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Revelation 15, we're jumping right back into Revelation now after we had a short little

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study on the Gospels, which we might do again at some point in the future just for fun.

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But we're back in Revelation chapter 15, starting this chapter now.

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And I don't have my whiteboard here because I was preoccupied.

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So this would be a good opportunity to have my whiteboard and make charts and everything,

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but I'll get you one next week.

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Okay, so you come prepared, I'll have you chart next week.

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This is an interesting section of the book of Revelation.

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The whole thing is interesting and oftentimes very complicated, and it's easy to get bogged

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down in all the details and in the weeds of it all.

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So we need to just kind of orient ourselves to what's going on here.

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So as we come into Revelation 15, you remember there are three cycles of seven, right?

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So there are seven seals and then there are seven trumpets and then there are seven bowls

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of God's wrath.

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And we said that these things are not linear or chronological, but they are cyclical.

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These are things that are expected to happen throughout human history, and we will continue

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to see them happen throughout human history until the end comes.

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And the seventh thing, whether it's the seal, the trumpet, or the bowl, whatever the seventh

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is, that always signifies the end of human history.

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So the first six, they happen in human history, and then the seventh one is the end of all

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human history.

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And the Bible is going to say here that with the seventh or with the bowls of God's wrath,

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comes the judgment, comes the end of all things.

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You can see in Revelation 15, 1, John writes and says, then I saw another sign in heaven,

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great and amazing, seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for with them

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the wrath of God is finished.

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So notice what he's saying here.

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He's saying, with the seven plagues, which fill up these seven bowls to be poured out,

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God's wrath is finished.

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And so some people have said, hey, if we see evidences of these seven bowls in the world

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today, that's an indication that the end is imminent, that the end is very soon.

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And in one sense, that's right.

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But what is soon to God?

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The Bible says in 2 Peter 3, 8, but do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with

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the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years is one day.

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So what actually is soon to God?

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It actually made me think about C.S.

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Lewis's book, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader.

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If y'all can't tell, I've gone back and reread the Chronicles of Narnia series recently,

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so which is just, it's filled with all sorts of great nuggets that you can take home.

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But there's this one scene at the end of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, where Aslan, who's

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the Christ figure, he's a big lion, but he's the Christ figure, he's talking with Lucy

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and Edmund, and Lucy is saying, hey, when do we get to come back to Narnia?

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And he says, you're never coming back to Narnia.

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This is your last time.

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And she's upset, she starts basically crying, and she's all devastated.

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And Aslan says, or she's upset, and she says, the worst part about never coming back is

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not Narnia, it's you, we won't get to see you again.

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And Aslan says, you're going to see me soon.

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And Lucy asked him, she says, please, Aslan, what do you call soon?

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And the great lion, Aslan, responds, and he says, I call all times soon.

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And I thought that was great.

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That's such a Lewis line to put in there, but it's so good because it conveys the character

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of God to us.

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Does it not?

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God is outside of time.

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He is not constrained by time or bound by time like all of us are.

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We say soon if something's going to happen in a minute or five minutes, not if it's going

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to happen in 50 years, because we experience time linearly and chronologically, but God

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is outside of time.

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And so every single time that has ever existed or will ever exist, they are all equally near

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to God.

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Now, I know that's hard for us to get our minds around, basically impossible, but it

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is to say that with God, all times are soon.

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So if we do see evidences of these seven bowls in our world today, yes, it does mean the

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end is soon, but please keep in mind what we call soon and what God calls soon, those

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are two totally different things.

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And we don't like to be patient like that all the time, do we?

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You know, there are basically three ways God answers prayer.

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Sometimes says no, sometimes says yes, and sometimes he says yes, but you got to wait.

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And then when you have to wait, it's never fun.

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He says yes, he'll answer that prayer, but in his own timing.

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And so we need to keep all of that in mind as we study this passage this evening, and

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we need to understand where these judgments come from and what the goal is behind them.

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So look at me at verse two, you'll see it on the screen.

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John writes and says, and I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire, and

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also those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name standing

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beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands.

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Now again, we've said this many times, but it's good to ask you again to see if you're

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paying attention because I know we've only been in revelation for a little bit of time,

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and I promise you, we'll be done soon.

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Okay, so where have we seen the sea of glass before?

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Where have we seen the crystal sea before?

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Yeah, heaven in the temple.

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Yeah, so in Revelation chapter four, it talks about the throne room of God, and it says

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before God's throne, there's a sea, like a sea of glass, and it's like crystal.

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And you remember, I told you that in Hebrew thought, they actually believed that the sea

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was the place from which evil came, and that was chaos and disorder and destruction.

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So that was the place that gave birth to all the bad stuff in the world.

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And so when the Bible portrays this crystal sea, it's the Bible's way of saying that

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God is going to put an end to all of those things, that he is going to do away with the

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evil in our world and all the chaos in our world, and he is going to bring order to what

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is currently disorder.

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And it says he did in creation, I mean you look back at creation, and there's this great

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image, if you remember Genesis chapter one, verses one through two, going into verse three,

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it talks about the primordial waters.

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Do you remember this?

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And the waters were restless over the face of the earth, and then what happens?

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The Spirit of God is hovering over the waters, and he brings order to the chaos of the water.

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He calms the sea, and then here at the very last book of the Bible, what do you have?

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You have a sea that's been calmed before God, and it's again the Bible's way of saying

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that he is going to make all things right.

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And he does this in a very surprising way.

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He does this, he brings about peace and stillness and calmness by bringing judgment upon the

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world.

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And that's counterintuitive, is it not?

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I mean if you think about how we think about conflict and how we think about peace, we

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tend to think about peace as the absence of conflict, right?

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That's how we know we have peace.

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If you think about a family get together, Thanksgiving, Christmas, I don't know if your

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family's like mine, but we can always find something to argue about.

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It doesn't take much.

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I can just look at my memo, and I can set her off sometimes.

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It's easy to have disagreements, but there are people in my family who believe differently

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than I do.

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And so if we get on certain topics, it's real easy to get into a fight or an argument or

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a debate that's going to happen.

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And if your mom is like my mom, and I can say this because she's not here tonight, she's

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the type of mom who would say, just drop it.

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Whatever it is, just drop it, doesn't matter.

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I just want some peace for this meal, this one meal, right?

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I've heard that a lot, I don't know if you can tell.

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I've heard it a lot.

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So that's our idea of peace.

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If there's an argument, if there's a disagreement, you just drop it.

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You let it go.

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That's how you get peace, but is that really peace?

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It's not peace.

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You're just putting off a problem.

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You're not actually dealing with it.

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And so God does something that's counterintuitive to us.

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He unleashes seven bowls full of His wrath upon the earth for the purpose of bringing

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about peace.

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This is how God deals with evil in the world.

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This is how He deals with wickedness and unrighteousness and all the injustice of our world.

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He brings about the wrath of God and unloads these seven bowls of His wrath, but not by

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avoiding conflict or drop in the issue, but through judgment.

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In other words, judgment is the path to true peace.

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And I want you to notice who's with God here in verses three through four.

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I talked about the saints in verse two and then in verse three and four, it says, and

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they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God and the song of the lambs saying, great

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and amazing are your deeds.

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Oh Lord God, the almighty, just and true are your ways.

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Oh king of the nations who will not fear.

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Oh Lord and glorify your name for you alone or holy, all nations will come and worship

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you for your righteous acts have been revealed.

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Now if you have your Bible open and I encourage you to look down at your Bible, you're going

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to notice something very interesting.

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So look back at that whole song and I'm sure that's not the whole song, but just the stanza

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or two.

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Look at that song and tell me what is missing.

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So the Bible just said, this is the song of Moses.

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You're looking in your Bibles.

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What's missing here?

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I know I'm asking you to find something that's not there.

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So let me help you out.

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You should be noticing that there is no reference note, right?

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In the Bible, whenever scripture quotes scripture, you're going to notice that oftentimes it's

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going to say, here's a reference point and it'll put like the letter A or B or C and

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it'll reference back to the Old Testament passage.

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It's quoting, right?

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That's how they work.

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But notice, do you see that here?

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Are there any reference notes at all?

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Any footnotes at all?

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Does it say what passage this comes from in scripture?

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Do I see anything like that?

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No.

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And yet it's called the song of Moses.

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It's not interesting.

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Why is that?

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It's because it's not actually quoting scripture.

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So it's called the song of Moses, but we have no record of Moses ever singing this song

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at all or saying these words at all.

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It's not actually quoting scripture at all.

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So my question is, why is it called the song of Moses?

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Anybody want to take a guess?

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Remember what happened?

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Yeah, go ahead, Courtney.

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Yeah, that's right.

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That's actually it right on.

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So you remember back in Exodus when God led the Israelites out of Egypt and he parted the

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waters of the Red Sea and he led them through it.

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As soon as the waters closed up, you read about this in Exodus chapter 15.

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There's a whole song that's recorded that the Israelites sang to God to celebrate his

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victory over Pharaoh in the Egyptians.

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And you can read again that whole song in Exodus chapter 15.

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It begins by saying, Ashira, Ashira, La'ata nai, Keeg, Oga.

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So pretty easy to remember that if you're just taking notes there.

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But it says, I will sing to the Lord for he has triumphed gloriously.

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And it's really ironic that we're here now because if you just want some insight behind

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the curtains of my life of my boys, we were singing the song of Moses last night in the

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bath in Hebrew.

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I was teaching it to him in Hebrew.

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So we were singing it and Judah was like running out naked to mommy, mommy, Ashira, Ashira.

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I was like, let's get some clothes on first.

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But so that's what we do in our bath time.

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I don't know about you.

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But yeah, that's what was happening.

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They were singing this song, but it's not the words that are recorded here.

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It's a different song.

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And so I ask again, why do you think it is that this is called the song of Moses?

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Just as the Israelites sang a victory song to God after he delivered them from the Egyptians,

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the Bible is saying all of the saints of God are going to be singing a similar song just

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like the song of Moses, praising God for triumphing over the evils of this world.

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Just as God overthrew Pharaoh, he's going to overthrow Satan and the beast and all the

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rulers of this world, all the evil of this world.

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And his saints will sing this victory song to him forever.

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And you see that they're praising him for all that he has done for triumphing over evil

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and for saving them from their sins.

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And notice this when the song says here, all nations will come and worship you for your

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righteous acts have been revealed.

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I want you to notice that it's referring both to his righteous acts of judgment and salvation.

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In other words, they're praising God for being saved for saving them from their sins, but

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also for triumphing over the evils we see in the world.

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And these two always go hand in hand.

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I forget who said.

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Yes, so that's how you couple.

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So the song of Moses is mostly a victory song.

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Praising with the lamb is a redemption song.

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Praising God for his salvation and praising him.

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Yeah, just like that.

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There was a preacher one time and I don't know who said it.

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I forgot his name, but he said that about God's judgment.

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He said in the end, when God condemns the wicked and final judgment, even the most hardened

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atheists will say, this is right.

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I deserve this.

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Because they are going to see the glory of the Lord for themselves and they're going

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to know that all that they had believed was wrong.

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All that God said was true and they're going to know this is what I deserve.

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And even atheists today, they'll deny this.

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They'll say, Hey, listen, I don't care what the Bible says.

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I'm never praising God.

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I'm never going to acknowledge him.

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I don't believe in God.

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And yet the Bible says in Philippians chapter two, verses nine through 10, talking of Jesus,

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therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name.

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So did the name of Jesus, every knee should bow and in heaven and on earth and under the

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earth.

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So, so notice this, every single person on earth.

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This is without exception, whether you believe in Jesus now, whether you deny Jesus now,

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there is coming today at the final judgment when every single knee is going to bow and

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proclaim that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God.

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This is what's going to happen.

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This is exactly what's going to happen because God says that it's going to happen.

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And I think we should polls very quickly to say that we don't have to wait and should

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not wait until glory to start singing the song of the redeemed now.

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We as Christians should be singing the glories of God on a daily basis.

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And this is especially true of our church services.

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We need to make sure that our songs are actually about God and his wonderful works and what

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he has done and the salvation that we have in Christ and not about us.

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This is how a lot of people get it wrong these days.

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There are a lot of songs these days.

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If you pay attention to them, they're like, hold on a second, you never even said Jesus's

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name.

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Or it looks like a lot of songs today and I'll be critical for a second, even though I said

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I wasn't going to do that this year, just for a second.

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It looks like they took a Bible and they flipped open and they found one religious word and

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they put it in the song and then they just coupled it with another religious word, even

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though they don't go hand in hand at all.

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They don't go together at all, but they put them together.

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Or you'll have what I like to call the Jesus is my boyfriend songs where it's like you

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could take Jesus's name out and put your boyfriend's name in there and the song doesn't

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change.

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That's a problem.

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Okay.

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If that song still works like that, that's a problem.

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We need to make sure our songs are biblical, that they're rooted in Scripture and that they

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talk about the grace of God in Christ, the salvation that is in Christ and the judgment

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that is to come because God is even glorified in judgment.

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You read the Bible and the Bible says that salvation and judgment go together.

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You think about the cross and almost everybody thinks about the cross as purely a symbol

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of salvation, but was it not also a picture of judgment?

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God was judging Jesus for our sins.

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He made him to be sin who knew no sin so that in him we might become the righteousness of

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God.

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And so that was an act of judgment and salvation at the same time because they go together.

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And if you're not singing these songs now, if you're not praising God daily for what

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he has done for us in Christ, I like to tell people like this.

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If you are not singing the songs of the redeemed now, you should not expect to be singing them

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later.

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A lot of people think that, oh, I just believe in Jesus or I go to church sometimes so one

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day I'm going to get to heaven and everything's going to change like that and all of a sudden

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I'm going to love God a whole lot more than I think I do now.

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That's not the way it works.

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Folks, if you don't love God now, you're not going to love him then.

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If you're not glorifying God now, you're not going to glorify him then.

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If you're not singing these songs of praise now, you're not going to be part of that group

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that sings it then.

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But here's my question to you, another question to you.

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Why else do you think the Bible is referencing Moses here?

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What's the point with bringing Moses up?

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He's the one who brought the people out of slavery.

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Think about another connection here.

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What is God about to unleash on the earth?

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Michael, I look like you got it.

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The Egyptian plagues, that's right.

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So just as God brought about 10 plagues upon Egypt, he's going to bring seven plagues upon

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the earth and so that's the connection of Moses there and next week the chart I have

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for you is going to show how the seven seals, the seven bowls and the 10 plagues all align

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in what they're doing.

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And so you see that's the reason he's bringing it up here.

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And I want to ask you, what is the relationship between the trumpets and the bowls?

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What's the relationship?

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We've talked about the trumpets.

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Now we're about to talk about the bowls next week.

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What's the relationship between the trumpets and the bowls?

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Courtney?

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Yep.

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And how did the two go together, do we think?

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Okay.

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What about the purpose?

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Yeah, Cayley, that's good.

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The trumpet is the warning and the bowl is the finality.

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That's how these two are working together.

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If you read about the trumpets again, it's very clear that they serve as a warning of

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the final judgment that is to come.

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And people are still affected by the various calamities that come with the trumpets, but

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the Bible says that their reach is only to a third of their domain.

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However, the bowls are all encompassing.

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Notice what it's saying here.

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It's saying the bowls are all encompassing.

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They utterly destroy all that they touch.

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I do think that we see both of these things happening in history and playing out in history,

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but here's what I want to make clear to you this evening.

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What might be a trumpet to one person could very easily be a bowl to a different person.

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In other words, since the events of the trumpets and the bowls are so similar, it's possible

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that one is a warning call to someone, but it's a final act of judgment to another person.

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And so it's possible that you can have one event and God is using that one event to warn

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someone to turn from their sins because this is the judgment that is to come.

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You still have time.

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You need to repent.

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You need to turn.

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But for another person, that same event could be God saying your time is over.

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This is your, you've had your time.

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You had enough time to repent and now comes the judgment.

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And this is exactly what we see throughout the Old Testament, right?

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You read the Old Testament and God constantly draws a line in the sand and he says, hey,

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if you cross this line, that's it.

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There is no turning back from this.

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God gives people a certain amount of time to repent and if they don't repent, he brings

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judgment.

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We saw that in our King's series over summer.

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You remember the Amalekites?

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Do we need to have another go at that passage where God said, hey, utterly destroy everyone

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and devote them all to destruction?

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You all remember that?

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And people got kind of upset that God would do something like that.

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But the whole point was that God had given them years and years and years to repent of

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their sins, but instead they continued in the rebellion.

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They continued in their sin.

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They refused to repent.

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This was the amount of time you had to repent.

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You've exceeded that.

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Now comes the judgment.

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And I think the same is true today, that God gives all people a certain amount of time

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to repent and we don't know what amount of time that is for us.

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But he sounds these trumpets as a warning and a taste of the final judgment that is to

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come.

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But when that warning is done, he's going to pour out the bowl of his wrath and that's

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it.

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And that's how we're going to go going back at that point.

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And as I said, I do think we see examples of this in our world today.

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And I'll just show you, just show you one.

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If we can pull up Revelation chapter 8.

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If you have your Bibles, you can turn there.

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It'll be on the screen.

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Revelation chapter 8, the verses 6 to 11.

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I want to just show you how we might see these trumpet warnings in our world today.

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The Bible says, now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.

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The first angel blew his trumpet and there followed hail and fire mixed with blood.

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And these were thrown upon the earth and a third of the earth was burned up.

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And a third of the trees were burned up and all green grass was burned up.

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The second angel blew his trumpet and something like a great mountain burning with fire was

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thrown into the sea.

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And a third of the sea became blood.

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A third of living creatures in the sea died and a third of the ships were destroyed.

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And the third angel blew his trumpet and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like

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a torch and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.

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The name of the star is wormwood, which just means bitter.

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And a third of the waters became wormwood and many people died from the water because

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it had been made bitter.

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Now, if you'll remember when we studied that section together, I told you that I think

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wildfires are a possible explanation for what we see here.

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People often act like wildfires are just a natural disaster that happens.

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And actually, I think very often, while some of them could just be natural disasters in

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a fallen world, I think very often we're discounting what is clearly an act of God's

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judgment upon a place for their sinful rebellion against him and his ways.

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And I think, just to give you one example, might feel like I'm going to pick on for a

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little bit, kind of am.

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For instance, between the years of 2017 and 2020, California experienced some of its worst

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wildfires in its entire history as a state.

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And this was also the period of time, if you'll remember your political history, where California

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went way off the rails politically.

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I mean, this was the time when they were trying to get Christian books banned if those Christian

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books told something other than the LGBT agenda or talked down about abortion or things like

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that.

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Anything that didn't align with their political values, they were literally trying to ban books

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in their state that were going with the Bible.

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You also remember a lot of policies they put forward at this time, becoming a sanctuary

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state, all this kind of stuff, all sorts of stuff that sent them to the far left.

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They're probably the farthest left state in the entire United States at this point.

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And not only are they just doing things that are technically illegal and go against our

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government, but clearly unbiblical and go against God.

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I mean, this is a state that is an active rebellion against God, and the state's leaders

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are in active rebellion against God.

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And so notice what's happening here.

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These verses describe a mountain burning with fire, the sea becoming like blood, and the

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waters becoming bitter.

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Mazzon, can you pull up?

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I tried to include a picture here.

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So this is a picture of California wildfires, and what you see is a mountain burning with

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fire.

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And picture two, Mazzon, this was another one, the atmosphere had been so affected by the

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wildfires that not only is the sky red, but the water appears to be like blood while the

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mountain burns.

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And not only that, but there was a report that found that the drinking water in California

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at this time had become so polluted by the wildfires that it was undrinkable.

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They told people to stop drinking anything other than bottled water because it had become

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contaminated and people died from drinking contaminated water, just as the Bible says

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people would die by drinking the waters here because the fires had made them bitter.

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Now here's what I want to happen, all right?

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I'm going to make myself very, very clear here.

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I'm not saying that California having wildfires is the fulfillment of Revelation 8.

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Did everybody hear me say that because I'm not about to be put on YouTube or clipped

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out of context, I'm not one of those preachers, right?

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I'm not saying California wildfires are the fulfillment of Revelation 8, but what I am

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saying is they are a fulfillment of Revelation 8.

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So just to make this even more clear, God did not write this specifically for California,

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but he certainly had California in mind when he inspired these words because he is sovereign

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and he knew that one day they would be an active rebellion against him.

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He knew that they would refuse to repent.

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He knew that they would not heed any of the warning signs.

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And so this is what a trumpet looks like in our world today, folks, a mountain burning,

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sea looking like blood, water becoming contaminated and killing people and people chalk it up

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to a natural disaster because they refuse to acknowledge God even though this is a clear

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warning from God described in his word saying, turn from your sins, repent of your sins before

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it's too late because one day this isn't going to be a trumpet.

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One day this is going to be a bowl.

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And when it's a bowl, that means there is no time for repentance left, but the time is

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done.

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So again, it's not the fulfillment, it's a fulfillment of what we see here and it's

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something that they should heed.

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And I think the reason I say that it's a trumpet rather than a bowl is again because the Bible

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says that the trumpets affect a third of whatever they touch, their domain, whereas the bowl

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is all-encompassing.

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So here's just another little interesting fact for you to chew on about this whole topic.

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Although statistics vary, it's generally agreed that since California became a state approximately

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20 to 30% of its total land mass has been burned up by wildfires.

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Now here's where it gets even more interesting.

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California is setting a record pace this year for wildfires.

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According to an article in the LA Times just earlier this month, they reported that California

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wildfires up to this point have burned up 20 times as much land this year as at the same

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time last year.

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The article goes on to say that if California continues, the wildfires continue at this pace

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for the remainder of wildfire season, California is projected to lose approximately 5% of their

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total land mass due to wildfires this year.

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And if you're keeping track at home, that would put the total amount of land burned

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up in California since they became a state at between 25 to 35%, which is approximately

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a third.

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So again, I'm not saying anything, I'm just putting statistics and data in front of you

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and I'm going to let you draw your own conclusions.

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But what I want you to see is that these things are happening.

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I know we like to look at revelation and there's so many people who look at revelation, they

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say, that's some time in the way for our future.

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That's going to be hundreds of years from now.

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And I'm trying to get you to open your eyes and see this is going on now.

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The trumpets are already sounding.

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God is warning people all around the world today to repent of their sins, turn from their

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sins and trust in Him because one day it's not going to be a trumpet anymore.

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One day it's going to be a bowl.

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And so let me tell you what that means for us, just to tie this back together.

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For you, it means you need to make sure you heed the trumpets warning.

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Personally, yeah, you need to pay attention.

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You need to heed the warning of the trumpet and you need to make sure that you're repenting

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of your own sins, that you're turning from your sins and that you are clinging to Christ

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with everything that you have.

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You need to make sure that your hope is not misplaced, that you're not trusting in something

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that you do or your own good works, but that every bit of your trust and hope and faith

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is in Christ alone.

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But then we need to make sure we're telling other people what these trumpets mean because

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we can't expect an unbelieving world to know what these signs mean.

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I mean, just think about like a hospital room, right?

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I've been in a lot of hospital rooms and you've probably been in some too and you know that

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you're in a hospital room.

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I've been in them before where all of a sudden alarm, some sort of an alarm will start going

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off and I immediately start panicking because I'm like, I don't know what that means.

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I don't know if the machine's breaking down, if this person's dying right in front of me.

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And then thankfully a doctor or a nurse will come in and they'll comfort me by telling

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me what the sound actually means and most of the time it's just a normal sound that

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the machine makes.

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But I would have no way of knowing that because I'm not a doctor.

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So I need someone who understands what that means to tell me what that means.

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Do you get where I'm going with this?

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When we see this type of thing as a Christian, we should see this and go, God is sounding

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in his trumpets.

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He is warning the world and the nation and you could say, was COVID a plague from God

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and was that a trumpet sound from God trying to get people to repent?

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And he put that especially on America because we're a corrupt nation who's far from God.

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We're a godless nation.

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Maybe that's a conversation for another day.

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But yes, possibly when we see these things though, we can recognize them because God

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has given us his word and we read his word, but we cannot expect an unbelieving world

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to recognize the sound of a trumpet that they don't know anything about.

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It's up to us to go and tell them.

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It's up to us when we're having conversations with our family members at those get-togethers

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or our coworkers or our friends and they're making comments about California wildfires

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or coronavirus or all these sorts of things we see in our world today.

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And they just think, man, the world's kind of messed up.

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You say, no, this is the judgment of God upon an unbelieving, rebellious people who refuse

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to repent of their sins.

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That's what we have to tell them.

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We have to tell them that so that they know that.

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And then we have to tell them to repent of their sins and to turn to Christ before it's

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too late because everybody has a time period.

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And we don't know what that is.

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I don't know what my time period is.

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Praise the Lord that I repented within that time period and God honored that.

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But we don't know what it is for unbelievers.

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You don't know what it is for your unbelieving friends or family members or people that you

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have in your life who are your loved ones.

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We don't know.

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And so we need to tell them to repent before it's too late because one day that trumpet

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is going to be a bowl.

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And at that point, that's the end.

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Are we good?

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Everybody got it?

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Sweet.

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We'll jump into Revelation 16 next week.

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I promise to have you a nice little chart that you'll probably throw away after this,

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but I do encourage you to keep them because they take a little bit of time to make.

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All right, Mike.