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An Army - A Study on Angels

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  1. Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast

  2. from St. Augustine, FL.

  3. Now enjoy this message. All right, Hebrews chapter 13,

    Hebrews 13 chapter mention

  4. verse two. We'll be trying to move through

  5. pretty quick. Have you enjoyed this study on

  6. angels? Hallelujah.

  7. I feel like there's so much more and we're probably just

  8. scratching the surface, but it's good for us just to scratch the

  9. surface says do not forget, do not be not forgetful to

  10. entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained angels

  11. unaware. I say that again, and I always,

  12. I'm, I've been opening it up now in the next couple of times that

  13. we've done these angels, is that just so that we don't get over

  14. spiritual cause the day's coming and the day is really already

  15. upon us. Because in the last of the last

  16. days, which is what we're in now, there's going to be

  17. seducing spirits and doctrines of demons and people are going

  18. to be talking about the unseen realm and talking about angels

  19. and speaking, thank you, Lord, speaking about angels and, and

  20. carrying on about angels and all those types of things.

  21. And, you know, going to act like they're more spiritual because

  22. of that. However, the reality is is that

  23. everybody's probably seen one. So it really doesn't take a

  24. whole lot of spirituality to see an Angel because they look like

  25. humans when you encounter them. Are you hearing me?

  26. So as a result of that, you know, someone's like, oh, I see

  27. an Angel, big deal. Say so have I And they say when

  28. not really sure. You said, well then how can you

  29. say it? Because the Bible says I've

  30. probably entertained 1 unaware. Amen.

  31. Or you can say, well, good. I've I've entertained them as

  32. well. Are you hearing me?

  33. OK, The Lord just told me to grab something, so I'm having to

  34. get to it on my thing. OK, so we are not the worship

  35. angels as we concluded last week.

  36. That's not our assignment, nor is it who you should worship.

  37. They worship God. We worship God and so we are

  38. only to do that. Amen.

  39. Today we're going to take a time to really just deal with one

  40. aspect, though I do want to say one thing at the very end, but I

  41. really want to focus on this aspect of the angels, and that

  42. is the armies of God. OK.

  43. We mentioned this last week that, you know, angels are like

  44. our Secret Service for us because they provide protection

  45. for us. But I want to talk to you a

  46. little bit about their battles, OK?

  47. Because you need to understand just how strong the army that

  48. backs us is, OK? How powerful it is.

  49. Do you understand in the natural, a nation on the planet

  50. is as powerful as their military force?

  51. The ones who are considered superpowers are because of the

  52. weapons they possess. OK, so you might want to know

  53. what weapons we possess, OK. That way, I don't care where you

  54. go, you would not be intimidated because if you if we had a

  55. president that would not be willing to send our natural army

  56. to rescue us, we have a more. Elite.

  57. Force, are you hearing me? That has the ability to rescue

  58. us. Now I do want to say this, I

  59. understand there are going to be martyrs.

  60. Are you hearing me? So nowhere am I saying that you

  61. can eliminate your chance of ever being martyred.

  62. I'm not going to say that because many are become martyrs.

  63. OK, not all of us, but many. What I can say though is that if

  64. you are not finished with your assignment, then deliverance

  65. will come to you. If you are in lockstep with the

  66. will of God for your life. That I can emphatically say

  67. because those that were doing the will of God and if their

  68. assignment was not done, God would always intervene their

  69. protection so that they could finish the assignment.

  70. OK, all right, 'cause Peter died a martyr.

  71. Paul died a martyr. However, John, they can't kill

  72. the guy. They have to throw him on an

  73. island for a while. All right, And we're going to

  74. read out of Revelations. He's there's a lot of angelic

  75. activity in Revelations. OK, let's start out in

  76. Revelation 18 or 1919. It says this.

  77. And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their

  78. armies assembled to make war against him who sat on the horse

  79. and against his what? Against his army.

  80. Now he who sat on the horse is. Who?

  81. What's his name? Come on, what's his name?

  82. He's the commander in chief of the army.

  83. Now. I heard a senator say this when

  84. they were visiting Israel just recently.

  85. They were being interviewed by news channel and they said

  86. welcome from the eternal capital of Jerusalem.

  87. And I'm like, that is awesome. The eternal capital of the

  88. world, Jerusalem. Jerusalem is the eternal capital

  89. of the world. Amen.

  90. That is a true statement. So I just want to let you who

  91. are in branches of service that the eternal branch of service is

  92. the army. It's not the Navy, it's not the

  93. Marines, it's not the Air Force, it's not the Coast Guard, It's

  94. the hoorah. All right, Just being biblical.

  95. So for all those who did not join the Army, you're going to

  96. be enlisted. Hallelujah.

  97. Are you hearing me? OK, so if you actually read this

  98. chapter 19, you'll see that he's coming back with those clothes

  99. in white. And you get over in Jude, you

  100. know, the Saints come. So we're a part of that army.

  101. I do not know how much conflict that we will actually be in or

  102. whether we'll just be a spectator of the show, but we

  103. will be on the battlefield running with him and his Angel

  104. army. Are you hearing me?

  105. OK, so let's take some time to look at some of the weapons or

  106. how they function in the earth on a military scale.

  107. It's very important 'cause all kingdoms have a military.

  108. We are in a Kingdom, and when Jesus Christ died and rose from

  109. the grave, He did not get rid of his military.

  110. OK, all right, first example we'll see is in First Chronicles

    1 Chronicles 21 chapter mention

  111. chapter 21, verse seven through 16.

  112. And again, there's many places I could go.

  113. There are some you'll think of, and the ones that you'll think

  114. of more commonly is the reason why I left those alone, like

  115. Elijah in the army around him, you know, with the Chariots of

  116. fire. I didn't talk about that, OK,

  117. 'cause they didn't show our conflict, didn't show what they

  118. did. They were just stationed.

  119. OK, so we we're looking at some other stuff.

  120. Here's a particular deal. God was displeased with this

  121. thing, so he struck Israel. Now David has committed a sin,

  122. OK, he has numbered the people, all right.

  123. And David says to God, I've sinned greatly in that which

  124. I've done this thing. But now please take away the

  125. iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.

  126. And the Lord spoke to Gad, who was the prophet David Seer

  127. saying, Go and speak to David, saying.

  128. Thus says the Lord, Ioffer you three things, choose for

  129. yourself one of them, which I will do.

  130. So Gad came to David and said to him.

  131. Thus says the Lord, take for yourself either three years of

  132. famine, or three months to be swept away before your foe,

  133. while the sword of your enemy overtakes you, or else 3 days of

  134. what? The sword of the Lord, even the

  135. pestilence in the land, and the Angel of the Lord destroying

  136. throughout all the territory of Israel.

  137. Therefore, Now therefore, consider what answer I shall

  138. return to him, to him who sent me.

  139. Now you have to understand something.

  140. I need to preface this conversation because we quote

  141. John 1010 and we forget about God's justice.

  142. John 1010 says the thief comes but to steal, kill and but I've

  143. come to give life and life and we only think that God is giving

  144. life constantly. God is still a judge, and he

  145. when he judges, he judges rightly and a wage of sin is God

  146. is not a murderer. He would never eliminate someone

  147. in the planet or off the planet unjustly.

  148. In essence, they have been rightly judged, all evidence is

  149. against them and God can act. Now, David is one person in

  150. Israel. And what was interesting when I

  151. was doing my Bible reading today concerning a particular king,

  152. Josiah, actually he instituted the Passover.

  153. He said it hasn't been done since the judges.

  154. And that hit me for the first time as many times I've read

  155. through the Bible. I'm like, King David didn't do a

  156. Passover. I mean, this is a guy after

  157. God's own heart, but he wasn't so close to the law of Moses

  158. that he kept the Passover and made his Kingdom do it.

  159. But King Josiah did said we probably this hasn't been done

  160. since the Judges. Yeah.

  161. Very interesting. Anyway, so David's got this

  162. problem. Verse 13.

  163. David said again, I'm in great distress, please let me fall

  164. into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are very great, but

  165. do not let me fall into the hand of man.

  166. So again, if judgment's coming, let God put it out.

  167. I'll go with God. And you know what?

  168. You should always go with God. I said you should always go with

  169. God. So the Lord sent a pestilence.

  170. Who sent it? The Lord did.

  171. Now this is because of judgment on Israel, 70,000 men of Israel

  172. fell 70,000 that's pretty quick. And God sent an Angel here you

  173. go to Jerusalem to destroy it. But as he was about to destroy

  174. it, the Lord saw and was sorry over the calamity and said to

  175. the destroying Angel, it is enough now relax your hand.

  176. And the Angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor.

  177. Are you seeing this? So then David look in verse 16

  178. lifted up his eyes saw the Angel of the Lord standing between

  179. earth and heaven with what with his drawn sword in his hand

  180. stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders

  181. covered their covered with sackcloths fell on their faces.

  182. So this Angel has a sword. If you continue to read this,

  183. you'll see that the Lord tells him to stop, put his sword in a

  184. sheath, OK? It's a very terrifying moment

  185. for David, because if you go on down to verse 29, it says for

  186. the Tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses had made in the

  187. wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, because David

  188. does a sacrifice, he stops everything OK, through a

  189. sacrifice, but he won't go to the Tabernacle.

  190. In Gibeon it says verse 30, but David could not go before it to

  191. inquire of God, for he was what? Terrified by the sword of the

  192. Angel the Lord. Now David has been in so many

  193. battles. He has faced sword after sword.

  194. In fact, one sword he faced, he said there's none like.

  195. It which was Goliath's. 'Cause he ended up using it at a

  196. different time, you know, when he was running from Saul and he

  197. ended up, you know, finding the priest.

  198. And he said, man, all I got here is Goliath sword.

  199. He said, man, ain't nothing like it.

  200. I'll take it, right? But man, when he saw the sword

  201. of the Angel of the Lord, he was terrified, terrified.

  202. Notice 1 Angel One Angel came. Destroying 1.

  203. God doesn't have to dispatch and as we talk about this, I want

  204. this thought to hit you when Jesus said, Peter, don't you

  205. know that I could call a legion of angels down right now?

  206. I want you to. Keep that in context as we see

  207. the army of the Lord or the angels of God's army.

  208. The next one will go to 2nd Kings chapter 19 verses 32 to

  209. 35. Therefore, says the Lord

  210. concerning the king of Assyria, he will not come into this city

  211. or shoot an error there and he will not come before it with a

  212. shield or throw up a siege rampart ramp against it.

  213. By the way, he came the same way.

  214. He will return and he will not come to this city declares the

  215. Lord. OK, obviously this king has been

  216. touting through his, you know, messenger that, you know, no God

  217. of any other Kingdom has been able to stop me.

  218. Do you really think your King's, your God's going to stop me?

  219. You know, and finally, through prayer with King Hezekiah and

  220. things going on with the prophets, the Lord's like he

  221. ain't coming, right? So verse 35, verse 34, I guess

  222. I'm on 33. Sorry, by the way, He came.

  223. Yeah. Verse 35, four for I will defend

  224. this city to save it for my own sake, for my servant David's

  225. sake. And that's a powerful statement,

  226. man. I mean, the Lord does.

  227. There's his mercies. Are you hearing me?

  228. And because Jerusalem will eventually fall because of the

  229. immorality. However, he goes back to his

  230. name and then he goes back to David.

  231. Verse 35 Then it happened that night that the Angel of the Lord

  232. went out and struck how many? 185,000 in the camp of the

  233. Assyrians. And when men rose early in the

  234. morning, behold, all of them were dead.

  235. Now obviously not all were dead because men rose.

  236. The question is, who died? Right.

  237. Well, good news, good news is 'cause when you read the Bible

  238. completely, you understand 1st and 2nd kings, they deal with

  239. certain things about the kings, but then you got First and

  240. Second Chronicles that deal with information about the kings as

  241. well. So turn to Second Chronicles and

  242. Second Chronicles chapter 32 and verse 21.

    2 Chronicles 32 chapter mention

  243. It says this same context, same time frame, just a different

  244. writing. Says then the Lord sent an

  245. Angel. Who destroyed?

  246. Who did he destroy? Every mighty warrior, commander

  247. and officer in the camp of the king of Assyrian.

  248. So of the 185,000 who died? Everyone that was considered a

  249. mighty warrior, the best, their best warriors, their commanders

  250. and their officers. 1 Angel killed them all.

  251. So he returned to his in shame, to his own land, and when he

  252. entered his own God's temple, his sons killed him.

  253. Amen. So again, we have in our Kingdom

  254. angels that are tasked with assignments to protect and our

  255. arsenal or how they function because again, you know, you

  256. what if Iran gets a nuclear bomb?

  257. Big deal. I understand the implications if

  258. it goes off, but again, God has got some stuff that is mind

  259. blowing. And what's crazy is God

  260. functions, it seems like in primitive 'cause it's like

  261. swords, right? You know you're thinking don't

  262. go to battle with me, I'm going to pull out my AR.

  263. Well, you're not going to stand very well in front of an Angel.

  264. Because first of all, your AR is not going to penetrate them in

  265. the 1st place, right? You'll be out of clips and he'll

  266. got you. Amen.

  267. And we can go through all kind of Old Testament scriptures of

  268. how angels got involved, took care of things.

  269. Angels were involved in the delivering of Egypt and keeping

  270. them protected in the wilderness.

  271. In fact, the there was an Angel that would go before them into

  272. the promised land. And there's things angels were

  273. doing in preparation. It doesn't tell us what they

  274. did. He said, I'm going to send an

  275. Angel to go before you. So then when you go over, you'll

  276. you'll take care of all the nations.

  277. Well, what was he doing? Apparently those angels would go

  278. in much like we get little insight when it comes to

  279. Daniel's, you know, question that he was asking the Lord and

  280. the Angel came to give him a message but was detained by the

  281. principalities that were in the air.

  282. So apparently the Lord would send angels to go in there and

  283. starting to conquer or to push back the spirits of those

  284. nations so that when he came in, they routed them.

  285. In essence, no weapon formed against us can.

  286. Can prosper all right so God, you know sends angels in to help

  287. us fight spiritual battles and you're unaware of this you know

  288. a lot of times and there's some big error teach well we're going

  289. to have to go wage war into heavenlies Well you know angels

  290. are doing that we are to walk in our authority are you hearing me

  291. now I'm not saying that you're not going to.

  292. Pull down strongholds, which really that whole thing, pull

  293. down strongholds. If that's to do with things in

  294. your mind, you got to pull, take captive strongholds in your

  295. mind, OK, That's not out there, that's right here, OK, But you

  296. can take authority in territory because and then we're not

  297. dealing with demonic, but just because we're here.

  298. There are places that are oppressed of demonic spirits

  299. that you, once you learn them or know them, you can bind them,

  300. you can take authority, but don't think angels aren't

  301. getting involved in that because you're not going up there and

  302. fighting because you would get whipped.

  303. OK, Hallelujah. Acts chapter 12.

    Acts 12 chapter mention

  304. Let's get over into the new covenant because after the

  305. death, burial, resurrection, Jesus did angels quit

  306. functioning militarily. Acts chapter 12.

    Acts 12 chapter mention

  307. Acts chapter 12. This is after the day of

    Acts 12 chapter mention

  308. Pentecost. Acts chapter 12 starting in

    Acts 12 chapter mention

  309. verse 21, on an appointed day, Herod, who was king, having put

  310. on his royal apparel, took his seat and began delivering an

  311. address to them. The people kept crying out the

  312. voice of a God and not of a man, and immediately.

  313. An Angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the

  314. glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.

  315. New Testament, I said New Testament, the Angel struck him.

  316. Now, doesn't say what he struck him with, but he obviously gave

  317. him something that worms ate him up.

  318. Are you hearing me? Struck him?

  319. There he is sitting on the seat. Looks fine, but an angel's

  320. gotten in. So it doesn't matter about his

  321. army, doesn't matter about his the people there, there protect

  322. the king, doesn't matter about his color guard, doesn't matter

  323. about all of those. Because guess what?

  324. The Angel has come in, struck him and left, and now he's dead.

  325. Hallelujah. Amen.

  326. And angels are doing this stuff still today.

  327. The problem is you just don't know about it.

  328. Now I'm going to be a little hypothetical, but because the

  329. Bible, if this was real time, this was today, think of someone

  330. politically in our government that stood up somewhere to give

  331. some big speech and then all of a sudden they died of some like

  332. crazy thing pretty quick. People would just be shocked.

  333. But could it be? Could it be that all of a sudden

  334. they were here, now they're gone, then all of a sudden was

  335. struck with this, They died of this and we just think that's

  336. part of it. Didn't know they had it.

  337. But an Angel could have said we're done with you, your

  338. hinders to the plan of God. I've been commissioned to

  339. exercise judgment. Are you hearing me?

  340. So we are never hopeless is what I'm saying.

  341. I said we're never hopeless. We're never hopeless.

  342. Our hope is never in man right, right.

  343. So it doesn't matter who's where.

  344. We have a responsibility to vote.

  345. We have a responsibility, you know, to engage in society.

  346. But at the end of the day, no matter what's going on, our hope

  347. is in the Lord and we have things at our disposal.

  348. The reason why most of us don't the the church as a whole is not

  349. functioning this way is because all they want to do is know

  350. where they're. Going to go when they die.

  351. They're never engaged in any of this to understand it because

  352. they're like us too. I, I could never understand it.

  353. You have no faith that you can understand.

  354. God wants you to understand. God wants you to know His

  355. Kingdom because you may be the one that God is asking to

  356. declare and decree a thing or to send a ministering spirit on

  357. behalf of the Kingdom of God. Are you hearing me?

  358. All right, let's get into Revelation.

  359. Revelation's got a lot. This would be fun.

  360. Revelation 7, one and two. And this, this is kind of cool

  361. 'cause we talked about this last week, a little bit about

  362. turbulence, right? OK.

  363. Then after this, I saw 4 angels. How many?

  364. 4 standing at the four corners of the Earth.

  365. I love this. This is where the people, the

  366. Earth is flat 'cause they use this all the time.

  367. You know, it's got corners. OK, so funny.

  368. So funny. OK, there are four directions

  369. and any given there's a N southeast end.

  370. OK, so they're at the four corners of the Earth.

  371. All right. What are they doing?

  372. Holding back the four winds of the Earth so that no wind would

  373. blow on the Earth or on the sea or on any tree.

  374. These four angels have the power to control wind.

  375. Jet streams, Are you seeing this?

  376. But not only that, let's go on. And I saw another Angel

  377. ascending from the rising of the sun.

  378. So this is a different one, not the four that are taking care of

  379. the wind, having the seal of the living God.

  380. And he cried out with a loud voice to those four angels to

  381. whom it was granted. Now once it granted them to harm

  382. the earth and the sea. So again, they have within their

  383. arsenal through wind to do some things.

  384. Are you hearing me now? Again, we've heard this say a

  385. lot of times, especially in in the natural when it comes to

  386. insurance, if you happen to have something happen, well, it's an

  387. act of God, right? And you're like, is it really

  388. all an act of God? And why do we say that?

  389. Because the enemy comes to steal and destroy, and he comes to

  390. give life and life. Well, first of all, not

  391. everything's an act of God, because the earth itself is in

  392. travail. The Bible's very clear about

  393. that because of the sin being dumped on it.

  394. Again, you got to go with the Scripture.

  395. The the Lord himself tells Abram or Abraham, I don't know if he

  396. was in covenant or not, but Abram or Abraham, wherever he

  397. was at in the time frame that he says as he shows him the land

  398. that he's going to give to his ancestors, that he's, you know,

  399. roaming around. He said, I'm going to give this

  400. to you. He said.

  401. But. Not at this point, because the

  402. sin of the Amorites have not come to its fullness, meaning

  403. they've not disobeyed and dumped so much in this part of the

  404. earth that I will evict them for their disobedience.

  405. Are you hearing what I'm saying? So there's some things that get

  406. down and says that even the earth cries out for redemption.

  407. All right, so does the can the enemy engage in some activities

  408. with weather? Most likely.

  409. However, we know the Lord can, and in Revelation He gets really

  410. into dealing with stuff on the planet, things that are going to

  411. be. Acts of God and the world will

  412. know God sent it. Are you hearing me?

  413. So This is why again, I say when I get on a plane, I'm like

  414. ministers fears go ahead, prepare the way so that I have

  415. no rough air, right? I have no rough air so that

  416. we're heading in a direction we can get there with Pi give

  417. charge over this plane for the sake of the gospel of the

  418. Kingdom. And I, you know, and everyone on

  419. the plane now I'm going to take the responsibility to pray

  420. protection over their lives. Most people get on a plane and

  421. think it's just and they don't know.

  422. I'm praying for them, but they're going to find out one

  423. day. Laura's like, you would have

  424. died here if this guy wouldn't have been on the plane.

  425. You'd have died if that woman wouldn't have been on the plane,

  426. if this person wouldn't have been, wouldn't have been

  427. praying. Are you hearing me?

  428. Because you understand some people are in places that all

  429. kind of stuff is pull. They pull death to them because

  430. the way you're saying is they pull death.

  431. It just keeps showing up. If you're around somebody that

  432. seems like they're always around death.

  433. You mean to be like bro what's your life like?

  434. I mean, why are you attracting? It.

  435. Because you'll pull it. This is why you when you look at

  436. cities whose policies are against the Kingdom, they will

  437. attract destruction. Crime would be more.

  438. Flooding would be more. Hurricanes or tornadoes would be

  439. more prevalent in those locations.

  440. OK, let's look at Revelation 16. I just, we just got to read the

  441. whole chapter because it's just so amazing.

  442. OK, look at this. Then I heard a loud voice.

  443. This is now, this is during the tribulation.

  444. OK, all right, catching away. The church is done.

  445. This is the wrath of God. This is the wrath of God.

  446. So again when you see the. Billboards.

  447. God's not mad at you, He is storing up wrath.

  448. Now that's happening. And He's storing it up for

  449. somebody. So somebody is being applied to

  450. his wrath. Now you can avoid it because

  451. He's met the condition for you to get out of his wrath.

  452. Love did that. Love met the condition for you

  453. to get out of his wrath. Then I heard a loud voice from

  454. the temple saying to the seven angels, seven of them now go and

  455. pour out on the earth the seven these bowls, we'll make a

  456. nuclear bomb look like child's play.

  457. You want a nuclear bomb to go off instead of a bowl being

  458. poured out? Are you hearing me?

  459. I mean seriously, you need to understand these bowls are a

  460. massive weapon. The seven bowls of the they're

  461. called the wrath of God. Let's go on verse 2.

  462. So the first Angel went and poured out his bowl on the

  463. earth. Now when he does this, look what

  464. happens. It became a loathsome and

  465. malignant sore on the people who had the mark of the beast and

  466. who worship his image. In essence, a virus took over

  467. everyone with the mark of the beast.

  468. A plague, right? So when he pours that out, all

  469. of those individuals are affected by it.

  470. It doesn't matter where you're at.

  471. He releases it in the atmosphere and it finds you.

  472. Number two, first three, The second Angel poured out his bowl

  473. into the sea, and it became blood like that of dead men,

  474. man, and every living thing in the sea.

  475. What died? It reminds me of that movie.

  476. Oh, Sahara. Anybody see the movie Sahara?

  477. Sahara, You know, they had that little, you know, leakage that

  478. was happening because some nuclear waste was going to get.

  479. In the water supply and then when it supposedly, if they hit

  480. the ocean, then it's going to be, it's a bowl and they can't

  481. stop it. All right, the second Angel will

  482. do that. Then the third Angel poured out

  483. his bowl into rivers and springs of water and they became blood.

  484. So he's got a light weapon, but in a different geographical

  485. water supply. And I heard the Angel of the

  486. waters saying, look what they said.

  487. Righteous are you, you are who who are and who were, O Holy

  488. One, because you judge these things.

  489. Look at that verse six. For they poured out the blood of

  490. Saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink.

  491. They deserve it. We have lived.

  492. Now please understand me properly.

  493. We have lived in this thought so long.

  494. That it's difficult for believers to even get over into

  495. a place of God in this aspect where if we just don't want

  496. anyone to get anything, but yet somebody's getting something and

  497. they'll get it because they deserve it.

  498. And you starting to feel guilty. How man, they deserve that.

  499. Well, you know I've but do they deserve it Because again,

  500. especially when you know how many times someone has had an

  501. ability, the ability to not be in the position they're in, yet

  502. they constantly choose to stay there.

  503. My point is, is that if you see somebody reaping what they

  504. sowed, I'm not saying you can't stay, Lord have mercy, but at

  505. the end of the day, it's not ungodly to be in a position of

  506. they deserved it 'cause God is righteous.

  507. Now again, we've taken this grace message so far that we act

  508. like God doesn't judge in the New Testament, but we know

  509. that's not true. If you actually read Scripture.

  510. He's done it in his church with Ananias and Sapphira.

  511. He's obviously done it with King Herod, openly judged at that

  512. juncture. I mean, he did crazy stuff like,

  513. you know, through Paul blind and a sorcerer for a time frame.

  514. That's I mean, that's that doesn't seem like that's mercy,

  515. but he's getting what he does. He said, man, you keep making

  516. the way crooked. You're not going to see anymore.

  517. You're constantly disrupting the path of God.

  518. You're going to be blind now. And you know what?

  519. God wanted him to do that and we out like those options are

  520. negative when what if it caused that person to repent then all

  521. right, verse seven and I heard the altar say yes, oh Lord God

  522. the almighty true and righteous are your judgments and let me

  523. tell you this if you ever take the thought.

  524. I couldn't do that. You are thinking demonic when

  525. you read a passage of God judging and you.

  526. Think I wouldn't do that. That is a demonic thought

  527. because you're trying to put your thought above God's

  528. righteous thought. That is a demonic thought.

  529. The devil is on the path of deception with you.

  530. That you can do a better than the one who cannot fail.

  531. And it's amazing cause here, you know, in this life, I've seen it

  532. so many times of how, you know, it's so easy for people to say

  533. don't judge me, right? However, so many are the ones

  534. who say it are just as easy, quick to judge a situation with

  535. very little information. Absolutely right or with one

  536. side and never get another side and we'll just entertain and use

  537. of those individuals because they want it to be what they're

  538. hearing. So they don't want to ask the

  539. other side. OK, All right.

  540. Verse 8, the 4th Angel poured out his bowl.

  541. Man, these bowls are bad upon the sun.

  542. You you understand the reach. I mean, this weapon isn't even

  543. in the earth. He's able to send this to the

  544. sun and it was given to it to scorch men with fire.

  545. That means the sun got global warming will be at its fullness

  546. during the tribulation. Can't stop it.

  547. And it's not the factories, it's not the gasoline petroleum, and

  548. it's not, you know, cattle flagellating in a field.

  549. This here is a weapon that's going to be used.

  550. All right, let's go on. 1st 9. This is good.

  551. Men were scorched with fierce heat.

  552. And look what they did, and they blasphemy the name of God, who

  553. has the power over these plagues, and they did not repent

  554. as to give him glory. When we think of the

  555. tribulation, most Christians only think of one person, the

  556. Antichrist, which is so silly. Yet the Tribulation is God, some

  557. of God's most merciful moments. See, what we all don't

  558. understand or, or the modern Christian don't understand, is

  559. that the wrath of God is still the mercy of God because none of

  560. these individuals have have yet been eternally judged.

  561. They're only being temporarily judged.

  562. And there's still an opportunity to repent because again, when we

  563. get to heaven and stand before the Lord, none of us are going

  564. to go live. Yeah, He ain't all that.

  565. None's going to be like that. We are going to love to bow,

  566. submit. We're going to see him in his

  567. glory. We're going to.

  568. We're not going to challenge the throne ever.

  569. None of that stuff, none of that.

  570. Well, I just don't know that I could do that.

  571. That will not be a part of our culture at all.

  572. And God's testing all that down here, man.

  573. You better weed out all your independence.

  574. Better weed it all out now because he's coming after it

  575. 'cause he's not going to have any of that.

  576. I said he's not going to have any of that.

  577. OK, And here's these guys. They have an opportunity 'cause

  578. they know it's God, but they won't repent.

  579. Verse 10. Verse 10, Ma ma ma said.

  580. Then the 5th Angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the

  581. beast, and his Kingdom became darkened.

  582. So here's that big bad. Government that everybody talks

  583. about is coming. He's going to get give everybody

  584. the mark of the beast, right. I'm going to read about that

  585. here in a minute because everybody's like, you know,

  586. where's the mark of the beast? I'm fixing to show you a couple

  587. things about that. But here's this, you know,

  588. terrorizing government of the, of the planet.

  589. And and the 5th Angel pours out his bowl on the throne of the

  590. beast, and his Kingdom became darkened.

  591. And they gnawed their tongues because of the pain.

  592. Wow, they were in such torture. They gnawed their tongues.

  593. Can you imagine being in such anguish that you want to chew

  594. your tongue off? And they what did they do

  595. though? And they blasphemed the God of

  596. heaven because of their pains and their sores, and they did

  597. not repent of their deeds. The 6th Angel poured out his

  598. bowl on the great river, the river Euphrates.

  599. Its waters were dried up so that the way would be prepared for

  600. the kings of the East from the east.

  601. And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of

  602. the mouth of the beast, now the mouth of the false prophet. 3

  603. unclean spirits, like frogs. For they are spirits of demons

  604. performing signs which go out to the kings of the whole world to

  605. gather them together for the war of the great day of the God of

  606. God the Almighty. Behold, I am coming like a

  607. thief. Blessed is the one who stays

  608. awake and keeps his clothes so that he will not walk about

  609. naked, and men will not see his shame, and they will be gather

  610. them together in a place. And Hebrew is called this.

  611. Now what's interesting is guess what happened?

  612. Because God has done all these things for man to repent up to

  613. these. How many bowls we've done so

  614. far? 6 bowls because they will

  615. refuse. Now Satan says I'll deceive more

  616. and he sends out more of his to continue to strengthen the

  617. deception to the hardness of the hearts of humanity that is

  618. clearly seeing that God is doing this so that it convinces them

  619. when He comes, if He comes, we take Him, 'cause He's coming.

  620. The King's coming. I said the King's coming back.

  621. He's coming back with his army. He's going to show up again,

  622. right? All right.

  623. Said they gathered them. Notice they dried up the river

  624. so that they can get there. When He gets there, bring them.

  625. And that's what the Lord's like. Bring them on, I don't want them

  626. to be hindered, don't want a bottle body of water to stop

  627. them from getting to me when I show up.

  628. The 7th Angel poured out his bowl upon the air.

  629. This is in the atmosphere. And the loud voice came out of

  630. the temple from the throne saying it is done.

  631. And there were flashes of lightning, and sounds of the

  632. pills of Thunder. And there was a great

  633. earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be

  634. upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so

  635. mighty. The great city was split into

  636. three parts, and the cities of the nations fell.

  637. Babylon the Great was remembered before the Lord to give her the

  638. cup of wine of his fierce wrath. And every island fled away means

  639. islands are gone and the mountains were not found.

  640. And here let's look at this. And huge hailstones about 100

  641. lbs each came down from heaven upon men, and men blasphemy God

  642. because of the plague of the hell, because its plague was

  643. extremely severe. Wow, are you hearing me?

  644. Do you understand the the powerful army that's in our

  645. Kingdom that serve our king, that obeys his commands?

  646. Nuclear weapons can be everywhere, you understand.

  647. Our army can get into every place they're hidden 'cause they

  648. know where they're at and can disarm them.

  649. They can do that. Are you hearing what I'm saying?

  650. They can disarm them completely. Nowhere is scripture, although

  651. there's talks about, you know, fire falling from heaven.

  652. Some people believe that some nuclear bombs going to go off

  653. and a situation is going to occur based upon that.

  654. Cannot tell you that. I can tell you that the Lord

  655. uses some other things. He sure could bring an asteroid

  656. down into the planet himself, because God tends to use things

  657. man doesn't make. So I'm under the impression that

  658. we're not going to have a nuclear issue on a global scale,

  659. is what I'm saying. Because God is the one who's

  660. going to find a life. Listen, man can't control Earth

  661. in the context of planet Earth because the Earth is the Lord's.

  662. Sin is there. And he's going to revitalize it

  663. and he's we going to get a new earth.

  664. But he sets it. He sets it.

  665. This is why you should never take fear of the things that are

  666. being reported because we don't live just in this natural realm.

  667. We have a Kingdom that is beyond this realm, but in this realm,

  668. and we have access to angels that can infiltrate this realm

  669. and are in this realm right now that are working on our behalf.

  670. Now, I want you to see this because when I read this, I

  671. thought I'm going to close with this thought.

  672. This is the Tribulation Commission.

  673. Now, when I say Commission, what do you typically think of the

  674. great right? And who has the Great

  675. Commission? We do.

  676. We've been given the Great Commission.

  677. What is the Great Commission? To go into all the world, preach

  678. the gospel of the Kingdom, OK. Or to preach the gospel.

  679. But it's the gospel of the Kingdom and to all the world as

  680. a testimony. Then the end will come, and that

  681. Great Commission is to heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out

  682. devils. We drink any deadly poison, it

  683. won't harm us, right? Freely we receive, freely give

  684. praise the Lord. We're to make disciples, not

  685. converts. Are you hearing me?

  686. OK? Well, there's a tribulation.

  687. Commit Commission. Because the question is always

  688. asked when we're when the church is called up.

  689. Who's preaching? Well, anyone left behind can

  690. preach that knows. So will man be talking?

  691. Yes. Will he be preaching?

  692. He will. But man is not the only one

  693. preaching in the tribulation. Angels cannot do it.

  694. In this one, as we've seen, Cornelius had an Angel come to

  695. him and said send for Peter. The Angel didn't preach the

  696. gospel. Peter came and preached the

  697. gospel. Right?

  698. Are you hearing me? OK, so angels are obviously

  699. talking to people to contact other people who will come and

  700. preach the gospel. But in Revelation chapter 14,

    Revelation 14 chapter mention

  701. starting in verse 6, tribulation Commission and I saw another

  702. Angel flying doesn't say he had wings, just Superman.

  703. All right, which is really super Angel, just an Angel.

  704. I saw another Angel flying in mid heaven having what an

  705. eternal gospel to to what to preach to those who live where

  706. to live, to those who live on the earth and to every nation

  707. and tribe and and are you hearing me?

  708. So during the tribulation, these people don't have a traveling

  709. problem. So I don't care that you go to a

  710. one world government. Oh.

  711. You don't want to hear that. When the whole one world

  712. government comes and then they control all the currency and

  713. they control all the movement, the Lord's like, no problem, I

  714. got some angels. I'm on Commission to go ahead

  715. and start speaking on my behalf now.

  716. Oh, you hear me? God's not intimidated, right?

  717. Which means man is without excuse constantly.

  718. No human is ever at a disadvantage of knowing about

  719. Jesus. Ever.

  720. Any human that dies in their sin chose to and they'll deserve the

  721. judgment they're getting because love met every condition so they

  722. would not have to, but yet they still rejected it.

  723. So next verse then he said with a loud voice, This is what he's

  724. saying. We're going to get a little bit

  725. of his preaching. We get we know it's preaching

  726. already fear God give him glory. So again, you understand, while

  727. seven seals these things are going, he's talking and he's,

  728. he's having this conversation before the seven balls.

  729. He says fear God give him glory because the hour of his judgment

  730. has come. So you understand when these

  731. balls are coming out, it's not like they don't know.

  732. He's already been forewarned, giving you an opportunity to get

  733. out of this deal, 'cause God. This is why they know this is

  734. God doing it. His judgment has come.

  735. Worship him who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and

  736. the springs of water. This is what he's preaching.

  737. Let's go on. And another Angel, a second one.

  738. So we got two preachers followed saying fallen.

  739. Fallen is great. Babylon the great, she who has

  740. made all the nations drink of the wine, of the passion of her

  741. immorality. So he's talking judgement.

  742. He ain't going like, well, you know what?

  743. I don't want to talk about this, this city, you know, I want to

  744. give everybody, I don't want to offend them.

  745. He tells it like it is. Let's go on verse 9.

  746. Then another Angel, a third one followed them saying with a loud

  747. voice. I mean, this is a loud voice,

  748. people. Everyone on the planet hears

  749. this. It's like when you go to those

  750. other countries and somebody's driving in the car, you know,

  751. and then on the speaker and they're blasting the

  752. neighborhoods. This happens in the, you know,

  753. Latin America a lot, right? And they're they're preaching

  754. the gospel all the way out. I mean, these these angels are

  755. going to be in the mid heaven doing this.

  756. And it says saying with a loud voice, look what they say.

  757. Now if anyone worships the beast and his image and receives a

  758. mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink of the

  759. wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the

  760. cup of his anger. And he will be tormented with

  761. fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and

  762. in the presence of the Lamb. So guess who's telling them not

  763. to take the mark? And Christians are walking

  764. around. Is that the mark?

  765. How do I know if I have it? Is the technology here?

  766. Yes, Yes it is. And in this dispensation, you

  767. actually have the Holy Ghost in you.

  768. You, you're not going to be tricked.

  769. Those who take it know they're taking it, but in the

  770. tribulation, they're announcing you take it.

  771. This is what's going to happen. They're warning them.

  772. Has anyone heard an Angel fly through and say this yet?

  773. No. So we're not in the tribulation.

  774. So don't be worried about it, right?

  775. Because people again, what do they say?

  776. They say, well, the church, you know, not sure if it's pre Trib,

  777. mid Trib or post Trib. You know, a lot of people are

  778. banking on the post tribune. I'm not going to be here when

  779. angels are in the mid heaven. I'm not going to be here.

  780. No, we are pre Trib people. I mean it's throughout

  781. scripture. There is a mid Trib though a bit

  782. catching away and that's with the two witnesses because they

  783. leave in front of everybody after they've been in the street

  784. doing all kinds of miraculous things by the King and then they

  785. kill them and they're like, see, we can take care of the people.

  786. We can kill people, leave them out there, let everybody and

  787. they give them presents out and then on the third day they raise

  788. up. Now why does that happen?

  789. It's to let them know this is what Jesus did.

  790. You understand if anyone was ever doubting whether a person

  791. could be raised in three day, he sends two witnesses to prove

  792. that point. That's right.

  793. Come on, think about that for a moment.

  794. They're preaching about Jesus. They're preaching about Jesus.

  795. They're preaching about the wrath.

  796. They're talking about. They've been hearing all their

  797. life that a man raised from the dead, 3 days, 3 days, 3 days, 3

  798. days, the whole world's watching them.

  799. They hate them. Then when they die, they

  800. rejoice, give out presents, and then in three days they raise up

  801. and then they've washed them. Go.

  802. That's two in the mid Trib. The church goes in the pre.

  803. All right then, verse 11, the smoke and their torment goes up

  804. forever and ever, and they'll have no rest day and night.

  805. And those who worship the beast and his image and who receives

  806. the mark of his name. Do you see this?

  807. This is amazing. He's telling them if you take

  808. the mark, you'll burn forever in the lake of fire.

  809. Don't do it right? Verse 12 here is the

  810. perseverance of the Saints who keep the commandments of God and

  811. their faith in Jesus. And when I heard a voice from

  812. heaven saying, right, blessed are the dead who die in the Lord

  813. from now on, yes, say, says the Spirit, So that they may rest

  814. from their laborers. For their deeds follow with

  815. them. Their deeds follow with them.

  816. They're what deeds follow with them.

  817. Lot of lot of martyring. Takes place in the tribulation

  818. and they'll be under the throne of God and they'll say when you

  819. going to vindicate our blood. Well, he uses that blood, so to

  820. speak, and. Pours it out in in one of his

  821. wraths with one of his weapons. Wow.

  822. What you need to hear and understand is that we are in a

  823. Kingdom that cannot be shaken. And if there's anything we've

  824. learned so far about angels is that man.

  825. We have on our side the force that could never be destroyed.

  826. We are the most powerful nation on planet Earth.

  827. We are, and it's so powerful that our Kingdom is taking it

  828. over. Taking it over because it was

  829. ours first. I hope this don't offend you,

  830. but I am the indigenous. I am the first man.

  831. You are the 1st man. You are the 1st man.

  832. Why? Because we are created in the

  833. dominion of Adam. It was rightly Adam's first, it

  834. was God's first. And we go into nations now when

  835. there's people groups and everybody gets all divided over

  836. that, when the reality is there's only one people group

  837. and they are of every tribe, tongue, nation that was destined

  838. for this planet. The first ones were children of

  839. God. So when God comes back to

  840. reclaim what was always his, he will dispossess those that never

  841. should have been in this planet in the first place.

  842. It's a global takeover and God would rather do it in peace.

  843. He would rather do it in peace. In fact, love met the condition

  844. for a peaceful transfer of power.

  845. He did. He made a way because he

  846. stripped the devil of his power and he can judge that anointed

  847. cherub that has fallen and throw him into the lake of fire and

  848. every Angel that followed him and they are judged on eternal

  849. already, but for humans none. Did he have to come in hot as a

  850. hostile nation? Didn't have to do it.

  851. That he has sent out all of his ambassadors in the planet today

  852. to say we have good news. The King's coming and he wants

  853. you to be a part of his nation and he wants a peaceful transfer

  854. of power. All you have to do is surrender

  855. and come and become all that God destined you to be.

  856. But if you resist, he's taking power nonetheless.

  857. We are in the season of peace and it would bode humanity well

  858. to come over now. Can they come during the

  859. tribulation? Yes.

  860. Be more difficult for them because of the ones that don't

  861. come. They will persecute them at a

  862. greater rate than we are even seeing in our planet today.

  863. But the Lord will vindicate every St.

  864. There's not a drop from any St. or prophet that will not be

  865. rightly judged by the King. Are you hearing me?

  866. Hallelujah. Thank you so much for listening

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