1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,160 Good morning. How are you all doing today? Awesome. Well, if this is your first time 2 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:12,080 visiting Hosanna here, whether you're here in our sanctuary or if you're 3 00:00:12,080 --> 00:00:15,680 watching us online, we always like to say welcome to all of you. We're so glad you're 4 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:21,440 here to worship with us today. I am Pastor Nathan and this morning we're 5 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:28,800 going to see three angels speak truths that many consider politically incorrect. 6 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:35,760 You know, our modern culture has worked pretty aggressively to govern and dictate 7 00:00:35,760 --> 00:00:43,000 what people are or should be allowed and not allowed to say. And you know, I would 8 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:47,440 say granted there are many things that people can say that probably 9 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:53,720 really shouldn't be, really unkind things, inappropriate things, wrong things, but 10 00:00:53,720 --> 00:01:00,840 when it comes to truth, truth is truth and that's a very important truth, okay? 11 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:07,320 Truth is truth and sometimes truth, when spoken, can be very uncomfortable for 12 00:01:07,320 --> 00:01:13,240 people. Yes, anytime we're called to speak truth we should employ tact and 13 00:01:13,240 --> 00:01:20,000 sensitivity and even, you know, the idea of just being gentle when we speak hard 14 00:01:20,000 --> 00:01:27,680 truths, but sadly much today that is true is now considered politically incorrect 15 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:34,720 and thus it's just censored, wholesale. It's censored by media control, it's 16 00:01:34,720 --> 00:01:41,160 censored by social media engineering, it's social, or it's controlled by 17 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:45,280 canceling, it's controlled even by legislation and that's only going to get 18 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:51,800 worse as time moves forward. The danger however comes when we start to define 19 00:01:51,800 --> 00:01:57,880 what people should and shouldn't say in different circumstances based not out of 20 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:03,000 a desire to maintain propriety, to maintain appropriateness, to maintain 21 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:08,920 sensitivity, but out of a desire to outright deny and rewrite truth simply 22 00:02:08,920 --> 00:02:14,480 because that truth offends somebody, simply because that truth is disagreed 23 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:18,960 with. And I don't know if you would agree but in today's society I think the 24 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:23,840 ability to dialogue when we disagree is under attack. People are trying to remove 25 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:30,200 that. The ability to even point to medical science when it comes to a 26 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:35,720 dialogue about things is being shouted down and replaced with my feelings, 27 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:42,160 replaced with my truth, replaced with I'm offended by truth therefore actual truth 28 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:48,160 should be changed and modified to fit my worldview. And being politically correct 29 00:02:48,160 --> 00:02:53,640 in lieu of actually correct has created a lot of serious issues in our 30 00:02:53,640 --> 00:02:59,800 world today. Now truth be told some restating of things can be humorous, 31 00:02:59,800 --> 00:03:05,360 right, in the in the concept of trying to be appropriate, you know, instead of bald 32 00:03:05,360 --> 00:03:11,520 we might say you're follicly challenged, right, instead of calling someone old 33 00:03:11,520 --> 00:03:17,680 we say they are chronologically experienced, right, but some of the 34 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:24,080 rewriting and redefining is dangerous. In our world today instead of baby it's 35 00:03:24,080 --> 00:03:29,000 more politically correct to say no it's just a fetus, it's just a clump of cells 36 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:34,280 so that we don't offend when someone wants to murder that baby in the womb. 37 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:39,800 Instead of male and female we now live in a culture that is just infinitely 38 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:46,520 inventing brand new genders so we don't offend and the result is an entire 39 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:52,560 generation of serious mental health issues being ignored, being celebrated by 40 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:57,480 many, a culture where minors are being medically mutilated by the very adults 41 00:03:57,480 --> 00:04:02,000 who are supposed to protect them. And then instead of the word and this is the 42 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:06,240 one that just really gets under my skin in our current culture, instead of the 43 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:12,720 word pedophile there is a push to change that to minor attracted person to not 44 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:17,840 offend because after all the culture we live in if anybody can be with anybody 45 00:04:17,840 --> 00:04:24,600 they want well we can't discriminate, it's foul. Worst of all because it 46 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:32,440 affects eternity is saying you can't say Jesus is the only way, the only truth, the 47 00:04:32,440 --> 00:04:39,080 only life, you can't say he is the only way to salvation, how offensive, how dare 48 00:04:39,080 --> 00:04:43,840 you suggest such a thing you shouldn't even be allowed to say those things in 49 00:04:43,840 --> 00:04:49,720 the public square. And the result is let's take Christian prayer out of our 50 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:54,960 public schools but put pornography in the libraries and call it progressive. 51 00:04:54,960 --> 00:05:01,240 The world is dark, it's getting darker and in the tribulation period we're 52 00:05:01,240 --> 00:05:07,720 going to see today in Revelation chapter 14 three angels show up who don't care 53 00:05:07,720 --> 00:05:12,080 about what's politically correct, they simply don't care, they care more about 54 00:05:12,080 --> 00:05:17,480 what is spiritually correct. They come with a message from God to deliver to 55 00:05:17,480 --> 00:05:24,440 everybody on the earth, a message that is unpopular but true, a message that that 56 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:31,080 hits hard and deals in confronts but is true. It's an event we're going to be 57 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:34,960 looking at that has never happened before in the world up until this time 58 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:40,080 in tribulation where angels will appear to the world directly, visibly, audibly 59 00:05:40,080 --> 00:05:45,040 and give a universal message that everybody on the planet will hear. Their 60 00:05:45,040 --> 00:05:48,480 message directly confronts the wrong thinking that the people of the world 61 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:53,040 have at that time and their message directly contradicts many of the 62 00:05:53,040 --> 00:05:57,520 philosophies and assumptions that mankind has today about man's origin, 63 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:03,080 about Satan, about hell, about death and eternity. That's what we're going to be 64 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,960 looking at today so buckle up but first we're going to spend some time 65 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:12,000 worshiping God because he is worthy. Our God is perfect, he is just, he is 66 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:16,720 righteous, he is holy and he deserves the praise and worship of all of his 67 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:20,740 creation and those of us that know him and call him Lord and Savior what a 68 00:06:20,740 --> 00:06:26,400 great privilege and honor it is for us to worship him. Amen? Let's pray. Father, 69 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:31,440 Lord we love you so much and we thank you God for your word. Lord we've been 70 00:06:31,440 --> 00:06:36,240 blessed and challenged Lord as we've been studying this revelation of Jesus 71 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:40,920 Christ. Lord as you gave John the Apostle this glimpse of what is to come in the 72 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:48,080 future Lord. God it's been both good and bad in ways Lord. God it is it is hard to 73 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:53,200 see what is coming Lord but it reveals Lord just who you are that in your 74 00:06:53,200 --> 00:06:58,680 perfection and your holiness Lord sin must be judged and so God we live in a 75 00:06:58,680 --> 00:07:03,220 world today Lord that is is trying to even move towards outline the very 76 00:07:03,220 --> 00:07:10,600 concept of identifying sin and pointing out sin not to be difficult or unkind 77 00:07:10,600 --> 00:07:15,180 people Lord but to preach the gospel of salvation that because of sin salvation 78 00:07:15,180 --> 00:07:21,280 is necessary and that salvation is found in Jesus Christ. Lord we are still people 79 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:24,520 here on this earth that are called to preach that gospel to be a light on the 80 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:28,960 hill and I pray God that you would encourage us today Lord that although 81 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:33,640 the truth of the gospel the truth of what scripture says is becoming 82 00:07:33,640 --> 00:07:39,360 increasingly more politically incorrect that we wouldn't care about that because 83 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:42,940 we're concerned with being spiritually correct preaching the truth of who you 84 00:07:42,940 --> 00:07:47,200 are. Lord we want to worship you now we want to praise your name we thank you 85 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:51,360 God for our salvation we thank you for saving our souls we thank you for the 86 00:07:51,360 --> 00:07:56,040 hope of heaven and God we just want to praise you for all of that we love you 87 00:07:56,040 --> 00:08:03,120 it's in Jesus name we pray amen. But we are in Revelation chapter 14 today and 88 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:08,320 we are going to be continuing our study here looking at these three angels you 89 00:08:08,320 --> 00:08:11,120 know I mentioned earlier that three angels are coming on the scene here 90 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:17,720 through Revelation 14 and angels are very active throughout scripture we see 91 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:22,560 angels all over the place throughout the Bible they were present in the giving of 92 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:27,440 the law back in the Old Testament when Moses got the law Hebrews chapter 114 93 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:31,960 tells us this in the New Testament are they not all ministering spirits sent 94 00:08:31,960 --> 00:08:36,480 out to serve those who are going to inherit salvation and the answer that 95 00:08:36,480 --> 00:08:41,600 question is yeah they are the angels are active today in the church ministering 96 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:46,960 to those that that are that belong to Jesus Christ right they're they're active 97 00:08:46,960 --> 00:08:53,360 all around us all the time specifically in Revelation we have seen angels very 98 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:58,320 active in fact we're in Revelation chapter 14 and angels have been 99 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:04,760 mentioned in every single chapter of Revelation except chapter 13 we've seen 100 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:10,680 them active in God's plan carrying out God's plan we've seen angels ministering 101 00:09:10,680 --> 00:09:16,100 God's will we've seen angels fighting demonic hordes and demon armies we've 102 00:09:16,100 --> 00:09:20,600 seen angels even enacting the judgments and carrying out the judgments that are 103 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:25,360 taking place during tribulation time and now here in Revelation 14 starting in 104 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:29,920 verse 6 they are announcing messages from God to the entire planet and so 105 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:36,920 read with me starting in Revelation 14 verse 6 then I saw another angel flying 106 00:09:36,920 --> 00:09:41,960 high overhead with the eternal gospel to announce to the inhabitants of the earth 107 00:09:41,960 --> 00:09:48,960 to every nation tribe language and people he spoke with a loud voice fear 108 00:09:48,960 --> 00:09:54,360 God and give him glory because the hour of his judgment has come worship the one 109 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:59,800 who made heaven and earth the sea and the springs of water and so this is the 110 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:04,120 first angel of the three we're looking at today this first angel is a preacher 111 00:10:04,120 --> 00:10:09,640 he is a preacher he's proclaiming the message of the gospel and he preaches it 112 00:10:09,640 --> 00:10:13,480 tells us from the skies above the earth you see in the beginning there when he 113 00:10:13,480 --> 00:10:18,320 John says I saw another angel flying high overhead that word flying means 114 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:23,600 continuously flying so he's like moving through the skies and he's moving 115 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:27,400 through the skies of the whole planet that that word or that phrase high 116 00:10:27,400 --> 00:10:32,880 overhead in the original language it refers to the zenith of the sky right at 117 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:36,080 the highest point of the sky you would kind of select go high noon right when 118 00:10:36,080 --> 00:10:39,720 the when the Sun is at the highest point well that's the idea here that the angel 119 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:44,080 is high up in the sky flying throughout the earth broadcasting a message 120 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:48,800 worldwide and the picture that gives us here is at this point in tribulation we 121 00:10:48,800 --> 00:10:52,080 are now in the second half of tribulation as we have been looking at all these 122 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:56,280 different things taking place with the Antichrist being revealed as this 123 00:10:56,280 --> 00:11:00,800 grotesque beast and his lackey following with him the false prophet all that's 124 00:11:00,800 --> 00:11:05,160 been taking place here this angel is now flying through the heaven and the idea 125 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:10,360 is that everybody is gonna hear what this angel has to say everybody on the 126 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:15,200 planet nobody will be able to get away from the message they won't be able to 127 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:19,560 walk away they won't be able to change the channel they won't be able to shut 128 00:11:19,560 --> 00:11:24,680 down the app they won't be able to click off the video right they are going to 129 00:11:24,680 --> 00:11:29,640 hear what this angel is proclaiming and you know throughout history if you study 130 00:11:29,640 --> 00:11:34,320 history in church history specifically you might see that that there have been 131 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:40,920 times when mankind was seemingly successful in silencing God's preachers 132 00:11:40,920 --> 00:11:45,480 you know over the course of history people that have proclaimed God's Word 133 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:50,960 have been vilified they have been persecuted they have been killed they 134 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:56,320 have been exiled today in our world they get shadow banned across social media 135 00:11:56,320 --> 00:12:01,240 constantly they get deplatformed as the social media platforms want to say you 136 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:06,440 know no longer have an account here and so your message is cut off and then 137 00:12:06,440 --> 00:12:10,680 specifically during the tribulation period many that are preaching gospel and 138 00:12:10,680 --> 00:12:14,800 proclaiming Jesus Christ as our Savior will be martyred as we have seen 139 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:18,920 throughout the study of Revelation that they will be killed and specifically 140 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:22,240 during the last three and a half years of tribulation there will be an active 141 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:27,920 genocidal advance towards those who would dare proclaim Jesus as we see that 142 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:33,400 they are getting killed now this persecution this worldly attempts to 143 00:12:33,400 --> 00:12:38,760 stop the message of the gospel going forth Paul experienced this we see in 144 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:43,760 second Timothy chapter 2 verse 9 Paul says I suffer to the point of being 145 00:12:43,760 --> 00:12:53,040 bound like a criminal but the Word of God is not bound you see Paul was in 146 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:58,320 jail for preaching the gospel and in jail he didn't want to be in jail he 147 00:12:58,320 --> 00:13:02,560 wanted to go out and preach he wanted to go out and do what God had called him 148 00:13:02,560 --> 00:13:06,520 and equipped him to do he wanted to go tell people about the hope that is found 149 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:11,440 in Jesus Christ the salvation available in Jesus Christ yet he says I am bound 150 00:13:11,440 --> 00:13:17,440 like a criminal I can't do what I need to do but then he says this very very 151 00:13:17,440 --> 00:13:26,160 important thing but the Word of God is not bound there will never be a time 152 00:13:26,160 --> 00:13:32,240 when that statement is truer than during the tribulation period when the world 153 00:13:32,240 --> 00:13:39,560 falls under a global government that hates God hates Jesus hates the gospel 154 00:13:39,560 --> 00:13:45,480 when the world is controlled by a global one-world religion that says 155 00:13:45,480 --> 00:13:51,640 everything else is permissible except Christianity when the oppression is so 156 00:13:51,640 --> 00:13:58,080 thick the world is gonna see that it doesn't matter the Word of God is not 157 00:13:58,080 --> 00:14:04,520 bound they'll see these angels flying through the sky one of them specifically 158 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:08,560 preaching the gospel and there is nothing anybody can do to stop it I 159 00:14:08,560 --> 00:14:15,480 just a great encouragement even today right it's it's somewhat unfortunate 160 00:14:15,480 --> 00:14:19,320 that today when we have the freedom to go pass out tracts and we have the 161 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:23,800 freedom to go share our faith with people we have the freedom at least from 162 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:28,760 a legal standpoint to go up to someone and just be like hey can I can I share 163 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:32,880 Jesus with you or to say hey can I pray with you and then why would you want to 164 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:36,600 pray with me I'm a Christian I believe that that God answers right all of these 165 00:14:36,600 --> 00:14:40,840 ways that we might interact with people to share the hope that is in Jesus 166 00:14:40,840 --> 00:14:45,840 Christ we live in a time where we can still do that actively and and so many 167 00:14:45,840 --> 00:14:51,520 of us don't and in there and there's all kinds of reasons for that you know 168 00:14:51,520 --> 00:14:56,400 sometimes we're just scared and then that's real right I mean I'll confess to 169 00:14:56,400 --> 00:14:59,840 you guys like put me in a room in front of a thousand people I could preach 170 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:07,440 Jesus all day long put me one on one okay it's it's fearful I still do it I 171 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:12,080 still hand out those tracks I still do the thing but but I but I get it you 172 00:15:12,080 --> 00:15:17,200 know ironically we were at a men's conference yesterday the Calvary Chapel 173 00:15:17,200 --> 00:15:21,480 SoCal men's conference it was it was amazing if you missed it just don't miss 174 00:15:21,480 --> 00:15:27,280 the next one it was it was great but at all of these events there's always some 175 00:15:27,280 --> 00:15:33,400 person I want to be kind that is out there protesting the Christian event as 176 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:37,280 a Christian you see it at Harvest Crusade sometimes and there's this guy 177 00:15:37,280 --> 00:15:40,400 out there with a megaphone yelling at all the Christians all the guys that are at 178 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:44,880 this men's conference to be encouraged and edified in the Lord in their 179 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:50,440 walk he's out there on the megaphone screaming out that evangelism needs to be 180 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:54,040 done the church needs to be doing evangelism but evangelism 181 00:15:54,040 --> 00:16:00,240 biblical evangelism is only one-on-one conversations that is it and that is 182 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:06,440 only what it is and then he goes and what I'm doing is evangelism while 183 00:16:06,440 --> 00:16:13,600 you're yelling at the crowds through a megaphone pray for that individual so 184 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:21,720 but the Word of God is never going to be bound and yes there is truth that God's 185 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:28,040 Word will go out even if you don't do it but that's disobedience if God's calling 186 00:16:28,040 --> 00:16:33,400 you to do it and disobedience is not okay but the idea is that there's this 187 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:39,200 time when when the oppression oppression that we don't even fathom right now like 188 00:16:39,200 --> 00:16:42,000 when it's not just like oh the person might get mad at me they might spit in 189 00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:45,400 my face they might yell at me but no no no you'll get put in jail and you'll get 190 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:51,640 killed for proclaiming the gospel during this time there's still angels flying 191 00:16:51,640 --> 00:16:56,160 through the sky proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ and incidentally as I 192 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:59,720 mentioned in our intro this is a unique event this is something that has never 193 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:03,680 happened up to this point angels preaching the gospel it's a very unique 194 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:09,840 event you see we don't see angels preach in the gospel anywhere in scripture 195 00:17:09,840 --> 00:17:14,280 until this point I'm sure they've wanted to okay I'm sure there's been times 196 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:18,400 where we're standing in the line at the grocery store and God the Holy Spirit 197 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:22,040 is going hey give that person in track and the angels are like yeah this is 198 00:17:22,040 --> 00:17:27,240 awesome watch this and you're going uh-uh no I can do it and the angels just 199 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:31,400 like get out of the way let me do it right I'm sure there's times like that 200 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:37,720 but but the angels that that's not their call that that's our call right I mean 201 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:40,560 in the book of Acts there's a story in the book of Acts where there was this 202 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:44,960 man named Cornelius and it tells us that he was praying every day and he was 203 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:49,840 praying and he wants to know who God is and he wants to know the truth of God and 204 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:53,040 salvation he's praying and he's praying and in that story in Acts it says an 205 00:17:53,040 --> 00:17:57,080 angel appears to him and tells him Cornelius this is what I want you to do 206 00:17:57,080 --> 00:18:04,120 send some guys to Joppa and ask for a guy named Peter and tell your guys to 207 00:18:04,120 --> 00:18:08,800 ask Peter come back with us to our master and then Peter will tell you what 208 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:14,520 to do Cornelius now here's the question why didn't the angel just tell 209 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:20,080 Cornelius the gospel right then and there how effective would that have been 210 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:25,040 right God I really want to know you angel with wings let me preach the 211 00:18:25,040 --> 00:18:30,560 gospel I'm saved you had me at you just arrived with a with feathery wings right 212 00:18:30,560 --> 00:18:35,840 but no he says go tell Peter to come right this whole process now yes we know 213 00:18:35,840 --> 00:18:39,840 that God was doing a work in Peter's life and teaching Peter some things but 214 00:18:39,840 --> 00:18:43,120 but why didn't the angel just preach the gospel to Cornelius because that's not 215 00:18:43,120 --> 00:18:49,960 the task of angels at least right now that's not the task of angels it's the 216 00:18:49,960 --> 00:18:55,520 task of men and women you and me who have met Jesus Christ had our lives 217 00:18:55,520 --> 00:19:01,840 transformed it's our task now now here in Revelation 14 at the last half of 218 00:19:01,840 --> 00:19:05,840 tribulation period yeah we see that the angels are now getting the opportunity 219 00:19:05,840 --> 00:19:12,520 to preach the gospel but remember that the next time you're wondering as as 220 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:18,240 Rick was sharing should I hand this track to this person no don't do it 221 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:24,040 remember that it's it's your task it's not the angels task it's our call as the 222 00:19:24,040 --> 00:19:28,600 people of God so what does this angel preach it tells us that the angel 223 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:33,040 preaches the eternal gospel that's a phrase that simply means the good news 224 00:19:33,040 --> 00:19:37,600 the gospel that has always been preached and will always be true that's what it 225 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:42,080 means by the eternal gospel there is never a time it never will be a time 226 00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:47,320 where the gospel is false the gospel that God has revealed there are false 227 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:52,000 gospels out there but the one we know and learn from the Word of God it will 228 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:57,840 always be true it's the good news of Jesus Christ the gospel who he is he has 229 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:02,520 God in the flesh what he did lived a perfect life went to the sin went to the 230 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:09,520 sin went to the cross to die for sin to pay the price for our sin as a perfect 231 00:20:09,520 --> 00:20:13,440 sacrifice the perfect atonement and then he went into the grave and he was risen 232 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:17,120 from the grave three days later it means it's it's it's the whole message of 233 00:20:17,120 --> 00:20:21,580 salvation and hope and the only way the only truth the only life that's the 234 00:20:21,580 --> 00:20:31,160 gospel we preach it's not that Jesus is one of the ways no he's the only way and 235 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:37,920 doesn't that make people upset when we say that well my version of Jesus and 236 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:45,520 then you let him continue and then if you have a relationship you go is fake 237 00:20:45,520 --> 00:20:53,520 there is no your version of Jesus there is only the revealed Jesus in God's Word 238 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:58,200 and so it's about faith in Christ it's about his death for you it's about him 239 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:01,260 being the atonement for your sin paying your penalty for breaking the law right 240 00:21:01,260 --> 00:21:06,360 the gospel that truth never changes that truth never will change he is the only 241 00:21:06,360 --> 00:21:11,520 way to salvation he is the only way to the father there is salvation in none 242 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:19,120 other but Jesus Christ God in the flesh who died for you and me on the cross the 243 00:21:19,120 --> 00:21:25,520 glorious gospel now he brought this eternal gospel and it says he announced 244 00:21:25,520 --> 00:21:29,960 it to the inhabitants of the earth that word announces where we get the concept 245 00:21:29,960 --> 00:21:34,920 of preaching right it's the idea of declaring its proclamation it literally 246 00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:40,240 means to bring good news and so the angel is flying through the skies of 247 00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:44,040 earth saying forgiveness is still available salvation is still available 248 00:21:44,040 --> 00:21:48,960 in Jesus Christ right this is what the angel is saying and then it says that he 249 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:53,240 was announcing this to the inhabitants of the earth and then it defines those 250 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:58,080 inhabitants as every nation every tribe language and people now that phrase 251 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:01,320 we've seen it a few times in Revelation and it's often a phrase that means 252 00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:06,520 everybody on the planet right to break it down that word nation in the original 253 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:11,800 language is ethnos we get our English term ethnic group from this so it's 254 00:22:11,800 --> 00:22:18,760 every ethnicity the word tribe is a word that that refers to people groups as 255 00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:23,520 defined by their governance or national identity right so you would say 256 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:28,160 Americans or you know South Americans or or Russians you know the idea there 257 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:32,200 language that word literally means dialects and so it's saying people 258 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:38,360 groups as defined by by the dialect of their language because we know that even 259 00:22:38,360 --> 00:22:42,920 within a nation you could have different cultural people groups different 260 00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:46,760 divisions of groups by based on the dialect of the language they speak and 261 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:50,880 then it says people in that word in the original language means people groups 262 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:56,240 defined by cultural or geographical ties sometimes there are people groups that 263 00:22:56,240 --> 00:23:00,200 straddle boundaries of nations right but they identify as one people group and so 264 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:05,840 so the word here is making sure we understand that it includes everybody 265 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:09,800 everybody every ethnicity no matter where they live no matter what their 266 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:14,400 national identity no matter the distinctions by culture or dialect every 267 00:23:14,400 --> 00:23:18,080 single person on earth at this time is going to hear this announcement of the 268 00:23:18,080 --> 00:23:25,560 good news from this angel and it's like God making one last final attempt 269 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:30,040 to reach the world right as we've been studying through tribulation the 270 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:35,680 judgments are being poured out in a very real way they're escalating they're 271 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:39,800 getting worse and more devastating and more dramatic and when we get to the 272 00:23:39,800 --> 00:23:44,400 bold judgments wow we're gonna see just how destructive those final seven 273 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:49,840 judgments are and in a way it's almost like God being like I'm judging sin but 274 00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:52,840 he's holding back just a little bit so that people would get saved and hold 275 00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:57,160 just a little bit right saying through the whole thing look the time is come 276 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:01,280 and we're gonna see that here in a moment in the verses where the full 277 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:06,360 power of God's wrath is poured out but there's one last opportunity and this is 278 00:24:06,360 --> 00:24:13,520 always the heart of God to give you one last opportunity to get saved he wants 279 00:24:13,520 --> 00:24:20,240 to save your soul that that's his heart that's his his his mission he's just and 280 00:24:20,240 --> 00:24:27,400 being just he must judge sin and those who commit it but right before he pours 281 00:24:27,400 --> 00:24:31,120 out these final judgments the bowls that we're gonna look at in chapters 15 and 282 00:24:31,120 --> 00:24:36,080 16 of Revelation this final gospel message goes out this final invitation 283 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:44,560 this final opportunity to repent to change to be just cleansed by God maybe 284 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:48,280 think about it at this point in tribulation the world has already 285 00:24:48,280 --> 00:24:52,640 rejected the hundred forty four thousand in their evangelism the world has 286 00:24:52,640 --> 00:24:56,800 rejected the two witnesses in Jerusalem and all their their miraculous signs 287 00:24:56,800 --> 00:25:01,120 they were doing the world even celebrated had a national holiday when 288 00:25:01,120 --> 00:25:06,320 the Antichrist murdered those two witnesses and now there's an actual angel 289 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:10,480 flying through the sky and visible and audible to every single person on earth 290 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:17,120 this tells us something very important that the gospel is for everyone the 291 00:25:17,120 --> 00:25:22,200 gospel is for everyone some like point to Christianity at times ago 292 00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:26,560 Christianity is just a Western religion right it's only for the United States 293 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:34,720 but but Jesus said for God so loved the world all of it that world that that 294 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:38,240 word world there literally is referring to everything in God's creation God God 295 00:25:38,240 --> 00:25:42,480 loved every everything he created every person every one of us he loved us so 296 00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:48,760 much the gospel isn't just for the West it's not just for America it's not just 297 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:55,120 for this ethnicity it's not just a white religion or a black religion or an Asian 298 00:25:55,120 --> 00:26:02,000 it's it's not any of that the gospel is for everybody of every culture regardless 299 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:07,080 of where they live on planet earth the gospel is for everyone Jesus said to his 300 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:12,760 disciples go into the whole world they make disciples of all nations that's 301 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:19,620 everybody after his resurrection in mark 16 15 Jesus said to them go into all the 302 00:26:19,620 --> 00:26:25,600 world and preach the gospel to all creation that's everybody and it's the 303 00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:35,560 eternal gospel because it's forever it's good news for everyone through all time 304 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:41,160 the gospel isn't just for this area of history or this era of history it's for 305 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:46,640 everybody of all time and it's the commission of the disciples and it's the 306 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:50,480 commission of the church today that the gospel goes out to everyone that's why 307 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:55,480 I'm bringing Rick up here every week to to just walk you guys through gospels 308 00:26:55,480 --> 00:27:03,880 try this one try this one try this one try something do something not all of us 309 00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:09,160 have the have the personality to go out and and stand on a soapbox some of us do 310 00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:14,400 praise God for that but we're all called to be a part of the work of evangelism 311 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:20,880 in the church because the gospel is for everybody and really what that says to 312 00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:28,160 us is the cure for sin is the same for all regardless of ethnicity of culture 313 00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:33,320 of nationality of language spoken the cure for sin is the gospel of Jesus 314 00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:38,600 Christ salvation through faith in his death and resurrection so why the church 315 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:44,560 sends out missionaries some object why does the church send people to another 316 00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:48,640 culture and trying to push their religion on him because sins in that 317 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:56,560 culture too and the cure for sin is the same Jesus Christ so included in this 318 00:27:56,560 --> 00:28:01,280 eternal gospel is a call to worship God as the creator verse 7 read with me says 319 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,880 he spoke with a loud voice fear God and give him glory because the hour of his 320 00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:08,920 judgment has come worship the one who has made heaven and earth the sea and 321 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:14,720 the springs of water what's interesting is often in scripture we see that that 322 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:19,760 when those who are preaching God approached the pagan world they often do 323 00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:24,120 it from the point of view or they start the starting point is is God is creator 324 00:28:24,120 --> 00:28:29,280 that's that's a familiar trend when Paul went to Athens and he went to that 325 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,520 place where they had statues to every God they could think of and then Paul 326 00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:38,000 saw that they even had a statue to the unknown God right that's worldly 327 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:42,120 spirituality we're gonna invent infinite gods and then just in case we 328 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:48,080 missed one we'll have a statue to him too and what did Paul say there I want 329 00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:52,080 to speak to you about the God who created heaven and earth right he 330 00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:55,960 approached from this point of view now why do we see this why why is this often 331 00:28:55,960 --> 00:29:00,000 the starting point when we see preachers and evangelists going out and sharing 332 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,200 their faith they start with God created everything I think it's because of the 333 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:08,760 foundational question that every human being has the foundational question I 334 00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:11,520 think every human being has when they look around they go where did this all 335 00:29:11,520 --> 00:29:19,320 come from then they go what's the purpose of all of this and then that 336 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:25,880 naturally leads to where did I come from what's my purpose why do I exist 337 00:29:25,880 --> 00:29:33,320 and the reality is is God created everything it says here God created the 338 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:37,120 heaven and the earth and the sea and the springs of water saying everything you 339 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:41,560 see is his he made it it belongs to him and what that means is everything in it 340 00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:48,320 also belongs to him which includes you and me we are God's creation and all 341 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:53,680 glory and all worship and all praise and all adoration it's due to him and him 342 00:29:53,680 --> 00:30:01,720 alone as creator glory is not for us it's not to us it's not for our pride our 343 00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:06,760 ego it's not to to the gods of our own creation it's not to strange philosophies 344 00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:12,880 and wrong assumptions it's to God Almighty the creator of the universe and 345 00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:17,280 one of the biggest lies that that has perpetrated mankind for centuries at 346 00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:23,840 this point is this idea that that that things just evolved right our society 347 00:30:23,840 --> 00:30:28,520 kind of grew out of gods and superstitions and then we became a 348 00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:33,440 scientific knowledgeable culture and we understood that no we just evolved and 349 00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:40,160 randomly came to be through accidents of accidents and that was a great lie of 350 00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,560 the devil because it perpetrated the idea that you know ultimately nothing 351 00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:50,040 matters there is no right there is no wrong there is no truth there is no 352 00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:56,360 false there is no morality because why well whatever one can think up if we 353 00:30:56,360 --> 00:31:02,400 just evolved and there's no purpose then whatever one can think up must be 354 00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:07,280 permissible because suggesting that whatever anybody wants to do is right or 355 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:11,120 wrong assumes that there's a standard to measure against and if we were just 356 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:16,880 accidents of evolution there is no standard and we see that humanistic 357 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:21,120 thinking in our world today we've seen it for a long time the angel here is 358 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:26,280 directly confronting the wrong thinking of a lost and diluted mankind a 359 00:31:26,280 --> 00:31:30,000 politically correct mankind and the angels saying let me take your political 360 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:36,840 correctness and throw it out the window Jesus is the one to be worshiped God he 361 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:44,400 is God the creator and he is the only way to salvation and he's emphasizing 362 00:31:44,400 --> 00:31:49,960 that fact that there is a creator and he did create and define right and wrong 363 00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:55,400 and true and false and moral and immoral and because he's the creator of all 364 00:31:55,400 --> 00:32:00,640 things he has the authority to judge all things that word judgment it uses there 365 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:04,680 because the hour of his judgment has come that word judgment means a legal 366 00:32:04,680 --> 00:32:13,080 determination of right and wrong a legal determination the one who started it all 367 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:20,720 as creator is the one who has the legal right to end it all as judge and that is 368 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:23,480 part of the message that we take to people and so what does the angel say 369 00:32:23,480 --> 00:32:30,480 here so fear God and give him glory that word fear means to to grant great 370 00:32:30,480 --> 00:32:37,360 reverence or respect why because final judgment is about to fall and so this 371 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:44,000 angel is out there flying around saying you can be saved still but only through 372 00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:49,600 the terms of the eternal gospel salvation is only through faith in Jesus 373 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:54,480 Christ which is a direct contradiction to the philosophies and assumptions that 374 00:32:54,480 --> 00:33:00,120 mankind has today and will have even more strongly then so verse 8 we get to 375 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:04,880 the second angel it says on another a second angel followed saying it has 376 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:09,280 fallen Babylon the great has fallen she made the nations drink the wine of her 377 00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:14,360 sexual immorality which brings wrath so we see a second angel following the 378 00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:18,440 first the idea is there that the angel is also flying through the skies around 379 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:25,480 the globe and announcing for the whole world to hear Babylon has fallen now 380 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:30,200 again this statement here is is much like the the first part of Revelation 14 381 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:34,640 this is a glance to the end of the tribulation period this is a glance to 382 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:38,000 the very end where everything is being wrapped up and so he's saying look 383 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:46,720 Babylon has fallen everything it's about in the big picture of eternity God wins 384 00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:51,400 it may look like Babylon is having success right in this moment but in the 385 00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:57,600 big picture God wins and so the first angel gave an invitation to salvation 386 00:33:57,600 --> 00:34:01,360 before the bold judgments fall on the earth this angel is not preaching the 387 00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:06,320 gospel there's no invitation here is simply a declaration of fact Babylon the 388 00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:11,760 great has fallen so what is the angel referring to here well in Revelation 17 389 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:16,560 and 18 when we get here we're gonna see a very lengthy description of what 390 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:21,920 Babylon the great is to summarize Babylon the great is pictured as a or is 391 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:28,000 presented as a city that is pictured as a promiscuous woman a prostitute a 392 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:33,920 harlot okay and so when you look at Babylon the great in Revelation 17 and 393 00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:39,560 18 this picture this city being being being pictured as this promiscuous 394 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:44,160 woman it could be referring to and I believe it's referring to an actual 395 00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:49,400 rebuilt city of Babylon Babylon that is a headquarters of just grave 396 00:34:49,400 --> 00:34:56,480 immorality and that's actually coming to pass there's this thing called the world 397 00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:00,920 monument fund it's an independent organization that exists to quote 398 00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:06,640 safeguard the world's most treasured places in 2008 the world monument fund 399 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:12,720 started the future of Babylon project and this project was to document assess 400 00:35:12,720 --> 00:35:19,280 and develop conservation plans for ancient Babylon in Iraq in July 5th 2019 401 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:24,120 this was just a few years back Babylon as a city was officially inscribed on 402 00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:27,960 the United Nations educational scientific and cultural organization 403 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:34,160 world heritage list they're rebuilding it now some of you remember back when 404 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,760 Saddam Hussein started rebuilding it and of course Bible scholars got all excited 405 00:35:37,760 --> 00:35:44,000 at that point Babylon's coming back right and then he didn't and others have 406 00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:48,800 taken up that cause so far you can actually go see it there today they have 407 00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:52,960 rebuilt an ancient statue of a lion trampling a man called the lion of 408 00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:57,840 Babylon right super family-friendly attraction there they've rebuilt what's 409 00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:02,040 called the Ishtar gate which is this large double gate that was led into the 410 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:06,120 inner city of Babylon this gate was actually said to be built by Nebuchadnezzar 411 00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:11,160 himself and what's in progress what they're still working on as of today is 412 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:17,760 the Nimbak temple which was a temple to the mother goddess worship that took 413 00:36:17,760 --> 00:36:21,880 place all the way back in ancient Mesopotamia the mother goddess what do 414 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:31,640 we call that today mother earth Gaia so in Revelation 17 and 18 as I said this 415 00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:35,600 city is pictured as this woman and so this woman is not only representative of 416 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:39,360 the city itself but she's also representative of the entire debauched 417 00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:44,520 system of depravity of the end times that that this city is a headquarters 418 00:36:44,520 --> 00:36:48,680 of so and that's kind of the picture that we saw in Revelation 13 much like 419 00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:53,160 the first beast in Revelation 13 represented both the Antichrist as an 420 00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:58,760 individual and the government that he led this woman here represents or the 421 00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:04,360 woman in Revelation 17 and 18 represents the actual city of Babylon and the foul 422 00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:09,400 world system that that city is head of head of and so that's the whole economic 423 00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:12,800 system of oppression the persecution of believers the whole ideology and 424 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:18,760 philosophy of it so the picture we see in the end times is while worship of the 425 00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:23,680 beast is largely going to be headquartered in Jerusalem in the Jewish 426 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:28,480 temple that the Antichrist goes and sits in and desecrates during the abomination 427 00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:32,800 of desolation the governmental and economic and cultural control of earth 428 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:37,720 will likely be headquartered in a rebuilt Babylon and this is very 429 00:37:37,720 --> 00:37:42,480 interesting because in Daniel's vision of the end times in the book of Daniel 430 00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:49,200 his visions came during the reign of King Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon so it's 431 00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:53,440 very interesting connection there so all that to say that Babylon the great that 432 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,720 it's referring to here the Babylon the great has fallen as a collective 433 00:37:56,720 --> 00:38:01,520 reference to the entire cultural and political system and the city that the 434 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:05,840 whole thing is governed from and so the angel is declaring all of this has 435 00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:11,440 fallen now notice the accusation in the declaration here she has made all the 436 00:38:11,440 --> 00:38:16,880 nations drink the wine of her sexual immorality which brings wrath if you're 437 00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:20,920 with us last week in the first part of Revelation 14 we looked at the hundred 438 00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:24,360 and forty four thousand that had been sealed with the seal of God and we 439 00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:28,040 talked about how these hundred forty four thousand were specifically pointed 440 00:38:28,040 --> 00:38:32,080 out as having maintained their purity during this time they maintained their 441 00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:37,160 purity in contrast to the sexual perversions that are likely going to be 442 00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:41,280 a part of the world worship at that time that they kept their purity and all that 443 00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:46,560 but the rest of the world it says drank the wine of her sexual immorality when 444 00:38:46,560 --> 00:38:50,320 it says all the nations there it's it's literally referring to this world system 445 00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:54,840 is going to be global and this world system literally deceives and intoxicates 446 00:38:54,840 --> 00:39:00,400 the entire planet we see glimpses of that it's already been referenced in the 447 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:04,320 scripture in first John 5 where it said the whole world is under the sway of 448 00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:10,320 the evil one right now it's a little more subtle the devil is not trying to 449 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:15,920 outwardly and overtly say I'm the devil worship me as God which is gonna take 450 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:20,680 place during tribulation times and but we do see that even in our time the world 451 00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:25,080 is under the sway the influence of the evil one and the world simply going to 452 00:39:25,080 --> 00:39:28,200 continue on this path and it's going to get worse and worse and end up with a 453 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:34,600 united world system of perversion and sin and impurity now this combats a 454 00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:38,360 thought that that some have that they say well you know if the majority 455 00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:43,760 believes something that must be right have you ever heard that or thought that 456 00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:49,160 it's easy to think of in in our system of democracy right when when we vote and 457 00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,920 you know the idea is like well if more people vote for this than this then this 458 00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:58,760 should win right but that concept isn't true across the board just because the 459 00:39:58,760 --> 00:40:03,760 majority thinks something is true doesn't mean it is just because the 460 00:40:03,760 --> 00:40:08,240 majority might say something is politically correct doesn't mean it's 461 00:40:08,240 --> 00:40:13,480 spiritually correct and we have plenty examples of that throughout scripture 462 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:19,800 remember Moses sent 12 spies into the promised land 10 came back and said 463 00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:23,640 impossible there's no way we can take that land there's no way we could live 464 00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:27,800 there they were the majority it was only two of them Joshua and Caleb that's like 465 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:34,520 we could take the land God's with us and the minority ended up being right Israel 466 00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:39,840 did take the land you might remember in Jerusalem when Jesus Christ was to be 467 00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:47,880 crucified it was the majority that were saying crucify him they were wrong the 468 00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:50,760 majority of scientists were wrong when they once believed that the earth was 469 00:40:50,760 --> 00:40:59,000 flat so moving on we've had an invitation from one angel we heard 470 00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:02,480 a declaration from another angel now we have an admonition from the third angel 471 00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:06,160 verse 9 and another a third angel followed them and spoke with a loud 472 00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:10,160 voice if anyone worships the beast and its image and receives a mark on his 473 00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:14,240 forehead or on his hand he will also drink the wine of God's wrath which is 474 00:41:14,240 --> 00:41:18,800 poured full strength in the cup of his anger he will be tormented with fire and 475 00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:22,620 sulfur in the sight of the holy angels in the sight of the lamb and the smoke 476 00:41:22,620 --> 00:41:27,340 of their torment will go up forever and ever there is no rest day or night for 477 00:41:27,340 --> 00:41:31,000 those who worship the beast and its image or anyone who receives the mark 478 00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:40,440 of its name Wow that's heavy the third angel is not preaching the gospel he's 479 00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:44,960 not saying there's still opportunity to be saved he's not declaring the fate of 480 00:41:44,960 --> 00:41:51,320 this anti-god anti-christ world system he's warning about the damnation for all 481 00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:57,200 those who choose the wrong team who choose the wrong thing he's warning 482 00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:00,480 about the damnation to come for those who worship the beast and the 483 00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:05,560 anti the beast who is the Antichrist now it's interesting the way this is worded 484 00:42:05,560 --> 00:42:09,280 the angel seems to be pointing out a conscious decision that that people will 485 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:16,320 have to make the idea here is is one will choose to worship the beast and 486 00:42:16,320 --> 00:42:21,120 reject Jesus they will choose to receive the mark of the beast and reject 487 00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:26,360 salvation in Christ the idea is that indicates that there's there's not going 488 00:42:26,360 --> 00:42:31,160 to be at the end of tribulation anybody going I wasn't really worshiping the 489 00:42:31,160 --> 00:42:39,200 beast I didn't know that it was worship I wasn't really following him those who 490 00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:43,720 choose to bow to the image those who choose to take the mark will never be 491 00:42:43,720 --> 00:42:49,840 able to say I didn't mean to I didn't know what I was doing I didn't know what 492 00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:54,920 it meant at the end of the tribulation period there will be clarity there will 493 00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:59,080 be understanding at what worshiping the beast is and means there will be clarity 494 00:42:59,080 --> 00:43:04,680 and understanding at what taking the mark means and by doing so will consign 495 00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:13,520 those who do it to damnation and there will be no blaming God for it yes there 496 00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:18,160 will be deception during the end times yes there will be lies put forth by the 497 00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:22,640 Antichrist and the false prophet but again we've already mentioned it there 498 00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:26,520 was 144,000 Jewish evangelists preaching the gospel the whole time there was two 499 00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:31,200 witnesses and their miraculous signs and then for heaven's sake you had an angel 500 00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:38,960 fly through the sky preaching the gospel what excuse do you have and so this third 501 00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:44,000 angel is saying if you insist and persist in rejecting Jesus Christ if you 502 00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:48,440 insist in participating in the immorality of this world system if you 503 00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:55,520 insist in drinking of the wine of Babylon the great then you will have no 504 00:43:55,520 --> 00:44:02,040 excuse and you will drink the wine of God's wrath his judgment and the 505 00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:07,520 destiny of those who reject Jesus during the tribulation period it's it's the same 506 00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:14,120 destiny if you reject him today it's the same destiny God's judgment will fall it 507 00:44:14,120 --> 00:44:19,600 will be hell forever judgment forever notice there it said that he the the 508 00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:24,280 wine of his wrath he said will drink the wine of God's wrath which is poured full 509 00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:29,400 strength into the cup of his anger this is a wine metaphor obviously we're 510 00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:33,080 talking about wine but the idea is that in ancient times the water was so 511 00:44:33,080 --> 00:44:37,320 terrible that they would often mix wine with the water to kill the germs that 512 00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:40,760 were in the water but it was very diluted you know it was it was still 513 00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:46,000 mostly water but the idea here is he's going look the judgment will no longer 514 00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:51,920 be diluted it will not be watered down it will be full strength and what does 515 00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:56,600 that tell us about hell and judgment well he says here the the judgment 516 00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:59,680 they'll be tormented with fire and sulfur and the smoke of torment will go 517 00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:04,400 up forever and ever and there'll be no rest day or night this contradicts 518 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:07,600 another false assumption that the world has today and people try and put forth 519 00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:13,440 there there is no hell hell is not real some cults even say that Jehovah's 520 00:45:13,440 --> 00:45:20,000 Witnesses there's God and then there's you cease to exist and I told one once 521 00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:24,240 I go if there's no consequence for sin why do I want your God I could just live 522 00:45:24,240 --> 00:45:28,400 a life in sin and then poof out of existence with no judgment and they 523 00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:35,080 couldn't give me an answer people say hell is not real people say hell is just 524 00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:39,560 a metaphor people say hell is what you experience here on earth but the Bible 525 00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:43,240 is very clear that hell is real and of all the things that these three angels 526 00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:46,000 are proclaiming this is the one that people seem to have the hardest time 527 00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:50,200 with you see it's one thing to say to someone Jesus loves you and wants to 528 00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:54,760 have a relationship with you and people go oh that's nice I'm not in the market 529 00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:58,520 for a relationship right now but it's something entirely different to say look 530 00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:02,000 if you don't put your faith in Jesus and repent of your sin and be saved you will 531 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:08,960 be judged whoa whoa don't say that how offensive that's not very nice to say 532 00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:14,360 and there are many churches in the world today incidentally that they just want 533 00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:19,000 to talk about all the blessings that Jesus gives like he's just a cosmic 534 00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:23,240 vending machine there to kick out goodies whenever we want to ask but they 535 00:46:23,240 --> 00:46:28,080 never mentioned the truth of rejecting him or living in willful regular 536 00:46:28,080 --> 00:46:32,280 disobedience to him they only want to mention Jesus as a as a potential 537 00:46:32,280 --> 00:46:44,240 supplemental addition to your otherwise okay life rather than who he is a holy 538 00:46:44,240 --> 00:46:50,000 righteous creator that we have sinned against whom as holy righteous judge 539 00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:58,060 will rightfully find us guilty and condemn us as guilty sinners unless we 540 00:46:58,060 --> 00:47:03,120 receive the free gift of salvation we receive the free gift of forgiveness and 541 00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:07,720 salvation by receiving and submitting our lives toward the Lord Jesus Christ 542 00:47:07,720 --> 00:47:16,120 as our personal Lord and Savior and people don't like hearing that message 543 00:47:16,120 --> 00:47:20,080 you don't like hearing that judgment will come for their actions but hell is 544 00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:26,380 real Jesus spoke of hell more than any other person in Scripture to the 545 00:47:26,380 --> 00:47:30,120 hypocrites Jesus said depart from me you who are cursed into eternal fire 546 00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:35,040 prepared for the devil and his angels Jesus said do not fear those who kill 547 00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:39,960 the body but cannot kill the soul rather fear him who is able to destroy both 548 00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:44,800 Jesus described hell as a place of unending fire and wailing and gnashing 549 00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:51,960 of teeth it's a horrible fate for those who don't know Jesus Christ and that's 550 00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:55,320 why sometimes we talk about like Lord give me a heart for the lost because 551 00:47:55,320 --> 00:48:01,480 that that that care and concern for their fate is often the motivator that 552 00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:05,400 causes us to say I'm a little nervous I'm scared but hey I want to give this 553 00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:15,440 to you will you read it well what is it it's a gospel tract gospel tract hey 554 00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:19,640 Jesus changed my life I just want to share that with you God bless you right 555 00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:27,360 because without Christ it's eternity in hell torment forever now he goes on in 556 00:48:27,360 --> 00:48:30,360 verse 12 he says this calls for endurance from the Saints who keep God's 557 00:48:30,360 --> 00:48:34,600 commands and their faith in Jesus then I heard a voice from heaven saying right 558 00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:39,680 blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on yes says the Spirit so they 559 00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:44,040 will rest from their labors since their works follow them now these Saints here 560 00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:48,920 are the same Saints that are referenced in Revelation or yeah Revelation 13 10 561 00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:52,560 I believe the Saints that are referenced here when he says this calls from 562 00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:56,240 endurance from the Saints these are the tribulation Saints these are people who 563 00:48:56,240 --> 00:49:00,800 have given their life to Jesus Christ during the tribulation period during 564 00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:04,240 the seven-year period those who are saved through the preaching of the 565 00:49:04,240 --> 00:49:07,800 hundred forty four thousand the witness of the two witnesses and then of course 566 00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:10,840 those getting saved and telling others about their faith these are people who've 567 00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:16,200 gotten saved during this time he says this calls for endurance why because 568 00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:20,200 they're under heavy persecution like the world has never seen they're under heavy 569 00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:25,920 heavy violence for their faith that the world has never seen before but notice 570 00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:29,880 the contrast between the followers of the beast and those who die in the Lord 571 00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:34,240 the followers of the beast we read are tormented forever and ever with no rest 572 00:49:34,240 --> 00:49:42,600 but the followers of Jesus it says they will rest they will rest yes those who 573 00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:47,680 follow Jesus during the tribulation period will suffer persecution like 574 00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:54,440 never seen on earth before and many will die violent horrible deaths murders for 575 00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:58,320 their faith after laboring to remain faithful during this time of debauchery 576 00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:05,000 but in the end they will rest they will be at peace they will be blessed it says 577 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:11,480 here that word blessed you've heard it said means oh how happy it means to be 578 00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:15,200 envied to be filled with an inner satisfaction where people would go man 579 00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:20,360 you're just everything is so great right blessed and you might think well how is 580 00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:29,720 dying in the Lord how is dying a violent death in the Lord blessed it's because 581 00:50:29,720 --> 00:50:34,920 the perspective needs a shift to eternity when we look at the eternal 582 00:50:34,920 --> 00:50:40,080 picture they died with promise they died with hope when we look at the eternal 583 00:50:40,080 --> 00:50:42,760 picture we see that they are experiencing what Paul said to be 584 00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:46,320 absent from the body is to be present with the Lord and how glorious that will 585 00:50:46,320 --> 00:50:51,560 be man stops with the outward appearance in the outward circumstance 586 00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:55,040 we're so narrow focus sometimes we only look at what's in front of us and we 587 00:50:55,040 --> 00:51:00,000 don't zoom out to see the big picture but God who lives on the other side of 588 00:51:00,000 --> 00:51:06,600 the time-space continuum sees the rest that is available to those who would 589 00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:11,160 call him Lord and Savior he sees the reward of the righteous the resurrection 590 00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:17,720 of the body the glory and the bliss of the heavenly kingdom so yes the spirit 591 00:51:17,720 --> 00:51:23,960 says yes they are indeed blessed because they are with the Lord forevermore 592 00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:28,920 I'll close with this last story I read a story about a pastor who once approached 593 00:51:28,920 --> 00:51:35,920 a man who had lost his wife and pastor was like I'm so sorry for your loss and 594 00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:40,080 this man looked up at the pastor and he goes you're wrong you don't lose 595 00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:48,040 something when you know where it is there's no loss they just moved and I 596 00:51:48,040 --> 00:51:52,200 haven't moved yet you know when you lose someone in the Lord they're not really 597 00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:59,200 dead but rather I think they're really actually finally fully alive they won 598 00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:04,760 they beat us there they're already there and you know when my time comes I don't 599 00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:10,080 want anybody saying oh Nathan is died he's gone forever please don't say that 600 00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:15,840 what I want you to say is he moved and if you know the Lord too I'll see him 601 00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:21,700 later I'll see him later this is the reality of death in the life of a 602 00:52:21,700 --> 00:52:25,880 Christian right you guys have heard it many times the greatest statistic ever 603 00:52:25,880 --> 00:52:32,600 one out of one people will die right nobody makes it out of this life without 604 00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:37,920 dying we're all going to come to the end of this mortal coil this physical life 605 00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:41,760 we have here and if the Lord doesn't come back in our lifetime every single 606 00:52:41,760 --> 00:52:45,840 one of us are gonna face death it's inevitable the question for this life 607 00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:51,400 here on earth is not will I die the question is will I die in the Lord or 608 00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:59,600 will I die apart from the Lord that's the question will you be blessed as the 609 00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:03,120 spirit says of these who died in the Lord or you be cursed like those who 610 00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:08,960 don't know Jesus looking to hell forever you know it's it's sad how so many live 611 00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:13,560 their lives apart from Jesus and they pay no attention to God at all and they 612 00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:18,080 don't believe in him at all and they deny him but but when when they pass 613 00:53:18,080 --> 00:53:22,520 people want to be like oh they're they're in a better place and that's 614 00:53:22,520 --> 00:53:28,200 really hard because the truth is they're not and it's heartbreaking oh they're in 615 00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:34,760 a better place they rejected Jesus and here's the truth if you want nothing to 616 00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:41,200 do with Jesus in this life he is not gonna force you to live with him forever 617 00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:47,560 but the alternative to Jesus is hell and that's the admonition and the warning is 618 00:53:47,560 --> 00:53:53,520 that without him even today judgment will fall upon you and it will be 619 00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:57,600 perfectly right and it will be perfectly appropriate and it will be perfectly 620 00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:02,720 just that may not be politically correct to say in the world today but it is 621 00:54:02,720 --> 00:54:08,100 spiritually correct and it's the message we need to carry out however if you are 622 00:54:08,100 --> 00:54:12,720 in the Lord in this life if your loved ones that have passed were in the Lord 623 00:54:12,720 --> 00:54:18,200 in this life forgiveness is theirs forgiveness is already yours the penalty 624 00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:23,440 of sin has already been paid forever in heaven awaits in the presence of God 625 00:54:23,440 --> 00:54:30,600 your creator Jesus Christ the lover of your soul hallelujah we have something 626 00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:41,760 great to look forward to so take heart Christian as bad as things may seem at 627 00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:47,880 times heaven awaits take heart Christian for those who have lost those dear to 628 00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:53,040 them your loved ones are in heaven waiting for you to get there and when 629 00:54:53,040 --> 00:54:58,360 you get there you will see them again and they will smile and embrace you and 630 00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:08,400 you guys will together worship God forever let's pray father we love you 631 00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:16,960 and God we we we can't wait to be with you Lord there's so much in this world 632 00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:25,080 that is that is disheartening and dark and evil and wicked and Lord we just we 633 00:55:25,080 --> 00:55:28,640 want to be with you in paradise forever we want to be with you in perfection and 634 00:55:28,640 --> 00:55:35,000 glory looking into your faith your face and nothing else for eternity God just 635 00:55:35,000 --> 00:55:42,720 the glory the love the all that you are Lord for those of us that know you as 636 00:55:42,720 --> 00:55:49,680 our Lord and Savior that is what awaits us but God there are some that don't 637 00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:56,880 know you and what awaits them is judgment while we're praying right now 638 00:55:56,880 --> 00:56:00,440 with heads bowed and eyes closed if you're in this room and you don't know 639 00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:05,400 Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior maybe you went forward at an altar call 640 00:56:05,400 --> 00:56:09,120 at some point maybe you prayed a prayer but but in your heart of hearts you know 641 00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:15,800 you know I've never changed God's not really my Lord if you're online and I'm 642 00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:24,720 describing you Jesus wants you to know him to be saved from the judgment that 643 00:56:24,720 --> 00:56:31,720 will fall upon sin and so if you know you need Christ today I just want you to 644 00:56:31,720 --> 00:56:38,640 pray this prayer with me say father God I know I've sinned against you I know I 645 00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:48,000 broken your law Lord I want to know beyond a shadow of it out that I am 646 00:56:48,000 --> 00:56:59,600 saved sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise that when I die I know I'm going 647 00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:12,160 to heaven Lord save my soul be my Lord and master be my Savior be my friend 648 00:57:12,160 --> 00:57:19,720 teach me how to live for you fill me with the Holy Spirit that I would live 649 00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:28,320 in obedience to you give me a heart for those that don't yet know you that I 650 00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:36,440 would share the gospel the hope the salvation I have now with them as well 651 00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:42,760 thank you for loving me so much thank you for coming into my life thank you 652 00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:50,120 for dying for me use me as a vessel to share that with others in Jesus name I 653 00:57:50,120 --> 00:57:59,280 pray amen well God bless you guys I pray the Lord to give you many 654 00:57:59,280 --> 00:58:03,200 opportunities as we're providing tracks and stuff for you guys I'm excited 655 00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:06,960 every time I hear a story especially those of you that may have never done it 656 00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:13,800 it's like I handed out a track praise God how cool you know one brother here a 657 00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:17,560 year ago we did a track challenge right and at that time he's like I didn't pass 658 00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:22,040 out tracks I didn't do any of that the guy's like a raging fireball of the 659 00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:27,120 gospel now preaching everywhere he goes and it's just like man how cool is that 660 00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:33,680 to see that God would use us as much as we give ourselves to him and he will 661 00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:38,600 fill you and equip you and teach you and do all of it but what's behind all of 662 00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:44,640 that is such a deep gratitude for the salvation he gave you that he gave me 663 00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:48,880 that we can't help but to tell others about it that they would be saved too 664 00:58:48,880 --> 00:58:55,520 amen let's worship God for what he's done let's praise him for who he is and give 665 00:58:55,520 --> 00:59:15,560 him our thanks God bless you guys