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Now enjoy this message. All right, Hebrews chapter 13,
verse two. We'll be trying to move through
pretty quick. Have you enjoyed this study on
angels? Hallelujah.
I feel like there's so much more and we're probably just
scratching the surface, but it's good for us just to scratch the
surface says do not forget, do not be not forgetful to
entertain strangers for thereby some have entertained angels
unaware. I say that again, and I always,
I'm, I've been opening it up now in the next couple of times that
we've done these angels, is that just so that we don't get over
spiritual cause the day's coming and the day is really already
upon us. Because in the last of the last
days, which is what we're in now, there's going to be
seducing spirits and doctrines of demons and people are going
to be talking about the unseen realm and talking about angels
and speaking, thank you, Lord, speaking about angels and, and
carrying on about angels and all those types of things.
And, you know, going to act like they're more spiritual because
of that. However, the reality is is that
everybody's probably seen one. So it really doesn't take a
whole lot of spirituality to see an Angel because they look like
humans when you encounter them. Are you hearing me?
So as a result of that, you know, someone's like, oh, I see
an Angel, big deal. Say so have I And they say when
not really sure. You said, well then how can you
say it? Because the Bible says I've
probably entertained 1 unaware. Amen.
Or you can say, well, good. I've I've entertained them as
well. Are you hearing me?
OK, The Lord just told me to grab something, so I'm having to
get to it on my thing. OK, so we are not the worship
angels as we concluded last week.
That's not our assignment, nor is it who you should worship.
They worship God. We worship God and so we are
only to do that. Amen.
Today we're going to take a time to really just deal with one
aspect, though I do want to say one thing at the very end, but I
really want to focus on this aspect of the angels, and that
is the armies of God. OK.
We mentioned this last week that, you know, angels are like
our Secret Service for us because they provide protection
for us. But I want to talk to you a
little bit about their battles, OK?
Because you need to understand just how strong the army that
backs us is, OK? How powerful it is.
Do you understand in the natural, a nation on the planet
is as powerful as their military force?
The ones who are considered superpowers are because of the
weapons they possess. OK, so you might want to know
what weapons we possess, OK. That way, I don't care where you
go, you would not be intimidated because if you if we had a
president that would not be willing to send our natural army
to rescue us, we have a more. Elite.
Force, are you hearing me? That has the ability to rescue
us. Now I do want to say this, I
understand there are going to be martyrs.
Are you hearing me? So nowhere am I saying that you
can eliminate your chance of ever being martyred.
I'm not going to say that because many are become martyrs.
OK, not all of us, but many. What I can say though is that if
you are not finished with your assignment, then deliverance
will come to you. If you are in lockstep with the
will of God for your life. That I can emphatically say
because those that were doing the will of God and if their
assignment was not done, God would always intervene their
protection so that they could finish the assignment.
OK, all right, 'cause Peter died a martyr.
Paul died a martyr. However, John, they can't kill
the guy. They have to throw him on an
island for a while. All right, And we're going to
read out of Revelations. He's there's a lot of angelic
activity in Revelations. OK, let's start out in
Revelation 18 or 1919. It says this.
And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their
armies assembled to make war against him who sat on the horse
and against his what? Against his army.
Now he who sat on the horse is. Who?
What's his name? Come on, what's his name?
He's the commander in chief of the army.
Now. I heard a senator say this when
they were visiting Israel just recently.
They were being interviewed by news channel and they said
welcome from the eternal capital of Jerusalem.
And I'm like, that is awesome. The eternal capital of the
world, Jerusalem. Jerusalem is the eternal capital
of the world. Amen.
That is a true statement. So I just want to let you who
are in branches of service that the eternal branch of service is
the army. It's not the Navy, it's not the
Marines, it's not the Air Force, it's not the Coast Guard, It's
the hoorah. All right, Just being biblical.
So for all those who did not join the Army, you're going to
be enlisted. Hallelujah.
Are you hearing me? OK, so if you actually read this
chapter 19, you'll see that he's coming back with those clothes
in white. And you get over in Jude, you
know, the Saints come. So we're a part of that army.
I do not know how much conflict that we will actually be in or
whether we'll just be a spectator of the show, but we
will be on the battlefield running with him and his Angel
army. Are you hearing me?
OK, so let's take some time to look at some of the weapons or
how they function in the earth on a military scale.
It's very important 'cause all kingdoms have a military.
We are in a Kingdom, and when Jesus Christ died and rose from
the grave, He did not get rid of his military.
OK, all right, first example we'll see is in First Chronicles
chapter 21, verse seven through 16.
And again, there's many places I could go.
There are some you'll think of, and the ones that you'll think
of more commonly is the reason why I left those alone, like
Elijah in the army around him, you know, with the Chariots of
fire. I didn't talk about that, OK,
'cause they didn't show our conflict, didn't show what they
did. They were just stationed.
OK, so we we're looking at some other stuff.
Here's a particular deal. God was displeased with this
thing, so he struck Israel. Now David has committed a sin,
OK, he has numbered the people, all right.
And David says to God, I've sinned greatly in that which
I've done this thing. But now please take away the
iniquity of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.
And the Lord spoke to Gad, who was the prophet David Seer
saying, Go and speak to David, saying.
Thus says the Lord, Ioffer you three things, choose for
yourself one of them, which I will do.
So Gad came to David and said to him.
Thus says the Lord, take for yourself either three years of
famine, or three months to be swept away before your foe,
while the sword of your enemy overtakes you, or else 3 days of
what? The sword of the Lord, even the
pestilence in the land, and the Angel of the Lord destroying
throughout all the territory of Israel.
Therefore, Now therefore, consider what answer I shall
return to him, to him who sent me.
Now you have to understand something.
I need to preface this conversation because we quote
John 1010 and we forget about God's justice.
John 1010 says the thief comes but to steal, kill and but I've
come to give life and life and we only think that God is giving
life constantly. God is still a judge, and he
when he judges, he judges rightly and a wage of sin is God
is not a murderer. He would never eliminate someone
in the planet or off the planet unjustly.
In essence, they have been rightly judged, all evidence is
against them and God can act. Now, David is one person in
Israel. And what was interesting when I
was doing my Bible reading today concerning a particular king,
Josiah, actually he instituted the Passover.
He said it hasn't been done since the judges.
And that hit me for the first time as many times I've read
through the Bible. I'm like, King David didn't do a
Passover. I mean, this is a guy after
God's own heart, but he wasn't so close to the law of Moses
that he kept the Passover and made his Kingdom do it.
But King Josiah did said we probably this hasn't been done
since the Judges. Yeah.
Very interesting. Anyway, so David's got this
problem. Verse 13.
David said again, I'm in great distress, please let me fall
into the hands of the Lord, for his mercies are very great, but
do not let me fall into the hand of man.
So again, if judgment's coming, let God put it out.
I'll go with God. And you know what?
You should always go with God. I said you should always go with
God. So the Lord sent a pestilence.
Who sent it? The Lord did.
Now this is because of judgment on Israel, 70,000 men of Israel
fell 70,000 that's pretty quick. And God sent an Angel here you
go to Jerusalem to destroy it. But as he was about to destroy
it, the Lord saw and was sorry over the calamity and said to
the destroying Angel, it is enough now relax your hand.
And the Angel of the Lord was standing by the threshing floor.
Are you seeing this? So then David look in verse 16
lifted up his eyes saw the Angel of the Lord standing between
earth and heaven with what with his drawn sword in his hand
stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders
covered their covered with sackcloths fell on their faces.
So this Angel has a sword. If you continue to read this,
you'll see that the Lord tells him to stop, put his sword in a
sheath, OK? It's a very terrifying moment
for David, because if you go on down to verse 29, it says for
the Tabernacle of the Lord, which Moses had made in the
wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, because David
does a sacrifice, he stops everything OK, through a
sacrifice, but he won't go to the Tabernacle.
In Gibeon it says verse 30, but David could not go before it to
inquire of God, for he was what? Terrified by the sword of the
Angel the Lord. Now David has been in so many
battles. He has faced sword after sword.
In fact, one sword he faced, he said there's none like.
It which was Goliath's. 'Cause he ended up using it at a
different time, you know, when he was running from Saul and he
ended up, you know, finding the priest.
And he said, man, all I got here is Goliath sword.
He said, man, ain't nothing like it.
I'll take it, right? But man, when he saw the sword
of the Angel of the Lord, he was terrified, terrified.
Notice 1 Angel One Angel came. Destroying 1.
God doesn't have to dispatch and as we talk about this, I want
this thought to hit you when Jesus said, Peter, don't you
know that I could call a legion of angels down right now?
I want you to. Keep that in context as we see
the army of the Lord or the angels of God's army.
The next one will go to 2nd Kings chapter 19 verses 32 to
35. Therefore, says the Lord
concerning the king of Assyria, he will not come into this city
or shoot an error there and he will not come before it with a
shield or throw up a siege rampart ramp against it.
By the way, he came the same way.
He will return and he will not come to this city declares the
Lord. OK, obviously this king has been
touting through his, you know, messenger that, you know, no God
of any other Kingdom has been able to stop me.
Do you really think your King's, your God's going to stop me?
You know, and finally, through prayer with King Hezekiah and
things going on with the prophets, the Lord's like he
ain't coming, right? So verse 35, verse 34, I guess
I'm on 33. Sorry, by the way, He came.
Yeah. Verse 35, four for I will defend
this city to save it for my own sake, for my servant David's
sake. And that's a powerful statement,
man. I mean, the Lord does.
There's his mercies. Are you hearing me?
And because Jerusalem will eventually fall because of the
immorality. However, he goes back to his
name and then he goes back to David.
Verse 35 Then it happened that night that the Angel of the Lord
went out and struck how many? 185,000 in the camp of the
Assyrians. And when men rose early in the
morning, behold, all of them were dead.
Now obviously not all were dead because men rose.
The question is, who died? Right.
Well, good news, good news is 'cause when you read the Bible
completely, you understand 1st and 2nd kings, they deal with
certain things about the kings, but then you got First and
Second Chronicles that deal with information about the kings as
well. So turn to Second Chronicles and
Second Chronicles chapter 32 and verse 21.
It says this same context, same time frame, just a different
writing. Says then the Lord sent an
Angel. Who destroyed?
Who did he destroy? Every mighty warrior, commander
and officer in the camp of the king of Assyrian.
So of the 185,000 who died? Everyone that was considered a
mighty warrior, the best, their best warriors, their commanders
and their officers. 1 Angel killed them all.
So he returned to his in shame, to his own land, and when he
entered his own God's temple, his sons killed him.
Amen. So again, we have in our Kingdom
angels that are tasked with assignments to protect and our
arsenal or how they function because again, you know, you
what if Iran gets a nuclear bomb?
Big deal. I understand the implications if
it goes off, but again, God has got some stuff that is mind
blowing. And what's crazy is God
functions, it seems like in primitive 'cause it's like
swords, right? You know you're thinking don't
go to battle with me, I'm going to pull out my AR.
Well, you're not going to stand very well in front of an Angel.
Because first of all, your AR is not going to penetrate them in
the 1st place, right? You'll be out of clips and he'll
got you. Amen.
And we can go through all kind of Old Testament scriptures of
how angels got involved, took care of things.
Angels were involved in the delivering of Egypt and keeping
them protected in the wilderness.
In fact, the there was an Angel that would go before them into
the promised land. And there's things angels were
doing in preparation. It doesn't tell us what they
did. He said, I'm going to send an
Angel to go before you. So then when you go over, you'll
you'll take care of all the nations.
Well, what was he doing? Apparently those angels would go
in much like we get little insight when it comes to
Daniel's, you know, question that he was asking the Lord and
the Angel came to give him a message but was detained by the
principalities that were in the air.
So apparently the Lord would send angels to go in there and
starting to conquer or to push back the spirits of those
nations so that when he came in, they routed them.
In essence, no weapon formed against us can.
Can prosper all right so God, you know sends angels in to help
us fight spiritual battles and you're unaware of this you know
a lot of times and there's some big error teach well we're going
to have to go wage war into heavenlies Well you know angels
are doing that we are to walk in our authority are you hearing me
now I'm not saying that you're not going to.
Pull down strongholds, which really that whole thing, pull
down strongholds. If that's to do with things in
your mind, you got to pull, take captive strongholds in your
mind, OK, That's not out there, that's right here, OK, But you
can take authority in territory because and then we're not
dealing with demonic, but just because we're here.
There are places that are oppressed of demonic spirits
that you, once you learn them or know them, you can bind them,
you can take authority, but don't think angels aren't
getting involved in that because you're not going up there and
fighting because you would get whipped.
OK, Hallelujah. Acts chapter 12.
Let's get over into the new covenant because after the
death, burial, resurrection, Jesus did angels quit
functioning militarily. Acts chapter 12.
This is after the day of
Pentecost. Acts chapter 12 starting in
verse 21, on an appointed day, Herod, who was king, having put
on his royal apparel, took his seat and began delivering an
address to them. The people kept crying out the
voice of a God and not of a man, and immediately.
An Angel of the Lord struck him because he did not give God the
glory, and he was eaten by worms and died.
New Testament, I said New Testament, the Angel struck him.
Now, doesn't say what he struck him with, but he obviously gave
him something that worms ate him up.
Are you hearing me? Struck him?
There he is sitting on the seat. Looks fine, but an angel's
gotten in. So it doesn't matter about his
army, doesn't matter about his the people there, there protect
the king, doesn't matter about his color guard, doesn't matter
about all of those. Because guess what?
The Angel has come in, struck him and left, and now he's dead.
Hallelujah. Amen.
And angels are doing this stuff still today.
The problem is you just don't know about it.
Now I'm going to be a little hypothetical, but because the
Bible, if this was real time, this was today, think of someone
politically in our government that stood up somewhere to give
some big speech and then all of a sudden they died of some like
crazy thing pretty quick. People would just be shocked.
But could it be? Could it be that all of a sudden
they were here, now they're gone, then all of a sudden was
struck with this, They died of this and we just think that's
part of it. Didn't know they had it.
But an Angel could have said we're done with you, your
hinders to the plan of God. I've been commissioned to
exercise judgment. Are you hearing me?
So we are never hopeless is what I'm saying.
I said we're never hopeless. We're never hopeless.
Our hope is never in man right, right.
So it doesn't matter who's where.
We have a responsibility to vote.
We have a responsibility, you know, to engage in society.
But at the end of the day, no matter what's going on, our hope
is in the Lord and we have things at our disposal.
The reason why most of us don't the the church as a whole is not
functioning this way is because all they want to do is know
where they're. Going to go when they die.
They're never engaged in any of this to understand it because
they're like us too. I, I could never understand it.
You have no faith that you can understand.
God wants you to understand. God wants you to know His
Kingdom because you may be the one that God is asking to
declare and decree a thing or to send a ministering spirit on
behalf of the Kingdom of God. Are you hearing me?
All right, let's get into Revelation.
Revelation's got a lot. This would be fun.
Revelation 7, one and two. And this, this is kind of cool
'cause we talked about this last week, a little bit about
turbulence, right? OK.
Then after this, I saw 4 angels. How many?
4 standing at the four corners of the Earth.
I love this. This is where the people, the
Earth is flat 'cause they use this all the time.
You know, it's got corners. OK, so funny.
So funny. OK, there are four directions
and any given there's a N southeast end.
OK, so they're at the four corners of the Earth.
All right. What are they doing?
Holding back the four winds of the Earth so that no wind would
blow on the Earth or on the sea or on any tree.
These four angels have the power to control wind.
Jet streams, Are you seeing this?
But not only that, let's go on. And I saw another Angel
ascending from the rising of the sun.
So this is a different one, not the four that are taking care of
the wind, having the seal of the living God.
And he cried out with a loud voice to those four angels to
whom it was granted. Now once it granted them to harm
the earth and the sea. So again, they have within their
arsenal through wind to do some things.
Are you hearing me now? Again, we've heard this say a
lot of times, especially in in the natural when it comes to
insurance, if you happen to have something happen, well, it's an
act of God, right? And you're like, is it really
all an act of God? And why do we say that?
Because the enemy comes to steal and destroy, and he comes to
give life and life. Well, first of all, not
everything's an act of God, because the earth itself is in
travail. The Bible's very clear about
that because of the sin being dumped on it.
Again, you got to go with the Scripture.
The the Lord himself tells Abram or Abraham, I don't know if he
was in covenant or not, but Abram or Abraham, wherever he
was at in the time frame that he says as he shows him the land
that he's going to give to his ancestors, that he's, you know,
roaming around. He said, I'm going to give this
to you. He said.
But. Not at this point, because the
sin of the Amorites have not come to its fullness, meaning
they've not disobeyed and dumped so much in this part of the
earth that I will evict them for their disobedience.
Are you hearing what I'm saying? So there's some things that get
down and says that even the earth cries out for redemption.
All right, so does the can the enemy engage in some activities
with weather? Most likely.
However, we know the Lord can, and in Revelation He gets really
into dealing with stuff on the planet, things that are going to
be. Acts of God and the world will
know God sent it. Are you hearing me?
So This is why again, I say when I get on a plane, I'm like
ministers fears go ahead, prepare the way so that I have
no rough air, right? I have no rough air so that
we're heading in a direction we can get there with Pi give
charge over this plane for the sake of the gospel of the
Kingdom. And I, you know, and everyone on
the plane now I'm going to take the responsibility to pray
protection over their lives. Most people get on a plane and
think it's just and they don't know.
I'm praying for them, but they're going to find out one
day. Laura's like, you would have
died here if this guy wouldn't have been on the plane.
You'd have died if that woman wouldn't have been on the plane,
if this person wouldn't have been, wouldn't have been
praying. Are you hearing me?
Because you understand some people are in places that all
kind of stuff is pull. They pull death to them because
the way you're saying is they pull death.
It just keeps showing up. If you're around somebody that
seems like they're always around death.
You mean to be like bro what's your life like?
I mean, why are you attracting? It.
Because you'll pull it. This is why you when you look at
cities whose policies are against the Kingdom, they will
attract destruction. Crime would be more.
Flooding would be more. Hurricanes or tornadoes would be
more prevalent in those locations.
OK, let's look at Revelation 16. I just, we just got to read the
whole chapter because it's just so amazing.
OK, look at this. Then I heard a loud voice.
This is now, this is during the tribulation.
OK, all right, catching away. The church is done.
This is the wrath of God. This is the wrath of God.
So again when you see the. Billboards.
God's not mad at you, He is storing up wrath.
Now that's happening. And He's storing it up for
somebody. So somebody is being applied to
his wrath. Now you can avoid it because
He's met the condition for you to get out of his wrath.
Love did that. Love met the condition for you
to get out of his wrath. Then I heard a loud voice from
the temple saying to the seven angels, seven of them now go and
pour out on the earth the seven these bowls, we'll make a
nuclear bomb look like child's play.
You want a nuclear bomb to go off instead of a bowl being
poured out? Are you hearing me?
I mean seriously, you need to understand these bowls are a
massive weapon. The seven bowls of the they're
called the wrath of God. Let's go on verse 2.
So the first Angel went and poured out his bowl on the
earth. Now when he does this, look what
happens. It became a loathsome and
malignant sore on the people who had the mark of the beast and
who worship his image. In essence, a virus took over
everyone with the mark of the beast.
A plague, right? So when he pours that out, all
of those individuals are affected by it.
It doesn't matter where you're at.
He releases it in the atmosphere and it finds you.
Number two, first three, The second Angel poured out his bowl
into the sea, and it became blood like that of dead men,
man, and every living thing in the sea.
What died? It reminds me of that movie.
Oh, Sahara. Anybody see the movie Sahara?
Sahara, You know, they had that little, you know, leakage that
was happening because some nuclear waste was going to get.
In the water supply and then when it supposedly, if they hit
the ocean, then it's going to be, it's a bowl and they can't
stop it. All right, the second Angel will
do that. Then the third Angel poured out
his bowl into rivers and springs of water and they became blood.
So he's got a light weapon, but in a different geographical
water supply. And I heard the Angel of the
waters saying, look what they said.
Righteous are you, you are who who are and who were, O Holy
One, because you judge these things.
Look at that verse six. For they poured out the blood of
Saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink.
They deserve it. We have lived.
Now please understand me properly.
We have lived in this thought so long.
That it's difficult for believers to even get over into
a place of God in this aspect where if we just don't want
anyone to get anything, but yet somebody's getting something and
they'll get it because they deserve it.
And you starting to feel guilty. How man, they deserve that.
Well, you know I've but do they deserve it Because again,
especially when you know how many times someone has had an
ability, the ability to not be in the position they're in, yet
they constantly choose to stay there.
My point is, is that if you see somebody reaping what they
sowed, I'm not saying you can't stay, Lord have mercy, but at
the end of the day, it's not ungodly to be in a position of
they deserved it 'cause God is righteous.
Now again, we've taken this grace message so far that we act
like God doesn't judge in the New Testament, but we know
that's not true. If you actually read Scripture.
He's done it in his church with Ananias and Sapphira.
He's obviously done it with King Herod, openly judged at that
juncture. I mean, he did crazy stuff like,
you know, through Paul blind and a sorcerer for a time frame.
That's I mean, that's that doesn't seem like that's mercy,
but he's getting what he does. He said, man, you keep making
the way crooked. You're not going to see anymore.
You're constantly disrupting the path of God.
You're going to be blind now. And you know what?
God wanted him to do that and we out like those options are
negative when what if it caused that person to repent then all
right, verse seven and I heard the altar say yes, oh Lord God
the almighty true and righteous are your judgments and let me
tell you this if you ever take the thought.
I couldn't do that. You are thinking demonic when
you read a passage of God judging and you.
Think I wouldn't do that. That is a demonic thought
because you're trying to put your thought above God's
righteous thought. That is a demonic thought.
The devil is on the path of deception with you.
That you can do a better than the one who cannot fail.
And it's amazing cause here, you know, in this life, I've seen it
so many times of how, you know, it's so easy for people to say
don't judge me, right? However, so many are the ones
who say it are just as easy, quick to judge a situation with
very little information. Absolutely right or with one
side and never get another side and we'll just entertain and use
of those individuals because they want it to be what they're
hearing. So they don't want to ask the
other side. OK, All right.
Verse 8, the 4th Angel poured out his bowl.
Man, these bowls are bad upon the sun.
You you understand the reach. I mean, this weapon isn't even
in the earth. He's able to send this to the
sun and it was given to it to scorch men with fire.
That means the sun got global warming will be at its fullness
during the tribulation. Can't stop it.
And it's not the factories, it's not the gasoline petroleum, and
it's not, you know, cattle flagellating in a field.
This here is a weapon that's going to be used.
All right, let's go on. 1st 9. This is good.
Men were scorched with fierce heat.
And look what they did, and they blasphemy the name of God, who
has the power over these plagues, and they did not repent
as to give him glory. When we think of the
tribulation, most Christians only think of one person, the
Antichrist, which is so silly. Yet the Tribulation is God, some
of God's most merciful moments. See, what we all don't
understand or, or the modern Christian don't understand, is
that the wrath of God is still the mercy of God because none of
these individuals have have yet been eternally judged.
They're only being temporarily judged.
And there's still an opportunity to repent because again, when we
get to heaven and stand before the Lord, none of us are going
to go live. Yeah, He ain't all that.
None's going to be like that. We are going to love to bow,
submit. We're going to see him in his
glory. We're going to.
We're not going to challenge the throne ever.
None of that stuff, none of that.
Well, I just don't know that I could do that.
That will not be a part of our culture at all.
And God's testing all that down here, man.
You better weed out all your independence.
Better weed it all out now because he's coming after it
'cause he's not going to have any of that.
I said he's not going to have any of that.
OK, And here's these guys. They have an opportunity 'cause
they know it's God, but they won't repent.
Verse 10. Verse 10, Ma ma ma said.
Then the 5th Angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the
beast, and his Kingdom became darkened.
So here's that big bad. Government that everybody talks
about is coming. He's going to get give everybody
the mark of the beast, right. I'm going to read about that
here in a minute because everybody's like, you know,
where's the mark of the beast? I'm fixing to show you a couple
things about that. But here's this, you know,
terrorizing government of the, of the planet.
And and the 5th Angel pours out his bowl on the throne of the
beast, and his Kingdom became darkened.
And they gnawed their tongues because of the pain.
Wow, they were in such torture. They gnawed their tongues.
Can you imagine being in such anguish that you want to chew
your tongue off? And they what did they do
though? And they blasphemed the God of
heaven because of their pains and their sores, and they did
not repent of their deeds. The 6th Angel poured out his
bowl on the great river, the river Euphrates.
Its waters were dried up so that the way would be prepared for
the kings of the East from the east.
And I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of
the mouth of the beast, now the mouth of the false prophet. 3
unclean spirits, like frogs. For they are spirits of demons
performing signs which go out to the kings of the whole world to
gather them together for the war of the great day of the God of
God the Almighty. Behold, I am coming like a
thief. Blessed is the one who stays
awake and keeps his clothes so that he will not walk about
naked, and men will not see his shame, and they will be gather
them together in a place. And Hebrew is called this.
Now what's interesting is guess what happened?
Because God has done all these things for man to repent up to
these. How many bowls we've done so
far? 6 bowls because they will
refuse. Now Satan says I'll deceive more
and he sends out more of his to continue to strengthen the
deception to the hardness of the hearts of humanity that is
clearly seeing that God is doing this so that it convinces them
when He comes, if He comes, we take Him, 'cause He's coming.
The King's coming. I said the King's coming back.
He's coming back with his army. He's going to show up again,
right? All right.
Said they gathered them. Notice they dried up the river
so that they can get there. When He gets there, bring them.
And that's what the Lord's like. Bring them on, I don't want them
to be hindered, don't want a bottle body of water to stop
them from getting to me when I show up.
The 7th Angel poured out his bowl upon the air.
This is in the atmosphere. And the loud voice came out of
the temple from the throne saying it is done.
And there were flashes of lightning, and sounds of the
pills of Thunder. And there was a great
earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be
upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so
mighty. The great city was split into
three parts, and the cities of the nations fell.
Babylon the Great was remembered before the Lord to give her the
cup of wine of his fierce wrath. And every island fled away means
islands are gone and the mountains were not found.
And here let's look at this. And huge hailstones about 100
lbs each came down from heaven upon men, and men blasphemy God
because of the plague of the hell, because its plague was
extremely severe. Wow, are you hearing me?
Do you understand the the powerful army that's in our
Kingdom that serve our king, that obeys his commands?
Nuclear weapons can be everywhere, you understand.
Our army can get into every place they're hidden 'cause they
know where they're at and can disarm them.
They can do that. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
They can disarm them completely. Nowhere is scripture, although
there's talks about, you know, fire falling from heaven.
Some people believe that some nuclear bombs going to go off
and a situation is going to occur based upon that.
Cannot tell you that. I can tell you that the Lord
uses some other things. He sure could bring an asteroid
down into the planet himself, because God tends to use things
man doesn't make. So I'm under the impression that
we're not going to have a nuclear issue on a global scale,
is what I'm saying. Because God is the one who's
going to find a life. Listen, man can't control Earth
in the context of planet Earth because the Earth is the Lord's.
Sin is there. And he's going to revitalize it
and he's we going to get a new earth.
But he sets it. He sets it.
This is why you should never take fear of the things that are
being reported because we don't live just in this natural realm.
We have a Kingdom that is beyond this realm, but in this realm,
and we have access to angels that can infiltrate this realm
and are in this realm right now that are working on our behalf.
Now, I want you to see this because when I read this, I
thought I'm going to close with this thought.
This is the Tribulation Commission.
Now, when I say Commission, what do you typically think of the
great right? And who has the Great
Commission? We do.
We've been given the Great Commission.
What is the Great Commission? To go into all the world, preach
the gospel of the Kingdom, OK. Or to preach the gospel.
But it's the gospel of the Kingdom and to all the world as
a testimony. Then the end will come, and that
Great Commission is to heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out
devils. We drink any deadly poison, it
won't harm us, right? Freely we receive, freely give
praise the Lord. We're to make disciples, not
converts. Are you hearing me?
OK? Well, there's a tribulation.
Commit Commission. Because the question is always
asked when we're when the church is called up.
Who's preaching? Well, anyone left behind can
preach that knows. So will man be talking?
Yes. Will he be preaching?
He will. But man is not the only one
preaching in the tribulation. Angels cannot do it.
In this one, as we've seen, Cornelius had an Angel come to
him and said send for Peter. The Angel didn't preach the
gospel. Peter came and preached the
gospel. Right?
Are you hearing me? OK, so angels are obviously
talking to people to contact other people who will come and
preach the gospel. But in Revelation chapter 14,
starting in verse 6, tribulation Commission and I saw another
Angel flying doesn't say he had wings, just Superman.
All right, which is really super Angel, just an Angel.
I saw another Angel flying in mid heaven having what an
eternal gospel to to what to preach to those who live where
to live, to those who live on the earth and to every nation
and tribe and and are you hearing me?
So during the tribulation, these people don't have a traveling
problem. So I don't care that you go to a
one world government. Oh.
You don't want to hear that. When the whole one world
government comes and then they control all the currency and
they control all the movement, the Lord's like, no problem, I
got some angels. I'm on Commission to go ahead
and start speaking on my behalf now.
Oh, you hear me? God's not intimidated, right?
Which means man is without excuse constantly.
No human is ever at a disadvantage of knowing about
Jesus. Ever.
Any human that dies in their sin chose to and they'll deserve the
judgment they're getting because love met every condition so they
would not have to, but yet they still rejected it.
So next verse then he said with a loud voice, This is what he's
saying. We're going to get a little bit
of his preaching. We get we know it's preaching
already fear God give him glory. So again, you understand, while
seven seals these things are going, he's talking and he's,
he's having this conversation before the seven balls.
He says fear God give him glory because the hour of his judgment
has come. So you understand when these
balls are coming out, it's not like they don't know.
He's already been forewarned, giving you an opportunity to get
out of this deal, 'cause God. This is why they know this is
God doing it. His judgment has come.
Worship him who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and
the springs of water. This is what he's preaching.
Let's go on. And another Angel, a second one.
So we got two preachers followed saying fallen.
Fallen is great. Babylon the great, she who has
made all the nations drink of the wine, of the passion of her
immorality. So he's talking judgement.
He ain't going like, well, you know what?
I don't want to talk about this, this city, you know, I want to
give everybody, I don't want to offend them.
He tells it like it is. Let's go on verse 9.
Then another Angel, a third one followed them saying with a loud
voice. I mean, this is a loud voice,
people. Everyone on the planet hears
this. It's like when you go to those
other countries and somebody's driving in the car, you know,
and then on the speaker and they're blasting the
neighborhoods. This happens in the, you know,
Latin America a lot, right? And they're they're preaching
the gospel all the way out. I mean, these these angels are
going to be in the mid heaven doing this.
And it says saying with a loud voice, look what they say.
Now if anyone worships the beast and his image and receives a
mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink of the
wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed in full strength in the
cup of his anger. And he will be tormented with
fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and
in the presence of the Lamb. So guess who's telling them not
to take the mark? And Christians are walking
around. Is that the mark?
How do I know if I have it? Is the technology here?
Yes, Yes it is. And in this dispensation, you
actually have the Holy Ghost in you.
You, you're not going to be tricked.
Those who take it know they're taking it, but in the
tribulation, they're announcing you take it.
This is what's going to happen. They're warning them.
Has anyone heard an Angel fly through and say this yet?
No. So we're not in the tribulation.
So don't be worried about it, right?
Because people again, what do they say?
They say, well, the church, you know, not sure if it's pre Trib,
mid Trib or post Trib. You know, a lot of people are
banking on the post tribune. I'm not going to be here when
angels are in the mid heaven. I'm not going to be here.
No, we are pre Trib people. I mean it's throughout
scripture. There is a mid Trib though a bit
catching away and that's with the two witnesses because they
leave in front of everybody after they've been in the street
doing all kinds of miraculous things by the King and then they
kill them and they're like, see, we can take care of the people.
We can kill people, leave them out there, let everybody and
they give them presents out and then on the third day they raise
up. Now why does that happen?
It's to let them know this is what Jesus did.
You understand if anyone was ever doubting whether a person
could be raised in three day, he sends two witnesses to prove
that point. That's right.
Come on, think about that for a moment.
They're preaching about Jesus. They're preaching about Jesus.
They're preaching about the wrath.
They're talking about. They've been hearing all their
life that a man raised from the dead, 3 days, 3 days, 3 days, 3
days, the whole world's watching them.
They hate them. Then when they die, they
rejoice, give out presents, and then in three days they raise up
and then they've washed them. Go.
That's two in the mid Trib. The church goes in the pre.
All right then, verse 11, the smoke and their torment goes up
forever and ever, and they'll have no rest day and night.
And those who worship the beast and his image and who receives
the mark of his name. Do you see this?
This is amazing. He's telling them if you take
the mark, you'll burn forever in the lake of fire.
Don't do it right? Verse 12 here is the
perseverance of the Saints who keep the commandments of God and
their faith in Jesus. And when I heard a voice from
heaven saying, right, blessed are the dead who die in the Lord
from now on, yes, say, says the Spirit, So that they may rest
from their laborers. For their deeds follow with
them. Their deeds follow with them.
They're what deeds follow with them.
Lot of lot of martyring. Takes place in the tribulation
and they'll be under the throne of God and they'll say when you
going to vindicate our blood. Well, he uses that blood, so to
speak, and. Pours it out in in one of his
wraths with one of his weapons. Wow.
What you need to hear and understand is that we are in a
Kingdom that cannot be shaken. And if there's anything we've
learned so far about angels is that man.
We have on our side the force that could never be destroyed.
We are the most powerful nation on planet Earth.
We are, and it's so powerful that our Kingdom is taking it
over. Taking it over because it was
ours first. I hope this don't offend you,
but I am the indigenous. I am the first man.
You are the 1st man. You are the 1st man.
Why? Because we are created in the
dominion of Adam. It was rightly Adam's first, it
was God's first. And we go into nations now when
there's people groups and everybody gets all divided over
that, when the reality is there's only one people group
and they are of every tribe, tongue, nation that was destined
for this planet. The first ones were children of
God. So when God comes back to
reclaim what was always his, he will dispossess those that never
should have been in this planet in the first place.
It's a global takeover and God would rather do it in peace.
He would rather do it in peace. In fact, love met the condition
for a peaceful transfer of power.
He did. He made a way because he
stripped the devil of his power and he can judge that anointed
cherub that has fallen and throw him into the lake of fire and
every Angel that followed him and they are judged on eternal
already, but for humans none. Did he have to come in hot as a
hostile nation? Didn't have to do it.
That he has sent out all of his ambassadors in the planet today
to say we have good news. The King's coming and he wants
you to be a part of his nation and he wants a peaceful transfer
of power. All you have to do is surrender
and come and become all that God destined you to be.
But if you resist, he's taking power nonetheless.
We are in the season of peace and it would bode humanity well
to come over now. Can they come during the
tribulation? Yes.
Be more difficult for them because of the ones that don't
come. They will persecute them at a
greater rate than we are even seeing in our planet today.
But the Lord will vindicate every St.
There's not a drop from any St. or prophet that will not be
rightly judged by the King. Are you hearing me?
Hallelujah. Thank you so much for listening
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