1 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:11,480 Babylon the Great came tumbling down, chapter 18. 2 00:00:13,280 --> 00:00:16,120 So we had the religious Babylon. We looked at that. 3 00:00:16,920 --> 00:00:25,520 John called it because she wore this image, the name on her 4 00:00:25,520 --> 00:00:28,600 forehead. Mystery Babylon the Great, the 5 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:34,840 mother of harlots, the religious Babylon, chapter 18. 6 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:43,800 Now we come to the economic, commercial, political system of 7 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:48,240 Babylon that currently rules the world. 8 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:53,640 And in chapter 18, we're going to see that it's going to crash 9 00:00:54,120 --> 00:01:01,240 and burn literally and suddenly the last days global government 10 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:08,320 which is gathering and formulating now with the moves 11 00:01:08,320 --> 00:01:13,880 around the world politically. We see today China and Russia 12 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,440 gathering together with North Korea watching a great military 13 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:23,720 parade. And so we see the governments of 14 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:28,920 the world in disarray. Our own nation, the UK, other 15 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,240 countries around the world that are in chaos. 16 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:36,320 There's protests, there's there's massive anti immigration 17 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,760 calls around the world. There's racial divide, there's 18 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:45,280 the Nationalist Party has shown its head here in Australia and 19 00:01:45,280 --> 00:01:50,280 worldwide and governments have got their fingers and all these 20 00:01:50,280 --> 00:01:58,080 pies the last days. Global government under the 21 00:01:58,080 --> 00:02:05,160 Antichrist will be operating under the rule and the power of 22 00:02:05,160 --> 00:02:10,600 the Antichrist who is a man, but he's empowered personally by 23 00:02:10,600 --> 00:02:17,200 Satan himself. And this commercial political, 24 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:22,440 economic system is called Babylon as well. 25 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,480 It too has been with us for some time. 26 00:02:26,480 --> 00:02:31,600 It's not just something that's just started along with its 27 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:36,320 partner, religious Babylon, the false religious harlot of 28 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:40,600 religion. It has had a lust filled 29 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:45,800 relationship since Genesis Chapter 11, verse 4 back there. 30 00:02:48,440 --> 00:02:54,000 It's the people there gathered in Babylon and said come, let us 31 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:58,800 build ourselves a city. You know what a city is? 32 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:02,520 A place where we'll make decisions, where we'll rule, 33 00:03:03,320 --> 00:03:05,600 where we'll have commerce business. 34 00:03:06,840 --> 00:03:11,080 And in that city, so we have commerce business and politics. 35 00:03:11,440 --> 00:03:18,680 We'll have a tower, a religious centre, the two whose top is in 36 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:23,120 the heavens, and let's make a name for ourselves will that 37 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:29,000 power, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the 38 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:33,200 whole earth. The city they built had as their 39 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:35,560 capital Babylon. It was called Babylon. 40 00:03:36,560 --> 00:03:43,480 The tower that they built. A cigarette was called the Tower 41 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:48,760 of Babel. The anti God Babylonian world 42 00:03:48,760 --> 00:03:53,840 system and its tentacles of influence run deep. 43 00:03:55,160 --> 00:03:58,400 I think you and I, once we become born again, our eyes are 44 00:03:58,400 --> 00:04:03,080 open, scales fall off our eyes and we begin to see governments 45 00:04:03,080 --> 00:04:07,720 for what they really are and why they make decisions as they do 46 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:13,040 because they're never in favour of the church. 47 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:18,200 They always make decisions that are going to pull apart that 48 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:23,640 which the foundations look at America on the dollar and God. 49 00:04:23,640 --> 00:04:30,400 We trust the whole Constitution that they put together based on 50 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:35,800 the commandments of God, the word of God from the Mayflower 51 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:41,480 that came out. And so we see in our governments 52 00:04:41,480 --> 00:04:46,120 where we used to have prayer and in schools where we used to have 53 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:48,040 prayer. Now it's interesting that 54 00:04:48,040 --> 00:04:50,800 governments have outlawed prayer in schools. 55 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,480 Governments have outlawed the reading of the Bible. 56 00:04:53,680 --> 00:04:57,240 Governments in America outlawed having the 10 commandments in 57 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:04,960 places. Amazing governments did that on 58 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:06,560 the last days of the Tribulation. 59 00:05:07,200 --> 00:05:11,720 This Babylonian political, commercial, economic system will 60 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:16,800 reach it's zenith in power and corruption, peeking under the 61 00:05:16,800 --> 00:05:22,040 leadership of the Antichrist, a master leader to those people 62 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:27,720 who place their trust in the economic, commercial and worldly 63 00:05:27,720 --> 00:05:31,920 political system. They will come to a sudden 64 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:36,960 realisation and it happens and it's going to particularly come 65 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:44,160 at this time during the tribulation period that where 66 00:05:44,160 --> 00:05:50,200 they've placed all their faith is foolishness because it's all 67 00:05:50,200 --> 00:05:58,520 going to burn down in the day. Hebrews 12/27 says all creation 68 00:05:58,520 --> 00:06:05,800 will be shaken and removed so that only unshakeable things 69 00:06:06,360 --> 00:06:11,920 will remain. The world system is beautifully 70 00:06:11,920 --> 00:06:18,600 defined by John in his letters. 1 John chapter 2 verse 15. 71 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:26,000 John says the writer of the the the writer of the Book of 72 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,280 Revelation as Jesus dictates to him and as he sees the visions, 73 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:35,360 John the same John said do not love the world and that term the 74 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:40,080 world is the Babylonian economic, political, commercial 75 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:43,160 system. Do not love the world. 76 00:06:43,160 --> 00:06:46,680 All the things in the world that makes this up. 77 00:06:48,280 --> 00:06:50,400 He goes on to say, and he's writing to Christians. 78 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:56,480 It's a warning if anyone loves the world, love of the Father is 79 00:06:56,480 --> 00:07:00,280 not in him, he says in the next verse. 80 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:03,560 For all that is in the world, all that is in commercial 81 00:07:03,560 --> 00:07:11,000 Babylon, the last of the flesh, the last of the eyes, pride of 82 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:15,760 life is not of the father, but is of the world. 83 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:21,880 Charles Haddon Spurgeon says the problem with the church trying 84 00:07:21,880 --> 00:07:26,280 to reach the World is that the world has infiltrated the 85 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:30,760 church. And today more of the world 86 00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:35,760 occurs on a Sunday morning in church services and a lot less 87 00:07:35,760 --> 00:07:38,200 of God. So much so that the last letter, 88 00:07:38,200 --> 00:07:42,880 the last church, the Church of Laodicea, nothing of God is 89 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:47,480 happening in the church service with Jesus being outside 90 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:51,280 knocking on the door. Now to us as Christians, it's 91 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:56,720 this love of the world, it's ways, it's passions and it's 92 00:07:56,720 --> 00:08:02,720 lifestyle which can strangle and choke the word of God from 93 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:07,040 bearing fruit in our lives. Doesn't happen overnight. 94 00:08:07,040 --> 00:08:08,960 It happens as you begin to sit in church. 95 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:12,400 You go in church and then you start to not listen. 96 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:15,760 You start coming less and you're not getting out anything out of 97 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:16,960 it. Your worship is not really 98 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:18,800 there. You're in church, but you'd 99 00:08:18,920 --> 00:08:22,600 rather be somewhere else. The world has got a hold of you 100 00:08:24,760 --> 00:08:31,160 and you're on your way. It chokes the word of God from 101 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:34,000 bearing fruit in our lives, Jesus said. 102 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:38,760 Now he who receives seed among the thorns, sour on the seed, 103 00:08:38,760 --> 00:08:44,800 Matthew 13 is he who hears the word and the cares of this world 104 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:54,160 and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes 105 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:56,800 unfruitful. And that, my friends, is the 106 00:08:56,800 --> 00:09:02,880 problem of the church today. We are all susceptible as 107 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,560 believers when it comes to worldliness. 108 00:09:06,440 --> 00:09:11,240 The Bible even describes one individual as an example for us 109 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:17,960 not to follow his name, Demas. He was once a close friend, 110 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:20,800 travelling companion of the Apostle Paul. 111 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:25,800 Yet in Paul's second letter to Timothy, he says of Dimas to 112 00:09:25,800 --> 00:09:31,560 Timothy 410 For Dimas in love with this present world has 113 00:09:31,560 --> 00:09:34,120 deserted me. Wow. 114 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:39,680 This fella originally with Paul, sharing with Paul, going through 115 00:09:39,680 --> 00:09:43,400 the hardships with Paul, but now it's gone. 116 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:52,760 What a tragedy, a life wasted, a testimony ruined, the gospel 117 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:56,840 maligned. For Demas not only deserted Paul 118 00:09:57,680 --> 00:10:01,560 and the Saints of the church, he deserted his Saviour. 119 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:09,120 Worldliness is when you and I say, and it's not so much what 120 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:13,040 we do, the problem with worldliness, it's in our hearts. 121 00:10:13,800 --> 00:10:15,640 So that's where it chokes everything. 122 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:25,080 If only I can win Lotto. Well, why then? 123 00:10:25,080 --> 00:10:27,840 What then? All would be fixed. 124 00:10:27,920 --> 00:10:32,280 You see, you've moved from God to winning Lotto. 125 00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:34,200 It's it's explain. That's the truth. 126 00:10:35,520 --> 00:10:38,560 If only I can marry that person. If I can marry that person. 127 00:10:38,720 --> 00:10:41,400 Oh, everything would be just perfect. 128 00:10:42,680 --> 00:10:46,680 Sorry, if only I could get that job. 129 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:49,280 Oh, that's the job, man. That's the job. 130 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:51,440 I got the career. That's the job. 131 00:10:51,440 --> 00:10:55,120 If I can get that job, we are. I am set. 132 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:57,080 Notice the language and all that. 133 00:10:57,200 --> 00:10:58,600 Notice where the heart is and all that. 134 00:10:58,640 --> 00:11:01,640 What's God got to do with any? Each one of those things is 135 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:02,200 going. Got it. 136 00:11:02,560 --> 00:11:05,160 You can't do any of this. I'm not looking to you in any of 137 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:07,960 this. If only I can have that 138 00:11:07,960 --> 00:11:11,720 investment, man, If we got that investment, we'd be right. 139 00:11:13,560 --> 00:11:18,200 If only I could win that prize. If only we could get that house. 140 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:21,440 If we got that house, man, we that's all. 141 00:11:25,560 --> 00:11:28,560 And we answer with then I will be happy. 142 00:11:28,760 --> 00:11:35,360 And so God says, oh Gee, so you don't. 143 00:11:35,360 --> 00:11:37,360 You're not. It's got nothing to do with me. 144 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:43,400 Exactly. Worldliness cuts got out this 145 00:11:43,400 --> 00:11:45,560 one. After these things, I saw 146 00:11:45,560 --> 00:11:48,520 another Angel coming down from heaven, having great authority, 147 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:51,160 and the earth was illuminated with his glory. 148 00:11:51,160 --> 00:11:54,760 And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, Babylon the 149 00:11:54,760 --> 00:11:59,600 Great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a dwelling place of 150 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:05,680 demons, a prison for every foul spirit, a cage for every unclean 151 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:11,240 and hated. Notice this bird, for all the 152 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:15,120 nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, 153 00:12:15,440 --> 00:12:19,600 the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, 154 00:12:19,840 --> 00:12:23,920 and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the 155 00:12:23,920 --> 00:12:28,040 abundance of a luxury. Notice tentacles are in every 156 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:33,240 group, every age, every person. After these things I saw another 157 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:34,120 Angel. What things? 158 00:12:34,120 --> 00:12:37,840 The things of chapter 17, the destruction of the religious 159 00:12:37,840 --> 00:12:41,760 Babylon, the rebellious harlot that cooperated and partnered 160 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:46,600 with the Antichrist to seduce the world and drown it in 161 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:49,800 spiritual adultery, Having a religion without God. 162 00:12:51,240 --> 00:12:53,840 In chapter 18, it's now commercial. 163 00:12:53,840 --> 00:12:56,680 Babylon's day of judgement and reckoning by God. 164 00:12:57,360 --> 00:13:00,160 The Angel that comes down from heaven has noticed this. 165 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:06,080 It says great authority, power, so much so that the earth was 166 00:13:06,080 --> 00:13:09,240 illumined by his glory. Now it's not Jesus. 167 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:11,320 How do we know that? Because it says it's an Angel. 168 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:16,480 Simple. But it is a very powerful Angel 169 00:13:16,480 --> 00:13:19,240 of rank. And the earth was lit up by his 170 00:13:19,240 --> 00:13:22,320 splendour. Michael the Archangel, who knows 171 00:13:24,080 --> 00:13:26,640 this mighty Angel in verse 2, cried mightily. 172 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:30,840 Notice again, Heaven's going to be loud with a loud voice. 173 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:35,840 Babylon the Great is fallen, is fallen, he repeats it. 174 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:38,080 Why the repetition, you might ask? 175 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:42,440 That's a good question, possibly to refer to the fact that both 176 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:47,160 the religious and the commercial Babylon are now gone. 177 00:13:48,560 --> 00:13:53,480 Also, it might simply be a resounding emphasis that the 178 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:57,880 world's system of Babylon will never rise again. 179 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:04,640 It is fallen, fallen in the last days under the Antichrist. 180 00:14:05,200 --> 00:14:11,040 The harlot, Babylonian World One World Church and the government 181 00:14:11,360 --> 00:14:15,520 in partnership with it under the leadership of the Antichrist 182 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:20,800 along with the false prophet will be deeply partnered and 183 00:14:20,800 --> 00:14:24,320 demon infested. It says. 184 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:27,960 Notice this is not my words, John writes down. 185 00:14:28,360 --> 00:14:33,360 And it has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for 186 00:14:33,360 --> 00:14:38,280 every foul spirit and a cage for every unclean and hated bird. 187 00:14:38,440 --> 00:14:41,120 It's interesting that it's saying commercial Babylon 188 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:44,680 politics. This system is run and 189 00:14:44,680 --> 00:14:49,120 infiltrated by spiritual demonic powers. 190 00:14:49,480 --> 00:14:51,560 That's why we go. How can the government do that? 191 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:59,680 How can we have abortion as law? How can we have euthanasia as 192 00:14:59,680 --> 00:15:02,000 law? How can we have these things 193 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:04,840 that you go, Where's the sense in this? 194 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:13,000 Because it's a spiritual, But notice it says a hated bird, 195 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:15,600 Bird. Where's the bird put in here? 196 00:15:16,200 --> 00:15:17,600 Was it a cocky in a cage or something? 197 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:21,400 What is it? In Christ's parable of the 198 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:26,040 sorrow of the sea, Jesus takes the birds and uses the birds as 199 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,040 a picture of Satan's servants. They come down, they take the 200 00:15:29,040 --> 00:15:32,000 seed. Remember the mustard seed, the 201 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:34,880 other parable of the mustard seed, It grows up normally and 202 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:37,520 people, oh, that's the church. And, and the birds nest in the, 203 00:15:37,760 --> 00:15:39,520 in the, in the wings of it, the branches. 204 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:42,440 No, no, no, it's an abnormal wrong growth. 205 00:15:43,200 --> 00:15:47,000 It grows up and becomes greater than all herbs, shoots out large 206 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,080 branches, and the birds of the of the air come and nest there. 207 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:53,200 Some regard this, as I said, as a beautiful picture of the 208 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:56,960 church growing so large that it provides refuge for all the 209 00:15:56,960 --> 00:16:00,000 world. Well, that's a lovely thought, 210 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:04,040 but it's not biblical truth. You see, the mustard seed plant 211 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:09,400 has grown into a monstrosity as has done the church, and it 212 00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:14,520 harbours birds and there's remember they've mentioned in 213 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:18,600 the same breath as demons and every foul spirit. 214 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:22,240 So it's not like bad, bad, bad. Oh, and then there's these 215 00:16:22,240 --> 00:16:25,440 pretty birds. No, look at the context. 216 00:16:28,800 --> 00:16:32,120 The birds who in the parables are emissaries of Satan 217 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:36,840 according to the foundational parable of the soils, Mark 413. 218 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:41,040 In verse 3, we ask why is God judging commercial Babylon? 219 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:46,600 So throughout the history of the fallen world, Satan has used his 220 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:51,920 anti God demonic style of government and I think it's 221 00:16:51,920 --> 00:16:56,120 never been clearer than it is today in our nation as well. 222 00:16:56,280 --> 00:17:01,640 Particularly Satan has used his anti God demonic style of 223 00:17:01,640 --> 00:17:06,800 government oppression to also seduce the masses, to deceive 224 00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:10,440 them and to manipulate the people of the world. 225 00:17:10,560 --> 00:17:12,880 Well, if we vote this way, we get the right people in. 226 00:17:13,200 --> 00:17:16,359 Look what's happened. We didn't How many of you went? 227 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:19,520 How did we? How come we're still voting 228 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:22,800 people in that do stuff like this? 229 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:29,040 What is wrong with us? It says for all the nations 230 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:31,920 notice have drunk of the wine of the wrath of a thorn occasion, 231 00:17:32,120 --> 00:17:37,160 the kings of the earth, the merchants of the earth, the 232 00:17:37,160 --> 00:17:40,560 whole world has become rich through the abundance of the 233 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:42,520 luxury. It's interesting that you can 234 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:44,520 enter parliament, even our own parliament. 235 00:17:44,680 --> 00:17:48,520 You can start off on a modest wage and it's funny how you 236 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:55,640 leave parliament with millions, 1,000,000 and 1,000,000. 237 00:17:56,920 --> 00:18:00,480 Isn't that interesting? No one ever leaves to say, oh, 238 00:18:02,240 --> 00:18:04,440 just a few dollars, just getting by. 239 00:18:06,320 --> 00:18:11,240 It's fascinating. The entire world is seduced, 240 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:14,720 seduced into the worship of hedonism. 241 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:19,560 What's hedonism? Hedonism is the doctrine, and 242 00:18:19,560 --> 00:18:21,920 the church has gone after this as well. 243 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:25,640 The doctrine of the pursuit of pleasure being the most 244 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:29,200 important thing in life. We want sermons that bring 245 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:32,600 pleasure. Tell me how to be happy, how to 246 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:35,360 have happiness in the search of happiness. 247 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:37,760 You know the Bible doesn't say come to church and find the 248 00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:44,840 search of happiness. Hedonism is now being spoken of 249 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:49,640 and and and paraded from pulpits all around the world to Timothy 250 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:53,000 chapter 3 verse one Paul said of these times. 251 00:18:53,200 --> 00:18:57,680 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come, 252 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:02,120 for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, 253 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:06,360 boasters, proud blasphemers, disobedient appearance, 254 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:11,720 unthankful, unholy and loving, unforgiven, slanderers without 255 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:16,840 self control, brutal despisers of good traitors, headstrong, 256 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:19,520 haughty. And here it is, lovers of 257 00:19:19,520 --> 00:19:22,280 pleasure rather than lovers of God. 258 00:19:23,880 --> 00:19:27,000 I find I want a church where I can go there and it makes me 259 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,600 happy. Well, there's plenty of churches 260 00:19:30,600 --> 00:19:35,840 that will do that, having a form of godliness, Paul goes on to 261 00:19:35,840 --> 00:19:40,720 say, but denying its power. You have all the words, have all 262 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,360 the trimmings to delay it or see it, but the God's not there. 263 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:49,560 That's so they continue to be able to live in their sin. 264 00:19:49,760 --> 00:19:55,560 This is a good religion from such people, Paul says turn 265 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:58,680 away. Notice how our own state 266 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:03,120 government, it's interesting in spite of our current massive 267 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:08,800 health and housing crisis. It's it's it's just terrible 268 00:20:10,000 --> 00:20:13,800 with my brother the other day trying to age care for him. 269 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:18,160 Trying to get and, and you got to have the right code. 270 00:20:18,160 --> 00:20:20,720 You got to have the right person to ring to get this code. 271 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:22,360 Then you're going to contact this group. 272 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:25,280 They only deal with that mob. We don't do now you got to have 273 00:20:25,520 --> 00:20:27,320 a different code. You got to contact this other 274 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:30,080 person. And they were considering my 275 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:34,720 brother not I'll enough yet. He can't walk, he's on oxygen, 276 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:38,360 he can't drive. The doctor said. 277 00:20:39,120 --> 00:20:45,000 And they assessed him and said no, not enough, can't shower by 278 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:51,720 himself, can't feed himself. Interesting, interesting. 279 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:56,920 So our own state government, in spite of our current health and 280 00:20:56,920 --> 00:21:02,120 housing crisis, notice how much a house is going to be in the WA 281 00:21:02,120 --> 00:21:07,960 now continues to spend our government millions of dollars 282 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,000 on what? Concerts? 283 00:21:11,960 --> 00:21:19,360 Wrestling, international soccer teams to build a racetrack that 284 00:21:19,360 --> 00:21:22,160 no one wants. When people are dying and 285 00:21:22,160 --> 00:21:24,920 there's a poor letter in the other day in the front page, 286 00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:29,160 people are dying because they can't get into the emergency 287 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,920 services. You see what is the government 288 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:34,800 offering? Hedonism. 289 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:37,680 It's just like Rome in the old days. 290 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:43,560 We just haven't games games verse 4 and I heard another 291 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:46,520 voice from heaven saying come out of her, my people, lest you 292 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:50,760 share in her sins, lest you receive of a plague for her sins 293 00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:55,240 of reach to heaven and God has remembered her iniquities render 294 00:21:55,240 --> 00:22:00,320 to her just as she rendered to you repay her double according 295 00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:04,560 to her works in the cup which she has mixed mixed double for 296 00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:08,840 her in the measure that she glorified herself and lived. 297 00:22:08,840 --> 00:22:13,360 Notice luxuriously in the same measure give her torment and 298 00:22:13,360 --> 00:22:18,080 sorrow for she says in her heart, I sit as queen and I'm no 299 00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:22,760 widow and will not see sorrow. Therefore her plague will come 300 00:22:22,760 --> 00:22:27,520 in one day suddenly death and mourning and famine, and she 301 00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:29,360 will be utterly burned with fire. 302 00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:33,520 For strong is the Lord God who judges her. 303 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:36,680 God is calling his people to come out of her. 304 00:22:37,320 --> 00:22:41,160 The Babylonian system, the world political system, worldliness, 305 00:22:41,360 --> 00:22:45,200 the system of the world that seeks to lure you into its 306 00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:49,320 clutches, to control you, because it is all coming down. 307 00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:56,120 Babylon has fallen, and now the details of its great fall are 308 00:22:56,120 --> 00:22:59,520 written. A warning from God to separate 309 00:22:59,960 --> 00:23:02,680 the Jehovah Witnesses use this verse to say you can't be in a 310 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:06,880 union can't be in this and I'm thinking oh that's that's an 311 00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:13,720 interesting place got nothing to do with this Babylon has fallen. 312 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,960 God warns be separate or else will people will be caught up in 313 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:21,960 the judgement and history will repeat itself. 314 00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:27,880 How Sodom and Gomorrah book of Genesis angels came down went to 315 00:23:27,880 --> 00:23:33,360 see who Lot and his family. The warning come out judgments 316 00:23:33,360 --> 00:23:38,080 coming get away from the city. At this point we know that the 317 00:23:38,080 --> 00:23:41,320 Church of Jesus Christ in the Book of Revelation during the 318 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:45,200 tribulation is in heaven. The church has been raptured, 319 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,800 having been raptured prior to the Tribulation period 320 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,520 commencing. Many unsaved people are left 321 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:55,600 behind who will come to Christ in the Tribulation. 322 00:23:55,800 --> 00:23:58,080 Many will die for their faith. We know that. 323 00:23:58,320 --> 00:24:00,560 But this is God's warning to these people. 324 00:24:00,960 --> 00:24:04,800 We know that these people will not have the mark of the beast. 325 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:09,440 They will have been unable to be part of the commercial 326 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,080 Babylonian commercial system. Why? 327 00:24:12,160 --> 00:24:14,360 Because they won't be able to buy or sell. 328 00:24:15,880 --> 00:24:18,760 So this is a warning saying get right away from Babylon, 329 00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,800 distance yourself, don't share no sins. 330 00:24:23,160 --> 00:24:27,080 Paul wrote to the believers today, you and I also warning 331 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:32,000 us, Ephesians 511 have no fellowship with the unfruitful 332 00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,320 works of darkness, but rather expose them. 333 00:24:36,880 --> 00:24:40,960 In other words, don't get caught up living a compromised 334 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:44,640 lifestyle where you are entangled with the affairs of 335 00:24:44,640 --> 00:24:47,040 this world. I can't believe the discussions 336 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,920 I have with people often. And I say, where you been? 337 00:24:49,920 --> 00:24:51,880 What have you been doing? And then the things that you're 338 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:56,400 getting involved in, I know. And, and it's like you're 339 00:24:56,400 --> 00:24:59,640 committing slow suicide, slow spiritual death. 340 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:04,000 You're doing just stupid things. You're not putting God first. 341 00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:07,080 You're not loving the Lord God with all your heart, mind, soul 342 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:09,920 and strength first. You're getting involved in other 343 00:25:09,920 --> 00:25:11,560 stuff. And so your family begins to 344 00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:15,120 fall apart, your marriage begins to suffer, your kids go off the 345 00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:22,960 rail, and you wonder why you get entangled with the affairs of 346 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:26,600 the world. Galatians 51 Paul says, stand 347 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:28,720 fast. Therefore, I know Helen covered 348 00:25:28,720 --> 00:25:31,440 this with the ladies. Therefore, in the freedom, the 349 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:36,080 liberty by which Christ has made us free, do not be entangled 350 00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:39,560 again with a yoke of bondage. Come out from the old way that 351 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:42,040 you used to live. We used to worry about, oh, how 352 00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:43,760 much money do I have to have? Where am I going to do it? 353 00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:45,800 I'm going to worry about this. Oh, where are we going to do 354 00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:46,960 this? How am I going to do that? 355 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,680 If only I can win Lotto, If only I can get that job. 356 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:53,880 You see, it's all dances together. 357 00:25:56,360 --> 00:26:01,840 Paul wrote two Timothy 24. No one engaged in warfare and we 358 00:26:01,840 --> 00:26:05,320 are. Ephesians chapter 5 and 6 tells 359 00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:07,280 us we're soldiers, we have armour on. 360 00:26:07,640 --> 00:26:12,080 No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the 361 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:15,040 affairs of this life. Now you might have a busy life 362 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,200 and I say to you, why is it busy? 363 00:26:19,200 --> 00:26:21,080 You mean? Well, I just got so much going 364 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:22,720 on. And I say to you, well, who 365 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:26,600 organised that? I've been there. 366 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:31,320 Because now once you become born again, your life should become 367 00:26:31,480 --> 00:26:37,120 pretty simple. Oh, but we have kids so well, 368 00:26:37,120 --> 00:26:43,160 but we're married, we go, you know, and the Bible says oh, oh, 369 00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:49,160 these are the clauses re examine your life. 370 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:54,760 Martha or Mary consume with many things, but Mary has found the 371 00:26:54,760 --> 00:27:00,520 one thing that is needed. You have one thing to do, seek 372 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:05,880 ye first, the Kingdom of God. Seek you first, the Kingdom of 373 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,600 God and God will look after everything else. 374 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:13,000 Our churches are full of people who are struggling and torn and 375 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:15,280 oh, I don't know what to do and I'm all over the place. 376 00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:17,680 I need counselling for this and no, you don't. 377 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:20,040 You need to get your life right with God. 378 00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:24,200 You need to get rid of all the rubbish that you're involved in 379 00:27:24,400 --> 00:27:28,440 and you need to get serious in your walk with God and your 380 00:27:28,440 --> 00:27:33,680 family. No one engaged in warfare 381 00:27:33,680 --> 00:27:36,920 entangles himself with the affairs of this world that he 382 00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:40,000 may please him who enlisted him as a soldier. 383 00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:43,440 How can you please God if you're entangled with the affairs of 384 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:45,560 the world? You're not even available. 385 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,480 People, you know, come to me and say I want to do this in the 386 00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:49,240 church. I want to do that. 387 00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:52,080 Hey, here's something. Come to church every time I'm 388 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:53,400 here. Start there. 389 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:59,560 Be in church more than once. Well, I want to do this. 390 00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:00,600 I want to. I don't know what. 391 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:04,240 No, no. Be in the prayer meeting, teach 392 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,400 in the Sunday School. Have a crack at that. 393 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:12,040 Oh, yeah. But you know, a few things on. 394 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,800 Yeah, you have. You see, Are you the same 395 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:20,240 character or person? It takes communion and yet acts 396 00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,760 differently at a business meeting or a commercial 397 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:25,520 enterprise. You're playing in the world and 398 00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:30,200 dancing to its tune on John 215. Do not love the world or the 399 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:34,720 things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the 400 00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:36,080 love of the Father is not in him. 401 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:41,880 Jesus said no one can serve 2 masters, for either he'll hate 402 00:28:41,880 --> 00:28:45,080 the one and love the other, or else he'll be loyal to 1 and 403 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,320 despise the other. You cannot serve God and Mammon, 404 00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:54,120 but this separation is not isolation, monastic. 405 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,120 We're in the world, but we're not of the world. 406 00:28:57,120 --> 00:28:59,640 Jesus tells us in John 17 verse 15. 407 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:03,560 Jesus said, I do not pray that you should take them, that's us 408 00:29:03,560 --> 00:29:07,640 out of the world, but that you should keep them from the evil 409 00:29:07,640 --> 00:29:11,120 one. That's the Lord's Prayer, John 410 00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:14,040 1716. They are not of the world, just 411 00:29:14,040 --> 00:29:16,720 as I am not of the world. Jesus lived in the world, but he 412 00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,720 wasn't of the world. He ate with sinners, but he 413 00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:23,160 didn't sin. Vance Havner said we are not to 414 00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:25,680 be isolated, but rather insulated. 415 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:29,920 That's what your kids are to do, not isolate them, insulate them 416 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,400 moving in the midst of evil, but untouched by it. 417 00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:37,600 Verse 5 for her sins have reached to heaven and God has 418 00:29:37,600 --> 00:29:42,080 remembered her iniquities. Literally the sins of commercial 419 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:46,360 Babylon and it says in the Greek have piled one on top of the 420 00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:48,320 other like that. That's what the Greek language 421 00:29:48,320 --> 00:29:53,560 says in a huge stack. You see, they tried to reach 422 00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:55,520 heaven, didn't they, with their tower. 423 00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,400 But in the end they only reached heaven with their tower of sins. 424 00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:07,240 But for every believer, God no longer remembers our sins. 425 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:11,960 God remembers Babylon sins, and he's going to judge it doubly. 426 00:30:12,600 --> 00:30:16,160 But the Bible says for every believer, God no longer 427 00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:20,920 remembers our sins. Praise the Lord Jeremiah 3134 428 00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,800 for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin. 429 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,200 I will remember no more and I thank God for that. 430 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:36,480 I remember stuff He doesn't. Isn't that good verse? 431 00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,640 We're going to run short of time, so we're going to skip to 432 00:30:39,640 --> 00:30:41,440 the end. We're going to fly to the end. 433 00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:44,920 Babylon says I will not see sorrow. 434 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,880 Oh, Oh yeah, that's demonic pride. 435 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:53,760 Verse 8, Babylon will be utterly burned with fire. 436 00:30:53,960 --> 00:30:57,160 In other words, burned to ashes, totally consumed. 437 00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:02,960 Verse 17, In one hour she will come to nothing. 438 00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:08,360 Verse 20, notice what happens. All of heaven rejoices at her 439 00:31:08,360 --> 00:31:10,840 destruction. So all the people on the earth 440 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:14,520 are going, Oh no, look what's happened to all my money, all my 441 00:31:14,520 --> 00:31:16,960 stocks, all my shares, all my gold. 442 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:20,120 Oh whoa, what are we going to do with business? 443 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,280 And in heaven? Different viewpoint. 444 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:27,040 Everyone's going, you cutie, it's gone, it's gone. 445 00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,960 How different it is, how different it is. 446 00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:36,240 You see, at this point the religious and the political 447 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,720 system of the beast has been totally destroyed. 448 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:42,640 All that remains is for Jesus Christ now to come from heaven, 449 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:47,600 chapter 19 and personally meet and defeat the beast and his 450 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:50,320 armies. Tonight I want to ask you a 451 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:59,160 couple of questions. Are you a citizen of Babylon or 452 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:04,000 heaven? Do you need to get out of 453 00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:06,760 Babylon? Is your life so complex, so 454 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:08,280 wrapped up in the things of the world? 455 00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,000 Man, you check the papers every day, you watch this and that. 456 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:13,560 I mean, it all hangs on. Or what's going to happen here? 457 00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:18,920 What's going to happen there? Or are you living in the 458 00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:20,720 wonderful grace and peace of God? 459 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:25,480 What matters most to you tonight, right now? 460 00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:33,160 Are you drifting? The cross of Jesus Christ draws 461 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:37,400 our hearts away from the empty and deadly pleasures of 462 00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:43,400 worldliness. Galatians 614 But God forbid, 463 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:48,840 and that I should boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus 464 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:57,040 Christ, by whom the world Mystery Babylon has been 465 00:32:57,040 --> 00:33:03,720 crucified to me. It's dead to me now, and I to 466 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:04,240 the world.