1 00:00:06,680 --> 00:00:10,200 Revelation chapter 17 the coming religious revival. 2 00:00:12,040 --> 00:00:14,440 False religion is the enemy of the faith. 3 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:21,480 But since the beginning of time, sadly, false teaching of false 4 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:25,440 religion has continued to flourish and draw people away 5 00:00:25,440 --> 00:00:30,560 from God. Jesus said John chapter 3 verse 6 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:33,080 19. This is the condemnation that 7 00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:34,480 the light has come into the world. 8 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:40,000 Jesus brought the light and men love darkness rather than the 9 00:00:40,000 --> 00:00:42,920 light. So they rejected Jesus because 10 00:00:42,920 --> 00:00:45,400 their deeds were evil. They want to continue to live in 11 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:47,960 sin, so they love false teaching. 12 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:51,000 They love false religion and allows them to do what they 13 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:55,280 please. AW Tozer said the whole world 14 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:59,920 has been booby trapped by the devil and the deadliest trap of 15 00:00:59,920 --> 00:01:03,320 all is the religious one. In other words, well I've been 16 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:07,160 to church like I have a Bible, I don't read it, but I have one. 17 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:13,080 I go to church when I need to. The Australian vernacular or a 18 00:01:13,080 --> 00:01:15,360 story of that. And you would know very well 19 00:01:15,360 --> 00:01:18,040 because our relatives, our friends, our work colleagues 20 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:22,160 say, well I'm a spiritual person, I know you go to church, 21 00:01:22,160 --> 00:01:25,600 but that's not for me. Organised religion is not for 22 00:01:25,600 --> 00:01:28,720 me. I always say that I'm a 23 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:30,920 spiritual person, Paul McCartney said. 24 00:01:31,320 --> 00:01:37,520 He's a spiritual person and then it follows along this way, which 25 00:01:37,520 --> 00:01:45,880 is false religion. I worship my God, my way, Jesus 26 00:01:45,880 --> 00:01:50,560 said guess what, that doesn't work with me. 27 00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:57,720 Jesus says I am the way, the truth and the life, and no one 28 00:01:57,720 --> 00:02:00,920 comes to the Father, to God, but by me. 29 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:05,520 Your way doesn't work. Broad is the road that leads to 30 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:09,440 destruction, narrow is the path that leads to righteousness. 31 00:02:10,440 --> 00:02:13,880 The very first verse of the Bible lays a firm foundation, 32 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:17,040 Genesis 11. It says in the beginning God 33 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:19,920 created the heavens and the earth. 34 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:24,200 This opening verse in the Bible tells us that everyone and 35 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:28,000 everything was and is created by God. 36 00:02:29,320 --> 00:02:33,600 It also tells us that the reason for our creation was to know 37 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:37,360 Him. You know, that's in the majority 38 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:39,880 of Paul's prayers. Every time Paul would write to a 39 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:43,560 church, in that opening letter, he says, I pray that you come to 40 00:02:43,560 --> 00:02:46,880 a greater knowledge and understanding of who he is. 41 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:49,920 That's why you're here today. That's why we teach the word of 42 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:55,080 God so that you may come to a greater understanding today of 43 00:02:55,080 --> 00:03:01,560 who God is and also to worship him. 44 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:08,440 This is why we're created to be in fellowship with him, to walk 45 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:11,360 with him. He said to Abraham, walk before 46 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:15,960 me, Noah, Enoch, walk before God. 47 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:22,800 Adam and Eve initially enjoyed that wonderful relationship 48 00:03:23,160 --> 00:03:26,000 which you and I are going to enjoy in glory. 49 00:03:27,080 --> 00:03:31,880 Genesis chapter 2 verse 7 The Lord God formed man of the dust 50 00:03:31,880 --> 00:03:33,880 of the ground. We sang about it this morning. 51 00:03:34,200 --> 00:03:38,880 Breathe into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a 52 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:40,600 living being. Why? 53 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:43,880 To worship and to serve the living God. 54 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:50,440 Genesis 219 Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast 55 00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:54,480 of the field, every bird of the air brought them to Adam. 56 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:58,120 Why did He bring them to Adam? Because there's this communion, 57 00:03:58,120 --> 00:04:01,640 this fellowship with Adam to see what Adam, what are you, what 58 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:03,240 are you going to call this? Well, I'll call that an 59 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:08,520 elephant, call that a giraffe. I'll call that a dodo bird. 60 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:14,720 And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was it's 61 00:04:14,720 --> 00:04:16,720 name. So there's this this God saying 62 00:04:16,720 --> 00:04:19,240 he's bringing all the animals. Yeah, this is one of those. 63 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:22,920 That's a cool name there. And so there was this this this 64 00:04:22,920 --> 00:04:26,400 fellowship, this communion. But we know what happened. 65 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:31,920 Adam and Eve disobeyed God, sin entered the world, death came 66 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:35,800 with sin and heartache. And it was not long after the 67 00:04:35,800 --> 00:04:43,600 great flood that man decided again to go the whole hog and 68 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,920 collectively choose not to worship God. 69 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:51,560 The flood occurs with Noah and as the ark just ate souls and 70 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:56,040 then only in Chapter 11, men said, you know what, let's do 71 00:04:56,040 --> 00:04:58,920 our own thing. It didn't take very long, just a 72 00:04:58,920 --> 00:05:03,240 few chapters. Galatia Genesis Chapter 11, 73 00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:05,640 verse four. And they said, come, let us 74 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:09,280 build ourselves a city, a tower whose top is in the heavens. 75 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:12,800 Let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered 76 00:05:12,800 --> 00:05:14,800 abroad over the face of the whole earth. 77 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:19,320 There was a fellow back in Genesis 10 by the name of Nimrod 78 00:05:20,200 --> 00:05:26,960 who started all all the stories and the counterfeit of him being 79 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:31,280 gored by a a pig and hunting coming back to life. 80 00:05:31,680 --> 00:05:35,960 And then he being born through a virgin again of a mother and and 81 00:05:35,960 --> 00:05:38,240 mother. And the the Donner and the Child 82 00:05:38,240 --> 00:05:41,840 and all the false religions that and the name Astadi and all 83 00:05:41,840 --> 00:05:45,720 those Osiris all came from that one situation. 84 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:50,800 So instead of worshipping the one true God, mankind chose to 85 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:53,640 worship false gods. It was a choice. 86 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:56,880 They chose a false religious system. 87 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:00,880 They built this tower we'll go up into into the heavens. 88 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:05,680 And there they would look into astrology, your day by the 89 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:09,400 stars. So they worship the earth and 90 00:06:09,400 --> 00:06:13,960 the stars, even themselves. It's funny. 91 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:18,280 Nothing must change. 2025 isn't that today your day by the 92 00:06:18,280 --> 00:06:21,200 stars? People worship themselves. 93 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:25,080 People worship the earth. Climate fanaticism. 94 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:33,480 Mahatma Gandhi, who's revered as this great peacemaking man once 95 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:40,280 said, and I quote, I consider myself a Hindu, a Christian, a 96 00:06:40,280 --> 00:06:45,320 Muslim, a Jew, a Buddhist, and a Confucian. 97 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:50,200 What he should have said is I consider myself a confusion. 98 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:59,040 Is that not confusing? That it is the heartbeat of all 99 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:04,080 false religions is confusion. You can always tell when people 100 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:07,200 have been reading other books besides the Bible to tell them 101 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:11,920 what the Bible says because they they they always confuse. 102 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:17,640 The Bible says God is not the author of confusion. 103 00:07:17,840 --> 00:07:25,400 He brings clarity. Clarity Jesus said to the woman 104 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:27,960 at the world didn't need John chapter 424. 105 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:35,040 God is spirit and those who worship him must worship in 106 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:39,920 spirit and truth. You need the truth. 107 00:07:41,160 --> 00:07:43,760 Today many people reject God as the creator. 108 00:07:43,800 --> 00:07:46,960 I don't believe God created some people. 109 00:07:46,960 --> 00:07:50,520 Even people teaching from pulpits today and Sundays don't 110 00:07:50,520 --> 00:07:53,320 believe that the book of Genesis is just there to sort of like 111 00:07:53,320 --> 00:07:56,200 have a an intro. It's not really want you to go 112 00:07:56,200 --> 00:08:04,280 by. They embrace the religion of 113 00:08:04,480 --> 00:08:06,600 evolution. Evolution is a very cruel 114 00:08:06,600 --> 00:08:13,120 religion. I remember in high school doing 115 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:21,280 biology year 11 and we learnt this word hypothesis. 116 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:26,040 Hypothesis is what's called, many of you know, an educated 117 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:30,120 guess. An evolution is an educated 118 00:08:30,120 --> 00:08:35,840 guess, yet we have it taught as fact in schools and people live 119 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:37,840 and back their life upon evolution. 120 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:40,640 Evolution is the law of the jungle, isn't it? 121 00:08:41,240 --> 00:08:43,400 It's the weak and the, you know, the strong. 122 00:08:43,720 --> 00:08:47,800 We keep developing it. So in evolution, euthanasia, 123 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:53,040 abortion, all those things are not a problem with it. 124 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:58,280 In evolution, it means if you see something that you want and 125 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:00,880 you're more powerful and stronger than then you should 126 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:04,600 just it's the law of the jungle. And so that's what people don't 127 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:09,640 realise, that evolution is a is a cruel, dangerous religion. 128 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:16,000 In Revelation 17 we come to the downfall, thankfully, of false 129 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:20,440 religion, which the Bible symbolises as a woman and a 130 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:25,040 harlot in character. Every man, woman and child today 131 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:28,720 and every individual living in the final days of the Great 132 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:33,600 Tribulation will identify with either the harlot of false 133 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:38,160 religion or the bride of Christ. There is only that divide in the 134 00:09:38,160 --> 00:09:40,720 world. You are either following false 135 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:44,760 religion and you're following the harlot of false religion, or 136 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:49,200 you are part of the Bride of Christ and you follow Jesus 137 00:09:49,200 --> 00:09:50,080 Christ. That's it. 138 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:56,720 Whilst many will indeed come to Christ, and they will, we learnt 139 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:01,440 that they'll die for their faith during the seven year period, 140 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:04,480 particularly in the 1st 3 1/2 years. 141 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:10,320 There will also be another religious revival, sadly that 142 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,160 will sweep the world during this time. 143 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:19,240 The Bible calls this revival Babylon the Great, a blasphemous 144 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:21,840 world religious system. Verse one. 145 00:10:22,280 --> 00:10:26,560 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven balls came and 146 00:10:26,560 --> 00:10:30,000 talked with me, saying to me, come, I will show you the 147 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:36,120 judgement of the great harlot who sits on many waters, with 148 00:10:36,120 --> 00:10:40,000 whom the kings of the earth, that's all the political powers 149 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:43,120 and governments committed fornication. 150 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:48,280 And the inhabitants of the earth, Remember, we've seen that 151 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,120 all the way through the Bible. Inhabitants of the earth, earth 152 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:54,480 dwellers, those dwell upon the earth, is a reference to the 153 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:58,960 people who are going to live. Some will live, some, many will 154 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:02,800 die during the Tribulation period, but who reject Jesus 155 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:04,400 Christ. They don't want anything to do 156 00:11:04,400 --> 00:11:07,920 with Jesus Christ. They are quite happy to receive 157 00:11:07,920 --> 00:11:10,600 false religion and to worship the Antichrist. 158 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:16,320 And this great harlot, whom the kings of the earth committed 159 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:20,680 fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk 160 00:11:20,920 --> 00:11:25,080 with the whine of a fornication. In other words, they took in all 161 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:29,520 the false teaching, and they were enamoured by it. 162 00:11:31,280 --> 00:11:35,600 John calls this false, blasphemous religious system the 163 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:39,440 great Harlot. He calls it that four times in 164 00:11:39,440 --> 00:11:43,320 this passage even. He calls it the mother of 165 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:49,160 harlots, verse 5. And on her forehead was written 166 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:54,320 Mystery Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots, and of the 167 00:11:54,320 --> 00:11:59,480 abominations of the earth, whose sin is fornication. 168 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:05,120 Now throughout the Bible, harlotry consistently is a term 169 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:10,720 used by God to describe one thing, idolatry, that is, not 170 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:13,520 worshipping the true God, but worshipping in another God. 171 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:19,080 Whenever Israel, God's chosen people, turned her back upon God 172 00:12:19,280 --> 00:12:25,800 and worship false Pagan deities, God labelled such action as 173 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,560 harlotry. Jeremiah chapter 3 verse 6, for 174 00:12:29,560 --> 00:12:32,200 example. The Lord said also to me in the 175 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:37,760 days of Josiah the king, have you seen what backsliding Israel 176 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:41,040 has done? She has gone up on every high 177 00:12:41,040 --> 00:12:45,080 mountain places of worship that they built and under every green 178 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:48,880 tree around these places of worship on they always raise 179 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:52,120 them up. Then they put these these Groves 180 00:12:52,120 --> 00:12:58,560 around them, and there they did shocking worship of false gods, 181 00:12:59,120 --> 00:13:01,840 and there they played it, says the harlot. 182 00:13:02,800 --> 00:13:05,920 The entire narrative, one of my favourite books in the Bible, 183 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:11,880 the book of Hosea, is predicated upon this metaphor of an 184 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:19,680 unfaithful wife. Israel, who plays the harlot as 185 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:22,920 Hosea shows and shows the character of God. 186 00:13:23,080 --> 00:13:27,200 The prophet of God tried to reach his unfaithful wayward 187 00:13:27,200 --> 00:13:32,680 wife, her name Goma. So true, God tried again and 188 00:13:32,680 --> 00:13:37,360 again to draw his people back to Himself, and yet Israel was 189 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:43,720 constantly unfaithful to him. What a travesty the mother of 190 00:13:43,720 --> 00:13:47,280 harlots is to the true Church of Jesus Christ. 191 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:52,360 The true church the Bible describes an Ephesians, is a 192 00:13:52,400 --> 00:13:55,880 chaste virgin without spot, without blemish. 193 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:01,120 The apostate church, the church that teaches false religion and 194 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:04,880 false beliefs, is called by God a prostitute. 195 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:10,400 The true church offers the cup of salvation, the forgiveness of 196 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:13,800 God through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 197 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:19,240 The apostate church holds the golden cup full of abomination. 198 00:14:19,320 --> 00:14:22,080 In other words, you can go to that church and live how you 199 00:14:22,080 --> 00:14:24,040 please. You can do what you want. 200 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:25,920 It doesn't matter. You can just turn up. 201 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:30,920 You know, Al Capone, one of the greatest gangsters, was in 202 00:14:30,920 --> 00:14:35,840 church every Sunday, murdering people Monday through to 203 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:40,240 Saturday in church every Sunday. He was a very religious person. 204 00:14:41,120 --> 00:14:44,400 It's live how you please. That's the church that people 205 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:46,600 are looking for. I want to go to church and you 206 00:14:46,640 --> 00:14:49,560 know, and it does what I want. It fits how I want. 207 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:54,600 The true church is purchased by the blood of Christ. 208 00:14:55,360 --> 00:14:59,240 You and I and everyone here that's received Jesus Christ as 209 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:02,480 their Lord and Saviour has been bought with a price. 210 00:15:02,560 --> 00:15:05,840 What was the price for? God so loved the world that He 211 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:09,400 gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in him should 212 00:15:09,400 --> 00:15:11,080 not perish, but have everlasting life. 213 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:14,840 He died in our place. He got the wrath of God. 214 00:15:14,840 --> 00:15:18,800 Remember we studied that in our place so that we don't get the 215 00:15:18,800 --> 00:15:21,000 judgement of God upon us anymore. 216 00:15:21,960 --> 00:15:26,720 The apostate church is drunk with the blood of martyrs who 217 00:15:26,720 --> 00:15:29,160 can remember the Spanish Inquisition. 218 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:32,080 If you haven't got it, you need to get it. 219 00:15:32,080 --> 00:15:35,520 Read it. Fox's Book of Martyrs of of how 220 00:15:35,720 --> 00:15:41,680 the the organised false religious church just persecuted 221 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:46,920 believers in Christ, slaughtered them, butchered them, tortured 222 00:15:46,920 --> 00:15:50,920 them. The new worldwide religious 223 00:15:50,920 --> 00:15:56,280 system claims to be joined to God, but like a prostitute is 224 00:15:56,280 --> 00:16:03,000 unfaithful to God, whose sin is spiritual fornication, the sin 225 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:08,440 of turning from God and going and worshipping another God, 226 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:16,280 being unfaithful to him and and not honouring him in any way. 227 00:16:17,160 --> 00:16:22,920 James chapter 4 wrote to the church verse 4 and he says 228 00:16:22,920 --> 00:16:27,720 adulterers and adulteresses. Do you not know? 229 00:16:27,720 --> 00:16:30,360 And here's where it fits with us as a church today. 230 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:36,280 That friendship with the world that is the world follows a 231 00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:39,880 false religious system, is enmity. 232 00:16:40,040 --> 00:16:45,160 It's hostile with God. Whoever therefore wants to be a 233 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:49,960 friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 234 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:51,720 I don't want to be an enemy of God. 235 00:16:52,640 --> 00:16:54,280 You don't want to be an enemy of God. 236 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:58,280 The way you don't make your the way you can make yourself an 237 00:16:58,280 --> 00:17:02,160 enemy of God is to turn your back on him and then be sucked 238 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:05,520 into false religion. Check your lifestyle. 239 00:17:07,760 --> 00:17:09,480 Check the lifestyle of your kids. 240 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:12,800 Are you more like your neighbours who don't go to 241 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:16,119 church and everyone else? Or do you stand out? 242 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:19,440 Are you salt? Are you light or are you? 243 00:17:19,640 --> 00:17:22,240 No one can tell whether you're a believer or not by the way that 244 00:17:22,240 --> 00:17:25,200 you live, by the way that you speak, the way that you dress, 245 00:17:25,440 --> 00:17:28,560 the way you know whether you go to church or not. 246 00:17:28,560 --> 00:17:31,280 Or I, I believe in God, but I just don't go to church. 247 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:36,800 I'm not into organised church. There you go again, check your 248 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:41,480 lifestyle. Read 1 John John goes through it 249 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:45,680 very clearly about how a Christian should be, what a 250 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:48,840 Christian should look like, how a Christian behaves. 251 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:52,320 Check the lifestyle of your kids. 252 00:17:52,760 --> 00:17:54,880 Are your kids just the same as everybody else? 253 00:17:54,880 --> 00:17:57,880 Well, dad, mum, they dress. You know we're going to go to 254 00:17:57,880 --> 00:18:00,120 the beach. Summer's coming up, you know we 255 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:01,320 drink. These are the bathers we're 256 00:18:01,320 --> 00:18:03,360 going to wear. This is how we're going to, you 257 00:18:03,360 --> 00:18:06,160 know, dress and an attire. This is how I'm going out. 258 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:14,080 Are you? I get stuck for words and I see 259 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:17,880 people dressed inappropriately. Always say, what does your 260 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:22,120 husband think of that? What does your father think? 261 00:18:22,200 --> 00:18:24,120 Did your father let you go out like that? 262 00:18:25,960 --> 00:18:29,480 Where's the shame? Where's the modesty? 263 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:34,120 You see? Can you spot the Christian, I 264 00:18:34,120 --> 00:18:35,680 know what I'm saying. I have to go down and wear a 265 00:18:36,400 --> 00:18:40,920 Haitian bag. Probably that would be very 266 00:18:40,920 --> 00:18:42,360 fashionable. Probably start a trend. 267 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:45,800 Well, you've seen the new Haitian bags yet I'm getting one 268 00:18:45,800 --> 00:18:54,080 of those. God will always judge adultery. 269 00:18:54,080 --> 00:18:59,840 It's such a powerful word fornication with a literal or 270 00:18:59,840 --> 00:19:03,360 spiritual. It's not a subject often 271 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:06,160 preached in church these days because you don't want to hear 272 00:19:06,160 --> 00:19:13,480 that shouldn't say that the 7th commandment you shall not commit 273 00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:16,840 adultery. Clearly the ACT itself is 274 00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:23,120 condemned. God allows no justification for 275 00:19:23,120 --> 00:19:29,400 the ways that many often seek to justify extra marital sex. 276 00:19:31,040 --> 00:19:35,600 It is not to be done. The Bible says when it is done, 277 00:19:35,600 --> 00:19:41,120 it is sin. And it and the damage of it is 278 00:19:41,120 --> 00:19:44,840 horrific. It hurts people. 279 00:19:44,840 --> 00:19:47,680 We've seen it spoken to people who've been affected. 280 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:53,320 It's a crippling blood. But here's the here's the wonder 281 00:19:53,320 --> 00:19:56,240 of God's grace, the power of God's blood. 282 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:01,840 God can't forgive that. Remember the woman caught in the 283 00:20:01,840 --> 00:20:09,320 very act of adultery? Woman, where are thine accusers? 284 00:20:11,120 --> 00:20:14,720 There's none. Neither do I condemn thee. 285 00:20:15,360 --> 00:20:19,960 However, go and sin no more. How can he say that? 286 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:26,520 Because Jesus was going to take the judgement that was due upon 287 00:20:26,520 --> 00:20:30,320 her upon himself. That's why he could say that. 288 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:32,720 But he did say go and sin no more. 289 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:38,400 Maybe in this room you've committed such an act, Keith. 290 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,920 No, no, yes, it's pretty predominant these days, 291 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:48,120 fornication. The Internet has made such a 292 00:20:48,120 --> 00:20:54,160 thing at the click of a button. Now Jesus said on the Sermon on 293 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:58,720 the Mount, it's not doing the ACT, it's even thinking of the 294 00:20:58,720 --> 00:21:03,720 act you've committed the sin of adultery. 295 00:21:04,720 --> 00:21:09,520 Know this that the precious blood of Jesus, if you repent of 296 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:16,320 it right where you are, well wash away that sin go and sin no 297 00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:19,120 more. It's not to be done. 298 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:26,120 Genesis 519 Now the works of the flesh I manifest what 299 00:21:26,120 --> 00:21:30,040 unbelievers do, which are these adultery, fornication, 300 00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:32,560 uncleanness, which is the opposite of purity, 301 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:37,520 lasciviousness, which is I'm ready to sin, let's go out and 302 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:42,720 sin ready to sin at any time. That's in Revelation 17 God has 303 00:21:42,720 --> 00:21:46,160 a special judgement for this great harlot of religion. 304 00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:52,520 Verse 4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, Purple the 305 00:21:52,520 --> 00:21:58,200 colour of wealth. Scarlet we know is linked to the 306 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:05,400 dragon and the blood, and also it's also again opulence and 307 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:10,080 adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her 308 00:22:10,080 --> 00:22:14,080 hand a golden cup of abominations and the filthiness 309 00:22:14,080 --> 00:22:17,800 of a fornication. And on her forehead a name was 310 00:22:17,800 --> 00:22:20,000 written. Mystery Babylon the Great, the 311 00:22:20,000 --> 00:22:24,000 mother of harlots and of the abominations of the earth, John 312 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:25,880 said. I saw the woman drunk with the 313 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:29,560 blood of the Saints because she's killed them and with the 314 00:22:29,560 --> 00:22:34,040 blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marvelled 315 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:37,520 with great amazement Roman prostitutes. 316 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:43,320 At the time John is riding this war, a headband and engraved on 317 00:22:43,320 --> 00:22:47,000 that headband was their name. It's taken from this. 318 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:50,680 The background to this false religion goes, I said, goes back 319 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:56,000 to Genesis when they came and said, let's under the leadership 320 00:22:56,000 --> 00:23:00,520 of Nimrod, let's, let's build this temple and notice the 321 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:03,160 wording. Let us build ourselves, the 322 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:06,760 city, a tower whose top is in the heavens. 323 00:23:07,080 --> 00:23:11,280 Let us make a name for ourselves lest we be scattered. 324 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:18,040 Previously God had told Noah, God bless Noah and his sons had 325 00:23:18,040 --> 00:23:22,280 said to them, be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth at the 326 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:24,080 Tower of Babel. I said we're not going to. 327 00:23:24,120 --> 00:23:27,240 Let's just, let's stay strong, let's stay together. 328 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:29,520 Let's not go out and do what God has taught. 329 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:32,200 Let's stay. We can, we can do everything. 330 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:38,600 Babylon was an open rebellion against God built upon 331 00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:43,880 exaltation of themselves. Let us make a name for 332 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:47,240 ourselves. How many ministries have a name 333 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:51,000 of their own name? They were degrading God. 334 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:55,840 We don't need him, nor do we need to do what He commands us. 335 00:23:55,840 --> 00:23:59,800 We'll build our own temple. We'll worship our and what we 336 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:04,000 want to do our way. The Church of Laodicea, the last 337 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,760 of the seven churches in the Book of Revelation, is doing 338 00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:09,400 that. Remember thou, thou are having 339 00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,040 church service. Thou are jamming. 340 00:24:11,600 --> 00:24:13,680 Where was God? Outside? 341 00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,320 Wasn't even in church. He was calling people out of 342 00:24:17,320 --> 00:24:20,200 that church. They said that that we're rich, 343 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:21,960 we got it all down, everything's happening. 344 00:24:21,960 --> 00:24:24,720 This is the place to be. Jesus said no, you're not. 345 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:29,520 You're poor, you're blind, you're naked and you're 346 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:33,120 shameful. It's funny how heaven has a 347 00:24:33,120 --> 00:24:46,430 great view of the Church of Laodicea Bible verse 5 of 348 00:24:46,430 --> 00:24:51,720 Genesis Chapter 11 says, but the Lord came down to see the city 349 00:24:52,520 --> 00:24:55,320 and the tower which the sons of men had built. 350 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,360 And the Lord said, indeed, the people are one. 351 00:24:59,440 --> 00:25:03,200 They all have one language. And this is what they begin to 352 00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,680 do now. Nothing that they propose to do 353 00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:13,040 will be withheld from them. Come, it says, let us, that's 354 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,120 the Trinity. Let us go down. 355 00:25:15,120 --> 00:25:19,240 And they're confused their language, that they may not 356 00:25:19,240 --> 00:25:24,240 understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them 357 00:25:24,240 --> 00:25:26,760 abroad from there over the face of the earth. 358 00:25:28,000 --> 00:25:30,800 They ceased building the city. They couldn't communicate. 359 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:36,680 Therefore its name is called Babel or Babel, because there 360 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:41,320 the Lord hears that word confused the language of all the 361 00:25:41,320 --> 00:25:43,240 earth. And from there the Lord 362 00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:45,600 scattered them abroad over the face of the earth. 363 00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:49,320 You see, today people want God, but they want him on their own 364 00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,800 terms. What sort of service is it? 365 00:25:51,800 --> 00:25:53,600 A quick service? Because you know, I want a 366 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,240 quick. What sort of songs do they sing? 367 00:25:55,280 --> 00:25:57,120 They loud? They saw the hymns or what? 368 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,400 Oh, sorry, there's a Bay Marie at the front there. 369 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:02,400 You can go through and pick out the service. 370 00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:03,800 Then you go and sit in your own little booth. 371 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,840 You can have your own service. How you want to just pick out 372 00:26:07,120 --> 00:26:10,600 which loud music? Hymns, no drums, loud drums, 373 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:13,480 symbols, a preacher, loud preacher, sweaty preacher, small 374 00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,120 preacher, whatever, just pick it out. 375 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:18,440 There you go. It's exactly what I want. 376 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:23,000 People want forgiveness today. Oh, everyone wants forgiveness, 377 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:27,480 but they don't want repentance because no one's to blame, are 378 00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:31,280 they? So my fault, my mum's fault, my 379 00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,720 dad's fault. It's the environment, it's the 380 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:37,240 school, it's the teacher. All the teachers, they're going. 381 00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:44,160 Yeah, they want heaven. Never been to a funeral, have 382 00:26:44,160 --> 00:26:47,040 you? Where everyone said ma old Billy 383 00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:50,600 burning up now, ain't he? Next to eulogy? 384 00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:53,400 Yeah, he's really burning. Burning with Uncle Tom and 385 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:55,280 Auntie Mary and all. They're all burning together 386 00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:55,960 now. You. 387 00:26:56,120 --> 00:26:57,720 You. It's horrific to even think 388 00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,960 that. But there's no default to 389 00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:05,360 heaven. Heaven is through the cross. 390 00:27:07,480 --> 00:27:11,760 No one wants hell, but hell is a real place and God doesn't want 391 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:16,360 anyone to go there. Babylon was the beginning of 392 00:27:16,360 --> 00:27:20,320 humanism. They were so proud of the tower 393 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,240 that they built. Look how good, how good this 394 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:23,280 tower is. Wow. 395 00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,640 Mystery Babylon, the Mother of Hearts tells us she is the 396 00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,600 source from which much evil and adultery has come. 397 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:35,560 The root of all false religion. Rebellious humanity created a 398 00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,480 new religious system. Let us build when the Bible says 399 00:27:39,480 --> 00:27:45,480 in Psalm 127 one unless the Lord builds the house, they labour in 400 00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:49,120 vain who build it. This church can never be run by 401 00:27:49,120 --> 00:27:53,200 men. This church has men servants, 402 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:59,240 but servants of God. Jesus Christ is the head of this 403 00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:02,800 church. He is the head of this church, 404 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:08,920 we seek Him and we are guided by His word and we follow His 405 00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,360 instructions. It's not let's vote on what 406 00:28:11,360 --> 00:28:13,680 we're going to do folks. It doesn't work that way. 407 00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:17,080 It's a theology, not a democracy. 408 00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:20,320 It's a theocracy I should say, not a theology. 409 00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:26,440 Theocracy, not a democracy. False religion. 410 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:30,040 And much of the rubbish being taught from pulpits today is 411 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,880 very much a do it yourself religion. 412 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:37,600 Do it yourself religion. It was this religion that a 413 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:41,680 young Daniel found himself up against in Babylon under King 414 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:44,320 Nebuchadnezzar. Back in verse one, it said that 415 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:48,120 this woman sat on many waters, referring to all the peoples of 416 00:28:48,120 --> 00:28:52,680 the earth as told by John in verse 15, Revelation 1715. 417 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:55,840 Then he said to me, the waters which you saw where the harlot 418 00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:58,480 sits are peoples, multitudes, nations and tongues. 419 00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:01,920 So it's a worldwide religion that's going to come to part 420 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:05,720 where there's this unification under the false prophet 421 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:09,760 supported by the Antichrist initially and the governments of 422 00:29:09,760 --> 00:29:11,320 the world. There's going to be this 423 00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,960 finally, this coming together of all the faiths. 424 00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:18,760 It's it's got its seeds happening now. 425 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,120 We're all, you know, it doesn't matter. 426 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,640 You know which how you what you, whether you call him Allah, 427 00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:27,240 whether you call him God or whether you what we're all on 428 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,560 the same path. No, we're not. 429 00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:33,320 Jesus is not on that path. Otherwise why did he die? 430 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:37,760 He is the way. There is only one way. 431 00:29:38,160 --> 00:29:41,840 He is the way. But this religion is going to 432 00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,160 come out during the tribulation period. 433 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:48,000 Verse 7 But the Angel said to me, why did you marvel when you 434 00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:51,880 looked at this woman? I will tell you the mystery of 435 00:29:51,880 --> 00:29:55,280 the woman and the beast that carries her, which was has the 436 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:59,360 seven heads and the 10 horns. The beast that you saw was and 437 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:03,040 is not and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to 438 00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:06,560 perdition. The beast is the Antichrist. 439 00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:13,000 Remember he's of Satanic origin. We learned in chapter 13 it is 440 00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,040 the dragon who gave him his power. 441 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:21,040 Satan gives the Antichrist his personal power, his throne and 442 00:30:21,040 --> 00:30:24,800 great authority. The beast you saw, it says was 443 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:28,000 and is not and will ascend out of the bottomless pit. 444 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:34,280 This is reference to the beast having a seemingly fatal head 445 00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:39,320 wound, an assassination attempt and people go oh he's been 446 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:43,320 killed and they'll put out the story but he'll become he'll 447 00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:47,040 come back as it is seemingly back from the dead. 448 00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:53,360 Now my opinion is this God is the only one who can bring life. 449 00:30:54,240 --> 00:30:58,640 So therefore here is the Antichrist, the lawless 1. 450 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:05,040 The new world politician will be assassinated, yes, but he won't 451 00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:10,320 be killed because only God can bring life back from death, but 452 00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:14,160 he will have this imitation. It's the imitation of the death 453 00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,480 and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 454 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:24,560 Anti means in place of the beast has seven heads and 10 horns. 455 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:28,760 In verse 9 it tells us that the seven heads stand for seven 456 00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:32,280 mountains. Many people say, well these are 457 00:31:32,280 --> 00:31:36,440 the seven hills of Rome. Now it says 7 mountains and I 458 00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:39,040 believe you'll see as we go through it, these seven 459 00:31:39,040 --> 00:31:42,840 mountains are 7 kings. People associate Rome with this, 460 00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:46,320 but I think that's too small a target. 461 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:52,760 Daniel tells us in the last days there will be a revival of the 462 00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:59,560 Roman Empire and those who dwell upon the earth will marvel whose 463 00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:03,120 names are not written in the book of life from the foundation 464 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:06,880 of the world, when they see the beast that was and is not and 465 00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,480 yet is. Here is the mind which has 466 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:12,000 wisdom. The seven heads are 7 mounds on 467 00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:16,040 which the woman sits. There are also 7 kings. 5 have 468 00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:18,720 fallen. One is and the other has not yet 469 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:19,320 come. You go. 470 00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,160 Couldn't it be written a little bit simpler? 471 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:22,080 I go. I agree. 472 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:28,800 The Angel mentioned 7 kings, five of whom have fallen. 473 00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:32,560 That's governments, empires, one who is, and the Last King who 474 00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:35,040 has not yet come. So what does that mean from 475 00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:39,680 John's perspective? John has seen 7 powers that have 476 00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:46,480 exerted a major impact upon Israel, Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, 477 00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:50,800 Medo, Persian, the Greeks, and at the time of John's writing 478 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:54,080 who the 6th willpower ruling was Rome. 479 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,200 John tells us that there is yet another empire to come. 480 00:32:58,760 --> 00:33:01,440 Daniel saw this as well. Remember the image of 481 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:06,760 Nebuchadnezzar, the feet and the toes, The great image. 482 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:10,600 Rome was the only empire that was not overwhelmed by another 483 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:12,760 empire. It fell apart, remember? 484 00:33:13,120 --> 00:33:15,240 Well, during the Tribulation period, it's going to be 485 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:20,280 revived, A revived Roman Empire with the Antichrist as the head 486 00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,480 of it. And the image that Daniel saw 487 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:29,920 was a mixture of iron and clay, 10 toes, 10 kings, 10 nations, 488 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:34,280 and the Antichrist ruling over. And when he comes, he must 489 00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:39,360 continue a short time. The Angel tells us tells John 490 00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:43,640 that the final king, the Antichrist, must continue just a 491 00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:47,080 short time. In fact the Antichrist will rule 492 00:33:47,240 --> 00:33:52,440 for just 42 months or 3 1/2 years, the last half of the 493 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:56,160 tribulation period. Verse 11, the beast that was and 494 00:33:56,160 --> 00:34:01,000 is not is himself also the 8th and is of the 7th and is going 495 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:06,440 to perdition after seemingly coming back from the dead, his 496 00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,480 empire. Remember he's assassinated. 497 00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,760 Well that's the end of him, but he seemingly comes back from the 498 00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,840 dead. And so there's the resurgence of 499 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:20,239 the 8th empire. Verse 12, the 10 horns which you 500 00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,880 saw are 10 kings or 10 governments, 10 nations, 501 00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:29,239 European, I believe, who have received no Kingdom as yet, but 502 00:34:29,239 --> 00:34:34,040 they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast. 503 00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:39,040 These are of one mind and they will give their power and 504 00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,719 authority to the beast. We have the European Union at 505 00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:44,760 the moment. At the moment they meet 506 00:34:44,760 --> 00:34:46,280 together. They have a parliament, they 507 00:34:46,280 --> 00:34:49,000 have, you know, a passport, they have the euro dollar. 508 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:51,400 All that's happened. Hasn't it happened very quickly? 509 00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:55,000 Well, what's going to happen in government? 510 00:34:55,159 --> 00:34:58,440 It's very hard to get all these nations together to make 511 00:34:58,440 --> 00:35:01,240 decisions. So the best way to make a 512 00:35:01,240 --> 00:35:04,560 decision at this time when things need to be done, we need 513 00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,080 to appoint someone. We need to give our authority. 514 00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:08,840 This one person who goes, this is what we're going to do. 515 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,080 We're going to do this now. We're going to do it without 516 00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:13,400 having let's all get together. We're going to vote on this. 517 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,240 And that's what's going to happen with the European 518 00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:18,520 nations. They'll hand over their 519 00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:22,240 sovereignty to the Antichrist because he'll come across as 520 00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:31,680 man, this guy is a genius. It says verse 14, these will 521 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:36,280 make war with the Lamb, that's the European Union under the 522 00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:41,520 heading of the Antichrist. These will make war with the 523 00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:46,560 Lamb, that's Jesus Christ, and the Lamb will overcome them, for 524 00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:51,080 he is Lord of Lords, King of kings, and those who are with 525 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:56,680 him are called chosen, are called sorry, are called chosen 526 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,400 and faithful. Chapter 19, we see actually see 527 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:03,160 that the final battle, the battle of Armageddon. 528 00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:07,880 But the Antichrist of the beast will not allow the great harlot 529 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:10,800 of false religion to ride on his power forever. 530 00:36:10,960 --> 00:36:15,440 So he uses the religious fervour of this religious system for a 531 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,880 while. That's why it says she starts 532 00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:20,640 off, it says she's sitting on him, riding on the beast. 533 00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:23,720 He's supporting her. The governments are supporting 534 00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:27,640 this religious system. But then in verse 15, then he 535 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:30,720 said to me, the waters which you saw with the harlots, it's the 536 00:36:30,720 --> 00:36:34,160 peoples and multitudes, nations and tongues and the 10 horns 537 00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:38,080 which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot, make 538 00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:42,160 her desolate, naked, eat her flesh and burn her with fire. 539 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,240 In other words, it's going to come to a great end, this 540 00:36:45,240 --> 00:36:47,440 worldwide religion. How's that going to happen? 541 00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:54,160 On the day that the Antichrist walked into the temple, rebuilt 542 00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:58,560 in Israel under his agreement with Israel, and he says, now 543 00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:06,760 worship me, you were I'm God. Bow down the whole world, bow 544 00:37:06,760 --> 00:37:12,400 down and worship me. That's the end of the false 545 00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:16,360 religious system. As the Antichrist now says, I'm 546 00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:26,680 God, the 10 kings give him the authority and their army. 547 00:37:27,880 --> 00:37:32,360 So the Antichrist, as I said, will for a period befriend this 548 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,680 religious system, support it, use it. 549 00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,360 Then he makes himself the object of worship. 550 00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,640 Verse 17 for God. Now notice this. 551 00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:46,800 We've studied all of this, for God has put it into their 552 00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,720 hearts, hearts of the kings, all those who think they're running 553 00:37:50,720 --> 00:37:53,440 the world, all the governments of the world. 554 00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,040 It fits in so beautifully with Psalm 2. 555 00:37:58,320 --> 00:38:03,280 Why does a nation's rage? God has put it into their hearts 556 00:38:03,280 --> 00:38:09,040 to fulfil His purpose, to be of one mind and to give their 557 00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:14,480 Kingdom to the beast until the words of God are fulfilled. 558 00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,840 And the woman who you saw is that great city which reigns 559 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:23,840 over the kings of the earth. With all the confusion that 560 00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:27,400 false teachers and false religion seeks to cast this 561 00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:31,160 giant shadow over. It will be the Lamb of God who 562 00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:36,200 ultimately overcomes and reigns over all on the second coming of 563 00:38:36,240 --> 00:38:40,400 Jesus Christ. As you and I are here today, 564 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:43,040 you're probably thinking, well this is what's this got to do 565 00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,000 with me? This is what ahead? 566 00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,080 Well, it's got plenty to do with you. 567 00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:50,240 If you don't know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, it has 568 00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:54,760 everything to do with you. If you know Christ then you'll 569 00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:59,000 be taken up in the rapture. But many children today in our 570 00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:04,040 nation, many Australian kids, many churches today have 571 00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:10,240 extremely blurred lines on what is truth and what is false 572 00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:15,240 because they've moved away from this as being the authority in 573 00:39:15,240 --> 00:39:17,800 the Roman Catholic Church. This isn't the authority. 574 00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:25,440 The Pope has the final say. And these blurred lines for you 575 00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:30,800 and I living in the last days will become increasingly I'll 576 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,120 defined or what is true, what is false. 577 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:39,280 It has become fashionable, has it not, to refuse to take a 578 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,160 dogmatic stand. We've got to be tolerant of 579 00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:45,200 everything, don't we? Absolutely. 580 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:46,880 We got to be tolerant of everything. 581 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:52,040 You can't make a dogmatic stand about anything, but especially 582 00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:55,960 Jesus Christ because it's upsetting to others. 583 00:39:57,240 --> 00:40:00,920 And so more and more people, particularly Australians, are 584 00:40:00,920 --> 00:40:07,440 drifting from the truth, the real Jesus, the real gospel, the 585 00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:11,880 real word of God. The world is fast coming to a 586 00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:18,920 point of abandoning the truth. Jesus says I am the way, the 587 00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:23,320 truth, and the life. Paul said that this would be a 588 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:27,360 sign of the last days. He said in Second Thessalonians 589 00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:31,880 chapter 2 verse 9 the coming of the lawless 1 The Antichrist. 590 00:40:32,160 --> 00:40:35,760 According to the working of Satan, he'll come with all power 591 00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:41,520 signs and lying wonders and with all unrighteous deception among 592 00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:46,680 those who perish, unbelievers, because they did not receive the 593 00:40:46,680 --> 00:40:50,640 love of the truth. People who I don't want to hear 594 00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:54,360 the Bible. I mean, it's too strict and it's 595 00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:58,360 boring and it restrict, you know, what do I have to give up? 596 00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:00,840 People think about all those things because they don't know 597 00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:02,920 the truth, because the truth sets you free. 598 00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:07,040 Actually, it says, because they did not receive the love of the 599 00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:10,880 truth, that they might be saved, because the only way of 600 00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:12,760 salvation is through the Word of God. 601 00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:18,200 For this reason, God will send them strong delusion, the mother 602 00:41:18,200 --> 00:41:24,640 of all harlots, that they should believe the lie that always lead 603 00:41:24,960 --> 00:41:29,080 to heaven, that they all may be condemned who did not believe 604 00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:34,400 the truth it says again, but had pleasure in unrighteousness 605 00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,720 because false religion says you can go and sin. 606 00:41:37,720 --> 00:41:42,160 Saturday, Friday, Monday, Sunday, go there and feel I'm 607 00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:46,480 good, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord because you just live 608 00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:49,320 how you feel. You live how you feel. 609 00:41:53,520 --> 00:41:57,520 Don't go along with the world. This is the message parents, 610 00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:02,880 particularly to your kids, your kids, they'll come home and 611 00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:05,240 they'll go, well, I was, you know, told off I was a Christian 612 00:42:05,240 --> 00:42:08,960 and I disagreed. And this with that, Yep, that's, 613 00:42:09,240 --> 00:42:11,520 that's going to be the norm. They're going to need your 614 00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:13,600 support. You're going to need one 615 00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:16,360 another's support at work when they say, well, you've got to be 616 00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:17,800 part of this, You've got to be part of that. 617 00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:21,280 No, I, I make a stand. It might cost you, you a job. 618 00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,880 It might cost you this or that. It's going to cost you. 619 00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:30,160 It cost Jesus his life. Don't go along with the crowd. 620 00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:34,000 Stand up for the truth, Jude says in verse 17. 621 00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:38,760 But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before 622 00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:43,080 by the apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ, how they told you 623 00:42:43,560 --> 00:42:48,320 that there would be mockers in the last time who would walk 624 00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:52,440 according to their own ungodly lusts. 625 00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:58,600 You see, if I live according to my flesh, I live according to my 626 00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:02,960 ungodly lusts, but now I'm to live according to the Word of 627 00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:07,640 God and to the direction of the Holy Spirit at the time of the 628 00:43:07,640 --> 00:43:09,280 rapture. What's going to happen? 629 00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:15,480 All genuine believers worldwide will be taken from the earth in 630 00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:18,840 an instant, Paul says, in the twinkling of an eye. 631 00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:23,960 To ever be with the Lord. But this world, you know what's 632 00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,800 going to happen. Initially there'll be a bit of a 633 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:30,160 bump in the road, but Jesus says you know what's going to happen, 634 00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:34,720 It'll be like the days of Noah and they'll just go back to 635 00:43:34,720 --> 00:43:38,760 marrying, having coffee, going for a run, going to the beach, 636 00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:44,360 playing golf, just just click. And the churches that don't 637 00:43:44,560 --> 00:43:47,640 teach the word of God, they'll just operate still. 638 00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:51,520 Let's have our programme, let's do this, let's get together 639 00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:58,160 Kumbaya. It will cost you to stand. 640 00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:01,800 You're going to hear some beautiful words if you do stand. 641 00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:06,200 However, when you stand eventually before God, well 642 00:44:06,200 --> 00:44:13,760 done, good and faithful servant, the time of the Rapture, some 643 00:44:13,760 --> 00:44:16,920 churches will just be business as usual. 644 00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:21,760 Vance Havner said. Don't ever come to church 645 00:44:24,000 --> 00:44:28,800 without coming as though it were the first time, as though it 646 00:44:28,800 --> 00:44:33,560 could be the best time and as though it might be the last 647 00:44:33,560 --> 00:44:39,040 time. This morning I asked you this. 648 00:44:40,240 --> 00:44:44,760 Do you know the truth? In other words, do you know 649 00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:46,760 Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour? 650 00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,280 Well, Mum and Dad are Christians and that's why I'm here. 651 00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,720 Or yeah, like I've been coming to church for a while. 652 00:44:51,720 --> 00:44:54,400 I'm not asking that. Well, I was Christian. 653 00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:59,480 I'm not asking that. I want to ask you, do you know 654 00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:06,320 Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour? 655 00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:14,520 Do you pray in his name? Do you read his word? 656 00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:25,760 The Bible says all have sinned. The Bible says that salvation is 657 00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:31,200 only found in God's only Son, Jesus Christ in the book of Acts 658 00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:35,760 chapter 4, verse 12. Nor is there salvation in any 659 00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:39,920 other, for there is no other name under heaven given among 660 00:45:39,920 --> 00:45:44,080 men by which we must be saved. You say we all know this, and 661 00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:46,280 many of us know it, but we don't do it. 662 00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:50,960 I grow up in a home where I thought I was a Christian. 663 00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:55,240 I went to church as a kid and I thought I was a Christian, but 664 00:45:55,240 --> 00:45:59,720 it wasn't until someone showed me Romans chapter 10 verses 9 665 00:45:59,720 --> 00:46:01,400 and 10 and said have you done that? 666 00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,960 I get done. What Have you confessed with 667 00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:07,440 your mouth and believed in your heart that Jesus Christ is Lord? 668 00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:09,040 I didn't know you had to do that. 669 00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:15,200 Why hadn't someone told me? So today, today, if you are not 670 00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:22,600 a believer, make the greatest decision that you can receive 671 00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:25,080 Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour. 672 00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:31,160 It's as simple as that. False religion, false teaching 673 00:46:31,160 --> 00:46:35,680 is rampant. Many will and are sadly being 674 00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:43,760 deceived today. Choose salvation, don't receive 675 00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:44,320 judgement.