1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,680 We always like to start by saying welcome to anybody 2 00:00:03,680 --> 00:00:05,680 that is here for the first time in our sanctuary 3 00:00:05,680 --> 00:00:08,520 or if you're joining us online, welcome. 4 00:00:08,520 --> 00:00:10,440 We're so glad you're here to worship with us today. 5 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:15,440 I am Pastor Nathan and we are gonna spend 6 00:00:15,740 --> 00:00:18,580 a quick moment in prayer for Israel. 7 00:00:18,580 --> 00:00:21,200 I know most of us are now aware of what's going on 8 00:00:21,200 --> 00:00:23,600 and seeing news reports and developments 9 00:00:23,600 --> 00:00:28,600 and granted many of those developments are very intriguing 10 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:32,180 in the light of prophecy, especially end times prophecy. 11 00:00:32,180 --> 00:00:35,340 And so ultimately God is in control. 12 00:00:35,340 --> 00:00:39,980 God knows and God's plan will not be thwarted 13 00:00:39,980 --> 00:00:42,500 and so we just pray in the meantime 14 00:00:42,500 --> 00:00:44,980 for God's will to be done but we also pray 15 00:00:44,980 --> 00:00:47,020 for the safety of those that are in harm's way 16 00:00:47,020 --> 00:00:48,700 and so please join me in prayer for Israel. 17 00:00:48,700 --> 00:00:52,640 Father, we lift up Israel God to you. 18 00:00:54,820 --> 00:00:57,580 We lift up that nation Lord that is so special to you. 19 00:00:57,580 --> 00:01:02,580 Lord that you speak so readily about throughout your word 20 00:01:03,100 --> 00:01:05,380 and we know God that there's a very specific plan 21 00:01:05,380 --> 00:01:08,260 you have for this nation as we come to the end 22 00:01:08,260 --> 00:01:10,060 of this era of Earth's history. 23 00:01:11,380 --> 00:01:13,120 Lord we pray for their safety. 24 00:01:14,140 --> 00:01:15,960 Lord we pray for peace in Israel. 25 00:01:17,580 --> 00:01:21,100 We pray specifically for those that are still hostage 26 00:01:21,100 --> 00:01:24,900 that they would be released safely without injury Lord. 27 00:01:24,900 --> 00:01:27,820 We pray for the families Lord that have lost loved ones 28 00:01:27,820 --> 00:01:30,620 already and we pray you would comfort them 29 00:01:30,620 --> 00:01:31,860 and bring them peace. 30 00:01:33,500 --> 00:01:36,420 Lord we pray for the innocent on the Palestinian side 31 00:01:36,420 --> 00:01:37,740 of this conflict Lord. 32 00:01:38,700 --> 00:01:41,420 God as we read that they are trying to evacuate Gaza 33 00:01:41,420 --> 00:01:44,620 and Hamas is blocking the roads so that they cannot evacuate. 34 00:01:45,940 --> 00:01:48,020 Lord we pray that you would just clear that away 35 00:01:48,020 --> 00:01:49,300 that they would be safe. 36 00:01:50,820 --> 00:01:53,020 We pray for those that are perpetrating the violence 37 00:01:53,020 --> 00:01:54,940 that you would hold them accountable 38 00:01:54,940 --> 00:01:56,260 that you would deal with them Lord 39 00:01:56,260 --> 00:01:57,580 and we know you're going to. 40 00:01:58,860 --> 00:02:01,260 We pray God for developments that are starting to happen 41 00:02:01,260 --> 00:02:04,300 around the world with North Korea and Lebanon 42 00:02:04,300 --> 00:02:06,540 and other areas Lord. 43 00:02:08,700 --> 00:02:11,420 God just do a work, do a mighty work. 44 00:02:11,420 --> 00:02:14,620 Be glorified Lord but ultimately through all of this God 45 00:02:15,580 --> 00:02:17,900 may your glory shine forth and people come to know you 46 00:02:17,900 --> 00:02:19,180 as their Lord and Savior. 47 00:02:19,180 --> 00:02:22,100 That God regardless of what happens to them in this life 48 00:02:22,100 --> 00:02:25,420 they would have the glory of eternity in paradise with you. 49 00:02:25,420 --> 00:02:30,420 Heaven awaiting them because they know you Jesus Christ. 50 00:02:31,580 --> 00:02:33,900 So Lord we lift all up to you and we thank you. 51 00:02:33,900 --> 00:02:36,460 Do your work Lord may your will be done in Jesus name. 52 00:02:36,460 --> 00:02:37,300 Amen. 53 00:02:38,420 --> 00:02:41,140 All right well I do not find it, 54 00:02:41,140 --> 00:02:43,620 well I do find it interesting 55 00:02:43,620 --> 00:02:46,220 that we're studying through Revelation as all of this 56 00:02:46,220 --> 00:02:49,300 is starting to happen around the world today. 57 00:02:49,300 --> 00:02:51,940 This morning we're going to be starting Revelation 58 00:02:51,940 --> 00:02:55,900 chapter 16 which is the final seven judgments 59 00:02:55,900 --> 00:02:59,900 of the tribulation period known as the bowl judgments 60 00:02:59,900 --> 00:03:02,700 and today we're only going to be looking at the first five 61 00:03:02,700 --> 00:03:06,820 of these seven and then the reaction of those upon the earth 62 00:03:06,820 --> 00:03:09,180 to these judgments of God. 63 00:03:09,180 --> 00:03:13,780 If you remember chapter 15 closed with God coming 64 00:03:13,780 --> 00:03:18,780 and closing the temple in heaven as his smoke 65 00:03:19,500 --> 00:03:22,220 and his glory filled the temple effectively blocking off 66 00:03:22,220 --> 00:03:24,780 access to what would be the place of mercy, 67 00:03:24,780 --> 00:03:27,860 the mercy seat there and he blocked that place off 68 00:03:27,860 --> 00:03:30,700 after the seven angels had been called forth 69 00:03:30,700 --> 00:03:33,580 from the spiritual holy of holies. 70 00:03:33,580 --> 00:03:37,340 Getting ready to do their task to pour out these bowls 71 00:03:37,340 --> 00:03:39,940 of judgment ready to execute that judgment 72 00:03:39,940 --> 00:03:44,340 which is the penalty, the penalty for the true testimony 73 00:03:44,340 --> 00:03:47,700 against mankind's sin and guilt. 74 00:03:47,700 --> 00:03:50,500 The picture there is that mercy and forgiveness 75 00:03:50,500 --> 00:03:52,580 is no longer accessible at that moment 76 00:03:52,580 --> 00:03:53,900 for that time had passed, 77 00:03:53,900 --> 00:03:58,180 a very grievous time that'll come in the history of man. 78 00:03:58,180 --> 00:04:01,260 Chapter 15 as it was given to John the apostle 79 00:04:01,260 --> 00:04:02,420 and delivered to the churches 80 00:04:02,420 --> 00:04:04,100 and has been with us ever since I believe 81 00:04:04,100 --> 00:04:06,620 is very specifically meant to warn people 82 00:04:06,620 --> 00:04:08,700 about the future to come. 83 00:04:08,700 --> 00:04:10,740 To warn those about the future that comes 84 00:04:10,740 --> 00:04:13,260 so they would turn to Christ 85 00:04:13,260 --> 00:04:14,980 so that they would repent of their sin, 86 00:04:14,980 --> 00:04:17,220 believe in God and who he is, 87 00:04:17,220 --> 00:04:20,460 put their faith in Jesus Christ, God the son 88 00:04:20,460 --> 00:04:22,500 and his death on the cross for their salvation 89 00:04:22,500 --> 00:04:25,300 to trust in all of that that they would be saved. 90 00:04:26,140 --> 00:04:31,140 And we know in our time today, our earth existence today, 91 00:04:31,380 --> 00:04:35,340 mankind has been given many, many, many opportunities 92 00:04:35,340 --> 00:04:37,140 to repent of their sin. 93 00:04:37,140 --> 00:04:39,100 Many chances to turn from their sin 94 00:04:39,100 --> 00:04:40,740 and to turn towards Christ 95 00:04:40,740 --> 00:04:43,700 and the same will happen during the tribulation period. 96 00:04:44,980 --> 00:04:47,820 That there will still be the gospel going forth, 97 00:04:47,820 --> 00:04:49,900 the gospel being preached. 98 00:04:49,900 --> 00:04:53,180 Mankind will still have the opportunity to turn to Christ 99 00:04:53,180 --> 00:04:56,420 and we're blessed to say that during tribulation, 100 00:04:56,420 --> 00:04:59,220 the Bible teaches that many will indeed turn to Jesus 101 00:04:59,220 --> 00:05:02,060 for their salvation but many will not 102 00:05:03,500 --> 00:05:05,860 because the world system from the top down, 103 00:05:05,860 --> 00:05:07,900 the global government, the global economy, 104 00:05:07,900 --> 00:05:09,820 the one world religion from the top down 105 00:05:09,820 --> 00:05:12,500 is firmly against God. 106 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:15,140 Firmly against Jesus Christ in the gospel 107 00:05:15,140 --> 00:05:16,380 and all that God stands for 108 00:05:16,380 --> 00:05:19,100 and thus we come to chapter 16, 109 00:05:19,100 --> 00:05:21,860 the culmination of this tribulation time 110 00:05:21,860 --> 00:05:24,540 where God's final and full wrath 111 00:05:24,540 --> 00:05:26,860 is poured out upon those who deny him. 112 00:05:27,740 --> 00:05:31,140 So we'll be looking at the first 11 verses this morning, 113 00:05:31,140 --> 00:05:34,140 verses one through eight and 10 114 00:05:34,140 --> 00:05:37,220 detail the final or the first five bowls 115 00:05:37,220 --> 00:05:39,740 that are poured out with a specific purpose 116 00:05:39,740 --> 00:05:41,620 in God's plan of judgment 117 00:05:41,620 --> 00:05:43,740 and then we'll be looking at verses nine and 11 118 00:05:43,740 --> 00:05:45,660 which gives us a very clear picture 119 00:05:45,660 --> 00:05:49,460 of man's persistent refusal to honor God. 120 00:05:50,340 --> 00:05:52,780 You know, it's a bleak picture, it's a difficult picture 121 00:05:52,780 --> 00:05:55,060 but if you're in this room this morning 122 00:05:55,060 --> 00:05:56,740 or if you're watching online today 123 00:05:56,740 --> 00:06:00,180 or you're watching this video sometime in the future, 124 00:06:00,180 --> 00:06:03,820 all of this is meant to be a warning to you. 125 00:06:05,540 --> 00:06:07,460 That salvation is needed 126 00:06:07,460 --> 00:06:10,100 because God's judgment will come upon sin 127 00:06:11,100 --> 00:06:13,540 and if you don't know him today, 128 00:06:13,540 --> 00:06:17,220 you need to know him today to be forgiven 129 00:06:17,220 --> 00:06:21,620 for your sin against God, for your breaking of his law 130 00:06:21,620 --> 00:06:24,140 because when his judgment comes it'll be right, 131 00:06:24,140 --> 00:06:26,860 it'll be just, it'll be holy 132 00:06:26,860 --> 00:06:28,500 and you will have nothing to say about it 133 00:06:28,500 --> 00:06:30,500 because it'll be right 134 00:06:30,500 --> 00:06:33,660 but today he offers salvation to all, 135 00:06:33,660 --> 00:06:36,100 all who would call upon the name of Jesus Christ 136 00:06:36,100 --> 00:06:39,580 and so listen today, hear him today 137 00:06:39,580 --> 00:06:41,580 and for those of us that know Jesus Christ this morning, 138 00:06:41,580 --> 00:06:43,780 I pray that you would just be, 139 00:06:43,780 --> 00:06:45,820 continue to be motivated. 140 00:06:45,820 --> 00:06:47,540 We are given the glimpse of the future 141 00:06:47,540 --> 00:06:48,980 so that we would be armed and equipped 142 00:06:48,980 --> 00:06:51,620 to go out and warn people about that future, 143 00:06:51,620 --> 00:06:53,340 to take the gospel to those that need it 144 00:06:53,340 --> 00:06:55,420 and I pray you would be filled with the Holy Spirit of God 145 00:06:55,420 --> 00:06:57,380 to do exactly that. 146 00:06:57,380 --> 00:06:59,060 Well let's pray because we're gonna spend some time 147 00:06:59,060 --> 00:07:01,500 in worship first and then we will get into the word. 148 00:07:01,500 --> 00:07:05,220 Father God, we thank you, Lord, for your word. 149 00:07:06,460 --> 00:07:08,820 We thank you that you reveal to us yourself 150 00:07:08,820 --> 00:07:09,660 in your word, Lord. 151 00:07:09,660 --> 00:07:11,820 We know this book is the revelation of Jesus Christ 152 00:07:11,820 --> 00:07:13,180 and it shows us your heart. 153 00:07:14,660 --> 00:07:16,500 God, so many of us in this world today 154 00:07:16,500 --> 00:07:20,140 might wanna hear all about the love that you have 155 00:07:21,780 --> 00:07:24,980 but God, when we read about your judgment 156 00:07:24,980 --> 00:07:27,980 and how you feel about sin and the wrath that will be 157 00:07:27,980 --> 00:07:31,860 poured out on those who continue in sin and refuse you, 158 00:07:33,300 --> 00:07:34,860 Lord, it's a difficult picture 159 00:07:36,460 --> 00:07:40,060 but God, we know you pour out your judgment upon sin 160 00:07:40,060 --> 00:07:42,460 because you are a loving God and a loving Father 161 00:07:43,820 --> 00:07:45,980 and Lord, we've seen through this revelation period 162 00:07:45,980 --> 00:07:48,020 or this tribulation period as you've been pouring out 163 00:07:48,020 --> 00:07:52,500 your judgments, as they've been getting increasingly more 164 00:07:52,500 --> 00:07:57,500 just pervasive and increasingly more hurtful 165 00:07:58,380 --> 00:08:00,700 and painful and destructive, Lord. 166 00:08:00,700 --> 00:08:03,580 We know that even in that, there's a grace from you 167 00:08:03,580 --> 00:08:05,700 that you would give people an opportunity 168 00:08:05,700 --> 00:08:09,460 to the very last moment to turn to you as Lord and Savior. 169 00:08:10,900 --> 00:08:13,500 And so we pray, God, that you would just continue 170 00:08:13,500 --> 00:08:14,980 to do that even today, Lord. 171 00:08:14,980 --> 00:08:16,980 We're not yet in this time of tribulation 172 00:08:16,980 --> 00:08:18,660 but we know it's coming. 173 00:08:18,660 --> 00:08:20,780 God, we see things happening around our world 174 00:08:20,780 --> 00:08:23,140 that might be precursors, 175 00:08:23,140 --> 00:08:25,260 that might be fulfillment of prophecy, God, 176 00:08:25,260 --> 00:08:28,020 as we've been studying and looking forward 177 00:08:28,020 --> 00:08:30,340 to what's going to happen, Lord. 178 00:08:32,140 --> 00:08:33,820 But at the end of everything, God, 179 00:08:33,820 --> 00:08:35,460 in every single day of our lives, Lord, 180 00:08:35,460 --> 00:08:37,260 we know you are holy, we know you are just, 181 00:08:37,260 --> 00:08:39,820 we know you are love, we know you are light, 182 00:08:39,820 --> 00:08:41,620 we know you are perfect and righteous 183 00:08:42,660 --> 00:08:44,100 and we submit our lives to you 184 00:08:45,260 --> 00:08:47,180 and we pray for those that haven't yet done that, 185 00:08:47,180 --> 00:08:48,340 that they would do so, 186 00:08:48,340 --> 00:08:50,420 that they would recognize their sin against you 187 00:08:50,420 --> 00:08:52,420 and turn to you for the salvation 188 00:08:52,420 --> 00:08:54,260 that you so desperately wanna offer them. 189 00:08:55,300 --> 00:08:57,940 Lord, we love you, we worship you. 190 00:08:57,940 --> 00:08:59,220 We worship you in the good times, 191 00:08:59,220 --> 00:09:01,100 we worship you in the bad times, 192 00:09:01,100 --> 00:09:02,660 we worship you for your blessings 193 00:09:02,660 --> 00:09:04,260 and we worship you for your judgments, God. 194 00:09:04,260 --> 00:09:05,460 And so we worship you now. 195 00:09:07,020 --> 00:09:10,660 As God Almighty, Jesus, our Lord and Savior, 196 00:09:11,620 --> 00:09:14,180 who loves us so desperately, 197 00:09:14,180 --> 00:09:15,780 we thank you for everything 198 00:09:15,780 --> 00:09:18,460 and it's in Jesus' name we pray, amen. 199 00:09:18,460 --> 00:09:20,260 Let's get into Revelation this morning. 200 00:09:20,260 --> 00:09:25,020 We are in Revelation chapter 16, verses one through 11 201 00:09:25,020 --> 00:09:26,620 and as I mentioned in the intro, 202 00:09:26,620 --> 00:09:29,540 this chapter is an overview picture 203 00:09:29,540 --> 00:09:33,260 of the seven last final judgments of God 204 00:09:33,260 --> 00:09:35,300 at the end of the tribulation period. 205 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:38,100 There have been a few places throughout Revelation 206 00:09:38,100 --> 00:09:39,420 where we have a chapter or two 207 00:09:39,420 --> 00:09:42,580 that kinda gives us an overview of all the seals 208 00:09:42,580 --> 00:09:44,420 and then there's a couple chapters after that 209 00:09:44,420 --> 00:09:46,500 that kinda go back and zoom in 210 00:09:46,500 --> 00:09:48,540 on a couple moments during that time 211 00:09:48,540 --> 00:09:51,020 and then we had the seven trumpet judgments 212 00:09:51,020 --> 00:09:54,580 and then a few chapters that have gone back to zoom in. 213 00:09:54,580 --> 00:09:57,460 Chapter 16 of Revelation is another one of these overviews 214 00:09:57,460 --> 00:09:59,060 and then the chapters that are gonna follow, 215 00:09:59,060 --> 00:10:01,740 we're gonna go back and zoom into some of the moments 216 00:10:01,740 --> 00:10:03,820 that take place during these bowl judgments. 217 00:10:03,820 --> 00:10:06,980 But if you remember, the word bowl there that we see 218 00:10:06,980 --> 00:10:08,820 as these angels are handed these bowls, 219 00:10:08,820 --> 00:10:11,260 it's a Greek word for a shallow bowl, 220 00:10:11,260 --> 00:10:15,220 like a saucer if you will and it's the type of implement 221 00:10:15,220 --> 00:10:17,300 that was used in ancient worship to pour out 222 00:10:17,300 --> 00:10:20,540 what would be a liquid offering or a libation 223 00:10:20,540 --> 00:10:22,660 and the idea and the reason we bring that up 224 00:10:22,660 --> 00:10:25,300 is to point out that although the judgments 225 00:10:25,300 --> 00:10:27,180 that we've seen so far, the seal judgments 226 00:10:27,180 --> 00:10:29,820 and the trumpet judgments, all of these has been spaced out 227 00:10:29,820 --> 00:10:31,660 over the course of tribulation 228 00:10:31,660 --> 00:10:33,420 but these final bowl judgments 229 00:10:33,420 --> 00:10:36,180 all pour out in a rapid succession. 230 00:10:36,180 --> 00:10:39,180 Some commentators even believe that all seven 231 00:10:39,180 --> 00:10:41,900 of these judgments that we read about that are so rapid 232 00:10:41,900 --> 00:10:44,980 actually take place during the final 30 days 233 00:10:44,980 --> 00:10:47,540 of the seven year tribulation period. 234 00:10:47,540 --> 00:10:49,740 I don't necessarily know if that's the case 235 00:10:49,740 --> 00:10:52,700 but I do know that they appear to pour out very quickly 236 00:10:52,700 --> 00:10:54,380 and the idea of these shallow bowls means 237 00:10:54,380 --> 00:10:55,900 that these judgments are gonna fall 238 00:10:55,900 --> 00:10:58,900 in rapid succession upon the earth. 239 00:10:58,900 --> 00:11:01,900 Now there are similarities between the bowl judgments 240 00:11:01,900 --> 00:11:04,100 and the seven trumpets if you will 241 00:11:04,100 --> 00:11:06,700 and there are also similarities between what we see 242 00:11:06,700 --> 00:11:08,980 in these judgments and the plagues that we see 243 00:11:08,980 --> 00:11:11,980 in the plagues that fell upon Egypt in the Old Testament 244 00:11:11,980 --> 00:11:15,460 but I do wanna point out that although there are similarities 245 00:11:15,460 --> 00:11:17,740 I do not believe that they are the same thing. 246 00:11:17,740 --> 00:11:19,500 I do not believe the seven bowl judgments 247 00:11:19,500 --> 00:11:22,220 are the same exact judgments as the trumpets 248 00:11:22,220 --> 00:11:24,660 that are the same exact judgments as the seals. 249 00:11:24,660 --> 00:11:27,060 Some do have that interpretation 250 00:11:27,060 --> 00:11:28,300 but I don't see that bearing out 251 00:11:28,300 --> 00:11:29,540 and there's a couple reasons why 252 00:11:29,540 --> 00:11:32,520 but one of the big ones is that there are differences 253 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:35,140 between the bowls and the trumpets 254 00:11:35,140 --> 00:11:36,540 and then some people even go, 255 00:11:36,540 --> 00:11:38,060 oh they're the same as the plagues in Egypt. 256 00:11:38,060 --> 00:11:40,300 Well there's differences although there are similarities. 257 00:11:40,300 --> 00:11:42,540 For example, the plagues of Egypt, 258 00:11:42,540 --> 00:11:43,820 if you go back to the Old Testament 259 00:11:43,820 --> 00:11:45,940 and you read about those plagues, 260 00:11:45,940 --> 00:11:47,500 there were 10 of them not seven 261 00:11:47,500 --> 00:11:50,420 but they were a localized judgment. 262 00:11:50,420 --> 00:11:54,060 They were a judgment that fell upon the Egyptians 263 00:11:54,060 --> 00:11:56,460 and the children of Israel in the midst of that 264 00:11:56,460 --> 00:11:58,020 were exempt from those things. 265 00:11:58,020 --> 00:12:00,300 They were virtually untouched by these judgments 266 00:12:00,300 --> 00:12:01,980 but it wasn't a worldwide judgment. 267 00:12:01,980 --> 00:12:05,600 There was a very localized judgment that happened there. 268 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:07,660 Then when you look at the seven trumpet judgments 269 00:12:07,660 --> 00:12:10,820 we see that they are what we call partial judgments 270 00:12:10,820 --> 00:12:12,060 during the tribulation period. 271 00:12:12,060 --> 00:12:14,540 If you remember it was one third of the grass 272 00:12:14,540 --> 00:12:17,660 that was destroyed, one third of the waters, 273 00:12:17,660 --> 00:12:21,340 one third of the seas, one third of mankind 274 00:12:21,340 --> 00:12:23,660 that was affected by these trumpet judgments 275 00:12:23,660 --> 00:12:25,740 but when you get to the bowl judgments 276 00:12:25,740 --> 00:12:28,800 we see that they are global and they are total. 277 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:31,640 They are complete, they are a culmination, 278 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:34,820 a full expression of the terrors and horrors 279 00:12:34,820 --> 00:12:36,980 of God's judgment. 280 00:12:36,980 --> 00:12:39,100 They aren't partial, they aren't localized 281 00:12:39,100 --> 00:12:41,980 but they are a full complete inundating of judgment 282 00:12:41,980 --> 00:12:44,060 upon the entire earth. 283 00:12:44,060 --> 00:12:46,660 And so for those reasons I believe they are different 284 00:12:46,660 --> 00:12:48,580 than the trumpet judgments and different 285 00:12:48,580 --> 00:12:50,620 from what we see in the plagues of Egypt. 286 00:12:50,620 --> 00:12:53,380 But starting in verse one now, Revelation 16, 287 00:12:53,380 --> 00:12:56,060 we see that these angels who were prepared in chapter 15 288 00:12:56,060 --> 00:12:59,420 are now instructed to go and to execute the judgment of God. 289 00:12:59,420 --> 00:13:01,580 So read with me in Revelation 16 one. 290 00:13:02,980 --> 00:13:05,180 He says, then I heard a loud voice from the temple 291 00:13:05,180 --> 00:13:07,740 saying to the seven angels, 292 00:13:07,740 --> 00:13:10,900 go and pour out the seven bowls of God's wrath 293 00:13:10,900 --> 00:13:11,820 on the earth. 294 00:13:12,700 --> 00:13:15,900 The first went and poured out his bowl on the earth 295 00:13:15,900 --> 00:13:19,060 and severely painful sores broke out on the people 296 00:13:19,060 --> 00:13:22,780 who had the mark of the beast and who worshiped its image. 297 00:13:23,740 --> 00:13:26,700 And so the loud voice there that's coming from the temple, 298 00:13:26,700 --> 00:13:27,860 that's the voice of God. 299 00:13:27,860 --> 00:13:30,760 God is now giving the final instructions to the angels 300 00:13:30,760 --> 00:13:32,500 to go carry out his will. 301 00:13:32,500 --> 00:13:34,180 And we see that the first angel here 302 00:13:34,180 --> 00:13:35,940 pours out a very specific bowl 303 00:13:35,940 --> 00:13:39,140 that involves the physiology of people. 304 00:13:39,140 --> 00:13:42,220 We see a physical judgment falling upon the people 305 00:13:42,220 --> 00:13:43,060 of the earth here. 306 00:13:43,060 --> 00:13:45,420 And it's really aimed very specifically. 307 00:13:45,420 --> 00:13:48,340 It's aimed very directly at those who have refused him 308 00:13:48,340 --> 00:13:52,300 and aligned themselves with the enemy, Satan. 309 00:13:52,300 --> 00:13:55,920 Now God doing specific targeted judgments like this, 310 00:13:55,920 --> 00:13:57,980 this is not unknown to scripture. 311 00:13:57,980 --> 00:13:59,740 It's something we do see elsewhere 312 00:13:59,740 --> 00:14:01,460 in targeted judgments of the past. 313 00:14:01,460 --> 00:14:04,180 In Joshua chapter 10 for example, 314 00:14:04,180 --> 00:14:07,260 when Israel was fighting the Amorites, 315 00:14:07,260 --> 00:14:09,260 if you know that story, you might remember 316 00:14:09,260 --> 00:14:12,540 that large hail stones fell from the sky 317 00:14:12,540 --> 00:14:15,540 and only hit the Amorites. 318 00:14:15,540 --> 00:14:18,000 Didn't hit Israel, right? 319 00:14:18,000 --> 00:14:20,420 God is a marksman, right? 320 00:14:20,420 --> 00:14:22,420 He knows who he wants to hit, right? 321 00:14:22,420 --> 00:14:24,980 He's, oops, didn't mean to get that Israel. 322 00:14:24,980 --> 00:14:26,820 No, that doesn't happen with God, right? 323 00:14:26,820 --> 00:14:27,660 He knows. 324 00:14:27,660 --> 00:14:30,820 And so we see this example in Joshua 10 325 00:14:30,820 --> 00:14:33,860 that God very specifically targeted 326 00:14:33,860 --> 00:14:37,260 and was very selective in who he poured his judgment out on 327 00:14:37,260 --> 00:14:39,980 like we see here in Revelation 16. 328 00:14:39,980 --> 00:14:42,980 You also might remember the story of Israel 329 00:14:42,980 --> 00:14:44,700 worshiping the calf when they were wandering 330 00:14:44,700 --> 00:14:45,780 the wilderness there. 331 00:14:45,780 --> 00:14:49,060 And in that story it tells us that the Lord brought a plague 332 00:14:49,060 --> 00:14:51,160 only upon those who worshiped the calf. 333 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:52,340 Those who were obedient to him 334 00:14:52,340 --> 00:14:54,060 didn't fall under the judgment. 335 00:14:54,060 --> 00:14:57,340 And so, but here in Revelation 16 336 00:14:57,340 --> 00:14:59,180 on this first bold judgment as it pours out, 337 00:14:59,180 --> 00:15:00,180 it tells us the target. 338 00:15:00,180 --> 00:15:02,780 It's on all of those who had the mark of the beast 339 00:15:02,780 --> 00:15:05,100 and who had worshiped its image. 340 00:15:05,100 --> 00:15:07,540 Now you might remember from previous chapters, 341 00:15:07,540 --> 00:15:10,300 we learned that there would be this mark 342 00:15:10,300 --> 00:15:12,700 that the false prophet and the antichrist 343 00:15:12,700 --> 00:15:14,300 would bring upon the earth and this mark 344 00:15:14,300 --> 00:15:17,400 that people would be required to take to accept 345 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:20,200 that would be either on the hand or the forehead 346 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:23,420 as a sign of identification 347 00:15:23,420 --> 00:15:26,500 that they are then worshiping the beast. 348 00:15:26,500 --> 00:15:27,980 And we were taught this in Revelation 349 00:15:27,980 --> 00:15:29,820 that this is gonna be something that the antichrist 350 00:15:29,820 --> 00:15:32,380 and the false prophet do to enforce their control 351 00:15:32,380 --> 00:15:34,840 upon the earth during tribulation time. 352 00:15:34,840 --> 00:15:37,440 We know that people are gonna have a great incentive 353 00:15:37,440 --> 00:15:39,380 to take the mark because they're not gonna be able 354 00:15:39,380 --> 00:15:40,740 to buy or sell without it. 355 00:15:40,740 --> 00:15:42,140 So they're not gonna be able to go to the store 356 00:15:42,140 --> 00:15:43,680 and get groceries and they're not gonna be able 357 00:15:43,680 --> 00:15:44,980 to get gas in their vehicles. 358 00:15:44,980 --> 00:15:47,320 They probably won't be able to get things 359 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:49,380 that are legally required like car insurance stuff. 360 00:15:49,380 --> 00:15:50,660 They're like, oh, you don't have the mark, 361 00:15:50,660 --> 00:15:55,660 you can't do business, you can't make any transactions. 362 00:15:57,220 --> 00:15:58,100 And so people are gonna be like, 363 00:15:58,100 --> 00:15:59,660 gosh, I have to take this mark. 364 00:15:59,660 --> 00:16:01,940 But it is also clear in Revelation 365 00:16:01,940 --> 00:16:03,180 that the taking of this mark, 366 00:16:03,180 --> 00:16:07,440 people are not gonna be confused that what it means 367 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:11,020 is that you're worshiping the antichrist as God. 368 00:16:11,020 --> 00:16:12,840 Because in the abomination of desolation, 369 00:16:12,840 --> 00:16:14,460 that's exactly what he did 370 00:16:14,460 --> 00:16:17,260 when he entered the temple in Jerusalem. 371 00:16:17,260 --> 00:16:19,500 And the Bible tells us that he declares himself 372 00:16:19,500 --> 00:16:21,420 to be God and demands worship. 373 00:16:21,420 --> 00:16:23,340 And so people aren't gonna be unaware 374 00:16:23,340 --> 00:16:25,300 of what it means to take the mark. 375 00:16:25,300 --> 00:16:27,740 We're also told that the false prophet then creates 376 00:16:27,740 --> 00:16:29,860 this image there in Jerusalem 377 00:16:29,860 --> 00:16:31,340 and commands people to worship it. 378 00:16:31,340 --> 00:16:34,460 And somehow this image has some type of sentience, right? 379 00:16:34,460 --> 00:16:36,140 Some type of intelligence to it 380 00:16:36,140 --> 00:16:38,320 where it not only makes people worship it, 381 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:41,720 but then it is able to kill people who refuse. 382 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:43,540 And so there's all kinds of conjecture 383 00:16:43,540 --> 00:16:44,700 about what that could be. 384 00:16:44,700 --> 00:16:46,180 We're not exactly sure, 385 00:16:46,180 --> 00:16:48,140 but we know that there's gonna be this mark. 386 00:16:48,140 --> 00:16:49,620 We know there's gonna be this image, 387 00:16:49,620 --> 00:16:51,380 and we know people are gonna take the mark 388 00:16:51,380 --> 00:16:55,420 and worship the image and know full well what they're doing. 389 00:16:55,420 --> 00:16:57,600 Why does God judge that? 390 00:16:57,600 --> 00:17:00,860 Because it's a direct breaking of God's law. 391 00:17:00,860 --> 00:17:03,140 Specifically, the first and second commandments. 392 00:17:03,140 --> 00:17:05,340 If you remember, the first commandment of God was, 393 00:17:05,340 --> 00:17:07,740 you shall have no other gods before me. 394 00:17:08,860 --> 00:17:10,860 So those who say I'm gonna worship Satan 395 00:17:10,860 --> 00:17:13,540 by taking this mark, well, you broke it. 396 00:17:13,540 --> 00:17:15,140 The second commandment, if you remember, 397 00:17:15,140 --> 00:17:18,700 is do not make an idol or an image 398 00:17:18,700 --> 00:17:21,460 and bow down in worship of that idol. 399 00:17:21,460 --> 00:17:22,860 That was the second commandment. 400 00:17:22,860 --> 00:17:25,740 Don't create some graven image and worship it. 401 00:17:25,740 --> 00:17:28,860 Well, the false prophets said here's this image of the beast 402 00:17:28,860 --> 00:17:30,760 and people started to worship it. 403 00:17:31,720 --> 00:17:33,500 And so again, the mark in this image, 404 00:17:33,500 --> 00:17:35,300 they were introduced back in chapter 13 405 00:17:35,300 --> 00:17:36,340 if you wanna go review, 406 00:17:36,340 --> 00:17:41,340 but those who acquiesce know full well what they're doing. 407 00:17:42,980 --> 00:17:44,700 They know that they are worshiping. 408 00:17:44,700 --> 00:17:47,620 And so the judgment that falls upon those 409 00:17:47,620 --> 00:17:49,100 who choose this is severe. 410 00:17:49,100 --> 00:17:50,700 It was a judgment that was predicted 411 00:17:50,700 --> 00:17:53,020 back in Revelation chapter 14. 412 00:17:53,020 --> 00:17:55,420 If you remember there in Revelation 14 verse nine, 413 00:17:55,420 --> 00:17:59,140 it says, and another, a third angel followed them 414 00:17:59,140 --> 00:18:01,300 and spoke with a loud voice. 415 00:18:01,300 --> 00:18:03,660 And it said, if anyone worships the beast and its image 416 00:18:03,660 --> 00:18:05,740 and receives the mark on his forehead or on his hand, 417 00:18:05,740 --> 00:18:08,460 he will also drink the wine of God's wrath, 418 00:18:08,460 --> 00:18:12,660 which has poured full strength into the cup of his anger. 419 00:18:13,620 --> 00:18:16,240 Well, that wrath that has now poured full strength 420 00:18:16,240 --> 00:18:21,160 out of the bowl here starts with these painful sores. 421 00:18:21,160 --> 00:18:23,240 These painful sores, and now yes, 422 00:18:23,240 --> 00:18:25,180 that is reminiscent on one of the plagues 423 00:18:25,180 --> 00:18:28,740 that fell upon Egypt, the sixth plague specifically. 424 00:18:28,740 --> 00:18:30,220 In Exodus chapter nine verse eight, 425 00:18:30,220 --> 00:18:32,340 it said, the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, 426 00:18:32,340 --> 00:18:34,020 take handfuls of furnace soot, 427 00:18:34,020 --> 00:18:36,020 and Moses is to throw it towards the heavens 428 00:18:36,020 --> 00:18:36,880 in the sight of Pharaoh, 429 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:40,320 and it will become fine dust over the entire land of Egypt. 430 00:18:40,320 --> 00:18:43,220 It will become festering boils on people and animals 431 00:18:43,220 --> 00:18:44,380 throughout the land of Egypt. 432 00:18:44,380 --> 00:18:48,240 So a very similar judgment that's falling upon people. 433 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:51,220 Now the festering boils we read about in Exodus 434 00:18:51,220 --> 00:18:54,740 are very similar or the same as the painful sores 435 00:18:54,740 --> 00:18:57,540 we're reading about here in Revelation. 436 00:18:57,540 --> 00:18:59,460 That word sore is just referring 437 00:18:59,460 --> 00:19:02,540 to some type of open skin infection. 438 00:19:02,540 --> 00:19:06,100 It could refer to an abscess or an ulcer or a boil, right? 439 00:19:06,100 --> 00:19:07,900 So there's a connection here. 440 00:19:07,900 --> 00:19:12,340 Now, I'm gonna spare you the graphic description of boils, 441 00:19:12,340 --> 00:19:14,700 okay, because it's kind of gross, 442 00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:15,980 but if you've ever had a boil, 443 00:19:15,980 --> 00:19:18,680 you might be familiar that they're gross. 444 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:21,600 They're oozy, they're painful, right? 445 00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:24,180 It's a very painful condition to get a boil, 446 00:19:24,180 --> 00:19:26,060 and for those of you that have ever experienced one, 447 00:19:26,060 --> 00:19:28,620 imagine being covered head to toe in them. 448 00:19:28,620 --> 00:19:31,380 Incredibly painful, incredibly nasty, 449 00:19:31,380 --> 00:19:33,900 and medically, what we do know 450 00:19:33,900 --> 00:19:36,220 is that these types of skin conditions, these boils, 451 00:19:36,220 --> 00:19:40,980 they're typically an outward display of an inward problem. 452 00:19:40,980 --> 00:19:43,020 They're an outward display of an internal problem. 453 00:19:43,020 --> 00:19:46,100 So it's not like it's acne or a pimple or something. 454 00:19:46,100 --> 00:19:48,340 There's usually some type of bacterial infection 455 00:19:48,340 --> 00:19:50,000 or something going on inside 456 00:19:50,000 --> 00:19:53,540 that is now manifesting as this boil upon the skin. 457 00:19:53,540 --> 00:19:57,180 So the idea of this judgment, this first bowl judgment, 458 00:19:57,180 --> 00:20:01,500 is that the inward problem of the people 459 00:20:01,500 --> 00:20:02,980 is what's being judged. 460 00:20:04,140 --> 00:20:05,620 Their commitment, their affections 461 00:20:05,620 --> 00:20:07,100 being given over to Satan, 462 00:20:07,100 --> 00:20:09,300 their worship being given over to Satan 463 00:20:09,300 --> 00:20:11,260 and the Antichrist instead of God, 464 00:20:11,260 --> 00:20:12,840 they have an outward mark now 465 00:20:12,840 --> 00:20:15,580 that identifies their inward alignment. 466 00:20:15,580 --> 00:20:17,700 Now, the mark that's on their forehead or their hand, 467 00:20:17,700 --> 00:20:19,260 that's the outward mark that says, 468 00:20:19,260 --> 00:20:21,940 I'm worshiping Satan, I'm worshiping him, 469 00:20:21,940 --> 00:20:23,980 and so God gives them another outward mark 470 00:20:23,980 --> 00:20:28,120 that identifies judgment of that inward heart inclination. 471 00:20:28,940 --> 00:20:30,740 This outward sign, the mark of the beast, 472 00:20:30,740 --> 00:20:33,140 it's a reflection of your inward worship of Satan. 473 00:20:33,140 --> 00:20:35,300 Well, okay, well, I'm gonna judge that, 474 00:20:35,300 --> 00:20:37,720 and now you have boils all over the place, right? 475 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:39,240 Pretty gross, pretty painful. 476 00:20:41,140 --> 00:20:43,340 And that whole idea that God looks at the heart, 477 00:20:43,340 --> 00:20:44,460 God looks at the inside, 478 00:20:44,460 --> 00:20:46,660 and then sometimes we'll have external 479 00:20:46,660 --> 00:20:48,100 consequence or judgment of that, 480 00:20:48,100 --> 00:20:50,060 that's also something we've seen in scriptures. 481 00:20:50,060 --> 00:20:52,780 You guys might remember Jesus talking to the Pharisees. 482 00:20:53,820 --> 00:20:54,660 And he said, you know, 483 00:20:54,660 --> 00:20:56,580 you guys look so religious on the outside. 484 00:20:57,460 --> 00:20:59,240 You look like you have it all together, 485 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:01,980 but inwardly, he said, you are whitewashed tombs 486 00:21:01,980 --> 00:21:03,440 full of wickedness. 487 00:21:04,460 --> 00:21:06,140 And so here in Revelation, 488 00:21:06,140 --> 00:21:07,580 we see at this time of tribulation, 489 00:21:07,580 --> 00:21:10,660 the inward corruption is now physically erupting, 490 00:21:10,660 --> 00:21:13,380 if you will, bursting out as painful sores 491 00:21:13,380 --> 00:21:14,540 and boils upon people. 492 00:21:14,540 --> 00:21:16,260 Now, there's no indication here 493 00:21:16,260 --> 00:21:19,560 on exactly how God caused these boils 494 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:23,140 to come upon people, these very painful sores. 495 00:21:23,140 --> 00:21:24,260 There's a couple, you know, 496 00:21:24,260 --> 00:21:25,780 interpretive ideas about this. 497 00:21:25,780 --> 00:21:27,800 One, there could be a natural explanation, 498 00:21:27,800 --> 00:21:29,940 and we do know that God does work 499 00:21:29,940 --> 00:21:31,720 through the natural world he created 500 00:21:31,720 --> 00:21:32,980 to affect his purposes. 501 00:21:32,980 --> 00:21:35,340 And so, yeah, there could be a natural 502 00:21:35,340 --> 00:21:37,140 medical explanation for these boils 503 00:21:37,140 --> 00:21:39,100 that God is causing, 504 00:21:39,100 --> 00:21:41,240 or it could be something completely supernatural 505 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:43,400 with no explanation at all. 506 00:21:44,700 --> 00:21:47,420 Some people think that during the tribulation period, 507 00:21:47,420 --> 00:21:50,780 there's gonna be nuclear fallout from the detonations 508 00:21:50,780 --> 00:21:52,580 of nuclear weapons during wars 509 00:21:52,580 --> 00:21:53,940 and stuff that are taking place, 510 00:21:53,940 --> 00:21:56,820 and the radiation poisoning that comes from that 511 00:21:56,820 --> 00:21:59,700 is usually, or can result in painful sores 512 00:21:59,700 --> 00:22:01,460 and boils upon the skin. 513 00:22:01,460 --> 00:22:03,580 You guys might remember when Chernobyl blew up 514 00:22:03,580 --> 00:22:05,500 and the radiation went out everywhere, 515 00:22:05,500 --> 00:22:08,300 people in the vicinity developed painful sores 516 00:22:08,300 --> 00:22:09,460 and boils upon their skin. 517 00:22:09,460 --> 00:22:12,380 So some think that there's gonna be nuclear war 518 00:22:12,380 --> 00:22:14,220 during the tribulation period. 519 00:22:14,220 --> 00:22:16,160 And again, I don't know if you've read it recently, 520 00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:20,140 but America sent some of its naval ships 521 00:22:20,140 --> 00:22:21,820 to South Korea to dock over there, 522 00:22:21,820 --> 00:22:23,180 and North Korea again is going, 523 00:22:23,180 --> 00:22:25,260 no, no, no, you're gonna cause nuclear war. 524 00:22:25,260 --> 00:22:26,780 We're gonna drop nukes on everybody. 525 00:22:26,780 --> 00:22:30,260 And so it's an interesting thing to consider. 526 00:22:30,260 --> 00:22:32,860 Some think that these boils and these sores, 527 00:22:32,860 --> 00:22:36,180 because they're tied to the mark of the beast specifically, 528 00:22:36,180 --> 00:22:41,180 are a result of technology failing under the skin. 529 00:22:41,940 --> 00:22:44,180 Chips and implanted chips to identify people, 530 00:22:44,180 --> 00:22:45,900 that stuff's already been invented. 531 00:22:45,900 --> 00:22:48,740 Companies are already using it, they use it on animals. 532 00:22:48,740 --> 00:22:51,260 I think I referenced it once where even back in the 90s, 533 00:22:51,260 --> 00:22:54,140 our own government was considering making it a law 534 00:22:54,140 --> 00:22:55,700 that babies were chipped, 535 00:22:55,700 --> 00:22:57,560 so that their information could be tracked, 536 00:22:57,560 --> 00:22:59,500 their location could be tracked. 537 00:22:59,500 --> 00:23:01,700 Fortunately, that didn't come to pass, 538 00:23:01,700 --> 00:23:05,780 but one of these technologies is how they power these chips 539 00:23:05,780 --> 00:23:08,440 in under the skin, in the hand or the forehead, 540 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:11,260 is through like lithium batteries. 541 00:23:11,260 --> 00:23:15,580 And if a lithium battery bursts under the skin, 542 00:23:15,580 --> 00:23:18,300 it causes very painful sores in the skin. 543 00:23:18,300 --> 00:23:21,220 And so some people go, ooh, ooh, see, I see it, right? 544 00:23:21,220 --> 00:23:22,700 The chip, if you take the chip, 545 00:23:22,700 --> 00:23:24,740 God's just gonna cause all the batteries to burst one day 546 00:23:24,740 --> 00:23:26,740 and everybody gets these painful sores. 547 00:23:26,740 --> 00:23:29,880 But again, it could be some supernatural unexplained thing 548 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:31,120 that causes these sores, 549 00:23:31,120 --> 00:23:33,480 but that's the first bold judgment, 550 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:35,780 is God very specifically goes into the earth 551 00:23:35,780 --> 00:23:38,580 and targets those who had aligned themselves with Satan, 552 00:23:38,580 --> 00:23:40,660 who chose to worship Satan and not God, 553 00:23:40,660 --> 00:23:42,540 who have denied God's gospel, 554 00:23:42,540 --> 00:23:46,020 denied Jesus Christ and he judges them physically. 555 00:23:46,020 --> 00:23:49,980 Verse three, the second poured out his bowl into the sea, 556 00:23:50,860 --> 00:23:53,200 and it turned to blood like that of a dead person, 557 00:23:53,200 --> 00:23:55,400 and all life in the sea died. 558 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:58,380 Now again, this is very similar to the first plague 559 00:23:58,380 --> 00:24:00,240 of Egypt in the Old Testament. 560 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,740 You guys remember that the Nile turned to blood, right? 561 00:24:03,740 --> 00:24:06,340 This is also like the second trumpet judgment, 562 00:24:06,340 --> 00:24:07,740 where in the second trumpet judgment, 563 00:24:07,740 --> 00:24:10,660 we read that a third of the sea died, 564 00:24:10,660 --> 00:24:14,060 a third of the living creatures in the sea died, 565 00:24:14,060 --> 00:24:15,800 and we read that there was a part of the sea 566 00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:19,980 becoming like blood, but here, there's a difference. 567 00:24:19,980 --> 00:24:22,140 It's not a third of the sea becoming like blood, 568 00:24:22,140 --> 00:24:24,100 it's not a third of the creatures in the sea dying. 569 00:24:24,100 --> 00:24:25,200 What does it say there? 570 00:24:26,120 --> 00:24:28,780 All of it became like blood, 571 00:24:28,780 --> 00:24:31,180 and all life in the sea died. 572 00:24:31,180 --> 00:24:34,580 It's a total judgment now, it's a complete judgment, 573 00:24:34,580 --> 00:24:38,180 and it's kind of gross because it says the sea turned 574 00:24:38,180 --> 00:24:41,140 to blood like that of a dead person. 575 00:24:41,140 --> 00:24:43,500 Again, to spare you all the gruesome details of that, 576 00:24:43,500 --> 00:24:46,140 but when a person dies, there's certain things 577 00:24:46,140 --> 00:24:49,740 that happen to the blood that are pretty gross and nasty. 578 00:24:49,740 --> 00:24:54,020 The blood can become very thick, very dark, very viscous, 579 00:24:54,020 --> 00:24:55,980 and he's saying the ocean becomes like that, 580 00:24:55,980 --> 00:24:58,360 the entire ocean, all of it, not a third of it, 581 00:24:58,360 --> 00:25:01,420 all of it now becomes blood, and you'll notice there, 582 00:25:01,420 --> 00:25:05,060 he doesn't say it becomes like blood, 583 00:25:05,060 --> 00:25:06,640 which is one of the indicators we've seen 584 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:07,900 throughout Revelation when he's going, 585 00:25:07,900 --> 00:25:09,220 I'm not saying it turned into blood, 586 00:25:09,220 --> 00:25:12,100 I'm saying it became, it had the characteristics of blood. 587 00:25:12,100 --> 00:25:14,440 Here he's going, no, it becomes blood. 588 00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,380 The sea, all the oceans become blood 589 00:25:16,380 --> 00:25:20,060 as this bowl is poured out upon the oceans. 590 00:25:20,060 --> 00:25:23,260 Verse four, the third bowl, it says the third poured out 591 00:25:23,260 --> 00:25:26,020 his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, 592 00:25:26,020 --> 00:25:28,000 and they became blood. 593 00:25:29,020 --> 00:25:32,100 And so again, like the Nile becoming blood, 594 00:25:32,100 --> 00:25:34,420 like the third trumpet, if you go back 595 00:25:34,420 --> 00:25:36,220 and read the third trumpet, it says a third 596 00:25:36,220 --> 00:25:38,660 of the rivers and springs became bitter 597 00:25:38,660 --> 00:25:42,100 and poisoned as the wormwood fell upon them. 598 00:25:42,100 --> 00:25:44,660 The idea here is both the salt water 599 00:25:44,660 --> 00:25:47,860 and the clean drinking water is now corrupted. 600 00:25:47,860 --> 00:25:49,860 But again, just like the difference 601 00:25:49,860 --> 00:25:52,260 between the second trumpet and the second bowl here, 602 00:25:52,260 --> 00:25:54,820 we see that it's not a third of the rivers being corrupted, 603 00:25:54,820 --> 00:25:56,940 it's not a third of the rivers becoming blood, 604 00:25:56,940 --> 00:25:58,360 it's all of them. 605 00:25:59,220 --> 00:26:00,900 And unlike the third trumpet, 606 00:26:00,900 --> 00:26:03,140 where it says they became bitter, 607 00:26:03,140 --> 00:26:06,260 here it says no, no, the clean drinking water now 608 00:26:06,260 --> 00:26:08,700 becomes blood as well. 609 00:26:08,700 --> 00:26:10,420 And this is a critical thing to happen. 610 00:26:10,420 --> 00:26:13,460 If you can imagine on the earth that all of the sources 611 00:26:13,460 --> 00:26:15,860 of clean drinking water are corrupted. 612 00:26:15,860 --> 00:26:17,540 They all have become blood. 613 00:26:17,540 --> 00:26:19,660 You can't drink blood, all right? 614 00:26:19,660 --> 00:26:22,860 It's not good for you, it is not healthy for you. 615 00:26:22,860 --> 00:26:25,400 And so around the world today, places 616 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:27,980 where clean drinking water is contaminated, 617 00:26:27,980 --> 00:26:31,140 you find disease, you find dehydration, 618 00:26:31,140 --> 00:26:32,780 and all sorts of issues, right? 619 00:26:32,780 --> 00:26:35,580 Humans need clean drinking water. 620 00:26:35,580 --> 00:26:38,160 This is why there's so many organizations around the world 621 00:26:38,160 --> 00:26:42,260 that will fund, to go build wells at villages in Africa 622 00:26:42,260 --> 00:26:44,460 to give people access to clean drinking water 623 00:26:44,460 --> 00:26:47,780 because it's such an essential part to being healthy. 624 00:26:47,780 --> 00:26:49,300 But here what we're seeing is at the end 625 00:26:49,300 --> 00:26:52,340 of tribulation period, all of the clean water sources 626 00:26:52,340 --> 00:26:53,160 are gone. 627 00:26:54,780 --> 00:26:58,060 And if you add to that what happened back in Revelation 628 00:26:58,060 --> 00:27:01,420 chapter seven verse one at the time of the sixth seal, 629 00:27:01,420 --> 00:27:03,120 I'll read it for you, it says this. 630 00:27:04,260 --> 00:27:06,220 After this I saw four angels standing 631 00:27:06,220 --> 00:27:08,020 at the four corners of the earth, 632 00:27:08,020 --> 00:27:09,700 restraining the four winds of the earth 633 00:27:09,700 --> 00:27:12,580 so that no wind could blow on the earth 634 00:27:12,580 --> 00:27:14,680 or on the sea or on any tree. 635 00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:20,260 Now, wind is very crucial to what is called 636 00:27:20,260 --> 00:27:23,560 the hydrological cycle, right? 637 00:27:24,500 --> 00:27:27,420 Water from the ocean evaporates into the air. 638 00:27:27,420 --> 00:27:29,700 The wind carries it across the land. 639 00:27:29,700 --> 00:27:32,060 In the process of it being carried across the land, 640 00:27:32,060 --> 00:27:34,340 it is like desalinated or purified. 641 00:27:34,340 --> 00:27:37,460 It then cools and condenses and then it comes down 642 00:27:37,460 --> 00:27:39,420 back to the earth in the form of rain, 643 00:27:39,420 --> 00:27:42,300 in the form of fresh water and then those fresh water 644 00:27:42,300 --> 00:27:44,740 sources then flow back out to the ocean, 645 00:27:44,740 --> 00:27:47,700 gets salinated again and you have this cycle 646 00:27:47,700 --> 00:27:50,060 that is a part of the earth functioning 647 00:27:50,060 --> 00:27:51,760 in a way it's supposed to function. 648 00:27:53,060 --> 00:27:56,360 Now, imagine the wind is gone. 649 00:27:57,260 --> 00:27:59,660 The clouds don't move anymore. 650 00:27:59,660 --> 00:28:01,820 The wind doesn't blow anymore as we read there 651 00:28:01,820 --> 00:28:04,720 in Revelation 7-1 and without the wind 652 00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:06,560 to carry moisture across the land, 653 00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,900 what would happen to the land? 654 00:28:08,900 --> 00:28:10,260 It would dry out. 655 00:28:10,260 --> 00:28:11,580 It would become parched. 656 00:28:11,580 --> 00:28:15,060 It would become a vast desert because of lack of water 657 00:28:15,060 --> 00:28:17,380 and we have areas of our earth today where we see that 658 00:28:17,380 --> 00:28:19,380 because there's no water that goes across it. 659 00:28:19,380 --> 00:28:22,300 It's just a wasteland, a desert wasteland. 660 00:28:23,220 --> 00:28:26,900 Well, by the time we get to Revelation 16 here, 661 00:28:26,900 --> 00:28:29,080 a third of the earth has already been affected 662 00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:30,420 by the judgments of God. 663 00:28:30,420 --> 00:28:33,340 The wind had not been blowing for a period of time 664 00:28:33,340 --> 00:28:35,700 and now you add all to that in this final judgment 665 00:28:35,700 --> 00:28:39,180 that all the fresh water sources now become blood. 666 00:28:42,260 --> 00:28:45,920 You think about that, how long can people survive 667 00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:47,780 off of soda and juice? 668 00:28:48,980 --> 00:28:51,180 Not too long, right? 669 00:28:51,180 --> 00:28:53,660 Some of us would be like, oh, I get to drink soda all day? 670 00:28:53,660 --> 00:28:54,580 That's heaven. 671 00:28:55,460 --> 00:28:58,140 No, you drink soda long enough, you start to realize, 672 00:28:58,140 --> 00:28:59,140 ah, it's gross, right? 673 00:28:59,140 --> 00:29:01,300 You need water, your body needs water. 674 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:03,220 Then you go, well, you know, 675 00:29:03,220 --> 00:29:04,540 if this judgment falls upon earth, 676 00:29:04,540 --> 00:29:05,800 we got bottled water everywhere. 677 00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:07,780 Well, how long until the bottle of water is used up? 678 00:29:07,780 --> 00:29:09,940 The population of earth right now is over eight billion 679 00:29:09,940 --> 00:29:12,860 people, that's a lot of bottles of water. 680 00:29:14,780 --> 00:29:17,060 And so what you're gonna have in this time of tribulation 681 00:29:17,060 --> 00:29:19,040 is people dying of thirst. 682 00:29:20,460 --> 00:29:24,540 People living in a land that is dying because it's parched 683 00:29:24,540 --> 00:29:27,040 and there's no moisture and so the trees are dying 684 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:29,820 and the grasses are dying and cattle is dying. 685 00:29:29,820 --> 00:29:32,300 It's just, there's just devastation. 686 00:29:34,620 --> 00:29:36,620 And people look at this sometimes, 687 00:29:36,620 --> 00:29:37,980 and I'm sure people during that time 688 00:29:37,980 --> 00:29:39,260 are gonna be experiencing this and go, 689 00:29:39,260 --> 00:29:41,940 how can a God of love even allow this? 690 00:29:43,100 --> 00:29:45,700 This is, this is torturous, it's so unfair, 691 00:29:45,700 --> 00:29:48,520 it's so unjust, it's so unrighteous. 692 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,580 Well, verse five, the angel anticipated that 693 00:29:52,580 --> 00:29:54,220 and we read in verse five, 694 00:29:54,220 --> 00:29:57,240 I heard the angel of the waters say, 695 00:29:57,240 --> 00:30:01,780 you are just, the holy one, who is and who was 696 00:30:01,780 --> 00:30:04,660 because you have passed judgment on these things. 697 00:30:04,660 --> 00:30:06,860 Because they poured out the blood of the saints 698 00:30:06,860 --> 00:30:10,220 and of the prophets, you have given them blood to drink. 699 00:30:10,220 --> 00:30:12,020 They deserve it. 700 00:30:14,380 --> 00:30:16,260 They deserve it, wow. 701 00:30:18,540 --> 00:30:22,280 That's not the warm, fuzzy Jesus, right? 702 00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:26,080 That's not the Jesus in the picture with the little kids 703 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:29,180 sitting on his knee and the little baby lambs next to him. 704 00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:35,520 That's not the Jesus we prefer to think about. 705 00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:39,160 Verse seven, it says, I heard the altar say, 706 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,760 yes, Lord God, the Almighty, true and just 707 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:43,680 are your judgments. 708 00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,000 You know, the angel here is very quick 709 00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:46,800 to defend the righteousness of God. 710 00:30:46,800 --> 00:30:51,800 It's something that the church can learn from. 711 00:30:54,220 --> 00:30:55,900 There's many places around the world today 712 00:30:55,900 --> 00:30:58,260 where the church is quick to apologize for God. 713 00:31:00,500 --> 00:31:04,300 Because we struggle with rationalizing God's judgment 714 00:31:04,300 --> 00:31:05,980 on sin and consequence for sin 715 00:31:05,980 --> 00:31:07,900 and God allowing consequence to happen 716 00:31:07,900 --> 00:31:11,140 and we wrestle with that and so sometimes Christians 717 00:31:11,140 --> 00:31:15,240 might be tempted to find themselves apologizing for God. 718 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,660 Apologizing for what the Bible says about things 719 00:31:17,660 --> 00:31:21,380 and we can't because God's ways are just. 720 00:31:21,380 --> 00:31:22,780 They're right, they're true. 721 00:31:24,580 --> 00:31:27,040 In God's infinite wisdom and his infinite holiness 722 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:28,580 and his omnipotence and everything, 723 00:31:28,580 --> 00:31:31,700 when God pours out judgment, there is good reason for it. 724 00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:34,280 And there's no, but what about this, 725 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,740 but what about this, but what about this? 726 00:31:36,740 --> 00:31:38,340 And this is what we see taking place here 727 00:31:38,340 --> 00:31:40,100 at the end of the tribulation period. 728 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:42,900 It's like this angel is saying, 729 00:31:42,900 --> 00:31:44,540 look, to the people of the earth, 730 00:31:44,540 --> 00:31:47,500 you've shed the blood of those 731 00:31:47,500 --> 00:31:50,540 who came to proclaim salvation to you. 732 00:31:50,540 --> 00:31:53,580 Those who came to preach to you good news. 733 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:57,700 Those who did what Christ would call the church to, 734 00:31:57,700 --> 00:32:00,180 that were feeding the widows and the orphans 735 00:32:00,180 --> 00:32:01,800 and taking care of people and doing what they can 736 00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:04,660 to get involved and all along bringing the good news 737 00:32:04,660 --> 00:32:06,980 of the salvation of Jesus, that God is real, 738 00:32:06,980 --> 00:32:09,140 that judgment is coming and God wants to save you 739 00:32:09,140 --> 00:32:10,180 from the judgment of sin. 740 00:32:10,180 --> 00:32:12,380 We've all sinned and broken his law. 741 00:32:12,380 --> 00:32:14,220 We all fall short of the glory of God. 742 00:32:14,220 --> 00:32:16,260 And yet instead of responding to that message, 743 00:32:16,260 --> 00:32:19,380 he's saying you killed them, you shed their blood. 744 00:32:21,140 --> 00:32:23,440 And since you're so blood thirsty, 745 00:32:25,180 --> 00:32:26,940 God will give them blood to drink. 746 00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,060 You want blood? 747 00:32:30,060 --> 00:32:31,360 He's gonna give it to you. 748 00:32:32,700 --> 00:32:35,240 The idea here, and it's really a spiritual law 749 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:37,220 that we do find throughout scripture, 750 00:32:37,220 --> 00:32:40,900 is the idea, the law of sowing and reaping, right? 751 00:32:40,900 --> 00:32:41,940 We've heard of that. 752 00:32:41,940 --> 00:32:44,060 You sow what you reap. 753 00:32:45,380 --> 00:32:47,220 You reject the free gift of salvation. 754 00:32:47,220 --> 00:32:50,140 What this verse tells us is you will get what you deserve. 755 00:32:51,340 --> 00:32:54,860 You reject the offer of God, you will get what you deserve. 756 00:32:54,860 --> 00:32:58,200 Galatians chapter six verse seven says, don't be deceived. 757 00:32:59,100 --> 00:33:00,580 God is not mocked. 758 00:33:01,620 --> 00:33:05,100 Whatever a person sows, they will also reap. 759 00:33:05,100 --> 00:33:10,100 You can't live a life of rejecting God, rejecting Christ. 760 00:33:14,300 --> 00:33:16,060 A life of disobeying him. 761 00:33:16,060 --> 00:33:17,700 A life of saying I don't care what you say, 762 00:33:17,700 --> 00:33:19,300 I'm gonna do my own thing. 763 00:33:20,500 --> 00:33:24,100 And not expect the punishment to come for that. 764 00:33:25,820 --> 00:33:27,460 A lot of us live that way today. 765 00:33:30,060 --> 00:33:33,900 A lot of people in the world have grown up in a world now 766 00:33:33,900 --> 00:33:36,300 where there's no consequence for anything, right? 767 00:33:38,180 --> 00:33:40,100 There's no winners or losers. 768 00:33:40,100 --> 00:33:42,840 Everybody gets a participation trophy. 769 00:33:44,260 --> 00:33:45,940 There's no medals. 770 00:33:45,940 --> 00:33:47,900 Everybody's recognized. 771 00:33:49,580 --> 00:33:51,380 We've created this stuff in our society 772 00:33:51,380 --> 00:33:54,340 to take away the very concept of consequences. 773 00:33:55,700 --> 00:34:00,700 The moral relativity of our culture is just rapidly 774 00:34:00,860 --> 00:34:02,780 and aggressively pushing this idea 775 00:34:02,780 --> 00:34:05,620 that there is no wrong, there's only right. 776 00:34:05,620 --> 00:34:07,140 And it's your right and your right 777 00:34:07,140 --> 00:34:08,340 and your right and your right. 778 00:34:08,340 --> 00:34:11,540 And we all get to decide what our truth is. 779 00:34:11,540 --> 00:34:12,780 And live however we want. 780 00:34:12,780 --> 00:34:17,780 And how dare you tell me my truth is wrong? 781 00:34:20,100 --> 00:34:21,980 You should be silenced for that. 782 00:34:21,980 --> 00:34:23,820 You should be censored for that. 783 00:34:25,860 --> 00:34:30,040 And yet what we see here is the result of mocking God. 784 00:34:30,040 --> 00:34:31,780 That if you reject Jesus Christ 785 00:34:31,780 --> 00:34:34,180 all the way to the point of death, it's too late. 786 00:34:35,180 --> 00:34:36,620 These people that are still on the earth 787 00:34:36,620 --> 00:34:41,380 during tribulation time have rejected God 788 00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:45,800 over and over and over and over and over again. 789 00:34:47,060 --> 00:34:48,620 And in that verse in Galatians 7, 790 00:34:48,620 --> 00:34:49,780 when he said, God is not mocked, 791 00:34:49,780 --> 00:34:51,620 for whatever person sows, he will also reap. 792 00:34:51,620 --> 00:34:52,580 The verse goes on to say, 793 00:34:52,580 --> 00:34:55,540 so if you sow good, you'll reap good. 794 00:34:55,540 --> 00:34:57,600 But if you sow bad, you'll reap bad. 795 00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:01,940 There are many who live thinking, 796 00:35:01,940 --> 00:35:04,080 I'm getting away with so much. 797 00:35:05,580 --> 00:35:08,520 God is letting me get away with so much. 798 00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:10,980 I'm sinning and I know it and nothing is happening. 799 00:35:10,980 --> 00:35:12,740 God hasn't done anything about it 800 00:35:12,740 --> 00:35:14,980 and so therefore I'm gonna keep doing it. 801 00:35:14,980 --> 00:35:17,280 And yet it may be true that God 802 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,300 hasn't done anything about it yet. 803 00:35:22,100 --> 00:35:25,120 Yet is the important word there, yet. 804 00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:28,600 Whatever a person sows, they will reap. 805 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:30,820 That's a truth. 806 00:35:31,780 --> 00:35:34,400 Sometimes you reap those consequences quickly. 807 00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,560 Sometimes you reap those consequences years later 808 00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:38,460 but you will reap what you sow. 809 00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:42,100 Biblically we look at very interesting examples of that. 810 00:35:42,100 --> 00:35:44,860 You remember the story of Pharaoh back in Egypt, right? 811 00:35:44,860 --> 00:35:48,200 He tried to drown all the young Hebrew male babies. 812 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:51,640 Right, drown them all so that the population can't grow. 813 00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:54,180 Find all the male children and drown them. 814 00:35:54,180 --> 00:35:55,340 How did Pharaoh die? 815 00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:00,600 He drowned in the Red Sea. 816 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:02,360 Very interesting description, right? 817 00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,760 Talking about all the waters being turned to blood. 818 00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,260 Remember the story of Haman who built these huge gallows 819 00:36:08,260 --> 00:36:10,000 to hang Mordecai the Jew. 820 00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:11,300 How did he die? 821 00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,120 He hung on the very gallows he built. 822 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:21,560 There was a French atheist in the 18th century named Voltaire 823 00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,040 who hated Christianity. 824 00:36:24,040 --> 00:36:25,160 Hated it. 825 00:36:25,160 --> 00:36:27,720 Hated everything about it and he spent so much time 826 00:36:27,720 --> 00:36:31,120 in his house writing these very just violent missives 827 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:32,280 against Christianity. 828 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,240 One of the things he wrote once is he said in 20 years 829 00:36:35,240 --> 00:36:36,760 Christianity will be no more. 830 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,520 My single hand shall destroy the edifice 831 00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:43,440 it took the 12 apostles to rear. 832 00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:47,700 Well within 20 years of his death, 833 00:36:47,700 --> 00:36:50,080 that house that he wrote that from 834 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,540 was one of the largest centers of Bible distribution 835 00:36:52,540 --> 00:36:54,540 in the world. 836 00:36:54,540 --> 00:36:58,760 You know, God will have his way. 837 00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:01,320 And yes, God loves you. 838 00:37:02,280 --> 00:37:05,160 And God died for you, absolutely. 839 00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:06,000 He did. 840 00:37:06,860 --> 00:37:09,720 But he did that so that you could be saved 841 00:37:09,720 --> 00:37:11,400 from the judgment to come. 842 00:37:11,400 --> 00:37:13,480 Because if you reject Jesus Christ, 843 00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,760 the Bible is very clear that God will give you 844 00:37:15,760 --> 00:37:17,120 what you deserve. 845 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:22,120 And God will give us what we deserve unless we allow Jesus 846 00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,240 to take what we deserve. 847 00:37:25,240 --> 00:37:26,360 That's what he did on the cross. 848 00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,000 If you confess your sin and turn your life over 849 00:37:28,000 --> 00:37:32,080 to Jesus Christ, all the wrath of God against sin, 850 00:37:32,080 --> 00:37:34,640 all the judgment that he has against sin, 851 00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:37,800 all of it that you deserve because you've broken his law, 852 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,040 all of it, Jesus removes it from you, 853 00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,040 takes it upon himself. 854 00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,440 He experiences all that judgment. 855 00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:49,360 He experiences all that judgment in your place. 856 00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,000 And this is a transcendent truth when it comes 857 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:55,560 to the wrath of God on sin. 858 00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:59,280 Ultimately, Jesus will either take it for you 859 00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,440 or you will get to take it upon yourself. 860 00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:05,920 That's a truth, a scriptural truth that is hard 861 00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:08,560 to say sometimes, but the most loving thing 862 00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:10,440 we could possibly say to somebody. 863 00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:15,380 If you reject Jesus Christ, you will get 864 00:38:15,380 --> 00:38:18,040 the opportunity to pay the price for your own sin, 865 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,520 but you're not gonna like it. 866 00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:23,040 And so here we see in Revelation, 867 00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:26,080 the world is getting what it deserves, 868 00:38:27,220 --> 00:38:29,600 getting what is due to it because it has rejected 869 00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:32,400 the forgiveness and salvation found in Jesus Christ. 870 00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,960 And we can't forget it is just, as the angel said. 871 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:38,620 It is right, as the angel said. 872 00:38:38,620 --> 00:38:40,000 It is proper. 873 00:38:40,920 --> 00:38:44,320 There is no way to go, God is not being fair. 874 00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:46,920 God is being too hard, nope. 875 00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:48,320 It's all done at this point. 876 00:38:49,720 --> 00:38:53,600 Verse eight, the fourth poured out his bowl upon the sun. 877 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,740 It was allowed to scorch the people with fire 878 00:38:55,740 --> 00:38:58,540 and people were scorched by the intense heat. 879 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:02,920 So if you had these boils fall and then boom, 880 00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,500 the whole ocean turns to blood and all the living creatures 881 00:39:05,500 --> 00:39:07,440 in it, all the whales, all the fish, all the dolphins, 882 00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:10,880 the poor dolphins, right, everything in the sea, they die. 883 00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:14,320 The fresh water sources all become blood. 884 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,220 There's no more drinking water anywhere, we can't get it. 885 00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:20,800 And then now the sun is allowed to scorch people. 886 00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:22,200 Now this is interestingly enough, 887 00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:25,120 not the same as a similar trumpet judgment, 888 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,880 but in contrast to it because there's a trumpet judgment 889 00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,980 where it says one third of the sun was darkened. 890 00:39:30,980 --> 00:39:32,680 Some of you may experience a little bit 891 00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:34,980 of that yesterday, right, we had the eclipse. 892 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:37,480 Anybody go out and see that? 893 00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:40,300 It was in my house, we totally forgot 894 00:39:40,300 --> 00:39:42,100 the eclipse was happening and so we went outside 895 00:39:42,100 --> 00:39:46,020 and we're like, it looks weird, what's going on? 896 00:39:47,020 --> 00:39:48,780 Right, Irene's comment was like, I feel like I'm wearing 897 00:39:48,780 --> 00:39:51,380 my sunglasses but I don't have my sunglasses on, right? 898 00:39:51,380 --> 00:39:54,580 And then it was like, oh, there was an eclipse, right, crazy. 899 00:39:54,580 --> 00:39:56,820 But here we see that this bowl judgment, 900 00:39:56,820 --> 00:39:58,720 it says the sun flares and it burns hot 901 00:39:58,720 --> 00:40:01,640 and it's allowed to scorch people with fire and heat. 902 00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:03,820 That word scorch there, it literally means 903 00:40:03,820 --> 00:40:05,880 a painful, painful burning. 904 00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,960 Now this could be something like a solar flare, right, 905 00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:11,360 people have been talking about that for a while, 906 00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:14,160 scientists, ooh, solar flares, the sun's gonna flare 907 00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:16,480 and it's gonna cast this wave of radiation 908 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,040 and burn the earth. 909 00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,060 Some people think it could be like an alteration 910 00:40:20,060 --> 00:40:22,760 of the earth's atmosphere and how it lets light through. 911 00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:25,480 You know, sometimes our atmosphere, 912 00:40:25,480 --> 00:40:27,120 depending on what's going on with cloud cover, 913 00:40:27,120 --> 00:40:29,360 it can like tweak the wavelengths of radiation 914 00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:30,560 that are allowed through. 915 00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:35,040 We experienced this in, have you ever gotten 916 00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:36,320 an overcast sunburn? 917 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:38,640 Anybody ever gone out when it's overcast? 918 00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:39,960 You're like, oh, there's so much cloud cover, 919 00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:41,440 the sun is not even in the sky. 920 00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:43,880 And you get a worse sunburn than you would 921 00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:44,980 if the sun was out? 922 00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:47,840 Yeah, that's simply because the cloud cover 923 00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:50,440 attenuated the wavelengths of radiation 924 00:40:50,440 --> 00:40:53,060 that allowed through and it burned you even more. 925 00:40:53,060 --> 00:40:55,360 So some think that could be that type of thing. 926 00:40:57,240 --> 00:40:58,480 Something's gonna happen. 927 00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:01,440 And this was predicted in Malachi chapter four, 928 00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:03,640 verse one, speaking of the end times. 929 00:41:03,640 --> 00:41:05,440 He writes, for look, the day is coming, 930 00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,760 burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant 931 00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:12,240 and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. 932 00:41:12,240 --> 00:41:15,080 The coming day will consume them, says the Lord of Armies, 933 00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:17,240 not leaving them root or branches. 934 00:41:17,240 --> 00:41:20,980 And so it's really a picture for those who are being judged, 935 00:41:20,980 --> 00:41:23,000 a preview of coming attractions. 936 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:25,700 Right, this is the preview of coming, 937 00:41:25,700 --> 00:41:26,820 this is the prequel. 938 00:41:27,800 --> 00:41:29,200 Because this is what you're gonna experience 939 00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:30,200 in hell forever. 940 00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:34,320 As the fires of hell burn and consume. 941 00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,040 And that judgment will last for eternity. 942 00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:39,080 And so God here allows the sun to scorch them. 943 00:41:39,080 --> 00:41:41,560 Verse 10, the fifth bowl. 944 00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:43,800 The fifth poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast 945 00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:45,640 and his kingdom was plunged into darkness 946 00:41:45,640 --> 00:41:48,660 and people nod their tongues because of their pain. 947 00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:53,280 Now we have all experienced blackouts from time to time. 948 00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:56,220 We had one here at church a few years back. 949 00:41:56,220 --> 00:41:58,980 The power just goes and nothing works anymore. 950 00:41:58,980 --> 00:42:02,500 And for those of us that are so accustomed to electricity 951 00:42:02,500 --> 00:42:03,620 and being able to turn on the light 952 00:42:03,620 --> 00:42:05,460 and being able to have access to that, 953 00:42:05,460 --> 00:42:07,820 the power goes out and we're just like cavemen. 954 00:42:07,820 --> 00:42:10,100 Ah, what do we do? 955 00:42:10,100 --> 00:42:11,700 How do we survive? 956 00:42:11,700 --> 00:42:14,340 It's a weird thing when it happens. 957 00:42:14,340 --> 00:42:16,580 Some people think that at this time of the fifth bowl 958 00:42:16,580 --> 00:42:18,760 that the fourth bowl being poured out 959 00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:20,620 was the sun supernovaed, right? 960 00:42:20,620 --> 00:42:22,700 It supernovaed and scorched the earth 961 00:42:22,700 --> 00:42:25,860 and then after the supernova it burns out and goes black 962 00:42:25,860 --> 00:42:27,360 and that's the end of the sun. 963 00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:30,000 And there's some interesting possibilities there 964 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:33,760 because later on it says that when God is present, 965 00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:37,080 there is no need for the sun because he is the light. 966 00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:42,400 Some think this could be a result of nuclear winter 967 00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:44,960 if nuclear weapons are released during tribulation period 968 00:42:44,960 --> 00:42:48,040 and then it creates that greenhouse effect 969 00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:50,440 and it prevents the sun from going through 970 00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,680 and so it gets hot and then it gets dark. 971 00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:54,200 We're not sure exactly. 972 00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:56,000 But it tells us that this bowl is poured out 973 00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,200 on the throne of the beast. 974 00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:00,040 That word throne there means, 975 00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,360 it's talking about the throne that a king would sit in, 976 00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:04,920 right, it's the idea that the throne was a symbol 977 00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,920 of high status and high power and authority. 978 00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:11,520 We read in Revelation 13, two that the beast or the dragon 979 00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:16,520 gave the beast his power, his throne, and great authority. 980 00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,760 And so his power to be able to do what he's doing, 981 00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,080 to enact control over the earth, 982 00:43:22,080 --> 00:43:24,840 to force people to worship him, all of this stuff, 983 00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:26,680 and then God pours out this bowl 984 00:43:26,680 --> 00:43:28,160 and the entire kingdom of the beast 985 00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:30,120 is plunged into darkness. 986 00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:33,280 It's like his power is being cut off. 987 00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:37,040 That the beast is losing his power, 988 00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,880 that he's been allowed to exercise this whole time. 989 00:43:39,880 --> 00:43:41,560 And you know, scripturally we know 990 00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:45,440 the metaphorical differences that are used often. 991 00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,640 God is light, it tells us in 1 John. 992 00:43:50,360 --> 00:43:52,480 We see that the absence of light is often used 993 00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:54,120 as a metaphor for evil. 994 00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:55,800 A metaphor for Satan himself. 995 00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,800 Satan is called the prince of darkness, right? 996 00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:03,120 The very first creative act of God in Genesis, 997 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:06,320 he said, let there be light. 998 00:44:06,320 --> 00:44:08,120 The very first creative act of God 999 00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:11,720 was to dispel the darkness, to get rid of it. 1000 00:44:11,720 --> 00:44:13,280 He created then the sun and the moon 1001 00:44:13,280 --> 00:44:14,720 and it says in light was. 1002 00:44:14,720 --> 00:44:16,840 In the New Testament we're called to walk in the light 1003 00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:18,320 as he is in the light. 1004 00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:21,360 And then in contrast to that, it says if we choose 1005 00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:23,320 to walk in sin, we're walking in light. 1006 00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:27,040 If we choose to walk in sin, we're walking in darkness. 1007 00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,520 Ephesians 5, 11, it says don't participate 1008 00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:31,600 in the fruitless works of darkness. 1009 00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:35,440 And so it seems only fitting that the kingdom of the beast, 1010 00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:37,240 this kingdom that is worshiping Satan 1011 00:44:37,240 --> 00:44:41,520 and all that is doused in darkness. 1012 00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:43,800 That's what you are, that's what you're about. 1013 00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,360 Boom, darkness you will have. 1014 00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:50,120 And that's very reminiscent of the ninth plague in Egypt. 1015 00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:52,200 Exodus 10, 21, the Lord said to Moses, 1016 00:44:52,200 --> 00:44:54,080 put your hand towards heaven and there will be darkness 1017 00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:57,920 over the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be felt. 1018 00:44:59,880 --> 00:45:02,520 So deep, so foreboding, so thick, 1019 00:45:02,520 --> 00:45:04,720 the darkness could be felt. 1020 00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:08,680 And then after that in Egypt came the tenth plague. 1021 00:45:09,720 --> 00:45:11,160 As the angel of death passed over 1022 00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:12,640 and the death of the firstborn came 1023 00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:15,400 and incidentally it was that judgment, that death, 1024 00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:18,280 that was what sprung Israel out of Egypt 1025 00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:20,160 and brought them to their salvation, 1026 00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:23,400 their exodus out into everything God had for them. 1027 00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:25,360 And then of course we know that when Jesus died 1028 00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:27,680 on the cross it tells us that darkness covered the land 1029 00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,680 as God's wrath fell upon him, 1030 00:45:29,680 --> 00:45:31,440 the wrath that you and I deserve. 1031 00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:34,160 But here at the end of tribulation 1032 00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,480 we see darkness falling again. 1033 00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:38,600 But this time the darkness is falling 1034 00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:43,600 upon those unrepentant of mankind, those who refuse Jesus. 1035 00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:47,240 And as that darkness fell on Jesus on the cross, 1036 00:45:47,240 --> 00:45:50,120 as he was taking the full wrath of God for our sin, 1037 00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,800 now we see the people getting what they deserve, 1038 00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:55,720 who have rejected Jesus and the darkness 1039 00:45:55,720 --> 00:45:58,160 and the judgment's gonna fall upon them. 1040 00:45:58,160 --> 00:45:59,560 It falls upon the antichrist, 1041 00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:00,920 it falls on his global kingdom 1042 00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:02,000 and everything it stands for 1043 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:04,280 and that darkness is always just a reminder 1044 00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:07,040 of the darkness of sin and wickedness and evil. 1045 00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:09,960 Now this fifth bowl was predicted by the prophets as well 1046 00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:11,760 in Isaiah chapter 60 verse two, 1047 00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:13,760 speaking of the Lord's glory in Zion 1048 00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:14,920 at the end of all things. 1049 00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:17,480 It says for look, darkness will cover the earth 1050 00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:20,360 and total darkness the people's. 1051 00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,080 Joel chapter two verse two, speaking of the end times, 1052 00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:24,880 calls it a day of darkness and gloom, 1053 00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:27,560 a day of clouds and total darkness. 1054 00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:29,320 And then in Mark chapter 13, 1055 00:46:29,320 --> 00:46:32,560 speaking of at the end of the tribulation period, 1056 00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:34,760 right before the second coming of Christ, 1057 00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:36,960 it tells us the sun will be darkened. 1058 00:46:38,440 --> 00:46:40,200 Then of course we remember the words of Jesus 1059 00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:42,840 where it says men love darkness instead of the light. 1060 00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:46,960 And so God finally is going, you want darkness so much, 1061 00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,160 here you go, here you go. 1062 00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,160 Now it mentions there that people nod at their tongues 1063 00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:53,360 because of the pain. 1064 00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:56,440 This could be a callback to there's something 1065 00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:57,960 about the darkness like in Exodus 1066 00:46:57,960 --> 00:47:00,480 where they could feel it, it hurts somehow. 1067 00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:02,560 It could have something to do with some radiation 1068 00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:04,360 type of thing, we don't know. 1069 00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:05,880 But have you ever been in so much pain 1070 00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:08,000 in one part of your body that you cause pain in another 1071 00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,560 to take your mind off the pain in the first part? 1072 00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:12,240 Right, you stubbed your toe 1073 00:47:12,240 --> 00:47:14,320 so you pinch your hand or something. 1074 00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:15,680 Right, it's kind of this picture here 1075 00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:17,920 that they're in such pain from these boils 1076 00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:20,720 and pain from the dehydration and the thirst 1077 00:47:20,720 --> 00:47:25,120 and pain from this sunburn and now this abject darkness. 1078 00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:26,720 They're in just so much pain 1079 00:47:26,720 --> 00:47:29,040 and they're just trying to take their mind off of it. 1080 00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:31,160 But what is the response of the people to all of this? 1081 00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:32,520 Look back in verse nine. 1082 00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:36,120 So they blasphemed the name of God 1083 00:47:36,120 --> 00:47:37,720 who has the power over these plagues 1084 00:47:37,720 --> 00:47:39,880 and they did not repent and give him glory. 1085 00:47:41,080 --> 00:47:42,680 And then look at verse 11. 1086 00:47:42,680 --> 00:47:44,400 After they nod their tongues from the pain, 1087 00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,520 it says they blasphemed the God of heaven 1088 00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:48,000 because of their pains and their sores, 1089 00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:51,600 but they did not repent of their works. 1090 00:47:51,600 --> 00:47:54,080 That word blaspheme means to slander someone, 1091 00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,040 to revile someone, to defame someone, 1092 00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:59,640 or to speak irreverently or disrespectful about someone. 1093 00:48:00,940 --> 00:48:02,600 So instead of turning to God and saying, 1094 00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,160 God, we're so sorry for our sin and our rejection of you, 1095 00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:07,520 no, they continue to revile him. 1096 00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:09,920 They continue to disrespect his name 1097 00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:12,680 and so these first five bowls, 1098 00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:15,040 they're a collective picture of the plagues 1099 00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:19,840 upon the creation that mankind has extolled so much. 1100 00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:21,400 It's all about Mother Nature, it's about Gaia, 1101 00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:23,040 it's about us, it's about our power. 1102 00:48:23,040 --> 00:48:27,520 We are the pinnacle of creation and God's judging all of it. 1103 00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:29,560 He's judging all of it. 1104 00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:32,820 And yet still they did not turn, they did not repent. 1105 00:48:34,880 --> 00:48:37,200 Says they blaspheme the name of God 1106 00:48:37,200 --> 00:48:38,820 and they blaspheme the God of heaven, 1107 00:48:38,820 --> 00:48:40,920 just everything he is. 1108 00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:43,040 But it tells us something interesting there. 1109 00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:44,600 They knew who was judging them. 1110 00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:47,440 They knew who was judging them 1111 00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,240 and yet in the height of their arrogance 1112 00:48:49,240 --> 00:48:51,080 and the height of their stubbornness, 1113 00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:54,560 they would say, I know it's God, I know he is real, 1114 00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,800 I know the judgments are from him, but I will not change. 1115 00:48:58,700 --> 00:49:00,120 I will not repent. 1116 00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:04,620 And that's just an unfortunate picture 1117 00:49:04,620 --> 00:49:06,200 because we do see in scripture as well 1118 00:49:06,200 --> 00:49:08,920 that people can reject Jesus so much. 1119 00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:10,560 They can reject Jesus for so long 1120 00:49:10,560 --> 00:49:13,960 that their hearts become so hard against God. 1121 00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:16,080 But it's too late. 1122 00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:20,920 Verse 11 here, interestingly, in Revelation chapter 16, 1123 00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:24,000 it's the last reference in the book of Revelation 1124 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:27,040 to mankind's unwillingness to change. 1125 00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:28,640 We will not read about it again. 1126 00:49:29,600 --> 00:49:31,880 This is the last time, the last reference. 1127 00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:33,560 They will not change. 1128 00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:36,200 What we see from here forward is God saying, it's done. 1129 00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:38,920 I've given you every opportunity. 1130 00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:40,840 Judgment is falling, judgment is final, 1131 00:49:40,840 --> 00:49:42,280 judgment is complete. 1132 00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:44,880 And then we're gonna move into the second coming 1133 00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:49,480 and all of it, but through all of this, 1134 00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:50,680 through all of God's judgments, 1135 00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:52,600 God's trying to get people's attention. 1136 00:49:53,480 --> 00:49:56,280 He's trying to get them to pay attention, 1137 00:49:56,280 --> 00:49:58,480 but we refuse and here they refuse. 1138 00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:00,360 They blaspheme God instead. 1139 00:50:01,720 --> 00:50:04,280 They blaspheme his name and now it's over. 1140 00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:05,920 It's too late. 1141 00:50:05,920 --> 00:50:07,560 It's too late. 1142 00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:09,360 You know, the time is fast coming when 1143 00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,720 you won't have the opportunity to repent. 1144 00:50:13,720 --> 00:50:15,960 You won't have the opportunity to be forgiven. 1145 00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:18,560 You won't have the opportunity to be saved. 1146 00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:23,080 That time is coming and the time is coming quickly, 1147 00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:25,680 but today you still have the opportunity. 1148 00:50:26,720 --> 00:50:29,480 Today you can still repent of your sin. 1149 00:50:29,480 --> 00:50:31,560 Today you could still call out to God 1150 00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:35,480 and God is listening and will still forgive you. 1151 00:50:35,480 --> 00:50:37,840 God is calling every single human being to repent 1152 00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:39,080 of their sin. 1153 00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:41,480 You know that word repent, there's a lot of stuff 1154 00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:42,320 taught about it. 1155 00:50:42,320 --> 00:50:43,440 It means to change direction. 1156 00:50:43,440 --> 00:50:45,440 That's what repentance is. 1157 00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:49,080 You know, being sorry and continuing to do the same thing 1158 00:50:49,080 --> 00:50:51,000 isn't really being sorry that the thing 1159 00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:52,200 you were doing is wrong. 1160 00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:55,960 It's just being sorry about the consequences. 1161 00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:00,160 Right, some are just like, I'm so sorry my drinking 1162 00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:02,480 is messing up my marriage. 1163 00:51:02,480 --> 00:51:06,120 I'm so sorry that my lying is messing up my relationships. 1164 00:51:06,120 --> 00:51:09,760 I'm so sorry my anger is destroying 1165 00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:12,000 my family relationships. 1166 00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:13,080 My kids are afraid of me. 1167 00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:15,960 I'm so sorry about the consequences of my sin, 1168 00:51:15,960 --> 00:51:20,640 but so what if you keep drinking and keep lying 1169 00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:22,640 and keep being angry and keep sinning? 1170 00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:24,080 So what that you're sorry? 1171 00:51:25,240 --> 00:51:26,720 It doesn't change anything. 1172 00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:29,960 I read a story about a Sunday school class 1173 00:51:29,960 --> 00:51:33,360 and the kids were asked what is the definition of repentance? 1174 00:51:33,360 --> 00:51:36,160 And one of the kids is, it's being sorry that you sin. 1175 00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:38,480 And another kid raised their hand and they go, 1176 00:51:38,480 --> 00:51:39,600 no, that's wrong. 1177 00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:43,160 It's being sorry enough to quit sinning. 1178 00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:50,080 What a unique description of repentance. 1179 00:51:51,360 --> 00:51:53,360 You know, God will allow the consequences of sin 1180 00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:56,720 to happen to us that we may turn from sin, turn to him. 1181 00:51:56,720 --> 00:51:59,400 He will allow the consequences of disobedience 1182 00:51:59,400 --> 00:52:02,400 that we would turn from disobedience and to obedience. 1183 00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:06,440 And repentance, it's like you're walking down the street 1184 00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:08,480 and God comes up behind you and taps you on the shoulder 1185 00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,520 and he goes, hey, turn around. 1186 00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:12,240 Stop going that way, go this way. 1187 00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:15,080 That's repentance, right? 1188 00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:19,640 He says, follow me, go my way, go my direction, 1189 00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:22,520 follow my plan, follow my purpose for your life. 1190 00:52:22,520 --> 00:52:24,760 Stop going that way, let's go this way. 1191 00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:27,120 That way's gonna lead to destruction. 1192 00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:28,320 This way is good. 1193 00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:31,480 And when we say, okay, I lay down my life, I'll follow you. 1194 00:52:31,480 --> 00:52:33,240 God, I'll follow your direction, I'll follow your way. 1195 00:52:33,240 --> 00:52:36,880 That's repentance, that's repentance. 1196 00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:39,400 The people of the world at the end of tribulation, 1197 00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:43,760 it tells us here, will refuse to do that, will refuse. 1198 00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:46,680 Instead, they blaspheme God, they slander his name, 1199 00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:49,480 they speak ill of him and those who preach 1200 00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:50,480 and teach his word. 1201 00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:54,400 And again, God has sent 144,000 evangelists 1202 00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:57,280 during this time, preach the gospel worldwide. 1203 00:52:57,280 --> 00:52:59,040 He had these two witnesses in Jerusalem 1204 00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:01,600 that were doing miracles and the whole world saw it. 1205 00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:05,520 He even had an angel fly through the skies 1206 00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:06,840 preaching the gospel. 1207 00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:11,240 And yet, they still won't change. 1208 00:53:11,240 --> 00:53:12,080 Why? 1209 00:53:13,720 --> 00:53:16,360 I think it's because they kept rejecting Christ 1210 00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:19,800 over and over and over, so much so that their hearts 1211 00:53:19,800 --> 00:53:22,480 hardened to the point where they were beyond hope. 1212 00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:25,720 Where the truth of the gospel simply ceased 1213 00:53:25,720 --> 00:53:27,280 to have any effect on them. 1214 00:53:29,200 --> 00:53:33,920 Maybe the truth of God feels that way to you today. 1215 00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:35,800 You've heard it, you've been to church, 1216 00:53:35,800 --> 00:53:37,080 people shared with you. 1217 00:53:38,280 --> 00:53:40,720 And the truth just feels like it's not having an effect 1218 00:53:40,720 --> 00:53:43,560 on your heart anymore, you've heard it. 1219 00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:46,000 But you refuse to let go of your sin. 1220 00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:48,840 You refuse, you won't stop drinking, 1221 00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:51,840 regardless of the damage it's doing to your marriage. 1222 00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:54,600 You won't stop lying, you won't stop the anger 1223 00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:59,600 despite the devastation that sin is bringing into your life. 1224 00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:02,640 You won't yield, you won't be obedient to Christ 1225 00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:05,600 and you have every excuse, every reason, 1226 00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:08,760 every justification why you can't stop the sin. 1227 00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:14,480 Maybe you remember a time when God was knocking 1228 00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:15,780 on the door of your heart. 1229 00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:19,000 And you heard it, and you felt it. 1230 00:54:19,000 --> 00:54:20,720 You felt that pull, you felt that tug, 1231 00:54:20,720 --> 00:54:23,080 but for whatever reason, you just would not yield 1232 00:54:23,080 --> 00:54:24,540 your life to Jesus. 1233 00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:27,400 You wouldn't surrender and give your life to him 1234 00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:29,760 and you said, I'll do it later, I'm too young right now, 1235 00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:31,360 I have my whole life ahead of me. 1236 00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:35,720 Then maybe you hit your 30s and your 40s 1237 00:54:35,720 --> 00:54:37,880 and maybe you have kids now, a family, 1238 00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:39,840 and Jesus is tugging on your heart and you said, 1239 00:54:39,840 --> 00:54:43,200 I'm too busy, I'll give my life to Jesus later. 1240 00:54:45,620 --> 00:54:48,640 Then you've gotten older and maybe now you're going, 1241 00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:52,520 you know, I'm just too old, I'm just too set in my ways. 1242 00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:56,080 I'll do it later and later and later. 1243 00:54:57,600 --> 00:54:58,440 Guess what? 1244 00:54:59,740 --> 00:55:02,240 You keep waiting for later, one day you'll be dead. 1245 00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:04,520 You'll die. 1246 00:55:05,600 --> 00:55:07,000 And at that point, it's over. 1247 00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:10,160 There's no chances left, there's no opportunity left 1248 00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:11,940 to get right with your creator. 1249 00:55:13,240 --> 00:55:15,640 Maybe he's speaking to you right now. 1250 00:55:15,640 --> 00:55:17,520 Maybe the Holy Spirit is speaking into your heart 1251 00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:22,520 right now about your need for him. 1252 00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:25,800 I read a story about a rabbi who was asked 1253 00:55:25,800 --> 00:55:27,680 by his students one time, the students said, 1254 00:55:27,680 --> 00:55:31,000 Rabbi, what's the best day to repent? 1255 00:55:32,720 --> 00:55:36,000 And the rabbi said, well, the last day of your life. 1256 00:55:36,000 --> 00:55:38,140 And the students were like, what? 1257 00:55:38,140 --> 00:55:39,560 What kind of answer is that, rabbi? 1258 00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:41,440 Who knows when their last day is? 1259 00:55:41,440 --> 00:55:44,360 If you wait for that, you're gonna miss the opportunity. 1260 00:55:44,360 --> 00:55:48,560 And the rabbi said, exactly, that's why you should repent 1261 00:55:48,560 --> 00:55:52,700 today because today might be the last day of your life. 1262 00:55:53,680 --> 00:55:58,240 Nobody knows when it's time for them to punch out. 1263 00:55:58,240 --> 00:55:59,840 Nobody knows. 1264 00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:03,980 The people in Israel a week ago, 1265 00:56:06,140 --> 00:56:07,880 I'm sure they weren't waking up that day and going, 1266 00:56:07,880 --> 00:56:11,320 there's gonna be this invasion from terrorists. 1267 00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:14,840 The people at that festival didn't go to that festival 1268 00:56:14,840 --> 00:56:16,800 and say, well, today this is the day the terrorists 1269 00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:18,480 are gonna show up and murder us. 1270 00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:23,580 If you don't know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, 1271 00:56:23,580 --> 00:56:25,120 you might be going about every day thinking, 1272 00:56:25,120 --> 00:56:27,040 oh, every day's the same and every day's gonna be fine. 1273 00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:29,420 You don't know when your time is coming. 1274 00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:34,620 And today might be your last opportunity 1275 00:56:34,620 --> 00:56:36,660 to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior 1276 00:56:36,660 --> 00:56:41,000 because the time is coming when judgment is gonna fall. 1277 00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:43,760 And if you die on this earth without Jesus, 1278 00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:45,260 that is the time of judgment. 1279 00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:48,120 And the only question there will be, 1280 00:56:48,120 --> 00:56:50,120 did Jesus take what you deserve? 1281 00:56:51,560 --> 00:56:53,920 Or is it time for you to get what you deserve? 1282 00:56:55,240 --> 00:56:56,680 Listen to the Lord. 1283 00:56:56,680 --> 00:56:58,240 Don't keep hardening your heart. 1284 00:56:58,240 --> 00:57:00,140 Don't keep refusing to repent. 1285 00:57:01,320 --> 00:57:03,040 Let go of your sin. 1286 00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:04,320 Submit your life to Jesus. 1287 00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:05,900 Be saved. 1288 00:57:05,900 --> 00:57:07,200 Be saved today. 1289 00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:08,160 Let's pray. 1290 00:57:08,160 --> 00:57:13,160 Father, we believe you, God. 1291 00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:18,200 We believe your word. 1292 00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:20,100 We believe it's true. 1293 00:57:22,700 --> 00:57:24,560 We believe in your holiness. 1294 00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:25,980 We believe in your love. 1295 00:57:27,440 --> 00:57:29,400 We believe in your grace and your mercy. 1296 00:57:31,460 --> 00:57:33,720 We believe that you offer salvation to us 1297 00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:35,240 and forgiveness to us. 1298 00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:38,240 But God, we can't believe that and reject 1299 00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:39,900 that in your justice and holiness, 1300 00:57:39,900 --> 00:57:41,780 you're also gonna judge sin one day. 1301 00:57:45,180 --> 00:57:47,540 So God, because your word teaches us, we believe it. 1302 00:57:49,820 --> 00:57:51,780 And God, I pray, Lord, that your Holy Spirit 1303 00:57:51,780 --> 00:57:54,380 would work in the hearts of your people, God, to believe it. 1304 00:57:55,620 --> 00:57:57,420 To believe it with such passion 1305 00:57:58,420 --> 00:58:00,220 that we would get involved 1306 00:58:02,020 --> 00:58:04,020 in the mission of Jesus Christ. 1307 00:58:04,020 --> 00:58:06,420 In the mission of the church. 1308 00:58:07,620 --> 00:58:09,500 That we are here to be a light on the hill, 1309 00:58:09,500 --> 00:58:10,860 a beacon for the gospel. 1310 00:58:12,500 --> 00:58:14,460 Lord, that we are called to get involved 1311 00:58:14,460 --> 00:58:16,340 in helping people and ministering to people. 1312 00:58:16,340 --> 00:58:20,380 And we're to get involved in making this entity function 1313 00:58:20,380 --> 00:58:22,580 so that this entity called the church 1314 00:58:22,580 --> 00:58:25,220 could go out and accomplish its mission in the world. 1315 00:58:25,220 --> 00:58:30,980 God, I pray your Holy Spirit would move on our hearts. 1316 00:58:34,020 --> 00:58:36,020 To remind us of what we're a part of. 1317 00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:41,200 That we're a part of the most noble and important mission 1318 00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,160 that has ever existed. 1319 00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:45,500 That people would come to know the gospel of Jesus Christ, 1320 00:58:45,500 --> 00:58:46,940 that they would be saved. 1321 00:58:49,900 --> 00:58:51,240 And Lord, if that means getting up 1322 00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:53,800 and volunteering for things, if that means giving, 1323 00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:55,740 if we're not giving, if that means giving more, 1324 00:58:55,740 --> 00:58:58,180 if we are giving, if that means praying more. 1325 00:58:58,180 --> 00:59:00,080 Whatever that means, God, 1326 00:59:00,080 --> 00:59:02,580 that we are called to be a part of this mission. 1327 00:59:02,580 --> 00:59:04,960 And God, the reality that judgment is coming, 1328 00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:06,560 the reality of the devastation 1329 00:59:06,560 --> 00:59:09,660 that's gonna fall upon people, Lord, may that move us. 1330 00:59:11,300 --> 00:59:12,400 May that move us. 1331 00:59:14,160 --> 00:59:16,060 But God, I also wanna take opportunity. 1332 00:59:17,360 --> 00:59:18,940 Lord, if there's anybody in this room 1333 00:59:18,940 --> 00:59:21,640 that you have been speaking to this whole morning, 1334 00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:25,800 anybody watching online that you've been speaking to, God, 1335 00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:27,140 and they don't know you. 1336 00:59:28,740 --> 00:59:29,940 Lord, maybe it's somebody 1337 00:59:29,940 --> 00:59:32,320 that has never made a profession of faith. 1338 00:59:33,780 --> 00:59:35,520 And for whatever reason, you have them here 1339 00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:37,380 to hear this message this morning. 1340 00:59:37,380 --> 00:59:40,820 Or God, maybe it's someone who has claimed to be a Christian. 1341 00:59:43,700 --> 00:59:46,400 Maybe even went forward at an altar call somewhere, Lord, 1342 00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:51,400 but as they look at their life of disobedience, 1343 00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:54,240 you are speaking to them now about the reality 1344 00:59:55,140 --> 00:59:58,340 that they don't know you, that you don't know them, 1345 01:00:00,640 --> 01:00:02,340 that they don't have salvation. 1346 01:00:05,820 --> 01:00:07,920 Lord, those in those positions, God, 1347 01:00:07,920 --> 01:00:09,420 if they're hearing this right now, Lord, 1348 01:00:09,420 --> 01:00:12,820 I pray, God, that your Holy Spirit would knock loudly 1349 01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:16,020 and would knock aggressively on their hearts 1350 01:00:16,020 --> 01:00:17,600 and would knock aggressively on their hearts 1351 01:00:19,360 --> 01:00:22,260 that they would know in this moment that they need you 1352 01:00:24,260 --> 01:00:27,780 because nobody knows if we're gonna live to tomorrow. 1353 01:00:29,700 --> 01:00:31,280 Nobody knows what tomorrow holds, 1354 01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:34,340 but today, right now, God, we know you're speaking. 1355 01:00:34,340 --> 01:00:37,420 And so I pray that's bowed and eyes closed in this room. 1356 01:00:37,420 --> 01:00:40,280 If you're in this room or if you're watching us online 1357 01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:41,420 and God has been speaking to you 1358 01:00:41,420 --> 01:00:42,920 about your need for salvation, 1359 01:00:42,920 --> 01:00:46,360 God has been speaking to you about the life you're living, 1360 01:00:46,360 --> 01:00:48,320 that you're the one that's been living in sin, 1361 01:00:48,320 --> 01:00:50,260 thinking I'm just getting away with it. 1362 01:00:52,260 --> 01:00:53,600 And you've started to believe the lie 1363 01:00:53,600 --> 01:00:55,160 that God's never gonna judge me. 1364 01:00:56,340 --> 01:00:59,400 But God today is telling you judgment is coming. 1365 01:01:01,500 --> 01:01:04,680 But I love you so much that I wanna save you from it. 1366 01:01:05,940 --> 01:01:09,520 If you're hearing that, I call to you right now 1367 01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:12,920 to receive Jesus as your savior. 1368 01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:14,580 And if you wanna do that and you're in this room, 1369 01:01:14,580 --> 01:01:15,720 just where you're seated, 1370 01:01:16,620 --> 01:01:17,860 I'm just gonna ask you to raise your hand 1371 01:01:17,860 --> 01:01:19,320 and say I wanna receive Jesus Christ 1372 01:01:19,320 --> 01:01:21,120 as my Lord and Savior this morning. 1373 01:01:22,560 --> 01:01:24,900 If you're online and God is speaking to you, 1374 01:01:24,900 --> 01:01:28,840 just type it into chat, say I wanna receive Jesus. 1375 01:01:30,300 --> 01:01:31,660 Anybody here, anybody online, 1376 01:01:31,660 --> 01:01:33,140 God is speaking to you in this moment. 1377 01:01:33,140 --> 01:01:36,580 You know you need Him as your Lord and Savior. 1378 01:01:36,580 --> 01:01:38,140 You know you need to be saved. 1379 01:01:38,140 --> 01:01:40,180 Call out to Him, let me pray with you. 1380 01:01:40,180 --> 01:01:42,920 Anybody here, just raise your hand where I could see it. 1381 01:01:44,220 --> 01:01:48,260 All right, if you're online and you know you need Jesus, 1382 01:01:49,320 --> 01:01:50,960 and if you're in this room and for whatever reason, 1383 01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:53,020 you're not raising your hand, 1384 01:01:53,020 --> 01:01:55,300 it's not the hand raising that saves you. 1385 01:01:55,300 --> 01:01:57,600 I'm gonna lead you in a prayer. 1386 01:01:57,600 --> 01:01:59,500 And this prayer is calling out to God, 1387 01:01:59,500 --> 01:02:01,400 confessing your sin, 1388 01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:03,560 inviting Him in to be your Lord and Savior. 1389 01:02:04,940 --> 01:02:06,440 And I believe and the Bible teaches, 1390 01:02:06,440 --> 01:02:08,300 you do this with sincerity in your heart. 1391 01:02:08,300 --> 01:02:09,500 You do this in true faith. 1392 01:02:09,500 --> 01:02:11,280 You are saved, your heart will be changed. 1393 01:02:11,280 --> 01:02:12,940 God will move in your life. 1394 01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:15,640 You won't become a perfect person, 1395 01:02:16,620 --> 01:02:18,380 but you'll become perfectly saved. 1396 01:02:20,680 --> 01:02:22,580 And if you do try to go out and keep sinning, 1397 01:02:22,580 --> 01:02:25,360 it's gonna be miserable, miserable, 1398 01:02:25,360 --> 01:02:26,920 because you cannot continue to do that 1399 01:02:26,920 --> 01:02:29,120 with the Spirit living within you. 1400 01:02:29,120 --> 01:02:30,260 So if you wanna receive Jesus today, 1401 01:02:30,260 --> 01:02:31,600 pray with me, say Lord God, 1402 01:02:31,600 --> 01:02:35,580 I believe in you. 1403 01:02:37,880 --> 01:02:40,280 I believe God, you came to this earth. 1404 01:02:42,420 --> 01:02:44,680 I believe God, you lived on this earth. 1405 01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:49,620 A second person of what's called the Trinity, 1406 01:02:50,820 --> 01:02:54,660 God the Son, Jesus Christ. 1407 01:02:55,760 --> 01:02:56,720 I believe in Him. 1408 01:02:56,720 --> 01:02:59,900 I believe that He lived a perfect life. 1409 01:02:59,900 --> 01:03:04,400 I believe He died on the cross for my sin. 1410 01:03:06,640 --> 01:03:11,640 I believe that if I put my faith in that, 1411 01:03:12,740 --> 01:03:14,680 trust in that atonement, 1412 01:03:16,000 --> 01:03:19,480 that I will be saved, forgiven, 1413 01:03:20,780 --> 01:03:23,380 set free from the power of sin and death. 1414 01:03:23,380 --> 01:03:25,580 I do that now. 1415 01:03:27,580 --> 01:03:29,420 Thank you for loving me that much, God. 1416 01:03:31,120 --> 01:03:32,720 I invite you into my life. 1417 01:03:33,720 --> 01:03:36,800 Jesus, be my Lord, be my Savior, 1418 01:03:38,560 --> 01:03:40,840 be my Master, be my friend. 1419 01:03:42,660 --> 01:03:44,340 Teach me how to live for you. 1420 01:03:46,480 --> 01:03:49,780 Fill me right now with the Holy Spirit 1421 01:03:49,780 --> 01:03:54,780 and Spirit enable me to live in obedience to God. 1422 01:03:57,160 --> 01:03:59,700 Thank you for saving me from the wrath to come. 1423 01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:04,800 Thank you for loving me so very much. 1424 01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:09,100 It's in Jesus' name I pray, amen. 1425 01:04:11,500 --> 01:04:14,140 If you prayed that prayer this morning in the room, 1426 01:04:15,140 --> 01:04:17,740 we have some packets of prayer. 1427 01:04:17,740 --> 01:04:20,680 We have some packets, we have some information 1428 01:04:20,680 --> 01:04:21,520 we wanna give you. 1429 01:04:21,520 --> 01:04:23,380 We call it a new believer's packet. 1430 01:04:23,380 --> 01:04:26,360 But this whole thing that you're doing here 1431 01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:28,360 by inviting Christ into your life, 1432 01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:30,560 you're starting a relationship with your Creator. 1433 01:04:30,560 --> 01:04:32,320 And we wanna help you on that relationship. 1434 01:04:32,320 --> 01:04:34,260 There are certain things you do in any relationship, right? 1435 01:04:34,260 --> 01:04:36,960 You gotta talk to the person, right? 1436 01:04:36,960 --> 01:04:38,640 Marriages where nobody talks to each other, 1437 01:04:38,640 --> 01:04:40,600 they don't do so well, right? 1438 01:04:40,600 --> 01:04:42,440 But if there's communication, it's good, right? 1439 01:04:42,440 --> 01:04:43,880 We want you to talk to God 1440 01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:45,900 and we wanna teach you how to do that. 1441 01:04:45,900 --> 01:04:47,800 We wanna teach you how to worship God and praise Him 1442 01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:50,080 and thank Him for what He's done in your life. 1443 01:04:50,080 --> 01:04:51,840 We wanna equip you with everything you need 1444 01:04:51,840 --> 01:04:54,180 to have that successful relationship with God. 1445 01:04:54,180 --> 01:04:56,820 And so please, if you received Christ this morning, 1446 01:04:56,820 --> 01:04:59,580 come forward, let me give you a new believer's packet 1447 01:04:59,580 --> 01:05:01,060 or go out into the foyer. 1448 01:05:01,060 --> 01:05:03,320 There's some back there, they're in a little white envelope. 1449 01:05:03,320 --> 01:05:06,160 If you're online and you received Jesus Christ this morning, 1450 01:05:06,160 --> 01:05:07,920 let us know in chat. 1451 01:05:07,920 --> 01:05:10,000 Then our moderators will chat you in private 1452 01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:11,000 so we can get your address. 1453 01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:13,500 We would love to mail one to you as well. 1454 01:05:13,500 --> 01:05:16,000 For the rest of us, you know what's going on 1455 01:05:16,000 --> 01:05:19,100 around the world today, it's very compelling 1456 01:05:19,100 --> 01:05:21,300 in regards of what's to come. 1457 01:05:21,300 --> 01:05:23,000 We believe that the end is coming. 1458 01:05:23,000 --> 01:05:24,840 We believe it's coming quickly. 1459 01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:26,380 Many of us have been praying that for years, 1460 01:05:26,380 --> 01:05:28,520 Lord, come quickly. 1461 01:05:29,780 --> 01:05:31,820 One day Jesus is gonna show up. 1462 01:05:31,820 --> 01:05:33,420 He's gonna take us home with Him. 1463 01:05:34,720 --> 01:05:37,980 And it's just gonna be glorious as we enter into that. 1464 01:05:39,760 --> 01:05:41,620 That supper time. 1465 01:05:41,620 --> 01:05:45,020 That celebration with Him as the bride of Christ. 1466 01:05:46,720 --> 01:05:50,420 But until that happens, there's a number that God knows 1467 01:05:50,420 --> 01:05:51,960 of how many people are gonna get saved 1468 01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:53,120 before He takes us out. 1469 01:05:54,560 --> 01:05:56,960 It might be the next person you preach to. 1470 01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:01,440 And if you're not preaching to them, come on, get on it. 1471 01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:02,440 I wanna get outta here. 1472 01:06:03,440 --> 01:06:06,200 It might be the person I'm not sharing with. 1473 01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:07,780 We don't know. 1474 01:06:07,780 --> 01:06:09,440 And the point is, is we're all called to, 1475 01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:12,140 whether it's tracts, whether it's conversation, 1476 01:06:12,140 --> 01:06:13,640 whether it's our evangelism ministry, 1477 01:06:13,640 --> 01:06:16,220 whether it's street witnessing, there's so many ways, 1478 01:06:16,220 --> 01:06:20,280 but share your faith that those who don't know Jesus 1479 01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:21,520 would come to know Him. 1480 01:06:22,960 --> 01:06:25,720 And eventually, God's gonna take us home, amen. 1481 01:06:25,720 --> 01:06:27,360 I cannot wait for that. 1482 01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:28,320 Let's worship Him. 1483 01:06:28,320 --> 01:06:43,340 God bless you guys.