really weird.
We got sevens, you know, we got all these different things and
but yeah, but now five.
Yeah, you have seven, you have six, you have 12, you
have 144,000, and derivatives of
12, but this is the just randomly 5 months.
Yeah, huh?
Yeah, 5 months.
Yeah, yeah.
So, uh, you know, uh, many
people who are, who are faced with, with much pain had
rather they'd rather die, uh, so
that they could find relief, but there's no, there's not going to
be any relief for this, right?
They'd be begging to die.
There'll be men and women begging to die, trying to commit suicide.
Think about that.
I mean, they're going to be hurting so bad and they're going to be
jumping off a cliff and God's not going to let them die during this.
I mean, it's just, gosh, I mean,
you could, you could think about it.
They'll shoot yourself in the head or hang themselves or whatever it may be.
Just try to get some relief.
Yeah, and still make them water sitting it.
Broken arms and legs and torn bodies,
but their heart's going to keep pumping and their brains going to keep working so
they'll be cognitive and know what's going on.
And it's interesting
to me that it does say that that in in those days shall
men seek death and shall not find it and shall
desire to die and death shall flee from them.
It's not specific to the scorpion stings.
It says that just people are going to be
looking to die, but and because the scorpions stings,
but death is, it doesn't say it's just when people
have been stung, it's everybody.
Death is just refusing to take anybody at this point because God went, no.
Yeah, you've already had 1000000000s
of people killed, you know, up to this point in the tribulation.
The population's just being wiped out.
almost like the days of Noah, you know?
And, uh, uh, so it makes you
wonder, uh, how many of these things are, and
and you think about what we read about how many angels
that couldn't be counted around the throne.
Right.
A 3rd of them are gone.
Right.
3rd of them are these locusts.
That's right
Yeah.
Yeah, or 1000000s and 1000000s and 1000000s of these things.
They're just gonna...
I mean, this is literally hail has been released.
Literally hell has been released and these
creatures are coming up and coming out and and just praying
on on man.
And the only people that are that are not going to have to deal with
this are the 144,000.
And so wouldn't you wouldn't you be repenting?
You would think so.
You would think.
You think so.
God help me.
Yeah.
So I'm kind of curious what you guys think
on this.
When I'm reading this, you know, he opens the pit and
it says in verse 2 there, that out of the shaft
rose out of it...
Yeah, there arose smoke out of the pit as of the
smoke of a grape furnace.
The sun and the air were darkened because of it.
And then it says out of the smoke came the locust.
Do you think that the smoke?
Yeah, air quotes, because I don't have my camera on, so people know,
air quoting here, smoke is actually, there's that many of
these locusts, that they, it appears to be smoke, and then when they
start coming down, that is literally the locust themselves that we're seeing.
Could possibly be, but I think the smoke is coming
from the fires of...
You think it's just it's just smoke from hell.
I think I think so.
And I think that that out of that, uh, they
start seeing, you know, when when the smoke starts to clear
a little bit, that's when they start seeing the swarms of locusts
and and that just cover the earth.
kind of like a WWE entrance, right?
Yeah, it is smoke.
Yeah, smoke and then clean a little bit.
Yeah, and I mean, that is that is
just insane to me that you have all that happening.
And then, yeah.
And wherever this is opening up on the earth, don't know if
it's a single location or multiple locations.
And, you know, and that also makes me wonder
if it is uh, not so much that the, they're seeing them come out.
Yeah, I think they're coming out of the same place the smoke's coming from.
You start pouring out.
Yeah, and it doesn't give detail on that.
That's a good point to think about, you know, exactly where,
I mean, we know everything that's going to be happening.
going to be happening in the Middle East.
It's going to be happening around Jerusalem and Israel
and those places.
We'll go to the Euphrates.
The Euphrates River.
Yeah.
So I would say that wherever it opens, but is
it, yeah, is it one in particular place or does it start,
you know, busting holes?
Does one open and then a bunch of others start opening?
yeah.
Yeah.
I'm telling you, there's no movie that's ever been made that could even
capture this, like what it's going to be like.
I mean, we've we've seen the results
of major volcanic activity
and earthquakes, things like that.
I mean, you think back to Mount St.
Helens when it went off and we, you know, you've seen the pictures
and stuff from back then.
And I mean, it was awful.
I mean, goodness, you know, it was just black and it was
dark for, you know, an extended period of time.
This is going to last for 5 months where
the sun is blotted out by the smoke.
Yeah.
I just thought of something.
You've probably heard of this, Tyler.
What's this big particle accelerator they have
in Switzerland, CERN.
I just wonder if that has some...
They're seeing some weird stuff coming that place.
And the symbol in front of this building.
It looks like a 666.
Yeah.
And they do these weird things around there.
And they're seeing weird stuff when they capture some of this data.
what are they trying to open up?
It's almost like they're trying to open up a port.
Open up another portal around.
Yeah, yeah.
I just wonder how technology feeds into some of this stuff and how
Satan's leading his technological advancements, you know?
Well, and that's, I think, I will go ahead and tell you,
I think part of what they're seeing over there because they're dealing with particles
that are, they're dealing with exotic matter.
They're dealing with stuff that has not existed since the world 1st formed
is what they're looking at.
I think they're getting into
I honestly, really and truly believe that over there, because of
the stuff they're playing with, they're seeing glimpses of things that either have
not yet happened or they're seeing things that happened or
back at the beginning, peaks into the spiritual somehow or not.
Yeah, I think that's what I think they're seeing are just these little snippets
of things that that science really can't explain because
they are, they're dealing with particles that, like I say, either the particle is an
exotic thing that is so strange.
It literally defies the laws of physics or
they're dealing with quantum particles a lot of times.
And when you start dealing with stuff like that, again, now you're talking about stuff that exists without time.
I mean, time does not affect quantum part of the way.
Yeah.
And I mean, we don't know what we're doing.
Right.
Yeah, they're messing with they're messing with something.
We're pretty running apart.
But what is it, really?
Right.
Yeah.
Right.
So that stuff like that might feed into.
Who knows?
I think it absolutely will.
Now, I will say this.
I honestly believe that is going to have a significant
impact on what is happening here and a lot
of the things that we have no way
to describe what's happening.
I think some of that stuff is going to come out of something, maybe not necessarily certain itself, but something similar to that.
Yeah.
Because it's not the only acceleration.
Satan's pulling strings behind the scenes.
We know that.
I mean, you know, we're going to see in Revelation 13 the image of the beast and
we see stuff like quantum computing and AI and
all this stuff. stuff just coming alive.
It is.
And it's just, yeah, it's satanic.
You know, it's interesting you mentioned that.
So most people don't realize.
With quantum
computing, one of the things they're having to do, and I only know this because
we have one at the office where I work, we're
building quantum networks up there.
And one of the things that they are in the process of doing
is trying to, We
can't, You can't process the
data very well because when you observe
it, it changes.
And therefore, you've now changed the data.
You need to be able to.
Well, okay, so let's take the human out of it.
Well, you need AI for that.
And that's literally something that
is in process that they're working on trying to figure out how to marry these 2 things up.
And I'm like, I don't know if I like the idea of an
AI telling us what to do.
I don't
want that thing telling me what truth is.
I mean, we see all these movies that, you know, that may
seem a little bit far-fetched that are now not so far-fetched.
Yeah, a little bit.
Yeah, absolutely.
And because I mean, when AI
starts being able to compute itself and starts being able to uh,
to uh, produce data and and all these things by itself.
Uh, what's going on there?
I mean, is this really, uh, is this really technology
or is this, is there something else behind that technology that's pushing that AI?
Now, I will say, and I most scientists
will not just blatantly admit this, at the end of the day,
what we're doing with AI is we're playing God.
We're trying to we're trying to create something in our own image.
Tower of babble.
Yeah.
We're trying to make something in our own image and say, look what we did.
And it's like, we didn't do nothing.
Yeah, and this thing can
think about on its own.
It can compute anything.
There's nothing it doesn't know.
I mean, we're getting to the point where
they're trying to say this is the most intelligent being there is.
And it will be.
Absolutely.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
which it takes off.
It's going to be just nuts.
I mean, right now it's large language models, right?
But when it starts doing rational thought and figuring things
out on its own, it's...
Well, there have been a couple of AI researchers that did
early work that have, um, They no longer do the work.
Yeah, I'll just say it like that.
Well, people haven't heard from them in a while.
Yeah, some of these guys.
And the ones that have kind of, kind of gone quiet were
whistleblowers and the things they were seeing and hearing,
uh, was pretty scary, because the
question they had is they're having some of these conversations with these
large language models that they know are predictive and they know should be doing
certain things, and they're seeing signs
that it's actively trying to hide how smart it is.
And I'm like, yeah, unplug that.
Well, I mean, you got to go.
I got a guy like that.
And these guys come along every now and then, you know, you had to
like an Elon Musk.
He's out there warning the dangers of AI, the dangers
of AI, and the guy is funneling 1000000000s
of dollars into the research of it.
Yes, yeah.
What's going on with that?
And we're in a race with China.
It's like we're in a race to get this thing built out and get it ready.
because it's here.
It's here.
It's time.
Yeah, amen.
I think you're right.
I think you're absolutely 100% right.
And Satan's driving this stuff.
He's he's for having information in some of these scientists.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, he's driving the intelligence of the
scientists to drive the intelligence of the AI, right?
Like, oh, how are we going to figure this out?
Oh, Satan gave us some solution, right?
It just came to.
Oh yeah, we can do this.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, there was like a Tesla a few generations ago.
Now there's an Elon Musk.
These guys just come along every so often that just amazingly
do all these crazy wild new things.
Yeah, that's beyond what we could...
What's influencing that?
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah, absolutely.
Anyway, I'm sorry.
I got a sophomore rapid trail here.
No, I think those are some of the things that we need to think about and we
need to look at and just to get some
perspective on what's going to be happening here and what's going to be going on.
Yeah, Revelation 13 will be weird.
We can really dig into the deep.
Yeah, yeah.
That's a scary chap.
And and let's, you know, being perfectly honest here, you
know, we always, we say that we assume, you know, we believe that there's
going to be these illusions and stuff that make certain things look like it.
And, well, let's stop them from building a fake body at that point.
I mean, we don't know how far this could advance happening.
It might be a physical body that gets built that
they just, they kill it and then they just bring out
a different one that's the same body and, oh, look, he brought him back to life.
Back to life.
Oh, yeah, we know that it's going to be some kind of some kind of trickery making mirror.
But my point being, you know, I think a lot of people have
always assumed it's going to be, you know, pure smoke and mirror.
Well, if I can leave a body there that's a physical body that's very
much real, but it's just so happens that it's nothing but a program running in it.
And I got another one back here in the closet that I'm going to just swap them out sometime when you're not looking.
I mean, goodness,
that's, and hey, it's not like people aren't working on it.
Yeah, it's it's
all working against us really when you sit and look at it.
I mean, um, but it's here, man.
It's amazing that it is amazing to me that we as humans
start making the things that will absolutely destroy us.
I mean, you look back at every end, because we can't.
Just because we can.
So these scientists have no moral confidence at all.
It's like, well, we can do this or that and they do it.
I mean, you think about you think about where technology has
came in just in the last 50 years.
Are the last 25 years?
10 or 20 years, yeah.
And it's changing just so rapidly.
Yeah, exponential.
Yeah, yeah, you get a computer today and it's it's absolete tomorrow, right?
I mean, so, uh, I don't
know how many, I don't know how many, uh, drives
that we've had, uh, not drives, but, uh, uh, the
internet, uh, The routers?
Router.
Yeah, I couldn't think of router.
I was trying to think of router. and it left me.
But I can't tell you how many routers we've had at our house since,
since we've just in the last 9 years, 10
years since we've lived where we're living now, they've had to,
you know, we'll be watching one day and then, and then all of a sudden our TV messes
up and we'll call Farmer's Telephone, they come out and say, man, that route are so out of date.
Yeah, we just replaced it like 6 months ago or a year ago.
It was like, you know, if that short route or so out of date,
You know, this is the old one right here.
But that's how fast technology is coming along.
I mean, it's just boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
And you think about going back.
I mean, to the beginning of time and, you
know, just, I mean, discovering fire and the
little things that we've done from, from, from living
outside to, to, you know,
the invention of the wheel, figuring out, you know, those are the
things to now.
Yeah, to toward somebody keeps some kind of a
stat on that, like a knowledge doubling stat.
don't know how accurate it is or anything.
But they're saying used to be, you know, 100 years ago, knowledge doubled
every 10 years or something, you know, whatever.
But now it's like weekly or monthly or something.
It's just some insane.
And it's all because of these computers that just keep going,
getting deeper and deeper and deeper and faster and more powerful and
it's like, yeah.
Where does this end?
But we know where it ends.
We're there, man.
seven.
We're in 7 on seven.
Yeah.
Okay.
Uh, let's read
uh, 7 through 10.
Is that good?
Yeah.
And they and the shapes of the locusts
were like under horses prepared under
battle, and their heads were, as it were, crowns
like gold, and their faces were as faces of men.
And they had hair as the hair of women,
and their teeth were as the teeth of lions, and they
had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron, and
the sounds of their wings was as the sound of chariots,
and many horses running to battle.
And they had tails like in the scorpions,
and there were stings in their tails, and
their power was to hurt me in 5 months.
So, you know, what we were talking about before.
So it's a horrible sight.
horrible time.
These are not Apache helicopter.
No, no.
No, no, that's yeah.
And I think people, you know, I've heard those
descriptions, and I know people mean well when they say things like that, but
now, man, this is a specific description of a
being, I think, of something that, that, that,
details just like this.
very detailed.
Five months of unspeaking,
unspeakable agony, from literal demonic
monsters, release from hell.
I mean, goodness gracious.
I can't even, I can't imagine what
it's going to be like, what it would be like to be here, the
fear, uh, that will be in the hearts of people and,
and it's like you said before.
I can't even understand why somebody would not drop
to their knees at that and beg God, help
me, Lord, I believe in you.
I trust in you and, you know, yeah.
I think it comes back to, you know, I'm just going,
I keep bouncing off Revelation 13.
But that mark of the beast, I believe.
Honestly, that it makes you less human somehow,
that it's going to change your DNA.
It's going to it's going to connect you to the web.
It's going to put you in a position where you can't repent.
Well, yeah, you can.
Because once you've done it, that's it.
Like, there's no going back in what you took the mark of the beast.
So you're right.
Yeah, you're being rewired completely in a
way that's going to be completely detrimental to you and send you to hell.
Man, can you imagine seeing this stuff flying around.
I mean, and some some of the stuff, you know, is I
just plucked out a few here.
It's like, uh, uh, uh, well, where am I?
The breastplates of iron means they're indestructible.
Yeah.
Right?
The wings, you can't evade them.
They're too fast for you.
Right, right.
And then the boss of them, the boss of them,
Well, we hadn't got to that part yet.
Never mind, it's 911.
Hang on.
Yeah.
Hang on.
Go ahead.
No, the boss of him is verse 11.
they have his king over them, the angel of the abyss, his name in Hebrew is a bad one.
And in the Greek, he has the name of Pollyon.
Apollyon.
It's Destroyer.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's right.
Yeah.
And you said, you know, and they have the face of a human.
Yeah.
So there's some intelligence there that they can, you
know, they're they're looking and watching and deciding
and being, um, you know, uh,
uh, calculative on their moves and what
they're doing and so, yeah.
Well, I started saying everything in their description, the,
you know, you have their protection and their ability to defend themselves
with the armor and things like that, the wings, you know,
the speed with which they can move and the agility they move in, faces
a man so they have thought, the hair of a woman.
You know, it specifically calls that out, that, you
know, at the end of the day, hey, what's one thing that women can do better than,
man, they can manipulate and they can trick and they can, you know, deceive.
careful, man.
They're, hey, sorry.
They're better than us.
Every time.
so very loud, right?
They sound like many horses rushing to back.
But, I mean, you know, I say that,
you know, I say that somewhat tongue in cheek, but literally that
was, that was one of the things is that femininity aspect,
that, that beguiling that, that draw to where not
only are these things terrifying to look at, but people are going to be drawn to them to
some, to some extent for looking for comfort,
and then all of a sudden they've got teeth like lions.
They can bite, they can attack you, and then these tails,
and it's like, goodness.
You know, you read you read this description of these things.
Browse through Netflix
and look at some of these movies that are out there.
And you see some descriptions kind of like this and just evil,
evil stuff that's out there.
They sound like these transvestite scorpions, watch I think.
Like a
woman, face like a man.
That might explain a few things.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, and these things,
I mean, all of that to me tells me that these things are
going to be vicious.
They're going to be vicious.
going to be violent and they're going to be really good at whispering
those whispering the things to people that they want to hear.
Yeah, making promises to them.
If you'll just listen to me.
If you'll just hear what I'm telling you, I can give you the comfort you're seeking
I know you're in pain.
I know you're hurting, but let me give you comfort sting.
Yeah.
I don't know, man.
We let so much evil
into our homes watching movies like that.
Yeah.
With this kind of stuff.
And we want to read Revelation and go,
ah, nah, that's a helicopter.
Yeah.
No.
No. no.
I mean, like you like you were saying before, a lot of this stuff that's
happening in movies going back decades is just kind of prophetic on the dark side.
How's the Apache helicopter stingy?
don't know.
I mean, it hits you that tail.
And that's the other thing, too.
I mean, this things are going to be full of poison, right?
I mean, they're going to be poison running
through your body pain.
I mean, and and
then they have as king over them the angel of the Abyss.
That is the, that is one thing that just is wild to me that
John, that got revealed to John Hare.
Oh, by the way, this abyss has somebody
in charge of it, not Satan, by the way.
It had a king over them.
And, and look at, look at, uh, Proverbs 3027.
I think that...
Go back here.
On that point.
Proverbs 30.
Uh, no.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Did you find it?
Yeah.
It says the locusts have no king.
Yeah, all of them go out in ranks.
Yes, yeah.
Yeah.
So, so a normal locust
doesn't have a king, right?
So we know these are not normal locust.
Um, these are, these are, again, these
are evil beings, um, that uh,
that have no king, uh, or that do have a king.
So the king or the leader of these angels
is probably one of the following.
He's probably one of the fallen angels.
He's like a, he's like a Michael or, you
know, another high-ranking angel, a chief henchman
or of Satan.
And he's permitted to lead the invasion.
Uh, in the earth for the, for the 1st time.
His name in Hebrew means destruction and
in Greek, it means destroyer, and both in
and both Daniel and the book of Ephesians confirm
that the angels are they were divided into rank.
We talked about that a little bit earlier, right?
So, yeah.
Yeah, they, that's, I think that's one of the things
that people got so confused, stay so confused about is
they think that all the angels, they're, they're all roughly the same.
Yeah.
And it's like, I mean, goodness, you just look at the descriptions
of the angels throughout the scripture.
I mean, you have some that show up and they look like people and they talk
to people and they prophesy to them and they give them some ideas and then
you have these others that show up and it's like, oh, it's a giant wheel of fire with eyes everywhere
and wings all over the place and it's over here and
mouths all over the place screaming out and calling out
and praising God and saying things.
Good Lord, if we saw half of the things that are that
God is created out there, we go crazy.
We hadn't found all the earthly things yet.
You know, some of these national geographic specials under the ocean or
something, you know, and just weird looking stuff.
now discovering, you know?
Can you imagine what the angels?
And they're not little babies, man.
Don't, don't look at a little picture of the baby. cherubs.
They'll be, no, no.
They give, they give that description of the cherubim
that comes out of note.
I've yet to find anywhere for those, but I find the description of
the seraphim and what people refer to as
the seraphim with the angels that have like 6 or 8 wings and they're flying around
and they're covered in them and they're covering their face
and they're covering their feet and they're co- and I'm like, what?
I don't want to know what's under those wings.
I don't know what they look like.
no little baby flying around.
mess with them.
Yeah.
No.
So I'm not poking one of them in the nose.
Let's look at verse 12.
One woe is passed, and behold, there
comes 2 woes more hereafter.
Uh, so, so this will lasted 5
months, and apparently the other 2 woes will cover the
remainder of tribulation time, uh, and and they're
going to be worse than the other wolves.
Whoa, whoa.
Oh, whoa.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
Yeah, all right.
You'll do 13 through 15, is that right?
Sure.
All right.
So then the 6th angel sounded.
And I heard a voice from the 4 horns of the golden altar,
which is before God, one saying to the 6th angel
who had the trumpet, release the 4 angels who were
bound at the great river Euphrates, and the 4 angels
who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year
were released so that they would kill a 3rd of mankind.
So, I
mean, this this 6th angel blows
the trumpet and a command came from the
horns of the altar and the golden
altar speaks of prayer that spoke of in the
tabernacle here on earth.
And this is where the angel offered prayer at
the beginning of the blowing of the trumpets in Revelation 8, 2, and 3.
Um, if you want to go back and read that.
I won't read it for time.
But these 4 angels that are loosened, I fully
believe are evil because of
the fact that they have been bound, right?
They they're they're not.
They're not God's angels.
These are these are demonic angels.
Christ himself has, has ripped off the 7th seal and
and order, they ordered this release, and
these angels were bound.
Away from the others.
Most likely because of their enormity of their crime.
So God has placed them in a different
place like then he has all the other angels.
So you can imagine these angels were, uh, or in
a place where they were off by themselves because of what they had done.
And it looks like some of these things that
happen in and around this area.
Uh, Garden of Eden uh, was somewhere around
here and it was where man 1st sinned.
The 1st murder was committed there.
in that garden.
The 1st war was fought there.
Um, or just outside that garden.
Here was where the flood began to spread over the earth.
The Tower of Babel was erected.
This is where the Israelites were brought into Babylonian captivity.
Here is the final surge of
sin, now in the great tribulation, and the Euphrates
actually marks the division between east and west.
And maybe perhaps it has
been a restrained influence in the
past that has kept the evil of the East from spilling over into the West.
But maybe what's what's held it back.
But before America was called a sleeping giant,
Napoleon said, China is a sleeping giant, and
God pity the generation that wakes her.
Yeah.
That's what it's headed for, isn't it?
Yeah, that's what it's headed for.
And this reminds me, too, of some extra biblical book
that Jude quotes, that some of
these angels that were responsible for taking human wives.
There was like 200 of them supposedly at that time and
they took human wives and freaks were born out.
Yeah, yeah.
Just crazy stuff was going on.
They did DNA experiments and all that.
And some of these angels were teaching men dangerous, dangerous things.
And he says that some of these angels were bound
up under jagged rocks for
an appropriate time.
And I think this is some of them.
I do too.
I think you're right on there.
But I mean, that's, you know, that's that's extra biblical
stuff, but it kind of falls in, you know, it kind of lines up with it.
It does fit very well.
And like you say, again, you go back and
this is around the area where all of that was going on.
This is where because it's coming from the Euphrates.
So it's over there close to, you know, we talk about the cradle of civilization.
This is the, you know, this is the birthplace of all of humanity
is where God 1st created us.
And there's a lot of stuff that went on there over the years.
Yeah, absolutely.
That led to a flood that led to God
getting angry enough with the world that he just wiped us all out.
I mean, if you if you take the people from the
east going back and talking about China.
If you take the people from the east and if the in
the Orient, beyond the Euphrates River,
you have most of the world's population there.
One quarter of the world's population today
is right there.
You can show India on top of that, and that's another
massive.
of people.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, suppose so suppose a quarter of the earth's population starts moving.
Think about that.
I mean, you know?
And just a side note to let you know that communism
is on the march, right?
And we'll see more of this in a little bit.
Yeah, we'll see we'll see more of what we're talking about right here.
Going to hit 16 real quick.
Uh, yeah.
16, 17.
And the number of the army, the horsemen were
200,000, and
I heard the number of them.
And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that
sat on them having breastplates of fire, and of the jacutth.
And brimstone, and the heads of the horses,
were as the heads of lions, and out of their mouths
issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
Um, This is 200 million.
Yeah, yeah.
200 million man army.
Yeah.
And again, where does that come from?
Right?
So you think about a quarter of the earth's population there.
Uh, these angels, they've been bound and set aside
to be loosened at this specific time uh,
for a specific purpose and and it's to kill.
Uh, we've already seen a 4th of the earth's population removed
and now we'll see a 3rd uh, over half the population
of the earth will be destroyed during the great tribulation
over half of it.
It's no wonder the Lord says in Matthew
24, 22, except in those days should be shortened.
There should be no flesh saved.
The size of this army is mind blowing.
It's numbered at 200 million.
That's just crazy.
Let me let me play devil's advocate here a minute.
Okay.
Why would we say that the scorpions
are spiritual beings and these aren't with this description?
Could be.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm not saying they are.
No, I believe this was actual.
humans.
they try to give a description of an army that they can't describe.
Yeah, and it could be.
You know, we could be wrong on this, but my thought is they're
probably possessed, you know, and like you
said before, China and India and Japan could
easily put that many people on the field tomorrow.
Absolutely.
Tomorrow if they wanted to.
But again, now
the question is, will these be men from these areas that start
this world war or will this be demonic?
So I had made that note in there and yeah,
I mean, so a bit of both?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Could it be demonic?
I mean, these demons could possess these men.
Right.
And if they could, yeah.
That's kind of where I'd go with it, I think.
Because John's seeing stuff in a spiritual room.
Yeah, yeah.
Right.
And he's seeing descriptions of things that he's trying to relate to somebody 2000 years later.
Right?
That's what he's getting shown.
And honestly, I believe this is a real
physical human on me that's coming, coming.
Both are possible.
And I believe that, but I think so too.
Daniel, let me see if I can find it real quick.
Well, I suppose why you're looking for, while you're looking for that, I
was going to say that this too, it could be that you have this
massive army that is being led by
people that have been possessed, but, I mean, at the end of the day,
we've proven in just the last couple years that human humans can
be pretty evil, just all on our own.
Yeah.
And and Daniel, in chapter 11, describes this thing, is that
the Antichrist has his, he has people come against him.
Yeah. eventually.
Eventually people turning on him.
And it's at verse 40, chapter 11,
at the end, at the end time, the king of the south will collide with him,
and the king of the north will storm against him with chariots, horsemen, and many ships.
And he goes on and he says, uh, uh, but
rumors from the east and the north will disturb him and he will go forth
with a great raft to destroy and annihilate many.
So there's there's a lot of turmoil.
It's not just a one kingdom thing.
Everybody's fighting together.
And this is God's gathering them together.
He's gathering them together.
That's right.
He's bringing them for Armageddon.
I start saying he's pushing them all to one point.
And, and, and they're, because
of everything that's going on.
I mean they don't really have a choice of where to go.
I mean, goodness, you got you've got most a bunch of the water
is blood at this point.
You've got, you've got ha-
I mean, I can't imagine very much of the landmass over on this part of the world
where we're at is even livable at this point.
It's probably been completely annihilated.
Yeah.
And I mean, it's just slowly drawn together, drawn together, drawn together.
It's just, it's just like a vice and a clamp happening around and just pushing them all.
Let's gather you all up right here where we can put an end to this.
Yeah. shows the sovereignty of God.
He's still in charge, man.
He is, he is absolutely still in charge.
And think about that too.
That is one thing I think, again,
that a lot of Christians have a tendency to downplay a little bit.
Yeah, these are fallen angels that we're seeing do things here, and
yet they're still doing precisely what God intends for them to do.
Because it says that these angels were set aside.
They were kept.
How did how did it word that?
It said, um, The, the, the 4
angels who had been prepared for this day,
our month and year were set free.
God, God has them there, set aside.
He is, and they're prepared for this.
And they're still going and doing what
he intends for them to do, whether they want to do it or not.
His sovereignty is so much that he's like, even
though you rejected me to the point that you followed
Lucifer and went down to the pit and you went down to earth and then you did these
horrible things on top of that that I locked you up for, now,
doggone it, you're going to do what I what I intend for you to do,
whether you want to or not, and he's making them do what he intends.
Well, this is why I say that the Holy Spirit is going to work in a way that it
did in the Old Testament, because that's what he done, right?
I mean, he, uh, the Holy Spirit, um,
uh, in a sense, possessed kings and
and and people to to drive them to do things
that God needed done, uh, to to get things
rolling in a way that they needed.
Nebuchadnezzar.
Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah.
This verse 18 is a
3rd of mankind was killed by these 3 plagues by the fire and
the smoke and the brimstone, which preceded out of their mouths.
And this is, man, this is huge numbers.
We've already read, you know, in the 1st half of the tribulation,
the quarter of the world has been killed.
that's 2000000000 people.
Yeah.
And this is another 3rd off that remaining 6 billion.
You know, that's another almost 2000000000 people.
I mean, at this huge time, if the world
were at, at one.5 billion, this
would be 5000000 people that would die in the seven-year period.
It's nasty.
Yeah, yeah.
So, and we kind of think that John
was describing these creatures the best way he could, but
he also was inspired by the Holy Spirit.
I don't want people to forget that because we hear people,
that's where the Apache helicopters and all that stuff comes in.
They're saying, well, you know, maybe he was seeing this, and this was a tank,
and this was an Apache helicopter, but John's
not getting some miscued, uh, you know,
messed up vision, uh, of, he's,
the Holy Spirit is showing John some clear things.
Maybe John didn't know exactly what to call all of it.
I, you know, whatever, but, but this is coming from the Holy Spirit.
I say this because some say that this could be, again,
tanks or machines or whatever.
But I believe what we're seeing here, like we've been saying
the whole time, it's literal.
Mainly because of verse 19 is what makes me think it's literal.
Yeah, but I mean, William R.
Newell wrote this book on Revelation, and he
makes this, it's a timely observation,
and, and, the
problem with, what he, what he says here is, is,
is, believe, and you scarcely need to comment.
The problem with men who come to Revelation
and say that it is difficult to understand and
impossible to interpret is that they do not believe it.
If you simply believe it and read it, it is very clear.
hell is being released.
Right.
Yeah.
I mean, it's not like, because what we try to do is humanize it.
Oh, okay.
So that could be this and it's probably not a literal monster
that's been created just for this purpose or whatever are
a demon turned into this or is it really hell that's been released?
Yes.
Well, like, Tyler was saying, we don't know what all this stuff looks like anyway.
Some of this some of this evil stuff that's sitting off on
sides that's in the spiritual realm comes to life in the physical.
We don't know what to expect.
We see previews of that in some of this garbage on television.
Absolutely.
I honestly believe if we were to see even a fraction
of what's really out there that God has kept from us,
it would drive us mad.
I truly 100% believe that.
And I think that's one of the reasons a lot of people that end up
playing with a lot of this stuff, they start playing with messing
with magic and they mess with doing this stuff and they start messing
with some of these other spiritualism things.
I honestly think that's why they end up going crazy is they
are getting exposed to something that we are just not
in a position to be exposed to right now.
We're not meant to be.
I mean, good lord.
I go back to God wiped out the world because people
were being exposed to this stuff.
Yeah, I mean, and a lot of that came back to
what you were talking about earlier is these angels coming in and mixing
with humans and, you know, making this ungodly race
of men and God's seen all this and he's like, no, no, no, no, no.
We not going to keep this up because you can imagine if he hadn't have
wiped it out and stopped it right where it was.
I mean, imagine what we'd be dealing with today.
You know, people with that same DNA being
brought into this world.
I mean, and the things they were doing prior
to the flood, just just reading what we get in the scripture, but looking at
some of the oral traditions that got passed down to the from the Jews
and stuff like, some of that stuff's indescribable.
Like, they were, they were doing things that, that,
you know, Moses was, or, uh, Noah was sitting there going, like, uh, uh,
I want to stay as far away from these people as I can because this stuff's scary.
And it had to be supernatural knowledge because these angels were,
they might have been here at creation and they knew the secrets.
Exactly how this stuff works, how to
make some esoteric element out of something, you know?
Yeah.
It's creating stuff that we don't have any idea about today.
Yeah, yeah, they could have been trying to create something that
God, because they saw God created and but
they'd never be able to create it like he did.
And so it ends up being some, it's like a pet cemetery thing, you know?
take my cat and buried out there just to bring it back to life.
But when it comes back, it's not what it's supposed to be.
Well, and I've always said that, you know, you have all these
people that, again, I go back to the stuff with the magic and all of that and how
it all gets played with today, and I'm like, the thing
that I think people don't understand when they're messing with all
that stuff is, number one, God
put a stop to it at the flood.
I think that the stuff that people think you
can, they can do today and think they're going, that's the actual stuff that was going on there.
That's what these angels were doing, things that were the only description for it was magic.
And it was in the rituals and all that.
And God put a stop.
It's not we cannot do it today.
We are not capable of doing it because God wiped it out and said, that's enough.
I'm not letting this happen.
And doggone it that should scare you.
And he still lets.
And he still lets some things go on.
Oh, yeah.
So, but it's not at the level it was prior to the flow.
Which makes me thinking what, and what we were talking about earlier
is these demons were definitely
directly involved in those things that were going on and
God put them in a place by themselves because of the, the,
uh, the intensity of, of the evil that they were.
And we just, we really just need to look at the
Greek mythology.
Yeah.
Greek mythology describes some of these people, I believe, that's
been handed down and it's probably been just messed up
along the way, but in Genesis chapter 6, verse 4,
it says the Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward,
when the sons of God came into the daughters of men, and they bore children to them.
These were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
And that's nothing none other than, you know, these characters
that we've named are planets after, Jupiter, Mercury, and
Venus, and all these different characters from Greek mythology that
were odd, odd creatures.
Well, you go and you look at the mythologies from all over
the, that part of the world.
You have the Greek mythology with the gods and the way they describe them there.
and their children, the Romans that got
their traditions from the Greek.
You have the stuff that comes out of India, and you go look at some of their older,
their older, uh, what sort
of looking for, uh, the, the stories they pass down.
You look at some of their older stuff, you look at stuff out of China,
you look at the stuff out of even going as far west as or
as far into the west as, um, uh, and
north of, you know, north and west there, you
go into England and the stuff that was going on in Wales and
then uh, the Irish mythology and the Norse mythology
and like you start looking at that.
There's weird things.
Yeah, you look at, yeah, you look at the truth to the liking stuff.
There's there's weird stuff described in there that matches really close
to the stuff you hear from the Greeks and the state creatures and the things that they talk about.
yeah.
Well, even in Job, he talks about some kind of a...
Is it a Leviathan that spits fire out of his mouth?
And that's and again, you can find that described in other other
cultures and other stories.
And we've never seen it.
Bigfoot?
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
There you go.
Yeah, beautiful, hey.
that big photo bar.
But, you know, that's one of the crazy things.
You go back and look at this stuff. and I, and it's always,
I always kind of laugh because I watch a lot of the guys on YouTube
that delve into a lot of trying to figure this stuff out. and
I'm like, the reason all these stories sound similar
is because they all come from the same route.
That all comes from the same people.
Yeah, yeah.
It's why they sound similar, but it's not the, they're not aliens.
They're not they're not something else coming here and doing stuff for
they're demons.
They're demonic influence is on earth.
And we can knock the rest.
Yeah, let's knock the rest of these.
Yeah.
Where are we at?
18?
Uh, 19.
19.
For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their in their
tails, for their tails are like serpents and have heads and with them they do harm.
weird, weird, weird.
All right.
So, yeah.
Unnatural.
Right?
A natural horse is able to kill with their mouths and their tails.
Uh, light serpents.
Oh, ain't no horse I want to ride.
Rodeo.
That's a good one.
Hey, that's a good way to get bitten the rear end.
Yeah.
And then the saddest, some of the saddest verses in the Bible coming up, right?
Yeah, yeah.
20 and 21.
And the rest of men, which were not killed by these
plagues, yet repented not.
Now that goes back to what we were thinking.
I mean, here these guys are, and they're, I mean, they're seeing all
this, and they're being destroyed, they're being trying to be destroyed,
but can't, uh, can't die.
But they were, they were killed, but
yet repented not of the works of their hands, and
that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold
and silver and brass and stone of wood, which neither
can see, nor hear, nor walk, neither repented
they of their murders, nor of their
sorceries, nor of their fornication,
nor of their thefts.
Wow.
That's hardcore, isn't it?
Yeah.
I mean, and sorcery in the Greek is the
word Pharmacian, which is...
isn't that interesting?
Yeah.
drugs, right?
Yeah.
We get the English word pharmacy, which, like I said, makes drugs.
So drug use was going on during this time, probably more
out of control than we've ever seen before.
And we know drugs is a tool of Satan, right?
There's such controversy about, and I know we're trying to
hurry and get this done, but there's such controversy about,
uh, the mental state of people that are on drugs and, and,
uh, you know, is it, is it demonic?
Is it, uh, uh, is it just something that snapped
and and released some kind of chemical imbalance that was already there?
You know, I hear all these things.
But the root of it is demonic, right?
The root of it is 100% demonic.
Now, it may have opened up something that was already there,
whatever, but the root of this thing is demonic.
So, I mean, how many people do you think will turn to
drugs to try to even to get rid of the pain that they're going through, right?
They're getting stung.
And they're, they're going to be, they're going to be abusing anything and
getting hooked on everything.
People who would have never taken anything before.
Well, now they'll be sniffing it, snorting it, shooting it,
whatever.
You know?
I mean, there they are.
They can't die for 5 months.
I've seen this video on YouTube.
I don't know how in the world I ended up on this, but I did.
And it was this guy describing how people trip on acid.
Yeah. and talking about 2 or
3 different people can trip on their own, separated,
don't know each other and can describe the same things they saw.
That's crazy
That's spiritual.
Yeah, spiritual realm thing.
Yeah.
It's it's cracking the veil open a little bit and seeing
things you don't need to be seen.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Because they do, they see very clear things.
Yeah.
and 0 my gosh, hallucinations that are that are way out there.
We also see people of this period that
have fallen so far in the sin, like murder, fornication,
which includes unnatural acts, like homosexuality
and bestiality and adultery, and any
other devious act that you could think of that they'll
have no conscious of it, right?
I mean, they're just doing it.
They're just no repentance of it, no fear, the result of it.
And to put it short, sum up this whole chapter.
Honey, you ain't seen nothing yet.
I'm afraid.
Exactly.
And I'm afraid these people literally can't repent.
They got the mark of the beast.
And it's done.
Yeah.
It's over.
I agree.
Well, and their mental capacity to repent.
So what's so terrible because
when you, when you, uh, when you witness to somebody that's
been in, uh, or you know somebody that's been in drugs that long and,
and we have people that, that we know, you know, and in our
family, that, you know, their minds have been distorted in
such a terrible way that you can't, it's hard to
reach them anymore, right?
And if you want to share the gospel with somebody, somebody that's lost that
has gotten into that, to be able to get to them
to share the gospel, yes, God can still work miracles.
Yes, God's can still reach them through the Holy Spirit.
But a lot of times it's just that they're so there's
so far gone already that their minds can't comprehend
or think on anything
enough to wrap their minds around it, right?
Yeah, I mean, that's like a child, you know, uh,
uh, I mean, you can, you can explain to
a child and and it will finally get it, but to a
drug addict or somebody like that that's messed their minds up.
Yeah.
They, they, well, I think there comes a
point when you're, you're giving into something like that.
Again, I go back to the the precursor
to the flood and the the sorceries, if you will, that they
were, that these, that people were learning back then and were
participating in, there's a reason that,
that the, we get the word drug, shares the
same, same word that the Greeks use to, to refer to drugs
and to sorceries, to magical arts, to,
to these rituals.
I mean, they you reach a point where you've damaged your soul.
You've actually done damage to your very,
your, your soul that is supposed to be this immortal,
the immortal part that God has given us to go back to him
and you've damaged it and you've tore it off and you've, you've
battered it to the point that you're rejecting him entirely with every fiber
of your being and you chose to walk into it.
Now, not saying that the drugs didn't change you and didn't
do things to you, but at some point you made the choice to walk, you know,
open-eyed into it when you're that bad.
You saw a decision, right?
Exactly.
Yeah.
you did that.
And I always go back to that pre-flood of they were doing these
unspeakable, unspeakable things, and that's what we're seeing here.
We reached this point in Revelation.
another 3rd as we've
already pointed out, a 3rd of the remaining humans.
is just been wiped out and they're not even slowing down.
They're not even batting an eye.
They just keeping right on going like it's nothing.
They are so giving over to these demonic influences.
You know, again, like
you say, we're seeing a preview of it today.
Right now, every everywhere you look.
And man, and like I said, we can, we're still just getting into this thing.
We got we've got at least 11 more chapters that
that, man, that are terrible
before it gets good, right?
Yeah.
But when it gets good, it gets good.
Oh, yeah.
Whenever when it gets good, it's awesome.
Amen Randy.
And so
next week we're going to...
We're going to be going into 10-one.
Look at that.
We're making a chapter week.
We'll be able to do that, I think, for a little bit.
So I'm definitely looking forward to that.
Goodness.
9 is such it's a heart wrenching chapter.
It really is.
It is a heartbreaking chapter to read that.
And then one breaks loose.
Yeah.
And then knowing, I mean, we're about to have the scrolls.
Yeah.
It's also,
I mean, this is judgment, y'all.
This is what God's righteous judgment that
he's withheld.
It's important to understand righteousness.
Yes, and again, these people doing these things.
Look, we talk about that it's going to be hard to reject it
and it's going to be hard to not, but at the end of the day, they're making a choice.
At the end of the day, they're going into this with their eyes wide open.
They know what they're walking into.
They know what they're being asked to do.
They know these unspeakable things that they're taking part in and they're saying yes to it.
Right.
And if you're listening right now and you're hearing this stuff, you better repent.
You better repent.
And Jesus put it pretty simply in John 3
said, you're either with me or against me.
That's right.
You're either you're delivered already or
you're judged already.
Yeah.
Exactly.
And, and, you know, just, just like with them,
our eyes are open.
We have a chance to walk, you can walk directly into heaven with
your eyes open and following the and following the straight and narrow path,
or you can open your eyes and with eyes wide open, walk
that broad path and you'll go right into the gates of hell.
And I mean, those are the choices that we're being given.
And the choice never changes.
It is accept God, except who
he is, except what his son did.
The way out of this in Revelation
is the same as the way out today, the only difference is
you have a lot easier time getting to it today than
you will at this point.
And, I mean, they're
going to be actively trying to stop people from telling.
I mean, the, the, the, the Antichrist,
the beast, they're actively trying to prevent people from hearing
the gospel because at this point, they're going down and
they're taking everybody they can grab with them.
They know they're in a sinking ship.
They know they're not going to win.
I mean, if Satan is no fool.
He is prideful, he is proud, he is arrogant,
he is powerful, but he's and so are we.
And all it comes down to is, you know, like Alistair
Pick said, you know, it's like, all we got
to go on is to say, just like the thief on the cross,
said, the man on the middle cross said, I could be here.
Exactly.
That's right.
That's what we trust in.
That's our hope, that's our life.
Absolutely.
Amen.
Absolutely.
And well, but what I was going to say there is that Satan is all
those things, but he's no fool.
He knows he's not going to win.
He knows what's coming for him.
And he's just trying to take as many with him as he can.
He doesn't want to be alone.
And I mean, I'm going to say something.
That breaks my heart.
Absolutely, when I think of the pride and
the the power and the the arrogance that Satan,
you know, to take the steps that he took, it really does.
I feel I feel broken-hearted for him and for
the choices that he made because I'm like, man, that is so sad
to be in the presence of God and to reject that.
I can't wait to get there and figure out
why he thought he could overcome God.
What was he ain't dumb.
No, no, he was created by him.
This was his creator and he thought he could be like him.
It's hard to fathom.
I don't think we can understand.
Pride is a powerful thing.
But it is, yeah.
And I mean, you know, it's I'll never forget somebody
was describing a villain
in one of their one of their fantasy books one time.
I was reading and the main character looked at him and said, huh.
I always wondered what Lucifer must have looked like.
And he was talking about the pride that he saw off this person who was just so
convinced they were doing the right thing.
And he's like, but you're going exactly the wrong way.
And I think about that sometimes.
And it does.
And I know it breaks God's heart.
I mean, God this is this is his creation.
This is someone that he created, that he formed, that he made for purpose.
And to be rejected by it.
I mean, don't think for a 2nd that God stopped loving him.
I mean, that's that's how amazing our God is.
And but, you know, at the end of the day, Satan's
just trying to take as many people with him as he can.
Don't fall for it.
Please, please don't.
have a way out.
All right, next week,
Revelation chapter 10, verse one.
That's chapter 10, verse one next week.
Read ahead.
Um, uh, the, as I pointed out at the
beginning, I've been posting the, the, uh, previous week's
uh, right around 7 because oddly enough,
that's when most of our people on Facebook are online is at 7 o'clock.
I don't know why that is, but it's on Monday nights,
they're on Facebook an hour after we start.
Yeah, we went to 7.30 tonight.
We going to have to jump right in next week.
So next week we're going to try to be a little bit quicker on it.
But I will, the, the
other thing will be posted live, and so if you're listening to it next
week after it post, it will, you know, obviously be a week later,
we'll be on 10-one.
Go ahead and read ahead.
And join in with us.
So, brother Brian, if you would pray for
us tonight and we'll be wrapping up.
Father, thank you.
Thank you for loving us.
Thank you for God anointing this time that we have together.
Lord, to open up your word and
God, to look at the
things that are terrifying.
God, for those that are going to be here, that those that are left,
but to know and preach the
word of truth, the gospel of Jesus
Christ, that it overcomes all this, and that
if, Lord, there's someone out there right now who
is listening, who doesn't know you in a free pardon of sin, that God
tonight might be the night that they accept you, tonight might
be the night that they give, they give themselves and
their life fully and holy over to you, and let you become Lord of their life.
God, I pray that.
Lord, I pray that you would help
us to just have a drive in our hearts, a fire
in our hearts, God, to go out and to evangelize this world.
Lord, so that many people will come to Christ.
God, let's reduce the population of the people that are
going to be here during this time as much as we can by
carrying out your will, Lord.
We thank you.
We praise you.
Go with us, Lord, until you come back in Jesus' name.
Amen.