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This is Living Waters of Grace, 
the teaching ministry of Clark 

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Waffer, senior pastor of Calvary
Chapel of Westmoreland, County 

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of Greensburg, PA. 
Now here's Pastor Clark as he 

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continues teaching through God's
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Come across someone I'm working 
with, a neighbor, a relative, a 

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friend, a hairdresser, a gas 
station, wherever we go, every 

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day that we're so busy, we run 
in and we run out and maybe we 

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say a quick prayer, maybe we 
give them a word of testimony, 

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but life is crazy. 
But if we can just slow down for

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a couple minutes and think about
the people that are still stuck 

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in these patterns, and that's 
the majority of human race, 

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think about what it might do if 
they believe in what's going to 

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happen in their lives to be 
protected from this kind of 

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thing that we studied about in 
Revelation today. 

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Many of us don't think that way.
We think mostly of ourselves and

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how our day is going to go. 
Pastor Clark's challenge a 

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moment ago is a good one for us.
As you go about your day today, 

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begin to ask God for an 
opportunity to share the love of

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Jesus with the people you 
encounter. 

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This is the heart of God and so 
you can be assured that he will 

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answer that prayer. 
He will provide opportunities 

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for you to share his love with 
the people you bump into in your

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day-to-day life. 
Now here's Pastor Clark in the 

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Book of Revelation Chapter 9 
with today's edition of Living 

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When we skip into Revelation 

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now, we start reading about 
what's happening in Chapter 9. 

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Sometimes you might be here or 
you might be in a church, and 

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you're saying, man, this God 
sounds so terrible and so angry 

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and so impatient, so unloving. 
Why would anybody want to know 

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him? 
Let's catch up in time. 

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This is around the corner, I 
believe, but there's been 2000 

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years of God's patience before 
these things begin to be poured 

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out in the human race. 
That's a God of incredible love 

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and patience. 
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patience with people. 
Soon as someone cuts us off in 

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traffic, we're shaking at them, 
you know, and shaking our fists 

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and using sign language 
sometimes that we shouldn't be 

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using. 
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unmerciful. 
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gracious, right? 
Someone does something to us to,

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to embetter us right away. 
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wall up and don't want to have 
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people the rest of our life 
because of some miniscule thing 

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they've done to us. 
And here we are like these 

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people in Romans, all the things
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human heart was like, I know 
exists in me and exists in you 

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because we're human beings. 
And so now we we catch up with 

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these judgments in Revelation 
Chapter 9, and I'm just going to

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read this chapter and then we'll
catch up in 13 where we left off

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last week. 
First one, then the 5th Angel 

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sounded. 
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judgments coming now. 
The seven seal judgments have 

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already transpired. 
We're into the trumpet judgments

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now. 
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bowls of wrath. 
The judgments are getting 

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increasingly more intense and 
more violent in the sense of 

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trying to get the human race to 
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There's still time even in the 
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people who are left here on 
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God is still working these 
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finally look up and say, I give 
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I know I need you, Lord. 
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from heaven, and the earth to 
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bottomless pit. 
And he opened the bottomless pit

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and smoke rose out of the pit 
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furnace. 
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somewhere all the demons that 
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from the throne and the Kingdom 
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holding pattern. 
They're locked up until this day

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of judgment. 
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and raise literal hell in the 
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And so this person who is given 
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keep in mind that God has the 
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It isn't that the devil's 
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tomorrow. 
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and forth. 
God is sovereign. 

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He's already accomplished his 
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When Christ said it is finished,
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The Bible says in Colossians 
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deactivated in the sense of what
Christ did at the cross, but the

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enemy still has capabilities. 
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Ephesians we're not wrestling 
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against principalities and 
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the angelic demonic beings who 
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flying around trying to create 
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The demonic activity that is 
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powers, the rulers of darkness 
and that dimension that we can't

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see, but it's real. 
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other ones out of this pit. 
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this? 
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certainly isn't the emissary of 
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God, you know, allows the evil 
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He doesn't sanction it, but he 
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He doesn't create it. 
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But you know, the mystery of 
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will. 
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didn't God just create us 
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Well, in a way he did before the
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He created this immortal with a 
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were creating the likeness and 
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But God didn't create robots. 
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would truly love him and want to
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That's the mystery. 
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make the wrong choice. 
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human race has fallen into the 
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And yet God in his mercy had 
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was created, knowing that we 
were going to do that, that he 

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would send Jesus to die for us, 
to restore us back to the place 

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that we were before the fall. 
And you might say, well, why did

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he create Satan? 
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I don't know about you, but I'm 
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will and a choice because every 
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I'm glad that I chose Cindy 
Alexander 39 years ago to be my 

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wife. 
I'm glad that I had a free will 

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to find the woman that God had 
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no one other, no other woman but
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Choosing where I want to live, 
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choosing what I want to do with 
my resources, choosing what type

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of work I want to have, a 
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days with my kids and my 
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I mean, when you think about the
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and every day you just got up 
and you heard this voice, you're

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going to do this whether you 
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That would be a bondage. 
That would be a horrible 

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existence. 
But to have the freedom that God

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has given us to choose. 
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these demons are going to come 
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horrendous. 
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Testament, the judgments during 
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children of Israel out of 
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were so numerous that people 
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were going and they completely 
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And this situation is going to 
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the power as a scorpions of the 
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They were commanded not to harm 
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green thing or any tree, but 
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the seal of God on their 
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Now we studied several weeks ago
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chosen people of God during that
tribulation, born again Jews who

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are on fire for the Lord, like 
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over the earth to witness and to
tell people you still can 

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repent, God's mercy is still 
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forgiven of your sin and God 
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And that's their job. 
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touched by these scorpion like 
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They were not given authority to
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for five months. 
So anyone who doesn't have this 

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seal on their forehead is fair 
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So that means all the 
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earth at this time. 
And this isn't God doing this to

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the people. 
This is Satan and his demonic 

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crew going out to create torment
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earth to all those who don't 
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Some people say whenever I die, 
I'm going to be down in hell 

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with my buddies and and Satan 
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We're just going to have a good 
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It's not going to be that way. 
Satan hates our guts, the Bible 

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says. 
He's come to rob, to steal, to 

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kill and to destroy. 
It says their torment was like 

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the torment of a scorpion. 
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those days, men will seek death 
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They will desire to die and 
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It sounds like in this case, 
it's even going to be impossible

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to take your life. 
It's going to be so horrible at 

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this time when you're on the 
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you can't get away from these 
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You can you think, well, I'm 
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and I'll wait this out for the 
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Somehow they're going to be able
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under the doorway, whatever. 
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you're going to get stung and 
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not once. 
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OK. 
It's going to be a continual 

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horrible torment to drive you to
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But the enemy wants to destroy 
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And you can't even find death at
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It says the shape of the locust 
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battle. 
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something like gold. 
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faces of men. 
They had hair like women's hair,

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and their teeth were like a 
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And they had breastplates like 
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sound of their wings was like 
the sound of Chariots, with many

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horses running into battle. 
They had tails like scorpions, 

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and there were stings in their 
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Their power was to hurt men. 
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And they had his king over them.
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whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon,
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Apollyon. 
That name means the Destroyer, 

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literally the destroyer, the New
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is the one who is destroying. 
And again, that ties with what 

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Jesus said about the devil. 
He comes to steal and to kill 

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and to rob and to destroy. 
And I'll tell you, he's trying 

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to destroy our lives every day. 
He's trying to destroy the 

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Church of Jesus Christ. 
And I'm so thankful it's not my 

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job or your job to build the 
Church of Christ. 

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Jesus said I will build my 
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Hades will not prevail against 
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In verse 12, one woe is past. 
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This situation with these 
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description, John says the 
apostle that they are like this.

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In other words, he's seeing 
something that he's never seen 

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before in his life. 
He's trying to use descriptive 

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words to give us some kind of 
insight what these creatures are

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like because again, it's like 
nothing he's ever seen before. 

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Some people believe that these 
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that are inhabiting whether it's
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human creature. 
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describe it as as perhaps men in
certain types of suits with gas 

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masks and the the stinging 
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creature is really a chemical 
warfare, you know, that's coming

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upon people. 
I mean, none of us are going to 

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know these things until they 
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But these are descriptive terms 
that will one day come to pass. 

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And so John's saying this one 
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Behold, still two more woes are 
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This is where we'll pick up 
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we were in this book. 
Then the six angels sounded and 

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I heard a voice from the four 
horns of the Golden All which is

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before the throne of God, this 
altar and a wonderful picture 

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again of the throne room of 
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The 6th Angel sounds and I hear 
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the golden golden altar, which 
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Angel who had the trumpet, 
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bound at the great river 
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So this altar is the altar of 
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It stands before the throne of 
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representation of the prayers of
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Incense will be prevalent in the
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The early church use incense all
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I don't know. 
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or who said, you know, some 
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worship setting within the 
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it represents the prayers of the
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throne of God. 
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Let the prayers of the Saints be
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your heart. 
Remember that song, beautiful 

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song. 
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God. 
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the place where the blood was 
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for the sake of the the nation 
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lost in our time that will be 
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Kingdom when we get there. 
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to release these angels to 
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great river Euphrates. 
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have been prepared for the hour 
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evil angels by the way, and year
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mankind. 
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horseman, was 200 million. 
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thus I saw the horses in the 
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breastplates of fiery red, 
hyacinth blue, and sulfur 

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yellow. 
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like the heads of lions, and out
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and brimstone. 
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mankind was killed by the fire 
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which came out of their mouths. 
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mouth and in their tails. 
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serpents having heads and with 
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So we we see the intensity of of
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come upon the face of the earth.
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commentators, they, they look at
China and the east and the river

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Euphrates throughout biblical 
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a central place of, of God's 
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miraculous occurrences. 
And Israel, you know, the, the 

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borders of the Holy Land, 
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have the original Babylonian 
Empire that was very significant

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with the the river Euphrates. 
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that this river will actually be
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by tank or by some kind of 
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potential of 200 million. 
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wiping out 1/3 of the human 
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The armies from Russia, Iran, 
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marching to the Holy Land today,
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there without crossing this 
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It's very, very significant. 
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this situation of judgment, 
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reason, is that many would end 
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He's omniscient. 
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a chance. 
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judgement and say, well, I'm in 
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me, or I'm in hell because you 
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missionary to me. 
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that every human being knows by 
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creator. 
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heart that God will give them 
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believe or not to believe. 
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And Paul said that hasn't the 
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own day. 
He said truly, the gospel has 

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gone out and to the ends of the 
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And so the third that is wiped 
out weren't part of what we 

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would see the Bible describing 
elect or those that God knows 

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before we're born whether we're 
going to come to him. 

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There's no mistakes. 
There's no confusion with God. 

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And when we stand before him, 
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how in the world did you get 
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You weren't in the plan. 
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but he knows who's going to 
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to choose him. 
That's God's hand and His plan 

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and His wisdom. 
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look in this Book of Revelation 
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in verse 16, the number of the 
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million. 
Some of your Bibles might say 

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200,000 * 1000 and that's 200 
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A human army perhaps with 
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My son-in-law has served in Iraq
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special forces and they had all 
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tech weaponry, so sophisticated 
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And so you get those kind of 
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people. 
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occur on the face of the earth 
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We know right now that some of 
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to a chemical warfare and an 
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It'll be very easy to to pull 
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But we think about this 
situation and I don't know about

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you, we study this stuff and 
it's just another Bible study on

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a Sunday. 
I hope not. 

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I hope whenever you hear this 
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compels your heart to start to 
be broken over people that don't

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know Christ yet. 
People need the Lord, everybody 

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needs Christ and if they don't 
have him, what's going to happen

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to them and could God perhaps 
use your life or mine to point 

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them in the direction of Jesus 
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it says the rest of mankind who 
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and this is this astounds me. 
They still didn't repent of the 

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work of their hands. 
They still didn't say there's a 

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real God and I'm in trouble and 
I need to deal with him. 

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A narcotics officer living a 
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busting people and then using 
drugs. 

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He's at a house, he's talking to
some people, asking some 

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questions, doing his job, just 
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forget about it. 
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how he was living his life. 
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there's a drug dealer coming up 
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The people he's talking to are 
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A drug dealer comes up, he 
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starts walking away like 
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to deal with this drug dealer. 
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confront the guy. 
The officer had his heavy 

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sweatshirt on with his badge 
under his sweatshirt and his 

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gun, and he didn't have a chance
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the drug dealer. 
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gun, held it right up to his 
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Nothing went. 
Nothing happened. 

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Nothing went off. 
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and they found the car later. 
$13,000 in cash, ton of drugs 

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and the gun. 
Took the gun back to the crime 

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lab to test it. 
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and six bullets went off. 
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He knew that God had spared his 
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He had grown up as a in a 
Christian home but always blew 

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the truth off. 
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At that point he knew God spared
his life and that he needed to 

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turn his life over to Christ. 
He didn't understand, but he 

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knew he had to come clean. 
So he went. 

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He told his wife what had been 
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he went to the Sheriff's Office 
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Turned his badge in and went to 
Teen Challenge and got dried 

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out. 
And since 2004 he has been been 

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clean and his heart now is 
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Just not for people who are 
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but respectable sinners, people 
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Maybe you've never used drugs, 
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But you have other issues, don't
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have bitterness, we have 
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have greed. 
We have all kind of stuff. 

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It's the heart. 
The human heart's a cesspool, 

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right? 
And if you don't believe that, 

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just ask. 
God, search me. 

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O God, know your heart. 
Try me and know my thoughts and 

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see if there be any wicked way 
in me. 

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I guarantee you, pray that 
prayer. 

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There's never going to be a time
that the Lord doesn't show you 

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some new things to let go of and
repent of. 

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I mean, that's my daily life. 
But as we think about these 

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things, it isn't just a study on
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can I do this week? 
What kind of divine appointment,

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Lord, do you have for me to come
across someone I'm working with,

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a neighbor, a relative, a 
friend, a hairdresser, gas 

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station, wherever we go, every 
day that we're so busy, we run 

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in and we run out and maybe we 
say a quick prayer, maybe we 

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give them a word of testimony. 
But life is crazy. 

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But if we can just slow down for
a couple minutes and think about

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the people that are still stuck 
in these patterns, and that's 

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the majority of human race. 
Think about what it might do if 

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they believe in what's going to 
happen in their lives to be 

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protected from this kind of 
thing that we've studied about 

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in Revelation today. 
Ezekiel 1823, a beautiful verse,

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the Lord speaking through 
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Do I have any pleasure at all 
that the wicked should die, says

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the Lord of God, and not that he
should turn from his ways and 

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live. 
That's God's heart. 

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Do I have any pleasure at all as
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God would say at all that the 
wicked should die. 

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God loves God is a God of love. 
He has no hatred in his heart, 

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says the Lord God. 
And not that he should turn from

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his ways and live. 
And that's what we need guys in 

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the, in the city, in this 
community, in this county, and 

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every place that we go, every 
place that we live, people need 

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the Lord. 
And you just don't know what the

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Lord's going to do when you sow 
seed. 

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And the, and the problem with 
us, we don't realize it's not 

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our job to save people. 
We can't save anybody, but we 

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sure can throw seed around. 
You know, God can control 

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everything. 
Can he control the 

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circumstances? 
So our, our heart as a church, 

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you know, is about outreach and,
and how do we get this message 

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into the hearts and lives of 
people who are on their way to a

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crisis eternity, Don't waste 
time. 

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Let Jesus have your life, don't 
be apathetic, don't be sleeping 

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at the wheel. 
As Paul said, awake your 

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righteousness and sin not for 
some have not the knowledge of 

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God and he says I speak this to 
your shame and may we not be 

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ashamed of the gospel of Christ.
Amen. 

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This has been Living Waters of 
Grace with Pastor Clark. 

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We're going through the 
challenging and also intriguing 

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Book of Revelation. 
Whether you're a fan of reading 

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ahead in books of fiction, 
there's such a benefit to 

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reading ahead in the Bible to 
read about how it all ends. 

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But in an interesting turn of 
events, the Book of Revelation 

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is not really the end, but 
rather the beginning. 

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It's the end of life as we know 
it here on earth, but there's so

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much to look forward to. 
But what comes after all? 

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The judgement of the earth and 
those who reject God. 

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There's a lot to work through, 
and it can be heartbreaking to 

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read through the intense 
judgements and wrath that will 

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come on those who hate God with 
all their might. 

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The thing is, God has given 
chance upon chance to these 

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people. 
They don't want it. 

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So the outcome is that there are
judgements and consequences for 

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those who've rejected the good 
news and the gift of salvation 

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that's offered through Jesus's 
death and resurrection. 

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Are you one who has heard about 
these things but doesn't really 

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want it because you want to live
life on your terms? 

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Trust me, living for Jesus is so
much better. 

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That doesn't mean it will be 
easy, but as you listen and read

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through Revelation with us, 
you'll come to a stark 

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realization that you don't want 
to be on earth when the 

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apocalypse happens. 
So check out Calvary Chapel 

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online.com to learn how to come 
to a saving grace through faith 

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that will allow you to be with 
Jesus for eternity. 

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We'd also love to meet you in 
person at Calvary Chapel 

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Westmoreland. 
Come join us at 400 E Pittsburgh

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St. 
Ste. 6B in Greensburg, PA 15601.

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This has been living waters of 
grace.