1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,020 to Revelation chapter eight. 2 00:00:03,020 --> 00:00:05,800 Revelation chapter eight. 3 00:00:07,900 --> 00:00:11,060 Last week we were beginning this transition 4 00:00:11,060 --> 00:00:14,100 into studying the seven trumpets 5 00:00:14,100 --> 00:00:16,980 and we are beginning now tonight 6 00:00:16,980 --> 00:00:19,340 to discuss the seven trumpets. 7 00:00:19,340 --> 00:00:22,260 We're gonna look at the first four tonight, Lord Willen. 8 00:00:22,260 --> 00:00:23,220 We'll see how far we get, 9 00:00:23,220 --> 00:00:25,580 but the goal is to look at the first four 10 00:00:25,580 --> 00:00:27,860 and remember that as we're studying the trumpets, 11 00:00:27,860 --> 00:00:29,740 they kind of take us back in time, right? 12 00:00:29,740 --> 00:00:31,540 Like we started with the seals, 13 00:00:31,540 --> 00:00:33,060 but we said they don't progress, 14 00:00:33,060 --> 00:00:35,060 just one after the other after the other, 15 00:00:35,060 --> 00:00:38,820 but they work together and they all three move us 16 00:00:38,820 --> 00:00:41,980 towards that common goal, that climactic event, 17 00:00:41,980 --> 00:00:43,980 which is the final judgment. 18 00:00:43,980 --> 00:00:45,620 We have to keep that in mind as we're studying here. 19 00:00:45,620 --> 00:00:47,260 So as we begin with the trumpets, 20 00:00:47,260 --> 00:00:49,740 we're actually moving back in time 21 00:00:49,740 --> 00:00:52,100 and studying the course of human history, 22 00:00:52,100 --> 00:00:54,620 but this time from a different perspective, 23 00:00:54,620 --> 00:00:56,380 from a new perspective, 24 00:00:56,380 --> 00:00:57,740 and the trumpets are interesting 25 00:00:57,740 --> 00:00:59,500 because the trumpet judgments, 26 00:00:59,500 --> 00:01:04,500 they show this conflict between human rebellion 27 00:01:05,260 --> 00:01:09,740 and God's absolute sovereign rule over everything. 28 00:01:09,740 --> 00:01:13,140 That's the conflict that these are really highlighting here. 29 00:01:13,140 --> 00:01:16,180 If you're a parent, you're familiar with this conflict. 30 00:01:16,180 --> 00:01:18,260 I thought it was very fitting. 31 00:01:18,260 --> 00:01:20,260 Of course it was in the Lord's sovereignty that it happened, 32 00:01:20,260 --> 00:01:22,820 but this past week ran into something like this 33 00:01:22,820 --> 00:01:25,980 with Judah where I was trying to tell him to do something 34 00:01:25,980 --> 00:01:28,860 and I told him to do this thing and he said, 35 00:01:28,860 --> 00:01:30,900 well, I'm gonna go and do this instead. 36 00:01:30,900 --> 00:01:33,700 I was like, well, actually you're not. 37 00:01:33,700 --> 00:01:35,180 You're gonna do what I tell you to do. 38 00:01:35,180 --> 00:01:36,540 And he said, no, no, daddy, you're not listening. 39 00:01:36,540 --> 00:01:37,380 You're not listening. 40 00:01:37,380 --> 00:01:40,260 And I hated how much of myself I saw in him 41 00:01:40,260 --> 00:01:42,620 in this moment and what I used to do with my mom 42 00:01:42,620 --> 00:01:44,820 because he was arguing with me like a lawyer. 43 00:01:44,820 --> 00:01:46,580 My mom used to say you could argue your way 44 00:01:46,580 --> 00:01:47,900 through a room with judges. 45 00:01:49,060 --> 00:01:51,060 But he was like, okay, here's what we're gonna do instead. 46 00:01:51,060 --> 00:01:52,860 He's like, I'm gonna go do this 47 00:01:52,860 --> 00:01:54,460 and when I do this thing, 48 00:01:54,460 --> 00:01:56,420 that's gonna satisfy both of us. 49 00:01:56,420 --> 00:01:57,940 That's gonna take care of what we both want. 50 00:01:57,940 --> 00:02:01,300 I'm like, that's not the point. 51 00:02:01,300 --> 00:02:04,500 The point is in this house, I make the rules 52 00:02:04,500 --> 00:02:07,020 and I was like, you can want to do your way all you want. 53 00:02:07,020 --> 00:02:08,740 You can say it's a good suggestion. 54 00:02:08,740 --> 00:02:10,980 You might think it's even better than what daddy says. 55 00:02:10,980 --> 00:02:11,820 That's fine. 56 00:02:11,820 --> 00:02:12,660 You can think that, but I said, 57 00:02:12,660 --> 00:02:13,580 but at the end of the day, 58 00:02:13,580 --> 00:02:16,700 what we're gonna do is what I say 59 00:02:16,700 --> 00:02:18,420 because in this house, I make the rules. 60 00:02:18,420 --> 00:02:19,620 And of course that went over well 61 00:02:19,620 --> 00:02:22,020 and everything was super smooth after that. 62 00:02:22,020 --> 00:02:26,500 But that's what we begin to see in this passage. 63 00:02:26,500 --> 00:02:28,220 You see people in our world, 64 00:02:28,220 --> 00:02:31,500 they want to do everything that they wanna do. 65 00:02:31,500 --> 00:02:33,260 They wanna do things their way. 66 00:02:33,260 --> 00:02:34,420 They wanna make the rules. 67 00:02:34,420 --> 00:02:36,500 They wanna live according to their own ways, 68 00:02:36,500 --> 00:02:38,340 their own understandings. 69 00:02:38,340 --> 00:02:41,140 And they are actually rebelling against God. 70 00:02:41,140 --> 00:02:44,180 But the thing is, no matter how much they rebel, 71 00:02:44,180 --> 00:02:48,060 it's like I told Judah, it's gonna be God's way, right? 72 00:02:48,060 --> 00:02:51,260 Like God's will will be done. 73 00:02:51,260 --> 00:02:52,780 No matter how much people rebel, 74 00:02:52,780 --> 00:02:54,500 no matter how much they might not like it, 75 00:02:54,500 --> 00:02:55,980 how much they might disagree with it, 76 00:02:55,980 --> 00:02:58,740 how much they might prefer something else to happen. 77 00:02:58,740 --> 00:03:00,380 Literally none of that matters 78 00:03:00,380 --> 00:03:01,860 because at the end of the day, 79 00:03:01,860 --> 00:03:04,580 God's ways are going to be what happens. 80 00:03:04,580 --> 00:03:06,740 His will is going to be done. 81 00:03:06,740 --> 00:03:09,180 That's the whole point of this section. 82 00:03:09,180 --> 00:03:12,460 It shows that he is sovereign over all creation 83 00:03:12,460 --> 00:03:15,100 and his will will come to pass. 84 00:03:15,100 --> 00:03:17,860 And so what I wanna do is I wanna start in verse six. 85 00:03:17,860 --> 00:03:19,700 If you have your Bibles there, look there with me. 86 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:22,460 Verse six, the Bible says, 87 00:03:22,460 --> 00:03:26,660 Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets 88 00:03:26,660 --> 00:03:28,380 prepared to blow them. 89 00:03:28,380 --> 00:03:31,300 The first angel blew his trumpet 90 00:03:31,300 --> 00:03:36,220 and there followed hell and fire mixed with blood. 91 00:03:36,220 --> 00:03:37,740 And these were thrown upon the earth 92 00:03:37,740 --> 00:03:39,540 and a third of the earth was burned up 93 00:03:39,540 --> 00:03:41,060 and a third of the trees were burned up 94 00:03:41,060 --> 00:03:45,460 and all green grass was burned up. 95 00:03:45,460 --> 00:03:47,700 Now, the first thing I wanna mention again 96 00:03:47,700 --> 00:03:50,380 as we're taking notes on this as we're studying this 97 00:03:50,380 --> 00:03:53,020 is remember that there's an intensification. 98 00:03:53,020 --> 00:03:56,260 As you move from the seals to the trumpets to the bowls, 99 00:03:56,260 --> 00:03:58,820 there's an intensification of the judgment. 100 00:03:58,820 --> 00:03:59,980 You begin to see that here. 101 00:03:59,980 --> 00:04:01,860 Does anyone who's gonna be scholar of the night, 102 00:04:01,860 --> 00:04:03,220 Bible reader of the night, 103 00:04:03,220 --> 00:04:05,580 where do you see the intensification? 104 00:04:05,580 --> 00:04:06,900 We just read it in here. 105 00:04:06,900 --> 00:04:08,820 There's a key phrase that was used 106 00:04:08,820 --> 00:04:11,740 that shows things have gone up a notch. 107 00:04:16,580 --> 00:04:17,500 Kinda easy to miss. 108 00:04:17,500 --> 00:04:20,500 You have to pay very careful attention. 109 00:04:24,020 --> 00:04:25,500 Okay, mix of blood, maybe. 110 00:04:25,500 --> 00:04:28,460 Not what I was looking for, but that is a good note. 111 00:04:28,460 --> 00:04:30,060 Anybody else? 112 00:04:30,060 --> 00:04:31,220 All right, so here's what we're gonna do. 113 00:04:31,220 --> 00:04:34,180 Details matter, think back to the seven seals, right? 114 00:04:34,180 --> 00:04:36,460 The seven seals, we already studied those. 115 00:04:36,460 --> 00:04:40,860 This is what the Bible says in Revelation 6, 8. 116 00:04:40,860 --> 00:04:44,020 And I looked and behold, a pale horse 117 00:04:44,020 --> 00:04:48,020 and its rider's name was death and Hades followed him. 118 00:04:48,020 --> 00:04:51,860 And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth 119 00:04:51,860 --> 00:04:56,220 to kill with sword and with famine and with pestilence 120 00:04:56,220 --> 00:04:58,340 and by wild beast of the earth. 121 00:04:58,340 --> 00:05:00,060 Do you notice the difference there now? 122 00:05:00,060 --> 00:05:00,900 Anybody got it? 123 00:05:01,900 --> 00:05:02,740 Yeah, right? 124 00:05:02,740 --> 00:05:06,060 So we went from a fourth to a third. 125 00:05:06,060 --> 00:05:07,940 There's actually a funny story. 126 00:05:07,940 --> 00:05:09,700 A third is more than a fourth. 127 00:05:09,700 --> 00:05:10,540 There's a funny story. 128 00:05:10,540 --> 00:05:11,740 There was an American restaurant. 129 00:05:11,740 --> 00:05:15,220 You all might have heard this, that they began 130 00:05:15,220 --> 00:05:18,340 to try to combat McDonald's quarter pounder. 131 00:05:18,340 --> 00:05:21,740 They were selling a third pounder and it did miserable 132 00:05:21,740 --> 00:05:23,900 because Americans didn't realize 133 00:05:23,900 --> 00:05:25,460 that a third was bigger than a fourth. 134 00:05:25,460 --> 00:05:26,580 They saw the three and they're like, 135 00:05:26,580 --> 00:05:29,300 oh, that's less than four, so that failed. 136 00:05:29,300 --> 00:05:32,580 So it turns out, yeah, a third is more than a fourth. 137 00:05:32,580 --> 00:05:34,380 So there's an intensification here, right? 138 00:05:34,380 --> 00:05:36,100 Things are getting more heated. 139 00:05:36,100 --> 00:05:38,460 There's more stuff involved here. 140 00:05:38,460 --> 00:05:42,580 There's an increase, but notice that this has to do, 141 00:05:42,580 --> 00:05:45,100 not with people, it has to do with creation. 142 00:05:45,100 --> 00:05:47,660 You have hail and fire mixed with blood 143 00:05:47,660 --> 00:05:50,300 and it burns up a third of the earth, the trees 144 00:05:50,300 --> 00:05:51,140 and the grass. 145 00:05:51,140 --> 00:05:52,420 Now let me ask you another question. 146 00:05:52,420 --> 00:05:55,260 Does this sound at all familiar to you? 147 00:05:55,260 --> 00:06:00,260 When you see this hail and this big storm that's coming down 148 00:06:00,660 --> 00:06:04,500 and it's causing all this burning up of the trees 149 00:06:04,500 --> 00:06:07,060 and the grass and all this kind of stuff, 150 00:06:07,060 --> 00:06:08,540 does it remind you of anything? 151 00:06:12,700 --> 00:06:14,300 Nuclear, okay, maybe. 152 00:06:14,300 --> 00:06:15,140 Anything else? 153 00:06:15,140 --> 00:06:15,980 How about this? 154 00:06:15,980 --> 00:06:18,340 Does it remind you of anything else in the Bible? 155 00:06:22,660 --> 00:06:24,820 Okay, that's another good reference. 156 00:06:24,820 --> 00:06:25,740 Anybody else? 157 00:06:27,140 --> 00:06:28,580 The flood, okay. 158 00:06:28,580 --> 00:06:33,580 Think specifically, burning up, hail coming down, 159 00:06:33,940 --> 00:06:35,060 specifically hail. 160 00:06:35,060 --> 00:06:37,700 Yeah, there we go. 161 00:06:37,700 --> 00:06:39,500 Michael Stevenson, plagues in Egypt. 162 00:06:39,500 --> 00:06:40,620 So here's what's interesting. 163 00:06:40,620 --> 00:06:45,140 The first four trumpets actually correspond 164 00:06:45,140 --> 00:06:48,100 to the plagues that occurred in Egypt. 165 00:06:48,100 --> 00:06:51,620 So the first trumpet, trumpet number one, 166 00:06:51,620 --> 00:06:55,900 it corresponds to plague number seven. 167 00:06:55,900 --> 00:06:58,900 This is what the Bible says in Exodus chapter nine, 168 00:06:58,900 --> 00:07:00,820 verses 22 to 26. 169 00:07:02,020 --> 00:07:03,460 Then the Lord said to Moses, 170 00:07:03,460 --> 00:07:05,460 stretch out your hand toward heaven 171 00:07:05,460 --> 00:07:09,260 so that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, 172 00:07:09,260 --> 00:07:11,580 on man and beast and every plant of the field 173 00:07:11,580 --> 00:07:13,140 and in the land of Egypt. 174 00:07:13,140 --> 00:07:15,540 Then Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven 175 00:07:15,540 --> 00:07:17,420 and the Lord sent thunder and hail 176 00:07:17,420 --> 00:07:20,500 and fire rain down on the earth. 177 00:07:20,500 --> 00:07:22,500 The Lord rained hail upon the land of Egypt 178 00:07:22,500 --> 00:07:25,540 and there was hail and fire flashing continually 179 00:07:25,540 --> 00:07:28,260 in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, 180 00:07:28,260 --> 00:07:30,860 such as had never been in all the land of Egypt 181 00:07:30,860 --> 00:07:32,540 since it became a nation. 182 00:07:32,540 --> 00:07:35,700 The hail struck down everything that was in the field 183 00:07:35,700 --> 00:07:38,540 and in all the land of Egypt, both man and beast 184 00:07:38,540 --> 00:07:40,500 and the hail struck down every plant of the field 185 00:07:40,500 --> 00:07:42,300 and broke every tree of the field, 186 00:07:42,300 --> 00:07:44,780 only in the land of Goshen, 187 00:07:44,780 --> 00:07:48,900 where the people of Israel were, was there no hail. 188 00:07:48,900 --> 00:07:50,780 Now, do you notice all the similarities there? 189 00:07:50,780 --> 00:07:51,620 Yeah, I mean, it's like, 190 00:07:51,620 --> 00:07:54,660 it's almost like an exact picture in many ways. 191 00:07:54,660 --> 00:07:55,620 There's a key difference. 192 00:07:55,620 --> 00:08:02,620 Did you pick up on the key difference there? 193 00:08:04,580 --> 00:08:05,180 No blood? 194 00:08:05,180 --> 00:08:06,300 Okay, that's one. 195 00:08:06,300 --> 00:08:09,340 Anything else? 196 00:08:09,340 --> 00:08:16,340 What in Egypt, what did the hail fall on? 197 00:08:16,820 --> 00:08:18,940 Man and beast and everything in the field. 198 00:08:18,940 --> 00:08:21,260 What about here in Revelation? 199 00:08:21,260 --> 00:08:28,260 What does the hail fall on? 200 00:08:28,300 --> 00:08:30,260 Yeah, not mankind, right? 201 00:08:30,260 --> 00:08:32,540 So the difference here is that when you're looking 202 00:08:32,540 --> 00:08:34,860 at Revelation in the trumpet judgments, 203 00:08:34,860 --> 00:08:38,340 it's talking about creation itself and the point 204 00:08:38,340 --> 00:08:40,020 that's going to be repeatedly made 205 00:08:40,020 --> 00:08:42,300 as we study the four trumpets, 206 00:08:42,300 --> 00:08:43,860 the first four of the seven, 207 00:08:43,860 --> 00:08:49,740 is that it's showing God's judgment upon the created order. 208 00:08:49,740 --> 00:08:53,180 That man brought sin into this world, 209 00:08:53,180 --> 00:08:56,500 but that sin has affected creation in many ways. 210 00:08:56,500 --> 00:08:58,540 That creation has actually been corrupted 211 00:08:58,540 --> 00:09:00,140 and contaminated by sin, 212 00:09:00,140 --> 00:09:04,180 and it too actually suffers the judgment of God 213 00:09:04,180 --> 00:09:05,660 because of man's sin. 214 00:09:05,660 --> 00:09:08,900 Now, here's the other thing we should note. 215 00:09:08,900 --> 00:09:11,100 When we look at the plagues, 216 00:09:11,100 --> 00:09:13,140 that was a literal event that happened 217 00:09:13,140 --> 00:09:14,740 literally as it was described. 218 00:09:14,740 --> 00:09:17,740 When we're reading the trumpet and the trumpet judgments, 219 00:09:17,740 --> 00:09:22,740 we shouldn't think of this as literal necessarily. 220 00:09:22,740 --> 00:09:26,180 And the reason I say that is because here in the first trumpet, 221 00:09:26,180 --> 00:09:30,460 it literally says that all the grass is burned up, correct? 222 00:09:30,460 --> 00:09:32,180 Well, later in this same chapter, 223 00:09:32,180 --> 00:09:34,340 actually I'm sorry, in chapter nine, 224 00:09:34,340 --> 00:09:37,460 when we get to the fifth trumpet, 225 00:09:37,460 --> 00:09:40,100 we see that the angel says to, 226 00:09:40,100 --> 00:09:42,300 he literally tells the locus, 227 00:09:42,300 --> 00:09:45,020 do not harm the grass. 228 00:09:45,020 --> 00:09:47,700 But if the grass had already literally been burned up, 229 00:09:47,700 --> 00:09:50,620 why would you have to tell the locus not to harm the grass? 230 00:09:50,620 --> 00:09:52,860 It wouldn't make any sense, right? 231 00:09:52,860 --> 00:09:57,860 So you see that this is not necessarily a literal event, 232 00:09:58,340 --> 00:10:01,060 and if it's not, well, then how should we understand it? 233 00:10:01,060 --> 00:10:04,180 And here's what I want you to understand. 234 00:10:04,180 --> 00:10:06,460 The judgment is basically saying this, 235 00:10:06,460 --> 00:10:10,420 living in God's world has many blessings, 236 00:10:10,420 --> 00:10:11,980 and there are many good things about it. 237 00:10:11,980 --> 00:10:14,980 Two thirds of the world's not affected, right? 238 00:10:14,980 --> 00:10:19,980 But God's judgment does befall the world and the earth 239 00:10:21,220 --> 00:10:22,980 because of our sins. 240 00:10:22,980 --> 00:10:25,940 This doesn't happen all over the world, 241 00:10:25,940 --> 00:10:29,340 all the time nonstop, but you do see it happen, right? 242 00:10:29,340 --> 00:10:30,980 I mean, think about creation. 243 00:10:30,980 --> 00:10:33,540 Like this word hail, when it's talking about hail coming down, 244 00:10:33,540 --> 00:10:37,060 and you even saw it in Exodus as well, 245 00:10:37,060 --> 00:10:39,820 it's hard to know if it's actually hail, 246 00:10:39,820 --> 00:10:41,900 or if it's communicating like lightning 247 00:10:41,900 --> 00:10:44,500 that also has hail, a hail storm that has lightning, 248 00:10:44,500 --> 00:10:47,220 because the word's kind of ambiguous, you know? 249 00:10:47,220 --> 00:10:49,540 So like in Exodus, it was talking about hail coming down 250 00:10:49,540 --> 00:10:51,740 with flashes in the middle of it and things like that. 251 00:10:51,740 --> 00:10:54,580 So there's some ambiguity there about whether it's hail, 252 00:10:54,580 --> 00:10:56,700 or lightning, and things like that, 253 00:10:56,700 --> 00:10:58,820 but think about how we already see this 254 00:10:58,820 --> 00:11:00,620 in our world today, right? 255 00:11:00,620 --> 00:11:04,340 And how you see creation suffer the judgment of God 256 00:11:04,340 --> 00:11:05,660 in this way. 257 00:11:05,660 --> 00:11:08,780 So for instance, how many times over the past couple of years 258 00:11:08,780 --> 00:11:12,020 have we heard about a wildfire that got way out of hand 259 00:11:12,020 --> 00:11:16,220 and burned up an entire section of land? 260 00:11:16,220 --> 00:11:18,980 We hear about literal national parks 261 00:11:18,980 --> 00:11:21,860 that are being destroyed because of wildfires 262 00:11:21,860 --> 00:11:25,940 that have started because lightning struck an area, 263 00:11:25,940 --> 00:11:29,740 and that area sparked fire, all the grass was burned up, 264 00:11:29,740 --> 00:11:31,900 all the trees were burned up, all the shrubs were burned up, 265 00:11:31,900 --> 00:11:34,140 and it just kept spreading and spreading and spreading. 266 00:11:34,140 --> 00:11:35,460 Did mankind do that? 267 00:11:35,460 --> 00:11:37,820 No, what would insurance call that? 268 00:11:37,820 --> 00:11:39,140 If you could claim it on insurance, 269 00:11:39,140 --> 00:11:40,780 they'd call it an act of what? 270 00:11:40,780 --> 00:11:43,020 An act of God. 271 00:11:43,020 --> 00:11:45,140 And the Bible is saying here, 272 00:11:45,140 --> 00:11:48,900 this is not the way that the world was supposed to be. 273 00:11:48,900 --> 00:11:50,340 This wasn't supposed to happen. 274 00:11:50,340 --> 00:11:53,420 You know, in God's good creation, when He made everything, 275 00:11:53,420 --> 00:11:55,980 He made everything good, right? 276 00:11:55,980 --> 00:11:57,820 After He creates everything in the beginning, 277 00:11:57,820 --> 00:12:00,100 He says, and it is good. 278 00:12:00,100 --> 00:12:03,460 Everything about creation was good. 279 00:12:03,460 --> 00:12:05,620 And then who messed it up? 280 00:12:05,620 --> 00:12:07,060 We did. 281 00:12:07,060 --> 00:12:07,940 Mankind did. 282 00:12:07,940 --> 00:12:09,260 We brought sin into this world, 283 00:12:09,260 --> 00:12:10,780 and that fractured the world. 284 00:12:10,780 --> 00:12:13,020 I mean, Romans 8 even talks about the fact that 285 00:12:13,020 --> 00:12:16,100 creation itself is literally groaning, 286 00:12:16,100 --> 00:12:18,780 waiting for the redemption of the sons of God 287 00:12:18,780 --> 00:12:20,260 so that creation can be restored. 288 00:12:20,260 --> 00:12:22,380 There is a restoration coming, 289 00:12:22,380 --> 00:12:23,900 and creation is longing for it, 290 00:12:23,900 --> 00:12:25,780 but until that happens, 291 00:12:25,780 --> 00:12:28,540 creation is going to suffer God's judgment 292 00:12:28,540 --> 00:12:29,740 because of man's sin. 293 00:12:29,740 --> 00:12:32,700 That's why we have things like lightning hitting the ground, 294 00:12:32,700 --> 00:12:35,380 sparking a wildfire and getting out of control. 295 00:12:35,380 --> 00:12:37,260 When you see something like that on the news, 296 00:12:37,260 --> 00:12:39,100 you should be listening for a trumpet 297 00:12:39,100 --> 00:12:41,140 because that's what a trumpet sounds like. 298 00:12:41,140 --> 00:12:42,740 You see a national park burning up 299 00:12:42,740 --> 00:12:44,140 after an act of God like that? 300 00:12:44,140 --> 00:12:46,100 That is God's judgment upon the world 301 00:12:46,100 --> 00:12:48,620 because of mankind's sin and rebellion. 302 00:12:48,620 --> 00:12:51,260 Remind yourself, it wasn't supposed to be that way. 303 00:12:51,260 --> 00:12:53,300 It's not how God intended it to be, 304 00:12:53,300 --> 00:12:55,260 but that's what we are suffering now, 305 00:12:55,260 --> 00:12:57,100 because of our sin. 306 00:12:57,100 --> 00:12:58,460 So look then to the second trumpet, 307 00:12:58,460 --> 00:12:59,540 verses eight and nine. 308 00:13:00,700 --> 00:13:02,540 The second angel blew his trumpet, 309 00:13:02,540 --> 00:13:05,700 and something like a great mountain burning with fire 310 00:13:05,700 --> 00:13:07,020 was thrown into the sea, 311 00:13:07,020 --> 00:13:09,380 and a third of the sea became blood. 312 00:13:09,380 --> 00:13:12,340 A third of the living creatures in the sea died, 313 00:13:12,340 --> 00:13:14,860 and a third of the ships were destroyed. 314 00:13:14,860 --> 00:13:18,580 Now, if revelation in the first four trumpets 315 00:13:18,580 --> 00:13:20,420 correspond to the plagues in Egypt, 316 00:13:20,420 --> 00:13:22,860 which one does this one sound like? 317 00:13:22,860 --> 00:13:24,340 The first, that's right. 318 00:13:24,340 --> 00:13:26,180 Yeah, so the second trumpet, 319 00:13:26,180 --> 00:13:29,140 it corresponds to the first plague in Egypt, 320 00:13:29,140 --> 00:13:29,980 which was what? 321 00:13:32,620 --> 00:13:36,460 Yeah, the water of the Nile turning to blood. 322 00:13:36,460 --> 00:13:37,300 You can read about that, 323 00:13:37,300 --> 00:13:38,380 we don't have time to read everything, 324 00:13:38,380 --> 00:13:41,660 but Exodus seven verses 20 to 21. 325 00:13:41,660 --> 00:13:45,540 And so that was the first plague that happened in Egypt, 326 00:13:45,540 --> 00:13:47,620 and then you see a picture of that here 327 00:13:47,620 --> 00:13:50,540 in this final judgment, these acts of God, 328 00:13:50,540 --> 00:13:52,740 where we have the trumpet judgments. 329 00:13:52,740 --> 00:13:54,100 And it's doing this thing, 330 00:13:54,100 --> 00:13:56,260 I want you to notice what the Bible is doing here, 331 00:13:56,260 --> 00:13:58,220 especially as we move through these, 332 00:13:58,220 --> 00:14:02,980 is it's showing the comprehensiveness of God's judgment. 333 00:14:02,980 --> 00:14:05,540 Because the first trumpet had to do with what? 334 00:14:05,540 --> 00:14:06,700 How to do with the earth? 335 00:14:07,660 --> 00:14:09,060 What are we dealing with here? 336 00:14:10,100 --> 00:14:12,020 The water, the seas. 337 00:14:12,020 --> 00:14:13,380 And you're gonna see how this continues 338 00:14:13,380 --> 00:14:14,540 to progress as we go on. 339 00:14:14,540 --> 00:14:16,860 But understand that the idea is that 340 00:14:16,860 --> 00:14:19,100 God's judgment is comprehensive, 341 00:14:19,100 --> 00:14:24,100 it is all-encompassing, nothing at all escapes His judgment. 342 00:14:25,140 --> 00:14:27,580 And so how do we understand this judgment? 343 00:14:27,580 --> 00:14:29,140 What is it telling us? 344 00:14:29,140 --> 00:14:31,380 Well, the first, when you remember, 345 00:14:31,380 --> 00:14:34,100 it was saying that the earth was suffering 346 00:14:34,100 --> 00:14:36,660 the effects of God's judgment because of man's sin. 347 00:14:36,660 --> 00:14:38,220 And it's saying here with the second one, 348 00:14:38,220 --> 00:14:42,020 well, the same is true of the waters as well. 349 00:14:42,020 --> 00:14:43,780 It talks about sea creatures dying 350 00:14:43,780 --> 00:14:46,540 and ships not making it out of the seas 351 00:14:46,540 --> 00:14:48,300 and things like that. 352 00:14:48,300 --> 00:14:52,340 And again, that's not how God created everything to be. 353 00:14:52,340 --> 00:14:54,100 In the beginning, there was no death, right? 354 00:14:54,100 --> 00:14:57,660 I mean, the Bible literally tells us in Romans chapter five 355 00:14:57,660 --> 00:15:01,580 that death came into the world because of sin. 356 00:15:01,580 --> 00:15:03,860 Sin entered the world and then death threw sin 357 00:15:03,860 --> 00:15:05,460 and that sin threw one man. 358 00:15:05,460 --> 00:15:08,980 So death did not exist in the beginning. 359 00:15:08,980 --> 00:15:10,740 God didn't intend for sea creatures 360 00:15:10,740 --> 00:15:12,100 to just start dying and stuff, 361 00:15:12,100 --> 00:15:13,740 but think about our world today 362 00:15:13,740 --> 00:15:15,220 and how we see this judgment. 363 00:15:15,220 --> 00:15:18,180 How many sea creatures have gone extinct 364 00:15:18,180 --> 00:15:19,780 over the course of human history? 365 00:15:19,780 --> 00:15:21,020 Now we still have plenty, right? 366 00:15:21,020 --> 00:15:23,620 So I mean, I don't know that it's an exact third, 367 00:15:23,620 --> 00:15:25,340 I can't say for sure. 368 00:15:25,340 --> 00:15:26,900 But we have a ton of sea creatures today, 369 00:15:26,900 --> 00:15:29,900 but we also have a lot of sea creatures 370 00:15:29,900 --> 00:15:32,820 that we used to have that have gone extinct at this point. 371 00:15:32,820 --> 00:15:34,980 Why did some make it and others didn't? 372 00:15:34,980 --> 00:15:37,260 Maybe it has to do with Revelation chapter eight 373 00:15:37,260 --> 00:15:39,340 and a third of the animals are suffering the judgment 374 00:15:39,340 --> 00:15:41,980 of God upon this world because of man's sin. 375 00:15:41,980 --> 00:15:44,380 Maybe you have another way to think about how we see this. 376 00:15:44,380 --> 00:15:45,420 I don't know if you all have ever, 377 00:15:45,420 --> 00:15:48,020 I don't get to watch TV, but I've seen commercials. 378 00:15:48,020 --> 00:15:50,660 And I don't know if you've ever seen any of those shows 379 00:15:50,660 --> 00:15:53,780 where they go like crabbing in the deep sea and stuff, 380 00:15:53,780 --> 00:15:57,780 or if you've ever seen a video of a ship out in the deep sea 381 00:15:57,780 --> 00:16:00,340 where you think, oh, it's calm because it's in the deep sea. 382 00:16:00,340 --> 00:16:04,300 And you see these huge waves that are like 20 feet high 383 00:16:04,300 --> 00:16:06,820 and they're literally coming over the boat 384 00:16:06,820 --> 00:16:09,940 and capsizing them and things like that. 385 00:16:09,940 --> 00:16:12,100 Here's a comfort for you. 386 00:16:12,100 --> 00:16:14,260 God didn't create the ocean to be that way. 387 00:16:14,260 --> 00:16:17,300 Like that kind of a thing wouldn't have existed 388 00:16:17,300 --> 00:16:18,180 in a perfect world. 389 00:16:18,180 --> 00:16:21,300 The reason that you have storms raging at sea like that 390 00:16:21,300 --> 00:16:23,780 is because God's judgment befalls man. 391 00:16:23,780 --> 00:16:26,380 I mean, I read the statistic today that said 392 00:16:26,380 --> 00:16:31,380 between 350 and 400 ships literally sink in the oceans alone. 393 00:16:33,140 --> 00:16:35,580 So not rivers and lakes, but in the oceans alone 394 00:16:35,580 --> 00:16:40,060 every single year, 350 to 400 ships. 395 00:16:40,060 --> 00:16:43,260 And it just shows that you are suffering 396 00:16:43,260 --> 00:16:46,340 the effects of God's judgment upon this world 397 00:16:46,340 --> 00:16:48,340 because of our sin. 398 00:16:48,340 --> 00:16:51,700 It's a depiction of what we see in our world. 399 00:16:51,700 --> 00:16:53,220 And here's the thing about it. 400 00:16:53,220 --> 00:16:54,380 It's not just the oceans, 401 00:16:54,380 --> 00:16:56,260 but notice what the next trumpet says. 402 00:16:56,260 --> 00:16:59,140 It talks about the waters of the rivers and the streams. 403 00:16:59,140 --> 00:17:00,420 In verse 10 it says, 404 00:17:01,300 --> 00:17:03,860 the third angel blue is trumpet 405 00:17:03,860 --> 00:17:05,820 and a great star fell from heaven, 406 00:17:05,820 --> 00:17:08,980 blazing like a torch. 407 00:17:08,980 --> 00:17:11,780 And it fell on a third of the rivers 408 00:17:11,780 --> 00:17:13,900 and on the springs of water. 409 00:17:13,900 --> 00:17:17,220 The name of the star is Wormwood. 410 00:17:17,220 --> 00:17:19,420 A third of the waters became Wormwood 411 00:17:19,420 --> 00:17:21,860 and many people died from the water 412 00:17:21,860 --> 00:17:24,340 because it had been made bitter. 413 00:17:24,340 --> 00:17:29,140 So this one also relates to the first plague in Egypt 414 00:17:29,140 --> 00:17:32,260 because you have the water becoming bitter. 415 00:17:32,260 --> 00:17:34,460 You read about that in Exodus 7, 24. 416 00:17:34,460 --> 00:17:36,700 It talks about the fact that they couldn't actually drink 417 00:17:36,700 --> 00:17:39,540 the water because of what had happened to it. 418 00:17:39,540 --> 00:17:41,580 But what's interesting here is it says that this, 419 00:17:41,580 --> 00:17:43,620 this star's name is Wormwood. 420 00:17:43,620 --> 00:17:48,620 And Wormwood shrubs, they produce this bitter green oil. 421 00:17:49,580 --> 00:17:51,980 Back in these days people used to use it to kill 422 00:17:51,980 --> 00:17:55,020 intestinal worms and things like that. 423 00:17:55,020 --> 00:17:58,700 And so the name Wormwood became associated with bitterness 424 00:17:58,700 --> 00:18:02,740 and in like sorrow and things like that. 425 00:18:02,740 --> 00:18:04,220 And so the star name Wormwood, 426 00:18:04,220 --> 00:18:07,820 it brings bitterness and poison to the rivers 427 00:18:07,820 --> 00:18:10,540 and the streams of earth. 428 00:18:10,540 --> 00:18:12,580 And so think about, when you're trying to think about 429 00:18:12,580 --> 00:18:14,780 well practically what does this look like? 430 00:18:14,780 --> 00:18:16,220 Well it looks like the fact that again, 431 00:18:16,220 --> 00:18:19,220 when God created everything and it was good, 432 00:18:19,220 --> 00:18:21,300 you could trust every bit of water 433 00:18:21,300 --> 00:18:22,820 that you came into contact with. 434 00:18:22,820 --> 00:18:24,500 Nothing wrong with it. 435 00:18:24,500 --> 00:18:26,340 Not the case today though, right? 436 00:18:26,340 --> 00:18:29,020 I mean, if you were stranded, 437 00:18:29,020 --> 00:18:30,500 let's say you're in a plane crash, 438 00:18:30,500 --> 00:18:32,580 but praise the Lord, you survived, 439 00:18:32,580 --> 00:18:33,780 but you're in the woods somewhere, 440 00:18:33,780 --> 00:18:34,900 you're trying to survive, 441 00:18:34,900 --> 00:18:37,180 and you come upon a pool of water and you're like, 442 00:18:37,180 --> 00:18:39,700 oh this is great, I know I need water to survive. 443 00:18:39,700 --> 00:18:42,580 I'm so thirsty and you start drinking from it. 444 00:18:42,580 --> 00:18:44,300 Everything gonna be good with you? 445 00:18:44,300 --> 00:18:45,900 No, that's what's gonna lead 446 00:18:45,900 --> 00:18:47,780 to some digestional issues, right David? 447 00:18:47,780 --> 00:18:48,820 Thank you, yeah. 448 00:18:48,820 --> 00:18:50,660 He doesn't have them, he's a nurse, 449 00:18:50,660 --> 00:18:52,820 so he knows what I'm talking about here, okay? 450 00:18:52,820 --> 00:18:55,380 I don't know, maybe he does, but he's not, okay? 451 00:18:56,260 --> 00:18:59,500 It's gonna lead to all sorts of digestional issues 452 00:18:59,500 --> 00:19:01,420 and probably some other issues that you're gonna have, 453 00:19:01,420 --> 00:19:03,900 because there's all sorts of bacteria in the water, 454 00:19:03,900 --> 00:19:05,620 that in germs and things like that, 455 00:19:05,620 --> 00:19:07,780 that need to be boiled out of the water 456 00:19:07,780 --> 00:19:09,660 so that it is actually drinkable. 457 00:19:09,660 --> 00:19:12,140 In other words, you can't just come upon streams 458 00:19:12,140 --> 00:19:14,980 and lakes and pools and trust every bit of water. 459 00:19:14,980 --> 00:19:17,100 I mean, you go to like even the Whitewater Center 460 00:19:17,100 --> 00:19:18,220 in North Carolina, you're thinking, 461 00:19:18,220 --> 00:19:19,380 oh I'm gonna have a fun time, 462 00:19:19,380 --> 00:19:21,420 we're gonna go kayaking and stuff. 463 00:19:21,420 --> 00:19:23,420 You accidentally snored a little bit of water 464 00:19:23,420 --> 00:19:25,820 and all of a sudden you got a brain eating amoeba. 465 00:19:29,060 --> 00:19:31,220 Well, I haven't yet, two times, 466 00:19:31,220 --> 00:19:33,020 so I'm two for two, I'm not getting them right now, 467 00:19:33,020 --> 00:19:35,700 but that's where we were gonna go on our honeymoon 468 00:19:35,700 --> 00:19:36,820 and then Anna read that story 469 00:19:36,820 --> 00:19:38,700 and she's like, we're not going there. 470 00:19:40,460 --> 00:19:41,540 That's the whole point of this, 471 00:19:41,540 --> 00:19:44,220 is that there used to be in the earth, 472 00:19:44,220 --> 00:19:45,740 water that you could just trust 473 00:19:45,740 --> 00:19:47,540 and now that's not the case. 474 00:19:47,540 --> 00:19:49,420 The world has been corrupted, 475 00:19:49,420 --> 00:19:53,220 the water has been made bitter and not trustworthy 476 00:19:53,220 --> 00:19:56,420 and again, it's not because creation is bad, 477 00:19:56,420 --> 00:19:58,620 it's because mankind rebelled against God 478 00:19:58,620 --> 00:20:03,340 and our sin has long lasting effects. 479 00:20:03,340 --> 00:20:06,620 And so then notice the fourth trumpet here in verse 12. 480 00:20:07,580 --> 00:20:09,700 The fourth angel blew his trumpet 481 00:20:09,700 --> 00:20:11,780 and a third of the sun was struck 482 00:20:11,780 --> 00:20:14,940 and a third of the moon and a third of the stars 483 00:20:14,940 --> 00:20:17,700 so that a third of their light might be darkened 484 00:20:17,700 --> 00:20:20,300 and a third of the day might be kept from shining 485 00:20:20,300 --> 00:20:23,020 and likewise a third of the night. 486 00:20:23,020 --> 00:20:28,020 So this one actually corresponds to the ninth plague 487 00:20:28,940 --> 00:20:32,100 in Egypt, which was the plague of darkness. 488 00:20:32,100 --> 00:20:34,140 You'll remember this one when darkness fell 489 00:20:34,140 --> 00:20:38,860 upon all of Egypt for three days 490 00:20:38,860 --> 00:20:41,700 and this one is corresponding to that 491 00:20:41,700 --> 00:20:42,780 because what's interesting, 492 00:20:42,780 --> 00:20:47,420 so you've gone from the earth, the seas, the waters, 493 00:20:47,420 --> 00:20:49,260 like rivers and streams and stuff like that 494 00:20:49,260 --> 00:20:51,260 and now what do we have? 495 00:20:51,260 --> 00:20:52,860 We have the sky. 496 00:20:52,860 --> 00:20:56,020 So notice here with these judgments, 497 00:20:56,020 --> 00:20:58,740 you have literally all of God's creation, 498 00:20:58,740 --> 00:21:01,260 it is all encompassing, nothing escapes it, 499 00:21:01,260 --> 00:21:03,660 the earth, the seas, the waters, the sky, 500 00:21:03,660 --> 00:21:07,340 everything's included, everything's affected 501 00:21:07,340 --> 00:21:09,980 in these judgments and again, 502 00:21:09,980 --> 00:21:12,540 we don't need to think about this as literal, 503 00:21:12,540 --> 00:21:17,540 necessarily, I would think literally, 504 00:21:17,620 --> 00:21:20,020 we shouldn't think this as literal 505 00:21:20,020 --> 00:21:22,460 because if the sun stopped shining 506 00:21:22,460 --> 00:21:23,780 for even a third of the day, 507 00:21:23,780 --> 00:21:25,820 do you know what would happen to humanity? 508 00:21:27,940 --> 00:21:31,220 Everyone would die, a pretty gruesome death 509 00:21:31,220 --> 00:21:32,420 and it wouldn't take very long. 510 00:21:32,420 --> 00:21:34,980 Even if after a third of the day, the sun came back 511 00:21:34,980 --> 00:21:37,700 and it just continued that way, we would all die. 512 00:21:37,700 --> 00:21:41,100 It's just not possible to live without the sun for that long. 513 00:21:41,100 --> 00:21:43,020 Also interesting fact, it takes eight minutes 514 00:21:43,020 --> 00:21:44,620 for the light of the sun to get here 515 00:21:44,620 --> 00:21:46,780 so if the sun did stop shining, 516 00:21:46,780 --> 00:21:48,500 we wouldn't even know about it for eight minutes. 517 00:21:48,500 --> 00:21:50,420 Just think about that at any given point of your day 518 00:21:50,420 --> 00:21:51,580 and see if it freaks you out at all. 519 00:21:51,580 --> 00:21:54,420 Like you see the sun, it might be there, it might not. 520 00:21:54,420 --> 00:21:55,860 You won't know for another eight minutes. 521 00:21:55,860 --> 00:21:58,220 That's just a fun science fact for you, 522 00:21:58,220 --> 00:22:01,900 don't let it scare you but notice how these things 523 00:22:01,900 --> 00:22:06,020 are actually a reality that we see in our world today. 524 00:22:06,020 --> 00:22:08,020 You look up at the stars, another fun fact, 525 00:22:08,020 --> 00:22:10,420 you see stars and it looks like there's a star there 526 00:22:10,420 --> 00:22:13,740 but in space, many of those stars have already died 527 00:22:13,740 --> 00:22:16,260 and we're just seeing the afterglow of the effect 528 00:22:16,260 --> 00:22:18,260 of those stars that have already died 529 00:22:18,260 --> 00:22:20,300 and it's not every star, is it a third? 530 00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:23,060 I don't know exactly but it's a lot of them. 531 00:22:23,060 --> 00:22:24,700 I mean think about the sun where it suffers 532 00:22:24,700 --> 00:22:27,020 all these solar flares and things like that 533 00:22:27,020 --> 00:22:28,740 and it's not gonna last forever. 534 00:22:28,740 --> 00:22:31,660 Scientists tell us that one day our sun is gonna burn up 535 00:22:31,660 --> 00:22:35,180 and then everything is going to die very quickly after that. 536 00:22:35,180 --> 00:22:36,140 It's not eternal either. 537 00:22:36,140 --> 00:22:39,180 So like you see that the sun is affected, 538 00:22:39,180 --> 00:22:40,940 the moon is affected because of the sun, 539 00:22:40,940 --> 00:22:41,940 the stars are affected. 540 00:22:41,940 --> 00:22:44,780 Like this is happening in our world today. 541 00:22:44,780 --> 00:22:46,500 We are watching this take place. 542 00:22:46,500 --> 00:22:50,860 We are hearing the trumpet's sound even now 543 00:22:50,860 --> 00:22:52,660 and I don't want you to lose, 544 00:22:52,660 --> 00:22:54,820 don't lose the forest for the trees here. 545 00:22:54,820 --> 00:22:57,100 You can get bogged down in the details 546 00:22:57,100 --> 00:23:01,460 but the big picture of all this is to demonstrate to us 547 00:23:01,460 --> 00:23:04,620 that all of creation from the earth, to the seas, 548 00:23:04,620 --> 00:23:08,700 to the rivers, to the skies, they've all been affected 549 00:23:08,700 --> 00:23:12,580 by God's judgment because of our sin. 550 00:23:12,580 --> 00:23:15,780 All of creation suffers because of us. 551 00:23:15,780 --> 00:23:19,940 And so as we kind of wrapping up the first four trumpets, 552 00:23:20,820 --> 00:23:22,580 I was wanting us to consider, well, 553 00:23:22,580 --> 00:23:24,300 what does this passage teach us? 554 00:23:24,300 --> 00:23:26,620 I mean we've seen God's sovereignty ever creation. 555 00:23:26,620 --> 00:23:29,020 We've seen the comprehensiveness of his judgment 556 00:23:29,020 --> 00:23:31,580 but what can we take home from this? 557 00:23:31,580 --> 00:23:34,420 And the first thing that I really want you to understand 558 00:23:34,420 --> 00:23:38,100 and take home from this is that there are real consequences 559 00:23:38,100 --> 00:23:38,940 for sin. 560 00:23:40,460 --> 00:23:43,540 I think that's very apparent in this passage. 561 00:23:43,540 --> 00:23:48,140 There is no such thing as a secret sin 562 00:23:48,140 --> 00:23:51,180 or a sin that only affects you. 563 00:23:51,180 --> 00:23:52,140 It's just not possible. 564 00:23:52,140 --> 00:23:53,300 I know a lot of people think that way 565 00:23:53,300 --> 00:23:54,820 and they think, well, it's only me. 566 00:23:54,820 --> 00:23:56,700 What does this have to do with anyone else? 567 00:23:56,700 --> 00:23:57,540 It's never the case. 568 00:23:57,540 --> 00:24:00,500 Sin always affects more than just you. 569 00:24:00,500 --> 00:24:01,860 Think about Adam and even the garden. 570 00:24:01,860 --> 00:24:03,500 When they rebelled against God 571 00:24:03,500 --> 00:24:04,860 and they ate of that fruit, 572 00:24:04,860 --> 00:24:07,460 at no point when Adam was eating that fruit, 573 00:24:07,460 --> 00:24:09,860 do you think he thought to himself, well, if I do this, 574 00:24:09,860 --> 00:24:12,540 then thousands of years later, 575 00:24:12,540 --> 00:24:14,740 there's gonna be some crabbing guys on a boat 576 00:24:14,740 --> 00:24:18,540 who are gonna be just totally overturned by a 50 foot wave. 577 00:24:18,540 --> 00:24:19,380 Probably don't eat this. 578 00:24:19,380 --> 00:24:20,900 You know what, he didn't think about that. 579 00:24:20,900 --> 00:24:22,660 He didn't think if I take a bite of this, 580 00:24:22,660 --> 00:24:26,540 then there are gonna be stars exploding in space 581 00:24:26,540 --> 00:24:29,220 and dying in the sky as I do this. 582 00:24:29,220 --> 00:24:30,180 They're not thinking about the fact 583 00:24:30,180 --> 00:24:32,100 that you're not gonna be able to trust the waters anymore 584 00:24:32,100 --> 00:24:33,580 and you gotta start boiling your water 585 00:24:33,580 --> 00:24:34,700 and all this kind of stuff. 586 00:24:34,700 --> 00:24:36,260 None of that was going through his mind. 587 00:24:36,260 --> 00:24:40,100 He just thought, hey, my naked wife said to eat this fruit. 588 00:24:40,100 --> 00:24:41,780 She seems to think it's tasty. 589 00:24:41,780 --> 00:24:43,220 I'm gonna take a bite too. 590 00:24:43,220 --> 00:24:44,220 Everything's good. 591 00:24:44,220 --> 00:24:46,980 He was just thinking in the moment. 592 00:24:46,980 --> 00:24:49,340 Immediate gratification, immediate pleasure. 593 00:24:49,340 --> 00:24:52,100 And yet, look at what happened. 594 00:24:52,100 --> 00:24:54,500 Literally, because of that one bite of a fruit, 595 00:24:54,500 --> 00:24:55,820 that rebellion against God, 596 00:24:55,820 --> 00:24:58,940 you literally have all of humanity falling into sin. 597 00:24:58,940 --> 00:25:02,140 Every single person, apart from Jesus, 598 00:25:02,140 --> 00:25:05,700 has been born with a sin nature because of that. 599 00:25:05,700 --> 00:25:07,860 Bearing the marks of original sin, 600 00:25:07,860 --> 00:25:10,380 having this tendency and this droll towards sin, 601 00:25:10,380 --> 00:25:11,740 that's why parents say all the time, 602 00:25:11,740 --> 00:25:13,220 you don't have to teach children how to sin. 603 00:25:13,220 --> 00:25:15,460 They come out of the womb knowing how to sin. 604 00:25:15,460 --> 00:25:16,620 They're bent towards it. 605 00:25:16,620 --> 00:25:17,460 We all are. 606 00:25:17,460 --> 00:25:18,380 I'm not just hating on children. 607 00:25:18,380 --> 00:25:20,540 I mean, it's all of us until Jesus saves us, 608 00:25:20,540 --> 00:25:24,140 but all of that came from one sin. 609 00:25:25,700 --> 00:25:29,220 And then we have the audacity and the arrogance to think, 610 00:25:29,220 --> 00:25:31,660 well, my sin's gonna be different. 611 00:25:31,660 --> 00:25:34,140 My sin really will only affect me. 612 00:25:34,140 --> 00:25:35,660 It's not gonna hurt anyone else. 613 00:25:35,660 --> 00:25:37,260 There will be no effects for other people, 614 00:25:37,260 --> 00:25:39,020 and that's not the way it works. 615 00:25:39,020 --> 00:25:42,700 This passage is teaching that there are real consequences 616 00:25:42,700 --> 00:25:43,540 for sin. 617 00:25:43,540 --> 00:25:44,940 I've said it many times before, 618 00:25:44,940 --> 00:25:48,980 sin's shadow is very long, very long. 619 00:25:48,980 --> 00:25:52,140 The other thing I want you to take away from this passage 620 00:25:52,140 --> 00:25:55,140 is that our world is not what God intended it to be. 621 00:25:56,740 --> 00:25:57,860 It's a beautiful world. 622 00:25:57,860 --> 00:25:59,380 I think we all admit that. 623 00:25:59,380 --> 00:26:00,220 Gorgeous. 624 00:26:00,220 --> 00:26:02,100 I mean, God's creation is absolutely amazing. 625 00:26:02,100 --> 00:26:05,620 The heavens declare the glory of God. 626 00:26:05,620 --> 00:26:07,460 I mean, we look at this world, it is beautiful, 627 00:26:07,460 --> 00:26:09,700 it is amazing, but it's also terrifying. 628 00:26:10,820 --> 00:26:14,260 And it is bearing the effects of our sin. 629 00:26:14,260 --> 00:26:18,580 It's groaning, waiting for the redemption of mankind. 630 00:26:19,380 --> 00:26:21,420 This world is not what God intended it to be. 631 00:26:21,420 --> 00:26:25,740 He made everything good, and we messed it up. 632 00:26:25,740 --> 00:26:29,020 And so as we look at our world and we see how bad it is, 633 00:26:29,020 --> 00:26:32,660 it should remind us of how far we have fallen 634 00:26:32,660 --> 00:26:35,620 from where God started everything. 635 00:26:35,620 --> 00:26:40,460 When we see the wildfires, when we see the stars exploding, 636 00:26:40,460 --> 00:26:44,620 when we see the meteors causing these great catastrophes 637 00:26:44,620 --> 00:26:47,940 on Earth and in other places, when we see all the raging 638 00:26:47,940 --> 00:26:51,180 waters and people dying of bacteria and brain eating amoebas 639 00:26:51,180 --> 00:26:54,140 and all this kind of stuff, it should be a reminder to us 640 00:26:54,140 --> 00:26:56,460 that this is not what God intended. 641 00:26:56,460 --> 00:26:58,700 He had better things in mind than this. 642 00:26:59,580 --> 00:27:02,100 But then, as you're realizing that, 643 00:27:02,100 --> 00:27:05,340 I want it to also fill you with hope, 644 00:27:05,340 --> 00:27:10,340 knowing that one day it's not gonna be like this anymore. 645 00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:14,220 As a Christian, we look forward to not just the redemption 646 00:27:14,220 --> 00:27:17,140 of the sons of God, but we look forward 647 00:27:17,140 --> 00:27:19,540 to the regeneration of this Earth, 648 00:27:19,540 --> 00:27:21,140 where God is gonna make all things new. 649 00:27:21,140 --> 00:27:23,420 I mean, the great thing about Revelation is literally, 650 00:27:23,420 --> 00:27:24,580 Jesus at the end, he says, 651 00:27:24,580 --> 00:27:27,020 "'Behold, I am making all things new.'" 652 00:27:27,020 --> 00:27:29,140 Present tense, ongoing, I'm doing it now. 653 00:27:29,140 --> 00:27:33,820 I am currently in the process of making all things new. 654 00:27:33,820 --> 00:27:37,540 And one day, he is going to totally regenerate this Earth 655 00:27:37,540 --> 00:27:40,580 and he's gonna be brand new, he's gonna be free of sin, 656 00:27:40,580 --> 00:27:42,860 and he's gonna be better and more spectacular 657 00:27:42,860 --> 00:27:46,140 and more glorious than we can even think or imagine. 658 00:27:46,140 --> 00:27:49,220 It's, I mean, even just as we get a glimpse of heaven, 659 00:27:49,220 --> 00:27:51,980 assuming that Jesus comes back and everything 660 00:27:51,980 --> 00:27:55,020 before we can actually spend a lot of time in heaven, 661 00:27:55,020 --> 00:27:56,380 we'll get to spend some time up there, 662 00:27:56,380 --> 00:28:00,100 so glory and eternity will be on the new Earth for us. 663 00:28:00,100 --> 00:28:03,020 Just skip ahead to Revelation 21 for that spoiler. 664 00:28:03,020 --> 00:28:06,500 But, I mean, just thinking about the things 665 00:28:06,500 --> 00:28:08,860 that we can't even imagine, 666 00:28:08,860 --> 00:28:11,100 it should just fill you with wonder and hope, right? 667 00:28:11,100 --> 00:28:13,140 Like, I was trying to explain to Judah, 668 00:28:13,140 --> 00:28:15,660 I was like, hey, you know, his favorite color is blue. 669 00:28:15,660 --> 00:28:18,100 And I was like, did you know in heaven, 670 00:28:18,100 --> 00:28:21,100 there are gonna be colors that we've never seen before? 671 00:28:21,100 --> 00:28:22,460 And he's like, like what color? 672 00:28:22,460 --> 00:28:25,460 So I was like, I don't know, that's the thing. 673 00:28:25,460 --> 00:28:28,460 No one's ever seen them before, we have no idea, you know? 674 00:28:28,460 --> 00:28:31,500 So I said, our brains are so limited, 675 00:28:31,500 --> 00:28:33,620 we can't even imagine a new color, you know? 676 00:28:33,620 --> 00:28:35,180 We can just work with what we've got, 677 00:28:35,180 --> 00:28:37,940 but when we get there, we're gonna see things 678 00:28:37,940 --> 00:28:39,660 that we've never seen before. 679 00:28:39,660 --> 00:28:41,620 And he was like, that is so cool, 680 00:28:41,620 --> 00:28:43,260 I can't wait to see the new colors. 681 00:28:43,260 --> 00:28:44,780 Can we still keep blue? 682 00:28:44,780 --> 00:28:48,140 I was like, yes, blue will still be there, we'll keep blue. 683 00:28:48,140 --> 00:28:50,940 But it was just cool to see through his eyes 684 00:28:50,940 --> 00:28:53,780 the wonder of trying to look forward to something 685 00:28:53,780 --> 00:28:55,440 that we can't even think or imagine. 686 00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,700 And that's what this passage does for us, 687 00:28:57,700 --> 00:28:59,700 it reminds us that one day, 688 00:28:59,700 --> 00:29:01,780 it's not gonna be like this anymore. 689 00:29:01,780 --> 00:29:03,880 It is gonna be totally different 690 00:29:03,880 --> 00:29:06,660 because God's gonna completely regenerate the earth. 691 00:29:06,660 --> 00:29:09,260 And then last thing, and we'll close, 692 00:29:11,220 --> 00:29:12,980 I want you to understand that the Christians 693 00:29:12,980 --> 00:29:15,140 only security is Christ. 694 00:29:17,060 --> 00:29:18,380 You read about these judgments, 695 00:29:18,380 --> 00:29:21,840 the fallen, the earth, people suffering their effects. 696 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:24,100 We're gonna get even more into God's judgment 697 00:29:24,100 --> 00:29:26,500 on what's gonna happen and how terrifying that is. 698 00:29:26,500 --> 00:29:28,980 The Christians only security is Christ. 699 00:29:28,980 --> 00:29:31,780 Do you remember during the plagues of Egypt, 700 00:29:31,780 --> 00:29:34,500 do you remember why the people of Israel 701 00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:37,160 were never harmed by the plagues? 702 00:29:38,500 --> 00:29:41,820 We read it in one of the verses we were referencing. 703 00:29:41,820 --> 00:29:44,320 It's because they were aware. 704 00:29:48,260 --> 00:29:51,060 Where were the people of Israel 705 00:29:51,060 --> 00:29:55,220 because God was pouring out the plagues on Egypt? 706 00:29:59,300 --> 00:30:02,800 David Berryhill, in the land of Goshen. 707 00:30:03,940 --> 00:30:07,300 So God's judgment, fallen upon the land of Egypt, 708 00:30:07,300 --> 00:30:08,460 but they had this little slice, 709 00:30:08,460 --> 00:30:11,140 I don't know if you remember this from our Genesis study, 710 00:30:11,140 --> 00:30:14,020 but we said Goshen was like a little Eden 711 00:30:14,020 --> 00:30:16,780 because it was this very tropical place near waters 712 00:30:16,780 --> 00:30:19,300 and a very humid desert location. 713 00:30:19,300 --> 00:30:21,020 There's like a little slice of Eden there 714 00:30:21,020 --> 00:30:23,340 and it's this beautiful picture of God dwelling 715 00:30:23,340 --> 00:30:25,340 with his people again after all these years 716 00:30:25,340 --> 00:30:28,860 and as long as they're in Goshen, 717 00:30:28,860 --> 00:30:31,420 they do not suffer the judgments of God. 718 00:30:31,420 --> 00:30:32,260 Do you get that? 719 00:30:32,260 --> 00:30:33,260 Yeah? 720 00:30:33,260 --> 00:30:35,420 Well, Christ is our Goshen. 721 00:30:37,180 --> 00:30:38,780 Isn't that a beautiful picture? 722 00:30:38,780 --> 00:30:41,260 I mean, everything in Exodus is paradigmatic of salvation, 723 00:30:41,260 --> 00:30:42,860 so you can just go through that. 724 00:30:42,860 --> 00:30:44,100 There's a whole study to be done there, 725 00:30:44,100 --> 00:30:46,700 but Christ is our Goshen. 726 00:30:46,700 --> 00:30:49,740 And the Bible says as long as you are in Christ, 727 00:30:49,740 --> 00:30:52,580 as the people of Israel were in Goshen, 728 00:30:52,580 --> 00:30:55,060 you're safe from the judgments of God. 729 00:30:55,060 --> 00:30:57,420 You don't have to worry about the wrath of God. 730 00:30:57,420 --> 00:30:59,900 You won't suffer the effects of this judgment 731 00:30:59,900 --> 00:31:01,820 that is coming upon the whole earth 732 00:31:01,820 --> 00:31:04,140 because you are in Christ. 733 00:31:04,140 --> 00:31:08,660 He is the believer's only source of security and safety. 734 00:31:08,660 --> 00:31:09,660 And that's comforting for us, 735 00:31:09,660 --> 00:31:12,340 is it not to know that in the midst of all this, 736 00:31:12,340 --> 00:31:15,580 we have a place of refuge, a strong tower, 737 00:31:15,580 --> 00:31:19,500 and as long as we're in Christ, we are safe. 738 00:31:19,500 --> 00:31:23,660 All right, so that's all I've got for you tonight. 739 00:31:23,660 --> 00:31:47,660 Gene, you want to hit us with a word of wisdom from back there?