1 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:15,160 Revelation Chapter 9 Then the 5th Angel sounded and I saw a * 2 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:21,440 fallen from heaven to the earth. It's not a media, it's not an 3 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:27,480 asteroid because it says in in the next verse to him, notice to 4 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:31,680 him. So it's a person was given, so 5 00:00:31,680 --> 00:00:35,440 the authority that he's about to have is given to him, was given 6 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:42,600 the key to the bottomless pit. And he so it's a person opened 7 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:47,200 the bottomless pit. Smoke arose out of the pit like 8 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:52,760 the smoke of a great furnace. And so the sun in the air would 9 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,720 darken just like you know when a volcano goes off and the ash 10 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:59,160 goes into the air. Well, as this pit is open, just 11 00:00:59,160 --> 00:01:02,600 think of all that just gushing out and next minute the sun and 12 00:01:03,440 --> 00:01:06,920 everything turns, this haze, it's like an eclipse. 13 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,280 This is what's happening. The sun and the air were 14 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:13,680 darkened because of the smoke of the pit. 15 00:01:13,680 --> 00:01:18,040 Just like as I said, a massive volcanic reaction. 16 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:22,440 Then the 5th Angel sounded verse one. 17 00:01:22,480 --> 00:01:25,240 This is the fifth Angel that sounded the trumpet. 18 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:31,280 There were 7 seals followed thematically if not 19 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:36,480 chronologically by 7 trumpets and that's where we were at in 20 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:39,400 their arranged order. They are very similar. 21 00:01:40,640 --> 00:01:45,840 The 1st 4 seals that Jesus broke on the scroll and trumpets 22 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:50,360 presented judgements directed against the earth. 23 00:01:50,360 --> 00:01:55,600 We see that in both. In the 1st 4 seals there were 24 00:01:55,600 --> 00:02:00,720 the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, bringing tyranny, 25 00:02:01,360 --> 00:02:07,480 war, famine and death on the earth, LED of course by the 26 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:14,920 Antichrist, a man of sin. In the 1st 4 trumpets, these 27 00:02:14,920 --> 00:02:19,480 were the ecological destruction of the vegetation. 28 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:24,480 We looked at that on Sunday. The ocean, remember, was 1/3 of 29 00:02:24,480 --> 00:02:30,880 1/3 of the fresh waters poisoned people began to die because of 30 00:02:31,880 --> 00:02:35,160 the water wasn't that I weren't able to do the rivers and the 31 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:40,440 waters and the springs were polluted by that asteroid or 32 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:44,600 whatever it is, a meteorite that was called Wormwood and and the 33 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:50,840 sky, the last three seals focused upon heaven. 34 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,840 You remember the cry of the martyrs, those who rejected the 35 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:58,960 mark of the beast, rejected worshipping the Antichrist. 36 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:06,720 They were haunted down, killed for their witness. 37 00:03:09,800 --> 00:03:14,160 And there were cosmic disturbances and the heavenly 38 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:19,080 prelude to the seven trumpets. The last three trumpets we're 39 00:03:19,080 --> 00:03:24,600 going to look at tonight. Literally, it's like you've 40 00:03:24,600 --> 00:03:27,120 heard the term and all hell broke loose. 41 00:03:27,480 --> 00:03:33,560 This is kind of like it and it's in terms of the demonic. 42 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:38,880 The 5th Angel sounded. He said I saw John said I saw a 43 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,280 * fallen from heaven to the earth. 44 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:48,680 To him it's a personality was given the key to the bottomless 45 00:03:48,680 --> 00:03:53,320 pit. This is not a meteorite, not an 46 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:58,760 asteroid, but a person to him was given the key in chapter 12 47 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:02,800 of Revelation verse 3 it says and another sign appeared in 48 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:06,280 heaven. Behold, a great fiery red dragon 49 00:04:06,880 --> 00:04:12,760 having 7 heads, 10 horns, 7 diadems or crowns on his head. 50 00:04:13,360 --> 00:04:19,640 His tail drew a third of the stars of heaven and threw them 51 00:04:19,640 --> 00:04:22,760 to the earth. We have yet to get there and but 52 00:04:22,760 --> 00:04:28,520 that's a reference to Satan's original fall from heaven. 53 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:34,280 Plus when he fell, cast out a third of the angels. 54 00:04:34,280 --> 00:04:38,760 Fallen angels went with him. And so fallen angels, we would 55 00:04:38,760 --> 00:04:43,080 call them demons. In Luke chapter 10 verse 18, 56 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:47,600 Jesus made reference to Satan's original fall. 57 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:53,960 Jesus said to them, I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 58 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:59,120 Now John is not writing about the original fall here as he 59 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:03,800 sees this one, this fallen Angel going to the pit with the key. 60 00:05:05,480 --> 00:05:11,000 John sees he says a fallen star. So he he's, this is, this is the 61 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:13,920 one who fell. So he says, I see a fallen star, 62 00:05:13,920 --> 00:05:18,720 not a falling star. He is given this one, the key to 63 00:05:18,720 --> 00:05:21,240 the bottomless pit. In the Greek language, it's the 64 00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:27,200 word abuso and it's the pit of the at where we get our English 65 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:31,280 word abyss. And this is where in this 66 00:05:31,280 --> 00:05:36,560 location as he unlocks it in this place where the most vile 67 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:41,680 and wicked demons, fallen angels are at this moment confined. 68 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:49,080 Peter also refers to these as such into Peter chapter 2 verse 69 00:05:49,080 --> 00:05:52,840 4. It says for if God did not spare 70 00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:58,400 the angels who sinned, but cast them down to hell, delivered 71 00:05:58,400 --> 00:06:03,440 them into chains of darkness to be reserved for judgement. 72 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:08,440 You'll also remember when Jesus was sailing across the the 73 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:10,960 Galilee. It comes to the shore. 74 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:16,160 We've been to the area of Ghaderi and he comes to a place 75 00:06:16,160 --> 00:06:22,760 where there's a cemetery and a demon possessed man came rushing 76 00:06:22,760 --> 00:06:27,880 up to Jesus in Luke 826. They sailed to the country of 77 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:31,320 the Gadarenes, which is opposite Galilee, so it's the other side 78 00:06:31,320 --> 00:06:35,320 of the Galilee. When Jesus stepped out on the 79 00:06:35,320 --> 00:06:40,840 land, they met him, a certain man from the city who had demons 80 00:06:40,840 --> 00:06:45,880 for a long time. Jesus asked him, saying what's 81 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:49,720 your name? And he said legion, Legion in 82 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:54,920 the sense of this is how many we there are because many demons 83 00:06:54,960 --> 00:07:00,360 had entered this man. And now the demons know who it 84 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:04,160 is because they rushed bowed down to them because they knew 85 00:07:04,880 --> 00:07:09,640 who Jesus was. And I begged Jesus that he would 86 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:17,040 not command them to go into the abyss where this Satan is now 87 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:21,160 about to unlock. The abyss is the same place 88 00:07:21,160 --> 00:07:26,200 where Satan will will be chained in the future and confined 89 00:07:26,200 --> 00:07:29,920 during the thousand year reign called the Millennial reign of 90 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:34,360 Christ. In Revelation chapter 20, John 91 00:07:34,360 --> 00:07:36,640 writes. Then I saw an Angel coming down 92 00:07:36,640 --> 00:07:40,440 from heaven, having the key to the bottomless pit and a great 93 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:44,160 chain in his hand. He laid hold of the dragon. 94 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:49,000 So he seizes Satan, that serpent of old, who is the devil and 95 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:54,520 Satan, so we know exactly who it is, binds him up for 1000 years 96 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:57,320 and cast him into the bottomless pit. 97 00:07:57,400 --> 00:08:02,800 The abyss shut him up and set a seal on him so that he should 98 00:08:02,800 --> 00:08:07,480 deceive the nations no more till 1000 years were finished. 99 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:12,400 But that's future. The word abyss, the root word 100 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:16,200 that means it means without depth, a shaft. 101 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:22,320 Jude picks up the same sort of language in Jude verse 6. 102 00:08:22,320 --> 00:08:26,640 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left 103 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:31,240 their own abode, God has reserved in everlasting chains 104 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:37,000 and the darkness for the judgement of the great day, as 105 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:41,799 Satan, who has been given the key and the authority to open 106 00:08:41,799 --> 00:08:48,920 this bottomless pit, this shaft. Demons surge out and are 107 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:52,440 released upon the world during the tribulation. 108 00:08:53,400 --> 00:09:00,200 And note carefully it says And to them then out of the smoke, 109 00:09:00,200 --> 00:09:05,120 locusts came upon the earth, and to them was given power. 110 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:11,000 As the scorpions of the earth have power, they were commanded. 111 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:15,400 So the parameters are set not by Satan, but my God. 112 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:18,880 He says, this is what, this is what you're allowed to do. 113 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:25,240 This is how far you can go. And they were commanded exactly 114 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:27,120 not to harm the grass of the earth. 115 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:31,520 And remember, 1/3 of it's been destroyed thus far, or any other 116 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:35,600 green thing or any tree, a third of them previously. 117 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:42,760 But you're only allowed to go and attack those men who do not 118 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,680 have the seal of God on their foreheads. 119 00:09:46,560 --> 00:09:51,520 That's every unbeliever. It says they are given power. 120 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:55,040 So God, this is God's plan. This is the judgement of the 121 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:57,280 world, judgement of a fallen world. 122 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:00,120 They are commanded. This is what you're allowed to 123 00:10:00,120 --> 00:10:02,760 do. These are the ones, the only 124 00:10:02,760 --> 00:10:09,080 ones you can touch. These ones, you can't touch how 125 00:10:09,080 --> 00:10:13,240 far they can go. John now describes in detail the 126 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:17,800 best he can, these demonic creatures, verse 5. 127 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:24,760 And they were not given authority to kill them, but to 128 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:29,760 torment them. That's every unbeliever for five 129 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:35,640 months, a specific period. Their torment was like the 130 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:39,640 torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. 131 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:44,080 Now we in Australia, we have scorpions but always like to 132 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:49,640 relate it to being stung by a Stingray or so many of you have 133 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:51,400 ever been crabbing here in Australia. 134 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:55,400 Cobblers, you know the Cobblers, Oh my goodness. 135 00:10:55,560 --> 00:11:02,400 And anyone that's suffered that, it is sheer agony as they shoot 136 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:08,200 protein into you. In those days when this occurs, 137 00:11:08,200 --> 00:11:11,960 notice this. Men will seek death. 138 00:11:11,960 --> 00:11:16,520 They'll want to commit suicide and will not find it. 139 00:11:17,040 --> 00:11:22,080 They will desire to die and death will flee from them. 140 00:11:23,560 --> 00:11:27,600 The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. 141 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:32,160 On their heads were crowns of something like gold. 142 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:35,680 Their faces were like the faces of men. 143 00:11:35,680 --> 00:11:39,320 Now I want to stop here before I go any further because so many, 144 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:42,720 well this is John is now describing helicopter gunships 145 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:46,120 and things like that, modern military armour and you know, 146 00:11:46,120 --> 00:11:52,120 the machine gun stuff. No, no, no, this is demonic. 147 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:57,800 He is describing demons. He's not describing man made 148 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:03,120 engines or weapons or anything like that because otherwise you, 149 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:05,680 you just, you're missing what's happening here. 150 00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,360 On their heads were crowns of something like gold. 151 00:12:09,360 --> 00:12:11,160 Their faces were like the faces of men. 152 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:14,800 They had hair like woman's hair. Their teeth were like lion's 153 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:16,800 teeth. They had breastplates like 154 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:20,520 breastplates of iron. And the sound of their wings was 155 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:24,720 like the sound of Chariots with many horses running into battle 156 00:12:24,720 --> 00:12:30,280 so loud, just just with their their their vision of them 157 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:33,960 horrifying with the noise of them terrifying. 158 00:12:34,640 --> 00:12:39,600 And they loose this 10. They had tiles like scorpions 159 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:42,720 and there were stings in their tiles. 160 00:12:43,520 --> 00:12:49,680 Their power that's repeated was to hurt men five months and they 161 00:12:49,680 --> 00:12:54,080 had as king over them the Angel of the bottomless pit. 162 00:12:54,080 --> 00:12:58,600 We know who that is. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, 163 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:02,080 but in Greek is the name Apollyon. 164 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:07,720 Now notice it says they're like locusts, but they aren't actual 165 00:13:07,720 --> 00:13:12,520 locusts. The average lifespan, by the 166 00:13:12,520 --> 00:13:15,520 way, of a real locust, it's interesting, is five months. 167 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:22,240 These demonic creatures have a limited period in which they can 168 00:13:22,240 --> 00:13:27,040 wreak and God has allowed their havoc five months. 169 00:13:27,160 --> 00:13:33,440 During this time, verse 10, they swarm an attack. 170 00:13:33,880 --> 00:13:37,880 And if you've ever seen, most of us have seen on TV the plagues 171 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:41,040 of locusts, plagues of locusts. Remember in Egypt, plague. 172 00:13:41,400 --> 00:13:48,200 They swarm with so many and they overwhelm men with their 173 00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:53,440 numbers. It's horrific, but it says that 174 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,840 they will not harm the remaining grass, so they're not like us 175 00:13:57,760 --> 00:13:59,520 nor trees. Verse 4. 176 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:05,920 So Satan's agenda, he's, he's given command, He's the king of 177 00:14:05,920 --> 00:14:09,840 these. Satan's agenda for these demons 178 00:14:09,840 --> 00:14:14,560 is to inflict pain on the unsaved people of the earth. 179 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:18,680 So they sting people. Verse 10. 180 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:24,920 And with that sting, it brings such agony and pain, but they 181 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:27,560 are not given the authority to be lethal. 182 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:30,640 So you feel the pain, but it won't kill you. 183 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:34,200 But you want to die. This 5. 184 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:40,560 Now remember in the book of Job, God laid out to Satan, as he 185 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:43,640 kept on saying, well, yeah, Job, he's, he only worships you 186 00:14:43,640 --> 00:14:47,000 because you protect him and you give me food and you bless him. 187 00:14:47,360 --> 00:14:48,880 But you let me have a crack on him. 188 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:52,280 He'll, he'll turn on you. I remember God has that 189 00:14:52,280 --> 00:14:55,360 discussion with Satan. God laid out to Satan the 190 00:14:55,360 --> 00:15:00,080 boundaries that he could reach in Satan's attack on Job in the 191 00:15:00,080 --> 00:15:04,840 Old Testament. And Job was not allowed to take. 192 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:09,880 Sorry, Satan was not allowed to take Job's life. 193 00:15:11,400 --> 00:15:17,280 He removed his children, lost his wealth, sores, agony, 194 00:15:17,360 --> 00:15:21,320 everything, couldn't kill him but these demons. 195 00:15:22,240 --> 00:15:28,840 Chapter 9 Revelation let out of this pit have a specific target 196 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:33,840 group selected who they alone will attack. 197 00:15:34,120 --> 00:15:39,960 They'll only attack these. They will not touch or attack or 198 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:46,040 go near this for any of God's people who were sealed by God. 199 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:49,720 Who were they? We learnt that they are the 200 00:15:49,720 --> 00:15:56,680 144,000 Jewish servants we read about in Revelation Chapter 7. 201 00:15:57,240 --> 00:16:00,080 Now a good question that comes up here and I cannot answer it. 202 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:03,600 This is well. What about the non believers who 203 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:08,040 get saved during sorry the other people who come to the Lord 204 00:16:08,280 --> 00:16:10,720 during that I don't know. That doesn't tell us. 205 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:16,160 But I do know for certainty that the 144,000 who are sealed by 206 00:16:16,160 --> 00:16:21,200 God can't be touched. The agony and the pain from 207 00:16:21,200 --> 00:16:26,880 these demonic creatures on as they sting unbelievers is so 208 00:16:26,880 --> 00:16:32,280 brutal that people will seek death, suicide, to kill 209 00:16:32,280 --> 00:16:36,160 themselves to escape the pain they enduring. 210 00:16:36,840 --> 00:16:38,520 But here's the here's the kicker. 211 00:16:40,640 --> 00:16:43,160 Death will not be able to be had by any of them. 212 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:46,880 So you'll be stung by a demon agony. 213 00:16:46,880 --> 00:16:49,840 You'll take a gun, put it to your head, blow your brains out. 214 00:16:50,040 --> 00:16:53,400 You'll not die, you'll only suffer more agony. 215 00:16:53,760 --> 00:16:56,600 You'll throw yourself off a building, fall to the ground. 216 00:16:57,040 --> 00:17:00,040 You'll do all the damage to you. You still won't die. 217 00:17:00,600 --> 00:17:03,560 Death. You know, death for, for, for us 218 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,720 is is is the Christ, what he's done with it. 219 00:17:07,880 --> 00:17:11,920 He's taking the sting and the power out of death for us, 220 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:15,599 doesn't He? And death, you know when you are 221 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:18,000 ailing. If I'm inflicted and I visited 222 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:22,640 many and many a person who was dying of cancer and illnesses 223 00:17:22,640 --> 00:17:26,599 and things and I just wanted to go home to be with the Lord, and 224 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:33,080 death is, Oh yes, let me stop being in agony and the Lord let 225 00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:37,480 me go, take me. And so death is also a blessing 226 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:43,240 in that sense for us, but for these people, as they try and 227 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:47,280 commit suicide in every, every possible way, drink poison, 228 00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:50,520 won't make any difference. You'll suffer from what you're 229 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:53,200 doing to yourself. You'll only add more pain and 230 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:56,200 affliction to yourself. But you will not die for that 231 00:17:56,200 --> 00:18:00,640 period. There's six in those days. 232 00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:02,280 Men will seek death, will not find it. 233 00:18:02,840 --> 00:18:05,320 They'll desire to die and death will flee from them. 234 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:09,800 So this provides something also. It's a there's another picture 235 00:18:09,800 --> 00:18:15,800 here, a snapshot of what eternal judgement will be like for those 236 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:20,440 who ultimately reject the gospel of Jesus Christ and his 237 00:18:20,440 --> 00:18:23,320 forgiveness. It's not going to be I'm sitting 238 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:30,960 in hell just quietly knitting. There's gnashing of teeth, 239 00:18:32,600 --> 00:18:35,080 there's torment. You remember the story of rich 240 00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:40,360 man or Lazarus runs over on the outside with Abraham's in 241 00:18:40,360 --> 00:18:42,400 Abraham's bosom being comforted the other guys. 242 00:18:42,400 --> 00:18:45,360 I'm saying, oh, man, you can just send a drop over man. 243 00:18:45,360 --> 00:18:46,880 Just. I'm thirsty. 244 00:18:47,280 --> 00:18:50,600 Yeah, because you've, you've rejected he. 245 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:55,240 You can quench your thirst. Can he just put a drop on my 246 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:59,320 lips? Well, this is a snapshot of what 247 00:18:59,320 --> 00:19:03,880 it's going to be like for eternity for every man and woman 248 00:19:03,880 --> 00:19:08,160 who rejects Jesus Christ. It's not a pretty picture. 249 00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:12,760 But also let me say at this point, because everyone's going, 250 00:19:12,760 --> 00:19:15,640 wow, man, that's, that's pretty tough, Pretty rough, isn't it? 251 00:19:15,640 --> 00:19:18,200 I mean, wow, how could God do that? 252 00:19:18,800 --> 00:19:23,000 Well, here's the deal. None of this is God's desire. 253 00:19:24,840 --> 00:19:29,520 God didn't want to do that. He never created this place for 254 00:19:30,520 --> 00:19:36,920 humanity. In Ezekiel 33 verse 11, the Lord 255 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:41,760 says, say to them as I live, says the Lord God, I have no 256 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:47,120 pleasure in the death of the wicked, but my heart's desire is 257 00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:51,320 that the wicked turn from his way and live. 258 00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,880 That's why John 316 is in the Bible. 259 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:58,960 For God so loved the world. This is what I'm going to do. 260 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:04,480 I'm going to give my son. To die for you so you can. 261 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:09,720 All you have to do is accept it, but I won't force you. 262 00:20:11,760 --> 00:20:16,400 This is for the people who've gone not interested, don't want 263 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:21,080 it. Matthew 2541 as Jesus spoke of 264 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:24,800 the judgement Day, he said then he will also say to those on the 265 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:28,560 left hand, depart from me. You cursed into the everlasting 266 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:32,600 fire, which was originally prepared for the devil and his 267 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:38,480 angels. But every Sinner who rejects 268 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:40,880 Jesus and God's offer a forgiveness of sin. 269 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:43,560 You see, when you reject, you go. 270 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:45,680 Well, yeah, but I'm still making up my mind. 271 00:20:45,680 --> 00:20:47,960 Now when you reject, you're either Jesus said you're either 272 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:51,440 for me or you're against me. There's no. 273 00:20:51,640 --> 00:20:53,520 There's no. Oh, well, I'm still making up my 274 00:20:53,520 --> 00:20:55,040 mind. It's not neutral. 275 00:20:55,440 --> 00:20:57,960 Can't be. Was it Switzerland that was 276 00:20:57,960 --> 00:21:01,040 neutral during the war? There's no Switzerland in the 277 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:05,160 Bible. Either for me or you're against 278 00:21:05,160 --> 00:21:13,200 me. And Jesus says every Sinner who 279 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:18,120 rejects Jesus and God's offer of forgiveness of sin chooses 280 00:21:18,120 --> 00:21:21,040 Satan. You've made your choice who will 281 00:21:21,040 --> 00:21:23,600 follow the devil into the same eternal judgement. 282 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:28,280 You reject Jesus Christ, you are choosing Satan. 283 00:21:29,160 --> 00:21:32,200 And notice Satan. And here's the weird part too 284 00:21:32,200 --> 00:21:36,640 that people don't realise is carrying out his suffering on 285 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:40,920 who? On his own Unsaved followers? 286 00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:44,480 The ones with the mark of the beast? 287 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:47,600 Ones who worship the Antichrist? The lawless one? 288 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:53,080 How often people who reject Jesus Christ and his gospel 289 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:57,520 speak foolishly of their looking forward to partying with all 290 00:21:57,520 --> 00:21:59,640 their friends and help. Well, when I get there, well, 291 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:04,000 just yeah. But the reality is Satan seeks 292 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:05,840 to cause pain. That's his job. 293 00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:10,000 That's what he wants to do. Grief, torture. 294 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:12,600 To all that choose to follow him. 295 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:14,000 Follow him. He'll kill you. 296 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:19,480 This is in direct contrast to what Jesus promises every 297 00:22:19,480 --> 00:22:23,080 believer, those who follow him. He says, I will lead you to a 298 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:26,360 place where there's no sickness, no sorrow, and no suffering. 299 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:32,600 The exact opposite. We're told by King Solomon that 300 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:36,880 earthly locusts have no king. Now Solomon was the world's 301 00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,520 greatest botanist. The Bible tells us that Proverbs 302 00:22:40,520 --> 00:22:45,440 30 verse 27, the locusts have no King Solomon said yet they all 303 00:22:45,440 --> 00:22:48,880 advance in ranks. But these demonic creatures in 304 00:22:48,880 --> 00:22:56,280 Chapter 9, do they have a king? We see in verse 11 they had as a 305 00:22:56,360 --> 00:22:59,880 king over them the Angel of the bottomless pit whose name in 306 00:22:59,880 --> 00:23:03,880 Hebrew is Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name Apollyon. 307 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:09,600 Both names mean destroyer. So as soon as I say that, who's 308 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:10,520 that? Tell you who it is. 309 00:23:11,000 --> 00:23:15,480 The demons king is Satan John chapter 10 verse 10 The thief 310 00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:21,480 does not come except to to steal, to kill and to destroy. 311 00:23:22,400 --> 00:23:28,720 Verse 12/1 Woe that's just one woe is past. 312 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:34,080 Behold 2 more woes are coming after these things. 313 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:41,200 Then the 6th Angel sounded and I heard a voice from the four 314 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:45,160 horns of the golden altar, which is before God now. 315 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:49,080 So see where the commands, what's what's happening here, 316 00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:55,400 where it's coming from, saying to the 6th Angel who had the 317 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,480 trumpet, blow your trumpet. This is the sequel. 318 00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:02,560 Now release the four angels. So they're fallen angels, 319 00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:06,480 they're bound up, they're evil who are bound at the great river 320 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:11,120 Euphrates. So the four angels who had been 321 00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:14,320 now here's another thing. This isn't just all haphazard 322 00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,680 and God, God do this, do this. This is planned. 323 00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:22,200 This is judgement planned. That's why throughout the Bible, 324 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:25,280 you'll see as we go on, the angels and others will say, you 325 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:26,640 know what, God just you just did. 326 00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:28,800 That was that was the exact right judgement. 327 00:24:29,800 --> 00:24:31,400 It's exactly the right thing to do. 328 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:35,600 He says release the four angels who abound at the river 329 00:24:35,600 --> 00:24:37,960 Euphrates. So the four angels who had been 330 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:43,040 prepared planned for the hour, day and month and year. 331 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:47,320 How specific is this? We're released and now I read 332 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:52,200 this to kill 1/3 of the remaining of mankind. 333 00:24:54,360 --> 00:24:59,240 Some more demonic angels here as they have been bound and are 334 00:24:59,240 --> 00:25:02,640 about to be released. And the review phrase is an 335 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:07,760 interesting situation here. The location for We are reminded 336 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:11,960 that Euphrates was one of the four rivers that flowed out of 337 00:25:11,960 --> 00:25:14,760 the original Garden of Eden. Genesis 2 verse 14. 338 00:25:16,080 --> 00:25:21,160 This was the area, the location where the first ever lie was 339 00:25:21,160 --> 00:25:23,360 recorded. If you eat that, you won't die. 340 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:28,400 Go ahead, eat it. It was the location where the 341 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:31,560 first murder was committed. Cain killed his brother Abe. 342 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:35,520 It was the location where humanity said we're not 343 00:25:35,520 --> 00:25:38,560 dispersing, covering the earth. We're going to stay here, we're 344 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:40,880 going to look after ourselves. Let's build a tower. 345 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:46,760 And so the four angels who had been prepared for the hour of 346 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:49,480 the day and the month were released to kill 1/3 of mankind. 347 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,680 Verse 16. Now, the number of the army of 348 00:25:52,680 --> 00:25:58,240 the horsemen was 200 million. I heard the number of them, 200 349 00:25:58,240 --> 00:25:59,560 million. That's phenomenal. 350 00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:05,520 Thus I saw the horses in the vision, those who sat on them. 351 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:07,760 Now he's going to describe what he sees. 352 00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:13,600 Had breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, sulfa yellow. 353 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:16,880 The heads of the horses were like the heads of lions. 354 00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:19,760 Out of their mouths came fire. I've heard many people say, 355 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,320 well, these are tanks. He's just describing tanks. 356 00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:29,880 I don't think so. By these 3 plagues 1/3 of 357 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:34,440 mankind was killed by the fire and the smoke and the brimstone 358 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,880 which came out of their mouths. For their power is in their 359 00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:42,800 mouth, in their tails, for their tails are like serpents having 360 00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,480 heads, and with them they do harm. 361 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:51,920 So a second army in this next trumpet is now being assembled 362 00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:54,000 to intact. Who? 363 00:26:54,320 --> 00:26:56,760 The inhabitants of the earth, Earth dwellers. 364 00:26:56,760 --> 00:27:02,120 Remember the first army was an army of demons like locusts, 365 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:05,320 scorpions. Now, here's the point. 366 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:07,400 I used to say, well, this is everyone and many people. 367 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:09,640 It's China. It's the 200 million, you know, 368 00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:11,880 because they have an army. It's like, I can do that. 369 00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,960 Now I kind of wonder about this because as I read this more 370 00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:18,240 carefully, especially in particular, we learned about 371 00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:21,240 what those creatures were that came out of the pit. 372 00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:25,720 My opinion is this, these are demons. 373 00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:29,640 Again, this is a demonic. These are creatures like the 374 00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:33,840 world is never seen. But it doesn't matter whether 375 00:27:33,840 --> 00:27:36,520 it's an army of demons or a real earthly army. 376 00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:41,040 What does matter? Whichever way you choose, the 377 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:46,640 real point is that this army, 200 million, will kill 1/3 of 378 00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:48,880 mankind. Another third of all that's been 379 00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:51,840 taken. When the 5th trumpet sounded, 380 00:27:52,440 --> 00:27:55,480 people were desperately trying to die, but they could not do 381 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,720 so. However, when the 6th trumpet 382 00:27:57,720 --> 00:28:01,840 sounds, death returns with a vengeance, and a third of them 383 00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,080 are taken out. Now, the deaths that have 384 00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:10,760 occurred from the seal judgments, the beginning of this 385 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:16,080 trumpet judgement, equal over half the world's population. 386 00:28:16,160 --> 00:28:20,120 So that's 8 billion. That's 4 billion will have been 387 00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:27,120 killed to this point and we are only that's minus also those who 388 00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:29,920 have gone up in the rapture. I don't know how many that is 389 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:35,600 and we're only midway through the tribulation period. 390 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:41,040 We have less than 4 billion people on the earth. 391 00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:47,640 One and every two there's 20 but the rest of mankind. 392 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:53,000 So not all were killed who were not killed by these plagues. 393 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:59,040 Notice did not repent of the works of the hands, that they 394 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:03,520 should not worship demons and idols of gold, silver, brass, 395 00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:07,680 stone, and wood, which can neither see nor hear nor walk. 396 00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:13,040 And they did not repent, says again, of their murders, of 397 00:29:13,040 --> 00:29:18,440 their sorceries, of their sexual immorality or their thefts, the 398 00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:23,200 fact that over half of the world's population has been 399 00:29:23,200 --> 00:29:28,520 raptured or killed, or that 144,000 Jewish evangelists are 400 00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,640 proclaiming the only message of hope. 401 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:35,800 All hell is literally breaking loose on the planet. 402 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:40,560 And that still has had no effect on those who haven't died as 403 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:46,720 yet, except what? To harden their hearts even more 404 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:54,680 so it tells you the type of person that's left that hasn't 405 00:29:55,520 --> 00:30:02,520 been received Christ. It's interesting when God looked 406 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:07,760 upon the world in Genesis and he saw that man's thoughts were 407 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:14,720 what continually evil how many made it out of that entire 408 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:24,360 number living 88. So here we finish off with this. 409 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:29,360 Those that are left non believers rejecting the true and 410 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:33,760 living God because you can repent at any time they continue 411 00:30:33,760 --> 00:30:39,080 in their worship of demons. Satanic worship will be at an 412 00:30:39,080 --> 00:30:43,560 all time high pledging themselves to Satan. 413 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:49,960 How taking the mark on the forehead or on the right hand. 414 00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:52,280 And so the first two commandments of the 10 415 00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:56,480 commandments are broken. Second one, it says they won't 416 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:00,560 repent of their murder. It's the violation of the 6th 417 00:31:00,560 --> 00:31:04,760 commandment. How will the government itself, 418 00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:10,440 led by the Antichrist people will go around squads, you name 419 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:15,480 it, however they work it and hunt down everyone who's refused 420 00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:19,320 the mark and murder anyone who follows Jesus. 421 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:24,000 Those others who are killing one another will be what? 422 00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,080 It's the law of the jungle, fighting for survival. 423 00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:32,160 You want something to eat days, you know, days later for a loaf 424 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,720 of bread, nowhere to drink to survive. 425 00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,720 You don't care. It's animalistic but it says 426 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:45,440 here also sorceries and that's the Greek word pharmakeia where 427 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:47,800 we get our English word pharmacy. 428 00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:53,800 So we see a lot of this, a lot of the crime that occurs in WI W 429 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:59,800 Australia is because people are high loaded, doing erratic 430 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,040 things, running into shopping centres and taking knives and 431 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:04,200 doing things all sorts of like that. 432 00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:09,680 Well, drug use, we think it's bad now or drug, drug use will 433 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:16,680 spike beyond unbelievable and there will be rampant drug use, 434 00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:21,320 Pharmakeia, sorceries during that time. 435 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:27,880 But worse still, worse still, sexual immorality. 436 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:35,120 It says here sexual immorality and that word that John writes 437 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,600 here in the Greek is the word pornea. 438 00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,440 When we get everything pornographic pornography. 439 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:44,480 And so we think we live in a sick, sick world. 440 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:47,320 Now, how often do we read in the paper we go, how can look what's 441 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,520 going on? Now look, look at this, the 442 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:54,440 number of people that are involved in Child Exploitation 443 00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,680 and crimes. Now that you think, how could 444 00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,960 that how could they do that? Well, the Bible tells us how 445 00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:02,400 they can do that. It's demonic. 446 00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:10,920 And the last one, it speaks of thievery, thieving, no food, no 447 00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:14,040 water. Everyone's going to be stealing 448 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:15,640 whatever they can get their hands on. 449 00:33:16,840 --> 00:33:24,200 So such horrendous news. But let us remember God remains 450 00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:27,840 in complete control. He is issuing out how far, how 451 00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:31,920 long, who can, who can't. His will is being done. 452 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:36,240 You can't mock a holy God. How often have you said, you 453 00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,480 know, I don't know why people get away with it. 454 00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:41,440 And haven't you thought of that? You, you know, you see trials 455 00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:44,280 and you know, well, this person has killed someone and they get 456 00:33:44,280 --> 00:33:45,840 away with their right. Well, guess what? 457 00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:50,520 No, that's what the Bible says. God says vengeance is mine. 458 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,720 No one gets away with anything against the holy God. 459 00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,000 Whatsoever man, so so shall he reap. 460 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:06,240 And God is bringing judgement day now the church during this 461 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:10,760 whole time, thank the Lord, is safe in heaven. 462 00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:13,520 Paul says we can comfort one another with these words. 463 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:17,440 At this time. We're worshipping God, preparing 464 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,440 to return with Jesus to set up the millennial Kingdom. 465 00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:26,639 Revelation 19 All the wrongs in life. 466 00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:30,440 God through the tribulation period will be made right. 467 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:37,600 Every score settled. Vengeance is mine, says the 468 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:37,880 Lord.