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The Revelation of Jesus Christ | Bishop M.L. Walls
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He's something else, isn't he? You already knew that.
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But I need to remind you. What an honor, what a blessing,
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what a privilege. Be with y'all, I guess y'all say
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y'all here, don't you? OK, Amen.
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What a beautiful gathering. We've looked forward to this
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ever since the phone call and we're we're honored to be here.
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Thank the Lord for the blessings of the Lord's presence, without
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which we might as well go home. But he's here, so let's stay a
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little while long. Amen.
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I'm especially as well blessed to see Bishop McGee.
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He just inspires me every time I go to the camp meeting or
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something and I look for him and I know he's what what, 7776?
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He acts like he's 21. I get jealous of him, but it's
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such an honesty. Bishop McGee and and all of you.
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McGee hides man, of course, to this sweet couple, your pastor,
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sweet pastor, your man, this pastor.
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I remember that pregnant night. It worked, didn't it?
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Lo, and a hole. She's here, but what a privilege
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to be here. God bless you.
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This has been on my mind for probably before you call even,
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but it's going to be different. I don't know exactly how to
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introduce myself here about what I want to say, but I I gave
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brother, your pastor contacted me, text me one.
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Oh, get together a text and all, the all the passages, all the
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scriptures. And so I gave it and you're
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doing good. We're going to read one verse of
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Scripture, the Book of Revelation, chapter 1.
Revelation 1 chapter mention
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Share with you what's again, what's on my mind at least I
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need, I need to get it off, if you will, and deliver it.
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I fixed my phone here. It's it.
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It told me I asked your pastor how long I need to talk or
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something like that. He gave me a pretty good idea.
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So I've, I've got it said, what is it?
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2 hours? And no, no, no, it's not.
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But anyway, I see that big old clock back there that tell me,
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have you got a bell to ring up there?
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So when I get when I get to a certain certain point, Amen.
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Isn't this all right? Can't you laugh in church, Amen.
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God makes us feel good. Amen.
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But anyway, in Revelation chapter 1, well, look there I
Revelation 1 chapter mention
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got I see a lot of Bibles. Usually you see these things.
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And so the the reason I'm looking is the heading of your
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Bible. What does it say?
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Somebody read that in the heading.
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Do what? At the top of the Bible?
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OK, well, you, you're, you're, you.
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Yours is different. Usually in fact, I spoke this
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one time, Brother Moses and Olad Olad Rowlett and sister Sister
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Moses. But she had a big old vibe about
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bigger than yours. I think I asked the same thing
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and and she read it off and I I said, where'd you get your
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Bible? She said Walmart.
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I said, well, enough said. But even my, my Scofield says
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the revelation of Saint John the divine and that St.
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I think that's what probably the majority of Bibles.
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This is not what God said. This is not what God wrote.
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This is not what John wrote. This is what the publisher put
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in. I don't need the publisher.
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I know who the book's about, and it's not the revelation of John.
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Read first the very first verse, and it tells you who this is all
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about, the revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him
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to show unto His servants things which must shortly come to pass.
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And he sent and signified it by his Angel unto his servant John.
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God, I thank you. It is indeed a blessing upon me.
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And honor, oh Lord, to be in this gathering, the first
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Apostolic Church at Mount Carmel.
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Thank you Lord, for brother and sister McGee, oh Lord, and for
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all the together here this day. May your name receive glory and
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honor and praise and help me, Lord, to deliver your word,
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Jesus in your name, Amen. Amen.
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You may be seated the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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Would you go on a journey with me?
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Because that's what this book, this chat, this book is all
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about revealing him. You know, I know we know we're
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getting close. I know I've heard it preached
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for almost seven, well, 70 plus years now.
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So, but when I look around at what's taking place and I'm not
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just talking about Donald Trump, but what's taking place in our
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world, we're getting close. Things are changing like they
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have never changed before. The the signs are obvious.
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In fact, I could say Revelation 13 verses 16 through 18 that
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talks about the mark. It's right here, it's available.
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But anyway, let's go on a journey.
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Will you bear with me and bear with me in it on a journey of
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Revelation chapter one of the Book of Revelation, God says in
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verse 8 how that he's the alpha and the Omega.
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He's the beginning and the ending.
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He's the 1st. I'm just adding a little bit,
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but at first and the last and then he says I am the Almighty.
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There is but one Almighty and his name is Jesus.
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There's no such thing as a Trinity of persons in the
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Godhead. There's no such thing as one
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person and and three gods in the Godhead.
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I'm, I'm, I'm diverting here. But anyway, it's all in him and
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John, he said. I heard a voice behind me I
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turned to see who it was and he saw Jesus Christ in this
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glorified form. If you took the time to read
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chapter 1, it's awesome just to read here you as he is described
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to John and and then John is told to write some letters,
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write 7 letters to the seven churches of Asia and then tell
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them about and write about what was what is, and what is to come
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because it's going to all wind up.
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It all began in Genesis. It's going to wind up in
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Revelation chapter 22. So let's get ready.
Revelation 22 chapter mention
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If we're not if we are ready, let's stay ready.
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Let's not be influenced by the influence of the influencer of
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this world, but to realize we're on the winning side.
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I'm on the winning side. Amen.
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So John, I don't know, he was banned to the Isle of Patmos on
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the India GMC and, and here he is.
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I don't know what kind of riding material he has.
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I doubt if he had a laptop. No, I know he didn't have an
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laptop. He might have had something on
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his lap, but it wasn't a Mac and it wasn't a whatever.
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But anyway, he began to write to these seven churches.
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That was more than 7 churches in Asia, of course, but these were
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representative churches. I think they represented certain
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ages or periods of time through which which the church has gone
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through since Pentecost. And I think we're on the 7th one
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right now. It's a lukewarm time, that's for
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sure. Hey, man.
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But anyway, he began to ride and he wrote to that first letter,
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which was to the church at Ephesus.
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And God says to Ephesus, John, did you've lost your first love.
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I've got someone against you. You need to go back and start
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all over again. Repent, if you will.
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That's a good message for a lot of gatherings this morning all
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around the world, I guess we'd say.
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He wrote the 2nd letter to Smyrna.
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Smyrna speaks about something when it's squeezed or pressed
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that it gives off a, a good odor if you will.
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And then God said to this church, you're going to have
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tribulation for 10 days, but don't worry about it.
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If you'll endure to the end, if you'll just be faithful to
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death, I'll give you a crowd. I'll give you life.
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You'll have life forever if you will.
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He wrote to the third church, which was Perkamus, and the very
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word Pergamus speaks to us about uniting a wedding, if you will,
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marriage if you will. And I think this applies to
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around the time of the 4th century when all Constantine got
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the leaders together and they put on and they got all their
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heads together and said decided we're going to start a new
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religion around here. Well, they weren't claiming at
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that, but that's what they were. In fact, it says in Pergamus, in
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about Pergamus here. This is where Satan's seat is.
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I don't know where his seat had been, but he found the place in
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Pergamus and he established his headquarters in Pergamus, I
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think. I think false doctrine in the
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false church established her headquarters in Rome.
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But my headquarters is not wrong.
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It's not even Memphis. It's not Medora, and it ain't
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Fort. What is this?
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Mount Carm? Not Fort, but Mount Carmel?
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It's not. It's a good place to be.
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I said Mount Carmel's a good place.
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But this is not the headquarters.
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The headquarters is up Yonder somewhere.
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Hey, man, and then he wrote another letter there in chapter
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2 to a church in in fire Tyra. And you know what you knew who
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was in that church? Jazzy Jezebel had besieged and
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confused all the people and God said, I really got something
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like that church and and then in in in chapter 3 begin to write
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to some the other church, the the 5th church, which was
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Sardis. Sardis says I'm alive.
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God said, no, you you think you're alive, but you're dead,
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you're dead. And and then he gets to that 6th
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church. I like that sixth one.
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It was Philadelphia. Philadelphia means brotherly
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love and God said to Philadelphia, I've opened some
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doors here that no man can close.
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Amen. When God began to move in
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America at the beginning of the 20th century, I think that was
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Philadelphia. When we began to send out
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missionaries or the church did the Lord did and now they're
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we'll talk about that tonight. OK, I'm anxious to get to that.
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But anyway, Philadelphia, and there's a verse there in
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Philadelphia. Maybe get back to that again
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later. But let me just say it right
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now. What I'm thinking about in verse
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11, I think it is, is where he said to those in Philadelphia,
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hold fast that which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.
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I got a crown waiting for me. It belongs to me.
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I've got a I've got a seat reserved around the marriage
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table and I don't intend to stop until I get there.
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Amen. Blessed are they.
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I'm getting ahead of myself. Blessed are they that are called
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to the marriage supper of the Lamb.
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Have you got your invitation? Have you got your invitation?
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If you haven't, you can get it here today.
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Amen. Glory.
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Hallelujah. And then when he got through all
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these, well, let me get that next church that that that last
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one, that church called Laodicea.
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God said, I wish you were hot or I wish you were cold, but
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instead you neither you Luke warm and I'm going to spit you
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out of a mouth. You're just going through the
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formality of being a church. You're not part of the church,
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you're just a religious gathering.
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But anyway, I'm going to spit you out of my mouth.
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But he doesn't close there. He's speaking to the church
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bodily. But it's interesting to notice
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when you get down to verse 20 there in that, in that chapter,
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God is shown, Jesus Christ is shown standing at the door,
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knocking on the door. And he said if any man will hear
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he's, he's, he's given up on that group now in that church.
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He's not saying if the church, he said, if any man will hear my
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voice and open this door, I'll come in and Sup with him and he
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could Sup with me. We'll have fellowship together.
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He's in this building right here today.
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Are you hungry? He can feed you.
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Are you thirsty? He can quench your thirst.
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If you're lost, He can show you the way home.
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Amen. And I like, I like chapter 4.
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Lord help me, can I have more than 40 minutes?
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We we begin chapter 4. This is interesting.
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In chapter 4, John says, after this, after this.
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Now I don't know how y'all believe so I'm going to say what
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I believe and, and, and, and if you don't believe it, that's
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your problem. But anyway, I'm going to I'm
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going to, I'm going to tell you just, you know, here, here,
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here's e-mail walls. But anyway, in chapter 4, John
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says, after this, behold, the door was the door was open where
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in heaven. And I heard a voice that said,
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come up here, John, come up here, John.
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Well, according to e-mail walls, that's John representing us, the
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church. He had just written to seven
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churches and he and he's finished now.
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So he says after this, after the last church age, after the last
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period, then I, I heard a voice, I heard a call come up here,
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John. I think John is representing me.
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I think he's representing the church.
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I think he's representing that time when you and I are maybe
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not going to hear the voice, but we're going to heat.
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We're going to, we're going to feel, we're going to feel as if
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the Lord says come up here, son, daughter, come up here, Church,
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come up here, because that's what's going to happen.
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According to First Thessalonians, chapter 4, verse
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16, We're going to all go up together, gathering together,
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meeting the Lord together. Hallelujah.
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Oh my. And John, he, he, he, he was
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caught up in the spirit. Of course, he didn't literally
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go up. He didn't, he, he didn't get his
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glorified body till he died, but he, he wasn't dead yet.
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He wasn't through right. He got about he got about 18
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more chapters to write or something.
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But anyway, anyway, John witness he saw the Lord on his throne.
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He looked and he said it was a throne set in heaven and it look
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upon it was like Jasper a rainbow about the throne.
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Oh my, I'm looking forward to doing that day or seeing that
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day and anyway, and then he spoke about it. 24 elders
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sitting on 12/24 Thrones going to be going to be no wonder
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Jesus said back there Matthew 1928 when when Peter said in
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verse 27, Lord we've left everything to follow you.
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What are we going to get for it? Peter just shut up your mouth.
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He'll pay you when it's all over with.
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He was kind of anxious. What am I going to get for it
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And Jesus said in verse 28, ye that follow me in the
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regeneration when I sit on my throne, you're going to sit on
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12 Thrones judging the 12 tribes of Israel.
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I got a hurry in, in, in, in verse.
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I know also, it also tells us there in that 4th chapter about
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those creatures, those beasts, those, those angelic beings or
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whatever around the throne. And you know what they're doing?
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They're saying holy, holy, holy. And it's not just one church
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service. We're going to go home after a
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while, go to McDonald's or somewhere or somewhere.
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We're not going to McDonald's, are we?
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OK, but I shouldn't have said that, I guess.
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But, but, but anyway, they were saying holy, holy, holy day and
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night 24/7. And, and those, those, those,
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those churches that are gathering right now in those
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holy and pious places, they're just whispering or they're
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listening to the preacher and, and, and, and they never get
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excited. They don't raise their hands.
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They don't want to say Hallelujah.
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I know good and well they're not going to heaven because they
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would be so out of place there. Because the earth's going to be
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holy, holy, holy when we, when we walk down the street of gold
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to go to look over and see Brother McGee and say, praise
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the Lord, Brother McGee. Well, I like to do that in
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McDonald. Unless you got your PJS on, then
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I'm not going to look at you. But Hallelujah, Oh my, let me
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Lord help me and and like I got to go to chapter 5.
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Chapter 5 is it is is so, so an interesting.
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Everyone of them is interesting. Chapter John sees the Lord the
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eternal 1 setting on his throne. I don't understand all that, but
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this is a, a vision of John. We're not taking things
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literally here. That's what Revelation is.
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It's signs and symbols and symbolisms and whatever.
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But John anyway, he sees the the Lord, the eternal 1 sitting on
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his throne. He's got a book in his hand.
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It's got 7 seals on it and it's vitally important that those
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seals are open because it's the devil has been the God of this
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universe, or not universe, but the God of this world since
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Genesis. And we need help.
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We need to set him. We need to break his bonds, if
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you will, and let heaven be glorified.
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Let the earth be renewed and restored, if you will.
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But you got to break these seals.
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Got to break these seals and, and said we've looked in heaven,
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we can't find anybody. We've looked on the earth, we
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can't find anybody. We've looked under the earth, we
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can't find anybody. And John began to cry.
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He began to cry because he knew the significance and the
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importance of those seals. And, and so somebody, an Angel
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or one of the elders that that tapped him on the shoulder and
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said, John, don't cry. We found somebody.
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He's the lion of the tribe of Judah.
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And, and, and, and John, he wanted to see that lion, and he
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turned around to see that big lion with a big old mane and a
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snarling face. And he didn't see a lion.
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He saw a lamb. It wasn't a line physically that
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destroyed the power and the authority of Satan, if you will.
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It was the lamb slain from the foundations of the world.
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Everything's going to be all right.
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And then we got to go on to Chapter 6 because that's when
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those seals begin to be open. Because the Lamb went to that
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book, that one holding that book.
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He got that book and he says I can open it.
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He's been to Calvary, he's been to Joseph's tomb, and he's not
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there any longer. He's glorified and he promised
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before you went away. I'm coming back.
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Amen. And we're going to go to meet
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him one of these days. But anyway, he begins to open
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those seals in chapter 6 and verse verse one beginning that
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he opened the first seal and there appeared a man on a White
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Horse. He's all dressed in wine.
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He's got a crown they're giving him.
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He's got a bowl in his hand. Oh, that sounds good.
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That looks good. He's he's a man of peace.
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He got to be. He's wearing white.
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He's given a crown, so that's got to be good.
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I know he's got a Bobby Hadn't got any arrows.
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No. It's kind of like, what was it?
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Proverbs? Solomon said, his words as
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smooth as butter. But war is in his heart.
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Yeah, that's him. That's him.
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He comes with promises that he never fulfills.
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He opens a second seal and there comes a horse black, and a man
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riding it black. And he's got some balances in
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his hands that's going to decide whether you can buy some bread
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or not or buy some eggs. They're getting pretty high or
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buy some eggs or not. He's the one that says you got
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to take the name or the number or the mark.
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It's, it's, it's, it's already getting set up, folks.
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And then that third horse came out and he was red.
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That white one has turned red now, because red is representing
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war, bloodshed, death. That's going to be going on one
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of these. I want to be gone by that time.
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I want to be gone by that time. Amen.
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Are y'all going with me? Can I go with y'all, I should
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say? And then that 4th, 4th seal, it
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came with a pale horse and a pale rider, if you will.
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And and then it says death and hell is following him.
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That's the final, if you will. When it's all over, everything's
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going down. That's not of God.
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Everybody whose name is not in the book is going to hell.
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Oh my, did I say it like that? If truth is truth, facts are
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facts. Oh my.
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I don't mean to get too personal here, but that it just it just
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it just anyway, it just just came out.
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But anyway, that's that's chapter 6.
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And and then there was another seal open the field one.
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And and John saw a bunch of souls that were under under the
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altar and they were crying out of vengeance.
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Avenge us. Somebody's killed us.
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So we're under the altar. Lord, would you avenge us of our
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death? And and they are told, just hold
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on until your brethren are killed like you were and become
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mourners, if you will. And you, you, you're going to be
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all right. You're going to be all right.
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Now, I don't know who you think they are, but I don't think
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they're the church. No, I don't think that.
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First of all, the very word altar doesn't apply to the
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church. It's not even in the New
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Testament concerning calling altar calls.
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And I'm not saying let's not have one here this morning.
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Let's have one if we need it. But anyway, my point is it's
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not, it's not Gentile oriented, it's not church oriented, it's
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Jewish oriented. And another thing about those
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prayers, we don't pray those kind of prayers.
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We don't pray those kind of prayers praying God to kill our
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neighbor because they laughed at us yesterday or whatever.
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No, we, the imprecatory prayer they're called they, we read
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about them back in the Old Testament, the Psalms.
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No, we don't. Our master said pray for those
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that despitefully use you love those.
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Oh, you love me if I hurry. But anyway, Chapter 7, Chapter 7
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presents another interesting passage.
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There are angels at the four corners of the earth.
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You didn't know it had corners, did you?
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I didn't either. But anyway, four corners in the
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worst the world this earth is not flat.
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But anyway, they were had hold of the winds.
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They were getting ready to burst forth and and the Lord says
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whoop, hold it fellas. I got to seal some people.
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I got. He doesn't say why, he just says
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I've got to seal some people. And so he begins to seal 12,000
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out of each of the 12 tribes. Now back in numbers, it's due to
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Isaac or Zebra, Reuben, Simeon, Gad, Ephraim, Manasseh,
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Benjamin, Dan after Naftalah. But when you read in Chapter 7,
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Dan's absent, Ephraim's not there, Levi and Joseph replace
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them. I don't know what's happening to
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Ephraim and Dan, and I don't know what's going to happen.
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But God, God spares. He doesn't tell us why.
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Why are you sealing them walls? You don't need to know, but he
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seals them for a purpose. I don't know exactly what do you
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think? We could have 14 reasons right
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here. They got to be for a reason.
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I wonder this is me back Yonder in Matthew chapter 24 and verse
Matthew 24 chapter mention
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14 where the disciples says Lord, when when these days going
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to happen the end of the world and what and verse 14 said
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something to the effect. I'm not quoting verbatim.
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When this, the gospel of the Kingdom is preached to all the
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world, then the incomes, I'm just going to throw this out
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there. You don't have children if you
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want to. But he said the gospel of the
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Kingdom. Who is Kingdom minded?
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I'm church minded. I'm preaching the gospel of
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Jesus Christ. I'm not preaching about a
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Kingdom. I'm preaching about a body, a
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family, a church. The Jews, they're Kingdom
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minded. They're Kingdom people, they
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lost their king. They're looking for their king.
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And that's, I just threw that out there.
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But anyway, let's go on because later in Chapter 7, about the
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halfway point, John said he saw a group of people from all
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countries and nations and people and, and just too many to count.
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They had washed the robes and the blood of the lamb.
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They, they had palms in their hand and, and, and John looked
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at them and, and somebody said, who are these?
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And John says, you know who they are?
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I don't know who are they? And, and he was told these are
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they that came out of great out of tribulation.
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That's who they are. That's who they are.
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So if you think once the church is gone, that's it.
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I know I've heard that preached. And Oh God help me if you think
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once the church is gone, it's over with.
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No, it's not over with. The really, the tough is going
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to get tough, but there's going to be a whole gob of people
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that's innumerable that's going to say no to that beast, no to
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that mark, no to that number. They're not going up in the
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rapture. The rapture's already gone.
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But anyway, oh Lord help me. But anyway, in we're chapter 8.
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Now in chapter 8, John begins to witness the trump.
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Their trumpet judgments begin to sound and judgment becomes upon
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this old world and and and he sees things begin to happen in
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one place. It speaks about how them there's
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fire mixed up with blood that comes down and hits this earth,
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as it were, and kills all the trees.
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Another one, John describes it like a mountain that's hurled
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into the sea and it kills all that's in that sea and on and on
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it goes in one place. It kind of reminds you of
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Chernobyl. It speaks about Wormwood, which
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conducts with Chernobyl. But anyway, all of these things
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begin to. And then when you get to Chapter
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9, John hears him and sees that there is an Angel that comes
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down. He's got a big old key in his
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hand, and he opens up the bottomless pit and out of that
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pit begins to boil darkness, clouds.
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And then crawling out of that smoke or locust look like that
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doesn't make sense. Locust wouldn't even get close
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to smoke. It'll drive them away.
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But these are not ordinary locusts.
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They're locusts. And they got they, they got
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stings like like a, like a scorpion.
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And here's a very interesting thing.
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They are told don't eat the grass.
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Don't sound like locusts to me. Don't eat the grass or the
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trees. And and with those stings you
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got on your tail back there like a scorpion said, what you do,
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you search out those that don't have the, the name, the seal on
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their foreheads. You find anybody that doesn't
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have the seal, who's got the seal back there in Chapter 7.
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It's 144,000 of them. Don't you touch one of them.
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But everybody that doesn't have a seal, you, you sting them real
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good. In fact, it stinks so much that
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the Bible, John says they want to die and can't they search for
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death and it does, it evades them.
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They can't, it just, it just doesn't work.
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Can I go on for a distance? Oh my goodness, Lord, what was
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that? Chapter 9, Chapter 9, There's
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angels or what demons, I guess in, in that Euphrates River.
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And they're given Commission or the opportunity to come out of
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that river. And and then the river is, is
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divided as it were, to make room for the kings of the East, the
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people of the East. And, and out of that come these
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creatures. They, they've got a hair like
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women's hair. They're almost Apostolic, it
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seems Jesus name of them. But anyway, no, they're not.
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Lord, forgive me. But anyway, they, they, they,
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they out of their mouth issues, smoke and brimstone, and 1/3 of
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men are killed. Think about it.
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I don't know what the population of the world is now, 7 or 8
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million, I guess, or billion. What is it million.
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So 1/3 of that. Think about it.
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That's a lot of that's a lot of death.
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That's a lot of death. Amen.
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Let me hurry in in in a get on chapter 10.
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John sees this Angel. He comes down from heaven.
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He's a big creature. He's got 1 foot.
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He puts on the sea, Mediterranean and the other I
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suppose, and he puts his other foot on the lamb.
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He's got a book in his hand and he raises his hand to heaven and
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says, let there be. I know it says let there be time
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no more. But but that's that's just a
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misapplication, if you will, of the heat, the Greek that he's
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saying, let there be, Delay no more.
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Let's get this over with. Let's finish the work.
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Amen. He's getting ready to come back.
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Amen. And then to add to it, he takes
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that little book and gives it to Johnson.
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Eat it, eat it, eat it. And then we get to Chapter 11.
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Oh, that's a good one. Chapter 11, there are two men
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that come walking on the scene. I don't know who they are.
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If you know who they are, tell me later.
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But two men, they're called witnesses. 2 witnesses that God
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has for the purpose of preaching against the beast, the man of
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sin that that ugly thing and his system that makes the man of
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seeing so bad he tries to kill him.
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Isn't that something? But it's kind of like our
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president. They missed him.
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But anyway, I don't think they he got they got even got bloody.
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But anyway, they tried he tried to kill him and he couldn't do
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it. You see, God, you're not going
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to leave till God says it's time.
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That's the way it is. I've spoke.
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I thought I'm supposed to been going 40 years ago, but here I
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am. I'm still here.
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I'm in in. According to Mr. Moses, I think
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it was said your time is 70 years.
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I don't pass that and by chance I done pass that but too.
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But anyway, I'm still here. I'm going to stay around.
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I'm I've been telling myself and others I'm going to be ready
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when the trumpet sounds. I want to leave from the trumpet
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sound. Amen.
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And I don't know of any other place I'd rather leave from
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because my wife's already gone. My daughters are in good hands
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and Medora can survive without me.
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So I just soon leave from not Ford, but Mount.
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Are you all ready to go? Amen.
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Oh my. But anyway, after 3 1/2 years of
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preaching, then it their time was up.
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It all fits in with the three and a halfs and three and a
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halfs and three and a halfs and and, and the Lord allows the,
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the the old beast to to, to kill them.
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Oh my goodness, to, to kill them.
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And then their bodies lay in the street, probably Jerusalem, I
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would suppose, lay in the street for 3 1/2 days that those ugly
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people don't even have the, the, the, the feelings to bury them
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somewhere. But instead they have a party.
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It's like Christmas time around. They're sharing gifts to one
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another. But oh, you better laugh when
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you can. You better exchange gifts when
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you can, because 3 1/2 days later, something's going to
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happen you ain't seen before. Amen.
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And I can only imagine those two fellas lying in that street,
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They hadn't wiggled a finger. They haven't batted an eye.
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And all of a sudden, a finger begins to wiggle, a toe begins
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to twitch a little bit. The eyes pop open and they sit
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up. And the one looks at the other
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one. And I suppose our work is
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finished. What do you say?
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We go home and God calls him up to in, in into heaven.
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Oh, my, what are they? What are they?
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And then in chapter 12, John sees a vision of a woman.
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She's pregnant. She's about to give birth to
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what's called a man child, not just a baby, a man child.
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And there's the old dragon right in front of her ready to catch
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that baby in his big old jaws and and devour her.
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But devil you not going to do it.
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He is delivered. He, you know, I know I I'm this
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is something else. But for some time, many, many
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years ago, I used to preach. I did preach once in a while
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that when Jesus died, that it made the the devils so throw a
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big old party and that the Lord went down to hell and grabbed
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the keys out of the old devil's hand and tore up their party.
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I don't believe that for one second the devil tried his best
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to keep Jesus from Calvary because he knew if he made it to
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Calvary, if he shed those force few drops of blood his, he was
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doomed. He was doomed.
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He didn't have to go. He did go to hell, but he didn't
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have to go there to grab some keys from Satan.
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They already belonged to him when he died for us and he was
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resurrected 3 days later. Right there in the same Book of
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Revelation chapter 1 and verse 18, Jesus appeared to John and
Revelation 1 chapter mention
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said, I am he, I was dead, I'm alive, I have the keys of hell
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and woo Hallelujah. Oh my, I didn't have to say all
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that. But anyway.
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And then it says after that that there was a war in heaven.
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War is still going on. Satan still has access to
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heaven. He's still blaming people like
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Job. He's still saying, let me get to
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that Bishop McGee and I'll make him quit dancing.
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No, you won't. No, you won't.
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Amen. But anyway, he he's still the
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accuser of the brethren, as he's called there in fact.
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But anyway, he he all of these that that take place in that
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period of time of trouble and chaos and confusion in chapter
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13. I got her in chapter 13.
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I know it's revelation is not written chronologically.
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So chapter 13 just seemed like man that's out of place.
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In chapter 13, John looks at the seed.
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He sees a big old EA beast coming up, got 7 heads and and
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10 horns. I think it is an ugly good
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creature and and the people of the world are praising him.
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Oh, he's what we've been waiting for.
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And then a little while later John sees another beast that
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comes out of the earth. He's the false prophet.
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Got to have a religious system associated with the the old, the
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old government, if you will. Amen.
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And that that that when that comes out of the earth, his
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headquarters is in Rome, I think.
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Now that's my opinion at least. But anyway, he comes out and,
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and they begin to glorify him and worship the beast and so on.
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And then you get down to the bottom.
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That 13th chapter, verse 16 is where the, the the man of see
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him the the false prophet. The false prophet creates an
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image to the beast and says worship this image.
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It's in the progress right now, Amen.
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If you don't believe it, just look, take a look, Amen.
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And if you don't, don't worship. If you don't bow down.
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If you don't, you're going to die.
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That's his accusation. Whatever.
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But anyway, all of these things are going to happen one of these
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days. I want to be gone by that time.
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Amen. In verse 14, John sees those
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144,000. I don't know where they've been,
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but he sees them. They're on on on the mount.
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What is it called anyway? They're on the mount with, with
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the Lord and, and they have, they've kept themselves and, and
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worship the Lord and, and there's an Angel that flies even
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through the sky and says to, to not worship this beast, but
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they're proclaiming, he's proclaiming the gospel.
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Amen. So mercy, if you want to read
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about mercy, don't think it stops with chapter 4 revelation.
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It just keeps on for a while because there's some more that's
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going to join that great day, day of judgment.
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Anyway, let me hurry in chapter 15, it's where John sees them
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gathered and there's a, there's a great big seed that it says
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they're standing on a, on a, on a seed.
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That's, that's, that's got fire red blood in it, red in it.
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And we already saw that seed back under in chapter 5 and it
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was clear, clear. But this one has got red in it,
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blood in it, if you will, because it's signifying it's
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through the, it's through the tribulation now.
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And they're standing there and they sing one or two songs or
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both songs. One of them sings the song of
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Moses and the Lamb, the song of Moses, and the other one sings
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the song of the Lamb, both Old and New Testament.
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What a time we're going to have tomorrow, folks.
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What a time in chapter, I'm hurrying in chapter 17 is where
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John was told to come here. John will show you that whore.
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I want to show you show you the the mother of harlots and and he
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goes out and he sees this woman and she's sitting this stride a
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beast, a mini colored beast and and the beautiful thing.
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Maybe it shouldn't be said like that, but I think it the
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beautiful thing about that chapter is it speaks about those
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ten nations that join in allegiance with a man of sin.
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And then it goes on down in that chapter and it speaks of how
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they come against that mother harlot and they kill her.
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They stomp her, if you will, and burn her and defeat.
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Rome is going down. The church is going up.
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Amen. Again, I don't want to be.
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I don't be offensive, don't want to be offensive.
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But anyway, all of this Trinitarian garbage, that's
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where it came from. That's where.
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And I call it garbage because it is garbage.
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It's it's not this, it's not the word of God, but let me, let me,
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let me go. That's chapter 17, Mystery
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Babylon goes down. And then chapter 18, it is
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another Babylon, but this is a, a different Babylon, if you
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will. It's the, it's the, it's a
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headquarters of all Mariners and carpenters and all kind of
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workers, if you will. And it's going to go down.
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In fact, John said an Angel takes like a millstone, throws
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it into the sea, and that's how quick it's going down.
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Everything that's not of Jesus Christ, everything that's not of
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Acts 238, everything that's not about the name and the blood,
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah. It's going down.
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It's going down. Again, I don't mean to be
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judgmental. I'm just stating, stating facts.
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It's going down. And then when I get to chapter
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19 of, of Revelry, I'm getting close to the end.
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When I get to chapter 19 of Revelation, John hears
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something. Oh my, he hears something.
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I got in trouble one time. I guess I could say it that way.
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I preached in in in the Venezuela and I got to preach a
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little bit about chapter 19 here.
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Where there in our in our Bible it's it's Hallelujah.
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They are saying Hallelujah. What is it 5 or 6 times he hears
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this voice in heaven and they're crying out holy, holy
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
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Anyway, Brother Revis was translating, interpreting for me
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and I told these Spanish people that feel that order torment
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that church and said this is the only place in your Bible that
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you'll find Hallelujah. Brother Grievous, he helped me
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out. He knew I was ignorant.
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So he he somehow, he, he sugar coated her, straightened up and
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then after church, he said, Brother Wallace, that's not the
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only place in the Spanish Bible that it says Hallelujah.
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If you looked at the last, I think it's five last five
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chapters of Psalms. It begins with Hallelujah.
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Every every verse or every chapter begins with Hallelujah
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and ends with Hallelujah. And you know that last 150th
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Psalm, praise ye the Lord, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, praise
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him on the temple, praise him on the high sounding.
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But anyway, all of these were saying Hallelujah, Hallelujah.
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And it's that chapter where we have that expression, Blessed
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are you that are called to marry to the marriage supper of the
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lamb. We're going to a wedding, folks.
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We're we're going to meet the bridegroom.
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I'm the part of the bride. I'm getting all dressed up.
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What about you? Amen.
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I want to make sure my garment's clean.
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Want to make sure I've combed my hair.
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But anyway, we're all we're all going to we're all going to the
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bridegroom. We're having a wedding, folks,
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Hallelujah. And to emphasize it there in
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verse 8 of chapter 19, I believe it is it it speaks about the the
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fine linen is the righteousness of what of the Saints.
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All right, we'll go on over because it's during that time
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that the beast and the false prophet are conquered and
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they're thrown alive into the is it chapter?
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Is it verse 10, Chapter 9? Anyway, they're thrown live into
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the lake of fire and then down in verse 11.
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In that chapter 19, it, it shows the Lord coming riding on a
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White Horse. He's got crowns on his head and,
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and behind him is a great host. The armies of heaven are
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following him on white horses. I tried to ride a horse one time
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and in in Haiti and we were going down, if we up on the
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mountain had to go way down in the valley to where there's some
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water to baptize some folks. And so they fixed me up, those
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natives and put me up on a horse.
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You know, I couldn't walk way down there without falling
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probably. So I got on that horse and I
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hadn't made it. I hadn't made it from here to
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there. Probably that that saddle went
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and I went down. So, but I have got some boots
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on. I mean, I'll be able to ride a
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horse, but I'm working on it, you know, but anyway, in in, in
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that when it's when it shows them it about those armies, that
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that army that's following Jesus, it says they're riding
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white horses and they're wearing what, what?
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Oh my goodness, white linen. Where'd they come from?
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Well back count in verse 8, it tells us who they are.
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I'm I'm coming back. Amen.
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Now we've had a marriage supper. So we got to have a honeymoon.
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So we've been up there for seven years and that's, you know,
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seven days. That's the time of a honeymoon
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or whatever marriage feast according to Samuel or first not
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Samuel judges and Sam's son, but any we're coming back.
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I got 37 seconds. We're we're coming back riding
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white horses. What a day that's going to be.
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Chapter 20, See I only got 3 chapters left.
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Chapter 20, John says here come a star.
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Here come all of these that we read about in chapter 6, all of
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this group that we read about in Chapter 7 that had died as
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mortars. John says here they come.
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I hear you shut up. But Oh my gosh, y'all won't have
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me back for two years, five years.
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But anyway, we're all coming back and, and then the the those
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that died during the tribulation are resurrected because we're
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getting ready to enter into a new day, a new day.
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And so here's this this Angel that comes down.
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I don't know if the same one from Chapter 9 or not, but he's
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got a key to that bottomless fit.
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And this has never happened before, but it's going to
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happen. Then it's going to get that
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devil that, that dragon, that serpent, that devil that, what's
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that other term anyway? You going to bind him and put
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him in that bottomless pit. I can only imagine what a pit
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is. It doesn't have a bottom to it.
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Somebody says, well it's the center of the earth that's
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filled with fire. You just go around and around
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and around. You think you're going up and
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down and there's no end to it. I don't know that I haven't been
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there, but but anyway, for 1000 years and then we enter into
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this Millennium, 1000 long years of peace.
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And then after 1000 years, I know that sounds so long because
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none of us has lived that long, of course, but that sounds so
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long. But to the Lord and to that
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great day, what a day, 1000 years.
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We won't be, we won't be hungry, we won't be crying.
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We won't be getting fatter. We, we, we, we won't be like no,
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it's, it's going to be where, where, where the lion and and
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and the lamb the lion eat grass together where the children
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plays on the cockatrice's den, whereas peace all over the
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world, if you will. I'm hurrying.
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I know it doesn't sound like it, but I mean it.
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But anyway, a piece that will cover the earth during that end
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and then during this, after the 1000 years, the devil is loosed,
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he comes out, he goes because the Millennium is going on and
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there's a whole gob of sinners living out here, but they're not
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sinning because they sin there. The one that causes sin and the
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creating creation of or the creating of civil evil acts is
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in that in that bottomless spin. He can't influence them.
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But anyway, when he gets out, his influence goes out.
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He brings together a hold up. It says they're like the sand of
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the seashore for a number. That's a lot of people that have
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been living on a peaceful Earth for 1000 years for a long time.
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And anyway, and then I know it's somebody says it's a battle of
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battle of Gog and Mega. It's not a battle.
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It's not a battle. The devil just thinks it's going
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to be because when he comes against the camp of the Saints,
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fire comes down from heaven, kills Everlast, one of those in
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that army, because that then cleanses the earth of all
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sinners, no sinning, no Sinner left.
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And that devil is taken and thrown into the lake of fire
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where the beasts, the false prophet are.
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And they're going to be there then for eternity, for eternity.
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Oh my God, thank you for your word.
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Chapter 20, let me hurry. Chapter 21 of Revelation, John
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again was told by an Angel or one of the elders said, come
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here, John, I want to show you the bride, the Lamb's wife.
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It's kind of like chapter 5 going to show you the lion.
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He shows him a lamb. I want to show you the bride the
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the the the the brides bridegrooms wife, if you will.
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And he takes him to I don't understand this verse takes him
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to a high mountain. Why does he need a high mountain
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to look on? Because that city is 1500 miles
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high. But anyway, who am I to question
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this? But he shows him that city
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that's made of gold. It doesn't have a sun, the moon,
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the stars in him because the lambs in it and he's the lion.
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Hallelujah, Hallelujah. And, and, and, and, and it's got
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12 gates to it and they're made of Pearl.
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It's got a street of gold. It's got an Angel standing in
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each gate. It doesn't say why, but e-mail
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Wall says they're the welcoming committee.
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And I believe when I get ready to walk through, it's going to
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say, Walls, welcome home. Let me think that what a day,
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what a day, what a day. Stand with me, please.
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I got to hush. Thank you for your patience.
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Chapter 22 No, let me go back to 20.
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I should, I skipped something very important.
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Chapter 20, verse 12, John said, And I mentioned about that army,
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everyone of them were killed. There's no sinners left on the
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ground on the earth. Chapter 12, Chapter 20.
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John said he saw the dead, small and great stand before God.
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There was a grey and white throne and Jesus Christ is the
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judge on that throne. If in hell are delivered up and
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cast into the lake of fire. The last verse, verse 15 of that
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chapter says here's the awesome part.
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Whosoever is not found written in the book of life is cast into
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the lake of fire. You and I don't need to.
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How do I want to say it? We need our lame in that book.
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We've got to have our name in that book, The Revelation of
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Jesus Christ. He is coming.
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He's a preparing a place for us. He already told us that in John
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14 and chapters 2122. Chapter 22 speaks to us about a
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river of life flowing from the throne of God on each side of
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that river of trees. I'm one of those.
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I've got this strange feeling possibly, but I believe the tree
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of life that we read about in Genesis chapter 3, it's that
Genesis 3 chapter mention
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same tree of life. It wasn't erupted by the deluge.
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If God can take a man to heaven, he can take a tree.
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But I believe in chapter 22 of Revelation, that's the tree of
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life sparing 12 manner of fruit for the healing of the nations.
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What a day. And that city, Oh my.
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We could talk about that city a long, long time, but I'm not
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right here today. What a day.
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What a place. It's probably 1500 miles up and
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down in Crossways. How does it exist?
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I don't know. I don't really care.
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I don't need to know. I just need to know that's where
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I'm going. That's the home of the church.
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Hallelujah. No shadows there because he the
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light feels ever. Never crevice every corner.
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Oh God, oh God, the revelation of Jesus Christ is going to
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happen when it's all over with Satan and his cohorts, the
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beast, the false prophet. And I say with sadness on my
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voice, whosoever is not found written in the book of life,
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they're all in that place then called the Lake of Fire.
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You don't believe there's a lake?
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Oh yes. Bible very plainly cusses that
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there is. If you're not ready, let's get
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ready. If you are ready, let's
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determine our mind to stay ready.
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Hallelujah. I think it'd be if I may take
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the liberty. I think it'd be good if we just
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made our way forward here this morning.
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It's still morning. Take time to thank God for His
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mercies, for His blessing, and imagine what it's going to be
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like tomorrow when we hear that trumpet sound and we are called
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up to meet Him in the air. What a day.
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Let's pray, let's worship the King, let's thank him for his
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promises. Hallelujah.