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An Army - A Study on Angels
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Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast
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from St. Augustine, FL.
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Now enjoy this message. All right, Hebrews chapter 13,
Hebrews 13 chapter mention
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verse two. We'll be trying to move through
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pretty quick. Have you enjoyed this study on
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angels? Hallelujah.
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I feel like there's so much more and we're probably just
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scratching the surface, but it's good for us just to scratch the
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surface says do not forget, do not be not forgetful to
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entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained angels
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unaware. I say that again, and I always,
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I'm, I've been opening it up now in the next couple of times that
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we've done these angels, is that just so that we don't get over
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spiritual cause the day's coming and the day is really already
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upon us. Because in the last of the last
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days, which is what we're in now, there's going to be
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seducing spirits and doctrines of demons and people are going
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to be talking about the unseen realm and talking about angels
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and speaking, thank you, Lord, speaking about angels and, and
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carrying on about angels and all those types of things.
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And, you know, going to act like they're more spiritual because
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of that. However, the reality is is that
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everybody's probably seen one. So it really doesn't take a
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whole lot of spirituality to see an Angel because they look like
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humans when you encounter them. Are you hearing me?
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So as a result of that, you know, someone's like, oh, I see
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an Angel, big deal. Say so have I And they say when
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not really sure. You said, well then how can you
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say it? Because the Bible says I've
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probably entertained 1 unaware. Amen.
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Or you can say, well, good. I've I've entertained them as
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well. Are you hearing me?
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OK, The Lord just told me to grab something, so I'm having to
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get to it on my thing. OK, so we are not the worship
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angels as we concluded last week.
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That's not our assignment, nor is it who you should worship.
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They worship God. We worship God and so we are
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only to do that. Amen.
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Today we're going to take a time to really just deal with one
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aspect, though I do want to say one thing at the very end, but I
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really want to focus on this aspect of the angels, and that
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is the armies of God. OK.
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We mentioned this last week that, you know, angels are like
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our Secret Service for us because they provide protection
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for us. But I want to talk to you a
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little bit about their battles, OK?
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Because you need to understand just how strong the army that
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backs us is, OK? How powerful it is.
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Do you understand in the natural, a nation on the planet
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is as powerful as their military force?
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The ones who are considered superpowers are because of the
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weapons they possess. OK, so you might want to know
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what weapons we possess, OK. That way, I don't care where you
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go, you would not be intimidated because if you if we had a
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president that would not be willing to send our natural army
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to rescue us, we have a more. Elite.
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Force, are you hearing me? That has the ability to rescue
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us. Now I do want to say this, I
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understand there are going to be martyrs.
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Are you hearing me? So nowhere am I saying that you
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can eliminate your chance of ever being martyred.
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I'm not going to say that because many are become martyrs.
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OK, not all of us, but many. What I can say though is that if
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you are not finished with your assignment, then deliverance
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will come to you. If you are in lockstep with the
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will of God for your life. That I can emphatically say
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because those that were doing the will of God and if their
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assignment was not done, God would always intervene their
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protection so that they could finish the assignment.
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OK, all right, 'cause Peter died a martyr.
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Paul died a martyr. However, John, they can't kill
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the guy. They have to throw him on an
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island for a while. All right, And we're going to
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read out of Revelations. He's there's a lot of angelic
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activity in Revelations. OK, let's start out in
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Revelation 18 or 1919. It says this.
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And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their
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armies assembled to make war against him who sat on the horse
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and against his what? Against his army.
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Now he who sat on the horse is. Who?
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What's his name? Come on, what's his name?
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He's the commander in chief of the army.
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Now. I heard a senator say this when
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they were visiting Israel just recently.
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They were being interviewed by news channel and they said
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welcome from the eternal capital of Jerusalem.
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And I'm like, that is awesome. The eternal capital of the
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world, Jerusalem. Jerusalem is the eternal capital
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of the world. Amen.
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That is a true statement. So I just want to let you who
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are in branches of service that the eternal branch of service is
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the army. It's not the Navy, it's not the
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Marines, it's not the Air Force, it's not the Coast Guard, It's
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the hoorah. All right, Just being biblical.
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So for all those who did not join the Army, you're going to
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be enlisted. Hallelujah.
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Are you hearing me? OK, so if you actually read this
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chapter 19, you'll see that he's coming back with those clothes
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in white. And you get over in Jude, you
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know, the Saints come. So we're a part of that army.
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I do not know how much conflict that we will actually be in or
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whether we'll just be a spectator of the show, but we
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will be on the battlefield running with him and his Angel
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army. Are you hearing me?
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OK, so let's take some time to look at some of the weapons or
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how they function in the earth on a military scale.
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It's very important 'cause all kingdoms have a military.
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We are in a Kingdom, and when Jesus Christ died and rose from
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the grave, He did not get rid of his military.
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OK, all right, first example we'll see is in First Chronicles
1 Chronicles 21 chapter mention
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chapter 21, verse seven through 16.
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And again, there's many places I could go.
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There are some you'll think of, and the ones that you'll think
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of more commonly is the reason why I left those alone, like
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Elijah in the army around him, you know, with the Chariots of
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fire. I didn't talk about that, OK,
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'cause they didn't show our conflict, didn't show what they
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did. They were just stationed.
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OK, so we we're looking at some other stuff.
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Here's a particular deal. God was displeased with this
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thing, so he struck Israel. Now David has committed a sin,
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OK, he has numbered the people, all right.
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And David says to God, I've sinned greatly in that which
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I've done this thing. But now please take away the
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iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.
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And the Lord spoke to Gad, who was the prophet David Seer
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saying, Go and speak to David, saying.
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Thus says the Lord, Ioffer you three things, choose for
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yourself one of them, which I will do.
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So Gad came to David and said to him.
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Thus says the Lord, take for yourself either three years of
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famine, or three months to be swept away before your foe,
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while the sword of your enemy overtakes you, or else 3 days of
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what? The sword of the Lord, even the
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pestilence in the land, and the Angel of the Lord destroying
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throughout all the territory of Israel.
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Therefore, Now therefore, consider what answer I shall
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return to him, to him who sent me.
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Now you have to understand something.
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I need to preface this conversation because we quote
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John 1010 and we forget about God's justice.
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John 1010 says the thief comes but to steal, kill and but I've
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come to give life and life and we only think that God is giving
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life constantly. God is still a judge, and he
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when he judges, he judges rightly and a wage of sin is God
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is not a murderer. He would never eliminate someone
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in the planet or off the planet unjustly.
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In essence, they have been rightly judged, all evidence is
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against them and God can act. Now, David is one person in
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Israel. And what was interesting when I
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was doing my Bible reading today concerning a particular king,
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Josiah, actually he instituted the Passover.
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He said it hasn't been done since the judges.
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And that hit me for the first time as many times I've read
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through the Bible. I'm like, King David didn't do a
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Passover. I mean, this is a guy after
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God's own heart, but he wasn't so close to the law of Moses
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that he kept the Passover and made his Kingdom do it.
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But King Josiah did said we probably this hasn't been done
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since the Judges. Yeah.
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Very interesting. Anyway, so David's got this
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problem. Verse 13.
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David said again, I'm in great distress, please let me fall
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into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are very great, but
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do not let me fall into the hand of man.
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So again, if judgment's coming, let God put it out.
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I'll go with God. And you know what?
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You should always go with God. I said you should always go with
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God. So the Lord sent a pestilence.
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Who sent it? The Lord did.
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Now this is because of judgment on Israel, 70,000 men of Israel
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fell 70,000 that's pretty quick. And God sent an Angel here you
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go to Jerusalem to destroy it. But as he was about to destroy
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it, the Lord saw and was sorry over the calamity and said to
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the destroying Angel, it is enough now relax your hand.
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And the Angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor.
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Are you seeing this? So then David look in verse 16
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lifted up his eyes saw the Angel of the Lord standing between
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earth and heaven with what with his drawn sword in his hand
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stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders
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covered their covered with sackcloths fell on their faces.
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So this Angel has a sword. If you continue to read this,
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you'll see that the Lord tells him to stop, put his sword in a
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sheath, OK? It's a very terrifying moment
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for David, because if you go on down to verse 29, it says for
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the Tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses had made in the
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wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, because David
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does a sacrifice, he stops everything OK, through a
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sacrifice, but he won't go to the Tabernacle.
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In Gibeon it says verse 30, but David could not go before it to
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inquire of God, for he was what? Terrified by the sword of the
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Angel the Lord. Now David has been in so many
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battles. He has faced sword after sword.
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In fact, one sword he faced, he said there's none like.
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It which was Goliath's. 'Cause he ended up using it at a
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different time, you know, when he was running from Saul and he
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ended up, you know, finding the priest.
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And he said, man, all I got here is Goliath sword.
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He said, man, ain't nothing like it.
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I'll take it, right? But man, when he saw the sword
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of the Angel of the Lord, he was terrified, terrified.
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Notice 1 Angel One Angel came. Destroying 1.
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God doesn't have to dispatch and as we talk about this, I want
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this thought to hit you when Jesus said, Peter, don't you
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know that I could call a legion of angels down right now?
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I want you to. Keep that in context as we see
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the army of the Lord or the angels of God's army.
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The next one will go to 2nd Kings chapter 19 verses 32 to
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35. Therefore, says the Lord
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concerning the king of Assyria, he will not come into this city
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or shoot an error there and he will not come before it with a
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shield or throw up a siege rampart ramp against it.
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By the way, he came the same way.
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He will return and he will not come to this city declares the
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Lord. OK, obviously this king has been
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touting through his, you know, messenger that, you know, no God
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of any other Kingdom has been able to stop me.
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Do you really think your King's, your God's going to stop me?
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You know, and finally, through prayer with King Hezekiah and
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things going on with the prophets, the Lord's like he
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ain't coming, right? So verse 35, verse 34, I guess
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I'm on 33. Sorry, by the way, He came.
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Yeah. Verse 35, four for I will defend
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this city to save it for my own sake, for my servant David's
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sake. And that's a powerful statement,
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man. I mean, the Lord does.
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There's his mercies. Are you hearing me?
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And because Jerusalem will eventually fall because of the
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immorality. However, he goes back to his
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name and then he goes back to David.
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Verse 35 Then it happened that night that the Angel of the Lord
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went out and struck how many? 185,000 in the camp of the
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Assyrians. And when men rose early in the
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morning, behold, all of them were dead.
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Now obviously not all were dead because men rose.
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The question is, who died? Right.
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Well, good news, good news is 'cause when you read the Bible
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completely, you understand 1st and 2nd kings, they deal with
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certain things about the kings, but then you got First and
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Second Chronicles that deal with information about the kings as
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well. So turn to Second Chronicles and
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Second Chronicles chapter 32 and verse 21.
2 Chronicles 32 chapter mention
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It says this same context, same time frame, just a different
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writing. Says then the Lord sent an
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Angel. Who destroyed?
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Who did he destroy? Every mighty warrior, commander
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and officer in the camp of the king of Assyrian.
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So of the 185,000 who died? Everyone that was considered a
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mighty warrior, the best, their best warriors, their commanders
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and their officers. 1 Angel killed them all.
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So he returned to his in shame, to his own land, and when he
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entered his own God's temple, his sons killed him.
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Amen. So again, we have in our Kingdom
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angels that are tasked with assignments to protect and our
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arsenal or how they function because again, you know, you
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what if Iran gets a nuclear bomb?
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Big deal. I understand the implications if
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it goes off, but again, God has got some stuff that is mind
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blowing. And what's crazy is God
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functions, it seems like in primitive 'cause it's like
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swords, right? You know you're thinking don't
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go to battle with me, I'm going to pull out my AR.
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Well, you're not going to stand very well in front of an Angel.
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Because first of all, your AR is not going to penetrate them in
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the 1st place, right? You'll be out of clips and he'll
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got you. Amen.
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And we can go through all kind of Old Testament scriptures of
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how angels got involved, took care of things.
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Angels were involved in the delivering of Egypt and keeping
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them protected in the wilderness.
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In fact, the there was an Angel that would go before them into
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the promised land. And there's things angels were
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doing in preparation. It doesn't tell us what they
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did. He said, I'm going to send an
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Angel to go before you. So then when you go over, you'll
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you'll take care of all the nations.
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Well, what was he doing? Apparently those angels would go
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in much like we get little insight when it comes to
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Daniel's, you know, question that he was asking the Lord and
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the Angel came to give him a message but was detained by the
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principalities that were in the air.
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So apparently the Lord would send angels to go in there and
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starting to conquer or to push back the spirits of those
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nations so that when he came in, they routed them.
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In essence, no weapon formed against us can.
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Can prosper all right so God, you know sends angels in to help
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us fight spiritual battles and you're unaware of this you know
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a lot of times and there's some big error teach well we're going
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to have to go wage war into heavenlies Well you know angels
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are doing that we are to walk in our authority are you hearing me
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now I'm not saying that you're not going to.
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Pull down strongholds, which really that whole thing, pull
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down strongholds. If that's to do with things in
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your mind, you got to pull, take captive strongholds in your
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mind, OK, That's not out there, that's right here, OK, But you
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can take authority in territory because and then we're not
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dealing with demonic, but just because we're here.
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There are places that are oppressed of demonic spirits
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that you, once you learn them or know them, you can bind them,
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you can take authority, but don't think angels aren't
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getting involved in that because you're not going up there and
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fighting because you would get whipped.
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OK, Hallelujah. Acts chapter 12.
Acts 12 chapter mention
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Let's get over into the new covenant because after the
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death, burial, resurrection, Jesus did angels quit
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functioning militarily. Acts chapter 12.
Acts 12 chapter mention
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Acts chapter 12. This is after the day of
Acts 12 chapter mention
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Pentecost. Acts chapter 12 starting in
Acts 12 chapter mention
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verse 21, on an appointed day, Herod, who was king, having put
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on his royal apparel, took his seat and began delivering an
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address to them. The people kept crying out the
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voice of a God and not of a man, and immediately.
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An Angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the
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glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
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New Testament, I said New Testament, the Angel struck him.
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Now, doesn't say what he struck him with, but he obviously gave
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him something that worms ate him up.
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Are you hearing me? Struck him?
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There he is sitting on the seat. Looks fine, but an angel's
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gotten in. So it doesn't matter about his
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army, doesn't matter about his the people there, there protect
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the king, doesn't matter about his color guard, doesn't matter
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about all of those. Because guess what?
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The Angel has come in, struck him and left, and now he's dead.
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Hallelujah. Amen.
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And angels are doing this stuff still today.
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The problem is you just don't know about it.
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Now I'm going to be a little hypothetical, but because the
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Bible, if this was real time, this was today, think of someone
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politically in our government that stood up somewhere to give
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some big speech and then all of a sudden they died of some like
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crazy thing pretty quick. People would just be shocked.
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But could it be? Could it be that all of a sudden
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they were here, now they're gone, then all of a sudden was
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struck with this, They died of this and we just think that's
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part of it. Didn't know they had it.
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But an Angel could have said we're done with you, your
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hinders to the plan of God. I've been commissioned to
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exercise judgment. Are you hearing me?
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So we are never hopeless is what I'm saying.
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I said we're never hopeless. We're never hopeless.
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Our hope is never in man right, right.
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So it doesn't matter who's where.
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We have a responsibility to vote.
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We have a responsibility, you know, to engage in society.
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But at the end of the day, no matter what's going on, our hope
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is in the Lord and we have things at our disposal.
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The reason why most of us don't the the church as a whole is not
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functioning this way is because all they want to do is know
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where they're. Going to go when they die.
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They're never engaged in any of this to understand it because
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they're like us too. I, I could never understand it.
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You have no faith that you can understand.
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God wants you to understand. God wants you to know His
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Kingdom because you may be the one that God is asking to
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declare and decree a thing or to send a ministering spirit on
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behalf of the Kingdom of God. Are you hearing me?
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All right, let's get into Revelation.
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Revelation's got a lot. This would be fun.
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Revelation 7, one and two. And this, this is kind of cool
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'cause we talked about this last week, a little bit about
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turbulence, right? OK.
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Then after this, I saw 4 angels. How many?
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4 standing at the four corners of the Earth.
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I love this. This is where the people, the
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Earth is flat 'cause they use this all the time.
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You know, it's got corners. OK, so funny.
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So funny. OK, there are four directions
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and any given there's a N southeast end.
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OK, so they're at the four corners of the Earth.
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All right. What are they doing?
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Holding back the four winds of the Earth so that no wind would
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blow on the Earth or on the sea or on any tree.
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These four angels have the power to control wind.
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Jet streams, Are you seeing this?
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But not only that, let's go on. And I saw another Angel
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ascending from the rising of the sun.
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So this is a different one, not the four that are taking care of
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the wind, having the seal of the living God.
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And he cried out with a loud voice to those four angels to
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whom it was granted. Now once it granted them to harm
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the earth and the sea. So again, they have within their
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arsenal through wind to do some things.
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Are you hearing me now? Again, we've heard this say a
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lot of times, especially in in the natural when it comes to
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insurance, if you happen to have something happen, well, it's an
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act of God, right? And you're like, is it really
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all an act of God? And why do we say that?
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Because the enemy comes to steal and destroy, and he comes to
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give life and life. Well, first of all, not
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everything's an act of God, because the earth itself is in
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travail. The Bible's very clear about
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that because of the sin being dumped on it.
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Again, you got to go with the Scripture.
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The the Lord himself tells Abram or Abraham, I don't know if he
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was in covenant or not, but Abram or Abraham, wherever he
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was at in the time frame that he says as he shows him the land
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that he's going to give to his ancestors, that he's, you know,
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roaming around. He said, I'm going to give this
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to you. He said.
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But. Not at this point, because the
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sin of the Amorites have not come to its fullness, meaning
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they've not disobeyed and dumped so much in this part of the
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earth that I will evict them for their disobedience.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying? So there's some things that get
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down and says that even the earth cries out for redemption.
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All right, so does the can the enemy engage in some activities
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with weather? Most likely.
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However, we know the Lord can, and in Revelation He gets really
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into dealing with stuff on the planet, things that are going to
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be. Acts of God and the world will
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know God sent it. Are you hearing me?
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So This is why again, I say when I get on a plane, I'm like
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ministers fears go ahead, prepare the way so that I have
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no rough air, right? I have no rough air so that
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we're heading in a direction we can get there with Pi give
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charge over this plane for the sake of the gospel of the
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Kingdom. And I, you know, and everyone on
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the plane now I'm going to take the responsibility to pray
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protection over their lives. Most people get on a plane and
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think it's just and they don't know.
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I'm praying for them, but they're going to find out one
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day. Laura's like, you would have
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died here if this guy wouldn't have been on the plane.
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You'd have died if that woman wouldn't have been on the plane,
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if this person wouldn't have been, wouldn't have been
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praying. Are you hearing me?
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Because you understand some people are in places that all
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kind of stuff is pull. They pull death to them because
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the way you're saying is they pull death.
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It just keeps showing up. If you're around somebody that
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seems like they're always around death.
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You mean to be like bro what's your life like?
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I mean, why are you attracting? It.
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Because you'll pull it. This is why you when you look at
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cities whose policies are against the Kingdom, they will
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attract destruction. Crime would be more.
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Flooding would be more. Hurricanes or tornadoes would be
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more prevalent in those locations.
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OK, let's look at Revelation 16. I just, we just got to read the
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whole chapter because it's just so amazing.
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OK, look at this. Then I heard a loud voice.
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This is now, this is during the tribulation.
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OK, all right, catching away. The church is done.
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This is the wrath of God. This is the wrath of God.
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So again when you see the. Billboards.
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God's not mad at you, He is storing up wrath.
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Now that's happening. And He's storing it up for
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somebody. So somebody is being applied to
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his wrath. Now you can avoid it because
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He's met the condition for you to get out of his wrath.
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Love did that. Love met the condition for you
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to get out of his wrath. Then I heard a loud voice from
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the temple saying to the seven angels, seven of them now go and
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pour out on the earth the seven these bowls, we'll make a
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nuclear bomb look like child's play.
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You want a nuclear bomb to go off instead of a bowl being
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poured out? Are you hearing me?
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I mean seriously, you need to understand these bowls are a
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massive weapon. The seven bowls of the they're
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called the wrath of God. Let's go on verse 2.
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So the first Angel went and poured out his bowl on the
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earth. Now when he does this, look what
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happens. It became a loathsome and
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malignant sore on the people who had the mark of the beast and
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who worship his image. In essence, a virus took over
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everyone with the mark of the beast.
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A plague, right? So when he pours that out, all
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of those individuals are affected by it.
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It doesn't matter where you're at.
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He releases it in the atmosphere and it finds you.
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Number two, first three, The second Angel poured out his bowl
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into the sea, and it became blood like that of dead men,
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man, and every living thing in the sea.
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What died? It reminds me of that movie.
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Oh, Sahara. Anybody see the movie Sahara?
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Sahara, You know, they had that little, you know, leakage that
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was happening because some nuclear waste was going to get.
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In the water supply and then when it supposedly, if they hit
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the ocean, then it's going to be, it's a bowl and they can't
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stop it. All right, the second Angel will
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do that. Then the third Angel poured out
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his bowl into rivers and springs of water and they became blood.
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So he's got a light weapon, but in a different geographical
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water supply. And I heard the Angel of the
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waters saying, look what they said.
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Righteous are you, you are who who are and who were, O Holy
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One, because you judge these things.
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Look at that verse six. For they poured out the blood of
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Saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink.
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They deserve it. We have lived.
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Now please understand me properly.
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We have lived in this thought so long.
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That it's difficult for believers to even get over into
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a place of God in this aspect where if we just don't want
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anyone to get anything, but yet somebody's getting something and
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they'll get it because they deserve it.
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And you starting to feel guilty. How man, they deserve that.
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Well, you know I've but do they deserve it Because again,
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especially when you know how many times someone has had an
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ability, the ability to not be in the position they're in, yet
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they constantly choose to stay there.
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My point is, is that if you see somebody reaping what they
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sowed, I'm not saying you can't stay, Lord have mercy, but at
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the end of the day, it's not ungodly to be in a position of
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they deserved it 'cause God is righteous.
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Now again, we've taken this grace message so far that we act
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like God doesn't judge in the New Testament, but we know
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that's not true. If you actually read Scripture.
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He's done it in his church with Ananias and Sapphira.
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He's obviously done it with King Herod, openly judged at that
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juncture. I mean, he did crazy stuff like,
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you know, through Paul blind and a sorcerer for a time frame.
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That's I mean, that's that doesn't seem like that's mercy,
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but he's getting what he does. He said, man, you keep making
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the way crooked. You're not going to see anymore.
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You're constantly disrupting the path of God.
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You're going to be blind now. And you know what?
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God wanted him to do that and we out like those options are
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negative when what if it caused that person to repent then all
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right, verse seven and I heard the altar say yes, oh Lord God
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the almighty true and righteous are your judgments and let me
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tell you this if you ever take the thought.
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I couldn't do that. You are thinking demonic when
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you read a passage of God judging and you.
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Think I wouldn't do that. That is a demonic thought
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because you're trying to put your thought above God's
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righteous thought. That is a demonic thought.
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The devil is on the path of deception with you.
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That you can do a better than the one who cannot fail.
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And it's amazing cause here, you know, in this life, I've seen it
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so many times of how, you know, it's so easy for people to say
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don't judge me, right? However, so many are the ones
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who say it are just as easy, quick to judge a situation with
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very little information. Absolutely right or with one
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side and never get another side and we'll just entertain and use
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of those individuals because they want it to be what they're
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hearing. So they don't want to ask the
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other side. OK, All right.
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Verse 8, the 4th Angel poured out his bowl.
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Man, these bowls are bad upon the sun.
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You you understand the reach. I mean, this weapon isn't even
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in the earth. He's able to send this to the
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sun and it was given to it to scorch men with fire.
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That means the sun got global warming will be at its fullness
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during the tribulation. Can't stop it.
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And it's not the factories, it's not the gasoline petroleum, and
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it's not, you know, cattle flagellating in a field.
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This here is a weapon that's going to be used.
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All right, let's go on. 1st 9. This is good.
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Men were scorched with fierce heat.
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And look what they did, and they blasphemy the name of God, who
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has the power over these plagues, and they did not repent
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as to give him glory. When we think of the
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tribulation, most Christians only think of one person, the
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Antichrist, which is so silly. Yet the Tribulation is God, some
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of God's most merciful moments. See, what we all don't
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understand or, or the modern Christian don't understand, is
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that the wrath of God is still the mercy of God because none of
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these individuals have have yet been eternally judged.
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They're only being temporarily judged.
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And there's still an opportunity to repent because again, when we
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get to heaven and stand before the Lord, none of us are going
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to go live. Yeah, He ain't all that.
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None's going to be like that. We are going to love to bow,
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submit. We're going to see him in his
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glory. We're going to.
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We're not going to challenge the throne ever.
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None of that stuff, none of that.
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Well, I just don't know that I could do that.
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That will not be a part of our culture at all.
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And God's testing all that down here, man.
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You better weed out all your independence.
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Better weed it all out now because he's coming after it
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'cause he's not going to have any of that.
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I said he's not going to have any of that.
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OK, And here's these guys. They have an opportunity 'cause
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they know it's God, but they won't repent.
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Verse 10. Verse 10, Ma ma ma said.
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Then the 5th Angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the
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beast, and his Kingdom became darkened.
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So here's that big bad. Government that everybody talks
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about is coming. He's going to get give everybody
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the mark of the beast, right. I'm going to read about that
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here in a minute because everybody's like, you know,
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where's the mark of the beast? I'm fixing to show you a couple
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things about that. But here's this, you know,
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terrorizing government of the, of the planet.
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And and the 5th Angel pours out his bowl on the throne of the
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beast, and his Kingdom became darkened.
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And they gnawed their tongues because of the pain.
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Wow, they were in such torture. They gnawed their tongues.
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Can you imagine being in such anguish that you want to chew
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your tongue off? And they what did they do
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though? And they blasphemed the God of
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heaven because of their pains and their sores, and they did
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not repent of their deeds. The 6th Angel poured out his
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bowl on the great river, the river Euphrates.
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Its waters were dried up so that the way would be prepared for
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the kings of the East from the east.
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And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of
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the mouth of the beast, now the mouth of the false prophet. 3
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unclean spirits, like frogs. For they are spirits of demons
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performing signs which go out to the kings of the whole world to
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gather them together for the war of the great day of the God of
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God the Almighty. Behold, I am coming like a
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thief. Blessed is the one who stays
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awake and keeps his clothes so that he will not walk about
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naked, and men will not see his shame, and they will be gather
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them together in a place. And Hebrew is called this.
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Now what's interesting is guess what happened?
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Because God has done all these things for man to repent up to
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these. How many bowls we've done so
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far? 6 bowls because they will
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refuse. Now Satan says I'll deceive more
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and he sends out more of his to continue to strengthen the
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deception to the hardness of the hearts of humanity that is
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clearly seeing that God is doing this so that it convinces them
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when He comes, if He comes, we take Him, 'cause He's coming.
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The King's coming. I said the King's coming back.
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He's coming back with his army. He's going to show up again,
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right? All right.
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Said they gathered them. Notice they dried up the river
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so that they can get there. When He gets there, bring them.
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And that's what the Lord's like. Bring them on, I don't want them
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to be hindered, don't want a bottle body of water to stop
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them from getting to me when I show up.
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The 7th Angel poured out his bowl upon the air.
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This is in the atmosphere. And the loud voice came out of
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the temple from the throne saying it is done.
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And there were flashes of lightning, and sounds of the
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pills of Thunder. And there was a great
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earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be
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upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so
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mighty. The great city was split into
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three parts, and the cities of the nations fell.
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Babylon the Great was remembered before the Lord to give her the
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cup of wine of his fierce wrath. And every island fled away means
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islands are gone and the mountains were not found.
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And here let's look at this. And huge hailstones about 100
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lbs each came down from heaven upon men, and men blasphemy God
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because of the plague of the hell, because its plague was
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extremely severe. Wow, are you hearing me?
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Do you understand the the powerful army that's in our
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Kingdom that serve our king, that obeys his commands?
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Nuclear weapons can be everywhere, you understand.
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Our army can get into every place they're hidden 'cause they
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know where they're at and can disarm them.
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They can do that. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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They can disarm them completely. Nowhere is scripture, although
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there's talks about, you know, fire falling from heaven.
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Some people believe that some nuclear bombs going to go off
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and a situation is going to occur based upon that.
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Cannot tell you that. I can tell you that the Lord
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uses some other things. He sure could bring an asteroid
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down into the planet himself, because God tends to use things
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man doesn't make. So I'm under the impression that
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we're not going to have a nuclear issue on a global scale,
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is what I'm saying. Because God is the one who's
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going to find a life. Listen, man can't control Earth
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in the context of planet Earth because the Earth is the Lord's.
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Sin is there. And he's going to revitalize it
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and he's we going to get a new earth.
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But he sets it. He sets it.
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This is why you should never take fear of the things that are
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being reported because we don't live just in this natural realm.
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We have a Kingdom that is beyond this realm, but in this realm,
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and we have access to angels that can infiltrate this realm
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and are in this realm right now that are working on our behalf.
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Now, I want you to see this because when I read this, I
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thought I'm going to close with this thought.
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This is the Tribulation Commission.
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Now, when I say Commission, what do you typically think of the
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great right? And who has the Great
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Commission? We do.
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We've been given the Great Commission.
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What is the Great Commission? To go into all the world, preach
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the gospel of the Kingdom, OK. Or to preach the gospel.
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But it's the gospel of the Kingdom and to all the world as
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a testimony. Then the end will come, and that
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Great Commission is to heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out
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devils. We drink any deadly poison, it
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won't harm us, right? Freely we receive, freely give
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praise the Lord. We're to make disciples, not
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converts. Are you hearing me?
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OK? Well, there's a tribulation.
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Commit Commission. Because the question is always
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asked when we're when the church is called up.
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Who's preaching? Well, anyone left behind can
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preach that knows. So will man be talking?
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Yes. Will he be preaching?
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He will. But man is not the only one
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preaching in the tribulation. Angels cannot do it.
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In this one, as we've seen, Cornelius had an Angel come to
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him and said send for Peter. The Angel didn't preach the
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gospel. Peter came and preached the
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gospel. Right?
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Are you hearing me? OK, so angels are obviously
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talking to people to contact other people who will come and
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preach the gospel. But in Revelation chapter 14,
Revelation 14 chapter mention
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starting in verse 6, tribulation Commission and I saw another
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Angel flying doesn't say he had wings, just Superman.
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All right, which is really super Angel, just an Angel.
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I saw another Angel flying in mid heaven having what an
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eternal gospel to to what to preach to those who live where
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to live, to those who live on the earth and to every nation
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and tribe and and are you hearing me?
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So during the tribulation, these people don't have a traveling
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problem. So I don't care that you go to a
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one world government. Oh.
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You don't want to hear that. When the whole one world
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government comes and then they control all the currency and
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they control all the movement, the Lord's like, no problem, I
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got some angels. I'm on Commission to go ahead
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and start speaking on my behalf now.
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Oh, you hear me? God's not intimidated, right?
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Which means man is without excuse constantly.
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No human is ever at a disadvantage of knowing about
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Jesus. Ever.
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Any human that dies in their sin chose to and they'll deserve the
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judgment they're getting because love met every condition so they
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would not have to, but yet they still rejected it.
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So next verse then he said with a loud voice, This is what he's
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saying. We're going to get a little bit
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of his preaching. We get we know it's preaching
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already fear God give him glory. So again, you understand, while
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seven seals these things are going, he's talking and he's,
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he's having this conversation before the seven balls.
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He says fear God give him glory because the hour of his judgment
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has come. So you understand when these
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balls are coming out, it's not like they don't know.
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He's already been forewarned, giving you an opportunity to get
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out of this deal, 'cause God. This is why they know this is
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God doing it. His judgment has come.
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Worship him who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and
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the springs of water. This is what he's preaching.
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Let's go on. And another Angel, a second one.
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So we got two preachers followed saying fallen.
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Fallen is great. Babylon the great, she who has
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made all the nations drink of the wine, of the passion of her
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immorality. So he's talking judgement.
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He ain't going like, well, you know what?
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I don't want to talk about this, this city, you know, I want to
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give everybody, I don't want to offend them.
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He tells it like it is. Let's go on verse 9.
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Then another Angel, a third one followed them saying with a loud
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voice. I mean, this is a loud voice,
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people. Everyone on the planet hears
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this. It's like when you go to those
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other countries and somebody's driving in the car, you know,
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and then on the speaker and they're blasting the
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neighborhoods. This happens in the, you know,
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Latin America a lot, right? And they're they're preaching
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the gospel all the way out. I mean, these these angels are
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going to be in the mid heaven doing this.
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And it says saying with a loud voice, look what they say.
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Now if anyone worships the beast and his image and receives a
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mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink of the
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wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the
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cup of his anger. And he will be tormented with
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fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and
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in the presence of the Lamb. So guess who's telling them not
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to take the mark? And Christians are walking
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around. Is that the mark?
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How do I know if I have it? Is the technology here?
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Yes, Yes it is. And in this dispensation, you
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actually have the Holy Ghost in you.
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You, you're not going to be tricked.
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Those who take it know they're taking it, but in the
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tribulation, they're announcing you take it.
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This is what's going to happen. They're warning them.
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Has anyone heard an Angel fly through and say this yet?
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No. So we're not in the tribulation.
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So don't be worried about it, right?
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Because people again, what do they say?
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They say, well, the church, you know, not sure if it's pre Trib,
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mid Trib or post Trib. You know, a lot of people are
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banking on the post tribune. I'm not going to be here when
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angels are in the mid heaven. I'm not going to be here.
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No, we are pre Trib people. I mean it's throughout
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scripture. There is a mid Trib though a bit
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catching away and that's with the two witnesses because they
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leave in front of everybody after they've been in the street
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doing all kinds of miraculous things by the King and then they
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kill them and they're like, see, we can take care of the people.
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We can kill people, leave them out there, let everybody and
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they give them presents out and then on the third day they raise
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up. Now why does that happen?
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It's to let them know this is what Jesus did.
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You understand if anyone was ever doubting whether a person
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could be raised in three day, he sends two witnesses to prove
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that point. That's right.
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Come on, think about that for a moment.
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They're preaching about Jesus. They're preaching about Jesus.
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They're preaching about the wrath.
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They're talking about. They've been hearing all their
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life that a man raised from the dead, 3 days, 3 days, 3 days, 3
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days, the whole world's watching them.
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They hate them. Then when they die, they
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rejoice, give out presents, and then in three days they raise up
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and then they've washed them. Go.
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That's two in the mid Trib. The church goes in the pre.
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All right then, verse 11, the smoke and their torment goes up
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forever and ever, and they'll have no rest day and night.
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And those who worship the beast and his image and who receives
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the mark of his name. Do you see this?
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This is amazing. He's telling them if you take
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the mark, you'll burn forever in the lake of fire.
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Don't do it right? Verse 12 here is the
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perseverance of the Saints who keep the commandments of God and
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their faith in Jesus. And when I heard a voice from
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heaven saying, right, blessed are the dead who die in the Lord
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from now on, yes, say, says the Spirit, So that they may rest
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from their laborers. For their deeds follow with
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them. Their deeds follow with them.
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They're what deeds follow with them.
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Lot of lot of martyring. Takes place in the tribulation
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and they'll be under the throne of God and they'll say when you
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going to vindicate our blood. Well, he uses that blood, so to
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speak, and. Pours it out in in one of his
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wraths with one of his weapons. Wow.
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What you need to hear and understand is that we are in a
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Kingdom that cannot be shaken. And if there's anything we've
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learned so far about angels is that man.
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We have on our side the force that could never be destroyed.
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We are the most powerful nation on planet Earth.
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We are, and it's so powerful that our Kingdom is taking it
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over. Taking it over because it was
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ours first. I hope this don't offend you,
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but I am the indigenous. I am the first man.
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You are the 1st man. You are the 1st man.
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Why? Because we are created in the
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dominion of Adam. It was rightly Adam's first, it
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was God's first. And we go into nations now when
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there's people groups and everybody gets all divided over
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that, when the reality is there's only one people group
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and they are of every tribe, tongue, nation that was destined
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for this planet. The first ones were children of
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God. So when God comes back to
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reclaim what was always his, he will dispossess those that never
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should have been in this planet in the first place.
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It's a global takeover and God would rather do it in peace.
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He would rather do it in peace. In fact, love met the condition
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for a peaceful transfer of power.
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He did. He made a way because he
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stripped the devil of his power and he can judge that anointed
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cherub that has fallen and throw him into the lake of fire and
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every Angel that followed him and they are judged on eternal
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already, but for humans none. Did he have to come in hot as a
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hostile nation? Didn't have to do it.
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That he has sent out all of his ambassadors in the planet today
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to say we have good news. The King's coming and he wants
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you to be a part of his nation and he wants a peaceful transfer
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of power. All you have to do is surrender
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and come and become all that God destined you to be.
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But if you resist, he's taking power nonetheless.
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We are in the season of peace and it would bode humanity well
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to come over now. Can they come during the
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tribulation? Yes.
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Be more difficult for them because of the ones that don't
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come. They will persecute them at a
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greater rate than we are even seeing in our planet today.
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But the Lord will vindicate every St.
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There's not a drop from any St. or prophet that will not be
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rightly judged by the King. Are you hearing me?
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