Amen. Okay, we're in Isaiah 63 this evening and we're going to spend some time tonight in the
first couple verses here and what we're going to look at is the foreshadowing of the Battle of Armageddon.
Of course we know that in the book of Isaiah we see a lot of different pictures here of
end times Bible prophecy.
We see a lot of the millennial reign, the new heaven and the new earth.
And so we should not be surprised when we see passages that deal with a lot of what's
taking place in the end times as in today we're going to look at the fact that he's
addressing the battle of Armageddon.
So the first thing we're going to look at here is the day of vengeance.
with dyed garments from Basra.
This that is glorious in his apparel,
traveling in the greatness of his strength,
I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
Now the first thing we're gonna mention here,
the first thing I want you to look at
is the fact that the picture that we're getting here
is God coming to Judah from Edom.
And he specifically says that he has died garments from Bosra.
And Bosra is actually referring to the capital of Edom.
Now let me read to you from Isaiah 34
because why is this significant to End Times prophecy
or should I say to the Battle of Armageddon?
Well, because of the fact that what's being
noted here is the fact that he has just finished judging Edom he has just finished judging
Basra which is why his garments are dyed and as we're going to look at later his garments
being dyed is referring to the fact that his garments is filled with what blood right he
has just finished judging Edom and Basra and destroying them.
Let me read to you from Isaiah 34 verse number five it says for my sword shall be bathed
Behold, it shall come down upon Idumea and upon the people of my cursed judgment.
The sword of the Lord is filled with blood.
It is made fat with fatness and with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
For the Lord hath sacrificed in Bosra," it says,
and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
So we see in Isaiah 34 that God has judged Edom
the capital of Edom which is Basra and of course we know that he's judging them
for their idolatry, for their blasphemy and really for their attacks on
the people of God. So when we look at Isaiah 63
we see that it's a callback to that portion of scripture
where he's judging Edom. That's why he has these dyed garments of Basra.
It's from the blood that he has shed there
Eat them now go to Revelation if you would Revelation chapter 8 hold your place here in Isaiah
63 he said well, how does that picture the battle of Armageddon well?
When we look at the Biblical timeline for Antioch's prophecy, we know that the Battle of Armageddon takes place
after pretty much everything is done in Daniel's 70th week.
So when we talk about Daniel's 70th week, it's just a fancy way of saying the seven-year period
highlighted in the book of Revelation.
Seven-year period that's made up of three and a half years of tribulation and then three and a half years of God's wrath being poured out.
Well,
excuse me, at the conclusion of the three and a half years of God's wrath being poured out,
it culminates to the destruction of Babylon and then to the battle of Armageddon.
So once the Antichrist's empire, his world system, comes crashing down because of God's wrath,
You actually have these valleys that are being made clear for the kings of the North to come.
And what that's referring to is the fact that the Antichrist is essentially gathering his armies
to fight against the Lord Jesus Christ who's going to come down from heaven with all of us.
Okay?
Now this is something that takes place in Revelation 19.
We're going to go there in just a bit.
you know, infer into the passages in the book of Revelation, we don't really know how the
Antichrist knows that Jesus Christ is coming, but somehow he has knowledge that he's going
to be fighting against the Lord. And this isn't something like, you know, the Lord coming out
of the wilderness, he's coming out of Jerusalem, he's literally descending from heaven.
on a white horse along with the armies of heaven to come and fight with the
antichrist and his kings in his army and this is what's commonly referred to as
the battle of Armageddon is one of the last great battles of the end of the
world the last being the battle of Gog and Magog which takes place after the
millennial reign but the last major battle prior to the millennial reign is
the battle of Armageddon well prior to that prior to the battle of Armageddon
what's taking place well as I mentioned you have three and a half years of God's
And what does God's wrath produce?
Blood, right?
What is God's wrath?
It's God's judgment.
It's his sword coming upon this world
for their blasphemies, for their fornication,
for their idolatry, for all of the wickedness.
He allows them to experience three and a half years
of just complete and utter destruction, right?
Look what it says in Revelation 8, verse number 6.
We're going to focus mainly on the blood aspect of the three and a half years,
but it says here in verse number 6,
and the seven angels, which had the seven trumpets, prepared themselves to sound.
The first angel sounded and there followed hail and fire
mingled with blood and they were cast upon the earth and the third part of the trees was burned up and all the green grass
Was burned up and the second angel sounded and as it were a great mountain
Burning with fire was cast into the sea and the third part of the sea became
Blood and the third part of the creatures which were in the sea and had life died and the third part of the ships were
Destroyed so right off the bat
This is the first part of God's judgment, okay?
Not to be mixed up with the first three and a half years of tribulation.
First three and a half years of tribulation we would refer to as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
This is famine. This is pestilence.
This is the Antichrist going forth conquering into conquer.
People would say that's God's wrath, but that's not God's wrath, okay?
Tribulation consistently throughout the Bible is synonymous with persecution.
it's what what other men do unto you and this is essentially these three and a half years
is systematically in my opinion put forth by the antichrist himself okay these 1,260 days to take
place of tribulation well after the tribulation takes place you have the great tribulation
which is the murder and martyrdom of all Christians not all christian but a lot of christians the
vast majority of them and then once that takes place then you have the rapture taking place right
Jesus Christ comes for his redeemed, we are, you know, those who are dead in Christ shall rise first,
then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up with them together to be with him in the clouds.
This is what Revelation 7 is referring to, okay? The rapture, the great number in heaven that John saw which no man can number, okay?
But then you have Revelation 8 and from Revelation 8 all the way up to chapter 14. You have God's wrath being listed out
chronologically and
essentially these are
God's punishments upon the world and
Really when you look at you know the rapture taking place that the rapture is commonly referred to as the day of the Lord, right?
And when you look at the day of the Lord in the Old Testament, it doesn't necessarily
highlight, or should I say, it doesn't necessarily emphasize the rapture, per se, as it's emphasizing
the New Testament.
The major thing that's emphasizing the Old Testament when it comes to the day of the Lord
is what?
Judgment.
Destruction.
You say, well, why is that?
Well, because that's part of the day of the Lord, okay?
The day of the Lord is judgment and rapture.
So when you think of the day of the Lord, for us it's the rapture, for us it's the redemption of our bodies, it's the resurrection, but for the world it's judgment, you understand?
But it's two sides of the same coin.
So once we're raptured, then an hour passes by and what happens?
You have judgment coming upon the world via the seven trumpets and seven vials that are poured out upon the earth.
And chapter eight is essentially the beginning of those judgments.
where you have these cosmic events taking place where hail and fire that's mingled with blood is
falling upon the earth and obviously it's implied that it's falling upon people creating more havoc
more bloodshed go to chapter 11 if you would you also have the great mountain burning with fire
being cast into the sea and what happens when a massive mountain falls into the sea it destroys
more blood right
we see that the third part of the creatures which are in the sea
had life died
so it creates this chaotic
atmosphere in the world during this time
where you have the sea being turned into blood
because all the marine life that's died
And then you have all this marine life that's died that's just kind of floating there and just this horrific stench that you know that it it gives off so it's very chaotic look at Revelation 11 verse 6 it says these referring to the two witnesses who is Elijah and Moses okay it says these have power to shut heaven.
that it rain not in the days of their prophecy and have power over waters to turn them to blood
and to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will.
So, probably one of the most enigmatic people in the book of Revelation are the two witnesses.
These are your legitimate first-time time travelers.
You know, you have two prophets of the Old Testament that just show up, you know,
And they have this incredible ministry
to preach the word of God in Jerusalem.
And of course, this message is going on
into all the world.
Instagram's covering it.
You know, you got Facebook with the boomers watching it.
You got TikTok with Gen A and Gen Z.
I mean, it's all over the world, right?
And these men are given, you know,
these supernatural capabilities.
This is not figurative here.
A lot of people are looking at it as like,
oh, this is symbolic.
No, it's not symbolic.
Okay, what's being said you so how do you know that it's Moses and Elijah?
Well because the miracles that they're performing are specific miracles that are associated with Elijah and Moses
Okay, you know the waters being turned into blood is a notable miracle that was done by Moses of the Old Testament
And of course, smiting the earth with all plagues as often as they will,
that's something that Moses was responsible for.
And then we also see that, you know, if anyone tries to harm them,
I wish I had this ability now, but you know, if anyone tries to harm them,
they just breathe fire and just completely consume their enemies.
I mean, talk about like fiery preaching, right?
You know, I don't know how they're able to turn it on and off, you know
They're just talking to someone it just accidentally comes out and just consumes or something, but they're able to just flame
Anybody who comes into their presence who's trying to harm them. This is incredible
But the point that I'm making here is that on top of the blood that you already have in chapter 8 on top of the blood
That's mingled with the hail on top of the blood that's in the sea because of the marine life
That's died because of the mountain that fell now you have Moses turning all the water into blood as well
Just to add more to it look at Revelation chapter 16 if you would Revelation chapter 16
Now when studying the book of Revelation, you obviously have to break it up into two parts
Because of the fact that although it's in chronological order. It is divided
And the second half of the book of Revelation from chapters 15 and on is essentially reiterating what the first half is talking about but it's giving you different details.
For example, the first half highlights the seven trumpets of God's wrath.
The second half of the book of Revelation highlights the wrath of God but it's being poured out through these vials.
And these are two things that are being done, what's the word I'm looking for?
Concurrently, is that the word I'm looking for?
Yeah, I guess simultaneously. I was looking for the C word
I think it's concurrently is the word I'm looking for essentially you have the trumpet blown and then you have the vial being poured out as well
Okay, thereafter and so what you have here in the second half is these vials of God's wrath being poured out
Well, this is what chapter 16 is referring to okay look at chapter 16 in verse number 3
It says here in the second angel poured out is vile upon the sea
And it became as the blood of a dead man, and every living soul died in the sea.
Now, I do believe that this is something that's separate from what we saw in Revelation 8.
Because in Revelation 8, you have the great mountain falling into the ocean,
killing marine life, creating that blood, but then you also have this vial that's being poured out.
into the sea making that which is in the sea as blood of a dead man, okay?
And so these are two separate judgments, but they're all but they're both being poured out at
Concurrently point that I'm making here is that you have more blood and you could read chapter 16 on your own
But you know you just see a lot of blood in chapter 16
And you know the angels are just like these people are worthy of this. They deserve this
You know you giving them blood to drink
and of course it's a picture of God's wrath being poured out.
The point that I'm making here is the consistent theme
of God's wrath that's being poured out is what? Blood.
Lot of blood, okay, and it's God's wrath, but it's God's judgment. It's God's justice
We can say just as the Lord brought the sword upon Edom in Basra
In like manner he shall bring the sword upon Edom which is a picture of the world the world that figures Edom of the Old Testament and
Basra, which is why his garments are dyed
They're dyed red because of the fact that he has judged the world at this point hold your place in Revelation go back to Isaiah 63
Isaiah 63 look at verse number two it says here wherefore art thou red in
thine apparel not because he's a gang member okay the red obviously signifies
blood it says in thy garments like him that treadeth in the wine fat now that
should ring a bell right when you think of the book of Revelation he mentions
this he says I have trodden the wine press alone
And of the people there was none with me, for I will tread them in my anger, and trample them in my fury, and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment," the Bible says.
So obviously he's addressing the fact that he is bringing judgment upon Edom, which is figurative of judging the world and shedding blood upon the world.
He is trotting on the wine press.
and the book of Revelation addresses this as the wine press of its wrath.
You think of God just kind of stepping on these grapes
and pouring out all of the wine that comes forth from those grapes.
Well, in like manner, that's what he does.
He's trotting under his feet the world during those three and a half years
as a manner of judgment.
He says in verse number four,
And the year of my redeemed is come.
And I looked and there was none to help,
and I wondered that there was none to uphold.
Therefore, my own arm brought salvation unto me.
And my fury, it upheld me,
and I will tread down the people in my anger,
and make them drunk in my fury,
and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
Now obviously we look at the Lord here I as I'm reading this I'm like this is Jesus Christ
Right, this is the Lord Jesus Christ bringing wrath upon the earth go back to Revelation and go to chapter 14 if you would
chapter 14
Revelation chapter 14 and
What's interesting is that?
when the
Great tribulation takes place. It's also referred to as the day of vengeance
It's essentially referring to the fact that vengeance shall come upon
Jerusalem right when Jerusalem is compassed about of the Gentiles and he calls it the days of vengeance where he executes vengeance upon Jerusalem
Obviously for the rejection of Jesus Christ and their support of the Antichrist
But really the entire three and a half years could be categorized as the days of vengeance.
And the reason he refers to as the year of, let me read it here, he says the year of his redeemed
is come. It's because of the fact that day and year just kind of used interchangeably here
to describe just this window of time. The day of vengeance obviously could be addressed as
the day of vengeance that comes upon Jerusalem, but it could also just be referring to those
Okay. And, you know, the year of his redeemed could be just referring to that beginning of the
millennial reign after those three and a half years conclude. Because, you know, that would be
considered like a year of his redeemed in a sense of, you know, once all that's said and done,
The redeemed come and obviously you have believers that make it through those three and a half years
They make it into the millennial reign and you know people who get saved throughout the wrath of God
Look at Revelation 14 verse number 18
He says that another angel came out from the altar which had power over fire and cried with the loud
Allowed cry to him that had the sharp sickle saying thrust in thy sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth
For her grapes are fully ripe
And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth and cast it into the great wine press of the wrath of God.
And the wine press was trodden without the city and blood came out of the wine press even into the horse bridles by the space of 1,600 furlongs.
Now I do believe that Revelation 14 isn't necessarily talking about the blood that we see in Revelation chapter 8 and the passages we just looked at.
This is actually specifically referring
to the battle of Armageddon, okay?
Because again, what do we see in Isaiah 63?
We see that he comes from Edom to execute justice
after he's just executed justice upon Edom.
Well, that's what happens in the end times.
He's coming to the battle of Armageddon
after he just finished executing justice
upon the world for three and a half years.
And the picture that we're getting here is that there's going to be so much blood in this battle of Armageddon.
Because you've got to understand this is a very large army.
It's the army of the Antichrist.
They're very delusional.
And in fact, the Bible in, I think it's in chapter 16,
he addresses the fact that
these armies are essentially giving like a strong delusion.
And it even talks about that there's spirits of frogs
coming out of hell, right, or out of the mouth
of the false prophet, and out of the mouth
of the Antichrist, and the idea here
is that he's obviously deceiving the world
into believing that they could actually win against Christ.
It's pretty crazy if you think about it.
Like how in the world is anybody even convinced
to be a part of this war?
You know like what kind of campaign that they got going on here, you know
They're just gonna be like hey, I just want to let you know we're gonna fight against this man who's gonna come from the clouds
You know, he's gonna come on a horse. Did they have guns? No
Do they have nuclear weapons? No, they all they have is horses
They're gonna come from the clouds and we're gonna win and to convince an army of that size to actually fight against the Lord
That's a strong delusion, right?
Like how strong is the delusion? Well, you know, think about this is that you know
God says that he sends people strong delusions in the end times to believe a lie that they should be damned
Okay, you know the delusion is strong enough that they'll believe that the Antichrist is God and they'll worship him
And so it should come as no surprise that these people are also convinced of this
so you had this great army within this Valley and
They get the show we're gonna read it in chapter 19 in just a bit, but the Bible explicitly says that
This war is gonna be so violent that the blood of the the enemies of God
Will be splattered until the horse's bridle and it could be referring to the fact that it literally
Splatters on the horse's bridle or it's referring to the fact that the blood is so high that it reaches the horse's bridle
Okay, in other words, you know our horses are gonna be filled with you know
There's just have blood all the way to the horse's bride. That's how violent it is
And, you know, people are like,
oh, you know, what would Jesus do?
Horses bridle, blood all the way to the horse's bridle.
Go to chapter 19.
Chapter 19.
You know a lot of churches avoid passages like this because they don't like this side of the Lord
They don't they feel like this is gonna turn people away from God and this should be talked about
We should focus on the more pleasant things in the Bible
But look this is pleasant for me though
I you know Revelation 14 18 is a pleasant passage for me because I'm not gonna be here. I'm in that war
You know what I mean? And so if it's like when people say all like Matthew 7 is just the scariest verse in the Bible
Yeah, if you're not saved
Or if you're a false prophet, you know when people get online they're like this is at this verse terrifies me
It's just like it's cuz you're not saved. I
Love Matthew 7. It's a great chapter
You know, but I think we should we should address these particular passages of scripture
Because of the fact that it instills fear in people and it may be motivate them to get saved that they're not saved
But it also shows them a side of God that they need to know exists
Which is the side of his wrath, right? You know, I think of like a message that I got recently
I think it was like yesterday or something and
I had posted a story where it says, you know, there's no peace without Christ, right?
Basically like when you die
There's no peace, you know, you're gonna go to hell and you know the these holier than now hyper spiritual Instagramers
Someone messes with like, uh, are you trying to like instill? Are you trying to like invoke fear in people?
You know, two crises, that's what you're trying to do.
You know, what's your motive for this?
What's in your heart?
Like, does this come from a heart
that is trying to scare people?
And you said, did you answer them?
I just put Jew 23.
I said, other save with fear, capital letters.
Pulling them out of the fire, fire capital letters.
He said, what did the person say?
Nothing, it just said, seen.
Just read, it just said, read.
Cause they're probably like, oh dang,
I didn't know that verse was on there, you know?
So let the word of God speak for itself.
But folks, let me just say this.
I know you're not surprised,
but a lot of people would be surprised
how stupid Christians are online.
How little Bible they actually know.
I mean, I've had hundreds, and I'm not exaggerating,
hundreds of people over the last week rebuke me,
and send me messages and try to correct me on doctrine.
You say, well, I don't think about fags,
and all of a sudden, people just lose their minds over that.
And I'm thinking to myself,
this is some of the most mild stuff
that I've put on my stories,
just because I don't wanna get taken down.
I don't want my stuff to get taken down.
This is super mild.
But people are just live it. They just get so angry. They just worship sodomites so much
It's just like you know, but people you know be like hey, bro
You know what would Jesus do love the sinner, you know love the sinner hate the sin and
I'm like well, you know, Jesus didn't say that I was Gandhi
And then they responded and say dang actually I looked it up and you're right
He didn't say that I thought he did say that
He's like that's that's so weird
He's like and he's literally typing. He's like that's weird. I didn't I really thought Jesus said that you know
I don't think myself. Yeah, but yet you're rebuking me
You know anyone what's wrong with you and then he's like I'll get back to you
Yeah, go to chat GBT ask him what kind of response you can gather up
But look this is what happens folks when you you know and we can't we have to be holistic about the Bible
You have to read all of the Bible
and get a well-rounded view of the word of God, of its doctrines,
and you have to embrace and love the aspects of the Bible,
to talk about the love of God, the loving kindness of the Lord,
because that's important too, obviously, right?
You go through a hard time, you need to be reminded of the loving kindness of the Lord.
Okay, but you also need to be reminded of the wine press and the blood on the horse is bridal too and
The fact that he put that in the Bible because he's trying to give us this imagery that he's really pissed off in the end times
There's no mercy to these people and you know, he's coming with the sword
He's just slicing people up and I don't think like people are just being discombobulated on site
You know, maybe the Antichrist and the False Prophet,
I think dudes are being cut up
during the Battle of Armageddon.
They're like blasting away, you know,
and you know, obviously we can't be killed.
We got regenerated bodies, we got glorified bodies,
and we're just like, like Samuel just hacking people up.
Where do you think the blood's coming from?
Go to Revelation 19.
And you know, this is a fulfillment of the Psalm, you know, that we will wash our blood, right and in the excuse me wash our feet in the in the in the blood of our enemies.
And this is a fulfillment of that because of the fact that, you know,
obviously we're not going to take vengeance upon ourselves this side of eternity,
but there will be one day when we get to see vengeance upon our enemies,
and this is the time right here.
This is why this imagery is being given.
Look at Revelation 19 verse 11.
He says,
Now let me just explain something here that...
I believe Revelation 19 verse 11 will be quoted by the Antichrist when he shows up on the scene,
because there's a very similar wording here that we see in Revelation 19-11 to what we see in
Revelation chapter 6 and verse number 1, with the Antichrist coming on a white horse and he's
going forth conquering into conquer, he's going to say he is faithful and true, right? That he is
You know he's gonna come to set up his earthly kingdom in you know
And he's gonna claim that it's Jesus Christ of what we see in Revelation 19 setting up his millennial reign
That's what he's gonna be proposing
Look at verse 12. He says his eyes were as a flame of fire
And on his head were many crowns, and he had a name written that no man knew, but he himself.
And what is this referring to?
It's referring to the fact that he's coming with vengeance.
He's coming to purge, that's the flame of fire, his eyes being a flame of fire.
The head with many crowns, it could be referring to two things, you know, it could be referring
to the fact that he's coming with the rewards that he's going to come to distribute to his
Or this is referring to the crowns that he just collected from the kings he's just killed, you know,
because he's he's out to murk all these kings
And you know set up his kingdom
It says in he had a name written with that no man knew but he himself verse 13 and he was clothed
with the bestor
Dipped in blood and his name is called the word of god. So obviously he's referring to jesus christ
We see that his vesture, his clothing, is dipped in blood from the previous judgment that he just unleashed upon the earth those three and a half years, just as we see in Isaiah 63.
He says in verse 14, and the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.
And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword.
That with it he should smite the nations and he shall rule them with the rod of iron and he tread at the wine press of the fierceness and wrath of God
Almighty and so we see here that he is coming with the word of God with the sharp sword
He's smiting the nations
Meaning that he's killing people okay because we see that the people who are gathering together at the Battle of Armageddon are different kings from various nations
These are the nations that he is smiting that he is destroying and he's ruling them with the
rod of iron that's going to take place in the millennial reign. Skip down to verse 17 he says
and I saw an angel standing in the sun and he cried with a lot of voice saying to all the
fowls that fly in the midst of heaven come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God.
That you may eat the flesh of kings and the flesh of captains and the flesh of mighty men and the flesh of horses and of them
That sit on them and the flesh of all men both free and bond both small and great now. This is pretty graphic. Okay
What does this tell us what tells us that no one survives
So when you have this battle of Armageddon and we're gonna look at it in just a bit
Obviously in my opinion the first people to go are the Antichrist and the false prophet
And the scripture seems to allude to the fact that they go first and they're immediately cast into the lake of fire.
I don't know how this is going to look, but the Bible says that he just grabs them and he just tosses them both soul and body into the lake of fire.
Okay?
And, you know, this war takes place and in this valley you have this war, people are dying and once this war is over, everyone's dead.
And what does the Lord do?
He calls for all the birds of the sky of nature
to come and feast on the corpses of all of these people.
Okay, you know, he's giving them a Tibetan ceremony,
funeral, right, isn't that what it's called?
You guys ever heard of that?
The Tibetan funeral is the funeral
that Joe Rogan wants to have,
or he wants his body to be put out
for vultures to come and eat his body.
That's how he wants to go.
Well, this is how the evil wicked people
at the end are gonna go too.
He's not honoring them by doing this.
He's giving their flesh. That's obviously a an expression of disrespect of contempt if you remember
Goliath said that to David, right?
I'll give your flesh to the fowls of heaven, right?
It's just like your your carcass is gonna be meal for the animals of the field and the fowls of the air
It's a disrespectful way to to insult someone saying you're not gonna have a proper funeral essentially, right?
You're just gonna be eaten. Well, this is the great supper of the of the great God
where he just calls all of these crows and vultures
and all these birds to just come and feed and clean up all the mess.
This literally happens, okay?
And it's pretty graphic if you think about it.
And all I can think about is like World War I,
where the men are in the trenches and they talked about,
you know, rats walking through the trenches
just being filled with the flesh of men.
They're just fattened with the flesh of men.
Well, that's how it's gonna,
no birds are gonna fly after this, okay?
You know?
You know what, this is something that God approves of.
This is the hatred that he has in his heart.
And you know,
Feeding corpses to birds is not something you do to people you love, you know, it's not something that you do out of compassion of love
You know God is love
He is but do you think he loved these people?
He's giving them crow's feet, you know?
He's just like coming feasts on the kings,
no proper burial, no honorable ceremony for the funeral.
They're just gonna be bones, and that's it.
And of course, this is still with the, you know,
the horses, the blood coming up to the horses bridle.
It's a very graphic depiction here, right?
It says in verse 20,
the beast was taken and with them the false prophet
that wrought miracles before him,
with which he deceived them that had received
the mark of the beast and them that worship his image.
These both were cast alive into the lake of fire,
burning with brimstone.
So essentially what happens here is he just takes them both
and we don't exactly know how this takes place really,
but it doesn't really matter because we know
that the lake of fire proceeds from the presence of God.
So he supernaturally takes them and just throws them alive into the lake of fire
And of course they get it to themselves for a thousand years look at verse 21
And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse
Which sword proceeded out of his mouth and all the fowls were filled with their flesh now
We don't I don't necessarily know exactly who the remnant is referring to
It could just be indicating the remnant of the army, right?
You know, after he takes out the beast and the false prophet,
the remnant of that army is then slain with the sword,
you know, of him that sat upon the horse.
And, of course, the fowls are filled with their flesh.
It could be referring to that.
That's very likely.
And it's kind of hard to kind of speculate
who exactly it's referring to,
because the remnant is used a couple of times
throughout the book of Revelation,
and sometimes it is referring to God's people,
and obviously we know this isn't referring to God's people.
And as we see here,
it's obviously referring to the enemies of God.
But if we were to compare this to the gospels,
and specifically to the parable of the vineyard,
It's possible that this is referring to the Jews that survived the wrath of God.
Those who would not have him reign over them bring before me and slay them before me, right?
And that would match up with verse 21, that remnant of Israel that's being brought before the Lord obviously at the inauguration of the millennial reign
a punishment because they don't want Jesus Christ to reign over them. This is a
fulfillment of that parable of the Gospels. Obviously speculation, but I
think that's probably the more plausible interpretation of this passage of
Scripture. In either case, the remnant is obviously an enemy who the Lord
specifically wants to isolate in verse 21 as being killed by himself. Okay?
Himself personally now obviously it's a more speculation that we can say go to go to 2nd Thessalonians if you would there
You know do we participate in that well? I believe we do
Obviously, we're coming down on white horses with the Lord.
He is destroying a lot of people,
and I think it's possible that we are also doing the same.
And the Bible says, you know,
the Bible tells us in 1 Corinthians chapter six
that we shall judge the world.
This could also be implying that there
that we're bringing judgment to the world.
Look at 2 Thessalonians 1 verse number eight.
It says in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction?
From the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his power
When he shall come to be glorified in his saints and to be admired and all them that believe because our testimony among you
Was believed in that day. So verse 9 says that when the Lord comes with vengeance
He's going to come and punish people with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord now
What is this referring to well a lot of bad interpretation?
This has been used to give a lot of bad interpretation
To teach that when people die and go to hell they're separated from the presence of God
Okay, and this mainly comes from your non-denom churches these liberal churches
Where they fear hell the concept the literal biblical concept of hell so much that they just erase flames
They erase torment and they try to romanticize it in a sense of like oh, it's only a separation from God
Oh, the most painful thing about hell is that we're just no longer to be in God's prayer. What do you mean we?
Who's this we were talking about here
And they'll use this passage to try to justify that okay
Now that's the extreme version of it the extreme version is like well hell is not real
It's not real flame. It just you know
The reason the Bible says that it's fire and brimstone is to communicate the pain of being separated
From the presence of God that we're no longer gonna have guys just nothingness and God's just not there or something
And you know that a lot of these people propose this they're just being hyper spiritual
They're trying to sound like they love God so much it would just be hell
Will not having God's presence there
You know type of a thing. It's just like no you're gonna know what hell is gonna be like
okay, and
So, you know that that's what they but you know unfortunate fundamental Baptist have adopted this but they haven't gone all the way
You know retort on this
Because they'll say they'll they'll communicate and they'll say like hell is a separation from God
But they will not deny the flames in the fire in the brimstone
As far as the Fundamental Baptists that I've listened to, I've never heard any Fundamental Baptists preach that there's no fire or brimstone in hell and you're not burning and being tormented for all of eternity, but they'll add this little thing as well, though.
And they'll say that hell is fire and brimstone is just that, you know, God's presence is not there.
We're destroyed from the presence of the Lord away from God.
It's hell is just not having God there, but that's not consistent with the rest of scripture.
That indicates that God's omnipresence even extends to hell.
Right?
And obviously we know that God's not literally in hell.
He's not literally in hell as in like he's suffering with them
When it taught when we talk about the omnipresence of God
We're referring to the fact that he can see what's taking place in hell, right?
Essentially indicating that his presence is essentially there because he can view you know the Bible talks about that
Hell and destruction are before the Lord how much more the hearts of men
Indicating the God's omniscience and omnipresence
extends past your heart, the inner recesses of the heart,
and even goes into the lowest hell.
This is why David says, if I make my bed in hell,
thou art there.
Obviously, David's being facetious.
Number one, because he's saved, he's not gonna go to hell.
And number two, no one makes a bed in hell.
He's just saying like, if I were to even go
to the lowest part where, you know,
it's just the darkest, deepest part of the world,
you're still there.
Essentially, he cannot flee from the presence of God.
He's everywhere, right?
He is omniscient. He is omni present and so we see that consistently throughout the Bible the Bible communicates that God is everywhere
And obviously when we talk about the presence of God, we got to be specific as far as what we're referring to
You know right now we're meeting together in God's house. God is present here in a special way that he's not in other places
We know that God's presence and his omniscience permeates all of society in the world
But he's meeting with us in church in a special way because we're his people
We're two or three and gathered together in my name.
There I am in the midst.
That's a different presence from the presence
that he's with the drug addict out there in the corner,
like he knows what that guy's doing.
But he's not necessarily with that person, right?
He's with us because we're exalting the word of God.
We're talking about the Lord Jesus Christ.
And in fact, we're all in agreement together,
thereby invoking the presence of God
to be in the midst of us.
The point that I'm making here is the fact that the Bible,
the subject of God's omnipresence, his omniscience,
permeates all of scripture to the point
that we know that this can't be referring to
people being destroyed away from the presence of God.
That when God sends a person to hell, like, you know,
God's no, in fact, the Bible specifically says
that people burn in the presence of God, right?
mean that's like checkmate right there people are literally burning in God's
presence now you know people think to themselves like why you know why is that
because it satiates his vengeance that's why you could either pay for your sins
yourself in hell or you can allow or you can accept the payment of Jesus Christ
right
and being God's presence in heaven forever or you can pay for it yourself and he will be satiated by you burning forever
So you a person who rejects Jesus Christ and goes to hell and burns in fire and brimstone forever
The reason he's beholding that is because it satiates his anger his wrath
It pleases him
To have someone burn for all of eternity for rejecting their son Jesus for his son Jesus Christ
And you know that needs to be communicated
You know obviously he has no pleasure in the death of the wicked but hold on a second, you know if if
He sends someone to hell because of their rejection of Jesus Christ to pay for their sins
That's why hell exists is to placate the wrath of God
Right, which is why he sent his son Jesus Christ to hell
When he died for three days and three nights because he's placating the wrath of God in hell
And so it's important for us to understand that this is not, you know, hell is not a separation from God
God even knows what's taking place in other planets all over the universe. God permeates all of existence
He meets with his people in a special way, but his presence is in all places, especially hell
So what is this referring to? It's referring to the fact that the destruction the lake of fire itself
proceeds from
God's presence and we don't have time to develop it tonight
But if you look in the book of Daniel, I believe it's in chapter 7
It talks about a fiery stream proceeding forth from the presence of God and that fire is stream a stream feeds a lake
Which is the lake of fire
So in the end times after the millennial reign after the battle of Gog and Magog you have one of the most
Significant of events of all end times and that is the great white throne judgment
Where God judges, you know the unsaved not to see if they married eternal life, but just to confirm their damnation
It's like, let me see your papers.
You know, they're coming out of jail.
He's getting their papers.
It's like, oh yeah, you're not in the book of life.
And you pretty much violated everything in this book.
And so, you know, the lake of fire is proceeding
from the Lord, the angels take those people
and they reunite them with their bodies
and they're cast into the lake of fire.
How or where that's gonna take place, I have no idea.
You know, I don't know,
but that's what it says is gonna happen.
And it takes place after the Battle of Gog and Magog.
And this is where you have the resurrection of the dead,
where people who were in hell for thousands of years,
they come back and they reunite with their body,
but they're not necessarily alive.
They're like the walking dead, right?
And they have a brief moment of relief
from the flames of hell,
only to be judged and to be cast into a bigger hell.
That's exactly what happens so they're judged it says that the books were open and the book of the Lamb's book of life and
The Lord sees that they're not in the registry. They've been blotted out
You know the crimes that they've committed against God are reiterated to them. They're confirmed and
You know, he cast both soul and body into the lake of fire that proceeds forth from the Lord
Okay, and so obviously that's look at chapter 2 if you wouldn't of 2nd Thessalonians
I just spent the entire sermon on the first three verses.
If I say it's the guy, I forget where it is.
You'll understand the rest of the stuff.
Just read it on your own.
You heard it when Cody read it earlier.
This church is knowledgeable enough
that you can interpret it.
Looking for seven is for the mystery of iniquity does already work only he who now let it will let until he be taken out of the
Way and then shall that wicked be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the
Brightness of his coming even him whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lion wonders
I do believe that this is a callback or should I say it's it's
addressing or prophesying of
the battle of Armageddon. When he comes in, he destroys the Antichrist and the false prophet
with the brightness of his coming, also addressed in Revelation 19 as the word of God, the sword
of his mouth coming forth out of his mouth. And so he destroys him in that manner and they
go into the lake of fire for all of eternity and that's where they stay. Go back to Isaiah 63
and I'm just going to kind of breeze over these next couple of points.
Here in verses 7 through 14, we get like a prayer of those who are in exile and keep in mind that during this time in the book of Isaiah,
this is kind of addressing or talking about the Babylonian captivity and the return from Babylon.
And so that's what it's referring to here. Look at verse 7.
It says, I will mention the loving kindness of the Lord. This is the prophet or he is talking about someone who's in exile.
He says, in the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord has bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
which he had bestowed on them according to his mercies, according to the multitude of his loving kindness.
For he said, surely they are my people, children that will not lie, so he was their Savior.
And I think what he's referring to is the fact that, you know, the people who he's saving picture saved people, right?
Because who is a liar but he that denied that Jesus is the Christ he is antichrist at the night the father and the son
So God is confirming these are children that will not lie
So he was their savior right because they're not proclaiming God to be a liar
They know him to be true. That's what it's essentially
picturing their look at verse 9 and all their affliction he was afflicted and the angel of his presence saved them referring to the Lord Jesus Christ in
His love and in his pity he redeemed them and he bared them and carried them all the days of old
But they rebelled and vexed this Holy Spirit
Therefore he was turned to be their enemy and he fought against them now
I do want to mention this is that it's stating here that God's people and eventually became the enemies of God
Right and we know that to be true. Okay, but here's the thing is that you know
Pete God's people could also become an enemy of God as well
Now obviously not an eternal enemy and once we're saved we have peace with God
But you know Christians can become so backslidden so worldly so godless that they actually become an enemy of the gospel
So to speak
They become an enemy of the Lord.
Why is that?
Well, let me read to you from James 4.4.
It says, ye adulterers and adulteresses,
knowing not that the friendship of the world
is enmity with God.
What is enmity?
Enemy.
Whosoever, therefore, will be a friend of the world
is the enemy of God.
So obviously, God expects 100% loyalty.
And let me give you an example of someone
who became an enemy of God, Saul became an enemy of God.
And Saul was saved.
But because he made himself an enemy of God, God ended up destroying him, right?
And so we know that, you know, Christians, churches, pastors can eventually become enemies of the work of the ministry.
They can become enemies of the gospel. They can hinder the gospel.
Not because they have nefarious intentions, but sometimes it's because they become so worldly, so godless, so backslidden
that they end up harming the work of Christ more than helping the work of Christ, okay?
And make no mistake about it. You know, when you become an enemy of God, God can stop you.
You know you think of Acts chapter 5 where the Pharisee Gamalail said basically look hey leave these men alone
Lest you find yourselves fighting with God and he says if this if this word be not of God it shall come to not
right
And you know there's a lot of churches that have come to not
It's past year right
There's been pastors who have attacked pastors, who have railed against pastors, who have made
it their ministry to fight against the men of God, people who's soul-in, who have just
been absolutely insufferable, who have used their pulpits to essentially enable wicked
people.
And you know what, those churches don't exist anymore.
You have to go to church in Texas, close these doors, right?
Pure words Baptist church closes doors. Why because it was not of God, which is why it came to not
You know one of the testaments that a true a church is a church of God is that if it continues it weathers the storm
Okay, not if it closes its doors and let me just say this it takes a lot for the doors of a church to close
So how do you know? Well, just speaking from a fundamental Baptist perspective of the old IFB
I've known churches that have gone through a lot of stuff
You know just just controversies and they've gone through different pastors and
buildings and
Just all types of fighting and all this stuff, but those churches still exist
Why because even though they have all this their Corinthian churches
They're still of God and therefore they remain. I mean just think about this just think about first Baptist Church of Hammond, Indiana
Has gone through a lot of different changes over the years and they had one of the worst false prophets
Excuse me as its pastor Jack Jack Scott and
He did a lot of damage to that church, but yet it still exists and as a great pastor now
Why because it's of God it didn't come to not
So you got to be pretty bad is what I'm saying
For your ministry just to come to not because God can just replace you and put another man of God there
To save that church to keep it going
But when God removes the candlestick, it's just like dude, you're through
Like God's just like we're just done with this. This is not gonna exist anymore
You understand what I'm saying
and so you know
What they said is true, and so you know
When you become an enemy of God when a church closes down
It's an indication that the the pastor there the leader there became an enemy of God
Whether you believe that person saved or not is irrelevant to the conversation
We just know this he became an enemy of God because he became an enemy of the gospel
He became an enemy of the work of Christ. He became the enemy of good men
Ain't God doesn't take that lightly
And so, a person like that is publicly shamed,
publicly chastised by the Lord as being a failure
of a pastor.
Why?
Because you have to now say you're closing down your doors.
You know?
And obviously he probably just didn't even have the grit
to just, I mean, it only took a couple of months too.
If that, it wasn't even a year and that church closed down.
It shows you that just God probably just wasn't there once that man took over
Because it came to not
The point that I'm making here is that we don't ever want to make ourselves enemies of God
Stay humble
Walk with the Lord win souls to Christ
Ask for God's favor on your life
Welcome the chastisement of the Lord
Welcome the rebuke of others. Don't criticize other pastors
Serve the Lord, raise your children for Christ,
love good men, love the Bible, love God the music,
love the work of the ministry,
you know, be thankful for what you have.
And you know what, if you ask that guy,
which, you know, no one asked them, but he divulged,
you know, he said, he said, oh man, I was given like a,
and I'm paraphrasing here,
like I was given a failure over church, you know, just.
I just wasn't given.
Basically he's saying like his conditions
of taking over the church wasn't good.
It was only like 30 people or something like that.
And he was set up for failure is what he's saying.
But let me just remind you that this church started
with like 30 people.
And when I took it, I wasn't like what a failure of a group.
You know, Jose and Janelle were there for the first service.
I wasn't like Jose.
That guy's a failure
Thanks, God
You know who else is there the first day that's still here. Oh, yeah, miss Kelly bro. I didn't look at problem like oh, man
Okay, God
You know, I didn't look at hike why did look at I'm scared. I
Didn't look at hiking tell you just like oh man got seriously
How am I supposed to succeed under these conditions?
You know my my my disposition was praise God
30 people are coming to hear me preach and
Then they come back the next week and then they're gonna go soaning and then we get to serve God together
I was thankful for the 30 people
I was thankful for the 30 people. I was thankful for the 40 people
I was thankful for the 50 for the 60 for the 70 all the way to the hundred. I'm thankful for it now
You know when you if you fail you're the only person you have to blame
Doesn't matter how bad your circumstances were anyways
Okay, like oh, you don't know my circumstances. Yeah, but we got God though
Okay, so why don't you be that percentage that succeeds in spite of your circumstances? How about that?
Why don't you be that that story that everyone talks about like oh man
They he just pushed through just had the grid just succeeded in spite of you know his upbringing or whatever
But let me just tell you that guy was not given
Like a failure of a project. That was a succeeding church support of some of the best pastors that I know
You know given a platform with subscribers
Tiding members so winners. I mean that's a good deal
So to crash and burn that thing to the ground is just
it means that
He was fighting against God
And so read the rest of Isaiah 63
It's a great chapter, but we'll finish there.
Father, we thank you so much for your word,
and thank you for the reminders of the Battle of Armageddon,
Lord, and knowing full well that one day you will execute
justice upon this earth, and that we will be right there
with you.
I pray that you'd help us to think upon the eternal Lord and recognize that these things are not symbolic.
These things are literal events that will take place one day and that in light of that may change the way we live here.
The way we minister, the way we win souls may operate as a motivator, as an incentive to do more for you.
And I pray that you bless us as we go on our way. Give us a great weekend, a great Sunday, Lord.
And we pray these things in Jesus' name. Amen.