Pr Henry Wright - A Trap for the Devil

Adventist Radio London, Inspiration for the Sun, A trap for the Devil.

Let's pray speak now, Lord to our hearts in Jesus name. Amen,

We're coming down to the end. Now. You should have heard Pastor Jeff

Taylor this morning. That was a sermon as he took us into Revelation twenty

one and twenty two. I'm going to focus today on Revelation twenty A trap

for the Devil. Ever, remind you now, just backgrounding of it.

The chapters one to twelve of Revelation are the Big three the Big what seven

churches, seven seals, seven trumpets. Let's say at seven churches, seven

seals, seven trumpets. Again, seven churches, seven seals, seven trumpets.

That's the first part of the book of Revelation, the three Big sevens.

Then chapters thirteen to twenty two fill in the details that have been presented

to us in the three Big sevens, because the seven churches symbolize the personal

growth of the Christian, the seven seals the growth of the church, and

the seven trumpets the growth of the world that the Church and the personal Christian

lives in. Then chapter thirteen to twenty two fills in the details of the

great controversy of the great what the great controversy between Christ and Satan that's filled

in. Nothing really new is added in chapters thirteen to twenty, but the

details are given given chapter thirteen. I'm teaching now, I'm in a teaching

mode chapter thirteen. In chapter thirteen, the world is divided between those who

follow Satan and those who follow the Lamb. Simple as that Chapter thirteen splits

them up. Those who follow Satan have the Mark, those who follow Christ

have the Seal fourteen. The worship of God and particular Sabbath will be the

message to the world. The result is going to be and you do you

do realize that in the last days there's going to be a Sabbath revival.

Do you know that? Yep? Before the Lord comes, everybody on the

planet is going to know that the seventh days the Sabbath. I thought,

you'll be more excited about that. And that truth is going to be a

dividing truth. People who have denied the Sabbath for years will finally accept it.

And even in the last days, some of your friends will say,

I now believe your right family members will come in and accept the Sabbath truth.

What do you say out there? There'll be a dividing line, and

those who stand for the Sabbath will come under severe persecution. But I'm not

worried about that because I know what God can do. What do you say?

Then? In chapter fifteen and sixteen, the seven last plagues will permanently

identify the righteous and the unrighteous. Once the plagues fault, you will not

be able to hide who you are. The boils, the blood, and

so forth you. Once the plagues fault, we gonna know who's gonna be

saved, and we're gonna know who's lost. You better be glad. I'm

not one of those old fashioned Adventis preachers. Man. They'd preach them plague.

You'd be scared to get up in the morning and go to work,

popping out on your body. They would paint it, puss coming off your

skin, they would paint it. You would try to get a glass of

water, and your mother saved and she would have clear water. She had

it to you. Your water would turn to blood. He preached that stuff,

cecil. I don't preach like that, but that's the truth. Chapter

seventeen, God's people will discover who is Christ's wife and who is the Devil's

girlfriend. Remember that sermon I've preached to you. In fact, we found

out that some of us are both. We're Christ's wife on Sabbath and the

Devil's girlfriend after sunset. We found that out in that sermat Remember that sermon

m Chapter eighteen. The Harlot, the harlet of chapter seventeen is found to

be the battle of chapter eighteen, and they are powered by the Beast of

Revelation thirteen and controlled by the Dragon of Revelation twelve. And we found out

that there's a religious system or religious what talk to me a religious what as

a religious system working to gain your mind and to gain your affection. Then

chapter nineteen, the invitation is made to meet with Jesus and the call is

commitment to have an eternal relationship with Heaven. Chapter twenty. You know all

my life, I don't know about you. All my life. I'm only

speaking from me. All my life, I've been plagued by the devil.

Now, maybe you're doing fine. No, I'm just I'm just maybe I'm

just talking about me. But ask for me at my house. Come on,

somebody. All my life, I've been plagued by the devil. From

stubborn your toe to get intenser? Can I get a witness? The devil

is always on your tram? Do you know you've never lived a day without

being bothered by the devil? Has it ever occurred to you? Now?

I know that Christians are not supposed to think mean falts, But have you

ever gotten a feeling in you sometime you just want to see him get his

Come on out, don't be pious, come on out. Have you ever

just thought I'd love to see the devil really catch it? Come on,

release yourself, Go on, don't don't be piously, just release yourself.

You know you want him to get it because he's given you a fit,

sickness of sore feet, bad aches, bad boss us, bad friends,

no money, house that needs to be fixed, car that will not start,

and you can see him just laughing. Have you not wanted him to

just get it? I guess I'm by myself. I want this, you

said every day? Yes, this is with me? Got somebody with me?

Just wanna just wanna hut Revelation twenty. Revelation twenty. I'm so glad

that chapters in the Bible, because when I read it, I saved pastor

Chris Cheatham. If I can just hang on, he's gonna get it.

I'm gonna read it. Calm now that I saw an angel, Thank you

Jesus coming down from heaven. Thank you Jesus having the key to what and

what now. Pastor Jeff was eloquent this morning and explaining that revelation is full

of symbols, full of what, and that the truth is greater than the

symbol. So the symbol is an angel coming with change and the devil being

thrown into what a bottomless pit? Look at verse two, Look at verse

two. And he laid, I love these tax and revelations where all of

devil's and all the devil's names are called, and one verse here you go

read it with me. And he laid hold. Come on, y'all,

and he laid hold of the dragon, that old who is the and satan.

Yes, call him out, y'all can sit there. Come all you

want, Call that rascal out. You would the devil. You're a satan,

You're the serpent. You, that's you. I'm sorry for to day.

I'm just gonna let him. I'm gonna let him have it he had

has given me. Okay, I said that already. He afflicted me with

a lung disease at age twenty nine. He took my son from me at

age twenty six. Oh I know, Lord, that had happened. But

we know who the instigator is. You can't spend all these weeks studying job

and not know now who's behind your mess. And that's time for him.

I'm sorry you may get bored by this sermon. I want him to get

his I'm reading my Bible now. And he cast him into the bottle's pit

and shut I love the language, and shut him up, and set a

seal on him. That is the seal locked him, put him in Come

on, I say, and then lock the door. Have you ever seen

those movies where it put somebody in jail and they slammed the door and walk

away. That he should not deceive the nations. Now, see this is

his big weapon. See it's not the sickness, it's not the car they

won't start, it's not the kids that have no sense at all. It's

the deception. He makes a fool out of us. You know, I'm

telling the truth. He should deceive the nations? No more? How long?

How long? Come on, enquire? How long? Years? At

risk one thousand years. Now, now here is where it gets gooder than

good. Look at verse four and I saw what Read it, y'all?

And they said, and they who Who's the day? And Juddin was committed

to them that I saw the soul of those who beheaded for their weddings of

Jesus, Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the

beast and of his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads

or on their hands. And ho, ho, look at the last phrase.

Read it and who's day? Yeah, don't be so shy. Who's

they me? Now you see it? See? So he is locked up

and I'm with Jesus. Somebody already give God a hand. Now think about

it, John Reid, See the Lord is gonna do more than than lock

him up. He's gonna take me up. Now, how is this going

to happen? We gotta read some texts and you're taking notes. First,

That'thalonians for sixteen. First, Thea'ssalonians four sixteen. Remember symbolic, where is

this bottomless pit? And what are the chains? First? That'ssalonians. Whether

I say four sixteen. Let's see how this thing is going to develop four

and verse sixteen for the Lord himself. Let's read it together. Come on,

for the Lord himself. Look how personal this is. See the Lord,

the Lord is gonna get this guy. Look at it. For the

Lord himself. You'll do what that's some very disorganized reading. Let's start again.

Come on, everybody, come on, come on, come again.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout. Now remember notice,

notice notice over in Revelation it says that an angel comes down from heaven.

Okay, for the Lord himself to descend from heaven with a shout.

Read on with the voice of God, archangel, and with the trump of

God and ah. So the first thing, Pastor Mike, is that we

we're trying to figure out how does Satan wind up in jail. When Jesus

comes, He's going to resurrect the dead, the righteous dead. It's called

Molly Abraham, the first Resurrection. Now that's the resurrection you want to be

in. Don't come up late. There's two of them, two resurrections.

You don't want to be late on the resurrection. Come up in that first

one. Is that? All right? Oh? The godly people from Adam,

right down to the last person who dies earn a skull before Christ comes,

the last good persons. They're all coming up, caught up with the

Lord. You see that, all right? Then then something else happens Verse

seventeen. Lord have mercies of the verse seventeen. Read, then y'are pitiful.

Come on, read, then we are a lot and remain. She'll

be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the

air. And thus shall we always be with the Lord. Now look at

that, Look at that. Look at that the dead come up, and

those of us who have lived through the time of trouble, and all that

the devil can toss at us still made it, still alive, still kicking,

still praying, still believing, still trusting. As the dead come up,

the living shall be caught up, and all of us will be with

the Lord. Left the church saying, man, so the righteous are gone.

We ain't here. The Koma Park is gonna be empty of the righteous

dead folks up, righteous living, caught up gone. Well, what else?

What else? Look at second Thessalonians two in verse eight. Oh,

and then the lawless one will be what whom the Lord will with the beath

of his mouth and destroy with the that's in the plural the Greek, the

lawless ones when Christ comes. I want to go through that other part again.

Just makes me feel good. Dead folks who are good called up.

Living folks who are good, caught up. But the dead folks who are

living will be struck deep scratch the wicked folk. The wicked folk who are

living will be struck dead. You see it, Larry. We got three

groups now, the living where are the living? The righteous living? Where

are they? And the righteous dead? Where are they? And they are

all in heaven. But the wicked will be alive when He comes. So

remember Revelation six cecil and he comes, and they say, hide us from

the face of him that says on the throne, Let the rocks fall on

us. At the moment that Christ comes, those not in Christ we're living

shall be struck dead. So the only group left now is the wicked dead,

righteous living caught up, righteous dead raised up, wicked living struck dead.

So what about the wicked who are dead? Revelation twenty. Revelation twenty,

Oh look at verse five. Would you please look at verse five?

That truth might assail your brain and give you joy and hope. Look at

that. But the I need help. But the did not live again until

the sold the wicked dead stay dead. Let's redo it, righteous dead,

What raised up? Righteous living? What caught up wicked living? What struck

dead? Wicked dad? What stay dead? So the earth is empty of

anybody for the devil to tempt. Hey you sit there, Yes, yes,

his favorite playthings are taken from him. Nobody to make mad, nobody

to make lie, nobody to do immorality with, nobody to drink with,

nobody to send with. He's down here, all by himself, trapped.

So the bottomless pit is the earth, and the chains are chains of circumstances

because now, donelle, he can't do anything that he enjoys. And what

he enjoys most is given you and me a fit and for a thousand years,

see he even challenged God as creator. Now the earth is destroyed,

Buildings knocked down, earthquakes meted up, seas have boiled. Nothing is alive,

Everything is torn up. He's got a thousand years to come up with

a blade of grass, and the whole universe will see. He's nothing but

I created being himself. He's never been able to make anything. All things

come from God. He'll be exposed, you see it, Wally exposed in

all the angels. The evil angels who followed him will suddenly realized he ain't

never been nothing. We thought he had power, We thought he was the

prince and power of the air. We now realized he only had power that

God gave him. He's a nobody in the mean, Well, put the

quote up there. Put my quote up there. Yeah, here it is

read here is to be the home of Satan with his evil angels for a

thousand years, limited to who don't know? Read that part again, limited

to read it one more time, limited to earth. He will have no

access to other worlds. Two tempts and annoy those who have never fallen.

It is in this sense that he is bound. There are none remaining upon

the whom he can exercise is power. Now, something special is going to

happen. See, the devil is so prevalent. We can't even worship without

the devil being around. You do know that he attends church. Oh yeah,

it's ten church. He's that person when you get the TPC that strugs

you off, won't speak, that person full of them self and puts on

that stuff they have no business wearing in church at all to catch people's attention.

He didn't say that, did he, Yeah, he sure we did

say it. He's that person who will not forgive or forget. And even

though you've come down, you can re baptized. You put that thing behind

you. Every time he sees you, he brings up again what you did.

Sometimes he gets to the baby right when the pastor's making appeal. The

baby starts crying because he does not want anybody to join the church. We

can't even worship without the devil. But now annemar outly he's locked up down

here. We're all up there and we can have church for the first time

without any devil in the service. Don't get me started down here. Praise

all day long. Praise until we praise until we can't praise no more,

take a breath, and then pray some more. We're gonna clap our hands,

We're gonna eat fruit. There be no devil to give me a stomach.

It locked up down here while I'm enjoying church for the first time with

no devil. You ought to put your hands together and praise God. I

cannot stand it. And then according to Genesis three and verse eight. When

he got me to sin, he blocked off all human beings from face to

face communion with God. Remember that they wouldn't hide, and remember that.

But now, because the devil is locked up, Jeff featured this morning,

we're gonna see the face of Jesus with no fear, no shame, no

guilt, glorified, sanctified forgiving, turned around, new bodies, new minds.

We're gonna look God in the eye and not apologize. In fact,

if you read Exodus thirty three eighteen through twenty three, they were afraid to

be in the presence of God. We're gonna sit on God's lap. Have

him tell us how he brought us through. I want him to explain to

me how a man whose lungs are messed up and I should be carrying oxygen

around? Lord, how did you? How did you keep me preaching?

How did you do that? What a great blessing we shall experience the soul

because of this. I'm finishing up now. Because of this, all through

the Bible, there's this appeal Revelation one in verse three. I'm going quick

now, Revelation one in verse three, blessed is he who reads and those

who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep these words, these things

which you are written in it, for the time is near. The first

appealing revelation is get yourself ready locking up. Time is coming from the devil.

He's about to be trapped up. You don't want to be caught down

here with him. In fact, if you read the rest of Revelation twenty,

when the wicked come up, the devil is going to fool them into

thinking that he raised them up. They're gonna come together in a great army,

and they're gonna try to take the Holy City. Then fire will come

down from God out of heaven. But just before that fire comes down,

the throne of God rises above the walls of the Holy City. And then

on the screen like a giant television, the sins of all the unsaved shall

be broad cast, especially that moment when you finally said no to God for

the last time. Great controversy says, a groan will come up from the

wicked, like from animals when they realized they had salvation in their grass and

traded salvation for sin. So the Bible says, the time is near to

the revelation to come on verse seven, He who has an ear, let

him hear what the spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes to

him and does what, come on, y'all, to him who does what

overcomes? What's he gonna do? Hey, if I can just get myself

together, by God's grace, The appeal as, come on, Henry,

you're gonna eat from the tree of life. God is trying to cantalize us

and make us want to be there. Look at verse eleven, verse chapter

two. He who hasn't here, let him hear what the spirit says to

the churches. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.

Hey, war, I'm not coming up the second time. I'm coming up

the first time. I don't know about you, folk. I've come through

too much. It's been rough, folk, I've come through too much.

I have no intention of being lost none. If you read all the Revelation

twenty Barbara in heaven, we're gonna be the judges, because you see,

it's gonna be your surprise when you get there. Brother, you're gonna try

to figure out how in the world your pastor did not make it so.

The Bible says the judgment shall be given to the righteous, and you'll see.

And then while you're sitting there, you're gonna see that old drunk over

there in a white rule, how did he make it? And you'll see

he accepted Christ. Now, I really don't think I'm gonna spend much time

on them to pages. I'm gonna find my page. I don't have time

to read your story. I'm gonna find the right the page that says Henry

Monroe right. And I want to find out how God god this hard headed

negro into the kingdom. That's all I want to see. You keep your

book. I'm gonna be so happy that God pulled it off. I don't

care why you did not make it or didn't make it. I want to

know how God pulled this miracle off. Come on, somebody, that's gonna

be going on, and the devil's gonna be down here trying to come up

with a blade of grass, trying to wake up a dead bird. Hey,

he will not be able. Was the King of kings and the Lord

of lords. I will be with him, so he that overcomes. All

through the book. All through the book, it's appeal, appeal, appeal,

And then Revelation twenty two seventeen. The Final Appeal Revelation twenty two seventeen.

You see it? Do you see it? Stand up? You're gonna

read it. Stand up. This is God's appeal to you today. The

devil is going to be trapped. He's gonna be locked up, shut down,

and left alone. And so because of that, the Bible says,

read, and the Spirit and the bride say, come and let him who

hears say, come and let him who thirst come, whoever desires, let

him take. Do you see it? Could we read that one more time?

Come on, and the Spirit and the Bride say, come and let

him who hears say, come and let whom thirsts come, whoever desires.

Don't be lost, be saved. Don't be lost, young lady, be

saved. You and that child standing next to you. Don't be lost,

be saved. O'Neill, you and Linda, those boys. Don't be lost.

Man, be saved. Delvit. Carman. You've given your life to

working for this church, your wife by your side. You work for the

church all over the world. Don't be lost, be saved. Larry you,

Nolida, don't be lost, be saved. Nicole, You and John,

those kids don't be lost, be saved. Is that all rightful.

Let's be saved at the same time that Satan is trapped. For the first

time in my life, I want to be free. Free. I've never

in my life been free. I want to be free. Adventist Radio London

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