1 00:00:07,120 --> 00:00:10,600 Yes, let's open your Bible. Bring your Bible. 2 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:13,120 Bring your Bible. When you if your kids go to 3 00:00:13,120 --> 00:00:16,680 youth, get them a Bible. Tell them to carry it. 4 00:00:16,680 --> 00:00:19,000 Tell them to take it. When you go for a cup of coffee 5 00:00:19,760 --> 00:00:24,280 with a friend, take your Bible. You might not read it, but take 6 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:25,120 it. Just sit it there. 7 00:00:25,200 --> 00:00:26,680 You might read it while you're waiting. 8 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:28,960 You're going to read it. If your friend turns up and 9 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:30,960 you're speaking about, well, what's the Bible there for? 10 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:34,080 Take your Bible with you. Take your Bible with you. 11 00:00:34,080 --> 00:00:36,560 Wherever you go. If you're going to wait, man, if 12 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:40,040 you're going shopping, you can read the whole Old Testament. 13 00:00:44,440 --> 00:00:48,640 I can always tell when I go into a shop that a guy has done 14 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:50,080 something because they've put a chair there. 15 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:51,880 I go. A bloke thought of that. 16 00:00:52,880 --> 00:00:56,080 Take your Bible. You'll be amazed how much you 17 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:57,640 can read it. How much you can read it. 18 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:02,560 Revelation chapter 16. We're hoping to have a number of 19 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:04,480 Calvary pastors come and speak with us. 20 00:01:04,480 --> 00:01:07,920 We spoke to them. Things are pretty tough around 21 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:12,360 the world and the Calvary's didn't close down during COVID. 22 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:14,960 They refused to. Many of them were taken to 23 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:19,160 court. They said have a go and they 24 00:01:19,160 --> 00:01:23,040 really stood fast. They said no, the law of the 25 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:24,840 land says we will worship with God. 26 00:01:24,840 --> 00:01:26,640 Your law doesn't tell us to do that. 27 00:01:26,640 --> 00:01:28,440 So we're we're we're worshipping God. 28 00:01:28,560 --> 00:01:32,320 Our God's law says above that. So it's interesting to talk to 29 00:01:32,320 --> 00:01:34,520 the guys. The difficulties that they face 30 00:01:34,520 --> 00:01:36,160 went through, but they stood for you. 31 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:40,160 The question titled this morning's message in Revelation 32 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:48,120 16 is, is God fair? Is he just how often used to 33 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,080 hear kids when you're dealing with kids, especially if you ran 34 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:52,600 youth groups? We ran youth groups. 35 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:54,400 We taught Sunday school for many years. 36 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:56,520 And there's always something that's not fair. 37 00:01:57,160 --> 00:02:01,280 It isn't fair, it's not fair. Is God fair? 38 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:06,080 Is he just? But, you know, it's interesting 39 00:02:06,080 --> 00:02:10,479 that such a question usually is raised only by people who 40 00:02:10,759 --> 00:02:13,920 actually don't believe in God. Atheist agnostics. 41 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:16,240 It's got fear. We don't even believe in him, so 42 00:02:16,240 --> 00:02:17,680 why are you even asking the question? 43 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:24,120 Yet it is they who usually make or repeat such statements. 44 00:02:24,800 --> 00:02:29,120 It's got fear. Is he just the prophet? 45 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:32,600 Joel wrote of the time we'll be examining this morning in 46 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:36,760 Revelation 16, the Great Tribulation period. 47 00:02:36,760 --> 00:02:41,160 So we're in over halfway now. And Joel referred to it as the 48 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:43,640 day of the Lord. He actually said these words. 49 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:48,360 Joel chapter 2, verse 11 for the day of the Lord is great. 50 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:51,280 And he wasn't saying great in the sense of wow, it's awesome, 51 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:58,400 but great in enormous magnitude. And he said and very terrible, 52 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:03,960 very terrible for the judgement of God has been poured out upon 53 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:06,800 humanity. And Joel finishes that verse. 54 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,120 He says, who can endure who? Who will survive it? 55 00:03:11,880 --> 00:03:14,120 Revelation 16 verse one, let's read. 56 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:17,800 Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven 57 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:24,720 angels, So on a different group of angels, go pour out the balls 58 00:03:24,760 --> 00:03:30,720 of the wrath of God on the earth. 7 Seal judgments, 7 59 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:34,920 trumpet judgments, and now 7 ball judgments. 60 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:41,760 A loud voice from the temple cried out over 29 times in this 61 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:45,120 prophetic book. We read of a loud or a great 62 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:49,400 voice saying something speaking. Why is it loud? 63 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:51,120 Why does it say that? What does it say in a voice 64 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:52,760 said? Why does it say in a loud voice? 65 00:03:53,480 --> 00:03:55,120 Because it's grabbing our attention. 66 00:03:55,120 --> 00:04:03,080 Hey, listen up. Something cataclysmic is about 67 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:07,840 to happen. I got your attention. 68 00:04:11,240 --> 00:04:18,079 Go and pour out the balls. Could it be that the voice that 69 00:04:18,079 --> 00:04:21,200 cried out? Could it be that the angels who 70 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:27,360 are holding the balls are aware, totally aware of the momentous 71 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:32,840 events and the plagues and the destruction that they hold in 72 00:04:32,840 --> 00:04:40,280 each of their bowls that they're about to pour out upon a Christ 73 00:04:40,280 --> 00:04:44,400 annoying world? These are the most horrific 74 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:50,360 judgements soon to fall. Is God having to command the 75 00:04:50,360 --> 00:05:03,120 angels hesitancy? Pour out the bowls, proceed the 76 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:09,360 wrath of God. This too is about to fall. 77 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:12,800 Pour out the balls the judgement of God. 78 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:16,520 Pour out the balls of the wrath of God upon the earth. 79 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:21,080 You know, the word or the term the wrath of God is mentioned 80 00:05:21,080 --> 00:05:27,120 over 375 times in the Bible. It's mentioned more the wrath of 81 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,520 God than the love of God and the grace of God. 82 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:35,960 Interesting. It's interesting that it's not 83 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:39,680 mentioned in many churches. Who will come to church if 84 00:05:39,680 --> 00:05:41,280 you're going to hear about the wrath of God? 85 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:43,520 I mean, no, it's here. I want to hear about how to be a 86 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:47,000 good bloke and how to be do well in business and stuff like that 87 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:50,080 and how to be happy, you see. And that's the man centred 88 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:54,960 gospel. A man centred gospel appeases 89 00:05:54,960 --> 00:05:58,520 you. It scratches, sorry. 90 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:02,800 It helps the scratch that you have, which is the time in which 91 00:06:02,800 --> 00:06:05,640 we live. It's like the kids coming to the 92 00:06:05,640 --> 00:06:08,200 table and go what? Dad, at moment, you know, I'm I 93 00:06:08,200 --> 00:06:11,080 want chocolate cake for breakfast, ice cream for lunch 94 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:16,360 for tea, crumpets and honey and more cream. 95 00:06:17,240 --> 00:06:19,600 You go. No Brussels sprouts. 96 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:24,520 Parsnips. Who invented parsnips? 97 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:28,720 Parsnips. Cauliflower. 98 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:31,320 When I was a kid, it was beetroot. 99 00:06:32,320 --> 00:06:33,760 Look at beetroot. I touch on that. 100 00:06:34,720 --> 00:06:36,240 I love beetroot. Now that's funny. 101 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:44,600 You see when you come to church and you open your Bible, you are 102 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:49,120 to get what God says you need, not what I want. 103 00:06:50,120 --> 00:06:53,880 Otherwise we're spoiled. And those that give to support 104 00:06:53,880 --> 00:06:59,120 children only raise more sport children, The wrath of God. 105 00:06:59,720 --> 00:07:02,360 You know the devil does not want us to know about judgement. 106 00:07:03,840 --> 00:07:06,320 The Jehovah Witnesses remember knocking on our door one time 107 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:09,640 saying, well you're God, he's created, He's got a hell. 108 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:14,960 He sends people hell. No, a hell was not created from 109 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:17,120 humanity. He was created for the angels 110 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:20,200 who left and lost their first place. 111 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:23,600 B People. God doesn't send anyone to hell. 112 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:26,680 People choose to go to hell of their own accord. 113 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:30,840 Besides, you don't even believe in hell, so why are you 114 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:36,160 questioning me about that? The devil does not want to know 115 00:07:36,160 --> 00:07:38,080 us about to know about judgement. 116 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:44,040 You know. Knowing that judgement is coming 117 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:49,320 can change our lives. I've seen that when I've been in 118 00:07:49,320 --> 00:07:51,920 hospices, when people are knowing they're about to die, 119 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:57,000 they don't know Christ. They know judgement is coming. 120 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:02,040 But but because I start to get fearful of death and death is 121 00:08:02,040 --> 00:08:05,120 the last great enemy of us all, every one of us is going to die. 122 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:08,600 My brother rang me yesterday. He said Keith back in hospital, 123 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:12,880 he's quite a bit older than me. I need you to come up, bring a 124 00:08:12,880 --> 00:08:15,680 pen and paper. We're going to organise his 125 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:17,920 funeral. So we're going to go through 126 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:21,640 that and part of that organising will be me saying and talk to 127 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:26,520 him about his walk with God, his salvation, so that when I do his 128 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:31,320 funeral, I'll be able to say I know where he is, I know what's 129 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:33,039 happened changes the whole matter. 130 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:34,840 He's going to get his house in order. 131 00:08:35,799 --> 00:08:37,080 Have you got your house in order? 132 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:41,840 Are you ready to make God? Because each and every one of us 133 00:08:41,840 --> 00:08:45,440 will die. We don't know when, but each and 134 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:49,680 every one of us will. Knowing judgement is coming can 135 00:08:49,680 --> 00:08:56,960 change our lives. So God commands the wrath of God 136 00:08:56,960 --> 00:09:01,920 is going to be poured out. You know that actually, as we 137 00:09:01,920 --> 00:09:03,880 read through the Book of Revelation, you know, we're 138 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:07,360 heading to one place. We're heading to the great White 139 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:12,640 Throne judgement where every man, every woman, every child 140 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:18,320 who has rejected Christ will be raised and stand before God. 141 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:21,960 They'll stand before Jesus Christ at the Great White Throne 142 00:09:21,960 --> 00:09:25,960 judgement, and no one who comes up in the second resurrection 143 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:32,960 will go to heaven. And so all of earth, those who 144 00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:36,760 reject Jesus Christ, all of earth are moving towards 145 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:41,320 billions of people moving towards this place this day when 146 00:09:41,320 --> 00:09:46,480 they will each stand before God and having rejected Jesus Christ 147 00:09:46,480 --> 00:09:53,440 as the Lord and Saviour will be cast into eternity of darkness, 148 00:09:53,680 --> 00:10:00,120 loneliness without God. Verse 2 So the first went Angel 149 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:04,680 poured out his bowl upon the earth and a fowl and loathsome 150 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:11,840 saw came upon the men who had noticed it only affected a 151 00:10:11,840 --> 00:10:15,840 certain group who had the mark of the beast. 152 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:19,240 Remember the Antichrist is ruling the world at this time. 153 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:22,560 He's the world's most powerful dictator to ever come. 154 00:10:23,080 --> 00:10:24,960 He's taken the mark because you don't have. 155 00:10:25,160 --> 00:10:26,800 You don't have his mark. You can't buy. 156 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:28,080 You can't eat. They'll kill you. 157 00:10:28,600 --> 00:10:30,720 You don't take his mark means you're a believer. 158 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:34,040 You're a Jesus Christ. You'll die for your faith, but 159 00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:36,920 billions of the world will take them out. 160 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:38,360 Yeah, I'm following him, man. Yeah. 161 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:39,360 I'm. I'm for him. 162 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:41,440 They receive his mark. I'm, I'm, I'm. 163 00:10:41,600 --> 00:10:43,720 I'm all for. They worship his image. 164 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:49,680 This judgement, bold judgement is poured out upon all the men 165 00:10:49,680 --> 00:10:53,600 who had the mark of the beast and those who worship the image 166 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:56,560 to worship his image. And remember, halfway through, 167 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:00,360 remember Israel has rebuilt the temple in Jerusalem. 168 00:11:00,400 --> 00:11:02,240 That's been happening and going along. 169 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:05,120 Then on the abomination of desolation on that day, the 170 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:07,440 Antichrist arrives. They all welcome. 171 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:09,200 Yeah, man, he's the guy that helped build the temple. 172 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:14,120 He goes into the temple, says stop everything, worship me, 173 00:11:15,480 --> 00:11:19,080 take my mark. The Jews will have to flee, run 174 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:22,400 for their lives, literally, literally not grant, not go back 175 00:11:22,400 --> 00:11:30,920 and get in, Just take off, run. And from that moment he will be 176 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:35,000 worshipped as God, and he sets up in that new temple to be 177 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:39,240 built his image, and people will worship his image. 178 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:44,480 It says of the sores in the old King James Version. 179 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:48,640 It says noisome. Other translations have 180 00:11:48,760 --> 00:11:52,800 loathsome sores. In the Greek it means evil. 181 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:57,560 This is the physical description, evil, bad, wicked, 182 00:11:57,560 --> 00:12:02,240 malignant source, festering, painful, horrific source, 183 00:12:03,160 --> 00:12:06,040 meaning these sores will be festering, painful and 184 00:12:06,040 --> 00:12:11,800 incurable. But it's only on those who have 185 00:12:11,800 --> 00:12:15,320 rejected Jesus Christ, who have worshipped the Antichrist, who 186 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:19,360 have chosen to follow the Antichrist, who have taken upon 187 00:12:19,360 --> 00:12:27,640 themselves with great joy to bear His mark, to identify fully 188 00:12:27,640 --> 00:12:29,240 with Him. I worship him. 189 00:12:29,400 --> 00:12:36,160 Look, it's on here and here. But these saws will not affect 190 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:40,240 believers at this time. Drop down to verse 11 very 191 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:41,200 quickly. Verse 11. 192 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:45,760 Notice 1611. They blasphemed the God of 193 00:12:45,760 --> 00:12:49,760 heaven because of their pains and their sores. 194 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:51,800 They did not repent of their deeds. 195 00:12:51,800 --> 00:12:56,440 These sores don't go away. They had them forever. 196 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:03,760 While they live, the sores are still inflicting them, still 197 00:13:03,760 --> 00:13:06,080 uncured. We find the people with these 198 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:08,400 sores and that notice what's happened. 199 00:13:08,520 --> 00:13:12,760 They're beyond repentance even though they've been afflicted. 200 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:16,640 That I don't want God beyond repentance. 201 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,760 There is a place, the book of Romans chapter 1 and 2, read it 202 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:22,320 carefully. It says there is a line in the 203 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:25,400 sand. There's a place when God's Holy 204 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:28,680 Spirit continues to talk to you, talk to you, woo you, guide you, 205 00:13:29,040 --> 00:13:32,120 lure you, try and get you. There's a place in the sand 206 00:13:32,200 --> 00:13:37,600 where you go no, no, no, no, no. And the God says, OK, as you did 207 00:13:37,600 --> 00:13:47,160 with Pharaoh, OK, all right. And God gives you over, God 208 00:13:47,160 --> 00:13:48,720 gives them over to a reprobate mind. 209 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:51,760 God gives them over a place in the line on the sand where you 210 00:13:51,760 --> 00:13:58,160 can say no too many times. These people, no matter what's 211 00:13:58,160 --> 00:14:02,720 happening to them, it says, and they did not repent of their 212 00:14:02,720 --> 00:14:08,840 deeds beyond repentance. Verse 3 Then the second Angel 213 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:13,800 poured out his ball on the sea, and it became blood as of a dead 214 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:19,320 man. And every notices every living 215 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:27,640 creature in the sea died. Every living creature in the sea 216 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:34,440 died. The second bold judgement, the 217 00:14:34,440 --> 00:14:38,360 sea. This is the entire, all the 218 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:43,240 oceans of the world took on the form of the blood of a dead man. 219 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:45,160 Now I've seen that it's not not pretty. 220 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:51,640 It's clotted. It's dark, gelatinous. 221 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:54,400 It's foul. It's rank. 222 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:04,920 Every sea creature perishes. Not one fish, not one living 223 00:15:04,920 --> 00:15:10,280 thing in the world's oceans escapes death at this time. 224 00:15:10,960 --> 00:15:16,400 It's like it's choked. You know, we see it every 225 00:15:16,440 --> 00:15:19,080 occasionally in the Swan River. You know, the algae comes and 226 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:21,040 stuff. But this is, it's, it's the 227 00:15:21,080 --> 00:15:24,240 whole, the oceans of the world are choked. 228 00:15:24,800 --> 00:15:27,160 Everything dies. Everything dies. 229 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:33,160 Nothing escapes death at this time. 230 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:40,120 And so there is now no life on 71% of the Earth's coverage, 231 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:43,720 which is the ocean. There's not an ounce of life on 232 00:15:43,800 --> 00:15:46,400 there. Think about it here where we 233 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:49,280 are. It's similar to the first plague 234 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:54,080 that fell in Egypt in Exodus 7, verse 20 to 24. 235 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:56,600 And it's similar to the second judgement. 236 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:00,160 But the second judgement that occurred trumpet judgement. 237 00:16:00,440 --> 00:16:03,240 It was only a small area, an area of the ocean. 238 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:07,200 But here it's all the oceans of the world. 239 00:16:07,480 --> 00:16:12,920 As I said, 71% of the Earth's surface is now dead. 240 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:18,600 It's now like blood, stinking death, full of death. 241 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:21,920 Every dead fish, every dead animal, they're all floating. 242 00:16:21,920 --> 00:16:24,640 It's just. And they're all just perishing. 243 00:16:26,480 --> 00:16:30,400 The ocean, which we take so much for granted today, will become 244 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,160 one giant pewter pool of stinking death. 245 00:16:34,040 --> 00:16:38,200 There's 4 and the third Angel poured out his ball on the 246 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:41,600 rivers and springs. Notice springs. 247 00:16:41,600 --> 00:16:43,880 Springs come up out of the out of the ground from the bottom, 248 00:16:43,880 --> 00:16:45,000 don't they? They spring up. 249 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,200 That's what I call springs, springs of water. 250 00:16:48,280 --> 00:16:54,000 And they became blood. The third Angel pours out his 251 00:16:54,000 --> 00:17:03,360 ball and the world's total water supply two becomes undrinkable 252 00:17:04,920 --> 00:17:08,480 as it assumes also the likeness of blood. 253 00:17:09,520 --> 00:17:12,640 So what will be left for people to drink or to die of thirsty. 254 00:17:12,640 --> 00:17:15,640 Think of Australia. W Australia, we have desalina 255 00:17:15,640 --> 00:17:20,280 tion plants not going to work because the Ocean's full of 256 00:17:21,079 --> 00:17:26,720 can't pump that in all our dams. It's 1 river, all the springs 257 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:29,520 that that pour out of the ground or just going to be bubbling 258 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:38,520 blood, nothing to drink so great first and besides the ocean, how 259 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:42,440 many people live off the ocean? Think of the Asiatic lands, I 260 00:17:42,440 --> 00:17:47,600 mean the sea Polynesian islands, they they their whole lifestyle, 261 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:55,440 their diet is on the oceans. Each of the bold judgements at 262 00:17:55,440 --> 00:18:00,120 this time in the great tribulation that occur, besides 263 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:04,440 being horrific in their destructive effect, there's 264 00:18:04,440 --> 00:18:08,000 something else that's occurring that hasn't happened before this 265 00:18:08,000 --> 00:18:10,320 time. The judgements are cumulative. 266 00:18:10,800 --> 00:18:13,480 You know, before we've had demonic things coming out the 267 00:18:13,480 --> 00:18:15,640 pits and they've lasted for a period of five years, five 268 00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:17,680 months, and then gone away. This has happened and it's 269 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:20,680 finished. It's going to, these aren't 270 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:24,720 going away. The saws aren't going and it's 271 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:30,000 not for a period of time, the pollution of the ocean and the 272 00:18:30,000 --> 00:18:32,080 waters. It's not just for a period of 273 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:35,080 time, it's done. This is for good. 274 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:40,960 And this is what makes the bold judgements even more devastating 275 00:18:41,240 --> 00:18:45,120 as they remain and build up one upon another. 276 00:18:46,520 --> 00:18:49,320 The Ocean's putrid rotting stench of death. 277 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:54,840 Decaying bodies of every sea creature decomposing in the 278 00:18:55,120 --> 00:19:00,040 coagulative blood like waters, the rivers and spring waters 279 00:19:00,040 --> 00:19:04,200 polluting, becoming like blood. There is nothing to drink. 280 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:11,720 In addition, you remember back in Chapter 11 verse 6, two 281 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:14,880 witnesses. Remember those guys, 2 witnesses 282 00:19:16,120 --> 00:19:22,360 and God had given them power to halt the rain for a 3 1/2 year 283 00:19:22,360 --> 00:19:26,400 period. It says in Revelation 11/6 these 284 00:19:26,400 --> 00:19:31,560 have power to shut heaven so that no rain falls in the days 285 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:37,160 of their prophecy and they have power over waters to turn them 286 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:41,720 to blood and to strike the earth with all plagues as often as the 287 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:43,960 desire. So besides these events 288 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:49,320 happening, the spin offs of all these things, you know, death, I 289 00:19:49,360 --> 00:19:54,400 mean, and and they contagion that that breaks out the the 290 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:58,760 disease and plagues and pestilence that comes from from 291 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:01,160 being around death and putrefaction. 292 00:20:02,360 --> 00:20:12,840 So the question is, how can a God of compassion, mercy, grace, 293 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:17,400 how can that God send such horrific judgements? 294 00:20:17,800 --> 00:20:21,400 Upon humanity during this time, Maybe you're thinking that well, 295 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:23,160 I mean, this is how can he do that. 296 00:20:25,080 --> 00:20:29,520 It's been said if God's great love for you does not bring you 297 00:20:29,520 --> 00:20:36,600 now to repentance, 2025 God's great love, then in the future 298 00:20:37,120 --> 00:20:41,800 if you miss the rapture of the church and you are left behind, 299 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:47,920 then the future judgments of God either won't bring you to 300 00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:49,680 repentance. In other words, you've had your 301 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:53,920 chance here, you missed out. There's a good chance. 302 00:20:54,240 --> 00:20:57,440 Why would the judgments of God then turn your heart to God? 303 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:02,720 In Romans chapter 2, verse four in the new living Translation, 304 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,800 Paul puts it this way. He speaks to us now. 305 00:21:06,000 --> 00:21:12,120 He says, don't you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant and 306 00:21:12,120 --> 00:21:15,680 patient God is with you? He is with that, with you now, 307 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:17,200 right now. We're living in a period called 308 00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:21,040 grace. Does this mean nothing to you? 309 00:21:21,120 --> 00:21:24,920 Paul's ass? Paul goes on to say, can't you 310 00:21:24,920 --> 00:21:30,000 see that his kindness, God's kindness to you now, is intended 311 00:21:30,000 --> 00:21:33,840 to turn you from your sin? In other words, you think, well, 312 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:36,760 I'm going OK. I mean, I'm, I'm going, well, 313 00:21:37,120 --> 00:21:38,520 you're living. You're going good. 314 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:42,680 That's God's blessing. The fact that your heart keeps 315 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:47,600 beating is God's blessing. The fact that you have food, 316 00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:50,400 that you have a job, that you live in Australia. 317 00:21:50,480 --> 00:21:53,320 I mean as you travel, and I hate travelling, done with it. 318 00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:59,120 As you travel, you come back to Australia, we have clean air, no 319 00:21:59,120 --> 00:22:03,400 rubbish. And you know, we take Australia 320 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,000 especially. This is the judgement that's 321 00:22:05,000 --> 00:22:07,080 going to come on. Aren't we one of the most 322 00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:11,040 blessed nations in the world? We have this huge landmass, 323 00:22:11,320 --> 00:22:14,240 there's only 27,000,026 million of us. 324 00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:20,520 We have land, we have food, we're in the top 3% individually 325 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:22,320 of the wealthiest people in the world. 326 00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:24,360 And yet we've walked away from God. 327 00:22:27,760 --> 00:22:32,080 And this is the kindness of God. This is what Australians don't 328 00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,760 get. We are living in the kindness of 329 00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:39,680 God right now, and yet we're, we're, we're, we're turning our 330 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:44,320 backs upon Him. Listen carefully. 331 00:22:45,360 --> 00:22:51,520 If a person continues to resist God's goodness, his kindness, 332 00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:59,360 his grace, then in the end the Bible tells us that person will 333 00:22:59,360 --> 00:23:04,800 receive judgement and this they will have chosen for themselves. 334 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:09,080 It says in the book of Romans that when we each stand before 335 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,720 God, and I'm saying not us Christians, but non believers, 336 00:23:12,840 --> 00:23:16,400 when they stand before God and people say, well, when I stand 337 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:18,320 for oh God, I got some questions for him. 338 00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:21,000 You know, you ever read those magazines and they'll have you 339 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:22,960 know what, when you go to heaven, what you got to say, 340 00:23:22,960 --> 00:23:29,760 Well, if there is a God, and I'm going to just no, because the 341 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:32,560 Bible says when you stand before God as an individual, you know 342 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,920 what? You'll say nothing because you 343 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:41,280 know, you'll know you're guilty. You'll know you're guilty, 344 00:23:42,640 --> 00:23:48,160 guilty of your sin. These bold judgments will occur. 345 00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:51,760 They are a certainty. We are reading the word of God. 346 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:54,560 This is prophetic. These events are going to 347 00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,560 happen. Jesus is telling John, this is 348 00:23:57,560 --> 00:23:59,880 what's going to happen to our world. 349 00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:04,280 This is what's coming these judgements to come. 350 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:11,600 They are not some speculative propaganda or press release from 351 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:17,800 a group of brainstorming pro climate change scientists 352 00:24:18,920 --> 00:24:20,920 collaborating their research study. 353 00:24:21,080 --> 00:24:24,720 They've just told us again now this week I heard that polar 354 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,160 aspects going to flood and we're we're all done. 355 00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:28,560 We're all going to be, you know, all this. 356 00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,400 Well, actually they're just a a bit out. 357 00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,800 I'm not funny at the moment, but in the Book of Revelation, it's 358 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:37,840 going to happen. It's coming. 359 00:24:38,240 --> 00:24:41,840 God's Word says all this is going to happen. 360 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:48,480 But in the same manner, as real and as terrible as we read that 361 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:52,200 these judgments are, I want to remind you of something else, 362 00:24:53,680 --> 00:25:00,120 that the forgiveness of God, the grace of God, He's offered to 363 00:25:00,120 --> 00:25:04,160 you today of his forgiveness and that there is a place called 364 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,560 heaven that he wants you to go to that he has prepared for you 365 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:13,400 is also as real. Jesus says, I go to prepare a 366 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:17,400 place for you. That's that's an actual location 367 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:20,880 that where I am, there you may be also. 368 00:25:23,640 --> 00:25:28,160 And so as real as these are, you see, here's the conundrum. 369 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:32,120 There's only two groups in the world, believers and non 370 00:25:32,120 --> 00:25:34,840 believers. It's not a split up of 371 00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:37,080 religions. There's only those who believe 372 00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:39,640 in Jesus Christ because Jesus says I am the way, the truth and 373 00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:41,920 the light. There's no other way, no other 374 00:25:41,920 --> 00:25:46,440 path. And those who reject Jesus 375 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:49,640 Christ. The question we want to ask 376 00:25:49,680 --> 00:25:54,400 again today is, is God fair? Is he just? 377 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,440 Do you ever think God's unfair, that he's unjust? 378 00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:59,680 Is God fair? Is he just? 379 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:09,160 Verse 5 And I heard the Angel of the waters saying you're 380 00:26:09,160 --> 00:26:12,880 righteous. Oh Lord, the one who is and who 381 00:26:12,880 --> 00:26:15,440 was and who is to be we, who is that? 382 00:26:15,520 --> 00:26:18,440 That's Jesus Christ, isn't it? Jesus Christ the same yesterday, 383 00:26:18,440 --> 00:26:24,000 today and forever, because you have judged these things and 384 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:28,320 here's the reason why he judged these things for they that is 385 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,920 the earth dwellers, those who's the judgement is falling upon 386 00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:36,200 those who had the mark of the beast, For they have shed the 387 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:40,360 blood of Saints. That's Christians and prophets. 388 00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,280 And you have given them blood to drink. 389 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:46,520 They've shed the blood. So here it goes. 390 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:52,440 Here's here's the judgement. Whatsoever a man sows, so shall 391 00:26:52,440 --> 00:26:55,720 he reap. They sow death killing believers 392 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:59,920 during the tribulation period. They're going to drink blood. 393 00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:06,160 And it says for it is their just Jew. 394 00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:10,880 And I heard another from the altar saying Even so. 395 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:13,720 So a different voice, This voice is coming from the altar of God. 396 00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:17,200 Even so, Lord God Almighty, notice what this voice says. 397 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:21,760 True and righteous are your judgments. 398 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,440 What you're doing, Lord, is exactly right on. 399 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:27,640 These are witnesses. This is the angels. 400 00:27:28,040 --> 00:27:30,480 This is another voice from the altar of God. 401 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,080 What you're doing is absolutely perfect. 402 00:27:33,080 --> 00:27:36,520 God in this, in his judgement, absolutely right on. 403 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:43,360 Then the 4th Angel poured out his bowl upon the sun, and power 404 00:27:43,360 --> 00:27:48,280 was given to him to scorch men with fire, and men were scorched 405 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:50,400 with great heat. This is coming from the sun. 406 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,720 And they and what did they do? They blasphemed the name of God 407 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:59,280 who has power over these plagues, and they did not repent 408 00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:06,360 and give him glory. In the midst of the outpouring 409 00:28:06,360 --> 00:28:09,960 of these ball judgements, the third Angel, the one who's 410 00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:14,440 poured his ball out upon the springs and the rivers, makes 411 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:17,880 this profound statement as as he's saying, well, what we're 412 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,840 doing what you're this judgement exactly right. 413 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:24,760 The Angel says, this is exactly right, Lord. 414 00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,840 He declares for all to hear. You are righteous. 415 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:34,000 Oh Lord, the one who is and was and who is to be because you 416 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,680 have pledged these things, you have judged these things. 417 00:28:37,960 --> 00:28:41,320 This is their just you. So three things. 418 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:49,560 One, God's judgement of sinners is always and at all time 419 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:54,880 unquestionably righteous. Why? 420 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:57,880 Because he's the holy God. Whatever he does, it's always 421 00:28:57,880 --> 00:28:59,080 righteous. That's his character. 422 00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,800 He can't make doesn't go. Oh, that's Oh yeah, that was a 423 00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:06,560 bit of a mistake. Whatever God does, the holy God 424 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:12,520 and he makes a judgement, it's absolutely righteous to. 425 00:29:13,080 --> 00:29:19,320 Although God's wrath is terrifying and deadly, it is. 426 00:29:19,320 --> 00:29:25,800 The Bible says just in other words, it is an appropriate 427 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:30,120 response to sinners rejecting him. 428 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,120 How often have you and I watch the courts? 429 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,440 It's go to court, people go to court, they kill someone, they 430 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:40,320 do this and all like this horrific thing and they're out, 431 00:29:41,080 --> 00:29:42,680 they're gone. You got that? 432 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:47,000 Well, that's not judgement. That's not just, oh God, when he 433 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:50,240 makes his judgements with these judgements, they're exactly 434 00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:54,680 right on. Thirdly, those who have spilled 435 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:59,240 and taken innocent blood during the Tribulation, those who are 436 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:04,240 serving the Antichrist, killing all the Christians at this time, 437 00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:08,760 are given, fittingly, blood to drink in the angels. 438 00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:14,200 Chilling words in this interlude he says the Angel says for it is 439 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,440 their just Jew or in other words, they deserve it. 440 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,720 Well, they're what's happening. They get they're getting exactly 441 00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,640 what they deserve. Now remember back a few chapters 442 00:30:25,640 --> 00:30:30,280 in chapter 6, there was a group of people, Revelation chapter 6, 443 00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:38,520 verse 10, who are believers who die for their faith. 444 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,920 The word of the testimony of the blood of the Lamb did not take 445 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:46,280 the mark of the beast. They die for their faith during 446 00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:51,680 the tribulation period. And as they've died, they are 447 00:30:51,680 --> 00:30:55,720 before the Lord under the altar. And it says, and they cried, 448 00:30:55,720 --> 00:31:01,600 this group with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy 449 00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:09,360 and true, until you judge and avenge our blood, our deaths on 450 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:13,400 those who dwell upon the earth. They were killed by the 451 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:17,400 followers of the Antichrist. How long, Lord, before these 452 00:31:17,400 --> 00:31:22,760 people that killed us because of our faith and love in you, we 453 00:31:22,760 --> 00:31:25,000 would not deny you, and we died forever. 454 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:26,720 How long, Lord, before they're judged? 455 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:32,640 And in verse 11 it says, then following that verse, it says a 456 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,320 white robe was given to each of them. 457 00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:37,280 It was said to them that they should rest a little while 458 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:41,360 longer until both the number of their fellow servants and their 459 00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:47,720 brethren who would be killed, believers as they were, was 460 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:52,360 completed. These judgments that are 461 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:57,640 occurring, these bold judgments are an answer to their prayer, 462 00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:04,320 to the prayers of those Saints who die during the Tribulation 463 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:09,080 period, who are murdered for their faith during the 464 00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:12,440 Tribulation period, for following Jesus Christ and 465 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:16,520 refusing to worship the Antichrist, refusing to bow down 466 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,480 to his image, refusing to take his mark. 467 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:25,320 And for this they were executed. But there also comes another 468 00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:30,240 voice came from the altar. This time it comes directly from 469 00:32:30,240 --> 00:32:34,280 the altar and I heard from the altar saying Even so, Lord God 470 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:37,360 Almighty, true and righteous are your judgments in the book of 471 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:42,560 Romans chapter 12, verse 19, the writer says, beloved, do not 472 00:32:42,560 --> 00:32:45,280 avenge yourselves. You know you and I really want 473 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:46,960 to take matters in their own hands often. 474 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:49,320 Don't we ever done that and found out. 475 00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,120 Oh, well, that was I made a blue. 476 00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:55,000 I mean, we had four children and you know, you'd go into the room 477 00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:58,280 and there's chaos in the room is that little and they're all 478 00:32:58,280 --> 00:32:59,720 going. It was him, it was her. 479 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:03,640 And so we used to line them up and smack them, smack them all 480 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,880 and some innocent kids going well, what the heck come, it was 481 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,440 you and that would happen when you walk out there. 482 00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,240 And so we can't we can't even decide where their own kids is. 483 00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:22,550 No right or wrong, but God does. That's why judgement is left to 484 00:33:22,550 --> 00:33:26,110 him. He says in Romans 12/19 485 00:33:26,670 --> 00:33:32,910 vengeance is mine. I will reply. 486 00:33:33,030 --> 00:33:35,720 That's the thing, you know, how often have you said, well, 487 00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:36,880 people are getting away with things? 488 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:42,000 No, they're not. They appear to be getting away 489 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:44,120 with things, but they're not kind of. 490 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:49,840 No one's going to get away with anything because God is holy, 491 00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:53,640 right? Just vengeance is mine. 492 00:33:53,640 --> 00:33:55,920 I will replace as the Lord again and again. 493 00:33:56,240 --> 00:34:03,560 The Lord will judge his people. Hebrews 10/30 having willfully 494 00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:07,920 rejected the knowledge of the truth, Hebrews 10/26 says to 495 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,840 those who reject Jesus Christ, don't want the gospel, don't 496 00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,159 give me any. You know your church stuff, I'm 497 00:34:13,159 --> 00:34:19,480 not interested, OK. And God says if we sin willfully 498 00:34:21,080 --> 00:34:24,159 after we have received the knowledge of truth, you've been 499 00:34:24,159 --> 00:34:28,719 told about Jesus Christ, you know, John 316, you know that 500 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:30,080 God is real. Yeah, I know. 501 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,480 I remember walking up, there was some US sailors that had come to 502 00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:35,159 shore. We were witnessing in the 503 00:34:35,159 --> 00:34:37,040 streets of Perth. We used to do that on a Friday 504 00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:39,239 night, go to Perth and witness and give out tracks. 505 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,480 And these sailors went up to these sailors and they went, 506 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:44,880 Amen. Look, I know what you're saying 507 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,080 is true, you know, and everything. 508 00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,880 I know God is real Jesus Christ. I know that, but I'm here to 509 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:53,320 sin. So. 510 00:34:53,679 --> 00:34:56,639 So they have the knowledge, but they make a choice. 511 00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:03,880 Hebrews 10/26. If we sin willfully after we 512 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:07,880 have received the knowledge of the truth, notice these words. 513 00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:13,680 There no longer remains A sacrifice for sins. 514 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:18,560 It's done. There's nothing left for the 515 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:21,760 unbelieving world but to receive what they deserve. 516 00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,640 And that's why these bold judgements are coming out upon 517 00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:26,560 people to have taken the mark of the beast. 518 00:35:26,800 --> 00:35:30,200 And at the end of each one, they, they, they blasphemy God. 519 00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:37,800 The 4th Angel poured out his hand upon the sun, ball upon the 520 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,480 sun. Power was given to him to scorch 521 00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,200 men with fire. The men were scorched with great 522 00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:44,720 heat and they blasphemed you and I. 523 00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,160 You know, we. Who's had enough winter? 524 00:35:47,160 --> 00:35:48,680 Yeah, we've had enough winter, you know. 525 00:35:48,720 --> 00:35:51,080 And you know what we'll be doing soon as the summer comes, man, 526 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:53,280 it's hot. Oh, it's too hot. 527 00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:56,600 Let's wish it was winter again. We're so fickle, aren't we? 528 00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:58,240 At least I am. I know. 529 00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:01,080 And I complained. We were away at the conference 530 00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:04,120 place and it was hot now, which we were looking to stay in the 531 00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:05,200 shade. It's too hot. 532 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:06,960 It's too hot. Come back here. 533 00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:08,880 It's freezing. You know, it's draining. 534 00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:19,240 So the sun God gets the thermostat and goes and it just 535 00:36:19,240 --> 00:36:25,880 powers on and it gets hot. Now at this moment, at this 536 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:30,320 judgement, the 4th bowl judgement, the ice caps will 537 00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:35,600 melt. They will melt and massive 538 00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:38,760 flooding all here, Secret harbour everywhere. 539 00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:47,160 We'll all be lent like that. Those are left and the ocean 540 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:50,960 remember is stench. All that flooding. 541 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:54,840 We just move inland all the coastal areas because the pole 542 00:36:54,840 --> 00:37:01,440 oz caps will melt. The fifth ball this 10. 543 00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,680 Then the 5th Angel pulled out his ball on the throne of the 544 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:09,280 beast. On the throne of the beast. 545 00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,800 See how specific the judgements are? 546 00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:15,480 There's not RAA, check it over here. 547 00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:20,280 That'll do. The 5th bowl is poured out on 548 00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:25,720 the throne of the Antichrist, and it says. 549 00:37:25,720 --> 00:37:32,920 And his Kingdom, all that he rules, became full of darkness. 550 00:37:33,360 --> 00:37:37,880 And we're talking darkness that you cannot see a hand in front 551 00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:41,480 of your face. And it was so dark. 552 00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,800 And it's like the plague in Egypt, so dark people can't, 553 00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,520 can't see, can't see the person next to them, can't see where 554 00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,960 they're walking. It's so dark that they gnawed on 555 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,360 their tongues. Where are we? 556 00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:54,640 Where are we? What's going on? 557 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:59,560 Because of the pain, they blasphemy the God of heaven. 558 00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:05,280 Because of their pains and their sores, the sores are still 559 00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:11,280 pulsating and did not repent of their deeds. 560 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:18,040 You'll note now in our text how the followers of the Antichrist 561 00:38:18,040 --> 00:38:24,800 at this time have adopted the character of the Antichrist. 562 00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:31,120 The character is what the continually blaspheming God Bob 563 00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,640 Dylan wrote a song. Everyone's got to worship 564 00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:36,120 somebody. You all bow down to somebody 565 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:42,040 what you worship, what you worship, you become like you can 566 00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:45,520 talk to people, you can go out and and when you have discussion 567 00:38:45,520 --> 00:38:48,840 with people, whatever they worship, whatever they're really 568 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:55,160 into, they are you know, if they're into their career, it's 569 00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:59,240 just solely about on the phone. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to do 570 00:38:59,240 --> 00:39:00,600 this. And and that's they, they're 571 00:39:00,600 --> 00:39:04,480 just living their career. If it's sport to the NTH degree, 572 00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:06,480 it's just everything. It's about that whatever, 573 00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:10,280 whatever you worship, whatever you are giving your life, your 574 00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:14,720 time, your resources, your finances and your passion to 575 00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,120 whatever you worship, you will become like. 576 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:23,560 That's why the Bible says we are to become like Christ. 577 00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:27,120 Why? Because we should be worshipping 578 00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:29,640 Him. And the more you and I worship 579 00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:36,200 Jesus Christ, then the more and more each day you should take on 580 00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:41,240 His character. So if you go, well, I, this is 581 00:39:41,240 --> 00:39:43,040 how I am. Well, have a look what you're 582 00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:45,800 worshipping because I'm going to tell you, you've got something 583 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,880 else in place of God. But if you're becoming more like 584 00:39:48,880 --> 00:39:53,920 Christ, more gracious, more kind, more loving, more giving, 585 00:39:55,240 --> 00:39:59,480 more forgiving, comforting, if you're becoming like that, then 586 00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,280 you are worshipping the one who is like that. 587 00:40:02,520 --> 00:40:06,480 But if you, if you're unhappy with the way that you are now, 588 00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:10,560 it's either you don't know Christ or be you have got an 589 00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:15,320 idol in place of Christ and you are becoming, you will become 590 00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:21,120 whatever you worship. And you know, The funny thing 591 00:40:21,120 --> 00:40:24,680 is, or the sad thing is, as people get old, you know, 592 00:40:24,680 --> 00:40:26,640 getting and you talk to elderly folk. 593 00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:34,120 And I'm getting there. You see so many sad elderly 594 00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:39,360 situations because they have risen to the place of what they 595 00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:44,960 have worshipped, whether it be selfishness or or criticism, 596 00:40:45,240 --> 00:40:49,200 sarcasm, whatever. They have worship and given 597 00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:52,960 their life to their career. The kids aren't interested in 598 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,120 them. They don't have a relationship 599 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:58,880 with their kids. No, no one's interested in them 600 00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:00,280 and him. No one visits them. 601 00:41:00,720 --> 00:41:03,520 They don't have friends or anything like that because 602 00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:09,120 they've been their own worshipper of another idol. 603 00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:12,560 But if you are a worshipper and a follower of Jesus Christ, 604 00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:17,880 you'll attract people. People wanted to be with Jesus. 605 00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:22,600 Kids want to hang out with him. People want to be with you. 606 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:29,920 They know you're kind, you're generous, you're comfy that 607 00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:36,080 would you give your life to we who worship Jesus Christ become 608 00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:39,720 like our Saviour. So the question is, is God 609 00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,600 faithful? Is he just? 610 00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:49,000 Let us all today be reminded that God's wrath and his 611 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,000 judgement. And I want to bring us to the 612 00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:55,120 point. Here is what we each actually 613 00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:59,760 deserve. No one in this room deserves 614 00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:05,000 mercy. God, to rightly judge us, should 615 00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:08,960 judge us because we're sinners. We're full of ourselves. 616 00:42:09,480 --> 00:42:12,000 We live simple lives. We have simple thoughts. 617 00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:16,400 We do terrible things. We say terrible things. 618 00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,600 Let us all be reminded that God's wrath and his judgement is 619 00:42:22,600 --> 00:42:25,400 what we each actually deserve. There is none righteous. 620 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:28,120 The Bible says no, not one. We've all fallen short of the 621 00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:30,320 glory of God. No one said, well I'm a good 622 00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:33,520 person, yeah, but you're not good enough in comparison to who 623 00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:38,440 else. In Luke 23 verse 39, remember 624 00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,760 Jesus is hanging between 2 criminals, 2 thieves, and one of 625 00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:45,320 the criminals who was hanging blasphemed Jesus saying if you 626 00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:48,840 ever Christ save yourself and ask, do something. 627 00:42:50,120 --> 00:42:55,040 But the other answer rebuked the other thief saying do you not 628 00:42:55,040 --> 00:43:00,160 even fear God seeing you under the same condemnation? 629 00:43:00,560 --> 00:43:08,560 And then the thief says this we indeed justly, for we receive 630 00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:11,640 the Jew reward of our deeds. We're thieves, we're criminals, 631 00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:15,960 but this man has done nothing wrong. 632 00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:23,160 But God and his great love sent his only begotten Son Jesus to 633 00:43:23,160 --> 00:43:26,600 rescue you and I. He came to suffer in our place 634 00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:30,480 to take God's wrath, which is deservedly to come upon us. 635 00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,000 Step aside and says no, I'll take it for you. 636 00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:37,000 I'll take what you deserve upon me. 637 00:43:38,080 --> 00:43:41,520 Is God acting too harshly in these judgments we read? 638 00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:45,480 We are told to remember Christ each time we gather at the 639 00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,200 Lord's table for communion. Remember what? 640 00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:50,280 Remember that He stood in our place. 641 00:43:51,320 --> 00:43:56,600 God's wrath is exactly what befell our Saviour on the cross 642 00:43:56,600 --> 00:43:59,720 of Calvary. Jesus, the Son of God took the 643 00:43:59,720 --> 00:44:05,800 wrath of God upon Himself for was doing during His torturous 644 00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:10,680 crucifixion, as those great spikes were driven in and 645 00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:14,120 through His hands and driven in and through His feet. 646 00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:19,240 Pain, agony, torturous. Remember the blackness of 647 00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:25,280 darkness that fell on Calvary as our Lord Jesus hung in agony 648 00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:30,200 there on that cross for those three painful hours in complete 649 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:36,000 darkness. It was at that time that the 650 00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:41,680 full weight of God's wrath that we're reading about here was 651 00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:47,240 pressed and crushed Him, and it was poured out upon the innocent 652 00:44:47,240 --> 00:44:52,800 Lamb who was bearing all our sins, your sin, my sins upon 653 00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:56,840 Himself. Isaiah 53 verse 5. 654 00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:04,560 But he was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised 655 00:45:04,720 --> 00:45:09,280 for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace 656 00:45:09,720 --> 00:45:15,000 was upon him. He was oppressed, He was 657 00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:17,760 afflicted, yet He opened not his mouth. 658 00:45:18,120 --> 00:45:20,560 He was led as a lamb to the slaughter. 659 00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:25,360 Jesus voluntarily. He didn't have to took our wrath 660 00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:28,600 upon Himself. Mercy is what He offers us. 661 00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:33,600 Mercy is what He offers you. Separated from the Father. 662 00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:36,640 That's what death is. When people die without Christ, 663 00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:40,240 they'll be separated from God forever. 664 00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:45,200 That's what death is. Jesus hangs on the cross. 665 00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:48,760 What does he cry out as he feels the wrath of God that I should 666 00:45:48,760 --> 00:45:51,680 take? He says, my God, my God, the 667 00:45:51,680 --> 00:45:57,440 only time he calls his Father God, why have you forsaken me? 668 00:45:57,720 --> 00:46:00,800 So that I wouldn't be forsaken? So that you wouldn't be 669 00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:04,840 forsaken. He takes it upon himself, he who 670 00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,720 promised the living waters, remember to the woman at the 671 00:46:07,720 --> 00:46:09,960 well. He says, I, I can give you water 672 00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:13,240 that you'll never thirst again, never thirst again. 673 00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,160 He's at he says that in John chapter 4. 674 00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:23,240 And now as he hangs upon the cross, he says I first, he's 675 00:46:23,240 --> 00:46:24,200 first thing. Why? 676 00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:28,120 Because he's, he's taken the place where I'm going to be 677 00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:35,600 without him first thing forever. Unquenched at first. 678 00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:40,760 And from the moment they threw him down on the cross and they 679 00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:44,760 got those great spikes and they drove them into his hands and 680 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,800 his feet, he was saying what? Father forgive them. 681 00:46:48,720 --> 00:46:50,800 Father, forgive them over and over. 682 00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:53,320 Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. 683 00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:58,160 Father, forgive them. Father, forgive them so that you 684 00:46:58,160 --> 00:47:01,840 and I might receive forgiveness and be given eternal life in 685 00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:04,040 heaven. So I asked you a question, is 686 00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:06,760 God just? Is he fair? 687 00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:11,920 John chapter 3 verse 14, it says as Moses lifted up the serpent 688 00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:16,080 in the wilderness, Even so must the Son of man be lifted up, 689 00:47:16,720 --> 00:47:20,160 that whoever believes in him should not perish. 690 00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:22,880 That's all you have to do. But have eternal life. 691 00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:27,200 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, 692 00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:31,280 that whoever believes in him should not perish, not be 693 00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:33,640 judged, but have everlasting life. 694 00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,840 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn it, 695 00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:40,680 no, but that the world through Him might be saved. 696 00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:45,080 He who believes in Him is not condemned. 697 00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:48,400 If you're a believer here today, judgments don't fall upon you 698 00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:52,160 because they fell upon Him. But he who does not believe is 699 00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:54,920 condemned already. If you don't know Jesus Christ 700 00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:57,400 and you're here today and you're not a Christian, my friend, 701 00:47:57,560 --> 00:47:59,360 judgement sits upon you right now. 702 00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:01,560 If you were to die, if your heart was to stop at this 703 00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:04,080 moment, you would face the judgement of God. 704 00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:08,520 If you reject Jesus Christ and continue to live on after the 705 00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:12,080 rapture and still reject Jesus Christ, these judgements will 706 00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:17,280 occur upon you. He who believes in Him is not 707 00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:20,160 condemned, but he does not believe, is condemned already 708 00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:22,880 because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten 709 00:48:22,880 --> 00:48:26,600 Son. For those who refuse Christ, 710 00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:31,320 those who reject the gospel, the righteous wrath of God, God 711 00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:34,120 still awaits them. It will come. 712 00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:37,640 This is going to happen. Is God just? 713 00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:43,040 Is He fair? Is there no hope for me? 714 00:48:44,160 --> 00:48:46,440 You might be thinking this morning, Well, I'm a Sinner. 715 00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:51,520 Yes, there is hope for you. Our Lord's death on the cross 716 00:48:51,800 --> 00:48:55,280 had to happen because the whole world was in sin. 717 00:48:55,560 --> 00:49:01,360 And our transgressions, our iniquities, we deserve 718 00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:04,840 judgement. We are helpless and hopeless. 719 00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:08,080 We can't save ourselves. We can't do anything. 720 00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:13,240 He had to come, He had to come and rescue us, and He has come 721 00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:16,840 and He has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. 722 00:49:17,760 --> 00:49:21,200 There's a classic hymn, The Rock of Ages that says this. 723 00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:26,480 Not the labours of my hands can fulfil thy laws. 724 00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:33,200 Demands could my zeal no respite, no could my tears 725 00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:36,840 forever flow, Or for sin could not atone. 726 00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:39,600 None of those things will save you from your sin. 727 00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:45,920 You must save you alone. Nothing in my hand I bring 728 00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:49,960 simply to the cross. I cling naked. 729 00:49:49,960 --> 00:49:54,240 Come to thee for grace, foul I to the fountain. 730 00:49:54,240 --> 00:49:59,160 Fly or wash me, Saviour, or I die. 731 00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:02,880 Is God just? Is he fair? 732 00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:10,600 He has given his all for you. Today will you receive his 733 00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:12,240 mercy. If you're here today, you don't 734 00:50:12,240 --> 00:50:15,960 know Jesus Christ. I beg you, repent. 735 00:50:17,040 --> 00:50:19,200 You deserve judgement just as I do. 736 00:50:19,240 --> 00:50:23,920 But God says I ioffer you mercy. But God loves you, for God so 737 00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,720 loved the world. He offers you his love today He 738 00:50:26,720 --> 00:50:30,480 suffered and died for you. If you say no, I don't want it, 739 00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:34,320 then judgement awaits. You will know the reality of 740 00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:40,040 these things, but today, right where you are, you can repent 741 00:50:40,800 --> 00:50:44,920 before He was holy and receive His forgiveness right this 742 00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:45,840 moment. Let's pray. 743 00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:52,600 If you're here today and you're not a Christian and you're 744 00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:56,920 fearful of the things that we've read, and God wants you, He's 745 00:50:56,920 --> 00:51:02,800 warned you to say today is the day for you to commit your life 746 00:51:02,800 --> 00:51:06,760 to Him, to repent of your sins. Yes, you're a Sinner. 747 00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:12,960 I'm a Sinner, So what do you do? You say Father, forgive me for I 748 00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:19,320 have sinned and he will. Father, I believe Jesus Christ 749 00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:24,080 died in my place and He did. Father, I ask you to come into 750 00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:27,680 my life right now. I accept you as my Lord and 751 00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:32,000 Saviour, and He'll come and you'll be saved right this 752 00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:36,880 moment if you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart. 753 00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:39,120 The Bible says that Jesus is Lord. 754 00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:42,520 You shall be saved. If you're here today and you 755 00:51:42,520 --> 00:51:45,480 prayed that prayer, whether you're young, old, or whatever, 756 00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:48,080 whether you've been coming to church for a long time, maybe 757 00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:49,680 you've never committed your life to Christ. 758 00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:52,720 You got to do that. You don't get into heaven by 759 00:51:52,720 --> 00:51:55,240 assimilation. You get into heaven by Jesus 760 00:51:55,240 --> 00:51:56,560 Christ and Him alone.