["Pomp and Circumstance"]
of Jesus, O precious is the Lord, and makes me quite as good as He is.
O thou art the Lord and I know, O thou art the blood of Jesus,
O thou art the Lord and this I see, O thou art the blood of Jesus,
O thou art the blood of Jesus, O thou art the blood of Jesus,
O precious is the hope that makes me quite as good,
O thou art the blood of Jesus, O thou art the blood of Jesus,
O precious is the hope that makes me quite as good,
O thou art the blood of Jesus, O thou art the blood of Jesus,
This is all my righteousness, O thou art the blood of Jesus,
O precious is the hope that makes me quite as good,
O thou art the blood of Jesus, O thou art the blood of Jesus.
in grace, in mercy, Lord, I pray you just bless the service
in Jesus' holy name, amen.
Amen.
Thank you, brother.
Let's turn our handles to song number 161.
For reals, Mr. Thomas.
Try number 161, outbreak safety.
Number 61.
You are our Savior, Father.
You are our friend.
Take me healthily, remotely.
Please build me to the end.
Give us moral strength and weakness.
Let me find myself in Him.
Send me joy and substance really.
Give us strength like every year.
Hallelujah, one, our Savior.
Hallelujah, one, our friend.
Save me healthily, keeping holy.
Please build me to the end.
Give us moral health and sorrow.
Fill the pills, holy Lord.
Even when my heart is breaking, leave my heart against my soul.
Hallelujah, one, our Savior.
Hallelujah, one, our friend.
Save me healthily, keeping holy.
Please build me to the end.
He is a fool of God and keeper.
Well, until this hill is gone.
Doors of hell, we guide.
For days we need my Father within my heart.
Hallelujah, one, our Savior.
Hallelujah, one, our friend.
Save me healthily, keeping holy.
Please build me to the end.
Jesus, Lord, do thou receive him.
Lord, at all with him I find.
He hath granted me forgiveness.
I am here and he is mine.
Hallelujah, one, our Savior.
Hallelujah, one, our friend.
Save me healthily, keeping holy.
Please build me to the end.
Amen.
All right, at this time we'll go to the announcements.
If you follow, we'll continue the song of 467.
All right, this time we'll go through our announcements.
If you need a bulletin, just raise up your hand
and one will be brought to you.
Of course, we've got the service times, as always,
in the upper left-hand side.
We'll be back this Thursday in the book of Acts,
Acts chapter number 21.
We've got the Churchwide Soul winning below that,
as well as the Salvations and Baptisms
for both the month and year.
Of course, we are celebrating this morning
the birthdays in the month of October.
And make sure you take note of that,
the birthdays and anniversaries.
Don't forget there's the Soul winning time
coming up to Eloy at the end of this month.
You've got a schedule there,
so if that's something you want to participate in,
keep that in mind.
We'll have a sign-up sheet for that up soon.
And then also on the back,
thank you for those that prayed for and participated
in the Dominican Republic missions trip.
So 17 Soul winners and 331 Salvations.
So the Caribbean, once again,
proves to be a field that is white unto harvest.
These places are out there, folks.
The Gospel still has power.
There's people out there that are still very open to it
and hearing it and receiving it.
So it's just we need to go find them.
You know, we just need to go where they are.
And of course, God blesses our efforts.
So thank God for that.
Praise God for a great harvest there.
And then don't forget the yearbook portraits
are coming up the end of this month.
So it's just a one-time opportunity that Sunday.
So it's going to be the 29th after the morning service.
The background color is blue.
It's kind of like a sky blue.
It's kind of like Brother Edwin's shirt.
It's pretty close to that.
Someone pointed that out.
So if you're wondering,
just take a picture of Brother Edwin tonight.
I don't know if he's going to wear the same shirt next week,
but anyway, probably not now.
But it's kind of that color.
So that sky blue.
But for those of you to whom that matters.
And then we'll probably just, again,
it'll be right after the morning service.
It won't take long.
Brother Ramon will come down and have it set up
just like last year.
Then we've got the annual chili cook-off
coming up at the end of the month on the 31st.
So again, just a reminder about the rules.
You can't use any pre-made seasoned packets.
You have to use, it's got to be from scratch.
And no MSG either.
Someone's asking about MSG.
That's like the steroid that I was referring to.
This morning I made the analogy
that the pre-season packets are like and done to
juicing in a professional sport.
It'd be like taking steroids.
But MSG would be the hardest form of that.
It would be intense.
I don't know my steroids very well.
I'm very well versed in that kind of thing.
But whatever the hardest steroid is,
that's kind of MSG.
And I know we all know what MSG stands for,
so good.
But we don't want to put that in our chilies here.
We want an even playing ground.
If you've got to rely on MSG,
how good could it really be?
So that's that.
We've got the missions conference coming up
and then also the church picnic has rolled into that this year.
It's kind of the soul winning going back to Friday
if anybody has any report from Friday, one for Friday.
And then Saturday, I know the group had two.
Anything else outside of the group on Saturday?
And then what about today?
Was there a total for today?
Three for today?
Praise God.
Also, I wanted to mention a couple things.
One, I really want to get back into the habit
of recording the salvations on the back of the maps.
And I'll start putting that.
I used to have that spreadsheet there for the name and address.
It doesn't have to be real elaborate,
but if you could get the name of the person
and their address of where they're at,
I would like to start doing some follow up personally myself
on these converts, see if we can get some more people in.
So it's worth a shot.
It's not really me.
It's not really what I do.
But I'm going to go ahead and do it anyway.
So maybe I'll become that.
I can grow.
I can expand.
I can push my limits.
I don't just preach it.
So I can do that.
But let's try and get back in the habit.
And I'll try to be more consistent in reminding folks
of that.
But the soul winners here, those that go out
and those that lead the times, if you could be mindful of that,
we want to start trying to get a good record.
And I mean any and all converts.
Obviously, if it's a minor, if it's a teenager,
I'm not as concerned about that because we're really
trying to follow with people to see that we can get to church.
And unless this teenager has parents
that are going to be willing to drive them out,
we don't go pick up teenagers here
because we don't allow minors in the church without parents.
That's just a rule that we have.
It's not a rule I made up.
That's a faithful word Baptist Church rule.
It's been a rule since I've been a member of this church.
I think some people think I got an attitude or something
and made that rule up.
That's been a rule.
I used to bend the rule a little bit for people,
and then it bit me one day.
So now it's very strict about that.
Anyway, but anybody else besides minors,
anybody that's whether you think it's going to pan out or not,
it doesn't really matter.
Don't try to gauge the potential of them visiting.
Just if they got saved, name, address,
and who it is that won them to the Lord,
that would be much appreciated.
So let's try to get back in the habit.
The other thing I failed to mention this morning
is that I will actually be in Detroit, Michigan next Sunday
flying out with Karen, my daughter.
We're going to fly out on Friday.
We're going to participate in the soul-winning event
that Brother Brandon Pringle, who lives in Warren,
which is part of Detroit up there, is putting together.
So it's kind of a last-minute thing.
I just felt like going up there, being a blessing there,
helped them a little bit run the church card at Panera
and kind of help them with the expenses of it
and bring some maps and just try to continue to encourage
the folks up there in the Midwest.
So I'll be gone and then I'll be flying back on Tuesday, actually.
We're going to stay a day extra
and me and my daughter are just going to do some things in Detroit.
You say, what's there to do?
It's Detroit, right?
Well, you might be surprised.
We're going to go to the Henry Ford Museum,
which is a really great museum, that's what I've heard.
So anyway, now you know what I'm doing.
But on Sunday, we'll have Brother Jake Thornton covering the pulpit.
So please come out and show your support.
He always does a great job for us.
And come out and just continue business as usual.
I already know that the guys here will make sure that
Brother Jake doesn't have to do much of anything besides preach.
Everyone does a great job while I'm gone,
so it's great to have a well-oiled machine here.
So I just wanted to mention those couple things
and I think that's it.
Let's go ahead and sing one more song before we get into the preaching.
Song number 167, I will have the power of Jesus' name.
167.
All hail the power of Jesus,
with the name of the cross we call.
We are the Holy of God,
and have faith around Him all along.
We are the Holy of God,
and have faith around Him all along.
The chosen seed of Israel's grace,
He wraps Him from the fold.
Hail Him who saves you,
high in His grace,
and crown Him all along.
Hail Him who saves you,
high in His grace,
and crown Him all along.
Let every king,
let every cup
of grace to rest below,
to live, O majesty,
as one,
and crown Him all along.
To live, O majesty,
as one,
and crown Him all along.
Let every heart,
let every soul,
let every heart,
let every soul,
let every heart,
earth and gathered the vine of the earth and cast into the great right place for
the wrath of God and the right press was trotting without the city and blood
came out of the wine press you know to the horse brittle by the space of a
thousand six hundred for that
today
men so in Revelation chapter 14 you of course just to kind of get the timeline
of what's taking place here you have the ceiling of 144,000 which you also find a
revelation chapter number seven what's put what puts us after the rapture okay
so you see the rapture there in Revelation 7 and then 144,000 are named
the you know the different tribes and then you have the ceiling here and you
have God's wrath being poured out and in the midst of this verses 6 through 8 you
see the judgment which comes upon Babylon okay and Babylon of course is a
very familiar theme throughout Scripture there's Babylon mentioned throughout the
Old Testament you have Babylon you know in several different places going all
the way back to Genesis chapter number 10 you have it you know in the days of
Israel when they're going to captivity and so on and so forth Daniel's day
Ezekiel's day and then of course we have what we would refer to as end times
Babylon which is who we're seeing in Revelation chapter number 14 look there
verse 6 it says and I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven having the
everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth and to every
nation and kindred and tongue and people saying with a loud voice fear God
and give give glory to him for the hour of his judgment is come and worship him
that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters and there
followed another angel saying Babylon is fallen is fallen that great city because
she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication so this
is the coming destruction of Babylon it's being pronounced and it's this end
times Babylon and I want to preach a sermon tonight entitled bye-bye Babylon
bye-bye Babylon okay and the point of that title is that that is the attitude
we have to kind of have towards end times Babylon yeah we can't have this
affinity for Babylon we can't have this you know desire for Babylon and
obviously most people say well yeah who would have that no one here is you know
would say yeah I love Babylon God bless Babylon no one would ever say such a
thing you know what a lot of people do say today is God bless America right a
lot of people praise America they've got they want God's blessing on America they
they have a real over-inflated sense of patriotism today and I make I'm gonna
make the case tonight and I think probably everybody in the room already
knows this but just in case any of us doesn't you know that America is the end
times Babylon okay I think that's pretty evident in Scripture okay now if you
would keep something there in Revelation I'm gonna have you in Revelation and
Daniel tonight so just keep a couple bookmark in those books we're gonna come
back and forth a little bit well let's go over to Daniel chapter number two
Daniel chapter number two so again Babylon is you know is to really
understand who Babylon is you have to understand that Babylon represents more
than just a specific city or nation but it actually represents kind of a
philosophy or a form of governments or you know it's just really a world power
that has been with us throughout time that's kind of who Babylon is obviously
it's taken on the literal name you know in ancient in the ancient world of
Babylon okay but even earlier before prior to that in Genesis 10 you see a
Babylon and then we see it again in the end times now I don't know that we're
gonna see an actual Babylon like a place called Babylon in the end times the
Bible speaking figuratively and it's using that term Babylon referring to
this place in the future in the book of Revelation because you know at the time
that that was written people would have known what Babylon was that would have
made sense to them if you just started naming some city whatever city it's
going to be I have my opinion about who that would be today specifically you
know if they started if the Bible used that name people would be you know would
be wondering for a very long time who is this referring to but we can see with
the use of the word Babylon that it's kind of showing us that there's this
world power there is this form of government that's just kind of with
mankind throughout his history and and of course Babylon was a very literal
place in Daniel's day where we're at there in Daniel chapter number two if
you look there in verse 31 of course this is Nebuchadnezzar's dream right
where he has the vision of that great statue and Daniel comes and he gives the
interpretation of it and he says in verse 31 thou O King saw us and behold a
great image verse 31 this great image whose brightness was excellent and stood
before thee and the form there was thereof was terrible this image his head
was a fine gold his breast and his arms of silver his belly and his thighs of
brass his legs of iron his feet part of iron and part of clay so he's describing
this image that he saw and he's decided describing the different elements that
made up each part of that body and we know that this body represents
different kingdoms Daniel goes on to explain that and he says verse 34 thou
saw us till that a stone was cut without hands which smote the image upon his
feet that were made of that were of iron and clay and break them into pieces so
this great mountain the stone comes out and smashes the feet of this image and
the whole thing crumbles verse 35 then was the iron the clay and the brass and
silver and the gold broke into pieces together and became like the chaff of
the summer threshing floors and the wind carried them away that no place was
found for them and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain and
filled the whole earth right so he's showing us that this this power this
Babylon these nations that represent its image are going to be broken and
eventually they're gonna be carried away like chaff they're gonna be carried away
like dust essentially something very light something very fragile that even
the wind could just blow it away very easily which is kind of you know
symbolic of you know man's government man's world system is gonna come to an
end and it's just gonna dissipate it's not even gonna it's not even gonna be a
thing at all right that rock that's cut without us that that's not cut with or
is cut without hands is is Christ basically it's God's government right
and it becomes that great mountain that fills the whole earth talking about
Christ's millennial reign it represents the you know everlasting kingdom of the
Father which comes after that thousand year period okay so that rock comes in
the millennium Christ and destroys Babylon that's what we're seeing in
Revelation it said in it whoops in Revelation chapter number 14 right where
we're seeing Babylon being fallen Babylon being destroyed elsewhere
Revelation 17 this is what this is this vision is describing okay he says in
verse 36 this is the dream and we will tell the interpretation thereof before
the king thou King art a great king of kings for the God of heaven hath given
thee a kingdom power and strength and glory and wheresoever the children of
men dwell the beasts of the earth and the fowl of heaven have given unto the
gift he hath given unto thine hand and hath made the ruler over all thou
art this head of gold so he's saying Nebuchadnezzar you're the head of gold
you're the first kingdom the top kingdom right of these empires you're the
beginning of it after thee verse 39 shall rise another kingdom inferior to
thee and the third kingdom of brass which shall bear rule over all
the earth and the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron for as much as iron
breaketh in pieces and subdue with all things and as iron that breaketh all
these shall it break in pieces and bruise talking about how that last
kingdom of iron is going to be broken and then verse 41 and whereas thou sawest
the feet and the toes a part of potters clay and pot of iron the kingdom shall
be divided but there shall there shall excuse me but there shall sit excuse me
shall be in it of the strength of iron for as much as thou saw iron and mixed
with miry clay okay so he's describing the feet you know and this is likened
unto what we'll see in Revelation with the ten kings and then so we have these
different empires you say well what empires are these obviously the Bible is
telling us flat out that Nebuchadnezzar of the Babylonian Empire is the head of
gold right and then you have the chest and the arms of brass which is the
Medo-Persian Empire then you go down right down the list then you have the
Greeks and you have the Romans the Roman Empire okay so you have these four
kingdoms that we have seen play out in history great world powers and really
today even the Roman Empire has still continues continues on the the obviously
the literal Roman Empire what fell and has been destroyed and there's no more
but that system it carries on even in our own country we see a lot of you
know symbology from there that a lot of the Greek gods you know that they come
from that pagan time that pagan government that pagan religion that
existed that time it's been carried over into our own government a lot of our
philosophies come from that a lot of you know a lot of our ideals about ruling
and reigning about how to run a government how to run a country a lot of
that is adopted from you know the Roman Empire of that day so in a sense it is
carried on and really it's it's overtaken the whole word right it's
Western civilization it's it's basically an empire okay so that's still going on
today and you know the ten toes is when it's finally destroyed at the return of
Christ let's go ahead and go over to Daniel chapter number seven Daniel
chapter number seven so these ten toes that are mixed with iron and clay I
believe represent what we see in Revelation chapter number 17 okay which
we'll go back there in a minute but Revelation chapter number 17 you're
there in Daniel chapter 7 he said thus he said the four beasts shall be the
fourth kingdom upon the earth which shall be diverse from all kingdoms and
shall devour the whole earth and shall tread it down and break it in pieces so
this is the Roman Empire right the fourth one and the ten horns out of this
kingdom are ten kings that shall rise and another shall rise after them and he
shall be diverse from the first and he shall subdue the three kings okay so
you're covering a lot of history there right you have the fourth kingdom which
is the Roman Empire which is what existed in Jesus's day that eventually
passed off the sign the scene and is no longer a literal you know government
right but its philosophy its its form of rule has carried on okay in the form
of the United States Western civilization and then eventually verse
24 you have the ten kings okay which is what we see in prophecy if you would go
back to revelation chapter 17 and we'll see that there in Revelation chapter
number 17 and really we got to kind of look at the whole chapter I know it's
maybe it's a drier subject tonight but you know it's it's important that we
understand these things about the Word of God we understand you know the myths
the people in whom you know we're living in you know and whose myths we are where
we're at where we're at on the you know the prophetic timeline whatever you want
to call it okay and not fall for this you know this delusion that somehow
America is this this great noble civilization that we should you know be
so deeply endeared to it is Babylon that we're living in we are living in end
times Babylon okay I believe that and I'm just kind of laying some groundwork
here just to kind of make that point showing you that Babylon the concept of
Babylon is something that has moved with us throughout time all right
revelation chapter number 17 it says in verse 1 and there kick and there came
one of the seven angels which had the seven vials and talked to me saying unto
me come hither and I will show unto the judgment of the great whore that sitteth
upon many waters so waters often are likened unto people or nations so this
great whore is sitting upon many nations in many waters it's a great power with
whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication and inhabitants of
the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication so he carried
away the spirit spirit into the wilderness and I saw a woman sit upon a
scarlet colored beast full of names of blasphemy having seven heads and ten
horns so there's these ten horns these ten kingdoms that we saw in Daniel as
well and the woman is arrayed in purple and scarlet color and decked with gold
and precious stones and pearls having a golden cup in her hand full of
abomination and filthiness of her comp of her fornication so what is it how
does the Bible describe this great whore is she is she decked in rags is she you
know look like she's impoverished did she look poor does she look like she's
you know like someone you might see just wandering the streets like a literal
harlot out on you know the streets of you know these these cities throughout
America you know they're not exactly decked out I mean they're they're
wearing something it ain't much of much of something but they're not decked out
like this okay this great whore has purple and scarlet okay and obviously
back then you know this would have been even more when this was written would
have held more significance because people would have understood how hard it
is to come about dyed garments like this you know we take it for granted that
we're not all just wearing burlap or something or you know just plain brown
clothes that we have colors in our clothing you know back then that would
have been a much more precious thing because it's not being turned out in
some sweatshop somewhere while we sleep it's something that would have been made
by hand the dyes were hard to come by so this woman has a lot of scarlet she has
she's she's arrayed with a lot of luxurious things she's decked with gold
precious stones pearls now who does that remind you of today
reminds you of a very prosperous thing doesn't it and our country is a very
prosperous country we're a very wealthy country today and you might be scratching
I said oh I don't feel very wealthy but really even us those of us that might
not be considered rich or wealthy by you know the standards of within our our
country the United States you know comparatively speaking to other people
in the world even the poorest poorest of us have are very well off you know a lot
of places don't have climate controlled houses to live in they don't have you
know cellular service and cable service and running water and electricity and
that's there's a lot of people that live like that so we're living in a very
prosperous time we're living with a lot of luxuries aren't we you can see this
great horror this it that she has a lot of luxuries that's kind of what she
represents I believe you know as far as the relation to America notice verse 5
and upon her forehead was a name written the mystery Babylon the great mother of
harlots and abominations of the earth so it gives the name of this war and calls
her mystery Babylon the great right the mother of harlots and obviously there's
a lot that goes into that she represents an end times religion but also it does
represent you know just that that form of government that that Babylon that has
been with man throughout history okay and it's always been a very prosperous
country very powerful country that has been represented as Babylon in
scripture that's what I believe and that fits America like a glove I mean who can
stand against the beasts you know who can withstand the the power of America's
military might the answer is nobody okay nobody can match America's might
militarily speaking so it gives you know we can kind of see it here in Revelation
a little bit more about this Babylon and then we see the destruction here verse
6 and I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the Saints and with the blood
of martyrs of Jesus and when I saw her I wondered the great out of me admiration
and the angel said unto me wherefore didst thou marvel I will tell you the
mystery of the woman and of the beast that carrieth her which hath the seven
head and ten horns the beast that thou sawest was and is not and shall ascend
on the bottomless pit and go into perdition and they that dwell in the
earth shall wonder whose names are not written the book of life from the
foundation of the world when they shall when they behold the beast that was and
is not and yet is and here's the my our seven mountains on which the woman
sitteth and there are seven kings not and not yet come and when he cometh he
must continue a short space and the beast that was that was not even he is
the eighth he is of the seven and goeth into perdition and the ten horns with
thou sawest are ten kings and they have received no kingdom as yet but received
power as kings one hour with the beast so those ten kings I'm not gonna take a
lot of time to delve into this tonight okay but basically you see those ten
kings right showing up again the ten toes of that last empire and back in
Nebuchadnezzar vision right and that's what I believe is represented here this
is a so although Nebuchadnezzar is Babylon you know the literal Babylon
really that Babylonian system you know it's something that's been with will be
with mankind and different through different governments and different
world powers throughout history the last being the Roman you know the the legs of
iron that Roman Roman Empire which really hasn't stopped in a sense the
literal Roman Empire is gone but it continues on today in the form of the
United States okay and eventually when you have the end times Babylon show up
when you have the the one world system and the Antichrist and all that you're
gonna have these ten kings show up again those ten toes those ten kings
sure everyone sees that so now ultimately you say how can this be how
can you have a world government you can have a particular system kind of move
through mankind through the through the history of mankind and be consistent
like that well you have to remember that ultimately Satan is at the head of all
of it you know and say all your conspiracy theorists not that's Bible you
know ultimately Satan is at the head of every major world power I believe that
okay and go over to Zechariah chapter number five Zechariah chapter number five
it's it's right before Malachi where we were this morning so if you get to
Matthew just back up Malachi you have Zechariah but Satan ultimately is the
head of this Babylonian Empire you can say well it's this nation sat nation but
ultimately who is running these things okay is I believe the devil the Bible
says in Luke 4 and the devil of course this is Jesus being tempted the
wilderness take them up into a high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms
of the world in a moment of time and the devil said unto them all this power will
I give thee in the glory of them for it if that is delivered unto me and whosoever
I will I give it if thou though for will worship me all shall be thine now some
people say oh he was lying you know I don't believe that I believe that that
is something that is given to the devil he is the prince the power of the air
the god of this present world that's what the narrator of Scripture calls him
okay and the Bible says in Ephesians 6 we rest not against flesh and blood but
what against principalities against powers against the rulers of the
darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places okay and he's
not talking about aliens and he says high places people say oh see he's
talking about these you know these demonic aliens that's where we're
battling against no talking about principalities like princes people who
are in power in high places okay you know and a really good example you know
further proof of this it's anecdotal okay but to me it's just like it's as
plain as a note in your face and just go on Google Maps and go look at Washington
DC and and and you'll see the way that Washington DC is laid out is literally
the way that the other monuments from the monuments and parks and turnabouts
or light out the way it's all been laid out by the masons which were people they
did that a lot of the founding fathers were masons you know they're part of a
secret occultic group okay and you know they were all deists you know they were
not all I don't believe any of them probably were saved maybe a few Thomas
Jefferson certainly wasn't because he wrote his own Bible you know and I know
this would probably hurl up a lot of Baptists today but that's a fact you
know the guy chain altered the Bible and removed Christ denied the miracles of
Christ they were rationalists they believe in reason these weren't
god-fearing men okay but those are the people who helped you know build the
country you know and you had these masons you go look at Google Maps and
it's the way it's laid out it's you see an upside down you know pentagram it's a
it's the sign of Baphomet devil Satan you know you know that last that point
that comes down you know where that points at the White House it's like lit
like the White House is like the beard of that goat if you've ever seen it you
know that's where the White House is you know so that you know to me I
understand it's anecdotal oh it's a coincidence you know okay yeah maybe
even though we have you know all the symbology on our currency you know e
pluribus unum out of many one you know Novus order cyclorum or isn't that the
other one you know the New World Order it's like right there on your currency
just staring you in the face you know so I believe you know that's another
further real-world proof that we can just look to and say oh here's the
satanic imagery here's this you know that that's being used at the the
literal geographical capital of this great world Empire but oh not America no
way we could be Babylon right because we're just so godly and holy as a
nation well I believe that Babylon is something that has moved with mankind
throughout its history and that because ultimately Satan is the one that sets up
you know obviously God you know the the heart of the prince is in the is in the
the hand of the Lord as a river of waters he turneth it wheresoever he
will you know I'm paraphrasing that proverb that God ultimately is the one
is in control but he also lets Satan have the ability to do certain things in
the search just like he turned Satan loose on job God has given Satan certain
power and has taken off certain restraints and we know in the end times
he'll really take the restraint restraints off when he finally you know
it kicks Satan out of heaven it's gonna be like taking a rabid dog off of a
leash okay and that's when he just goes wild you have the Great Tribulation okay
so Satan ultimately is a control of this world government okay the man system of
government you know Satan is there I believe at the highest levels okay not
every single politician is probably you know some Satan worshipper but you know
a lot of the ones at the top would you really be surprised okay I don't know I
mean when you get when you start meeting out in the middle of the woods
worshipping a giant owl and doing human sacrifices and effigy it's kind of weird
okay you know but I'm we're just out there for believing this apparently
all right well the Bible kind of backs it up Satan has the ability to make that
offer to Christ of course Christ we know wasn't gonna be tempted with that
and Paul tells us in Ephesians that we wrestle against these principalities in
high places you know Zechariah 5 which is maybe a little bit more of an obscure
passage but when I first heard this this really kind of sealed the deal for me
this is kind of the nail in the coffin because it kind of helped me understand
how Babylon is just a is a system that has moved with mankind a system of
government that has been with mankind throughout his history okay look at
Zechariah chapter 5 verse number 5 then the angel that talked with me went
forth and said unto me lift up now thine eyes and see what it is that goeth
forth and I said what is it and he said this is an ephah that goeth forth now an
ephah is also a unit of measurement in Scripture okay but what I believe the
angels referring to he's so he's actually seeing something right and he's
not saying I saw an ephah a fine flower you know he's not saying he saw a
quantity of something he's saying I saw an ephah right and what he's referring
to is an actual an actual some kind of a vessel that would have held an ephah
worth of whatever you put into it okay that's why you just like you say well I
don't know about that well think about a measuring cup right or even just the
word cup like you usually carry it holds about you know eight ounces of water is
it eight ounces it makes a cup or twelve I always get confused nobody else knows
it's eight right yeah I'm always drinking 12 but I think it's eight
anyway but the point stands is that you know that even you know that's what he's
seeing he's seeing basically a vessel that would carry an ephah's worth of
whatever you put into it okay so he sees this vessel goeth forth he said
moreover this is the resemblance throughout the all the earth and behold
there was lifted up a talent of lead okay so this talent of lead and this is
what was it's being lifted up off the ephah right because he's looking at the
ephah and now Zechariah is kind of describing what he's seeing and he said
behold there was a lifted up a talent of lead and this is a woman that sitteth in
the midst of the ephah so it's like the talent of lead is being opened and then
he's seeing within the ephah this woman right there is a woman that sitteth in
the midst of the ephah kind of like just what we read in Revelation chapter 17
about the woman who rides the beast that is called you know Babylon right the
great that whole the whore okay and he said this is wickedness so he looks at
the woman in the ephah after that talent of lead that lid is lifted up and the
angel says this is wickedness so you can kind of see how that's all tying
together hope you can see how that's tying together tonight and maybe I'm not
doing a good enough job of making this clear and it can be kind of a confusing
thing it's kind of a hard thing to preach to be perfectly honest but
hopefully I admit you can see that there's a relationship here with that
great whore in Revelation and then this woman in this ephah and I think it'll be
a little bit more clear here as well in a second so he said this is wickedness
and he cast it into the midst of the ephah and he cast the weight of lead
upon the mouth thereof so that's how you could tell that this is a lid that was
on ephah so then he puts the lead the lead the lead lid back on the mouth of
that ephah with the woman inside okay then lifted up mine eyes I lifted up mine
eyes and looked and behold there came out two women the the wind was in their
wings for they had the wings like the wings of a stork okay so these are like
what you would might have envisioned an angel to perhaps look like and they
lifted up the ephah between the earth and the heaven so these other these two
women with wings like a stork show up and they lift up this ephah we're in
this other woman is with that lead lid on it okay then said I to the angel that
talked with me where whither do these bear the ephah so you say where are they
taking this vessel with this wicked woman in it and he said to me to build
it in house in the land of Shinar okay which is you know the region in which
you also call it Babylon basically it's that same region Shinar and Babylon are
basically the same thing in fact they are the same thing and it shall be
established and set there upon her own base so what this is showing us is that
this woman this wicked woman right this this woman is being transported to a
particular geographical location right by these beings that are coming in the
air right so it kind of to me it kind of reminds me of the how Satan is the
prince the power of the air and throughout time he has different
locations that he chooses to set up his base right that's where Babylon is kind
of emanates from and today I you know it's just kind of a hunch that it's it's
emanating from that the White House which is you know sitting at the the
base of the the Baphomet symbol that you can see on Google Maps for yourself
anytime you want to look okay that's where I believe you know
Babylon is today if this were to happen again and that vessel were carried a
couple courses is all you know an allegory this is all representing
something there isn't like a literal woman in a vessel somewhere but if we
were to have the same vision today Zechariah or somebody had this exact
same vision today and he asked hey where is he taking that where are they taking
that base he'd say to Washington to Washington DC right you say oh you know
and further evidence is the fact that you know we all know where liars go to
Washington DC right okay and and and he is a liar and the father you know and
the father of it okay and he's speaking to lie speaking of himself so that's
just a little more anecdotal evidence for you and you know shine art is a
reference to Babylon okay I know I'm already taking a long time and I got some
a lot of notes to get through but if you would just go to Revelation chapter 18
now I won't take the time to go through seeing Babylon and shine are in the book
of Genesis but if you remember Genesis chapter 10 you have Nimrod being born of
Cush or having born of Cush and he's a mighty hand a hunter and it says the
beginning of his King Kingdom was babble Babylon babble and Iraq and a cat and
count Calne Calne in the land of shine are right and then you have the Tower of
Babel in the plane of shine are in Genesis chapter 11 okay so shine are in
Babylon are the same thing I don't think anyone really disputes that now you go
to Revelation chapter number 18 and this is where we see the destruction of
Babylon okay so I'm gonna make application here now in closing but
hopefully you can see what I'm getting at tonight why when I get up and say hey
America is end times Babylon but that's not far-fetched that it's actually
pretty biblically sound one because we see that Babylon is a form of government
that moves with man throughout history we see it in the Old Testament we have
Babylon back then in Nimrod's day in the Tower of Babylon we have it in Ezekiel
Daniel's days Zechariah seeing Babylon being set up we never gonna never
so on for it he has that vision you see these world powers moving throughout
time and we see that that last kingdom is that those legs of iron and
eventually the last you know those ten toes or the ten kings have yet to to
come okay so if everybody's seeing that it's not that far-fetched and then we
have Revelation 18 where you see the destruction of Babylon finally being
destroyed and you know this is another great proof text for the fact that
Babylon is America because Babylon is always associated with wealth abundance
and power and Revelation 18 makes it perfectly clear that this Babylon is
just that if you look at verse 1 it says after these things I saw another angel
come down from heaven having great power and the earth lightning with his glory
and he cried mightily with a strong voice saying Babylon the greatest
fallen is fallen has become the habitation of devils and the hold of
every foul spirit and a cage on every unclean and hateful bird for all nations
have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication the kings of earth that
committed fornication with her and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich
through the abundance of her delicacies and look America has made the world very
wealthy okay America has a lot of prosperity and we trade like nobody else
yeah I had I had the facts I looked at it this afternoon but I believe it's you
know we import about 350 billion dollars worth of goods every year annually 350
billion and we export or maybe it's like 300 I don't know exactly the numbers
it's over 300 billion and around 250 billion exports so we import over 300
billion and we export less okay so we have you know a trade deficit because we
import so much right so we're buying more than we're selling basically what
I'm getting at so America because of our abundance and our wealth we're making a
lot of other people in the world wealthy right you know all our all our cell
phones and computers and all of our technology are being you know mined in
third world countries all the all the you know rare elements they're being
assembled in factories in China you know if that's just one example cars you know
all these different you know TVs and you know electronic devices all kinds of
things are making other nations very wealthy clothes even food I mean we
import food from different countries and things like that we don't even grow a
lot of the things that we're eating so you could see how you know that's just
another that's just another you know point for making the case that America
is Babylon because of its wealth and it's making everybody else wealthy
because at the destruction of Babylon that's what you see here you know you
have this description of everybody being made wealthy and then you have all these
people lamenting the fact that she's destroyed and now they they're just
upset because now they don't now they're gonna be poor too they don't have
anybody to sell their goods to look at verse 9 and the kings of the earth who
have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her shall bewail her
and lament for her when they shall see the smoke of her burning standing afar
off for the fear of her torment saying alas last that great city Babylon that
mighty city for one hour is thy judgment come now it says Babylon that city okay
obviously Babylon is was a city okay but you have to also remember that Babylon
represents you know like a nation as well not just a city okay it represents
the region you know you see that throughout scripture where even like
Sodom and Gomorrah right it was it wasn't just Sodom and Gomorrah that was
destroyed and it was the cities about her right that were also destroyed all
the cities of those plains but that region was just called Sodom and Gomorrah
then you had the literal city Sodom and Gomorrah right those little cities just
like today we have New York City in New York right in New York New York it's a
city and a state okay but we have this destruction coming in verse 11 and the
merchants the year shall weep and mourn for her for no man buyeth their
merchandise anymore the merchandise of gold and silver and precious stones and
of pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet and thine wood and all
manner vessels of ivory manners of vessels most precious wood and of brass
and iron and marble and cinnamon and odors and ointments and frankincense
wine and oil and fine flour and wheat and beasts and sheep and horses and
chariots and slaves and souls of men you know that would be the human trafficking
and the fruit fruits that thy soul lust effort departed from thee and the things
which were dainty and good are departed from thee and thou shalt find them no
more at all you know a lot of people are lamenting here because the fact that all
of these luxurious goods are going away right and obviously this is something
that's literally gonna happen and these people are going to be upset about you
know the little destruction of Babylon but even today you know just suggesting
to some people that United States is that Babylon they don't like that
because they like everything that the United States has to offer you know they
want America to continue just because they want to continue to live in the lap
of luxury okay we're not as bad as these people you know some people aren't as
bad as these people lamenting the literal destruction because they you
know they're they're not upset at the destruction of human life they're upset
that because they're not going to be made rich you know some today are so
upset about the fact that you know America can't be Babylon because America
is so great well Mac America isn't that great okay and we'll get more into that
in a minute verse 15 the merchant of these things which were made rich by
here shall stand afar off for the for the fear of her torment weeping and
wailing and saying alas last that great city which was clothed and fine linen
and purple and scarlet and deck with golden precious stones and pearls for in
one hour so great riches has come to not is are they worried about the people no
just the riches and every ship master all the company in ships and sailors and
as many as trade by steam a stood afar off now that really brings it home
because that's we see a lot of shipping vessels you go on either seaboard of our
nation there's just whole shipyards that are full of these giant vessels with
full of you know container ships right that are bringing in all of these goods
from foreign countries and of course they lament and they're they're casting
dust on their head but look at verse 20 rejoice over her thou heaven any holy
apostles and prophets for God hath avenged you on her so the men of the
earth they're the ones that are upset they're the ones that are getting oh you
know all heartbroken over Babylon's destruction but then you know the
narrator steps in and says hey heavens rejoice over its destruction you know we
should not be upset about the fact that God is going to heart you know harshly
judge this country because it deserves it you know we say oh it's not that bad
doesn't really deserve well you're kind of you're kind of calling God a liar at
that point maybe just kind of ignorant maybe you're ignorant of the facts if
you think that this country isn't worthy of being judged or maybe you just don't
want it to be judged because you kind of like the cell phones and the
air-conditioning so much and all the nice things that has to offer look I
like those things too but I don't like a lot of other things that this country is
doing and has done and will continue to do until the day that God judges it look
at verse 18 or excuse me 22 and the voice of harpers and musicians and a
pipers and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee and no craftsman
of whatsoever craft you be shall be found any more in thee and the sound of
a millstone shall be heard no more at all in thee and the light of the candles
will no more shine at all in thee and the voice of the bridegroom the bride
shall be heard no more at all in thee for the merchants were great men of the
earth where thy sorceries were all by thy sorceries were all nations deceived
so it's like Babylon casts a spell on the rest of the world and that's what we
see with America right and it starts out talking about the harpers the musicians
the pipers the trumpeters right that's kind of how America cast its spell in
the rest of the world through the entertainment industry that's how it
carries its philosophies it's ungodly philosophies to the rest of the world
through music through movies and other media that's how it's it's deceiving the
rest of the world okay and it's interesting that none of these things
are gonna be find any more in the and it's destruction comes of one hour so
obviously you know that's a reference most likely to nuclear war you know what
else could destroy an entire nation within one hour well a series of nuclear
warheads could okay and look I know people don't like to think about this
stuff about the possibility that we're living in a nation that's gonna be so
harshly judged by God but it's reality you know it'd be a lot easier for me to
just get up here and just pray for a revival for America but you know I'm
sorry that's just not reality this country deserves to be judged by God
it's got it coming and it would I wouldn't be your friend by telling you
something different or giving you this false impression that somehow this
nation is blessed of God you say what about all the wealth well what about all
the wealth of Babylon that I just read to you is wealth and abundance what
makes a nation godly you know I'm pretty sure Jesus was poor pretty sure the
apostles were poor I'm very sure you go read Hebrews 11 they wandered about in
goatskins they were they dwelt in caves Abraham lived in a tent I mean a lot of
God's greatest people were very poor they weren't these great powerful
affluent people okay I'm not saying just because somebody has wealth that it
immediately makes them wicked but you know that's not a measure of godliness
we don't want to be people who suppose that gain is godliness okay godliness
with contentment is great game okay being faithful be thankful that we have
food and raiment being content there with that's great game go to numbers
chapter number 35 numbers chapter number 35 you know a lot of people today they
want to they want to pray for revival for this nation and I just don't I don't
understand where they get that because one you know revival is not a word you
see in the Bible it's not even a Bible word but you know Baptist and others they
throw that word around like it's just some kind of a just biblical fact like
that if we just pray hard enough that somehow God's just gonna magically turn
things around and people are just gonna just get right with God you know if we
just have an all-night watch meeting down here at the church we all prayed
fast every you know we're just gonna come down we're gonna take shifts
praying all through the night pray for revival in this country we're gonna pray
that God turns America around brother and they get all excited and they get
all theatrical and they're preaching about this stuff and you know revival
then is that you know if God moves and the bars shut down that's revival
brother you know that's not the revival I see in scripture and one it's not even
a word I think what they're referring to is they want to see what I would pray
for is that God's people be more zealous for the things of God if that's
what you call revival then I'm for it but if you're if what you call revival
is God you know just you know moving upon this nation and convicting the
hearts of man and causing people just pour liquor down their drain and throw
out their dirty magazines and turn off the television and getting gossip you
know that's that's not gonna happen it's not gonna happen it's not God's not just
gonna move and magically turn this nation around now could we have a
revival of preaching can we have a revival of soul winning can we have a
revival of getting back to the Bible and preaching the truths of God as they are
plainly written in the Word of God sure that's revival but you know in my
opinion there's nothing preventing us from being the generation that comes up
at the end of time the Antichrist there's nothing in God's prophetic
calendar that's preventing us from being that people and some people would say
no well we got us you know the return of Christ you know that's got to happen
first and wrong the man of sin has to be revealed first the son of perdition
second Thessalonians 2 before that day gray of Christ okay that's got that's
the next event on God's prophetic timeline the rise of the Antichrist not
the return of Jesus Christ okay that's what's gonna happen next you know
what's preventing us from being the the people that see that happen it's not me
my children that's a very real possibility you know and we don't want
to get get lulled into this sleep like well because because life's so good and
it is and praise God praise God that we can live out in the middle of the desert
and keep cool year-round you know praise God for you know the abundance
that we have praise God for the blessing let's use it praise God for all the
technology everything that's we have to spread the gospel like never before
praise God that people can just jump on planes and go win thousands of souls of
Christ in different parts of this world I mean just in the last few weeks
there's gonna be soul winning in this city and we've got another brother just
got back from another soul winning thing in Ohio people get saved there people
gonna get saved in Detroit this weekend Dominican Republic people are getting
saved by the hundreds over a thousand people say to st. Lucie I mean praise
God that we do live in a place in abundance because of the fact that it's
made it so easy for us to go and preach a gospel that's revival if that's what
you mean by revival by God's people getting zealous and actually doing
something for the Lord rather than just sitting around enjoying the comforts of
this that this this country offers them and doing nothing but you know just you
know paying lip service to revival then I'm for it that's the revival you're
talking about where people are doing something I mean it's not the revival
that you see in in the Word of God I mean think about you know revivals in
the Word of God you know think about Josiah right and second Kings where
Josiah you know find the word of the Lord is found Josiah they read the words
of the book and they realize how backslidden they are they go to hold of
the prophetess and she says you know God you know what you've broken God's
commandments because your heart was tender you know you're gonna go to your
father's you're gonna go to your grave in peace and you're and you're gonna go
to your father's in peace he's basically saying I'm gonna hold off my judgment
for another generation and Josiah does a great work for God and what did he do
you know he he waved the old red white and blue that's what he did no he went
out there and started breaking down idols and he started you know kicking
sodomites out of the land he started dealing with the unrighteousness in the
unholiness in his own land that's revival you know think about in you know
it well numbers they have you go to numbers that's not where I have to go
good well you're there keep something go to numbers 25 well you know what you
don't have to go there remember Phineas the son of Eliezer I mean he was zealous
right and what did he do when he was full of zeal he killed people he
literally took a dart and ran two people through in their tent right when he saw
those fornicators come through the camp of God when everyone else is lamenting
and mourning God and going into the tent to commit fornication he picked up a
spear a javelin in his hand and went through and ran them both through the
belly and God said he's been zealous for my sake God said amen bless that God
bless that guy I'm for that you'd say well you know that's that's not really
how we want to go about that you know I understand that you're very zealous you
care about things of God but you know we got to be a little more sensitive with
people and you know God loves everyone and we want to give everyone a second
chance and it's like no he saw fornication saw wickedness in the camp
of God and he went and killed those people I'm not suggesting that's what we
do obviously okay I know I've got to put that little asterisk on when I say
that so some idiot idiot on the internet doesn't twist my words but that is a
story in the Bible in Numbers 25 and the Lord spake unto Moses saying Phinehas
the son of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest has turned my wrath away from the
children of Israel because you know he prayed for a Bible because he sat around
and wished and hoped and prayed for a while no he got up and did something
about it he was zealous for my sake among them and I consumed not the
children of Israel in my jealousy and he spared everybody else by going and
slaying those two fornicators that's you know that's that's another example of it
you know what about Jehu right who drove furiously and he said come with me and
see my zeal for the Lord and he went back to church and had a prayer meeting
and he said come see my zeal for my for the Lord I'm gonna run around the
auditorium and jump the baptismal tank because we're having revival that's
that's not what he did you know the story he's killing people he was
rounding up the prophets of Baal having a fake church service for Satan and then
torching them all and slaying them all and then he's running over Jezebel with
his chariot after she's getting tossed out of a window by a bunch of eunuchs I
mean it's great story that's that's what revival looks like in the Bible God's
people doing something about the iniquity in their country now I'm not
saying let's go get a bunch of javelins and chariots tonight but you know
there's a chariot on that parking lot called the church van we could fill that
thing up some people we don't have a literal javelin to take but we can take
the sword of the spirit and do some slaying in the spirit you know by
getting people saved I don't mean the slaying the spirit that the
Charismatics mean I mean going out there and you know not wrestling against flesh
and blood but against the principalities and powers in high places against the
spiritual wickedness in this world we can go spare some people from the wrath
that is to come that's the revival that I can get behind I say well I don't know
I still think America can be turned back to God no it's bye-bye Babylon you know
that's you say what do you got to say about America's condition bye-bye you
know it was a you know it might have been a much more godly nation at one
time but those days are far are long gone my friend America's goose is cooked
put a fork in America it's done kiss it goodbye and look I'm preaches because
this could happen in our lifetime I believe that well I mean what what else
needs to happen for the Antichrist to come to power just a few political moves
maybe another world war which it seems like we're just on the brink of every
day I'm not saying these things to frighten people I know people don't like
to hear this stuff sometimes that's reality I mean I think it's kind of
exciting so what why not America well first of all gotta remember that all
nations the Bible says are before him as nothing so it says in salt Isaiah 40 all
nations are before him as nothing except for America no all nations and they are
counted to him less than nothing God says you know what they're nothing you
know what no they're less than nothing I mean I'll give you less than nothing I
don't know but that's how God views all the nations the Bible says that all
nations that forsake God shall be turned into hell and they could say God bless
America and they could put it on the currency and they can you know sing
their country songs and everything else and eat their apple pie and kiss
grandma but this is not a godly nation I mean good night do I really have to
try to convince people of that anymore I just want to grab some people and just
shake them and just say do you not see it and just scream in their face we're
living in a time where children are going to the public school system and
being convicted convinced that they need to mutilate their bodies it's like what
and you know and people are just so brainwashed today through the
programming and through all the everything that's out there all the
media influencers and all all the stuff that's out there and through our public
school system where if you actually speak out against it you're you're the
weirdo and look I get it there's a lot of people that are against it but it's
like how do we get to this place well no we're godly because you know our leaders
have made it illegal for miners to attend the drag show in some states I
mean our godly leadership in here in Arizona what representative whatever his
name was you know at least he's made it illegal for miners to be allowed into a
drag show well shut my mouth you know slap me and call me Susan because I
guess we're just we've turned back to God because miners aren't allowed in a
drag show in America anymore there was a time in this country where transvestites
weren't allowed where that was something only a few group you know people did on
the weekend at the fag bar down by the sewer factory by the sewer treatment
plant they were the sewer factory but you know they had the sewer treatment
plant that's where the fag bar was the city I grew up in it was literally
across the street from the sewer sewage treatment plant and I lived like a few
blocks away from the sewage treatment plant and when the wind came out of the
south sometimes you could smell it and these fags had their fag bar literally
across the street I'm saying you could stand in the parking lot of the fag bar
and throw a rock into the sewage treatment plant into a pool of a cesspool
kerplunk I mean I guess you're gonna have one that's a good place for it
because those fags are used to it that's where we're at in this country though me
just even saying the word fag would hurl it Baptists in this country and you just
want to grab people and say wake up oh we're supposed to sit here and pray for
revival and pray that God paint turns this nation around this country deserves
to be judged by God and will be judged by God it's inevitable it's gonna happen
there's no stopping it we're too far gone and yeah if you want to talk about
having a revival in the sense of maybe some people get some zeal back in their
lives and actually go out and do some work for God in the meantime like a
Josiah and maybe God will stay off that judgment for a little while I'll agree
with that but there's we're not gonna go back to the good old days sorry it's
not happening and say you got Bible for that I do you know I got something to
back it up look at numbers 35 you still there verse 30 who so killeth any person
the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of the witness witnesses but
one witness shall not testify against any person to cause them to die so this
is capital punishment the death penalty for murder moreover you shall take no
satisfaction for the life of a murderer which is guilty of death but he shall
surely be put to death and he shall take no satisfaction for him that has fled
into the city of his refuge that he should come again to dwell in the land
until the death of the priest verse 33 so you shall not pollute the land
wherein you are for the blood it defileth the land innocent blood defiles
the land you know God looks down and sees innocent blood I mean think about
the story of Cain and Abel let me tell Cain after he slew his brother Abel the
blood of your brother cries unto me from the ground God sees innocent blood God
hears innocent blood God does not ignore innocent blood when it has been shed and
look this country sheds a lot of innocent blood a lot of innocent blood
has been shed by this country it's a fact in more ways than one how about one
just literal murder just first-degree murder I mean I didn't look it up but I
I would have to guess there's probably less states that are still have the
death penalty than than do I don't know we got it in my fact checker back there
am I on track here are you with me are there more states that are are there less
states executing people than there are yeah see my hunch was right that it's
official you know brother Andrew has confirmed right I asked because I free I
say these things and he comes to me he's like he backs me up later so I got to
get it in the sermon right so how about just literal murder are we gonna are we
are we have we atone for the innocent blood no we lock those people up in the
military industrial complex excuse me the prison industrial complex to make
money off of them the vast majority of people in jail should either you know
according the Bible should either be executed or let go you know if we if we
got back the Bible if we got revival back in this country we'd empty the
prisons we'd form some firing squads and some other people would be let go but
for revival they don't want that they wouldn't go for that and the land cannot
be cleansed of the blood that is shed there in there's no other way to shed it
but by the blood of him that shed it that's the only way you get rid of it
and that's just literal murder what about all of the drone you know the
bombing that we do of other countries all the innocent people we've killed in
our wars of aggression you know and I don't you're like is this a Baptist
church I did I are you are you sure that I walk into some liberal watered
down Church is this Unitarian I know it's a Baptist Church and most Baptists
are gonna toe the line of you know you know bomb them all and let God sort them
out that's that's the mentality that's out there because they're a bunch of you
know Fox News Republican Baptists is what they are Fox News Baptists they're
not Bible Baptists or Fox News Baptists and that's their mentality they're all
just pro-military and look I'm not against military I think we should have
a strong military to protect our own borders but you know when we're in over
a hundred different nations that's called an empire you're no longer a
country you are an empire that is spreading over the whole earth you know
it's so ironic is that they give Obama they gave Obama the Nobel Peace Prize a
guy who's droned more people than any other president the bomb people that how
does that guy get a Peace Prize what has he done for peace blown up you know
well they're Muslim okay so and it's ridiculous so there's two there's two
ways in which we're shedding it's much and I haven't brought up the most
obvious one which is probably everyone thought the one I thought everyone's
gonna mention first abortion and I know that in a lot of states it's been made
illegal but you know what about those all those decades that went by when it
wasn't and all those millions of I said well you know is that is that really
murder I mean can according to the Bible Isaiah 7 Matthew 1 a virgin shall what
conceive a virgin shall be with child conception is life well I know but
that's not what science you know I you know to nuts with your science whatever
your arguments of that's what the Bible says that abortion is murder period
settled for me and according the Bible that's innocent blood that has been
shed in this land by the millions so you want to talk about revival are we gonna
are we gonna round up all the abortion doctors no yeah you know we got to pray
for them okay then you don't really want revival and even if we did you know it's
too late you know and I'm not holding my breath you know well Trump's gonna
turn this country around Trump's gonna bring us back to God you know I'm
bringing it up because election season is coming up and I'm already having to
hear about debates and blah blah blah Trump this and Trump that you know Trump
is a wicked man you know I don't you know you might be fan you might be a
fan of some of his policies and things I'm sure he's done a good thing here or
there whatever maybe he says a lot of things but politicians know how to speak
to people to get elected that's what they do they know what to say to get
elected I love this verse this always makes me think about Trump barely every
man at his best state is all together vanity and Trump ask him he's the best
at everything there's nobody better I'm the best nobody could do it as good as I
do no one knows more about you know lawsuits and I do been sued so many
times so many times been sued so many times I'm the best at it you know I know
the legal system so well I'm the best you know even if he let's just say he
wasn't just so proud and he actually was the best in everything and I hope he's
like half joking when he says that kind of stuff that like I've heard like
monologues like like clips where it's just like him saying he's the best at
this he's the best at this he's the best at this nobody knows more than me
than this no one know and it's just like every subject I'm the best nobody does
it as good as I do nobody nobody can do it you know I'm the best accordion
player I know how to play the accordion so well no one does against me it's very
good I'm very good right let's say he was the best well the Bible says every
man is best state is altogether vanity he's still vanity he's still vain and
he's not gonna change anything folks he's not gonna bring revival I mean you
might enact some policies that are gonna help your wallet and let me just go
ahead say it again that's what every political cycle is about money it's
about money which politicians gave me the best tax breaks right and isn't that
exactly what you know all those people that are lamenting over Babylon are
saying oh the well full the profit all the money all the goods all the
prosperity we want to just live deliciously with Babylon I know I got to
wrap it up but this nation deserves to be judged by God it will be judged by
God and it just it really just gets under my skin when I hear Baptist
preachers get up and say we need to pray for revival in America we need to turn
this nation back to God it's like that's one of the most unbiblical
things you could say and even if they really if you really meant that you know
if a Baptist preacher really meant that they really wanted to see the nation
turn back to God you know what they do they would start preaching every word
out of this book because this is the only chance that's the only hope you
have I mean isn't that the example of Josiah he found the book of the law they
found God's Word and then they started doing it and God said you know what I
was gonna judge you guys but I'll put it off for a little bit longer for that
sake for your sake because because of what you did because you found my word
and you preached it and you put it into practice and you can sit there and say
pray for America pray for revival all you want but if you're not willing up
and to preach all the Bible that you don't really want it you know and if you
and if you and if you actually got into it you would see that it's impossible
that America's too far gone you say well that's your opinion it is but you know
and I'm also right we got to wrap it up go to Revelation chapter number seven
you say well you know I just don't like the idea of the fact that maybe we're
gonna be around when God starts to judge this country what if we are here on the
Antichrist shows up what then should we get started getting beans and batteries
and bullets and get in the bunker no no the Bible says in Daniel 11 and such as
do wickedly against the Covenant he shall corrupt my fathers but the people
that do know their God talking about the Antichrist the people that do know their
God shall be strong and do exploits you know that's what I'm interested in doing
you know I want revival don't take get me wrong I want revival in this country
but I want revival among God's people that's what I'm interested in I'm
interested in some exploits being done we need churches started we need soul
winning we need Bible preaching we need to you know get out there and get
something done for God we need to be strong and do exploits you might as well
start now if you that's if that's what we want we want revival that's what
we'll do and they that understand among the people shall instruct many yet they
shall fall by the sword and by flame by captivity and by spoil many days look
the people that are strong and you know their God are doing exploits instructing
many Bible says they still get slain you know why that is because they count not
their lives dear unto death because they're not entangled in the affairs of
this life they're not all caught up in this world they're not just sitting
around saying you know trying to just suckle at the teat of Babylon all the
days of their life you know they see this country for what it is a perverse
and wicked nation and they actually want to go out and do some you know righteous
exploits for God and they're saying hey you know what send me to heaven they go
out in a blaze of glory some of them quite literally right by flame blaze of
glory that's a glorious flame to go out in you know they're not hiding up in the
hills somewhere and they're dead sure not just you know on the on the wrong
side of Babylon you know lamenting its destruction well I just don't like the
idea of God's judgment come the country well you know too bad it's gonna happen
look if it's not in my lifetime I mean it could be 200 years from now it could
be enough I mean America can come and go and that you know that II folk could get
picked up again and go to some other country and you know they could get
their masons over there to build another pentagram and they're you know in their
geography and have another White House or whatever it could be a completely
different country but to me it's just like you know it's the signs of the
times are there it's like you can't tell the seasons we can't tell the times
we're living in it's it's pretty obvious it's getting worse and worse it's gonna
you know as in the days of Noah so so I'll be in the days the coming the son
of man and not just in the sense that it's going to be sudden destruction but
the sense that the people of that place are gonna be wicked you know and I'm
glad everyone's dumping out their blood bud light but it's kind of it's kind of
too late for that you know is that really you know like just don't put the
trannies on the can oh what a revival man we're just we're right there turn
this country back to God it's ridiculous it's gonna discontinue is gonna continue
to go down this moral cesspool because there's no coming back it's just this
we're swirling around the bowl and it's just as soon as it's gonna be gone we're
just right there there's no turning back I know I keep threatening to close and I
mean it I will the Bible says in Matthew 10 he that findeth his life shall lose
it and he that lose it his life for my sake shall find it
Revelation chapter 7 look at verse 14 and I said to him sir thou knowest and of
course he's talking about the great multitude that he saw appear in heaven
right this is the rapture these are they and he said done to me these are they
which came out of great tribulation and have washed their robes and made them
white in the blood of the Lamb therefore they are before the throne of God and
serve him and day and night in his temple and he shall and he sitteth on
the throne shall dwell among them well you know if we're the people that have
to go through that if it turns out we're the people or maybe not us maybe it's
our children that have to go through that you know what are they gonna get in
reward as a reward well there it sounds like they're gonna get to sit pretty
close to Jesus not everyone gets to sit close to Jesus folks there was only one
disciple that leaned upon Jesus breast at the Last Supper they all didn't take
turns there was only one disciple that was known as the disciple whom Jesus
loved and Jesus loved all his disciples obviously but there you know he had it
seems like he had more of an affinity for John than some of the others and the
people that go through this persecution the people that are strong and do
exploits there get this reward of sitting before God and sitting on the
throne among God verse 16 they shall hunger no more neither thirsty more
neither shall the sunlight on them nor any heat they're just gonna be in that
temple day and night in there with the Lord for all of eternity that's a pretty
good reward say I don't know about that and you don't even know how good heaven
is gonna be I mean you're gonna see Jesus it's like what else is there to
see you know you're gonna we go to some of these attractions it's kind of like
yeah whatever it's like for example I grew up in South Dakota in the Black
Hills where the where Mount Rushmore is you know that giant you know idolatrous
monument to the masons that I mentioned earlier you know the presidents and
every time I had a relative come out from Michigan we had to go see Mount
Rushmore you know times I saw about much more just kid enough time so not one
ever seen again which was like after the first time it's like I just went there
to go climb all the rocks and trees at that point you know we see some things
here it's like oh that was cool once look see you Jesus that's never gonna
get old I mean you're gonna see Jesus that temple they say okay now you need
to leave and go do some work or actually your mansions on the backside of New
Jerusalem is that Jesus over there it's gonna be kind of a bummer for some
people man I'm not that I don't get why does so-and-so get to be close why does
that group of people get to be so close to Jesus well look what they went
through they served God they went through the fire they came out of Great
Tribulation verse 17 for the lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed
them and shall lead them under living water fountains of waters and God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes you know and and a lot of people want to
apply the verse 17 to everybody and God's gonna wipe away everyone's tears
but I think that the tears that he's referring to are the tears that they
endured going through Great Tribulation I don't think we're gonna lament people
going to hell in heaven we're gonna we're gonna say thou art righteous Oh
God we're gonna fully understand it I can't explain it to you but we're gonna
have the mind of Christ we're gonna say you know that those people are right
we're not gonna go you know I feel so bad there we're gonna see how true and
righteous and holy God is to say yeah I know those people deserve to go to hell
just like the rest of us so I don't think that's the tears he's referring to
I think the tears that he's referring to are very specific to this specific group
of people over the things that they went to went through meaning it wasn't easy
they went through things you ever gone through something so hard in your life
wasn't even physical maybe maybe not even a physical ailment you just went
through such emotional and just traumatic or just difficult circumstances
that you actually wept over it you just found yourself in a difficult situation
life and you just found yourself in literal tears I know none of the guys
want to nod to that we've probably all been there I'll admit it I know someone
who has certainly not me too much of a man to ever cry all right but these guys
you know they're they went through some things that brought them to tears
they're going through tribulation trials great tribulation but their reward is
great so don't you know don't get duped by this you know gun hoe Pro America
philosophy that's out there America is Babylon and your attitude as a Christian
needs to be bye-bye Babylon I'd like to say it's been nice knowing you but it
kind of hasn't it's been kind of vexing to be honest you know sometimes I see
pictures of these guys over in the Philippines and other places where people
are living in practical squalor and I think you know it might actually be kind
of nice to live over there some respects people actually listen to the Word of
God I mean I'm looking forward to going to Detroit and not because of the Henry
Ford Museum you know are you gonna go walk are you gonna joy walk around the
ghettos of Detroit yeah because the people there are gonna get saved they're
receptive you know sometimes these it would be almost it seems more appealing
just to get out of this country if and even if it meant living somewhere they
didn't have some of the niceties that this country has because maybe I
wouldn't be sitting there vexing my righteous soul with their unlawful
deeds that we have to endure living in this country and it's like a lot of you
can't help but see it's hard to be in this country anymore and not be vexed
by all the unlawful and wicked things that are just going on around us if it's
not bothering you then it's like you must be numb or something you're either
blind or you're or you like it I don't know what to tell you but this country
deserves to be judged by God it is in times Babylon and you know even so come
Lord Jesus let's go ahead pray your Lord again thank you for or the great
warning that you give us Lord that you judge wickedness or that you judge
unholiness and or that all nations that forget you shall be turned into hell or
that we're no exception in this country and he prayed help us to always keep be
cognizant of that fact the word to never begin to think that somehow this
country is is somehow pleasing to you it isn't the things that are going on
should make it obvious whatever good we've done Lord it seems like it's just
been so far outweighed by everything else that's gone on since too many
things to even name Lord but I pray God he help us as God's people to not be
discouraged by it that we wouldn't Lord one that we wouldn't fall in love with
the things of this world that we wouldn't go chasing after all the things
that this great whore that is Babylon that is the United States is trying to
to enchant us with or the sorceries of that great whore but we wouldn't go
lusting after the things of this world Lord but that we would be strong or
help us to do exploits and Lord help us to know our God and to instruct many and
Lord I pray you'd help us to be protected Lord should that time come or
the that you come to begin to pour out your wrath and and Lord to judge this
country severely Lord that you would remember mercy for your people we ask
these things in Christ's name amen all right we'll go ahead and sing one more
song
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