1 00:00:07,240 --> 00:00:11,160 Open your Bibles to the Book of Revelation chapter 16. 2 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:19,840 We got part way through it on Sunday and we find ourselves in 3 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:24,080 this journey, which we will get through fairly reasonably 4 00:00:24,080 --> 00:00:28,440 quickly over the next few weeks. In the midst of the seven ball 5 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:33,040 judgements, 7 seals, Jesus broke the seven seals on the scroll. 6 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:38,080 Then they'll they'll 7 trumpets. Now we're part way through the 7 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:44,520 seven ball judgements in the Book of Revelation in the 8 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:47,040 period. Now, this part of the Revela 9 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:50,680 tribulation is often called the Great Tribulation. 10 00:00:50,680 --> 00:00:56,320 Now we examine the first four bold judgments, as I said Sunday 11 00:00:56,320 --> 00:01:02,880 morning, and their cataclysmic impact upon the earth and those 12 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:05,200 living on the earth through this period. 13 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:09,640 And with the judgement specifically falling, 14 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:14,200 especially, we noted upon those who had taken the mark of the 15 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:19,120 beast that said we'd worship His image, and we're living in 16 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:23,480 accordance to the Antichrist Kingdom. 17 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:30,400 And they had rebelled totally against God by taking the mark, 18 00:01:30,520 --> 00:01:33,760 by worshipping the image. They had deliberately made the 19 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:39,560 choice to reject the gospel and the forgiveness of God and the 20 00:01:39,560 --> 00:01:41,840 work of Calvary. Verse 10. 21 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:45,160 Then the 5th Angel poured out his ball on the throne of the 22 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:50,840 beast and his Kingdom became full of darkness. 23 00:01:50,880 --> 00:01:55,640 I find this ironic. And they gnawed their tongues 24 00:01:55,640 --> 00:02:00,040 because of the pain. Again we read they blasphemed 25 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:04,200 the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores. 26 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:10,080 Their sores remember incurable and did not repent of their 27 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:15,160 deeds. That meant that they were doing 28 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:17,240 things that they needed to repent of. 29 00:02:18,840 --> 00:02:22,960 The 5th bold judgement, the Antichrist Kingdom. 30 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,320 God says Kingdom of darkness. Yep. 31 00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:33,280 OK then that's what it truly shall be, a Kingdom of complete 32 00:02:33,280 --> 00:02:36,920 darkness. Such was the darkness that it 33 00:02:36,920 --> 00:02:39,600 terrified people. They could not see. 34 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:43,520 Their hand in front of their face will not be able to see. 35 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:51,600 And this brought this terror upon them and they blasphemed 36 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:56,760 God through this period because they in this period, all the 37 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:00,720 other bold judgments will remember they're cumulative. 38 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:06,360 They still have the sores. They were still in agony, the 39 00:03:06,360 --> 00:03:08,360 Bible tells us, and there was nothing to drink. 40 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:12,920 The Bible tells us that God is light and what does Satan do? 41 00:03:12,920 --> 00:03:18,080 Second Corinthians tells us that Satan masquerades, pretends to 42 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:22,680 come as an Angel of light, but really he is the Prince of 43 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:25,640 darkness. In John chapter 8 verse 12, 44 00:03:25,640 --> 00:03:29,160 Jesus spoke to the people again saying I am the light of the 45 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:33,360 world. He who follows me shall not walk 46 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,200 in darkness, but have the light of life. 47 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:39,800 So those who follow the Antichrist during the great 48 00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:42,480 Tribulation period, you're not going to walk in the light, 49 00:03:42,720 --> 00:03:43,960 you're going to walk in darkness. 50 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:45,840 Pretty difficult to walk in the darkness. 51 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:51,360 In John chapter 3 verse 19, and this is the condemnation that 52 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:52,840 the light has come into the world. 53 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:56,680 Jesus men loved darkness rather than the light. 54 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:58,600 So God says that's what you love instead of me. 55 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:03,200 OK I'll give it to you because their deeds were evil and it 56 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:09,320 says remember we read they did not repent of their deeds, they 57 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:13,600 blasphemy God. The 6th ball is prepared and 58 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:16,440 poured out. Verse 12. 59 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:20,480 Then the 6th Angel poured out his ball on the great river 60 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:23,760 Euphrates. You remember the river Euphrates 61 00:04:23,760 --> 00:04:26,200 as mentioned in the book of Genesis, Genesis chapter 2, when 62 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:31,000 the the main rivers there and it's water was dried up. 63 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:34,000 You'll also remember Babylon, the city of Babylon, Great 64 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:39,200 Babylon comes and was built through with the river Euphrates 65 00:04:39,200 --> 00:04:43,720 flowing through it, and it's water was dried up so that the 66 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:48,160 way of the kings from the East we introduced to a new group 67 00:04:49,040 --> 00:04:54,640 might be prepared. So notice this is an action, a 68 00:04:54,640 --> 00:04:59,080 judgement that is allowing something else to occur that 69 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:04,560 will happen later. So it's setting the plan, making 70 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:08,200 the pieces fall into place for the kings of the East. 71 00:05:08,320 --> 00:05:14,400 Not just yet, but a few chapters later and I saw three unclean 72 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:20,560 spirits, demonic beings like frogs coming out of the mouth of 73 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:24,960 the dragon, Satan, out of the mouth of the beast, out of the 74 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:29,960 mouth of the false prophet, Satan, the Antichrist, the false 75 00:05:29,960 --> 00:05:32,600 prophet, What are they? The unholy Trinity? 76 00:05:33,480 --> 00:05:38,880 See, Satan is copying everything that God has done. 77 00:05:38,880 --> 00:05:44,480 He is the Antichrist in place of, for they are spirits of 78 00:05:44,480 --> 00:05:47,120 demons. Don't have to work out. 79 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:49,240 You know what they are. They're not frogs. 80 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:54,760 They perform signs. And I'm deeply worried again as 81 00:05:54,760 --> 00:05:59,160 I hear we have people passing through certain churches at the 82 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:03,720 moment bringing their prophecies and their their, their, their 83 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:09,480 signs and their wonders. And I go, when will people 84 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:14,320 actually wake up and sit in front of those people with their 85 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:18,600 Bibles? But the answer is people who sit 86 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,440 in front of such people don't open their Bibles because they 87 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,640 are forever learning and never coming to the knowledge of they 88 00:06:25,640 --> 00:06:29,800 are seeking after such things. And you know what the devil's 89 00:06:29,800 --> 00:06:34,720 going to give you exactly what you have in place of the truth. 90 00:06:35,880 --> 00:06:38,800 In place of the truth. And so the demonic beings 91 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:44,280 performing signs, miracles, which go out to the kings of the 92 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:48,920 earth, another group of people. So we have these kings from the 93 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:52,920 East and now these other kings, other countries, nations are 94 00:06:52,920 --> 00:06:58,880 involved of the whole world to gather them is the preparation 95 00:06:59,320 --> 00:07:03,600 to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. 96 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:07,840 So God is moving here, all the bits and pieces. 97 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:12,120 I'm going to dry out the River Euphrates to prepare for we know 98 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:15,800 what's coming, the great battle, the mighty river. 99 00:07:15,960 --> 00:07:20,560 River Euphrates, 2800 kilometres in length. 100 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:25,600 The Euphrates River passes through four countries, through 101 00:07:25,600 --> 00:07:30,240 Turkey, Syria, Iraq and the waters of the Persian Gulf. 102 00:07:31,400 --> 00:07:37,920 The river originates in Turkey, flows SE through Syria and Iraq, 103 00:07:38,320 --> 00:07:44,080 and joins up with the Tigris in Iraq to form the shut Al Arab 104 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:46,800 which empties into the Persian Gulf. 105 00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,920 This mighty river at this time, under this bold judgement, the 106 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:54,800 6th bold judgement completely dries up. 107 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:59,760 How it happens, I don't care. I'm not interested in people go 108 00:07:59,920 --> 00:08:03,440 well, Was it so? So do we have a volcano or was 109 00:08:03,440 --> 00:08:05,080 there an earth? I don't know. 110 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:08,840 I don't care, the Bible says. It dries up, God dries it up, 111 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:17,560 it's gone and it creates a super highway to the Middle East 112 00:08:18,720 --> 00:08:24,480 heading to Israel. When this happens, God draws 113 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:32,080 into battle kings from the East. It says as well as other kings 114 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:35,919 of the world anti Semitism that you and I are seeing at this 115 00:08:35,919 --> 00:08:38,080 moment. You and I should be the most 116 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:44,880 excited people in Christendom. We are on the verge of the 117 00:08:44,880 --> 00:08:48,800 rapture because we are on the verge of the tribulation. 118 00:08:50,680 --> 00:08:56,400 Euphrates up to this time has been a natural boundary in the 119 00:08:56,400 --> 00:09:00,240 Middle East. It forms a barrier of separation 120 00:09:00,680 --> 00:09:04,680 for the Holy Land. It is through this pathway, now 121 00:09:04,680 --> 00:09:11,160 dried up, that a massive military March will occur to 122 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:14,920 pursue and attack who? Israel. 123 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:21,440 Why? Anti Semitism and a desire by 124 00:09:21,760 --> 00:09:24,800 look who's God's allowing this to happen? 125 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:27,320 But who's organising this? The beast. 126 00:09:27,560 --> 00:09:32,400 Remember the unholy Trinity, these these spirits, these other 127 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:40,800 three demonic spirits, all from these and it's driven because 128 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:44,480 this this, you know, and it breaks your heart because I just 129 00:09:44,480 --> 00:09:46,920 wish that anti semitism would back away. 130 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:50,640 But here's the sad and you know, when we were in Hawaii, I spent 131 00:09:50,640 --> 00:09:54,640 a couple of nights really troubled seeking the Lord up and 132 00:09:54,640 --> 00:09:57,080 down, up and down. And I wanted to pray about 133 00:09:57,080 --> 00:09:59,400 certain things. And one of them was like God, I, 134 00:09:59,400 --> 00:10:03,400 I, I am broken. I, I, I struggle as I read about 135 00:10:03,400 --> 00:10:06,920 Israel. I really do, you know, and my 136 00:10:06,920 --> 00:10:10,640 heart goes out for the nation of Israel and I know so does yours. 137 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:14,960 But here's, here's the reality. It's not going to change. 138 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:16,680 It's not going to get any better. 139 00:10:16,960 --> 00:10:20,080 It's only going to get worse. And that's what I've got to come 140 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:24,400 to the realisation is OK, this is what's actually going to 141 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:27,760 occur. So I've got to realise this 142 00:10:27,760 --> 00:10:29,960 doesn't mean I stop praying for them. 143 00:10:30,160 --> 00:10:33,480 It doesn't mean I stop loving them, but it means I've got to 144 00:10:33,960 --> 00:10:38,360 adjust how I'm praying and what I'm praying and and continue and 145 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:44,040 do what God wants us to do. And so anti Semitism is just 146 00:10:44,040 --> 00:10:48,160 going to grow and grow and be more and more inflamed with this 147 00:10:48,640 --> 00:10:53,800 absolute demonic desire to destroy the Jewish people. 148 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,760 These armies are going to this little nation. 149 00:10:57,280 --> 00:11:00,640 Why? To annihilate them Because Satan 150 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:04,000 wants God's chosen people removed. 151 00:11:04,200 --> 00:11:08,840 It started way back, doesn't it? Through the Old Testament, 152 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:15,400 that's carried on through to seize their land, annihilate the 153 00:11:15,400 --> 00:11:19,640 Jews, seize their land, and now the other thing. 154 00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:23,600 And there's this whole change of mining that's going on around 155 00:11:23,600 --> 00:11:25,240 the world. And Trump's done it with 156 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:27,920 Ukraine. He's signed a a deal there. 157 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:32,480 We see it now in Israel. There's something going on in 158 00:11:32,480 --> 00:11:36,320 Israel and it's even happening. I was talking to Reece now Alcoa 159 00:11:36,520 --> 00:11:38,920 here. There's a whole new thing about 160 00:11:38,920 --> 00:11:43,600 rare earth minerals and the rare earth minerals, according to 161 00:11:43,600 --> 00:11:45,200 Reese, he's telling explain a bit today. 162 00:11:45,640 --> 00:11:47,760 Are these minerals that are used for what? 163 00:11:47,960 --> 00:11:53,440 You know what military weapons you've got to have these rare 164 00:11:53,440 --> 00:11:58,200 earth minerals for all the new military weapons which every 165 00:11:58,200 --> 00:12:03,880 nation in the world now bar Australia, we're still at 3%. 166 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:11,560 Every nation in the world bar Australia has increased, they're 167 00:12:11,560 --> 00:12:18,240 spending on their military might and and China holds the largest 168 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:20,320 amount of this rare earth at the moment. 169 00:12:20,680 --> 00:12:23,640 That's why Trump was very keen to get that agreement with 170 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:26,760 Ukraine. Smart men. 171 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,880 And so it's to destroy the Jewish people, to seize their 172 00:12:31,880 --> 00:12:35,560 land, all the natural rich resources besides the rare 173 00:12:35,800 --> 00:12:38,400 minerals that they have natural gas. 174 00:12:39,200 --> 00:12:43,200 You remember when we went to Caesarea one time, Yanni said, 175 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:45,720 see out there, they used to have all these boats coming in 176 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:48,920 because they had to import all their energy, you know, bring in 177 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:52,680 all they call they, they had no natural resources for power 178 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:56,040 found natural gas. Now they have off Caesarea there 179 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:59,760 they have the the gas fields and they, they, they, they set, they 180 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:03,160 set. Now the kings of the East is 181 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:06,520 literally in the Greek, the kings of the rising sun, where 182 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:11,160 we've heard that before, the kings of the rising sun, the 183 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:18,240 Orient, a huge military confederation, China and Japan, 184 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:28,440 who are natural enemies forming together, Pakistan, India, they 185 00:13:28,440 --> 00:13:31,200 will be unaware. These nations, the kings of the 186 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:36,040 East, however, that it is God who was drawing them into this 187 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:41,000 last great battle in Ezekiel 3839, which this isn't this. 188 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:46,560 Remember, it was God who put the hook into the leader of the 189 00:13:46,560 --> 00:13:49,080 confederacy. You will come down and attack 190 00:13:49,080 --> 00:13:50,600 Israel. You know what we're going to do? 191 00:13:50,600 --> 00:13:55,080 We're going to attack Israel and it's God doing this. 192 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:03,240 Satan's involved his unholy Trinity of himself, the 193 00:14:03,240 --> 00:14:08,360 Antichrist and the false prophet will send unclean demonic 194 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:15,120 spirits frog like in the sense of their foulness because frogs 195 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:18,720 in the Bible member are unclean can't say that to a French 196 00:14:18,720 --> 00:14:23,920 person but and being unclean to entice the world into this 197 00:14:23,920 --> 00:14:26,800 conflict. So Satan's gathering everyone. 198 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:30,520 Hey you guys, let's join up. Let's take on this problem 199 00:14:30,720 --> 00:14:32,560 people. They're causing all the 200 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:35,960 problems, which was the same mantra that Hitler used. 201 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:43,120 It's them in Egypt. This was the second plague on 202 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,480 the land detailed in Exodus chapter 8. 203 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:50,040 Remember the plague of frogs came out and then Pharaoh said, 204 00:14:50,120 --> 00:14:53,760 oh, come and stop, stop, stop. And then all the frogs died and 205 00:14:53,760 --> 00:14:55,680 then they were all rotten everywhere. 206 00:14:55,680 --> 00:14:57,160 They were everywhere throughout the house. 207 00:14:57,720 --> 00:15:01,040 These frog like demonic creatures were used deceiving 208 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:07,160 signs and wonders to draw these armies into Israel for battle. 209 00:15:08,000 --> 00:15:09,520 Satan's motive? What is it? 210 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:14,640 Destroy Israel and the city of Jerusalem? 211 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:18,600 Why is that? Satan knows if he can achieve 212 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:23,920 those two things, One, Christ will have no Holy Land or people 213 00:15:23,920 --> 00:15:26,760 to return to. That's why they're to be 214 00:15:26,760 --> 00:15:28,800 annihilated. Yeah. 215 00:15:28,800 --> 00:15:32,800 How how is it that all the nations that have attacked them, 216 00:15:32,800 --> 00:15:35,240 even back to the days of Esther, right back. 217 00:15:35,400 --> 00:15:38,280 Why was it that they just wouldn't, you know, suppress 218 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:42,840 them or cap every time the PLO came out, still is. 219 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:49,000 And Hezbollah, their their cry is to annihilate Israel, 220 00:15:49,280 --> 00:15:53,320 eliminate them. It's just carried on throughout 221 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:57,640 the Bible and into today so that Christ will have no Holy Land or 222 00:15:57,640 --> 00:16:02,600 people to return to. Secondly, and no holy city to 223 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:06,560 what? Establish the throne of David, a 224 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:10,240 throne that will be forever and ever where He'll rule and reign 225 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:12,880 for 1000 years. That's the aim of sight. 226 00:16:14,160 --> 00:16:17,000 We now have this wonderful parenthesis. 227 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:21,160 However, verse 15, all of a sudden, behold, I'm coming as a 228 00:16:21,160 --> 00:16:24,000 thief. Blessed is he who watches and 229 00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:28,520 keeps his garments lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. 230 00:16:30,480 --> 00:16:33,680 Now those who believe that the church is to go through the 231 00:16:33,680 --> 00:16:38,320 great tribulation, they go, ha ha, see this and they make much 232 00:16:38,320 --> 00:16:42,800 of this verse. But Jesus Christ in the Bible is 233 00:16:42,800 --> 00:16:44,800 not coming for his church. What? 234 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:47,760 As a thief? We're not going to go, Oh, Jesus 235 00:16:47,760 --> 00:16:49,880 is here. Oh wow, I didn't know that and 236 00:16:49,880 --> 00:16:54,040 you should have told me when did he start telling us John chapter 237 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:59,400 14 and before we're what are we what are we doing as as as the 238 00:16:59,400 --> 00:17:01,000 truth. We're looking and waiting and 239 00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:05,000 expecting each day you don't go well, I think I might be robbed 240 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:08,000 today I might be robbed today I might be robbed today about a 241 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:11,319 thief turns up me. Hey, we've been robbed turned up 242 00:17:11,319 --> 00:17:16,599 when I wasn't expecting. It's important Jesus Christ is 243 00:17:16,599 --> 00:17:19,000 not coming for his church as a thief. 244 00:17:19,240 --> 00:17:22,720 Know that He returns for the church. 245 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:25,760 How? In Ephesians that tells us what 246 00:17:25,760 --> 00:17:28,760 are we the church? We're his bride. 247 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:32,840 He's coming back as the bridegroom and what is the 248 00:17:32,840 --> 00:17:34,920 bride? She's waiting. 249 00:17:35,240 --> 00:17:37,560 Can't wait for the bridegroom to turn up. 250 00:17:40,080 --> 00:17:43,920 He's returning for the church as the bridegroom since the church 251 00:17:43,920 --> 00:17:46,120 is His bride. Get the language right, get the 252 00:17:46,120 --> 00:17:47,880 text right, get the context right. 253 00:17:48,920 --> 00:17:54,680 With the coming of a thief, there is a dread and a fear that 254 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:58,280 our possessions will be robbed and our goods destroyed. 255 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:05,520 But the Bible tells us we are not what of the night, nor of 256 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:09,640 the darkness. Therefore we have No Fear of the 257 00:18:09,640 --> 00:18:13,400 Lord's return. You go, Oh man, Jesus, go. 258 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:15,400 Oh, scared. The death of Jesus coming. 259 00:18:15,720 --> 00:18:21,480 No, we long, we expect, we pray. Come quickly. 260 00:18:21,480 --> 00:18:27,160 Lord Jesus, how wonderful it is when God brings to us hope in 261 00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:28,720 the midst of our troubles, right? 262 00:18:28,720 --> 00:18:33,600 Slam smack in the midst of this. To the people who are getting 263 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:36,720 saved, people still getting saved in the tribulation period, 264 00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:39,960 I'm coming. Hold on. 265 00:18:41,080 --> 00:18:43,560 In the midst of our troubles. God does that, doesn't he? 266 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:46,040 In the midst of our fears, God turns up. 267 00:18:46,120 --> 00:18:50,120 You say I'm here. The second coming of Jesus 268 00:18:50,120 --> 00:18:55,480 Christ will be, however, a massive surprise to so many who 269 00:18:55,480 --> 00:18:59,320 are not looking for his coming, not expecting, and he's going to 270 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:02,120 come as a thief, but not to those who are watching and 271 00:19:02,120 --> 00:19:03,440 ready. Matthew 24. 272 00:19:04,040 --> 00:19:08,040 Jesus here is encouraging those who have made a commitment to 273 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:12,640 Him in those difficult days of tribulation to remain strong in 274 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:16,560 their faith. Jesus will come as a thief only 275 00:19:16,560 --> 00:19:22,800 to those who are unsaved and not looking for or expecting him, 276 00:19:23,520 --> 00:19:26,840 but not so to those who are looking and watching for Him. 277 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,200 Verse 16. And they gather them together to 278 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:33,000 the place called an Hebrew Armageddon. 279 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:37,120 Now this is telling us what's going to happen. 280 00:19:37,120 --> 00:19:40,240 So the river Euphrates dried up. This is what's going to happen. 281 00:19:40,280 --> 00:19:42,120 Not yet. Chapter 19. 282 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:46,840 The only reference in Scripture to Armageddon is here. 283 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:50,240 It comes from 2 Hebrew words ha and Megiddo. 284 00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:54,880 Armageddon means mountain of destruction or mountain or hill 285 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:58,480 of slaughter. Now those of you who have been 286 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:02,440 with us to Israel, how do we view the valley of Megiddo? 287 00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:05,160 We go up on what? Mount Carmel. 288 00:20:05,560 --> 00:20:08,280 Mount Carmel, where Elijah took on the prophets of Baal. 289 00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:12,520 And as we look out, what do we look out on this great vast 290 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:14,120 valley? Megiddo. 291 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:22,520 The ancient city of Megiddo is 96 KS north of Jerusalem and 292 00:20:22,520 --> 00:20:26,600 overlooks the valley of Megiddo. He was at that valley that 293 00:20:26,600 --> 00:20:31,760 Barack, not Barack Obama either, but Barack or Barack really was. 294 00:20:31,760 --> 00:20:35,320 Deborah, remember, defeated the Canaanites Judges 4. 295 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:39,800 Gideon defeated the Midianites in this location Judges 7. 296 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:44,120 He was in this location, sadly, where King Saul made his death 297 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:49,000 one Samuel 31. King Josiah also died at the 298 00:20:49,000 --> 00:20:52,800 hands of Pharaoh here in battle. 2 Kings chapter 23. 299 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:59,040 In 1799, Napoleon Bonaparte made his way to this location and as 300 00:20:59,040 --> 00:21:02,960 he looked out across Megiddo, he called this location. 301 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:07,840 This is the greatest natural battlefield on earth that I've 302 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:11,720 ever seen. According to verse 16, the final 303 00:21:11,720 --> 00:21:15,720 great world battle will be fought in Ha Megiddo. 304 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:21,840 It will be a place of great slaughter, which is also another 305 00:21:21,840 --> 00:21:25,920 meaning of the name butchered. But the drying up of the 306 00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:30,760 Euphrates, which leads to this great gathering of the world's 307 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:35,640 armies to this location, is setting the stage for the 308 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:40,520 physical enablement of those forces from the east and the 309 00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:45,680 other kings to March and bring their tanks and whatever else to 310 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:48,960 this location. It's setting them the stage. 311 00:21:48,960 --> 00:21:52,560 Verse 17. Then the 7th Angel poured out 312 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:55,480 his bowl into the air. Notice that's interesting one 313 00:21:55,960 --> 00:21:58,560 the other's been upon the earth and places like the oceans, the 314 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:02,600 springs. This one's into the air and a 315 00:22:02,600 --> 00:22:05,360 loud voice. Ah, another loud voice. 316 00:22:05,880 --> 00:22:08,080 Why is a loud voice getting our attention? 317 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:14,800 This is important came out where of the temple of heaven from the 318 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:20,200 throne saying it's done, it's done. 319 00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:25,360 There were noises and thunderings and lightnings. 320 00:22:26,120 --> 00:22:30,800 I'll stop there. The 6th plague is not this 321 00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:32,520 battle. That comes later in Revelation 322 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:38,920 19, the 7th ball Judgement. This ball is poured out into the 323 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,320 air and another loud voice cries out. 324 00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:47,120 It is done. The greatest earthquake, it 325 00:22:47,120 --> 00:22:50,040 says, and there was a great earthquake. 326 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,600 Such a mighty and great earthquake. 327 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:54,480 Now note this read in your Bibles. 328 00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:58,560 Read it with me. Such a great as had not occurred 329 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:04,560 since men were on the earth. So there's never been a greater 330 00:23:04,560 --> 00:23:08,840 earthquake like this one that's going to occur in the 331 00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,800 Tribulation period. No greater. 332 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,840 Now the great city that's Jerusalem was divided in three 333 00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:20,880 parts. And the cities of the nations, 334 00:23:20,880 --> 00:23:26,440 New York, London, Sydney, you name it, all cities, Tokyo, all 335 00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,040 the cities around the world that are around Babylon that's 336 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:30,920 rebuilt perhaps where the Antichrist is. 337 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:42,270 Collapse. The 7th bowl Judgement. 338 00:23:44,710 --> 00:23:49,030 It's done. The first bowl poured out upon 339 00:23:49,030 --> 00:23:51,360 the earth. Second ball poured out on the 340 00:23:51,360 --> 00:23:53,800 oceans. The third ball poured out on the 341 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,200 rivers and the springs. The 4th ball poured out with the 342 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:00,080 scorching sun. The fifth ball poured out on the 343 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:01,760 throne and the Kingdom of the Antichrist. 344 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,960 The 6th ball poured out on the Euphrates River. 345 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:08,640 The 7th ball poured out into the air. 346 00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:13,080 Why the air? Let us remember that Satan is 347 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:16,600 described in the Bible in Ephesians chapter 2, verse 2, as 348 00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:24,120 what he is called the Prince of the power of the year, the 349 00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:27,160 Spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience. 350 00:24:28,480 --> 00:24:31,800 From the throne, from the temple, from the very temple and 351 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:35,440 the altar comes these words. It's done. 352 00:24:36,800 --> 00:24:39,760 It's done. When Jesus finished his work on 353 00:24:39,760 --> 00:24:42,560 Calvary, he cried out. It's finished. 354 00:24:43,840 --> 00:24:48,720 God's final bold judgement has fallen adverse. 355 00:24:48,840 --> 00:24:51,880 And there were great noises, thunderings and lightnings. 356 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:55,080 There was a great earthquake, such a mighty and great 357 00:24:55,080 --> 00:24:59,280 earthquake as has not occurred since men were on the earth. 358 00:24:59,840 --> 00:25:05,640 This earthquake will not be able to be measured its magnitude on 359 00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:10,440 the Richter scale. There'll be no, no measurement. 360 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:18,200 Now cast your mind back Boxing Day, December 26th, 2004 when a 361 00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:24,880 magnitude 9 quake struck and more than 230,000 people lost 362 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:26,640 their lives. Remember viewing the map of 363 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:30,240 Arche and the tidal waves that came in just once? 364 00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:34,800 There was a pole pulp and it's nothing just took them gone. 365 00:25:39,840 --> 00:25:46,360 This earthquake is worldwide. That's terrifying. 366 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:53,640 Terrifying. Whole islands will disappear. 367 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:58,080 Yeah. Hawaii, Bali, you name it. 368 00:25:58,360 --> 00:26:00,000 Islands. Don't worry about climate 369 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,280 change. They're gone. 370 00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:13,960 Whole islands disappear. The entire topography of the 371 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:18,560 world as you and I know it, will be radically changed. 372 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,880 The holy city of Jerusalem, the Bible tells us, will be split 373 00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:27,600 into 3 sections. Now we've walked through those 374 00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:29,520 tunnels. I don't like walking in those 375 00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:32,160 tunnels that much because they're kind of like this. 376 00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:34,880 And I'm going there. Ever An earthquake occurred here 377 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:36,880 and it goes. It's just going to go. 378 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:42,200 I'll be a ham sandwich. Whilst the other great cities of 379 00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:46,600 the world the Bible tells us will be destroyed, including the 380 00:26:46,600 --> 00:26:49,520 rebuilt Babylon, the headquarters of the Antichrist 381 00:26:51,040 --> 00:27:00,240 is that it? Verse 21 and great hail from 382 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,480 heaven. Notice the wording from heaven 383 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:08,480 fell upon doesn't say what the earth doesn't. 384 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,040 Notice this, it says fell upon men. 385 00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:19,520 That's specific. Great hail fell from heaven upon 386 00:27:19,680 --> 00:27:25,240 men each hailstone. Now we get a description of the 387 00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:29,840 individual hailstones about the weight of a talent. 388 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:36,400 What happened? Men blasphemed God because of 389 00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:40,200 the plague of the hail. Since that plague was 390 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:46,120 exceedingly great. I can't imagine the tsunamis and 391 00:27:46,120 --> 00:27:49,360 the waves and the absolute sheer terror. 392 00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,080 The world is just gone. God's gone. 393 00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:56,280 What is? And then this hailstorm. 394 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:03,360 Those who escape death from the massive worldwide earthquake 395 00:28:03,880 --> 00:28:12,760 will not escape this event of massive hailstones falling at 396 00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:20,520 speed, plummeting from heaven with individual hail, we're told 397 00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:24,880 here, weighing more than one talent, OR in today's 398 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:29,960 measurements, more than 45 kilos each. 399 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:42,960 Actually blocks of ice, 45 kilos at speed and just drive you 400 00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:50,600 straight, drive you straight plummeting, slamming upon men. 401 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:55,560 It was the 7th plague that fell upon Egypt. 402 00:28:55,560 --> 00:29:01,720 It was similar but sadly notice after all this men blasphemy 403 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:05,280 God, it tells you why does God put that in there? 404 00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:09,080 Why don't we read that? Because God's trying to show no 405 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:14,600 matter what I've done, no matter what I do, I'm just revealing to 406 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:18,880 you. And we, we, you know, people 407 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,720 say, oh, brotherhood of man, no, there's a little bit of good in 408 00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:23,600 everyone. Now the Bible says there's no 409 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:27,320 good in anyone. We're all sinned. 410 00:29:28,200 --> 00:29:29,760 We're all falling short of the glory of God. 411 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:36,880 And God has offered us mercy, grace, that which we don't 412 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:40,280 deserve. And throughout this time, people 413 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:45,800 will be accepting it, but many, the majority rejecting it. 414 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:49,840 Tonight I want to ask you because I want to ask you once 415 00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,880 again, it's so important. Where do you stand? 416 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:57,320 Where do you stand in all this? You go, oh, this is just a lot 417 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:03,680 of nonsense. I don't believe any of this is 418 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:07,440 the foundation you have placed your soul on. 419 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,400 Unshakeable. It says in the book of Hebrews 420 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:14,920 that God will shake everything that can be shaken. 421 00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:18,080 What can't be shaken? I tell you what can be shaken in 422 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,960 your house, your finances, your health? 423 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:27,240 You know this building, the ground on which we stand, the 424 00:30:27,240 --> 00:30:36,560 oceans, the mountains, everything but your faith in 425 00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:43,240 God, faith in Jesus Christ, because it can't be shaken. 426 00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,080 You know why? Because the wise man has built 427 00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:50,520 his house upon a solid foundation. 428 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:54,440 He's heard the Word and he's abided. 429 00:30:55,840 --> 00:31:00,760 And then you plant your feet upon the rock, a rock that can't 430 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:03,960 be moved. There is no more important 431 00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:09,120 decision in your life today than those listening as to whether 432 00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:13,120 you have received Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour. 433 00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:18,640 You must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ had a man ring me 434 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,120 through this week. He left a message on our phone. 435 00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,920 He said, oh Pastor Keith, you know you don't know me Da da da. 436 00:31:24,280 --> 00:31:27,320 I want to get married and and I also, you know, would like to be 437 00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,760 baptised. And I rang back Sunday afternoon 438 00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:34,600 and he got he lives up north somewhere. 439 00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:38,800 Anyway, at the end of the day, he says I'm not one of the born 440 00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:42,400 again Christians. I said that actually to be a 441 00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:44,040 Christian you have to be born again. 442 00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:47,960 You must be born again. Oh, I guess you're right. 443 00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:52,000 Then I said no, I'm all right. That's what Jesus said to be a 444 00:31:52,000 --> 00:31:55,280 Christian, you must be born again, must be born. 445 00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:58,120 I want to ask you tonight, are you safe? 446 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:02,600 Because during this period of the Tribulation period, 447 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:10,480 everything that the world thinks is solid and sound and a place 448 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:14,160 to park my soul, God's going to go. 449 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:19,200 I'm going to show you there's only one place safe and it's in 450 00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:19,920 my hands.