1 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:08,119 This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark 2 00:00:08,119 --> 00:00:12,240 Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland, 3 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:16,400 County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he 4 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,720 continues teaching through God's Word. 5 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:42,880 This wrath is a passionate anger and it's one day going to be 6 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,280 poured out in such a degree that the world has never known. 7 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:52,320 As horrible as Hiroshima was, as horrible as tsunami and some 8 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:56,400 other devastations, the Holocaust, things that we have 9 00:00:56,480 --> 00:01:02,360 read about in history, nothing is going to compare to what is 10 00:01:02,360 --> 00:01:05,519 going to come upon this world through these prophecies of the 11 00:01:05,519 --> 00:01:09,280 Book of Revelation. The world we live in has seen 12 00:01:09,280 --> 00:01:11,760 some truly horrific events in its history. 13 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:15,760 The volcanic eruption of Pompeii that wiped out an entire 14 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:19,920 civilization. The Holocaust where 6,000,000 15 00:01:19,920 --> 00:01:24,240 Jews were murdered. Many other tragedies where lives 16 00:01:24,240 --> 00:01:27,680 were lost. In today's message, Pastor Clark 17 00:01:27,680 --> 00:01:31,400 warned you about an even greater devastation that will come upon 18 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:35,360 the earth during the Great Tribulation as a result of sin. 19 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:40,040 Jesus died for your sin so that you don't have to have you 20 00:01:40,040 --> 00:01:42,680 turned to Him to receive forgiveness now. 21 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:45,960 Here's Pastor Clark in Revelation chapter 15 with 22 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:49,080 today's edition of Living Waters of Grace. 23 00:01:49,640 --> 00:01:53,360 Revelation 15 verse one. Then I saw another sign in 24 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:56,840 heaven, great and marvelous, 7 angels having the seven last 25 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:00,000 plagues, for in them the wrath of God is complete. 26 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:03,920 And I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire. 27 00:02:04,240 --> 00:02:07,600 And those who have the victory over the beast, over his image 28 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:11,360 and over his mark, and over the number of his name, standing on 29 00:02:11,360 --> 00:02:15,600 the sea of glass, having harps of God, they sing the song of 30 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:19,080 Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, 31 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:23,600 Great and marvelous are your works, Lord God Almighty, just 32 00:02:23,600 --> 00:02:27,880 and true are your ways, O King of the Saints, who shall not 33 00:02:27,880 --> 00:02:30,480 fear you, O Lord, and glorify your name. 34 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:34,760 For you alone our holy, for all nations shall come and worship 35 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:38,080 before you, for your judgments have been manifested. 36 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,320 After these things I looked and behold, the temple, the 37 00:02:41,320 --> 00:02:44,920 Tabernacle, the testimony in heaven was open, and out of the 38 00:02:44,920 --> 00:02:48,840 temple came the seven angels, having the seven plagues clothed 39 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,920 in pure bright linen and having their chests girded with golden 40 00:02:52,920 --> 00:02:55,400 bands. Then one of the four living 41 00:02:55,400 --> 00:02:59,160 creatures gave to the seven angels 7 golden bowls full of 42 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:02,240 the wrath of God who lives forever and ever. 43 00:03:02,680 --> 00:03:07,080 The temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from 44 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:10,880 His power, and no one was able to enter the temple till the 45 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:14,560 seven plagues of the seven angels were completed. 46 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:20,080 As we study today, this is taking us back to a place to 47 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:24,000 realize that there is a time that's going to come upon this 48 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:29,600 world that is called Armageddon. Many of you have studied that, 49 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:31,360 read about it. There was a movie I think a 50 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:36,160 while back called Armageddon, and the world is moving towards 51 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:40,600 that final battle on earth between good and evil prior to 52 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:43,440 the second coming of Jesus Christ when he comes to roll and 53 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:46,560 reign on this earth. So where we're picking up today 54 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:49,960 is the scene as we move through the Book of Revelation. 55 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,280 The seal judgments have already been dealt with. 56 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:56,200 They were horrible enough in and of themselves. 57 00:03:56,720 --> 00:04:01,760 The trumpet judgments were also poured out upon the earth, very 58 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:06,000 cataclysmic and unbelievable to have to deal with. 59 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:10,800 The 7th trumpet is about to blow and the bulls of wrath now are 60 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:13,880 going to be poured out upon the earth. 61 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:19,640 So God will finally bring His righteous judgment upon the evil 62 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:23,600 wicked people of the world who refused to acknowledge Christ as 63 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:27,800 Lord and also to spare the people He loves and bring them 64 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:32,920 into the eternal realm with Him. After this last, last 65 00:04:33,160 --> 00:04:37,520 consequential outpouring of of His anger and His wrath upon the 66 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:41,720 earth, we see in verse 1, he talks about another sign in 67 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:45,680 heaven, the signs of heaven marvelous. 68 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:48,600 He says, now John has the privilege of being able to see 69 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:52,560 what you and I can't see. He he sees something that's 70 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:57,360 indescribable, but he's doing what he's able to do by the 71 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:00,320 Spirit of God, writing these things down that we too might be 72 00:05:00,320 --> 00:05:03,680 able to have some degree of insight and vision into what he 73 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:06,600 saw. And he says that what he's 74 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:10,800 experiencing and seeing is marvelous. 7 angels having the 75 00:05:10,800 --> 00:05:15,920 seven last plagues, for in them the wrath of God is complete. 76 00:05:16,640 --> 00:05:20,080 It's describing the end of the Tribulation with a horror, as I 77 00:05:20,080 --> 00:05:22,600 said, at the battle of Armageddon. 78 00:05:23,200 --> 00:05:26,760 Now John's going back to describe God's judgment in more 79 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,960 detail. Whenever we study the Book of 80 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:31,760 Revelation, we have to understand it's not a 81 00:05:31,760 --> 00:05:35,600 chronological study. It's it's shifting back and 82 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:39,200 forth into different time periods to give us more 83 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:43,440 illumination and more insight, more clarification in regard to 84 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:47,120 these prophecies as we compare this various scripture in the 85 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:50,560 Book of Revelation along with Daniel and Ezekiel. 86 00:05:51,160 --> 00:05:55,600 As we look at this particular section today, the plan of the 87 00:05:55,600 --> 00:05:59,760 prophet, he's reviewing, he's recapitulating and he's 88 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:02,960 enlarging upon the scene. He is already sketched out. 89 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:07,520 We already read about the end of time in Revelation chapter 6 if 90 00:06:07,520 --> 00:06:08,880 you flip over there for a minute. 91 00:06:08,880 --> 00:06:15,840 This is for a review 12 to 17. He says I looked when he opened 92 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:17,760 the 6th sea. And behold, there was a great 93 00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:19,720 earthquake. And the sun became black as 94 00:06:19,720 --> 00:06:23,080 sackcloth of hair. And the moon became like blood. 95 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:26,960 And the stars of heaven fell to the earth as fig tree drops its 96 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:29,520 late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind. 97 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:34,040 And the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and every 98 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,760 mountain and island was moved out of its place. 99 00:06:37,080 --> 00:06:39,840 And the kings of the earth, the great men, the rich men, the 100 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:43,720 commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, 101 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:48,320 hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains, 102 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:51,440 and said to the mountains. And the rocks fall on us, and 103 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:55,320 hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne, and from the 104 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,880 wrath of the Lamb. For the great day of His wrath 105 00:06:58,880 --> 00:07:02,160 has come, and who is able to stand? 106 00:07:03,480 --> 00:07:07,000 John takes us over the same material again, but in greater 107 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:12,920 detail in Revelation Chapter 15, reminding us that again, this is 108 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:15,920 not set up chronologically. And this is what makes this book 109 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:18,360 difficult to study and also to teach. 110 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:20,760 Believe me, this is the hardest book I've ever taught on. 111 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:23,240 You can't wing it. Not that I try to wing anything 112 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:26,160 anyway, but you can be a little bit more extemporaneous when 113 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:28,960 you're teaching to be attitudes. You got a lot of illustrations 114 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:33,880 that you can make common to people about praying for enemies 115 00:07:33,880 --> 00:07:37,000 or loving people who hate you. We all got illustrations of how 116 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:41,080 to work that out at times. But Revelation is a is a very 117 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:44,600 specific book about specific subjects. 118 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:50,000 So you don't dare try to make comments that aren't rooted in 119 00:07:50,480 --> 00:07:53,400 what has been clearly given. You don't want to make it up and 120 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,200 you don't want to add to it. The Bible warns us at the end of 121 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:58,920 that book that God help the person. 122 00:07:58,920 --> 00:08:02,960 It adds to the book, the words to the Book of Revelation. 123 00:08:03,520 --> 00:08:06,080 Now we see in verse one these 7 angels. 124 00:08:06,080 --> 00:08:08,200 They have the seven last plagues. 125 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:12,880 And God has been waiting patiently throughout the history 126 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:17,240 of civilization to bring righteous judgment upon the 127 00:08:17,240 --> 00:08:20,160 earth to an ungodly world. Now some people might think, 128 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:23,760 well that's not fair. Why would a God of love be so 129 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:26,040 angry? We can't understand. 130 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:29,200 Maybe as we're growing and maturing in our Christian life, 131 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:34,559 we can understand the horror, the devastation of sin and what 132 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:37,520 it does to people, what it has done to your own life and mine 133 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:41,039 as we've done things against God's law and His Word. 134 00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:44,600 The Bible says whatever you sow, you will reap. 135 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:48,840 Anybody in here in the process of reaping anything, raise your 136 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:51,520 hand. We've all sown things that we 137 00:08:51,520 --> 00:08:54,400 shouldn't have sown. And you think that you'll never 138 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:57,240 see him again when you're young, you think, well, I did that no 139 00:08:57,240 --> 00:08:59,240 one else knows about it. And I'll never have to deal with 140 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:03,080 that again and forget about it. And as life goes on and the Holy 141 00:09:03,080 --> 00:09:06,520 Spirit's working to purify your heart, God bring something out 142 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:10,280 that maybe you did when you were 10 or 12 or 15 or 20 or 30. 143 00:09:10,280 --> 00:09:12,880 And all of a sudden, man, I thought that was gone, you know, 144 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:15,240 and God doesn't bring it on you to condemn you. 145 00:09:15,240 --> 00:09:18,920 He brings it on you to free you and to cleanse you and to purify 146 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:21,120 you and to and to transform your life. 147 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:25,440 You know and but as God looks upon the horror of sin, there's 148 00:09:25,440 --> 00:09:29,880 a difference between what we see sin like as believers and what 149 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:34,160 the lost or unconverted or doomed See. 150 00:09:34,680 --> 00:09:36,840 When you're a Christian, sin bothers you. 151 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:39,880 It disturbs you. You want to repent of it. 152 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:41,360 You want to get it off your chest. 153 00:09:41,360 --> 00:09:43,920 You want to confess it. You want to ask the Lord for 154 00:09:43,920 --> 00:09:45,720 mercy and cleansing and forgiveness. 155 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:50,160 But when you're a Pagan, you just seem to relish in sin. 156 00:09:50,600 --> 00:09:53,440 The more sin the better. You don't think about the 157 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:57,720 consequences or the the the outcome of what that might cost 158 00:09:57,720 --> 00:10:00,600 you one day. You're just thinking you're 159 00:10:00,600 --> 00:10:03,800 having a lot of fun, you know, on the highway to hell. 160 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:08,800 And people don't understand that God is holy. 161 00:10:09,320 --> 00:10:11,720 God is perfect. This is his world, this is his 162 00:10:11,720 --> 00:10:16,920 universe, this is his creation. And he has every right to demand 163 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:22,640 of his creation allegiance and worship and holiness. 164 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:27,000 But we're not holy until Christ comes into our life. 165 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:33,360 We're not holy until the blood of Jesus Christ is applied to 166 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:37,840 our bankrupt souls. When Christ comes into a 167 00:10:37,920 --> 00:10:41,240 sinner's life, He washes away our sins. 168 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:44,200 He cleanses us. He declares us righteous and 169 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,840 pure and just, and it's a marvelous thing. 170 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:50,440 We don't realize all the ramifications of justification. 171 00:10:50,800 --> 00:10:53,760 It's one thing to know, well, if I die today, I'm going to go to 172 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:55,520 heaven. And and that's a good thing if 173 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:57,000 you're trusting in Christ to know. 174 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:00,040 But it's so much deeper than that, because what Christ has 175 00:11:00,040 --> 00:11:03,680 done for us at the cross in atonement, remitting our sins, 176 00:11:03,680 --> 00:11:08,920 is that we have this benefit now because of the blood of Christ 177 00:11:08,920 --> 00:11:10,760 and because of what Jesus Christ has done. 178 00:11:11,040 --> 00:11:15,480 That as a father looks upon us, he doesn't see an enemy of God 179 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:17,640 anymore. He sees a son and daughter of 180 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:19,760 God. He sees us as being part of his 181 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:22,880 family. His wrath, his judgement has 182 00:11:23,080 --> 00:11:27,880 passed over us. But all those who are still on 183 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:31,960 the earth who don't have Christ, his judgement is waiting to be 184 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:34,880 poured out upon them. And he's been more than patient, 185 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:38,360 hasn't he? How many thousands of years has 186 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:43,080 he waited and patiently has to everyday look upon the sordid 187 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:47,120 heart of the human race, the heart of man that perpetually 188 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:51,080 desires to do evil continually? You might remember a day before 189 00:11:51,080 --> 00:11:54,240 you knew Christ where your thoughts every day was. 190 00:11:54,240 --> 00:11:57,120 What kind of evil stuff can I do today? 191 00:11:57,600 --> 00:12:01,520 What kind of sin can I get into? Who can I RIP off, or who can I 192 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:05,680 take advantage of, or who can I put the move on, or whatever it 193 00:12:05,680 --> 00:12:07,880 was that might have been our agenda. 194 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:12,920 And God has to look on that every day and see the heart of 195 00:12:12,920 --> 00:12:17,840 men and women and children who are rebelling and hating and 196 00:12:17,840 --> 00:12:21,440 refusing to follow Him. And then he looks down upon His 197 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:23,600 church, His bride all around the world. 198 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:25,440 And that's what gives him pleasure. 199 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:28,840 That's what gives him glory and praise and honor, because he can 200 00:12:28,840 --> 00:12:32,520 look at all the brothers and sisters all around the world who 201 00:12:32,520 --> 00:12:34,840 have been washed in the blood of the Lamb. 202 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:38,920 And that's what keeps Him from destroying this earth, the 203 00:12:38,920 --> 00:12:42,720 remnant that is upon the face of this earth, that He's blessing 204 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:46,320 to continually do His will until He comes again. 205 00:12:47,320 --> 00:12:49,760 All of us here today, I trust our Christians. 206 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:54,840 We know Christ, and if we know Him today, we can relax in the 207 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:59,000 sense of having peace and knowing it is well with our soul 208 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:03,040 and that if tomorrow is the end of the world, it's not going to 209 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:06,440 be a big problem for us, is it? The best is yet to come for the 210 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:08,280 Christian. But if you're here today and 211 00:13:08,280 --> 00:13:12,720 you're without Christ, Jesus says in John 336, He that hath 212 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:18,200 the Son hath life. That means you have life, his 213 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:20,840 life. He that hath not the Son of God 214 00:13:21,040 --> 00:13:25,800 hath not life, but what the wrath of God abideth on them. 215 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:29,760 And it's a horrible thing once you get a heads up that God is 216 00:13:29,760 --> 00:13:36,480 angry with you because of your sin, that every day you should 217 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:40,240 be a nervous wreck because you don't want to leave this world 218 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:44,360 with God's wrath upon you. You don't want to leave this 219 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:48,160 life without a Savior. And this is the whole purpose of 220 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:51,360 the Book of Revelation. It's a prophetical book for the 221 00:13:51,360 --> 00:13:56,120 world to understand that this is the consequences of a sinful, 222 00:13:56,480 --> 00:14:01,840 ungodly world that will have to come to grips with the reality 223 00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:07,280 of a holy God having his just righteousness and his due time. 224 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:11,280 And so the wrath of God is being stored up. 225 00:14:11,280 --> 00:14:14,840 And some people see it and it's described in the Scriptures as a 226 00:14:14,840 --> 00:14:18,320 cup of trembling. Jesus took that cup as I spoke 227 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:22,360 briefly last week on the night of his betrayal prior to his 228 00:14:22,360 --> 00:14:24,760 crucifixion. He said it, if it is possible, 229 00:14:24,760 --> 00:14:28,640 let this cup pass from me. He asked for this to pass from 230 00:14:28,640 --> 00:14:31,200 him three times. The cup of God's anger, the cup 231 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:35,960 of God's wrath that was poured out on our Savior Jesus Christ, 232 00:14:36,440 --> 00:14:41,200 who took our sins upon himself and took our punishment and 233 00:14:41,200 --> 00:14:45,720 everything we deserved upon himself that we might go free. 234 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:49,880 And the Son of God, God Incarnate, had to take upon 235 00:14:49,880 --> 00:14:55,480 himself and experience that horrible, horrible wrath of God. 236 00:14:56,200 --> 00:15:00,320 But Hallelujah, when he was on that cross, He was able to say 237 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:04,280 it is finished. He completed it for the glory of 238 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:08,880 the Father and for the sake of those he died for and cleanse 239 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:12,880 from their sin. But this wrath is a passionate 240 00:15:12,880 --> 00:15:17,960 anger and it's one day going to be poured out in such a degree 241 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:22,640 that the world has never known as horrible as Hiroshima was, as 242 00:15:22,640 --> 00:15:27,520 horrible as tsunami and some other devastations, the 243 00:15:27,520 --> 00:15:31,040 Holocaust, things that we have read about in history. 244 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:36,480 Nothing is going to compare to what is going to come upon this 245 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:39,720 world through these prophecies of the Book of Revelation. 246 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:44,400 And this anger of God will come to a point of completion. 247 00:15:45,320 --> 00:15:49,920 It will it says in verse one. For in them the wrath of God is 248 00:15:49,920 --> 00:15:53,560 complete. In other words, finally it is at 249 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:59,920 the top and, and, and, and the timing is perfect and everything 250 00:15:59,920 --> 00:16:04,200 that God has waited for all these years will finally be 251 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:06,040 poured out. And he's not pouring it out 252 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:08,360 because he's an evil God. He's a loving God. 253 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:14,520 But enough is enough. He's waited over 6000 years so 254 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:16,640 patiently. And he waits because he says 255 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:19,320 he's not willing that any should perish, but that all should come 256 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:22,560 to repentance. God's righteous anger and His 257 00:16:22,560 --> 00:16:25,680 wrath will fulfill his eternal purpose. 258 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:30,880 And verse 2, he talks about this vision of this sea of glass, a 259 00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:36,280 multitude of standing on the sea like a crystal. 260 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:40,920 In Revelation 4, it describes a sea representing the holiness of 261 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:44,680 God, the purity of God. And in the midst of the sea, 262 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:48,760 there's this element of brightness and and some 263 00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:52,560 commentators see this as the fire being mingled within the 264 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:55,640 purity of the glass, representing the fires of God's 265 00:16:55,640 --> 00:16:59,680 judgment that are waiting for those who don't repent and come 266 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:03,080 to Christ. Now, it's beyond me outside of 267 00:17:03,080 --> 00:17:05,839 understanding that there was a time that I was like, forget 268 00:17:05,839 --> 00:17:07,480 this, I'm not interested in this stuff. 269 00:17:07,839 --> 00:17:10,400 Anybody would tell me about it. I want to go the other way. 270 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:14,280 If I saw a religious tract somewhere, I just like, you 271 00:17:14,280 --> 00:17:15,599 know, didn't want to deal with it. 272 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:20,200 You know, I was doing everything I could to resist this love of 273 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:23,359 God because I was comfortable in my sin. 274 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:27,200 I love my sin. The Bible say men love sin. 275 00:17:27,319 --> 00:17:29,040 Men love darkness rather than light. 276 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:30,440 Why? Because their deeds are evil. 277 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:33,120 I remember a day. Is anybody remember a day when 278 00:17:33,120 --> 00:17:34,960 you love sin? Raise your hand. 279 00:17:35,760 --> 00:17:39,560 There's about all of us in here and maybe some of you are still 280 00:17:39,560 --> 00:17:42,680 loving your sin. I pray by the day time you get 281 00:17:42,680 --> 00:17:45,520 out of here today, you're going to want to flee from your sin 282 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:50,000 and run from your sin. As we read in verse 2, he talks 283 00:17:50,000 --> 00:17:53,640 about this sea glass being mingled with fire. 284 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,600 Those who have victory over the beast, His image, His mark, the 285 00:17:57,600 --> 00:18:00,680 number of His name. These are the ones that endured 286 00:18:00,680 --> 00:18:04,680 the consequences of the persecution of the Antichrist. 287 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:09,160 They were martyred, they suffered the consequences 288 00:18:09,160 --> 00:18:12,640 because they refused to take the mark of the beast and give 289 00:18:12,640 --> 00:18:16,760 homage to Antichrist. But now they're in this 290 00:18:16,760 --> 00:18:21,840 wonderful state in the Kingdom, experiencing the beauty of, of, 291 00:18:21,840 --> 00:18:26,040 of the, of the Kingdom of God. And they are standing on the sea 292 00:18:26,040 --> 00:18:29,640 of glass and they have harps. They are able to, to play music 293 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:33,080 unto the Lord. What a wonderful worship time 294 00:18:33,080 --> 00:18:36,400 that these people are encountering and experiencing 295 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:41,440 now as we look at the images that we're studying in this Book 296 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:45,040 of Revelation, Many of these things remind us of things we've 297 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:47,760 read about or studied about in the book of the Exodus. 298 00:18:48,040 --> 00:18:52,080 And the Revelation speaks of Moses in verse 3. 299 00:18:52,080 --> 00:18:54,920 Here they sing the song of Moses. 300 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:59,640 And Moses was a prototype of Christ in a way, and the sense 301 00:18:59,640 --> 00:19:02,640 of being the deliverer, the one who took the people out of the 302 00:19:02,640 --> 00:19:06,200 bondage of Egypt under an ungodly ruler, Pharaoh, who 303 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:09,360 abused and took advantage of the children of Israel. 304 00:19:09,760 --> 00:19:13,600 They prayed for a deliverer. God sent Moses as a deliverer, 305 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:17,760 and Moses delivered the children of Israel out of the bondage of 306 00:19:17,760 --> 00:19:21,640 Pharaoh through great signs and wonders that the Lord allowed 307 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:25,120 him to bring forth for his glory and for his honor. 308 00:19:25,880 --> 00:19:28,680 He delivered the children of Israel through the Red Sea. 309 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:35,120 He brought plagues upon Egypt to get Pharaoh to realize he needed 310 00:19:35,120 --> 00:19:37,240 to let the people go. He warned them through the 311 00:19:37,240 --> 00:19:41,200 plagues and the seal judgments and the trumpet judgments and 312 00:19:41,200 --> 00:19:44,360 even the bowl of wrath that's going to be poured out. 313 00:19:44,560 --> 00:19:47,320 The intention of God the whole time he's doing this. 314 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:50,920 Yeah, justice and righteousness. But will someone wake up when 315 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:53,840 judgment comes? Will someone finally say I need 316 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:57,320 to repent, I need to turn for my sin, I need a savior? 317 00:19:57,560 --> 00:20:00,760 And many people do come to know Christ during this time of 318 00:20:00,760 --> 00:20:06,280 consequence of tribulation. But the plagues are beyond 319 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:08,240 anything that anyone could imagine. 320 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,440 And we know as we study the book of the Exodus, how horrible they 321 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:12,920 were. And we'll get into more detail 322 00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:18,200 on these plagues next week. But the plagues also, we we read 323 00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:22,000 in here that he talks about a Tabernacle in heaven, a temple 324 00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:25,360 in heaven. The cloud of God's glory as 325 00:20:25,360 --> 00:20:28,920 Moses experienced that and the Old Testament as they took the 326 00:20:28,920 --> 00:20:32,640 tent of meeting and God met with the children of Israel through 327 00:20:32,640 --> 00:20:37,800 the cloud that enshrouded the tent and it represented the 328 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:41,600 divine presence and manifestation of God's living 329 00:20:41,600 --> 00:20:45,000 reality among the people. The ultimate exodus. 330 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:50,400 So in Revelation is that God is delivering his people out of 331 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,480 this fallen world and we won't have to deal with it anymore. 332 00:20:54,000 --> 00:20:57,640 Deliverance from a sinful and persecuting world. 333 00:20:57,640 --> 00:21:02,320 I think about what Janine Janine shared today that should strike 334 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:06,160 some degree of terror in our hearts, that we can't be too far 335 00:21:06,160 --> 00:21:10,280 from the time of the Lord's return, that this kind of agenda 336 00:21:10,280 --> 00:21:16,920 is being perpetrated upon the the world, our our country, 337 00:21:18,480 --> 00:21:23,960 nations. The UN, quite frankly, seems to 338 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:30,960 be a entity that is being set up to establish A1 world 339 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:35,920 government, A1 world roller, one world currency. 340 00:21:35,920 --> 00:21:38,560 It has tremendous impact, tremendous power. 341 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:46,040 It's pretty much anti God as a as a an organization that is 342 00:21:46,440 --> 00:21:48,800 directing the affairs of the nations. 343 00:21:49,600 --> 00:21:52,840 Some of the most scandalous people are involved in the 344 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,880 leadership of the organization, some people who have brought 345 00:21:55,880 --> 00:21:59,040 atrocities against other nations and people groups that are 346 00:21:59,320 --> 00:22:02,560 allowed to continually develop their own agendas. 347 00:22:02,560 --> 00:22:05,160 And and we're like the frogs in the frying pan. 348 00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:08,600 We don't know about this stuff again, unless people like Janine 349 00:22:08,600 --> 00:22:10,800 or others bring stuff into pastors. 350 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:16,960 You guys are responsible, as I am, for the truth of God. 351 00:22:16,960 --> 00:22:19,760 In these last days, you read something, you hear about 352 00:22:19,760 --> 00:22:22,160 something, you're upset about something, something isn't 353 00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:25,160 right. You know, I don't care a 354 00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:29,760 politician or a presidential candidate or anybody that is 355 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:35,360 perpetrating and bringing upon this country and upon the rights 356 00:22:35,360 --> 00:22:39,480 of the citizens things that are unconstitutional or things that 357 00:22:39,480 --> 00:22:44,560 are against the word of God. We have every right given by God 358 00:22:44,960 --> 00:22:48,400 in this nation under God to stand up and say enough's 359 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:52,040 enough. But if we just keep ignoring 360 00:22:52,040 --> 00:22:57,160 this stuff and not voting and thinking it's too late, what can 361 00:22:57,160 --> 00:23:01,440 anybody do? God help us in our country. 362 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:03,480 God help the churches in this country. 363 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:06,480 We're not to be that way. We're to be outspoken. 364 00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:12,560 We're to be lovingly and humbly aggressive about righteousness 365 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:17,040 in this land. Verse 2, it talks about those 366 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:18,600 who had the victory over the beast. 367 00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,600 And this is again the the tribulation martyrs and they 368 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:25,960 were also described in Revelation Chapter 7, nine 369 00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:28,800 through 17. You can check that out later. 370 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:33,760 These we're reading about now though, the completion of those 371 00:23:33,760 --> 00:23:37,040 who survive the tribulation because that that tribulation 372 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:40,360 isn't over yet until after the bowls of wrath are poured out 373 00:23:40,360 --> 00:23:43,720 and the battle of Armageddon is over and then the second coming 374 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:47,440 of Christ occurs. But this period is we're reading 375 00:23:47,440 --> 00:23:50,640 about right now is within the time parameters of the 376 00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:52,960 tribulation. And as I said, that the bowl 377 00:23:52,960 --> 00:23:55,320 judgements are still waiting to be poured out. 378 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:00,720 This has been Living Waters of Grace with Pastor Clark. 379 00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,120 We're going through the challenging and also intriguing 380 00:24:04,120 --> 00:24:07,160 Book of Revelation. Whether you're a fan of reading 381 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:09,920 ahead in books of fiction, there's such a benefit to 382 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:13,520 reading ahead in the Bible to read about how it all ends. 383 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,440 But in an interesting turn of events, the Book of Revelation 384 00:24:17,440 --> 00:24:21,640 is not really the end, but rather the beginning. 385 00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:26,080 It's the end of life as we know it here on earth, but there's so 386 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:29,200 much to look forward to. But what comes after all? 387 00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:32,240 The judgement of the earth and those who reject God. 388 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:36,520 There's a lot to work through, and it can be heartbreaking to 389 00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:40,120 read through the intense judgements and wrath that will 390 00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:42,920 come on those who hate God with all their might. 391 00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:47,000 The thing is, God has given chance upon chance to these 392 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,600 people. They don't want it. 393 00:24:49,080 --> 00:24:53,400 So the outcome is that there are judgments and consequences for 394 00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:57,720 those who've rejected the good news and the gift of salvation 395 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:01,160 that's offered through Jesus's death and resurrection. 396 00:25:01,880 --> 00:25:05,400 Are you one who has heard about these things but doesn't really 397 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:09,480 want it because you want to live life on your terms? 398 00:25:10,120 --> 00:25:13,840 Trust me, living for Jesus is so much better. 399 00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:18,000 That doesn't mean it will be easy, but as you listen and read 400 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:21,160 through Revelation with us, you'll come to a stark 401 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:24,120 realization that you don't want to be on earth when the 402 00:25:24,120 --> 00:25:28,240 apocalypse happens. So check out Calvary Chapel 403 00:25:28,240 --> 00:25:32,880 online.com to learn how to come to a saving grace through faith 404 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:36,640 that will allow you to be with Jesus for eternity. 405 00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,160 We'd also love to meet you in person at Calvary Chapel 406 00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:43,960 Westmoreland. Come join us at 400 E Pittsburgh 407 00:25:43,960 --> 00:25:50,200 St. Ste. 6B in Greensburg, PA 15601. 408 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,440 This has been living waters of grace.