January 13, 2008

• Revelation 16 & 17 by Pastor Don

  I was able to transcribe a Sunday Service for close captioned TV for Pastor Don, and so am including the transcript as is for you. Things in brackets []are what people say from the congregation. I will leave it as is, but do a bit of putting Bible verses in Italics and make a few paragraphs for readability, but will leave the words as is.

  The Revelation of Jesus Christ. In the 16th Chapter, “Then I heard a Then I heard a loud voice from the temple saying to the seven angels, “Go and pour out the bowls of the wrath of God on the earth.” So the first went and poured out his bowl upon the earth and a foul and loathsome sore came upon the men who had the mark of the beast and those who worshipped his image.” Well, praise God that’s not us. Amen! I said, praise God, that’s not us. Amen! [Amen!] Alright, let’s be clear about that.

  Verse 3, “Then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it became blood as of a dead man, and every living creature in the sea died.” Verse 4 “Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and springs of water, and they became blood. And I heard the angel of the waters saying:…” Remember that the heavens are divided like military. Different angels have different assignments over different groups of things, peoples, and spirits. “…You are righteous, O Lord, the One who is and who was and who is to be, because You have judged these things. For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets. And You have given them blood to drink for it is their just due.”"

  Now I talked about having misplaced compassion for people and things that are not of God. You must understand that by this time not only has the Church been removed, and the 144,000 Jewish evangelists have done their thing, and are now up in Heaven, God is going to protect those saints, except for those that will fall under the time period of the great tribulation and will be actually overrun, overrun by antichrist. But, the Lord is going to bring full judgment on those that hate Him. You’ve got to get that really clear in your head, we all identify with mankind, but you have to begin to make some separations. There’s some separations, there’s some horrible people walking around the earth that do very horrible things that we need not have compassion for them, for the wrath of God is going to be poured out upon them. And God knows. He knows who they are, where they live, He knows their address and their email address as well. [Laugh] So, he’s got it worked out.

  And so in verse 6 it says, “”For they have shed the blood of the saints and prophets,” and they are receiving their just due. They’ve had every opportunity, He has sent trumpets, trumpets and vials and he has sent prophets and evangelists and teachers. He’s tried every way He can to reach these people, to get them to the first position of salvation and repentance.The first position of salvation is repentance. Okay? Alright? It alarms me that many people in the Body of Christ don’t know that they are saved. They don’t know that they are saved. They are wondering, they are walking and wondering, will I make it? Will I be qualified for the rapture? Will I be qualified for Heaven? You only need to know that you are saved. And the only way you know that is have you reached the first position? Have you repented of your evil works? That’s all. Are you aware that you aren’t all that? [Laughter] Well, that’s the first position. If you know you are not all that, and you are even questioning Heaven, it means that you have a desire to make Heaven, and your questioning it, it means that you’re in. I don’t know if I can make that any clearer. If you have a sense of ohhhh, I don’t know if I’m going to make it, that means that you have a desire to make it, which means that you are sorry for what you may have done. That may have disqualified, which means that you are the most highly qualified. [Amen] You know, a person who isn’t going to make it doesn’t care that he’s a liar. Doesn’t care that he’s a fornicator. Doesn’t care that he is evil. Doesn’t care that he has no faith and doesn’t believe. Doesn’t care that he blasphemes God, doesn’t care that he speaks evil against saints. They don’t CARE! So,if you care, you IN! It’s the surest way to know you’re in, because you what? You do care. You are concerned about it. Alright? So kind of be sure of it, alright. Cause when I come to visit you in the hospital I don’t want you looking up at me wondering, questioning, if you died, if you’re going to make it. The one thing you ought to be sure of is that you know you are in. I said, you should be sure that you know you’re in. Who are you believing on for your salvation? [Jesus] Jesus, not Colonel Sanders [laugh] huh. Jesus Christ. If you’re believing and hoping and wishing on Jesus Christ, to get you in, guess what [handclap] you’re in. [amen] You’re in. If you are trusting on you to get you in, by your works and you did nice things, and aren’t you just wonderful, how you fed the poor on Wednesday back in 1973, forget it. [laugh] That’s yesterday’s papers, and it doesn’t count. But if today you woke up and you said, “Praise the Lord, ahh, I’m breathing, thank you Jesus,” then, guess what, you’re trusting on Him. You’re relying on Him, you’re in.

  Now, look at verse 7 “And I heard another from the altar saying, “Even so, Lord God Almighty; true and righteous are Your judgments.” Well, why does he say, “even so”? Because nobody, not even God, even though these people deserve it, wants to look upon it. He’s not happy about it. He’s not happy that destruction is going to be, scorched out on man. He’s not happy about it. For He would that all men would be saved. But it’s up to them if they want to be saved or not.

  Verse 8 “Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire.” What He’s going to do is He’s going to increase the number of sunspots. Already the scientists are telling us that that’s what global warming is really about. That the sun has been putting out different heat, different sunspots, different explosions, and that’s really what global warming really is all about. Well, here it is saying that He’s going to make it even hotter. “And men were scorched with great heat, and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over these plagues; and they did not repent and give Him glory.” Lord have mercy! Meaning, after all of this is going down, the whole planet is in a revolt against man and they still wouldn’t repent. They’re still going to have a scientific answer for it, that gives them credit. Do you realize that they…I’m just going to say this for some of you, there’s a hidden lie in global warming, that glorifies man….[yeah, right] Lord have mercy. Some of you all are thinking, its getting clearer. It’s where man can take the credit for everything that’s going down on the earth. [comments from people] I mean you get that picture in your mind how you begin to see how huge the earth is and ah, we want to take the, you know. Come on. You know, last night, was it last night? I’m watching TV and a volcano is going off in Mexico, and it’s spewing ash a mile up in the air. You mean to tell me that somebody drove an SUV in Mexico City and made that happen? [laugh] Gosh, we need to get real here. You know…I’m sorry, I’m just too basic. I’m just too basic. Lets, moving right along here. Let’s see if we can do, so even though the earth is going through all of this, they still did not repent and give Him glory.

  Then verse 10, “Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and his kingdom became full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues because of the pain. They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and did not repent of their deeds.” … My Goodness. Well, moving right along. Everybody ok? “Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates…” Where’s the Euphrates? In Babylon. Where’s Babylon? In Iraq, Iran. It’s all out there and here it comes. “…and it’s waters dried up, so that the way of the kings from the east might be prepared. … “…the way of the kings from the east might be prepared.” Well, what’s it talking about? Remember an army of 200 million men a few chapters ago that we were talking about, that army is going to begin to march from the Far East and is going to march to the West. But when they get to the River Euphrates, it’s going to be dried up which prepares the way because they are invited guests to the Battle of Armageddon, and if the River Euphrates is still running, that will hold up their crossing. So God is going to dry it up, so this army of 200 million can walk across the River Euphrates so that they can get to the battle of Armageddon in time to be destroyed. [Whew] Alright, moving right along. Verse 13 “And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For they are spirits of demons, performing signs, which go out to the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.” This one verse here teaches you something very, very, very powerful if you would get this concept. The concept is that in spite of what you were taught when you were growing up, the reality of the situation is, God will use good to His advantage, but He will also turn evil to His advantage as well. God will use evil people to accomplish His goals in the earth. He will permit certain things to happen in order to bring about His ultimate plan and resolve. That’s a little tough for Christians because we just, you know, we just have been taught some stupid things, that are not Biblical. The reality of the situation is God is going to permit these demon spirits to deceive the people that hate Him, and have already blasphemed against Him, have already been through all of this and still refuse to repent. And He is going to permit these deceiving spirits to convince these people to come to this great battle, where they think that they’re going to be god. They’re going to destroy God. Now you say, why would the demons, why would satan cooperate with that? Well because, what is his modus operandi? satan does what? [conversation] What does he do? He loves to kill, steal and destroy. He is a liar from the beginning, so he knows how to use lies in order to accomplish his end, which is kill, steal and destroy. So even though he has an idea of what’s going on, he is going to be a part of this program. Ok? So, what the devil does is he convinces us with a lie, we come into cooperation with it and we’re going to our destruction. That’s the history, the history of mankind after the Garden. All right? So in verse 16 he says, “And they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew, Armageddon.” This physical place is Meggido and it’s a huge valley, the Valley of Decision. All right. Then, verse 17, “”Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, “It is…” What? [Done] “It is done.” So once again, perfect numbers the number of six is the number of man, and that’s where we see man performing and coming into this place of destruction, and then what do we see? And the seventh angel, pours out his bowl, and it’s a bowl of completion. Seven being the number of completion. We are in the 6,000th year going into the 7,000th year. God is going to complete everything in this transitional period. How long is this transition? Nobody knows, but we do know the Key event. And when this Gospel is preached to the whole earth, then the end, what? [shall come]. The End shall come. And you are so blessed because God has given us wisdom and has placed with us the people that we need to know.

  We have, for example, through the shortwave system, Brother Michael comes to us every year to tell us the progress that he is making. Well, what is he trying to do? He is bringing the gospel via shortwave to the outer regions of Mongolia and the Arab Nations. He stands in your presence every year, and he tells us how far he has reached with the Gospel. And how many new dialects they have covered, and he’s so close, he’s so close. Ok, so pay attention to some of the stuff that’s out there on the desk, on the table, pick up Michael’s stuff, read it, he has testimonies there of people that are getting the gospel in places that you will never visit. You know, right now the big push is for Falusia getting it into the language into Falusian they are translating it over in Afghanistan, and all of these other places. So, stay busy, stay on your prayer, pray, pray, pray. And then verse 18, “And there were noises and thunderings and lightnings, and there was a great earthquake…” This is the big one, you guy’s ready? “…such a mighty and great earthquake as had not occurred since men were on the earth.”… There’s going to be a world wide earthquake. You will not be able to blame this one on global warming. This bad boy is going to shake the planet. And what is happening now. We’re almost numb to it, but think back 10, 15 years ago, you’d hear of an earthquake every now and then. It is a monthly, almost weekly occurrence, that an earthquake is going down somewhere. And they’re beginning to increase, volcano eruptions, and so forth. Now, go to verse 19, “Now the great city was divided…” What’s the great city [Jerusalem] Jerusalem, …”into three parts and the cities of the nations fell. And great Babylon….great Babylon was remembered before God, to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His wrath. Then every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. And great hail from heaven fell upon men, each hailstone about the weight of a talent. Men blasphemed God…” Look at, again. “..because of the plague of hail, since that plague was exceedingly great.” I looked it up, a talent is worth about $25,000 dollars and a talent weighs 113 pounds. [whoa!] I mean, that’s going to out do some of the Hollywood movies, I saw a movie the other day and there were hailstones and chunks of ice falling, oh, and I said, that’s kiddies play to what’s about to go down in reality here. Amen, moving right along. You ready? Chapter 17 “Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and talked with me, saying to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters.” Now many waters here is usually a, not only a geographic answer, but many waters usually refers to peoples. Many peoples. Different types of people groups. “with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication. So he carried me away in the Spirit into the wilderness. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with god and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication. And on her forehead, a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement. But the angel said to me, “Why do you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns. The beast that you saw was…” that is past tense, “and is not…” which is a point where nonexistence, “and will ascend out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition.” Go to hell. “And those who dwell on the earth will marvel, those names who are…” What? “…not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world, when they see the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.” Ooooohhhh, look at this now. We’ve got a problem here, don’t we? We’ve got this woman, but she’s riding on a beast, who was, is not, and yet is. In other words, the beast is the greater power, carrying the woman who is the lesser power. Can you see that? And here’s what he says, “Here is the mind which has wisdom: The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits.” Seven heads, seven mountains on which the woman sits. “There are also seven kings. Five have fallen, one is, and the other one has not yet come. And when he comes he must continue a short time.” So this is talking about an antichrist figure of a political nature. “The beast that was, and is not, is himself also the eighth…” Remember the eighth is new beginnings. “…and is of the seven, and is going to perdition.” He’s eventually going to hell too. Remember in Chapter 13 we looked at these people, we talked about the beast being a figure, a warlike world leader, figure, and we have this woman that is a religious, mysterious, Babylon figure, a harlot in a sense, and I’m going to break that down. And then it says, “The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, …but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast.”

  Remember, I told you that the, the world has already been divided into 10 regions. When we say “regions” we’re talking about horns of power. It’s already been divided in them. That is going to happen but it’s going to only happen for a short time. Unfortunately our government is moving in agreement with it and North America is already being united with South America, whether we like it or not. Through NAFTA and other agreements. So he says, “These are of one mind, and they will give their power and authority to…” Who?” “the beast. These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them for He is…” Come on… “He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with Him are called chosen and faithful. ” [hallelujah] Amen. Let’s go to the end of the chapter, and then we will come back. “The waters which you saw, where the harlot sits, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and tongues. And the ten horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the harlot, make her desolate and naked, and eat her flesh and burn her with fire.” My goodness. Whew, the woman is in for a world of trouble, isn’t she? “For God has put in into their hearts to fulfill His purpose, to be of one mind, and to give their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled. And the woman whom you saw is that great city which reigns over the kings of the earth.”

  Alright, let’s break it down a little bit. You guys ready? Now, let’s be honest, some of this we cannot see in it’s fullness, because why? We’re not close enough to it. The Church is still on the earth, so the gates of hell, the power of this woman, and the power of this beast are limited, so we don’t see them in their fullness, so a lot of conjecture has gone forth, but here’s what I want to make clear to you. Most of you that sit here, realize that Rome was built on seven hills. That the great Roman Empire, lived and survived on those seven hills and was replaced with a different empire, religious empire. Now the Catholic church is worldwide and dominates over many peoples over the earth, but what this passage is telling us is the root of power in this woman spans wider and greater. So what I want to say to you is, those of us, you know, those of us that, that are wise enough to get this, you have to realize that, that this great Babylon, mystery Babylon has existed much longer than the Catholic church. Does everybody follow that? Huh? Alright. Mystery Babylon is the deceiving spirit of false religion…Mystery Babylon is the root of deception that causes people to run out and join secret societies, like the masons and think that you can be a Christian and still be a member of the secret society. Well, you know, you can’t. And then you have all of the other religions, that what, point the finger against God. And all of these religions, that feel enlightened, because satan is what, he is an angel of enlightenment. Read the scriptures, its, it’s clearly, the distinction is this. That an angel of light would just bring light, but he is enlightenment, he causes people to think they have a new and better revelation. They have a clearer, greater understanding, of something and everyone else is stupid. You know, and so, you end up with groups like the Jehovah Witnesses. We have the only truth and therefore everybody else is going to hell in a handbasket. Well, if that is the case, we’re in serious trouble, because it says, He’s going to save a multitude, so great that no man could count. And there aren’t that many Jehovah Witnesses as yet. Or the Mormons, and a number of these other groups that just limit who’s going to get to Heaven. You know, getting to Heaven is the basis of of the heart. You’re not going to get to Heaven because you have correct theology. What??? Only if your correct theology leads your heart to a correct relationship…Well Glory, I’m preaching good whether you all are getting this or not. [whew] And so, when our hearts get right, God will, you know, He’ll straighten out theology. He will straighten out wrong thinking. But what the devil does is, he implants in us and around us, these existing societies, churches and ideas, to color the water so grey that no one can decide. So they’ll worship a dali lama, they’ll worship all these other things, ah, and get this, listen, the Bible is true. In Acts chapter 10, verse 38 the Apostle Paul says, “…how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power, who went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil.” But he says this amazing revelation before he says that, He says, I now realize, that God is no respecter of persons. That He is not partial. There is no partiality with God. And that in the whole world of other nations, where ever men fear God, where ever men fear God, fear God, and have a heart of respect and honor. That word “fear” there is a holy reverence. That fear God, and do what’s right, are acceptable to God. That means that there’s going to be, there’s going to be somebody from every faith that’s getting in…When they get to Heaven the Lord’s going to say, “You belonged to the wrong church, the wrong theology, wrong thinking, but you feared Me, and you tried your best to do what was right. You’re in.” Lord have mercy! Aren’t you glad that God is kinder than all of us? [laughter] And I’m saying, if people don’t have our pedigree, we’re going to reject them, but God is saying, you have to have only His heart.

  And so, by that, what is Mystery Babylon? Mystery Babylon is false religion that has always been in the earth, through whatever means the devil can use, to deceive. If he can get you to worship an ant, a frog, or a rat, he’ll do that. If he can get you to worship the dead ancestors, he’ll do that. If he can get you to worship, the saints, and pray and think that somehow, Peter, Mary, James and John, that they have the, the ability to save you, he’ll get you to do that. If Mystery Babylon can deceive you, to think that you can partake in satanic ritual but call it something else, you’re had. You’ve been had. And that’s what Mystery Babylon is really about. Alright, the seven hills are telling us this, that in the last days, this associationship of the Old Roman Empire is going to be rebuilt in it’s power and it’s might. But with it comes the sin of the Roman Empire, which was idol worship, and false gods. Alright? What shape will Catholicism look like during the period of tribulation? I don’t know. I don’t know. But right now, between Sun Myung Moon, and all of these other religious leaders, they’re trying to create a new world religion. They’re trying to bring everyone together under the same umbrella. And right now, even muslims are in eating at that table. And many Christians.

  The tape ended. Praying that you get a sense of being there.

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