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And welcome back this week to everybody.

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We are uh, kicking off just a couple of minutes early so

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 we can get the normal pleasantries out of the way, and by the

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How's y'all's week going?

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Good, good.

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Going good.

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Going good.

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Blessed.

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We are.

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I had a really good night last night at the men's conference over at Guests.

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That was I was excited.

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And what were who were those guys that were there?

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I didn't actually know them

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Hayden, Alabama podcast is what they're from.

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It's what it's called.

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The Hate Alabama podcast, and there's really just a

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 group of several of them, that there's two.

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there's 2 main guys that started out that podcast.

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Um, and uh, and they were uh,

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 the guy on the very end last night and

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 then the one, the 2nd one in the row there.

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I can't remember all their names.

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But anyway, yeah, those 2 guys started, just

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 of thing, you know, and sometimes they'll just take,

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 uh, people send them in stories and stuff and they'll read and read them

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 and sometimes they just do their own.

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But yeah.

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No, so I'm going to have to, I knew you

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 guys had talked about it a few times before we went down and

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 yeah, they were, they were definitely very gifted storytellers.

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All a bunch of, you know, and Christian guys too.

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And of course, one of the guys last night was one

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 of the founders of it.

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And he preached last night.

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They're at the end and he's a pastor.

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He's a pastor.

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Gosh, I can't remember.

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I think he said last night what the name of his church was.

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I remember him saying something, but yeah.

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And he did, and that was a great way to wrap up with a message like that.

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He didn't, you know, wasn't just getting yeah,

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It was just enough to say, here's where it is.

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And here's how it works, and here's what the scripture says.

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And I was like, doggone.

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So that was that was really nice.

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So, yeah, that was

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 a nice way to kick off the week.

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It was.

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Yeah, it was.

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And how about you?

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You having a good Monday?

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Having a good Monday, man.

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Like I said, I enjoyed all day yesterday.

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I'm enjoying this, uh, uh,

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 the, the Lord's put this, this, uh, series of

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 messages on my heart uh, for marriage.

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I've just had

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I had a heart for for people in their marriages and and

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 just watching marriages survive the world, you know?

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Because the world's against your marriage and then and

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 Satan hates it.

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And uh, and so, Lord, just he'd put some

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 things on my heart in the last several years, and I just kind of just compiled

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 them all together, I guess, and and, and trying to,

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 uh, other than, than, uh, than my,

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I'm not thinking about, well, get deep into

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 it, but I mean, yesterday, I've never

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 been that tongue tied in my entire life as I did during a

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We are saving that for the blooper reel for pastor appreciation Sunday.

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Yeah, that's when you know you've done something right.

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How about you, brother?

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Dennis?

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you having a good Monday?

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Great, man.

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It's just gorgeous day.

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It will just be fun. put around on my tractor a little bit, you know, mess around.

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It's just too wet to do anything.

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It was fun anyway.

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All the all the lovely rain we got.

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Just enough to be annoying Saturday and Sunday.

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It was soggy at my house.

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But yeah, that marriage thing is awesome.

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I'm so glad you're doing that because, you know, Satan

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And yeah, Satan knows if I can just break the families apart.

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I can destroy the nation.

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I can destroy the church, I can destroy the communities.

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Because once families start falling apart, all of these other things just crumble around it

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And it's all a type of likeness of our relationship with him.

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It really is.

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And I've always seen the family as kind of a top and likeness of the Trinity.

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Yeah, really, you know, step bond, that togetherness.

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And Satan hates it.

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Anything that represents God and who he is and

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 his goodness and mercy and grace and dominion and power.

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It's slapping Satan's face and he hates it.

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And and I love you.

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You have stressed in both of these so far, the being

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 equally yoked and stressing that, especially

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 to young people as they're starting dating.

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that is so important to stress of, hey, don't don't go find

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 somebody that's not in church and start dating them because that's that

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 is not going to lead to good things down the road.

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ask those of us that have been there.

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It doesn't, it just doesn't work well.

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And bad things happen, even when the other

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yeah, yeah, no, I believe that.

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but do you really?

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You better you better know.

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It's like playing Russian roulette, you know?

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I mean, it, it may turn out good

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 sooner or later, that person may get saved.

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But then again, maybe a shot in the head too.

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I heard somebody say once it's Russian roulette with 4 in the chamber.

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I mean, you might be that one in a million.

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That must be a four shot revolver.

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Yeah, that's true too.

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That was that is a great series and I'm

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And I am planning on making that one making

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 sure it's available for a while somewhere where

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 people can go and listen to it because that's that's something we want and people need to hear.

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And like I say, especially young people, you're starting dating, you need to start hearing this stuff.

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And and might as well get it get it in your head before

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I've been big on just thinking

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 a lot about wisdom lately.

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And I think anybody that's getting married needs to be praying for a lot.

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And God gives it.

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And wisdom can be a really sneaky thing.

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It's not like you just all of a sudden get hit by a bolt a lot and

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 you're spouting proverbs over the place, right?

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He gives you a discernment.

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He gives you a knowledge that you didn't really have before and a way to figure things out.

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All this stuff comes together to be wisdom.

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It's really important.

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We need to pray for our marriage and our children and everything else.

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You know, and I found 2 things that will lead you

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You eventually start figuring out some things that

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Good lord, that patience and wisdom just,

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 just, it's either going to develop if, if, if things

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 are going to go well or if it never develops, you're going to have a hard time with it.

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So you better be praying for it.

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Because kids will test your patience,

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 but boy, you know, you start figuring out ways to communicate

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And what a blessing they are.

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Well, this week we are in Revelation chapter 11, verse

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That is the 7th trumpet, uh, where

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We've seen things get very hard and it's about to, you

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We're going to see some really major things happening after the 7th trumpet.

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And I was thinking this week, you know, we've talked several times on

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And you have to realize that it's politics.

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It's things that go on in the world.

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Already today we see how easy it is to rile people

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You ever heard of the Mandela effect?

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Isn't that something?

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 that Nelson Mandela died in prison.

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But he didn't.

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Right, right, right.

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And everybody believes that there's a cornucopia, cornucopia.

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Is that how you said the Thanksgiving basket looking thing in the middle of the

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but there's not.

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There's not.

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Never has been.

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There's all these things that people just know is common knowledge, not true.

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And that's that's what's coming, man.

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Yeah, that's exactly what's coming.

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And we do.

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We as Christians, we need to...

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A great delusion.

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Take and things like this and things like what we're about to get into here.

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Make sure that we are, you know, leave a couple of books laying around.

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you know, make sure you have some good books on it later around your house in addition to the scripture.

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Jimmy Evans, he has a book written, I

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 don't remember what it's called, but it's written for people who survived the rapture.

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 and this is what just happened.

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You know, and just leave that man around.

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I love it.

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I love it.

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I'm more right one, too, called Feed My Dogs, please.

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They get angry.

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Don't eat my dogs.

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But, um,

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 yeah, so here we go into uh, 1115

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 and then we'll be getting on from there, but this

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 is the 7th trumpet, uh, in in the range,

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 and uh, last week, the 6th trumpet was the one, um,

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 which let me get, uh, back over here to the scripture

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 so I can double check.

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And that was the one where we had the, um, Do, do, do, do.

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Yeah, we'd seen some fire breathing preachers.

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Yes.

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Oh, yeah, yeah.

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Literally firebreaking preachers.

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That's where we saw them doing that.

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Oh, yeah, the 2 prophets.

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They were fired.

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They were consuming people with fire, and then eventually were killed,

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 and then God said, come on up, and then he takes them away.

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We have an earthquake that a 10th

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 of the city collapsed, talking about Jerusalem, a 10th of the city collapse.

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7000 people were killed in the earthquake and

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 the rest were terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

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And that was the 2nd woe.

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And then, if you remember, the angel had said that

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 these last 3 trumpets were 3 woes that were coming to the world.

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And so here we are on that 3rd woe.

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Whoa.

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Hey.

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So, and the 7th angel sounded,

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 and there were great voices in heaven saying the kingdoms

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 of this world are become the kingdoms of the

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 Lord and of Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.

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And the 4 and 20 elders, which

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 sat before God on their seats, fell upon their

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 faces and worshiped God, saying, we give

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 thanks, O Lord God, almighty, which art and

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 which wast, and which art to come, because thou

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 hast taken thee thy great power and hast reigned.

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And the nations were angry, and

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 thy wrath and thy wrath is come in

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 the time of the dead, and they should be judged, and that shouldest

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 give reward unto the servant of the prophets,

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 and to the saints, and to them that fear thy name shall

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 small and great, shouldest destroy them,

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 which destroy the earth.

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Well, leave verse 19 if you want to for a minute.

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Yeah, so we're still in the middle of

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 the lull between 6th and

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 well, that's after 13.

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We, then verse 15, we, uh, uh, the next

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 part is given for for some encouragement here.

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I mean, we see all these things happening and then

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 and then there's some encouragement here to those who are

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 sealed, but left behind.

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So these 144,000 who are sealed and left behind.

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It would be hard to continue if

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 there wasn't a little bit of encouragement in the middle of this, right?

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Yeah, they would.

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They would.

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It's just, it's a doom and gloom kind of thing, right?

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And this reminds me too of, you know, we went

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 through Daniel, and this is that divine kingdom in

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 chapter 2 of Daniel, where, you know, Nebuchadnezzar

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 has a dream of the statue.

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Babylon's the head of gold to meet some Persians or their

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 breasts, breast and arms of silver.

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And Greece is the midsection of bronze and there's Rome.

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It's iron and then iron mixed with clay.

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And it says in verse 44.

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In the days of those kings, the god of heaven will set up a kingdom which will never

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 be destroyed, and that kingdom will not be left for another people.

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It will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms,

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 but it itself will endure forever.

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And as much as you saw that a stone was cut out of the

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 mountain without hands and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the

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 clay, the silver, and the gold, the great god has made known

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 to the king what will take place in the future.

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So the dream is true.

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It just uh, man, this stuff ties together.

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It's just mind blowing to me.

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It is.

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It is.

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The kingdom of God's coming.

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And the 7th trumpet saying, here it is.

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Here it is.

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Here it is.

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Here it is.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And this this, uh, well,

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 we'll wait on the bowls for that.

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But this is where, to me, it gets a little sketchy.

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Yeah, you know, about the chronology

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 of it and how it fits together.

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Well, especially when you get in chapter 12 a little bit.

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Yeah, it gets tough to understand.

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Yeah, it does.

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Yeah.

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Go ahead.

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do verse 19.

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And the temple of God, which is in heaven, was opened.

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And the ark of his covenant appeared in his temple, and

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 there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder,

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 and an earthquake, and a great hailstorm.

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Now this is this is the temple of God made without hands.

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This is the temple that Jesus actually went

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 to, according to Hebrews, and put his blood on that altar.

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That's right, man.

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The temple that Moses made was patterned after this temple.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And it tells

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 us here that it was open.

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So it indicates that there's

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 access to God, right?

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There's worship going on, and there's

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 access to God, and these events, they declare

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 the prominence of Israel in this section.

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Really.

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I mean, like we're we're getting around to God's people here

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 and this chapter kind

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 of substantiates that, right?

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The art being seen here,

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 reminds us that we're dealing with a covenant

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 making in a covenant keeping God.

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He is.

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He's going to keep his covenant that he's made

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 with Israel, and then he's going to make a new covenant,

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 a new covenant with them at this time.

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And this time the law will

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 be written, not on a stone tablet,

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 but the law will be written in their hearts.

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So, yeah.

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Lightnings and voices and thunders and earthquakes

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 and great hell, they that speaks of judgment

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 that's yet to come.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And this temple here stands in a

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 contrast to the one on earth that's already been desecrated.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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Like you said, temple not made with hands, right?

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You can't be touched, but I think.

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Exodus 194 says you've seen what I did

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 in into the Egyptians and how I bear you on Eagles' wings.

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Uh, you know, but, but, like

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 I said, we're coming together with this, this wonderful part

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 of who, of who they are, of who Israel is.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, we'll see a description of them coming up, will we?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, actually the next verse.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Verse one,

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 chapter 12, right?

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And there appeared a great wonder in heaven,

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 and a woman clothed with the sun and the moon under his feet,

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 and on her head a crown of 12 stars.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, and this section kind of kind of begins another

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 one of those kind of parenthetical.

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sections and gives it some history.

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It does.

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It does.

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It goes back.

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And that's where we've got to, like you said before, it can be,

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 it can be a little bit confusing.

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But here's here's one thing we've

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 got to figure out when we got the layout here is who the characters that

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 we're reading about this, right?

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To know who the woman is, you've

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 got to go to scripture, to gain knowledge from there.

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Uh, when you see the the

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 symbols like the sun and the moon, uh,

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 and the stars, you have to go to Joseph's dream, right?

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You can just...

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Joseph Street.

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And we can see that that represents Israel.

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Genesis 37, 9, and 10.

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And he dreamed yet another dream and told it

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 his brethren and said, behold, I have dreamed

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 a dream more, and behold, the sun and the moon, the 11 stars

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 made obeisance to me.

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And he told it to his father

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 and to his brethren, and his father rebuked him and

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 said unto him, what is this dream that thou dream?

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Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren, indeed,

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 come to bow down ourselves, to thee, to the earth?

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And so Joseph, he interprets this

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 to mean himself, Rachel and

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 Joseph's brothers, and guess what?

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They bow down to, don't they?

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They bowed down to Joseph before things were

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 over, and from the family came the nation of Israel.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So, um, and guess what?

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From that nation comes our savior, Jesus Christ, right?

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That's right.

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That's right.

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Did you read the two?

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No, I hadn't read it.

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Oh, okay, okay.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And she was with child.

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And she cried out being in labor and in pain to give birth.

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So this is this is a picture of like

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 Joseph's dream.

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And it's a picture of Israel giving birth to a Messiah.

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It is.

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Yeah, it is.

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Yeah, a nation, uh, travailing in birth.

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It's a it's a figure associated with Israel too, isn't it?

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Yeah, it is.

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Isaiah 66, 7 and 8.

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Before she travailed, she brought forth, before her

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 pain came, she was delivered of a man child who

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 hath heard such a thing, who hath seen such a thing.

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Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day or

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 shall a nation be born at once?

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For as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

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So Israel will go forth through the

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 great tribulation and and that's,

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 this is much after Christ is born in Bethlehem, right there?

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I mean, so before her pain, her pain came,

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 she was delivered of a man child, meaning Christ.

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Yeah, yeah.

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there are theories out there.

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And some folks, I don't know who they are, but they think that maybe

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 this woman in these 1st 2 verses could be the church,

499
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 but it can't be because the church didn't give birth to Christ.

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That's right, yes.

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And the other theory out there is that, and this is coming from the Catholic

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 church is that this woman is Mary.

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Yeah.

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But the problem with that is that Mary ain't

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 going to be persecuted 2000 plus years later.

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That's right.

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So it's not Mary.

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And as these verses go along, they continue to lay

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 out and describe her more

510
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 and more that you can't.

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I don't know how you could deny that it is Israel, right?

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I don't understand.

513
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Israel has faced torment in

514
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 anguish for a long, long time, haven't they?

515
00:22:03,333 --> 00:22:06,083
Yeah, the wrath of Satan ever since the garden.

516
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That's right.

517
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Yeah.

518
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yeah

519
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been chasing that seed, hasn't he?

520
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Yeah, he has.

521
00:22:10,049 --> 00:22:13,283
And verse 3, and there

522
00:22:13,283 --> 00:22:17,000
 appeared another one in heaven, and behold, a great red dragon,

523
00:22:17,016 --> 00:22:20,183
 having 7 heads and 10 horns

524
00:22:20,183 --> 00:22:23,183
 and 7 crowns upon his head, and his and

525
00:22:23,183 --> 00:22:26,349
 his tail drew the 3rd part of the stars of heaven,

526
00:22:26,366 --> 00:22:29,366
 and did cast them to the earth, and the dragon stood before the

527
00:22:29,366 --> 00:22:33,083
 woman which was ready to be delivered to devour

528
00:22:33,083 --> 00:22:35,349
 her child as soon as it was born.

529
00:22:35,433 --> 00:22:38,000
So, I mean, this is so clear.

530
00:22:38,566 --> 00:22:41,783
Number one, this clearly identifies as

531
00:22:41,783 --> 00:22:43,150
 Satan on in verse nine.

532
00:22:43,233 --> 00:22:44,733
We know that that's who this is.

533
00:22:44,783 --> 00:22:46,400
this dragon.

534
00:22:46,466 --> 00:22:49,766
And it gives us more proof here of being of

535
00:22:49,766 --> 00:22:52,816
 being the nation of Israel, but let's talk about the dragon for a little bit

536
00:22:52,833 --> 00:22:55,049
 and kind of the description we got here.

537
00:22:55,116 --> 00:22:58,349
We got 7 heads, which really is just symbolic

538
00:22:58,349 --> 00:23:00,916
 of perfection and wisdom, right?

539
00:23:00,983 --> 00:23:03,083
There's there's there's wisdom there.

540
00:23:03,150 --> 00:23:04,466
You got 10 horns.

541
00:23:04,533 --> 00:23:07,533
It basically represents a

542
00:23:07,533 --> 00:23:09,266
 final division of the Roman Empire.

543
00:23:09,333 --> 00:23:11,133
That's going to be split up, right?

544
00:23:11,183 --> 00:23:12,049
This thing's going to be.

545
00:23:12,566 --> 00:23:15,566
The crown represents a kingly

546
00:23:15,566 --> 00:23:17,533
 authority that he thinks that he has.

547
00:23:17,616 --> 00:23:20,666
Um, and then, and then the

548
00:23:20,666 --> 00:23:23,666
 3rd of the stars, is you'd already talked about, and you

549
00:23:23,666 --> 00:23:26,666
 may be going back to Daniel right now, I don't know, but, but, so if

550
00:23:26,666 --> 00:23:29,666
 you are go, go ahead and read that in a minute, but the, the, the 3rd

551
00:23:29,666 --> 00:23:32,716
 of the stars, it's, this is, this is a picture of this great

552
00:23:32,733 --> 00:23:35,966
 rebellion that took place uh, with the angels

553
00:23:35,966 --> 00:23:39,200
 and Satan in heaven, and they're cast out, right?

554
00:23:39,266 --> 00:23:41,299
And we got really 2 scriptures.

555
00:23:41,366 --> 00:23:43,933
Daniel 810 and Jude 16.

556
00:23:44,133 --> 00:23:47,183
Yeah, I was looking up 7 to talk about

557
00:23:47,183 --> 00:23:49,283
 the dragon.

558
00:23:49,349 --> 00:23:51,983
7 heads of 10 horns comes right out of Daniel 7.

559
00:23:52,049 --> 00:23:52,516
Yeah.

560
00:23:52,883 --> 00:23:55,333
You know, it's the it's the image he shows of Rome.

561
00:23:55,416 --> 00:23:56,250
Yeah, yeah.

562
00:23:56,316 --> 00:23:56,916
Absolutely.

563
00:23:56,966 --> 00:23:59,783
And he says, in verse 7 of chapter 7,

564
00:23:59,849 --> 00:24:02,849
After this, I kept looking in the night visions, and behold, a 4th

565
00:24:02,849 --> 00:24:06,200
 beast, dreadful and terrifying and extremely strong,

566
00:24:06,216 --> 00:24:07,583
 and it had large iron teeth.

567
00:24:07,716 --> 00:24:08,966
And it goes on down.

568
00:24:08,966 --> 00:24:09,733
And it was different from all

569
00:24:09,866 --> 00:24:12,016
that were before it, and it had 10 horns.

570
00:24:12,150 --> 00:24:13,950
Yeah. 10 horns.

571
00:24:14,016 --> 00:24:15,266
And he said the other one was eight.

572
00:24:15,383 --> 00:24:18,433
810 is where that's

573
00:24:18,450 --> 00:24:20,966
 where he he talks about the angels being cast out.

574
00:24:21,033 --> 00:24:22,166
with him.

575
00:24:22,233 --> 00:24:22,533
Yeah.

576
00:24:22,583 --> 00:24:23,233
Yeah.

577
00:24:24,150 --> 00:24:26,549
But he's talking about the little horn in that case.

578
00:24:26,616 --> 00:24:29,966
Out of one of them came forth a rather small horn, which grew exceedingly

579
00:24:29,966 --> 00:24:32,900
 toward the south toward the east and toward the beautiful land.

580
00:24:33,033 --> 00:24:36,033
It grew up to the host of heaven and caused some of the host and some of the

581
00:24:36,033 --> 00:24:38,183
 stars to fall to the earth and it trampled them down.

582
00:24:38,250 --> 00:24:39,799
Yeah, stamp them out.

583
00:24:39,866 --> 00:24:40,883
Right, wow.

584
00:24:40,950 --> 00:24:41,966
Dude is evil.

585
00:24:42,033 --> 00:24:42,866
Yes, yeah.

586
00:24:42,933 --> 00:24:45,983
And then Jude won six and the Angels, which kept

587
00:24:45,983 --> 00:24:49,400
 not their 1st estate, but left their own habitation.

588
00:24:49,466 --> 00:24:52,700
He hath reserved an everlasting change under

589
00:24:52,716 --> 00:24:56,733
 change under darkness under the judgment of that great day.

590
00:24:56,783 --> 00:24:59,116
And so these are these are demonic forces.

591
00:24:59,183 --> 00:25:02,233
Now, not only are we seeing Satan cast down,

592
00:25:02,250 --> 00:25:05,416
 we're seeing these angels,

593
00:25:05,433 --> 00:25:08,483
 that now we look at,

594
00:25:08,483 --> 00:25:09,983
 or we call demons, right?

595
00:25:10,049 --> 00:25:11,066
That's what a demon is.

596
00:25:11,133 --> 00:25:12,333
It's a fallen angel.

597
00:25:12,383 --> 00:25:15,500
Yeah, and we see a little bit

598
00:25:15,516 --> 00:25:16,950
 of a preview of this too, right?

599
00:25:17,016 --> 00:25:19,833
There's a type of this that happens at Jesus' birth.

600
00:25:19,883 --> 00:25:23,599
Yeah, when Herod goes to Bethlehem and slaughters babies.

601
00:25:23,666 --> 00:25:24,733
Yes, absolutely.

602
00:25:24,816 --> 00:25:26,016
He's chasing us.

603
00:25:26,066 --> 00:25:29,183
He's chasing that seed, and he's trying to stamp it out, trying to stomp it out.

604
00:25:29,316 --> 00:25:31,883
See, the pure evil.

605
00:25:31,950 --> 00:25:33,316
that this thing is.

606
00:25:33,450 --> 00:25:34,283
Yeah, yeah.

607
00:25:34,349 --> 00:25:37,766
So Satan Satan is he's loose and

608
00:25:37,766 --> 00:25:41,000
 he's seeking whom he may devour and

609
00:25:41,016 --> 00:25:44,483
 he's got he's got plans, but guess what?

610
00:25:44,549 --> 00:25:47,066
God's plans are much better, aren't they?

611
00:25:47,183 --> 00:25:50,000
Yeah, and we're going to see him get real mad here in a minute.

612
00:25:50,066 --> 00:25:50,716
Yeah, yeah.

613
00:25:50,783 --> 00:25:51,200
Yeah.

614
00:25:51,266 --> 00:25:51,616
Yeah.

615
00:25:51,683 --> 00:25:54,983
And verse five, he says, and she, the woman, Israel,

616
00:25:54,983 --> 00:25:57,983
 gave birth to a son, a male child who is

617
00:25:57,983 --> 00:26:01,333
 to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, and her child was

618
00:26:01,349 --> 00:26:03,566
 called up to God and to his throne.

619
00:26:03,683 --> 00:26:06,383
So this is this is Jesus.

620
00:26:06,450 --> 00:26:09,683
And it's exactly what it says in,

621
00:26:09,683 --> 00:26:10,799
 what is it, Isaiah nine?

622
00:26:11,849 --> 00:26:12,383
Is that right?

623
00:26:12,450 --> 00:26:15,200
We're just going to, what was it?

624
00:26:15,266 --> 00:26:18,316
His name will be Prince of Peace, Everlasting,

625
00:26:18,333 --> 00:26:21,333
 all that stuff. and he says he'll scepter will have no end.

626
00:26:21,450 --> 00:26:22,349
Press her out.

627
00:26:22,416 --> 00:26:25,650
And Psalms 29 says he's a shepherd

628
00:26:25,650 --> 00:26:27,566
 who will rule with a rod of iron, right?

629
00:26:27,633 --> 00:26:30,983
Psalms two, and he'll

630
00:26:30,983 --> 00:26:34,883
 break that rod of iron and dash them into pieces like a potter's vessel.

631
00:26:34,950 --> 00:26:38,549
Um, It mentions here that,

632
00:26:38,549 --> 00:26:40,700
 um, that he's caught up.

633
00:26:40,766 --> 00:26:43,583
Further tells us, right?

634
00:26:44,250 --> 00:26:45,150
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

635
00:26:45,216 --> 00:26:46,583
he not only.

636
00:26:46,650 --> 00:26:49,650
Yeah, yeah, it's like the word that we use for rapture,

637
00:26:49,650 --> 00:26:53,416
 the harpaso, the, the, the, the caught up, the snatched out.

638
00:26:53,483 --> 00:26:56,650
And, and, and really, I think here it's dealing

639
00:26:56,666 --> 00:26:59,716
 with Christ ascension after he after he died

640
00:26:59,733 --> 00:27:02,783
 and rose again, he ascended up into heaven.

641
00:27:02,849 --> 00:27:05,416
Yeah, and angels come along and said, what are you looking at?

642
00:27:05,549 --> 00:27:06,316
Yeah, yeah.

643
00:27:06,383 --> 00:27:07,150
You're busy.

644
00:27:07,166 --> 00:27:07,583
Right.

645
00:27:07,650 --> 00:27:10,516
The same guy you see leaving.

646
00:27:10,583 --> 00:27:11,116
Guess what?

647
00:27:11,183 --> 00:27:14,299
He's coming back in like manor one day and we're beginning to

648
00:27:14,316 --> 00:27:16,650
 unfold the like manor now, aren't we?

649
00:27:16,716 --> 00:27:17,016
Yeah.

650
00:27:17,016 --> 00:27:21,566
And the

651
00:27:21,566 --> 00:27:24,683
 woman fled into the wilderness where she had a

652
00:27:24,683 --> 00:27:27,983
 place prepared of God, and they should feed her there

653
00:27:27,983 --> 00:27:32,416
 1203 score days, which is 3.5 years.

654
00:27:32,433 --> 00:27:33,266
3.5 years.

655
00:27:33,333 --> 00:27:34,583
Yeah, 42 months.

656
00:27:34,650 --> 00:27:37,650
And this this is one here that can get a little a

657
00:27:37,650 --> 00:27:39,016
 little dicey too.

658
00:27:39,083 --> 00:27:42,083
Because you see a lot of prophecies in Old Testament that

659
00:27:42,083 --> 00:27:45,016
 talks about Jesus 1st coming in 2nd coming kind of at the same time.

660
00:27:45,083 --> 00:27:45,683
Yeah

661
00:27:45,866 --> 00:27:47,416
And this is kind of what we're seeing here.

662
00:27:47,483 --> 00:27:50,483
that he's going back to history to when Jesus

663
00:27:50,483 --> 00:27:53,483
 ascended, but then he's

664
00:27:53,483 --> 00:27:56,549
 flipping forward real quick back over to the

665
00:27:57,450 --> 00:28:00,866
 Israelites having to flee in the wilderness life, like at a Matthew 24,

666
00:28:00,866 --> 00:28:02,366
 Jesus said, when you see this, fleet.

667
00:28:02,433 --> 00:28:04,400
for 3.5 years.

668
00:28:04,466 --> 00:28:05,299
That's right.

669
00:28:05,366 --> 00:28:05,666
Yeah.

670
00:28:05,733 --> 00:28:06,033
Yeah.

671
00:28:06,083 --> 00:28:07,216
Get somewhere, right?

672
00:28:07,283 --> 00:28:10,299
I mean, this is just, and and, you

673
00:28:12,083 --> 00:28:15,133
 know, when Christ comes, we see, we

674
00:28:15,150 --> 00:28:18,200
 see this, this, this is all getting ready for him to come back, right?

675
00:28:18,266 --> 00:28:21,733
That's what we're seeing here for him to step foot back on earth.

676
00:28:21,866 --> 00:28:24,983
And he'll put down every enemy.

677
00:28:25,049 --> 00:28:28,049
He'll put down every opposition, uh, when he

678
00:28:28,049 --> 00:28:31,099
 returns and and and he'll do this with a rod

679
00:28:31,116 --> 00:28:33,333
 of iron, uh, dashed into pieces.

680
00:28:33,383 --> 00:28:36,916
And this is the only way that rebellion can really be put down.

681
00:28:36,983 --> 00:28:39,316
It's the only way that ultimately it can be put down.

682
00:28:39,383 --> 00:28:42,849
Her child caught up is,

683
00:28:42,866 --> 00:28:44,783
 again, a reference to his ascension.

684
00:28:44,849 --> 00:28:48,083
But in the gospels, the focus is on the death of

685
00:28:48,083 --> 00:28:51,316
 Christ, in the epistles, the focus is

686
00:28:51,333 --> 00:28:54,500
 on the resurrection and the revelation,

687
00:28:54,516 --> 00:28:57,633
 and in revelation, the focus is on his ascension, right?

688
00:28:57,683 --> 00:29:00,733
You know, so you got all these things coming together, but

689
00:29:00,750 --> 00:29:04,099
 the book of Revelation is unveiling the

690
00:29:04,116 --> 00:29:08,016
 ascended Christ, like this glorified Christ,

691
00:29:08,016 --> 00:29:11,783
 who is no longer a baby, who is no longer a child in a manger.

692
00:29:11,849 --> 00:29:13,583
Hebrews 122.

693
00:29:13,766 --> 00:29:16,883
Looking unto Jesus, the author and the finisher

694
00:29:16,883 --> 00:29:20,116
 of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured

695
00:29:20,133 --> 00:29:23,250
 the cross, despising the shame, and is set down

696
00:29:23,250 --> 00:29:25,349
 at the right hand of the throne of God.

697
00:29:25,416 --> 00:29:27,266
So that's who he is, right?

698
00:29:27,333 --> 00:29:28,766
He's coming back in power.

699
00:29:28,833 --> 00:29:29,433
Amen.

700
00:29:29,483 --> 00:29:30,683
back in power.

701
00:29:30,750 --> 00:29:31,950
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

702
00:29:32,016 --> 00:29:35,433
I love this the description we're going to see later of him coming back, man.

703
00:29:35,483 --> 00:29:36,733
It's like, yeah.

704
00:29:37,349 --> 00:29:38,066
Yes.

705
00:29:38,133 --> 00:29:38,299
Absolutely.

706
00:29:40,833 --> 00:29:41,549
It's awesome.

707
00:29:41,616 --> 00:29:42,150
And awesome.

708
00:29:42,216 --> 00:29:46,166
Just a visual you get in your head of seeing, you know, just imagine what it's really going to be.

709
00:29:46,283 --> 00:29:50,349
Better than any, like, hero movie that you can ever imagine, right?

710
00:29:50,433 --> 00:29:52,099
It's everything wrapped into one.

711
00:29:52,166 --> 00:29:52,766
Yeah.

712
00:29:52,766 --> 00:29:55,033
Verse seven?

713
00:29:55,166 --> 00:29:55,933
Is that where we're at?

714
00:29:56,016 --> 00:29:56,366
Yep.

715
00:29:56,433 --> 00:29:56,666
Okay.

716
00:29:56,733 --> 00:29:59,433
I might read 3 verses there.

717
00:29:59,483 --> 00:30:01,033
And there was war in heaven.

718
00:30:01,116 --> 00:30:04,116
Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and the dragon

719
00:30:04,116 --> 00:30:07,233
 fought and his angels and prevailed

720
00:30:07,233 --> 00:30:10,283
 not, neither was their place found anymore in heaven.

721
00:30:10,349 --> 00:30:13,400
And the great dragon was cast out and the old serpent called the

722
00:30:13,416 --> 00:30:14,733
 devil and Satan.

723
00:30:14,783 --> 00:30:17,783
Again, I told you earlier that verse 9 explains to

724
00:30:17,783 --> 00:30:21,083
 us who that is and which to see with the whole world,

725
00:30:21,083 --> 00:30:24,983
 and he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

726
00:30:25,049 --> 00:30:28,216
So this kind of reiterates what we were talking about there kind

727
00:30:28,233 --> 00:30:31,466
 of gives identity to the people that we were looking at

728
00:30:31,466 --> 00:30:35,116
 or to the to the creatures that we were looking at.

729
00:30:35,183 --> 00:30:38,416
Uh, but we need to understand that even

730
00:30:38,433 --> 00:30:39,799
 though Satan's home.

731
00:30:39,816 --> 00:30:43,283
Even though Satan's home is not in heaven, he

732
00:30:43,283 --> 00:30:44,483
 does have access to God.

733
00:30:44,616 --> 00:30:45,866
Yeah, we see that in Job.

734
00:30:45,933 --> 00:30:46,583
We do, yeah.

735
00:30:46,650 --> 00:30:50,250
Yeah, yeah, Job one and two, we see we see him talking with God.

736
00:30:50,316 --> 00:30:54,216
We see it in Zachariah, three,

737
00:30:54,216 --> 00:30:55,233
 one and two.

738
00:30:55,283 --> 00:30:58,450
It says, and he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before

739
00:30:58,466 --> 00:31:01,466
 the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at the right

740
00:31:01,466 --> 00:31:03,133
 hand to resist him.

741
00:31:03,216 --> 00:31:06,266
And the Lord said unto Satan, the

742
00:31:06,266 --> 00:31:09,616
 Lord rebuked thee, you know, Satan, even the Lord that chosen

743
00:31:09,633 --> 00:31:12,633
 Israel rebuked thee, is not this a brand

744
00:31:12,633 --> 00:31:14,549
 plucked out of the fire.

745
00:31:14,616 --> 00:31:17,616
Luke 2231 and the Lord said,

746
00:31:17,616 --> 00:31:21,150
 Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired to have you and

747
00:31:21,150 --> 00:31:22,466
 sift you as wheat.

748
00:31:22,533 --> 00:31:25,049
There was a conversation that was going on there.

749
00:31:25,116 --> 00:31:28,349
Michael was and then we get in and

750
00:31:28,349 --> 00:31:29,783
 then we get into Michael, this angel.

751
00:31:29,849 --> 00:31:31,516
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

752
00:31:31,816 --> 00:31:36,450
He was, he had a particular ministry,

753
00:31:36,450 --> 00:31:39,016
 I believe, with the children of Israel.

754
00:31:39,083 --> 00:31:42,733
I think I think he was,

755
00:31:42,750 --> 00:31:45,500
 he was, uh, we see that in a couple of places.

756
00:31:45,566 --> 00:31:48,433
Jude, uh, in Jude 19,

757
00:31:48,516 --> 00:31:51,683
It says, Michael, the Archangel, when contending

758
00:31:51,683 --> 00:31:54,983
 with the devil, he disputed about the body of Moses,

759
00:31:54,983 --> 00:31:58,450
 durst not bring against him, a railing accusation,

760
00:31:58,466 --> 00:31:59,900
 but said the Lord rebuked thee.

761
00:32:00,033 --> 00:32:01,950
And then in Daniel 1013.

762
00:32:02,366 --> 00:32:05,599
But the prince of the kingdom of Persia was

763
00:32:05,616 --> 00:32:07,716
 stood me one in 20 days.

764
00:32:07,766 --> 00:32:10,766
But lo Michael, one of the chief princes came and

765
00:32:10,766 --> 00:32:13,816
 helped me and remained there, the king of Persia,

766
00:32:13,833 --> 00:32:15,450
 Daniel 1021.

767
00:32:15,683 --> 00:32:18,983
But I will show thee that which is noted

768
00:32:18,983 --> 00:32:22,033
 in the scripture of truth, that there is none that holdeth with

769
00:32:22,049 --> 00:32:24,383
 me in these things, but Michael your prince.

770
00:32:24,450 --> 00:32:27,450
And then chapter 12 and verse one.

771
00:32:27,516 --> 00:32:30,566
And at that time shall Michael stand up, and the

772
00:32:30,566 --> 00:32:33,733
 great prince, which standeth for the children of thy

773
00:32:33,750 --> 00:32:36,866
 people, there shall be a time of trouble,

774
00:32:36,866 --> 00:32:40,549
 such as never was since the nation,

775
00:32:40,650 --> 00:32:43,166
 uh, was a nation even to the same time.

776
00:32:43,233 --> 00:32:46,533
And at that time thy people shall be delivered, everyone

777
00:32:46,533 --> 00:32:48,566
 shall be found written in the book.

778
00:32:48,633 --> 00:32:50,250
Luke 10.18.

779
00:32:50,549 --> 00:32:53,599
There was a great struggle in heaven and Satan will

780
00:32:53,616 --> 00:32:56,316
 be thrown down here in Luke 1018.

781
00:32:56,483 --> 00:32:57,250
He talks about this.

782
00:32:57,333 --> 00:32:59,299
And he said, unto them.

783
00:32:59,366 --> 00:33:01,466
I beheld Satan as lightning from heaven.

784
00:33:01,533 --> 00:33:05,066
So you see this whole thing with Michael, the archangel

785
00:33:05,066 --> 00:33:08,716
 and this battle going on and every time he was right there with Israel.

786
00:33:08,783 --> 00:33:11,049
He was right there protecting them and watching over them.

787
00:33:11,066 --> 00:33:14,483
Yeah, I've wondered about that passage, verse

788
00:33:14,483 --> 00:33:17,716
 Luke 10.18, and Jesus

789
00:33:17,733 --> 00:33:20,849
 told him, I was watching Satan fall from heaven like lightning.

790
00:33:20,916 --> 00:33:22,766
Do you think I was prophetic?

791
00:33:22,833 --> 00:33:25,533
Possibly, possibly, could have been?

792
00:33:25,583 --> 00:33:26,833
Or something that he'd already seen.

793
00:33:26,916 --> 00:33:30,150
Yeah, because, well, again, because you got,

794
00:33:30,150 --> 00:33:33,383
 yeah, you have to go back and look and see how prophetic

795
00:33:33,383 --> 00:33:37,216
 or historical what we've what we've already read in Daniel, right?

796
00:33:37,283 --> 00:33:37,750
Right.

797
00:33:37,766 --> 00:33:38,066
Yeah.

798
00:33:38,133 --> 00:33:41,250
So it's, it's, it's a tough, it

799
00:33:41,250 --> 00:33:44,416
 gets, it gets tough there historically to,

800
00:33:44,433 --> 00:33:47,483
 or I guess chronologically to see where this

801
00:33:47,483 --> 00:33:49,633
 happened at and how it happened.

802
00:33:49,766 --> 00:33:50,900
Yeah, yeah, that's true.

803
00:33:50,966 --> 00:33:51,616
That's true.

804
00:33:51,683 --> 00:33:52,400
Yeah.

805
00:33:52,416 --> 00:33:53,183
Yeah.

806
00:33:53,250 --> 00:33:56,250
But, uh, yeah, so

807
00:33:56,250 --> 00:33:57,866
 he's the old serpent, right?

808
00:33:57,933 --> 00:33:59,666
The devils, that deceepeth.

809
00:33:59,783 --> 00:34:02,833
Well, and what I was about to say is, you know, you

810
00:34:02,849 --> 00:34:06,316
 have, you notice here that every time you see Michael

811
00:34:06,333 --> 00:34:09,333
 the Archangel, he's acting as a guard

812
00:34:09,333 --> 00:34:12,333
 for Israel, but almost always as a, his, it's as

813
00:34:12,333 --> 00:34:15,566
 though his very purpose is to be a foil for Satan

814
00:34:15,566 --> 00:34:17,966
 and his archange and his angels that he took with him.

815
00:34:18,033 --> 00:34:21,033
And it's it's like his just, it's your

816
00:34:21,033 --> 00:34:24,383
 job is to go out and mess up his plans.

817
00:34:24,449 --> 00:34:27,266
And God's like, yeah, just go out and just just keep just keep getting in his way.

818
00:34:27,333 --> 00:34:29,783
And that's what he does every time we see him.

819
00:34:29,849 --> 00:34:32,849
And what's amazing to me is I've

820
00:34:32,849 --> 00:34:37,216
 heard a couple of modern, uh, not

821
00:34:37,233 --> 00:34:40,400
 really religious Jews say that uh, the idea of

822
00:34:40,416 --> 00:34:45,033
 Satan is entirely a Christian construct, it doesn't exist prior to Christianity.

823
00:34:45,083 --> 00:34:48,983
It doesn't exist in Judaism and all that because it's Satan and all this stuff.

824
00:34:49,050 --> 00:34:50,250
And they give these big reasons.

825
00:34:50,366 --> 00:34:53,533
Can I point out that Revelation is written by

826
00:34:53,550 --> 00:34:56,550
 John, who was a

827
00:34:57,033 --> 00:35:00,750
 Jew, the one called the devil and Satan.

828
00:35:00,816 --> 00:35:03,266
Like, he makes no bones about this.

829
00:35:03,333 --> 00:35:05,849
John immediately recognizes who this is.

830
00:35:05,916 --> 00:35:09,033
This is not something that's just a new creation

831
00:35:09,033 --> 00:35:10,166
 for the Christian church.

832
00:35:10,233 --> 00:35:14,300
We have at least one pre-Christian

833
00:35:16,533 --> 00:35:20,133
 Jew that knows who Satan is and

834
00:35:20,133 --> 00:35:23,433
 knows who that Satan and the devil is the same being and the same is

835
00:35:23,433 --> 00:35:24,449
 referencing in the same.

836
00:35:24,500 --> 00:35:27,616
I just wanted to throw that out there because it's always interesting

837
00:35:27,633 --> 00:35:30,333
 and I love just going, right, here it is in Revelation.

838
00:35:30,383 --> 00:35:34,333
I mean, and you have places where Christ uses similar terminology and stuff.

839
00:35:34,416 --> 00:35:37,650
This one is just so undeniable because it puts both names side

840
00:35:37,650 --> 00:35:39,800
 by side, the devil and Satan.

841
00:35:39,866 --> 00:35:40,283
That's right.

842
00:35:40,416 --> 00:35:40,883
Yeah.

843
00:35:40,949 --> 00:35:41,550
Yeah, yeah.

844
00:35:41,616 --> 00:35:42,750
2 there, 2 it is.

845
00:35:42,816 --> 00:35:45,866
And to touch on that chronological thing again, too.

846
00:35:45,933 --> 00:35:49,466
It's like what we've read has kind of been in the past and at

847
00:35:49,466 --> 00:35:53,183
 some point in here, it kind of shifts back toward that future focus again.

848
00:35:53,250 --> 00:35:55,766
Because it's like Satan fail.

849
00:35:55,833 --> 00:35:59,250
Now he's now he's here wreaking

850
00:35:59,250 --> 00:36:02,666
 havoc in the present day of the,

851
00:36:02,666 --> 00:36:06,266
 well, what's future for us, but what be present day for them,

852
00:36:06,266 --> 00:36:08,300
 of the metal of the tribulation, you know?

853
00:36:08,366 --> 00:36:11,416
And I wonder if there's not a break here or something that

854
00:36:11,433 --> 00:36:14,550
 a breaking point where all

855
00:36:15,216 --> 00:36:18,216
 this time we see, you know, back in Job and

856
00:36:18,216 --> 00:36:21,216
 all through those verses that I read where Satan's

857
00:36:21,216 --> 00:36:24,566
 having these conversations with God, and now it's like I'm done.

858
00:36:24,683 --> 00:36:25,583
Yeah.

859
00:36:25,650 --> 00:36:28,766
You go do what you need to do, but I'm

860
00:36:28,766 --> 00:36:31,216
 fixing to do what I need to do and don't talk to me about it.

861
00:36:31,283 --> 00:36:31,583
right.

862
00:36:31,650 --> 00:36:32,116
You know?

863
00:36:32,183 --> 00:36:32,650
No more.

864
00:36:32,666 --> 00:36:33,266
No more.

865
00:36:33,333 --> 00:36:33,983
Yeah, yeah.

866
00:36:34,050 --> 00:36:37,650
And really, that's kind of almost showing mercy to him by talking to him at all.

867
00:36:37,766 --> 00:36:39,733
Yeah, yeah, it really is.

868
00:36:39,816 --> 00:36:43,349
I mean, at the end of the day, he's still something that God created.

869
00:36:43,416 --> 00:36:44,733
Yeah, yeah.

870
00:36:44,733 --> 00:36:49,833
And I mean, you know, again, it's

871
00:36:49,833 --> 00:36:54,083
 one of these things that has crept into the church in my mind of exactly

872
00:36:54,083 --> 00:36:56,183
 what Satan is and exactly what the devil is.

873
00:36:56,250 --> 00:36:57,266
And it's like, no, no, no.

874
00:36:57,333 --> 00:36:59,366
He is one of God's creations.

875
00:36:59,433 --> 00:37:02,599
He's something that God made and loved and cared

876
00:37:02,616 --> 00:37:06,083
 about and gave things to because he had a purpose for him.

877
00:37:06,150 --> 00:37:08,116
And he rejected all of that.

878
00:37:08,183 --> 00:37:09,433
And still, oh yeah, still does.

879
00:37:09,516 --> 00:37:11,183
Yeah, that's one of the big things too.

880
00:37:11,250 --> 00:37:12,266
God is sovereign.

881
00:37:12,333 --> 00:37:15,083
And that's, I'm going through Daniel in the Sunday school class.

882
00:37:15,150 --> 00:37:18,383
And that's kind of the theme of that whole book is God is sovereign.

883
00:37:18,449 --> 00:37:19,883
He is in control of this stuff.

884
00:37:19,949 --> 00:37:23,250
And the only reason Satan really gets to talk to him is

885
00:37:23,250 --> 00:37:24,616
 because God's using him for his purposes.

886
00:37:24,683 --> 00:37:25,583
Oh, yeah.

887
00:37:25,650 --> 00:37:25,699
yeah

888
00:37:25,833 --> 00:37:28,650
And definitely he's letting him go his own twisted way.

889
00:37:28,716 --> 00:37:29,916
Yeah, yeah.

890
00:37:29,966 --> 00:37:32,599
He's making he's making use of what Satan.

891
00:37:32,666 --> 00:37:34,333
in God's hands, right?

892
00:37:34,416 --> 00:37:35,849
He's a puppet, God's hands.

893
00:37:35,916 --> 00:37:38,916
God's using him just exactly like he wants to.

894
00:37:39,516 --> 00:37:40,816
And like you said in a minute, he's...

895
00:37:42,216 --> 00:37:42,516
Right.

896
00:37:42,566 --> 00:37:46,516
And two, at the same time, the reason

897
00:37:46,533 --> 00:37:49,699
 I point that out and say that, that God is absolutely using his

898
00:37:49,716 --> 00:37:52,716
 twisted Satan's twist and turns and all of

899
00:37:52,716 --> 00:37:55,766
 his machinations and scheming and he's using that to

900
00:37:55,766 --> 00:37:59,000
 further his God is using those to further his plan.

901
00:37:59,566 --> 00:38:02,550
But it doesn't necessarily mean he has to like it.

902
00:38:02,616 --> 00:38:04,166
I mean, this is

903
00:38:04,466 --> 00:38:05,183
I mean, it's the same.

904
00:38:05,250 --> 00:38:07,050
I mean, you got to think about it.

905
00:38:07,116 --> 00:38:10,166
You had create, you know, if you could create life in the way

906
00:38:10,166 --> 00:38:12,266
 that, you know, because this is not the same as the sun.

907
00:38:12,333 --> 00:38:14,733
It's not somebody that's part of you, that same way.

908
00:38:14,783 --> 00:38:17,949
It's a cre something he made, but having it

909
00:38:17,966 --> 00:38:20,966
 turn and spit in his face and say, well, I don't want anything to do with you and I'm

910
00:38:20,966 --> 00:38:23,666
 going to become you and all that and got, it's breaking his heart.

911
00:38:23,733 --> 00:38:26,783
I mean, and here he is knowing what's coming and knowing

912
00:38:26,783 --> 00:38:29,233
 what's about to happen at this point where he goes, nah, I'm done.

913
00:38:29,316 --> 00:38:32,433
I mean, good lord, he's put up with it for, you know,

914
00:38:32,433 --> 00:38:33,983
 about 10,000 years or so.

915
00:38:34,050 --> 00:38:37,050
I mean, it's like, goodness, it's like, I've been putting

916
00:38:37,050 --> 00:38:41,000
 up with this since the beginning almost, and you haven't slowed down, man.

917
00:38:41,133 --> 00:38:42,333
You haven't won yet.

918
00:38:42,383 --> 00:38:44,000
You haven't even made any headway.

919
00:38:44,066 --> 00:38:47,366
I want to make a comparison too, and maybe

920
00:38:47,366 --> 00:38:50,416
 a contrast here to kind of

921
00:38:50,433 --> 00:38:52,050
 maybe bring some clarity to...

922
00:38:52,116 --> 00:38:55,716
I had somebody ask me one time, um, could Satan

923
00:38:55,716 --> 00:38:59,433
 be saved and I said, no, no, he's done.

924
00:38:59,483 --> 00:39:01,216
He's made his decision.

925
00:39:01,283 --> 00:39:04,699
And so here's what we got to look at, okay?

926
00:39:04,766 --> 00:39:08,300
When, when, when the angels fail,

927
00:39:08,316 --> 00:39:11,483
 when we read about this, and we know that Satan and these angels fell

928
00:39:11,483 --> 00:39:14,483
 from heaven, when they, when, when he, when pride

929
00:39:14,483 --> 00:39:17,483
 took him over, and he decided, and he made a

930
00:39:17,483 --> 00:39:21,083
 decision at that point, that he thought he could be like God.

931
00:39:21,216 --> 00:39:24,449
He made a decision right then to never have anything to

932
00:39:24,449 --> 00:39:28,400
 do with God again as his God, right, as his father God.

933
00:39:28,466 --> 00:39:31,583
He was created by

934
00:39:31,583 --> 00:39:35,050
 him and he was created for a purpose.

935
00:39:35,433 --> 00:39:39,500
Uh, and, and he, uh, he took that purpose and he threw it away.

936
00:39:39,566 --> 00:39:43,400
And this is the comparison that we

937
00:39:43,416 --> 00:39:46,466
 have today of the

938
00:39:46,466 --> 00:39:48,133
 blaspheming of the Holy Spirit.

939
00:39:48,216 --> 00:39:52,766
That Satan blasphemed God at that point in time.

940
00:39:52,833 --> 00:39:55,050
There was no redemption after that.

941
00:39:55,116 --> 00:39:57,983
There was no, he was already an eternal being.

942
00:39:58,050 --> 00:40:00,566
So there was no redemption at that point.

943
00:40:00,633 --> 00:40:04,099
There was no, okay, you've had your chance, right?

944
00:40:04,166 --> 00:40:06,866
You choose me or you choose yourself.

945
00:40:06,983 --> 00:40:08,949
And Satan chose his self.

946
00:40:09,033 --> 00:40:12,083
And those angels chose to follow Satan instead

947
00:40:12,083 --> 00:40:13,816
 of God, they made him their God.

948
00:40:13,883 --> 00:40:17,116
The angels that stayed, they made a choice, right?

949
00:40:17,183 --> 00:40:20,716
So their choice is over, never to

950
00:40:20,733 --> 00:40:22,766
 be another choice again, right?

951
00:40:22,833 --> 00:40:23,733
Now.

952
00:40:23,849 --> 00:40:27,800
Here we are as,

953
00:40:27,816 --> 00:40:30,866
 as, as, as children of God,

954
00:40:30,866 --> 00:40:33,916
 or, or created beings of God, and

955
00:40:33,933 --> 00:40:36,983
 we must choose whether or not that we're

956
00:40:36,983 --> 00:40:40,216
 going to accept Christ as Lord and Savior, if we

957
00:40:40,233 --> 00:40:43,466
 accept him here before we die, before we

958
00:40:43,466 --> 00:40:46,516
 leave this world, if we accept him here, then we

959
00:40:46,533 --> 00:40:47,966
 will spend eternity in heaven.

960
00:40:48,033 --> 00:40:51,083
If we die without Christ in our hearts, if

961
00:40:51,083 --> 00:40:54,083
 we die without Jesus in our hearts, we have made the same

962
00:40:54,083 --> 00:40:57,316
 decision that Satan made all those all

963
00:40:57,333 --> 00:41:00,566
 that time ago to never accept him,

964
00:41:00,566 --> 00:41:03,733
 to never have a relationship with him, to never be

965
00:41:03,750 --> 00:41:05,483
 able to be connected with him again.

966
00:41:05,550 --> 00:41:08,666
So, uh, so just like you can't

967
00:41:08,666 --> 00:41:11,900
 be saved after you die, Satan can never

968
00:41:11,916 --> 00:41:14,849
 be saved from the place and the position that he's in now.

969
00:41:14,916 --> 00:41:18,383
He made a choice and his choices is to

970
00:41:18,383 --> 00:41:20,233
 reject God and live for himself.

971
00:41:20,316 --> 00:41:23,616
Yeah, it's like what Paul lays out in Romans chapter

972
00:41:23,616 --> 00:41:25,716
 one that everybody in this world is without excuse.

973
00:41:25,766 --> 00:41:26,483
That's right

974
00:41:26,666 --> 00:41:29,233
We can look around at creation and know that there is a God.

975
00:41:29,316 --> 00:41:32,849
And even to the nth degree, that Satan

976
00:41:32,849 --> 00:41:35,966
 stood in the very presence of the glorious God, he stood next

977
00:41:35,966 --> 00:41:39,016
 to the throne, but right there at it, and he

978
00:41:39,033 --> 00:41:40,349
 knew he knew.

979
00:41:40,466 --> 00:41:43,033
And really without excuse.

980
00:41:43,166 --> 00:41:43,699
That's right.

981
00:41:43,766 --> 00:41:45,133
I mean way without excuse.

982
00:41:45,216 --> 00:41:48,449
Because it gets into the it gets into the thing of,

983
00:41:48,449 --> 00:41:50,416
 okay, well, what about when we get to heaven?

984
00:41:50,483 --> 00:41:53,599
Could we, you know, are we going to have

985
00:41:53,616 --> 00:41:55,883
 a, could we rebel then?

986
00:41:55,949 --> 00:41:56,366
No.

987
00:41:56,433 --> 00:41:58,283
Again, the choice is over.

988
00:41:58,416 --> 00:42:01,583
This is where this is where God has

989
00:42:01,583 --> 00:42:04,883
 taken us as a creation with choice.

990
00:42:04,949 --> 00:42:08,050
as a creation with not

991
00:42:09,333 --> 00:42:10,650
 a bunch of robots, right?

992
00:42:10,716 --> 00:42:13,766
But we choose him because he loves us and we want we

993
00:42:13,766 --> 00:42:15,383
 want to accept that love.

994
00:42:15,449 --> 00:42:18,500
When we would get to heaven one day, then

995
00:42:18,516 --> 00:42:20,916
 we're going to have the mind of Christ.

996
00:42:20,966 --> 00:42:24,016
Never to go back like these confused

997
00:42:24,033 --> 00:42:25,699
 feelings that we have now.

998
00:42:25,766 --> 00:42:28,166
Pride will not be an issue.

999
00:42:28,233 --> 00:42:29,183
Sin will not be an issue.

1000
00:42:29,250 --> 00:42:32,416
All those, all those things that we deal with now.

1001
00:42:32,483 --> 00:42:34,150
We're not going to deal with those in heaven.

1002
00:42:34,233 --> 00:42:37,833
So it's not like we're going to get up there and then 10,000 years later.

1003
00:42:37,883 --> 00:42:40,583
We're going to say, I think I'll rebel against God.

1004
00:42:40,650 --> 00:42:41,966
I think I want be like him.

1005
00:42:42,033 --> 00:42:43,166
No, those thoughts are gone.

1006
00:42:43,233 --> 00:42:46,400
Our minds have been purified and we

1007
00:42:46,416 --> 00:42:47,616
 are like him.

1008
00:42:47,666 --> 00:42:50,900
Well, it's a it's a change in the very nature of who

1009
00:42:50,916 --> 00:42:52,883
 and what we are at that point.

1010
00:42:52,949 --> 00:42:55,816
I mean, you you get the perfected bodies.

1011
00:42:55,883 --> 00:42:56,900
You get everything.

1012
00:42:56,966 --> 00:42:59,116
You're you're made new.

1013
00:42:59,183 --> 00:43:02,183
You are a, and we are made new when we

1014
00:43:02,183 --> 00:43:05,599
 are saved, but this is a whole nother level of that where

1015
00:43:05,616 --> 00:43:07,316
 everything changes.

1016
00:43:08,133 --> 00:43:10,466
The same thing with Satan when he rejected.

1017
00:43:10,533 --> 00:43:13,650
When he made that rejection, when he made that choice, it completely changed

1018
00:43:13,650 --> 00:43:17,050
 the fundamental nature of who and what he was, he

1019
00:43:18,333 --> 00:43:21,383
 is no longer able to be in the presence of God for an extended period of time.

1020
00:43:21,449 --> 00:43:24,449
I mean, and the only reason he's able to be in God's presence

1021
00:43:24,449 --> 00:43:27,383
 at all to communicate with him is because God gives him grace to let him do it.

1022
00:43:27,449 --> 00:43:30,800
Because that is, I mean, that level of evil

1023
00:43:30,816 --> 00:43:34,050
 and of sin being in God's presence is

1024
00:43:34,050 --> 00:43:37,466
 normally just destroyed and God is allowing

1025
00:43:37,466 --> 00:43:40,466
 some grace, like you said, it's

1026
00:43:40,466 --> 00:43:43,633
 some grace there and some mercy there because it's like I still have a plan and

1027
00:43:43,650 --> 00:43:44,966
 I still have a purpose.

1028
00:43:45,033 --> 00:43:48,866
And since you're not going to serve me the way I made you to serve me, now you'll serve me this other way.

1029
00:43:48,933 --> 00:43:52,166
I like to think of it as, you know, when we believe when

1030
00:43:52,166 --> 00:43:55,333
 we're born again, we're filled with all the Holy Spirit that we'll ever have.

1031
00:43:55,416 --> 00:43:57,866
all of them, all of them.

1032
00:43:57,933 --> 00:44:01,099
And the thing that restrains us, that from loving

1033
00:44:01,116 --> 00:44:05,066
 God and serving God is our sinfulness, these sinful bodies.

1034
00:44:05,133 --> 00:44:08,550
And once we're in that pure perfect body, it's unrestrained.

1035
00:44:08,616 --> 00:44:09,449
It is, yeah.

1036
00:44:09,516 --> 00:44:11,666
It will obey him.

1037
00:44:11,666 --> 00:44:12,866
We'll we'll love him.

1038
00:44:12,933 --> 00:44:15,383
We'll do everything we, it'll be perfect.

1039
00:44:15,449 --> 00:44:16,583
We're fundamentally new.

1040
00:44:16,650 --> 00:44:17,300
That's right.

1041
00:44:17,366 --> 00:44:19,883
And right now, he's redeeming us to that, right?

1042
00:44:19,949 --> 00:44:22,949
I mean, he's he's taking what has been destroyed, what

1043
00:44:22,949 --> 00:44:26,550
 has been broken down, what has been separated because

1044
00:44:26,550 --> 00:44:28,400
 of Satan, because of sin.

1045
00:44:28,466 --> 00:44:31,933
And he's, he's, he still exists because God

1046
00:44:31,949 --> 00:44:34,349
 is showing us that I can redeem you from that.

1047
00:44:34,466 --> 00:44:37,933
I can bring you out of that and I can take you to perfection.

1048
00:44:38,016 --> 00:44:39,983
And that's what he's doing with it, man.

1049
00:44:40,050 --> 00:44:42,150
He's still inside of us then, right?

1050
00:44:42,216 --> 00:44:45,216
The Holy Spirit's still there, but it's way more

1051
00:44:45,216 --> 00:44:47,016
 powerful because we don't have these dirt suits.

1052
00:44:47,066 --> 00:44:47,666
Amen.

1053
00:44:47,666 --> 00:44:48,133
Amen.

1054
00:44:48,216 --> 00:44:49,833
Like a dirt suit.

1055
00:44:49,883 --> 00:44:50,949
That's right.

1056
00:44:51,033 --> 00:44:51,500
Amen.

1057
00:44:51,566 --> 00:44:53,599
All right, verse 10.

1058
00:44:53,849 --> 00:44:54,683
Yes, go.

1059
00:44:54,750 --> 00:44:57,750
Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, now

1060
00:44:57,750 --> 00:45:00,916
 the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God

1061
00:45:00,933 --> 00:45:03,933
 and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of

1062
00:45:03,933 --> 00:45:05,666
 our brethren has been thrown down.

1063
00:45:05,733 --> 00:45:09,449
He who accuses them before our God day and night,

1064
00:45:09,449 --> 00:45:12,683
 and they overcame him because of the blood of the lamb, and

1065
00:45:12,683 --> 00:45:15,683
 because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love

1066
00:45:15,683 --> 00:45:17,599
 their life, even when faced with death.

1067
00:45:17,666 --> 00:45:21,199
You want to go ahead and read verse 12 too, because it kind of...

1068
00:45:21,216 --> 00:45:24,216
For this reason, rejoice, O heavens,

1069
00:45:24,216 --> 00:45:27,333
 and you who dwell in them, woe to the earth and the sea,

1070
00:45:27,333 --> 00:45:30,383
 because the devil has come down to you having great wrath,

1071
00:45:30,383 --> 00:45:32,716
 knowing that he has only a short time.

1072
00:45:32,849 --> 00:45:35,900
Gosh, that's what we've been talking about.

1073
00:45:35,966 --> 00:45:37,400
Waiting on, baby.

1074
00:45:37,416 --> 00:45:38,733
Yeah, this is it.

1075
00:45:38,783 --> 00:45:39,500
This is it.

1076
00:45:39,566 --> 00:45:43,400
I mean, John starts

1077
00:45:43,416 --> 00:45:44,433
 out with, I heard.

1078
00:45:44,483 --> 00:45:48,316
He's reminding us that he's the he's

1079
00:45:48,333 --> 00:45:52,400
 a spectator and he's an auditor of these events that are taking place, right?

1080
00:45:52,466 --> 00:45:55,216
He said, okay, remember where I'm at here.

1081
00:45:55,283 --> 00:45:56,833
I'm watching these things unfold.

1082
00:45:56,916 --> 00:45:59,966
And, and, man, Satan,

1083
00:45:59,966 --> 00:46:03,500
 he's cast down and this causes rejoicing

1084
00:46:03,516 --> 00:46:05,133
 of the redeemed in heaven, right?

1085
00:46:05,183 --> 00:46:08,833
And it starts a celebration that

1086
00:46:08,849 --> 00:46:12,016
 takes place as Christ is going to continue

1087
00:46:12,033 --> 00:46:14,783
 to execute judgment, right?

1088
00:46:14,849 --> 00:46:17,599
We're leading up to him stepping foot.

1089
00:46:17,666 --> 00:46:20,783
But Christ paved the way, he paved

1090
00:46:20,783 --> 00:46:22,933
 the way for this whole thing to happen from the cross.

1091
00:46:23,016 --> 00:46:24,983
That's that's where it begin.

1092
00:46:25,050 --> 00:46:28,283
Colossians 2, 14, and 15, blotting

1093
00:46:28,283 --> 00:46:31,583
 out the handwriting of ordinance that was against us,

1094
00:46:31,583 --> 00:46:34,583
 which was contrary to us, took it out of the

1095
00:46:34,583 --> 00:46:38,000
 way, nailing it to the cross, having spoiled principalities

1096
00:46:38,016 --> 00:46:40,416
 like Satan and powers.

1097
00:46:40,466 --> 00:46:44,183
He made he made a show of them openly

1098
00:46:44,183 --> 00:46:46,400
 triumphing over them in it.

1099
00:46:46,466 --> 00:46:46,933
Amen.

1100
00:46:47,016 --> 00:46:51,333
So that this all began at the cross, like this defeat of Satan.

1101
00:46:51,383 --> 00:46:54,199
I mean, he's like, here it is, here it is.

1102
00:46:54,266 --> 00:46:57,266
And man, we have we have freedom in

1103
00:46:57,266 --> 00:46:59,783
 Christ right now, but guess what?

1104
00:46:59,849 --> 00:47:03,449
There's some things that we haven't yet even experienced.

1105
00:47:03,566 --> 00:47:04,699
aren't there?

1106
00:47:04,766 --> 00:47:08,066
I think I think we see a few things that are

1107
00:47:08,066 --> 00:47:09,566
 in that in that verse there.

1108
00:47:09,633 --> 00:47:11,783
I'm I don't mean to be taken over.

1109
00:47:11,849 --> 00:47:12,550
I'm just talking to you.

1110
00:47:12,866 --> 00:47:13,933
But this is good stuff.

1111
00:47:14,016 --> 00:47:17,016
I mean, we see they're in verse

1112
00:47:17,016 --> 00:47:18,683
 10, we, uh, or verses.

1113
00:47:18,750 --> 00:47:19,583
Yeah, I think verse 10.

1114
00:47:19,883 --> 00:47:22,883
But he talks about, he talks about

1115
00:47:22,883 --> 00:47:24,016
 salvation, right?

1116
00:47:24,083 --> 00:47:27,433
We're saved, but the consummation

1117
00:47:27,449 --> 00:47:30,750
 of our salvation is not going to come until

1118
00:47:30,750 --> 00:47:31,883
 we're with him, right?

1119
00:47:31,949 --> 00:47:35,183
I mean, that's when salvation is really, we're saved,

1120
00:47:35,183 --> 00:47:38,483
 we're being saved, we'll be saved throughout all eternity and

1121
00:47:38,483 --> 00:47:41,533
 will be the beloved, now we are, are we

1122
00:47:41,550 --> 00:47:44,716
 the sons of God, but it doth not yet appear what

1123
00:47:44,733 --> 00:47:47,849
 we shall be, but we know that when we, when he shall

1124
00:47:47,849 --> 00:47:51,199
 appear, that then we shall be like him, right?

1125
00:47:51,266 --> 00:47:52,699
For we shall see him as he is.

1126
00:47:52,766 --> 00:47:54,800
So we've got salvation.

1127
00:47:54,866 --> 00:47:57,800
It talks about strength here in verse 10.

1128
00:47:58,466 --> 00:48:01,216
Christ will come in full strength and power.

1129
00:48:01,349 --> 00:48:04,516
And he's going to establish his kingdom.

1130
00:48:04,583 --> 00:48:06,433
And then he talks about the kingdom.

1131
00:48:06,516 --> 00:48:08,783
It's not a kingdom now.

1132
00:48:08,849 --> 00:48:10,766
It's not a kingdom right now.

1133
00:48:10,883 --> 00:48:12,683
It's now but not yet.

1134
00:48:12,750 --> 00:48:13,883
That's right.

1135
00:48:13,949 --> 00:48:14,483
Yeah, yeah.

1136
00:48:14,550 --> 00:48:15,500
growing into this.

1137
00:48:15,566 --> 00:48:18,500
The kingdom has not yet been established, but it will be.

1138
00:48:18,566 --> 00:48:19,583
There will be true.

1139
00:48:19,650 --> 00:48:22,766
There won't be true peace until he sets up his kingdom, right?

1140
00:48:22,833 --> 00:48:24,199
Until he really does this.

1141
00:48:24,266 --> 00:48:27,433
And then his power and his authority, man,

1142
00:48:27,449 --> 00:48:30,616
 power really executes his authority.

1143
00:48:30,683 --> 00:48:33,133
So Christ, he's going to take over the government.

1144
00:48:33,216 --> 00:48:34,349
He's going to be head over it all.

1145
00:48:34,416 --> 00:48:38,133
We already know the government's on his shoulders, but he's going to show his authority through all this.

1146
00:48:38,183 --> 00:48:41,349
I love what you said about the law.

1147
00:48:41,433 --> 00:48:45,800
What was it you said about the law being nailed to the cross or the ordinances or not?

1148
00:48:45,866 --> 00:48:47,533
How is he accusing us?

1149
00:48:47,616 --> 00:48:49,466
He's using God's law to accuse us.

1150
00:48:49,533 --> 00:48:52,650
They are not like a little tattletale, running constantly up

1151
00:48:52,650 --> 00:48:55,349
 to God, saying, did you see what Tyler did?

1152
00:48:55,416 --> 00:48:56,916
Did you see what Brian did?

1153
00:48:56,966 --> 00:48:57,383
Yes.

1154
00:48:57,449 --> 00:48:58,650
He's using the law to do that.

1155
00:48:58,716 --> 00:49:00,216
Well, now he has to point to Jesus.

1156
00:49:00,266 --> 00:49:00,866
That's right.

1157
00:49:00,933 --> 00:49:03,933
The blotting out of the ordinances that we're against us, but

1158
00:49:03,933 --> 00:49:05,783
 now he took them and nailed them to the cross.

1159
00:49:05,849 --> 00:49:06,383
right.

1160
00:49:06,449 --> 00:49:06,550
right.

1161
00:49:07,283 --> 00:49:09,383
Think about how that tattling is working.

1162
00:49:09,449 --> 00:49:10,883
He's pointing back to the cross every time.

1163
00:49:10,949 --> 00:49:11,666
Did you see what he did?

1164
00:49:11,733 --> 00:49:12,800
Did you see what they did?

1165
00:49:12,866 --> 00:49:14,233
Oh, wait, that's Jesus.

1166
00:49:14,316 --> 00:49:15,083
Oh, yeah, yeah.

1167
00:49:15,150 --> 00:49:15,750
Uh-oh.

1168
00:49:15,816 --> 00:49:16,050
Yeah.

1169
00:49:16,316 --> 00:49:16,766
Yeah.

1170
00:49:16,766 --> 00:49:17,116
Yeah.

1171
00:49:17,250 --> 00:49:18,150
What do you mean?

1172
00:49:18,216 --> 00:49:20,916
You mean you mean my son hanging there on the cross?

1173
00:49:20,966 --> 00:49:23,233
Did I see that they follow him?

1174
00:49:23,316 --> 00:49:24,816
Yeah, and he's like, shut up.

1175
00:49:24,866 --> 00:49:25,466
That was mine.

1176
00:49:25,533 --> 00:49:28,883
If you're listening right now,

1177
00:49:28,883 --> 00:49:32,349
 and you're saved, and you know Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior,

1178
00:49:32,366 --> 00:49:35,483
 and you are you are drowning right

1179
00:49:35,483 --> 00:49:37,333
 now in guilt and shame.

1180
00:49:37,416 --> 00:49:39,266
Let me let me say this to you.

1181
00:49:39,333 --> 00:49:40,466
Where are your accusers?

1182
00:49:40,533 --> 00:49:42,566
Where are your accusers, right?

1183
00:49:42,633 --> 00:49:44,666
Because those sins have been nailed to the cross?

1184
00:49:44,733 --> 00:49:47,849
Stop living in them and stop being

1185
00:49:47,849 --> 00:49:50,849
 defeated by them and start living in victory.

1186
00:49:50,916 --> 00:49:52,166
The victory of Jesus Christ.

1187
00:49:52,233 --> 00:49:52,883
Amen.

1188
00:49:52,883 --> 00:49:53,300
Amen.

1189
00:49:53,366 --> 00:49:56,233
And they are separated from you as far as the east is from the west.

1190
00:49:56,316 --> 00:49:57,266
Yes.

1191
00:49:57,266 --> 00:49:59,900
I mean, they do not ever come back.

1192
00:49:59,966 --> 00:50:00,683
They're gone.

1193
00:50:00,750 --> 00:50:02,550
They're cast into the sea of forgetfulness.

1194
00:50:02,616 --> 00:50:03,150
They're gone.

1195
00:50:03,216 --> 00:50:04,233
It's over, it's done.

1196
00:50:04,283 --> 00:50:04,883
That's right.

1197
00:50:04,883 --> 00:50:05,416
Amen.

1198
00:50:05,483 --> 00:50:08,716
Paul, Philippians, chapter 3, verse four, brethren, I do not regard myself

1199
00:50:08,733 --> 00:50:11,966
 as having laid hold of it yet, but one thing I do forgetting

1200
00:50:11,966 --> 00:50:14,783
 what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead.

1201
00:50:14,849 --> 00:50:18,016
I press on toward the goal, for the prize of the upward

1202
00:50:18,033 --> 00:50:19,233
 call of God in Christ Jesus.

1203
00:50:19,283 --> 00:50:20,533
en.

1204
00:50:20,666 --> 00:50:23,833
I think what keeps us sinning?

1205
00:50:23,966 --> 00:50:27,133
is the guilt of sin in

1206
00:50:27,150 --> 00:50:28,166
 our lives, right?

1207
00:50:28,233 --> 00:50:31,699
Our past and knowing that we're in the flesh and

1208
00:50:31,716 --> 00:50:35,849
 it keeps us so many times from living in the victory that's already been.

1209
00:50:36,216 --> 00:50:36,383
yeah.

1210
00:50:36,449 --> 00:50:39,150
It's already been won on the cross.

1211
00:50:39,216 --> 00:50:42,383
Well, we forget that God has tied our sins

1212
00:50:42,383 --> 00:50:45,250
 to a stone, tossed it into the sea, forgot about it.

1213
00:50:45,333 --> 00:50:47,550
And we keep trying to drudge it back up.

1214
00:50:47,616 --> 00:50:51,083
Oh, man, man, we keep looking at we keep looking at ourselves, right?

1215
00:50:51,150 --> 00:50:53,116
me, me, me, me, me.

1216
00:50:53,183 --> 00:50:56,833
And Paul says in Colossians three, set your mind on things above.

1217
00:50:56,916 --> 00:50:58,533
Get your mind off yourself.

1218
00:50:58,650 --> 00:50:59,066
That's right.

1219
00:50:59,133 --> 00:51:02,849
You know, and the more you're thinking about yourself, the more you're going to think about your failures.

1220
00:51:02,916 --> 00:51:04,166
the more you're going to think about your past.

1221
00:51:04,233 --> 00:51:07,349
You're just going dredge all this stuff up constantly and

1222
00:51:07,349 --> 00:51:08,483
 fail every day.

1223
00:51:08,616 --> 00:51:11,316
That's why he tells us to renew our minds, isn't it?

1224
00:51:11,366 --> 00:51:11,783
Absolutely.

1225
00:51:11,783 --> 00:51:14,833
And how do we renew our mind through the reading of God's word,

1226
00:51:14,849 --> 00:51:16,516
 through the washing of the water, the word.

1227
00:51:16,583 --> 00:51:19,633
It washes over us and it reminds us

1228
00:51:19,650 --> 00:51:22,816
 again and again and again that Christ Jesus is

1229
00:51:22,833 --> 00:51:25,833
 one, that Christ Jesus is defeated, death, hell,

1230
00:51:25,833 --> 00:51:28,833
 in the grave, that your sins were nailed to the

1231
00:51:28,833 --> 00:51:31,883
 cross, that the grave is empty, that he

1232
00:51:31,883 --> 00:51:34,933
 is risen, that he is all powerful and all

1233
00:51:34,949 --> 00:51:38,800
 knowing and all present, that he is a god of

1234
00:51:39,216 --> 00:51:42,683
 his own, that there is no gods before him or after him.

1235
00:51:42,750 --> 00:51:43,583
That's right.

1236
00:51:43,583 --> 00:51:44,233
That's who he is.

1237
00:51:44,366 --> 00:51:44,599
Amen.

1238
00:51:44,616 --> 00:51:45,816
Amen.

1239
00:51:45,816 --> 00:51:46,466
Amen.

1240
00:51:46,583 --> 00:51:50,116
And he goes after that at verse 11 is, I love this, man.

1241
00:51:50,183 --> 00:51:52,150
There's like 3 things he shows right here, right?

1242
00:51:52,233 --> 00:51:52,833
Exactly.

1243
00:51:52,833 --> 00:51:53,733
The blood of the lamb.

1244
00:51:53,849 --> 00:51:54,566
That's the salvation.

1245
00:51:54,633 --> 00:51:56,250
And what's the next one?

1246
00:51:56,316 --> 00:51:57,333
The word of their testimony.

1247
00:51:57,383 --> 00:51:59,050
That's the preaching of the gospel.

1248
00:51:59,133 --> 00:51:59,966
Yes.

1249
00:51:59,966 --> 00:52:02,966
That's us going out and speaking it and living it.

1250
00:52:03,033 --> 00:52:03,633
That's right

1251
00:52:03,816 --> 00:52:05,483
And then martyrdom.

1252
00:52:05,616 --> 00:52:06,216
Yeah.

1253
00:52:06,266 --> 00:52:07,816
Living unselfishly.

1254
00:52:07,833 --> 00:52:10,800
I mean, like, I don't care about my life.

1255
00:52:11,316 --> 00:52:12,383
Lord, I want to live for you.

1256
00:52:12,449 --> 00:52:15,750
And you don't have to jump on a hand grenade to live a martyred life, dude.

1257
00:52:15,816 --> 00:52:18,033
Jesus called us to die to yourself.

1258
00:52:18,083 --> 00:52:20,483
He said, pick up your cross.

1259
00:52:20,550 --> 00:52:20,716
Yeah.

1260
00:52:20,783 --> 00:52:22,816
Yeah, take your cross daily and follow me.

1261
00:52:22,883 --> 00:52:23,783
Yeah.

1262
00:52:23,783 --> 00:52:24,199
Yeah.

1263
00:52:24,266 --> 00:52:27,916
What do you think sacrifices is how Paul put it?

1264
00:52:28,050 --> 00:52:28,583
That's right.

1265
00:52:28,650 --> 00:52:32,716
We're to live a sacrificial life and we'll

1266
00:52:32,733 --> 00:52:35,066
 never have a sacrifice like he had for us.

1267
00:52:35,133 --> 00:52:36,683
He already done the ultimate sacrifice.

1268
00:52:36,750 --> 00:52:38,666
But he's saying live unto this.

1269
00:52:38,783 --> 00:52:40,516
live like this, right?

1270
00:52:40,583 --> 00:52:43,583
Like your life doesn't matter anymore, and you know that your

1271
00:52:43,583 --> 00:52:48,316
 life is not here, but your life is out there. trust in him.

1272
00:52:48,383 --> 00:52:48,616
Yes.

1273
00:52:48,683 --> 00:52:50,116
Trust him with your life.

1274
00:52:50,183 --> 00:52:53,183
I was just sitting here and I had to double check to try and remember the exact

1275
00:52:53,183 --> 00:52:56,300
 phrasing of this, but, you know, we studied it Sunday at the men,

1276
00:52:56,316 --> 00:52:59,483
 the early men's, you know, conf morning meeting.

1277
00:52:59,550 --> 00:53:00,866
We've been studying godliness.

1278
00:53:00,933 --> 00:53:01,466
Yes.

1279
00:53:01,466 --> 00:53:04,933
And godliness is doing that which is pleasing to God.

1280
00:53:05,016 --> 00:53:06,150
Yes.

1281
00:53:06,150 --> 00:53:07,949
Well, you can't do that if you're focused on you.

1282
00:53:08,016 --> 00:53:09,333
You got to be studying.

1283
00:53:09,449 --> 00:53:09,983
You got to be reading.

1284
00:53:10,116 --> 00:53:12,516
You got to be going getting to get to know who God is.

1285
00:53:12,566 --> 00:53:15,800
Learn who your father is and desire

1286
00:53:15,816 --> 00:53:16,883
 to please him.

1287
00:53:16,949 --> 00:53:18,449
Trust his promises, man.

1288
00:53:18,516 --> 00:53:21,216
He's promised us life of more abundant, you know?

1289
00:53:21,266 --> 00:53:23,066
Whoever wishes to save his life will lose it.

1290
00:53:23,133 --> 00:53:25,099
Whoever loses his life from my cycle, find it.

1291
00:53:25,166 --> 00:53:26,900
It promised us eternal life.

1292
00:53:26,966 --> 00:53:27,566
He promises.

1293
00:53:27,633 --> 00:53:30,866
He's gone to prepare a place for us and he's going to come back and get us.

1294
00:53:30,933 --> 00:53:33,750
He's promised to never leave us in or forsake us.

1295
00:53:33,816 --> 00:53:34,349
Amen.

1296
00:53:34,349 --> 00:53:34,816
Amen.

1297
00:53:34,883 --> 00:53:36,733
Standing on the promises, brother.

1298
00:53:36,816 --> 00:53:38,783
Standing on the rock, a solid rock.

1299
00:53:38,849 --> 00:53:39,683
Where are the promises at?

1300
00:53:39,750 --> 00:53:40,050
Yeah.

1301
00:53:40,766 --> 00:53:41,533
Right there in the world.

1302
00:53:41,616 --> 00:53:42,750
Getting the word?

1303
00:53:42,816 --> 00:53:43,066
Amen.

1304
00:53:44,483 --> 00:53:46,099
before Abraham was, I am, right?

1305
00:53:46,233 --> 00:53:49,233
I mean, he's he's always been and he's always been

1306
00:53:49,233 --> 00:53:50,300
 that promise.

1307
00:53:50,433 --> 00:53:51,566
He's always been that promise.

1308
00:53:51,633 --> 00:53:54,983
And like you said, man, just to just to live that out right there.

1309
00:53:55,050 --> 00:53:56,116
What, you just talked about.

1310
00:53:56,183 --> 00:53:59,483
I mean, living out, knowing that the blood has been applied.

1311
00:53:59,550 --> 00:54:00,983
knowing that the blood has been applied.

1312
00:54:01,050 --> 00:54:04,583
And then the testimony, like you said, the preaching, and

1313
00:54:04,583 --> 00:54:08,000
 not just the preaching from the pulpit, but all of us, right?

1314
00:54:08,066 --> 00:54:11,300
Your testimony, your testimony, my testimony, that

1315
00:54:11,316 --> 00:54:14,783
 when Satan comes or when we're accused by

1316
00:54:14,783 --> 00:54:17,833
 the by the brethren, we say, hey, I'm redeemed by

1317
00:54:17,849 --> 00:54:19,283
 the blood of the rain.

1318
00:54:19,283 --> 00:54:22,449
And by the word of my testimony, you can't tell me

1319
00:54:22,466 --> 00:54:23,900
 that I don't belong to him.

1320
00:54:23,966 --> 00:54:26,666
You can kill this body, but you can't tuck this soul.

1321
00:54:26,733 --> 00:54:27,800
Because I'm in his hand.

1322
00:54:27,866 --> 00:54:28,816
That's right.

1323
00:54:28,883 --> 00:54:30,733
Chop my head off, but I'm still going.

1324
00:54:30,816 --> 00:54:31,833
Exactly.

1325
00:54:31,883 --> 00:54:33,433
did me a favor.

1326
00:54:33,516 --> 00:54:34,416
Amen.

1327
00:54:34,466 --> 00:54:35,300
Amen.

1328
00:54:35,366 --> 00:54:36,266
Amen.

1329
00:54:36,333 --> 00:54:37,533
Wait, I get to go home early?

1330
00:54:37,583 --> 00:54:39,016
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

1331
00:54:39,083 --> 00:54:39,916
Yeah, exactly.

1332
00:54:39,983 --> 00:54:42,133
Oh, we get so scared of stuff like this, though.

1333
00:54:42,216 --> 00:54:43,883
We get so scared of what people think.

1334
00:54:43,949 --> 00:54:45,449
We get scared of this and that.

1335
00:54:45,516 --> 00:54:46,416
Yeah.

1336
00:54:46,416 --> 00:54:48,449
We're terrified of the truth.

1337
00:54:48,566 --> 00:54:50,116
We got to trust.

1338
00:54:50,183 --> 00:54:51,133
We got to trust more.

1339
00:54:51,216 --> 00:54:53,133
Oh, for grace to trust him more.

1340
00:54:53,250 --> 00:54:53,550
That's right

1341
00:54:53,733 --> 00:54:55,833
Well, I got all these hymns in my head now, man.

1342
00:54:56,783 --> 00:54:57,983
4 times a week.

1343
00:54:58,050 --> 00:54:58,050
Amen.

1344
00:55:00,750 --> 00:55:03,316
What verse we are?

1345
00:55:03,333 --> 00:55:04,283
Starting 13.

1346
00:55:05,433 --> 00:55:06,333
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1347
00:55:06,383 --> 00:55:06,916
1 13.

1348
00:55:07,116 --> 00:55:07,949
Oh, oh, yeah.

1349
00:55:08,016 --> 00:55:10,833
Satan's come down with great wrath, hadn't he, in verse 12.

1350
00:55:11,066 --> 00:55:13,033
Yeah, he only has a short time.

1351
00:55:13,116 --> 00:55:14,916
So man, you think he's bad now?

1352
00:55:14,966 --> 00:55:17,000
Yeah, I watched...

1353
00:55:17,016 --> 00:55:18,383
He's been just being kicked out of heaven.

1354
00:55:18,449 --> 00:55:20,550
As I say, it says that he's kicked down.

1355
00:55:20,616 --> 00:55:21,750
He's thrown down to earth.

1356
00:55:21,816 --> 00:55:23,616
He's not just kicked out of heaven.

1357
00:55:23,666 --> 00:55:27,500
It's not just, okay, you can't enter back into this part of heaven and now you're just out here in the universe.

1358
00:55:27,566 --> 00:55:28,466
No, he's thrown to earth.

1359
00:55:28,533 --> 00:55:29,849
specifically.

1360
00:55:29,916 --> 00:55:32,616
This is that part where God's just...

1361
00:55:32,666 --> 00:55:33,199
Yeah, yeah.

1362
00:55:33,266 --> 00:55:35,666
Well, and what I was going to say is you got to think about it.

1363
00:55:35,733 --> 00:55:38,849
Like, today we, I know Satan

1364
00:55:38,849 --> 00:55:41,300
 is mostly focused on us and like, that's, that's what he does.

1365
00:55:41,433 --> 00:55:42,266
He focuses on humanity.

1366
00:55:42,333 --> 00:55:45,033
focuses on earth and he's traveling here, but he has the whole universe.

1367
00:55:45,083 --> 00:55:46,216
He can go where he wants.

1368
00:55:46,283 --> 00:55:47,116
He can do whatever he wants.

1369
00:55:47,183 --> 00:55:48,383
spiritual realm out there.

1370
00:55:48,449 --> 00:55:50,116
And here he is being cast to the earth.

1371
00:55:50,183 --> 00:55:51,616
He's being confined.

1372
00:55:51,683 --> 00:55:54,916
Right now, he has a near infinite universe, that he can just travel

1373
00:55:54,933 --> 00:55:56,000
 around, do whatever he wants.

1374
00:55:56,066 --> 00:55:59,783
In addition to messing with us, which clearly he enjoys doing because he does it constantly.

1375
00:55:59,849 --> 00:56:01,583
But here he is.

1376
00:56:01,650 --> 00:56:04,099
he told, no, no, no, no, you want it.

1377
00:56:04,166 --> 00:56:06,433
essentially, this is God going, you wanted the earth?

1378
00:56:06,516 --> 00:56:08,433
Fine, stay there.

1379
00:56:08,483 --> 00:56:10,150
And he goes, wait a minute.

1380
00:56:10,233 --> 00:56:13,949
And, oh man, why is he not going to be furious at that?

1381
00:56:14,016 --> 00:56:17,483
He had the universe as his playground and

1382
00:56:17,483 --> 00:56:20,416
 now he's stuck to one measly little ball of dirt.

1383
00:56:20,550 --> 00:56:21,983
And now he's saying, watch this.

1384
00:56:22,050 --> 00:56:24,083
You know, God, I'm going to get you now.

1385
00:56:24,150 --> 00:56:24,750
Yeah, yeah.

1386
00:56:24,816 --> 00:56:25,583
show out now.

1387
00:56:25,650 --> 00:56:27,983
I'm going take as many of them with me as I can, you know?

1388
00:56:28,050 --> 00:56:30,016
It's like a toddler throwing a tantrum.

1389
00:56:30,083 --> 00:56:32,783
It is, and it's the spirit realm that we know nothing about.

1390
00:56:32,849 --> 00:56:36,916
All these things are going on around us that we can't see.

1391
00:56:36,983 --> 00:56:39,250
And he's he's kicked out of that.

1392
00:56:39,333 --> 00:56:40,699
Yep.

1393
00:56:40,716 --> 00:56:41,616
Those are the things.

1394
00:56:41,666 --> 00:56:44,666
Yeah, that spirit realm that makes us act and think like we

1395
00:56:44,666 --> 00:56:46,516
 were nuts, right?

1396
00:56:46,583 --> 00:56:48,800
That were crazy and we don't we don't understand why.

1397
00:56:48,866 --> 00:56:52,883
It makes us come against each other that brings us against each other.

1398
00:56:52,949 --> 00:56:56,416
Verse 13 and when the

1399
00:56:56,433 --> 00:56:59,433
 dragon saw that he was cast under the earth, he

1400
00:56:59,433 --> 00:57:03,566
 persecuted the woman, which brought forth the man child.

1401
00:57:03,683 --> 00:57:06,983
Let's go back to it just for a second, but we

1402
00:57:06,983 --> 00:57:09,983
 talked about this before, and it kind

1403
00:57:09,983 --> 00:57:12,083
 of, it kind of brings it into more light.

1404
00:57:12,150 --> 00:57:15,199
Like you said, I think we went back and we went back in time

1405
00:57:15,216 --> 00:57:18,333
 to start with, and we showed that Satan had

1406
00:57:18,333 --> 00:57:21,383
 been cast out of heaven as far as his

1407
00:57:21,383 --> 00:57:25,099
 purpose and who he was, and the angels were cast out with him.

1408
00:57:25,166 --> 00:57:28,283
And I think now we're seeing something going

1409
00:57:28,283 --> 00:57:31,633
 on here that, that, again, like you said, we're,

1410
00:57:31,650 --> 00:57:34,583
 he's confined now, he said, this is your area.

1411
00:57:34,650 --> 00:57:36,383
Don't come up here and talk to me about it anymore.

1412
00:57:36,449 --> 00:57:37,816
I don't want to hear about Job.

1413
00:57:37,883 --> 00:57:39,733
I don't want to hear about Dennis.

1414
00:57:39,816 --> 00:57:40,883
I don't want to hear about Brian.

1415
00:57:40,949 --> 00:57:42,800
I don't want to hear about Tyler.

1416
00:57:42,866 --> 00:57:46,766
I just, you go, you go do your thing because I'm fixing to do mine.

1417
00:57:46,833 --> 00:57:50,066
And the dragon saw that he was cast to the earth and he

1418
00:57:50,066 --> 00:57:51,316
 persecuted the woman.

1419
00:57:51,383 --> 00:57:54,916
who's the woman, the woman is Israel, which brought forth the man child.

1420
00:57:54,983 --> 00:57:57,016
who's the man child, the man child to Jesus.

1421
00:57:57,033 --> 00:58:00,083
And to the woman, we're given 2 wings of great

1422
00:58:00,083 --> 00:58:03,383
 eagle that she might fly into

1423
00:58:03,383 --> 00:58:06,383
 the wilderness into her place where she

1424
00:58:06,383 --> 00:58:10,283
 is nourished for a time and time and half and half

1425
00:58:10,283 --> 00:58:12,433
 a time from the face of the serpent.

1426
00:58:12,516 --> 00:58:14,966
So again, 3.5 views, right?

1427
00:58:15,033 --> 00:58:18,750
And so, so, this

1428
00:58:18,750 --> 00:58:22,516
 is the last bit of anti-Semitism that we're going to see, right?

1429
00:58:22,583 --> 00:58:26,050
I mean, this has been going on all these years, but

1430
00:58:26,066 --> 00:58:28,333
 Satan, he's cast down to earth.

1431
00:58:28,416 --> 00:58:29,849
He knows he's got a short time.

1432
00:58:29,916 --> 00:58:32,916
He hates Israel because Christ came from

1433
00:58:32,916 --> 00:58:36,033
 the children of Israel from that nation,

1434
00:58:36,033 --> 00:58:37,349
 at least in an earthly aspect.

1435
00:58:37,416 --> 00:58:40,416
And there are a lot of people

1436
00:58:40,416 --> 00:58:44,016
 who believe that Israel

1437
00:58:44,016 --> 00:58:48,150
 is being gathered back into Israel for the millennium.

1438
00:58:48,216 --> 00:58:51,449
But really they're being gathered back into Israel for

1439
00:58:51,449 --> 00:58:53,066
 the tribulation time.

1440
00:58:53,133 --> 00:58:56,133
Yeah, that's where God's got them

1441
00:58:56,133 --> 00:58:58,583
 in this group because this is all about Israel.

1442
00:58:58,650 --> 00:59:01,166
This whole thing is about Israel.

1443
00:59:01,166 --> 00:59:04,516
And his chosen people and he

1444
00:59:04,533 --> 00:59:07,166
 still loves them and he wants to redeem them.

1445
00:59:07,233 --> 00:59:08,483
those that will choose him.

1446
00:59:08,550 --> 00:59:09,500
He wants to redeem them.

1447
00:59:09,566 --> 00:59:12,199
And so he, this is just why they're gathering back.

1448
00:59:12,266 --> 00:59:15,383
And and if so, so then

1449
00:59:15,383 --> 00:59:18,800
 then you see this thing about these these 2 these

1450
00:59:19,716 --> 00:59:23,666
 2 great, uh, uh, the 2 wings and and the great eagle.

1451
00:59:23,733 --> 00:59:27,083
I don't know, I've heard some things and y'all

1452
00:59:27,083 --> 00:59:28,216
 may have some different opinions.

1453
00:59:28,283 --> 00:59:31,583
I've heard, I've heard, well, that may be airplanes

1454
00:59:31,583 --> 00:59:34,150
 that are taking them to a desert place somewhere, you know?

1455
00:59:34,283 --> 00:59:37,400
I think you're stretching a little bit there, but I think

1456
00:59:37,416 --> 00:59:41,133
 it's symbolic of God's grace for and his mercy towards them.

1457
00:59:41,250 --> 00:59:43,400
Just like when he brought them out of Egypt.

1458
00:59:43,466 --> 00:59:46,283
We reread in Exodus 194.

1459
00:59:46,533 --> 00:59:49,883
It says you have seen what I did unto the Egyptians

1460
00:59:49,883 --> 00:59:53,116
 and how I bear you on eagle's

1461
00:59:53,133 --> 00:59:55,466
 wings and brought you under myself.

1462
00:59:55,533 --> 00:59:56,366
Yeah.

1463
00:59:56,366 --> 00:59:59,599
So I think I think we're still carrying on this symbolic

1464
00:59:59,616 --> 01:00:02,666
 thing of God's taking them under, and he's

1465
01:00:02,666 --> 01:00:06,683
 bringing them to a place where they can be, uh,

1466
01:00:06,683 --> 01:00:10,150
 where they can be safe or at least have time to make a choice, right?

1467
01:00:10,233 --> 01:00:12,150
Yeah, lift you up on wings as eagles.

1468
01:00:12,216 --> 01:00:12,516
Right.

1469
01:00:12,566 --> 01:00:16,216
And I started to say when you look at this this entire chapter, chapter 12.

1470
01:00:16,533 --> 01:00:19,533
And you go back, you find all of the symbology

1471
01:00:19,533 --> 01:00:22,166
 that's in this chapter exists elsewhere.

1472
01:00:22,233 --> 01:00:25,283
Yeah, the catching up on wings as eagles so

1473
01:00:25,283 --> 01:00:28,449
 you will run and not be wearing, or walk and not be wearing,

1474
01:00:28,466 --> 01:00:30,083
 run and not be wearing, walking, not faint.

1475
01:00:30,150 --> 01:00:33,199
You find all of this symbology, the symbology of

1476
01:00:33,216 --> 01:00:36,216
 the dragon, the symbology of the crowns, the symbology of the horns, the symbology

1477
01:00:36,216 --> 01:00:39,933
 of the stars, and the sun and the moon adorning

1478
01:00:39,933 --> 01:00:41,300
 them and all of these things.

1479
01:00:41,366 --> 01:00:45,316
This entire chapter is 100%

1480
01:00:45,333 --> 01:00:49,650
 a vision representing what has happened.

1481
01:00:49,716 --> 01:00:51,933
These are not the literal events.

1482
01:00:51,983 --> 01:00:55,633
These are a representation because...

1483
01:00:55,650 --> 01:00:56,849
 spirit realm version of it.

1484
01:00:56,966 --> 01:00:57,199
Right.

1485
01:00:57,266 --> 01:00:58,033
Exactly.

1486
01:00:58,116 --> 01:01:01,116
Because, I mean, you got to remember that, as

1487
01:01:01,116 --> 01:01:04,166
 you pointed out, this goes all the way back to when

1488
01:01:04,166 --> 01:01:07,300
 Lucifer 1st failed, which was prior

1489
01:01:08,316 --> 01:01:10,716
 sometime during the Garden of Eden.

1490
01:01:10,833 --> 01:01:14,133
I mean, I mean, it's way back there as when that happened.

1491
01:01:14,183 --> 01:01:18,316
And then all of a sudden you have him going after the woman as she's giving birth.

1492
01:01:18,383 --> 01:01:21,683
Well, that's 1000s of years between Eden and Christ.

1493
01:01:21,683 --> 01:01:24,800
And then 1000s of years between Christ and the time

1494
01:01:24,816 --> 01:01:26,183
 the woman is going into the wilderness.

1495
01:01:26,250 --> 01:01:28,166
This is not, this is not the Exodus.

1496
01:01:28,233 --> 01:01:28,883
This is not that.

1497
01:01:28,949 --> 01:01:30,916
This is happening in the future.

1498
01:01:30,983 --> 01:01:34,333
This is this massive time span from the beginning,

1499
01:01:34,349 --> 01:01:37,349
 all the way to the end, and John is seeing

1500
01:01:37,349 --> 01:01:40,516
 this as a vision representing what's

1501
01:01:40,533 --> 01:01:44,250
 happening, but these are massive periods of time that he's witnessing.

1502
01:01:44,316 --> 01:01:47,366
And so instead of God making him experience, you know, several

1503
01:01:47,366 --> 01:01:50,533
 1000 years of time in an instant,

1504
01:01:50,550 --> 01:01:53,550
 which, you know, might be somewhat damaging to a person to experience,

1505
01:01:53,550 --> 01:01:57,150
 he's showing him a little slideshow here and going, okay, here's what's happening.

1506
01:01:57,216 --> 01:01:59,966
Yeah, and I think this is the this is the problem.

1507
01:02:00,866 --> 01:02:03,016
This is the point where the great tribulation kicks off.

1508
01:02:03,266 --> 01:02:07,099
where he's coming down here and he's got serious wrath.

1509
01:02:07,166 --> 01:02:10,400
you know, and it talks and this is this ties in with what

1510
01:02:10,416 --> 01:02:14,133
 Jesus said, Matthew 24, when you see the abomination that makes desolate.

1511
01:02:14,183 --> 01:02:14,650
Yes, right.

1512
01:02:14,666 --> 01:02:15,683
Flea, run.

1513
01:02:15,750 --> 01:02:18,683
And that's when they run out of out of...

1514
01:02:18,750 --> 01:02:19,400
Where do you think they're going?

1515
01:02:19,466 --> 01:02:21,500
People say maybe Petra.

1516
01:02:21,633 --> 01:02:22,466
I've heard that.

1517
01:02:22,533 --> 01:02:23,066
I've heard that.

1518
01:02:23,133 --> 01:02:26,433
I don't know if anybody really knows, but I don't think they do either.

1519
01:02:26,483 --> 01:02:28,283
I think I think that's a possibility.

1520
01:02:28,283 --> 01:02:29,783
They could scatter.

1521
01:02:29,783 --> 01:02:30,550
Right.

1522
01:02:30,633 --> 01:02:33,633
Yeah, I don't think we could say with 100% accuracy,

1523
01:02:33,633 --> 01:02:36,683
 but it could even be the wilderness that they were

1524
01:02:36,683 --> 01:02:37,933
 in for 40 years.

1525
01:02:38,016 --> 01:02:38,550
It could be.

1526
01:02:38,550 --> 01:02:41,000
You know, I mean, God God provided for them there.

1527
01:02:41,066 --> 01:02:44,116
I was about to say, the one thing we can say with certainty is

1528
01:02:44,133 --> 01:02:46,050
 that it's an area that's going to be considered a wilderness.

1529
01:02:46,116 --> 01:02:49,166
Yeah, there's not going to be much there.

1530
01:02:49,233 --> 01:02:51,033
Water from a rock and mana there, you know?

1531
01:02:51,033 --> 01:02:54,566
That's another reason I don't think I don't think the symbolism

1532
01:02:54,566 --> 01:02:57,616
 would equate to a plane either

1533
01:02:57,633 --> 01:03:00,800
 because I don't think it's going to be a place where a plane could even land.

1534
01:03:00,866 --> 01:03:02,783
I think they're going to be like taking off.

1535
01:03:02,849 --> 01:03:04,099
I think they're literally heading into the desert.

1536
01:03:04,166 --> 01:03:04,766
Yeah, yeah.

1537
01:03:04,833 --> 01:03:07,233
A lot of planes to get 1000000s of people, you know.

1538
01:03:07,283 --> 01:03:08,183
Oh, yeah, yeah.

1539
01:03:08,250 --> 01:03:10,466
Who knows how many's left, but...

1540
01:03:10,533 --> 01:03:11,133
At this point.

1541
01:03:11,183 --> 01:03:13,516
At this point in time, you know, at least a few thousand.

1542
01:03:13,583 --> 01:03:15,616
Yeah, there's got to be a few.

1543
01:03:15,683 --> 01:03:17,599
I thought bouncing back to 13.

1544
01:03:17,783 --> 01:03:20,000
I thought it was, that just seems funny to me.

1545
01:03:20,066 --> 01:03:22,933
It says when the dragon saw that he was thrown to earth.

1546
01:03:23,016 --> 01:03:26,133
Yeah, well, where am I?

1547
01:03:26,183 --> 01:03:27,083
Yeah, yeah.

1548
01:03:27,816 --> 01:03:28,816
Yeah, it's like, how happened?

1549
01:03:29,066 --> 01:03:29,966
How did I get here?

1550
01:03:30,033 --> 01:03:30,683
Yeah.

1551
01:03:30,750 --> 01:03:32,300
But it's funny.

1552
01:03:32,366 --> 01:03:35,416
And I want to point out, too, that, you know, a lot of people into pop culture

1553
01:03:35,433 --> 01:03:38,550
 just just think that that Satan is the ruler of hell

1554
01:03:38,550 --> 01:03:42,016
 and that's his home and that's where he lives and all this.

1555
01:03:42,083 --> 01:03:42,616
Hell, man.

1556
01:03:42,683 --> 01:03:44,183
He ain't hell.

1557
01:03:44,250 --> 01:03:45,316
He's running roaming the earth.

1558
01:03:45,383 --> 01:03:47,300
He's in the heaven's heavenly realms.

1559
01:03:47,433 --> 01:03:48,983
He ain't in hell.

1560
01:03:49,050 --> 01:03:52,050
And one day when he is in the lake of fire, he's just going to be

1561
01:03:52,050 --> 01:03:53,183
 like everybody else there, right?

1562
01:03:53,183 --> 01:03:55,583
Tormented for forever and ever and ever.

1563
01:03:55,650 --> 01:03:57,199
He's not he's not a ruler there.

1564
01:03:57,266 --> 01:04:00,733
And that, by the way, when when you hear these modern,

1565
01:04:00,750 --> 01:04:04,583
 especially the non-religious Jews talking about Satan

1566
01:04:04,583 --> 01:04:08,533
 being from this Satan that they that that's

1567
01:04:08,550 --> 01:04:11,599
 where those ideas come from, is this this boogeyman that they had created

1568
01:04:11,616 --> 01:04:14,666
 in their minds and that they used a lot of

1569
01:04:14,666 --> 01:04:16,216
 time to tell the, oh, so time will get you.

1570
01:04:16,283 --> 01:04:17,183
you know, that was kind of a thing.

1571
01:04:17,250 --> 01:04:18,266
That's what they're talking about.

1572
01:04:18,333 --> 01:04:20,849
And he is, he's basically the ruler of the underworld.

1573
01:04:20,916 --> 01:04:21,866
Think of him as Hades.

1574
01:04:21,933 --> 01:04:26,366
Think of him as Pluto, Pluto,

1575
01:04:26,366 --> 01:04:29,366
 and the Greek or the Roman, you

1576
01:04:29,366 --> 01:04:32,416
 know, that's the kind of being that you're, that people have conflated

1577
01:04:32,433 --> 01:04:34,766
 that with Satan and with the devil.

1578
01:04:34,833 --> 01:04:38,900
But when you look at Satan in the Bible, there is no...

1579
01:04:38,916 --> 01:04:43,716
Excuse me, there are no equivalencies

1580
01:04:43,716 --> 01:04:47,366
 to Satan from the Bible in any other religion.

1581
01:04:47,433 --> 01:04:50,666
It's a unique thing that

1582
01:04:50,666 --> 01:04:54,133
 only exists in the Bible and in the scripture and in the Word of God.

1583
01:04:54,216 --> 01:04:57,383
Going all the way back to Genesis, going all the way back to the

1584
01:04:57,383 --> 01:04:59,800
 Old Testament and the descriptions of him.

1585
01:05:00,816 --> 01:05:04,583
It's very interesting to me because a lot of people want to,

1586
01:05:04,583 --> 01:05:06,550
 sorry, sorry to get off on this little bit of a tangent.

1587
01:05:06,633 --> 01:05:09,750
A lot of people want to say that Christianity comes out of all of these other

1588
01:05:09,750 --> 01:05:12,916
 religions and all of these older pre-existing religions and

1589
01:05:12,933 --> 01:05:16,283
 that Christianity has taken this from this one and this from that one.

1590
01:05:16,349 --> 01:05:18,683
Satan only exists here.

1591
01:05:18,750 --> 01:05:22,283
Christ, and specifically the way salvation

1592
01:05:22,283 --> 01:05:25,333
 works, only exists in Christianity.

1593
01:05:25,416 --> 01:05:26,966
It shares nothing.

1594
01:05:27,033 --> 01:05:31,050
Those two, two, huge points.

1595
01:05:31,116 --> 01:05:32,066
They could be more opposites.

1596
01:05:32,133 --> 01:05:35,300
Yeah, and every picture that we see of

1597
01:05:35,316 --> 01:05:38,316
 Satan, you know, the cartoon version

1598
01:05:38,316 --> 01:05:41,666
 with the pitchfork and the horns, the evil

1599
01:05:41,666 --> 01:05:44,533
 looking monstrous Satan that we see all over the place.

1600
01:05:44,666 --> 01:05:46,583
Guys, that's what he wants you.

1601
01:05:46,650 --> 01:05:49,883
I mean, that's what he wants you to think, you know, but that's

1602
01:05:49,883 --> 01:05:51,083
 not who he really is, right?

1603
01:05:51,150 --> 01:05:53,900
I mean, who he really is, is beautiful.

1604
01:05:53,966 --> 01:05:57,083
who he really is, is, is, is enticing.

1605
01:05:57,150 --> 01:06:00,199
It's attractive and and he's

1606
01:06:00,216 --> 01:06:03,333
 like, you know, if they show him this picture of

1607
01:06:03,333 --> 01:06:06,449
 me, then they'll stay away from that picture, but I'm going to be over here

1608
01:06:06,449 --> 01:06:09,449
 and I'm going to be swinging some things in front of

1609
01:06:09,449 --> 01:06:12,449
 their face that they that they'll be attracted to that they'll be that

1610
01:06:12,449 --> 01:06:14,183
 I can corrupt them with.

1611
01:06:14,250 --> 01:06:17,250
So, so the pictures that we

1612
01:06:17,250 --> 01:06:21,016
 see of Satan, they do describe the character of Satan.

1613
01:06:21,150 --> 01:06:24,383
But not as far as or not

1614
01:06:24,383 --> 01:06:27,550
 not really the character, but I guess the evil part of,

1615
01:06:27,566 --> 01:06:31,583
 you know what I'm saying, that the evil is ugly, but Satan himself is not.

1616
01:06:31,650 --> 01:06:32,849
I was trying to find a place.

1617
01:06:32,849 --> 01:06:33,750
I can't find it.

1618
01:06:33,816 --> 01:06:36,866
It's somewhere in Isaiah, but God has given a

1619
01:06:36,866 --> 01:06:40,333
 prophecy through one of the prophets against a

1620
01:06:40,349 --> 01:06:43,766
 king, an earthly king, and it kind of morphs into this thing about Lucifer.

1621
01:06:43,833 --> 01:06:45,866
Oh, yes.

1622
01:06:45,933 --> 01:06:48,983
And he says, and people will look at him and say, is this the

1623
01:06:48,983 --> 01:06:50,416
 one that deceived the nations?

1624
01:06:50,433 --> 01:06:52,349
Because it's beautiful.

1625
01:06:52,416 --> 01:06:53,183
Yeah, yeah.

1626
01:06:53,250 --> 01:06:53,666
Yeah.

1627
01:06:53,733 --> 01:06:54,199
Yeah.

1628
01:06:54,216 --> 01:06:55,116
Tired.

1629
01:06:56,316 --> 01:06:58,533
King of Tyre, King of Poseidon or King.

1630
01:06:58,650 --> 01:06:58,949
Yeah.

1631
01:06:59,016 --> 01:06:59,316
Yeah.

1632
01:06:59,316 --> 01:06:59,566
Yeah.

1633
01:07:00,216 --> 01:07:02,183
Yeah, but that's the thing.

1634
01:07:02,250 --> 01:07:05,300
And that's one of the things that I just, I have to point that out that

1635
01:07:05,316 --> 01:07:09,083
 this is, when you read this, it becomes so obvious.

1636
01:07:09,083 --> 01:07:12,983
And Revelation, in my opinion, makes it so clear.

1637
01:07:13,050 --> 01:07:16,050
Satan, Christ, the descriptions of

1638
01:07:16,050 --> 01:07:18,383
 them from the scripture are so vastly different.

1639
01:07:18,449 --> 01:07:20,250
It's Christ is not Hercules.

1640
01:07:20,316 --> 01:07:20,733
Yeah.

1641
01:07:20,733 --> 01:07:23,733
I mean, that's literally what some people

1642
01:07:23,733 --> 01:07:26,733
 want to argue that the story of Jesus comes from the story of

1643
01:07:26,733 --> 01:07:29,599
 Heracles, of Hercules, because he's the son of God.

1644
01:07:29,666 --> 01:07:30,800
And I'm like, yeah, no.

1645
01:07:31,716 --> 01:07:35,616
The big difference in the description of them.

1646
01:07:35,666 --> 01:07:39,683
And then the Satan, they always want to equate him back to these other religions,

1647
01:07:39,683 --> 01:07:41,300
 Lord of the underworld.

1648
01:07:41,366 --> 01:07:44,416
Satan is never told that he's really lord of

1649
01:07:44,433 --> 01:07:45,566
 much of anything.

1650
01:07:45,633 --> 01:07:47,483
The prince of the powers of the air.

1651
01:07:47,550 --> 01:07:48,800
That's about it.

1652
01:07:48,866 --> 01:07:52,166
He doesn't, I mean, he has the authority that God allows him to have because

1653
01:07:52,166 --> 01:07:54,083
 God created him, created him for things.

1654
01:07:54,150 --> 01:07:57,800
But he's not the ultimate ruler of anything.

1655
01:07:58,349 --> 01:08:00,449
Well, I thought we've talked about in here before.

1656
01:08:00,516 --> 01:08:04,166
And we talked about Michael the Archangel a little bit ago.

1657
01:08:04,166 --> 01:08:07,216
And really, if you want to find an

1658
01:08:07,233 --> 01:08:10,233
 equivalent of the power, I would say Michael and

1659
01:08:10,233 --> 01:08:14,000
 Satan, would be would be on the same lines, right?

1660
01:08:14,066 --> 01:08:17,533
God and Satan, they're not opposite.

1661
01:08:17,616 --> 01:08:20,316
Like, we want to put God on one shoulder and Satan on the other.

1662
01:08:20,366 --> 01:08:21,433
No way.

1663
01:08:21,516 --> 01:08:22,350
No way.

1664
01:08:22,416 --> 01:08:23,550
God is all powerful.

1665
01:08:23,616 --> 01:08:24,149
All knowing.

1666
01:08:24,216 --> 01:08:27,266
He could destroy Satan with a blink

1667
01:08:27,266 --> 01:08:29,416
 of the eye or the thought or whatever he wanted to do.

1668
01:08:29,433 --> 01:08:31,166
And Satan's gone, right?

1669
01:08:31,233 --> 01:08:34,399
Like you said, he only has the power that God allows him to have.

1670
01:08:34,466 --> 01:08:37,466
His power is more on,

1671
01:08:37,466 --> 01:08:39,083
 again, it's on the angelic level.

1672
01:08:39,149 --> 01:08:41,600
Just as Michael.

1673
01:08:41,666 --> 01:08:43,699
And the other angels are.

1674
01:08:43,766 --> 01:08:47,116
But then but then they're going to be powered

1675
01:08:47,133 --> 01:08:50,550
 by the by the hand of God to destroy him too.

1676
01:08:50,616 --> 01:08:52,050
So they're going to be even stronger than he is.

1677
01:08:52,116 --> 01:08:52,833
Oh, of course.

1678
01:08:52,883 --> 01:08:56,116
Well, we saw that other angel a few chapters ago that

1679
01:08:56,133 --> 01:08:59,600
 had one foot on the sea and one foot on the land, no name given.

1680
01:08:59,666 --> 01:09:00,133
Right.

1681
01:09:00,216 --> 01:09:00,449
Yeah.

1682
01:09:00,516 --> 01:09:02,783
And gave the scroll to John to eat.

1683
01:09:02,916 --> 01:09:04,716
We don't know what's out there.

1684
01:09:04,766 --> 01:09:07,816
No, I mean, God has so many things out

1685
01:09:07,833 --> 01:09:10,699
 there and so much out there that's just beyond our comprehension right now.

1686
01:09:10,766 --> 01:09:14,000
But the thing is, and the other thing you pointed out that God and Satan

1687
01:09:14,016 --> 01:09:17,616
 are not opposites, because really and truly the answer for what is the opposite of God?

1688
01:09:17,666 --> 01:09:18,050
Nothing.

1689
01:09:18,750 --> 01:09:19,466
Nothing.

1690
01:09:19,466 --> 01:09:21,983
I want to make sure I'm clear.

1691
01:09:22,116 --> 01:09:25,050
When I say that, I mean, literally nothing.

1692
01:09:25,116 --> 01:09:29,066
It would require nothing to exist.

1693
01:09:29,133 --> 01:09:31,699
That is the only thing that is the opposite of God.

1694
01:09:32,366 --> 01:09:34,816
Yeah, he has no equal.

1695
01:09:34,883 --> 01:09:35,649
Yeah.

1696
01:09:35,666 --> 01:09:37,399
So where'd we end up here?

1697
01:09:37,466 --> 01:09:38,050
15?

1698
01:09:38,966 --> 01:09:39,050
15.

1699
01:09:39,816 --> 01:09:40,416
Yeah, 15.

1700
01:09:40,649 --> 01:09:41,850
All right.

1701
01:09:41,916 --> 01:09:45,216
And the serpent poured out or, and the serpent poured

1702
01:09:45,216 --> 01:09:48,333
 water like a river out of his mouth after the, after the

1703
01:09:48,333 --> 01:09:51,750
 woman so that he might cause her to be swept away with the flood.

1704
01:09:51,816 --> 01:09:54,933
But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened

1705
01:09:54,933 --> 01:09:58,100
 its mouth and drank up the river, which the dragon poured out of his mouth.

1706
01:09:58,166 --> 01:10:01,300
Now this is some symbology here that it's

1707
01:10:02,000 --> 01:10:03,366
 a little difficult to understand too.

1708
01:10:03,449 --> 01:10:05,300
Is that a literal, much water?

1709
01:10:07,050 --> 01:10:07,350
Maybe?

1710
01:10:07,416 --> 01:10:08,550
I think maybe it could be.

1711
01:10:08,616 --> 01:10:09,449
It could be?

1712
01:10:09,449 --> 01:10:09,916
Yeah.

1713
01:10:09,983 --> 01:10:12,683
I think it's more of a spiritual thing, probably.

1714
01:10:12,750 --> 01:10:14,183
We're just saying God's protection.

1715
01:10:14,250 --> 01:10:17,300
And it could be that it could be that, um, uh,

1716
01:10:17,816 --> 01:10:19,949
 this this, this flood of water.

1717
01:10:20,016 --> 01:10:23,966
Of course, this is this is coming from the enemy, the flood.

1718
01:10:24,033 --> 01:10:25,283
I know it is, right?

1719
01:10:25,350 --> 01:10:25,766
Yeah.

1720
01:10:25,766 --> 01:10:28,933
And then God opens up the ground or

1721
01:10:28,949 --> 01:10:30,316
 whatever and consumes it.

1722
01:10:30,383 --> 01:10:32,233
Yeah, that could be literal.

1723
01:10:32,316 --> 01:10:35,316
But the flood also could be a flood of

1724
01:10:35,316 --> 01:10:38,433
 of uh, of soldiers, of people coming

1725
01:10:38,433 --> 01:10:41,600
 after them, overwhelming majority

1726
01:10:41,616 --> 01:10:44,733
 of people, you know, that are coming after Israel and God swallows

1727
01:10:44,733 --> 01:10:48,266
 them up and kills them like he did again back

1728
01:10:48,266 --> 01:10:51,383
 in Egypt when they were when they were fleeing Egypt.

1729
01:10:51,449 --> 01:10:52,216
So, yeah.

1730
01:10:52,283 --> 01:10:53,000
Yeah.

1731
01:10:53,000 --> 01:10:53,300
Yeah.

1732
01:10:54,266 --> 01:10:56,000
So it's more of that.

1733
01:10:56,000 --> 01:10:59,166
Now, and I'd like to point out too, that I believe verse

1734
01:10:59,183 --> 01:11:02,600
 chapter 12 is probably has more symbology

1735
01:11:02,600 --> 01:11:04,449
 than any other chapter in the novel.

1736
01:11:04,533 --> 01:11:05,783
I agree, yes, I agree.

1737
01:11:05,783 --> 01:11:07,149
It's a huge amount of symbology.

1738
01:11:07,233 --> 01:11:08,966
Symbol after symbol after symbol, yeah.

1739
01:11:09,033 --> 01:11:12,333
Looks like Tyler said earlier, you can go back and

1740
01:11:12,333 --> 01:11:15,083
 we've and we have, you can go back to Daniel.

1741
01:11:15,149 --> 01:11:18,316
You can go back to all these other books, you

1742
01:11:18,333 --> 01:11:19,466
 can go back to Matthew 24.

1743
01:11:19,649 --> 01:11:22,699
You can go back to all these places and tie these things in and

1744
01:11:22,716 --> 01:11:24,266
 say, oh, okay, that's what that makes.

1745
01:11:24,333 --> 01:11:25,533
That's what that means.

1746
01:11:25,649 --> 01:11:28,166
And that's that's what you've got to keep in mind.

1747
01:11:28,166 --> 01:11:31,583
In, in, in, I know we've said this before,

1748
01:11:31,583 --> 01:11:33,850
 but that's what you got to keep in mind in the book of Revelation.

1749
01:11:33,933 --> 01:11:36,500
If it's symbolic, there will be something else.

1750
01:11:36,566 --> 01:11:39,566
There'll be another verse chapter that will

1751
01:11:39,566 --> 01:11:42,800
 back it up and we'll tell you, okay, and they'll explain what it is.

1752
01:11:42,816 --> 01:11:46,233
If it stands along, then take it literal,

1753
01:11:46,233 --> 01:11:48,149
 it is literal, just like it is.

1754
01:11:48,216 --> 01:11:49,416
Wherever possible.

1755
01:11:49,466 --> 01:11:51,916
And that is true with all symbology in scripture.

1756
01:11:51,983 --> 01:11:54,983
If it is a symbolic thing, you

1757
01:11:54,983 --> 01:11:58,583
 will find it occurring at least one or 2 other times versus

1758
01:11:58,583 --> 01:12:01,933
 something that just occurs once and is described in fairly

1759
01:12:01,949 --> 01:12:04,766
 decent detail and it just sits there and it's like, huh, that sounds weird.

1760
01:12:04,833 --> 01:12:06,983
It's probably not a symbol.

1761
01:12:07,050 --> 01:12:09,383
It's probably literally describing something that was.

1762
01:12:09,449 --> 01:12:11,066
There's a good reason for it too, right?

1763
01:12:11,133 --> 01:12:14,600
Yeah, I mean, he's describing things in the 1st century that we're

1764
01:12:14,616 --> 01:12:17,666
 we're looking at, you know, 1000 years later, and we

1765
01:12:17,666 --> 01:12:19,583
 can understand most of what he's saying here.

1766
01:12:19,649 --> 01:12:21,199
Exactly. it is symbology.

1767
01:12:21,266 --> 01:12:24,866
I think what you were talking about earlier is in Ezekiel 38.

1768
01:12:25,116 --> 01:12:26,016
Oh, there it is.

1769
01:12:26,066 --> 01:12:27,316
I think that's where it's at.

1770
01:12:27,383 --> 01:12:27,550
Yeah.

1771
01:12:30,066 --> 01:12:34,466
Do you want to hit 17 before we close out?

1772
01:12:34,533 --> 01:12:35,183
Yeah, yeah.

1773
01:12:35,250 --> 01:12:36,683
Because that's important.

1774
01:12:36,750 --> 01:12:37,466
Oh yeah.

1775
01:12:37,533 --> 01:12:41,183
So, and the dragon was wroth with

1776
01:12:41,183 --> 01:12:44,233
 the woman and went to make war with the remnant of

1777
01:12:44,250 --> 01:12:47,666
 her seed, which keep the commandments

1778
01:12:47,666 --> 01:12:50,000
 of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

1779
01:12:50,066 --> 01:12:51,316
Okay?

1780
01:12:51,383 --> 01:12:55,283
So the woman, of course, we already know the woman is Israel.

1781
01:12:55,566 --> 01:12:59,550
The remnant, I believe, is probably the 144,000.

1782
01:12:59,916 --> 01:13:02,966
I would, that's, that's, that's, uh, just

1783
01:13:02,966 --> 01:13:06,316
 tying this into scripture and in place and time.

1784
01:13:06,383 --> 01:13:09,383
I think that's probably what we're talking about here and what we're

1785
01:13:09,383 --> 01:13:12,983
 dealing with here is the remnant is the 144,000 that

1786
01:13:12,983 --> 01:13:14,300
 have been sealed to the end.

1787
01:13:14,366 --> 01:13:17,833
Yeah, and

1788
01:13:17,850 --> 01:13:21,016
 do you think they're, I don't know, man,

1789
01:13:21,033 --> 01:13:25,350
 it's hard to say how many people are still alive at this point on the earth, but they're believers too, right?

1790
01:13:25,416 --> 01:13:26,550
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

1791
01:13:26,616 --> 01:13:27,333
Yeah, yeah.

1792
01:13:27,383 --> 01:13:30,433
And I think this is going to be, you know, this kicks

1793
01:13:30,449 --> 01:13:34,466
 off, you know, around the great tribulation where people are going to start losing their heads.

1794
01:13:34,583 --> 01:13:37,583
And Satan's got great wrath right now.

1795
01:13:37,716 --> 01:13:39,516
And he's going to start coming after him.

1796
01:13:39,566 --> 01:13:41,183
I think we see a picture of that a little bit.

1797
01:13:41,250 --> 01:13:44,250
I think it's in Revelation 6 where we see the souls under the

1798
01:13:44,250 --> 01:13:47,183
 altar who's going to be headed for the cause of Christ.

1799
01:13:47,250 --> 01:13:50,250
And that's where this stuff's coming

1800
01:13:50,250 --> 01:13:52,350
 from because he's on earth and he is mad.

1801
01:13:52,416 --> 01:13:53,433
He is.

1802
01:13:53,433 --> 01:13:53,783
Yeah.

1803
01:13:53,783 --> 01:13:55,399
He's going after everybody.

1804
01:13:55,466 --> 01:13:56,533
absolutely.

1805
01:13:56,616 --> 01:13:59,183
that won't take the mark of the beast, basically, I guess.

1806
01:13:59,316 --> 01:14:00,633
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1807
01:14:00,683 --> 01:14:01,699
And that's that's the thing.

1808
01:14:01,766 --> 01:14:03,616
You're gonna, you're gonna, you're gonna die.

1809
01:14:03,683 --> 01:14:06,983
I mean, you know, most likely most of you are going to die,

1810
01:14:06,983 --> 01:14:11,000
 be tortured to death, that don't

1811
01:14:11,016 --> 01:14:12,033
 take the mark of the beast.

1812
01:14:12,083 --> 01:14:15,083
There'll be very few people that'll make it all

1813
01:14:15,083 --> 01:14:18,733
 the way through to the end besides the 144,000 who are sealed.

1814
01:14:18,816 --> 01:14:19,166
right?

1815
01:14:19,233 --> 01:14:19,550
Yeah.

1816
01:14:20,733 --> 01:14:21,033
Yeah.

1817
01:14:21,083 --> 01:14:22,149
Oh, man.

1818
01:14:22,233 --> 01:14:23,966
Man, 0 man.

1819
01:14:24,033 --> 01:14:26,850
keep the commandments of God and hold of the testimony of Jesus.

1820
01:14:26,850 --> 01:14:29,850
And the only way we have to keep the commandments of God is to hold to the

1821
01:14:29,850 --> 01:14:30,916
 testimony of Jesus.

1822
01:14:30,983 --> 01:14:31,550
Yeah.

1823
01:14:32,066 --> 01:14:34,050
By the blood of the lamb and the word of our testament.

1824
01:14:34,116 --> 01:14:34,583
That's right.

1825
01:14:34,649 --> 01:14:35,300
That's right.

1826
01:14:35,366 --> 01:14:36,016
Amen.

1827
01:14:36,083 --> 01:14:36,500
That's right.

1828
01:14:36,566 --> 01:14:36,916
Amen.

1829
01:14:36,983 --> 01:14:38,716
All right.

1830
01:14:38,783 --> 01:14:41,949
Well, you know, this is the chapter 12 is kind of an introduction

1831
01:14:41,966 --> 01:14:44,833
 to some characters in 13 and 13, man.

1832
01:14:44,966 --> 01:14:49,333
Yeah, it's here, brother.

1833
01:14:49,416 --> 01:14:50,366
It's here.

1834
01:14:50,433 --> 01:14:53,600
There's so much of this stuff that 13's going to talk

1835
01:14:53,616 --> 01:14:56,133
 about that is everything's in place right now.

1836
01:14:56,250 --> 01:14:59,600
There's nothing that could that could

1837
01:14:59,616 --> 01:15:03,333
 hold it back from happening if the if the rapture took place today.

1838
01:15:03,383 --> 01:15:04,449
Here we go.

1839
01:15:04,533 --> 01:15:05,133
Yep.

1840
01:15:05,133 --> 01:15:06,266
Here we go.

1841
01:15:06,333 --> 01:15:09,500
And it's like the, it's like the old, you know,

1842
01:15:09,516 --> 01:15:13,583
 the thing about the, the, you see the clouds coming, you know, you know, it's probably going to get rain.

1843
01:15:13,649 --> 01:15:14,116
Yes.

1844
01:15:14,133 --> 01:15:17,366
They get over your head and the thunder and lightning start popping.

1845
01:15:17,366 --> 01:15:18,133
You better watch out.

1846
01:15:18,216 --> 01:15:19,233
That's where we are.

1847
01:15:19,283 --> 01:15:19,883
That we are.

1848
01:15:19,949 --> 01:15:20,366
We are.

1849
01:15:20,433 --> 01:15:20,966
Absolutely.

1850
01:15:21,033 --> 01:15:22,949
And we need to pay attention to that, right?

1851
01:15:23,016 --> 01:15:24,516
Instead of standing out in the rain.

1852
01:15:24,566 --> 01:15:25,166
That's right.

1853
01:15:25,233 --> 01:15:26,000
right.

1854
01:15:26,066 --> 01:15:27,433
They're in the light and to strike.

1855
01:15:27,516 --> 01:15:29,666
Acting like we don't we don't see it coming.

1856
01:15:29,783 --> 01:15:29,949
Yeah.

1857
01:15:30,449 --> 01:15:30,983
Yeah.

1858
01:15:31,050 --> 01:15:33,016
And that's where we warn people, right?

1859
01:15:33,083 --> 01:15:33,550
Yeah.

1860
01:15:34,533 --> 01:15:34,800
Absolutely.

1861
01:15:36,566 --> 01:15:37,550
And whew.

1862
01:15:39,316 --> 01:15:39,816
Goodness.

1863
01:15:39,866 --> 01:15:43,766
So chapter 13, we're, wow, we were making headway on this.

1864
01:15:43,833 --> 01:15:44,433
We're doing good.

1865
01:15:44,483 --> 01:15:45,083
We're doing really good

1866
01:15:45,266 --> 01:15:46,583
Yeah, man, we might not take 2 years.

1867
01:15:46,649 --> 01:15:47,850
We're rocking, rolling.

1868
01:15:47,916 --> 01:15:51,216
But that one's where chapter

1869
01:15:51,216 --> 01:15:54,266
 13 is where we get some more, and this is where

1870
01:15:54,266 --> 01:15:57,266
 we start, see, start to see some

1871
01:15:57,266 --> 01:16:00,316
 of the symbology and the literal stuff starts kind of start

1872
01:16:00,333 --> 01:16:04,350
 bleeding back together as we go chapter 13 and 14 into the rest of the book.

1873
01:16:04,416 --> 01:16:07,583
Um, and that's where I think, I

1874
01:16:07,583 --> 01:16:10,583
 think these, these couple of chapters right here

1875
01:16:10,583 --> 01:16:13,583
 from 12 to 14 is typically where a lot of people get really

1876
01:16:13,583 --> 01:16:16,583
 confused and really messed up with Revelation because

1877
01:16:16,583 --> 01:16:19,699
 you do start, you have that sudden shift

1878
01:16:19,716 --> 01:16:23,733
 from vision of what's going to happen, vision of what's going to happen,

1879
01:16:23,783 --> 01:16:25,750
And then this very symbolic chapter.

1880
01:16:25,833 --> 01:16:28,649
And then another chapter that has symbolism in it.

1881
01:16:28,716 --> 01:16:31,766
And then and then you start getting into more visions

1882
01:16:31,766 --> 01:16:32,833
 of what's going to happen again.

1883
01:16:32,916 --> 01:16:36,933
And I think that that transition, because it is very abrupt.

1884
01:16:36,983 --> 01:16:40,100
I will say that it is very abrupt in chapter 12 because it

1885
01:16:40,116 --> 01:16:42,266
 just, boom, all of a sudden it's like, wait, what?

1886
01:16:42,333 --> 01:16:43,050
Yeah.

1887
01:16:43,050 --> 01:16:46,283
And I think these, the,

1888
01:16:46,283 --> 01:16:49,333
 this little section right here is where a lot of people get really mixed

1889
01:16:49,350 --> 01:16:52,466
 up and really confused about what, what's going on with Revelation.

1890
01:16:52,466 --> 01:16:55,633
And I think it's part of the reason that a lot of people are nervous about studying

1891
01:16:55,649 --> 01:16:58,100
 it, but there's a lot to be taken.

1892
01:16:58,166 --> 01:16:59,483
I mean, God does.

1893
01:16:59,550 --> 01:17:01,516
I mean, he made it very clear at the beginning of it.

1894
01:17:01,583 --> 01:17:04,750
that reading it and understanding it and taking it in,

1895
01:17:04,766 --> 01:17:06,266
 we will be blessed by it.

1896
01:17:06,333 --> 01:17:08,250
And I mean, there's a blessing in here.

1897
01:17:08,316 --> 01:17:10,949
God would not have given it to us if he did not intend to bless us with it.

1898
01:17:11,016 --> 01:17:14,016
So, I know this one is, like

1899
01:17:14,016 --> 01:17:17,183
 I say, I'm sure some people are going to be as we get into these going, huh,

1900
01:17:17,183 --> 01:17:19,100
 these make me kind of nervous and these are rough.

1901
01:17:19,166 --> 01:17:19,699
These are rough.

1902
01:17:19,833 --> 01:17:23,300
That middle, this whole middle portion of Revelation

1903
01:17:23,316 --> 01:17:25,116
 is really, really a hard read.

1904
01:17:25,166 --> 01:17:27,316
But we know what's coming at the end.

1905
01:17:27,383 --> 01:17:30,800
And that's thing that you got to remember as we go through it, what's

1906
01:17:30,816 --> 01:17:34,116
 coming at the end is perfection and

1907
01:17:34,116 --> 01:17:37,466
 is a victory and is victory over sin,

1908
01:17:37,466 --> 01:17:39,133
 death, hell, the grave.

1909
01:17:39,216 --> 01:17:40,350
All of it.

1910
01:17:40,416 --> 01:17:42,816
And I mean, the victory at the end makes all of this worth it.

1911
01:17:42,866 --> 01:17:44,183
So I know it's a tough read.

1912
01:17:44,250 --> 01:17:45,149
Revelation 13.

1913
01:17:45,683 --> 01:17:47,116
Well, you got something.

1914
01:17:47,183 --> 01:17:49,100
Yeah, yeah, I start saying Dennis has something.

1915
01:17:49,166 --> 01:17:51,083
We're going to let him get that. some before.

1916
01:17:51,149 --> 01:17:53,366
I mean, we got victory before this stuff happened.

1917
01:17:53,433 --> 01:17:54,083
Oh, yes.

1918
01:17:54,083 --> 01:17:57,133
If you just believe right now, if you just trust Jesus Christ

1919
01:17:57,149 --> 01:18:00,500
 with your eternal future right now, 1st Thessalonians

1920
01:18:00,516 --> 01:18:03,516
 5, 9, for God has not destined us for wrath, but for

1921
01:18:03,516 --> 01:18:05,666
 obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

1922
01:18:05,783 --> 01:18:06,199
Amen.

1923
01:18:06,216 --> 01:18:06,516
Amen.

1924
01:18:06,566 --> 01:18:08,483
He's not coming against his bride, folks.

1925
01:18:08,550 --> 01:18:09,016
Exactly.

1926
01:18:09,083 --> 01:18:09,983
come get us.

1927
01:18:10,050 --> 01:18:10,583
Amen.

1928
01:18:10,649 --> 01:18:12,149
He loves us so much.

1929
01:18:12,216 --> 01:18:13,416
He loves us.

1930
01:18:13,466 --> 01:18:14,366
He wants to protect us.

1931
01:18:14,433 --> 01:18:15,083
He wants to.

1932
01:18:15,149 --> 01:18:18,383
He wants to, he has

1933
01:18:18,383 --> 01:18:20,000
 already sacrificed for us.

1934
01:18:20,066 --> 01:18:22,033
Uh, man, what a what a god.

1935
01:18:22,116 --> 01:18:23,316
What a god he is.

1936
01:18:23,366 --> 01:18:24,383
Why he loves us.

1937
01:18:24,449 --> 01:18:26,000
I have no idea, but buddy, he does.

1938
01:18:26,066 --> 01:18:26,833
Yes, he does.

1939
01:18:26,966 --> 01:18:28,166
Oh, how he looks.

1940
01:18:28,166 --> 01:18:28,766
So faithful.

1941
01:18:29,066 --> 01:18:30,149
Oh, how he loves me.

1942
01:18:30,216 --> 01:18:30,816
Amen.

1943
01:18:30,866 --> 01:18:31,816
All right.

1944
01:18:31,883 --> 01:18:35,600
Well, next week, Revelation 13, one, and I think I know I'm looking forward to it.

1945
01:18:35,666 --> 01:18:36,300
Amen.

1946
01:18:37,050 --> 01:18:40,050
Brother Brian, I think we'll let

1947
01:18:40,050 --> 01:18:42,199
 you...

1948
01:18:42,266 --> 01:18:43,399
Oh, yeah, you did.

1949
01:18:43,466 --> 01:18:43,633
Okay.

1950
01:18:43,716 --> 01:18:44,433
I was trying to sit here.

1951
01:18:44,483 --> 01:18:46,633
I was thinking I was going, which one do y'all prayed to open us?

1952
01:18:46,716 --> 01:18:50,133
So brother Dennis will let you pray to close this out and next

1953
01:18:50,133 --> 01:18:53,250
 week, 13, one, Revelation 13, one.

1954
01:18:53,316 --> 01:18:56,483
We'll dive into it and keep going with the book of Revelation.

1955
01:18:56,550 --> 01:18:57,316
All right.

1956
01:18:57,383 --> 01:19:00,433
Father in heaven, thank you so much for your word that you preserved

1957
01:19:00,449 --> 01:19:01,816
 for us for 1000s of years.

1958
01:19:01,883 --> 01:19:05,116
Father, the hope that you've given us by giving us these prophecies.

1959
01:19:05,183 --> 01:19:07,449
Father, we don't know where we'd be without them.

1960
01:19:07,533 --> 01:19:11,899
Father, thank you so much for caring so much for us to give us these things.

1961
01:19:11,966 --> 01:19:14,116
Father, thank you for your faithfulness.

1962
01:19:14,183 --> 01:19:17,300
Thank you for your love and your kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

1963
01:19:17,366 --> 01:19:20,533
Father, I pray for everyone listening that they would know your love.

1964
01:19:20,616 --> 01:19:23,966
Father, knock on the door of their hearts and don't let them sleep until

1965
01:19:23,966 --> 01:19:26,116
 they've accepted you as their Lord and Savior.

1966
01:19:26,183 --> 01:19:29,183
Father, thank you for this time together with my brothers,

1967
01:19:29,183 --> 01:19:31,750
 and I pray that you bless each of them.

1968
01:19:31,833 --> 01:19:34,949
Father, and bless everyone listening until we come

1969
01:19:34,949 --> 01:19:36,500
 together again in Jesus' name.

1970
01:19:36,566 --> 01:19:37,033
Amen.

1971
01:19:37,166 --> 01:19:37,699
Amen.

1972
01:19:37,766 --> 01:19:38,366
Amen.