Praise God, I'm drinking at the fountain that never shall run dry.
Oh yes, I'm feasting on the manna from a bountiful supply,
for I am dwelling in Beulah land.
Good afternoon, welcome back to Church Foundation Baptist Church.
We're going to take our bulletins and go through a few announcements,
try to keep them short and sweet.
On our front cover, if you need a bulletin, it's too bad we're out, so sorry about that.
So you'll have to borrow from a neighbor or whatever.
But anyway, on our front cover we have our verse of the week.
It says, Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Psalm chapter 23 verse number 6.
And our service times are listed on the inside page there.
Sunday morning service is 10 30 a.m.
Sunday evening service is 3 30 p.m.
And we are starting a new series tonight, and it's pictures of the Antichrist.
And so I'm just going to go through.
There's a lot of them, so I don't know if I'm going to get through all of them.
And I'm not sure how long the series is going to go for.
But it's definitely going to probably be about four or five sermons, I'm guessing.
Maybe more, maybe less, I don't know.
We'll see how many I can get through.
But anyway, if you have an idea, by the way, of one that I might have missed
or one that I haven't thought about, feel free to come up to me after the service
and let me steal your idea.
So anyway, we have our Sunday nights, or excuse me, our Thursday night Bible study
is at 6 30 p.m.
And we are in the book of Titus.
We'll be back in chapter number two to finish that chapter off two Thursdays from now.
And then so many times, or let's upload it.
Anybody have a salvation?
Yes, I thought that there was some people out there still.
So they must be trying to pull one from the fire.
So I guess we'll figure it out here shortly.
Did somebody get saved?
No? Okay.
Sometimes it goes like that.
You try and try, and they just can't get it.
So anyway, if you look down, you see our praise report,
the salvation, baptisms, and attendances from last week.
And just a quick note for the upcoming events this week.
Thursday is going to be, or it's actually Wednesday,
we're going to need four or five men, probably five men to help.
Who's actually planning on helping out?
It's kind of a, I'm going to probably post it in the group what time.
One, two, three, four, five.
It's going to be in the evening, like as the heat tries to die down a little bit.
Well, because Remy doesn't get off until four.
You probably don't get off until six.
No?
Yeah, somewhere around there is what I'm thinking.
I think Brother Corbin's going to get into town.
You can help.
Brother Corbin's going to get into town probably early afternoon
and just check into his hotel.
And then whatever time we come up with, he'll meet us here.
So we're going to have to lift it out of the back of this U-Haul
and set it onto the dolly.
And it's about 32 inches tall, but it's going to take some strength.
So I appreciate you coming and helping out.
And yeah, after the service, if we could get this stuff all moved out of the way,
and I'm probably going to take down that partition wall
just so we can get it in easier and just put it right there.
So if we could get some people to help with that after the service, I'd appreciate it.
Other than that, Thursday, the 28th, Deacon Corbin Russell will be preaching for us
for our Thursday evening service, and that will be at 6.30 p.m.
So that's our normal day of church, but we're going to have an extra day of church this week,
and it's going to be Friday night.
Pastor Pizarnsky from Hold Past Baptist Church will be preaching here on Friday night at 6.30 p.m.
So if you've never got a chance to see Pastor Pizarnsky preach or hear any of his sermons,
it's a great night to be here for that.
And we have Saturday soul winning in the morning at 10.30 a.m. on Saturday.
The afternoon is not going to be a barbecue and bounce house.
It's going to be probably, what is it called, Sky Zone.
So Sky Zone, and that will probably be around like 2 or 3, I'm thinking.
So our soul winner will probably go to like 12.30 or 1.
So I'm thinking somewhere around 2.
But anyway, we'll announce all that stuff, and if you're planning on going,
I think Miss Julene, did you already make that list?
You're going to. She keeps saying I'm going to. No, I'm just kidding.
But that will be done soon.
So if you're going to plan on coming, just make sure that your parent puts your name in there if you're a kid.
And whoever's jumping, when you know who's jumping, how many people are coming,
because we're going to get food and people are going to be jumping.
So it's fun for the whole family.
We've never done that on an anniversary before, so I just figured it would be nice to get some family time in,
some fellowship time in, some exercise, you know, on a 100 degree day.
So this should be good.
So I'm looking forward to it, looking forward to the weekend.
Then Pastor Jones will be preaching for us on Sunday morning,
and then I'll be preaching the Sunday evening service.
And all this other stuff in here, you all know.
Did anybody get a chance to sing Happy Birthday to Miss Sierra?
Was she here last week?
She's not here, but we're going to sing Happy Birthday to her anyway.
She's watching from live stream.
Anyway, we're going to sing Happy Birthday. Sorry.
Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday, obviously.
Happy birthday to you.
If you weren't here earlier when I said be sure your birthday will find you out,
so I just saw that it was there, and I was like, hmm, I wonder if she got her birthday sing to her.
Anyway, last announcement is our birth announcement for the Yankee family.
Timothy James Berry Yankee was born at 11 a.m., 722-22,
weighing 7 pounds and 10 ounces and 19 and three-quarters inches long.
Make sure to congratulate the Yankee family on the birth of their son.
And we have everything is all sewn up for the food train, so thanks, everybody, for volunteering for that.
We have a very generous church.
Anyway, I think that's all I have for announcements.
Let's sing another song, and we'll receive the offering.
Turn to page 158. We'll sing O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing again this evening.
Page 158. O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing.
Page 158. Sing it out loud on that first.
O for a Thousand Tongues to Sing, My great Redeemer's praise,
The glories of my God and King, The triumphs of His grace,
My gracious Master and my God, Assist me to proclaim,
To spread through all the earth abroad The honors of Thy name.
Jesus, the name that jars our fears, That bends our sorrows cease,
Tis music in the sinner's ears, Tis life and health and peace.
He breaks the power of cancelled sin, He sets the prisoner free,
His blood can make the phallus clean, His blood availed for me.
Hear Him, Ye deaf, His praise, Ye dumb, Your loosened tongues employ,
Be blind, behold Your Savior come, And be delayed for joy.
Amen. Great seeing everyone. At this time, we'll receive our offering.
Brother Sean, can you bless the offering for us?
Dear Lord, thank you so much for this day.
I pray that you would just look past the mountains and preach to us today.
Lord, pray that you would fill in the Holy Spirit.
And that you would bless this offering, Lord.
Bless, bless, forgive, forgive her. In Jesus' name, Amen.
Praise the Lord.
All right, go ahead and turn your Bibles to Genesis chapter 10.
Genesis chapter number 10, if you don't have a Bible, raise your hand and one of the ushers will bring you one.
Genesis 10.
Genesis 10, the Bible reads,
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth,
and unto them were sons born after the flood.
The sons of Japheth, Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras,
and the sons of Gomer, Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togamah,
and the sons of Javan, Elisha, and Tarshish, Kidom, and Dodonim.
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands,
every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.
And the sons of Ham, Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan,
and the sons of Cush, Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Ramah, and Sabtecha,
and the sons of Ramah, Sheba, and Dedon.
And Cush begat Nimrod, he began to be a mighty one in the earth,
he was a mighty hunter before the Lord,
wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Aric, and Akkad, and Calna,
in the land of Shinar.
Out of that land went forth Asher, and built the Nineveh,
and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, and resin between Nineveh and Calah,
the same is a great city.
And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Leivim, and Naphthuim,
and Pathruzim, and Cassulim, out of whom came Philistim, and Kaphtorim.
And Canaan begat Sidon, his firstborn, and Heth, and the Jebusite,
and the Amorite, and the Girgashite, and the Hivite, and the Archite,
and the Sinite, and the Arvadite, and the Zemorite, and the Hamathite,
and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar,
unto Gaza, as thou goest unto Sodom and Gomorrah, and Adama,
and Zeboam, even unto Lasha.
These are the sons of Ham after their families, after their tongues,
in their countries, and in their nations.
Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber,
the brother of Japheth, the elder, even to him were the children born.
The children of Shem, Elam, and Asher, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.
And the children of Aram, Uz, and Hull, and Gethur, and Mash.
And Arphaxad begat Salah, and Salah begat Eber.
And none of Eber were born two sons, the name of one was Peleg,
for in his days was the earth divided, and his brother's name was Joktan.
And Joktan begat Elmodad, and Sheleph, and Hazemarvith, and Jura.
And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah, and Obel, and Abimel, and Sheba,
and Ophir, and Avilla, and Jobab.
All these were the sons of Joktan, and their dwelling was from Mesha,
as thou goest unto Saphar, the mount of the east.
These are the sons of Shem after their families, after their tongues,
in their lands, after their nations.
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations,
in their nations.
And by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.
Father Robert, will you pray for us?
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...many Antichrist currently and in the past.
So, I believe the Bible teaches or shows us pictures of this man of sin,
as he's called, and there's lots to be said about him.
So that's mainly what I want to show is that there's pictures of the Antichrist
and how we can apply those to what we see coming, what we see in Scripture.
And God shows us pictures for a reason. He shows us shadows of things to come.
And so we can kind of wrap our minds fully around some of the things we learn
because sometimes things can get convoluted.
So anyway, tonight I'm going to focus on a character in this chapter called Nimrod.
So I'm going to be focusing on verses 6 through 10 here.
And let's look down at verse number 6.
And I was also trying to give you guys a chance to pick out some baby names
in case, you know, put, you know, that was a pretty good one.
Anyway, so verse number 6.
The Bible says,
And the sons of Ham, Cush, Mizraim, and Phut,
there's the baby name right there, and Canaan.
And the sons of Cush, Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Ramah, and Sabtecha.
And the sons of Ramah, Sheba, and Dedan, and Cush begat Nimrod.
He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
He was a mighty hunter before the Lord,
wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord,
and the beginning of his kingdom was Babel,
and Eric, and Akkad, and Calnah, in the land of Shinar.
So there's really not a lot written about this man Nimrod,
but a lot of people use that as a way to call somebody stupid.
I don't know if you've ever heard that before, like,
yeah, Nimrod, or whatever.
Or maybe it's just, you know, I don't know, a funny name.
Like, I mean, that's not exactly a common name
that people name their babies these days either.
So, but I believe he does picture the Antichrist in some ways,
and obviously I'm not going to go all the two Babylon's on you,
where, you know, some people like make these really just crazy doctrines
about Nimrod that like are not found in Scripture.
So I'm not trying to do that today and say, you know,
that he was some part of some cult that was picturing some evil Trinity.
I don't know, there's a book written by Alexander Hislop or whatever,
and most of it's just stuff that was made up and not really factually based.
So we got to definitely get what we get from, you know,
what we can lay our head on from the Scriptures.
And again, so when I'm talking about pictures of the Antichrist,
some of the people are going to be like,
I can't believe you're saying a saved person pictures the Antichrist,
but I do believe that there are saved people in the Bible that picture the Antichrist.
I also believe that unsaved, bad people picture the Antichrist,
but nobody's a perfect picture, okay?
Just like, you know, when you think about Joseph picturing Christ,
he doesn't perfectly picture Christ.
Nobody can perfectly picture Christ because nobody was sinless.
But there are people that are pictures of the Antichrist,
and so we're going to get into that.
And I do have a lot of Scripture to go through tonight
because I kind of want to lay the foundation of this series tonight.
So there's several Scriptures we're going to turn to tonight,
so hopefully you drink a cup of coffee before the evening service.
Alright, so tonight is going to be, like I said, Nimrod.
So let's start at 1 John 2,
and I just kind of want to go through some verses that are talking about the Antichrist
and Antichrists here, just before we get into the main part of the sermon here.
The Bible says in 1 John 2.18,
Little children, it is the last time,
and as ye have heard, that Antichrist shall come.
So this is talking about the Antichrist,
the man of sin, the beast, the son of perdition.
Even now are there many Antichrists whereby we know that it is the last time.
So it's saying that there are already many Antichrists,
and right now in this world there are many Antichrists also.
But there's still that one Antichrist that we're,
I'm not looking forward to him, but he's coming at some point.
Anyway, verse 19 says,
They went out from us, but they were not of us.
For if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us,
but they went out that they might be made manifest,
that they were not all of us.
So what is John trying to say here?
He's saying that there's some people that creep into churches and creep in amongst us,
and that they don't continue with us.
They go out from us to make it manifest that they really are not of us.
And of course, we've had many people come and go
that are just people that maybe just got back to them or whatever,
but there's also a lot of people that have come and gone that I would say are Antichrists.
They infiltrated our church and tried to take many people with them.
They're still attacking our church or attacking other churches,
and that just is, they didn't continue with us because they're not of us.
And in context here, it's talking about Antichrists, okay?
So these people, there's people that can get in churches and fool people into thinking
that they're good people, that they're just like us, wolves in sheep's clothing.
I know I've preached about it many, many times,
but it is important to preach that multiple times.
I mean, we need to know these things.
And so the Antichrist is, there is a picture of the Antichrist in that picture
because Judas pictures the Antichrist, and I'll preach probably a whole sermon about him,
but Judas pictures the Antichrist.
He's called the son of perdition.
In the book of Thessalonians, the man of sin is called the son of perdition.
And what did Judas do?
Well, he was chosen of the 12, but he was never saved.
He was wicked. He betrayed Christ.
And so he appeared to be a Christian to the point where people were like,
is it I, Lord? They didn't want to believe that it was Judas.
And in reality, yes, it was Judas, and that's how good he was at tricking people,
and I believe that the Antichrist will be like that, too.
He's going to come and say he's the Christ.
People are going to believe him. People are going to follow him,
and he's eventually going to be the one world ruler of the whole world,
and he is definitely Antichrist.
So, skip down to verse number 22, it says,
Who is a liar, but he that denieth the Jesus is the Christ?
He is Antichrist.
That denieth the Father and the Son.
Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father.
But he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
So what is this talking about? Well, it's talking about Jews, right?
The religion of the Jews, they deny that Jesus is the Christ.
But there's other religions that deny that Jesus is the Christ also,
but really, I mean, obviously you have people that are into transcendental meditation,
and they believe in this New Age thing, the New Age Christ,
and they believe, you know, they don't believe the truths of the Bible about Jesus.
But mainly, you know, these Jews, they deny the Father and the Son
because they deny that Jesus is the Christ. They're Antichrist.
Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father.
But he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.
Now turn to 1 John chapter 4, verse number 3.
1 John chapter 4, verse number 3.
And again, I'm just kind of setting the stage for what the Bible teaches about the Antichrist and many Antichrists.
And every spirit, verse number 3, that confesseth not that Jesus is come in the flesh, is not of God.
And this is that spirit of Antichrist, whereof we have heard that it should come,
and even now already is it in the world.
So, even at the time of John, this spirit of Antichrist had already come,
and it was prophesied that it would come.
Turn to 2 John chapter 1, verse number 7.
2 John chapter 1, verse number 7.
So, you know, the Jews are Antichrist.
People that creep in are Antichrist.
People that deny that Jesus came in the flesh, they're Antichrist.
And then it also says in verse number 7, in 2 John 1, it says,
For many deceivers are entered into the world, who confess not that Jesus is come in the flesh.
This is a deceiver and an Antichrist.
So, there you have the verses about, some verses about the Antichrist,
and what we can actually learn is that there already are Antichrists in our world.
And so, it shouldn't surprise you that they're written about and pictured in the Bible.
So, you know, obviously some of these people that are Antichrist,
again, come in and creep in and cause havoc,
and they obviously are working for the devil, whether they realize it or not,
but I think, you know, I'm sure that, you know, I think a reprobate probably knows what they're doing, right?
So, anyway, let's start with point number 1.
Point number 1, Nimrod pictures the Antichrist as the one world ruler.
He pictures the Antichrist as the one world ruler.
Let's look back in our text in Genesis chapter 10, look at verse number 8,
the Bible says, And Cush begat Nimrod.
He began to be a mighty one in the earth.
And so, what do we know about the Antichrist?
That he's going to begin to become a mighty one in the earth.
He's going to step onto the scene, and he's going to come,
and he's going to be a great warrior, highly intelligent,
and he's going to have a mouth that speaks great things.
He's going to be a very good orator.
Think about Adolf Hitler in World War II, you know,
he was inspiring the nation of Germany to get behind him,
and, you know, I mean, I can't understand German,
but he looks like he's preaching a red-hot sermon every time.
He's like, he got the eye!
He's just like, he's fired up.
But that's what the Antichrist is going to be like.
I believe that Hitler is a picture of the Antichrist,
because a lot of the things that he was able to accomplish,
I think that that's kind of maybe the path.
It's like there's always some kind of path that's moving towards there,
and then when it's not the right time,
it just kind of, you know, gets the kibosh on it.
And that's what you see here, actually,
or actually in Genesis chapter 11, we'll get to that here in a few minutes,
but Nimrod, you know, just out of the blue,
it's naming all these names, right?
It's not really giving us a lot of details about people,
but all of a sudden, Nimrod gets this, you know, honorable mention here
about something that he was able to do,
because, I mean, I'm just kind of scanning through here,
and I don't think that it really goes into detail about really any of these names,
but all of a sudden, Nimrod gets these few verses talked about.
He begins to be a mighty one in the earth.
Now, I'm going to read 1 Chronicles chapter 1, verse 10,
where the Bible says,
And Cush begat Nimrod, he began to be mighty upon the earth.
So, mighty means powerful, doesn't it?
Obviously, this guy is being recognized as a mighty one in the earth,
and to be mighty upon the earth.
And the Bible, you know, mentions this for a reason,
because I think that it wants to help show us a picture of the Antichrist,
the One World Government, and end times Bible prophecy.
Let's turn over to Daniel chapter 7,
and we'll look at some things about this,
the real Antichrist that's being prophesied about in Daniel chapter 7.
When it says mighty one, you know, upon the earth,
you know, the Antichrist will be the mighty one upon the earth also, won't he?
And he'll be, people will wonder after the beast,
people will worship this guy.
He's called the beast in different areas of the Bible,
but look at Daniel 7, 7.
It says,
It devoured and break in pieces,
and stamped the residue with the feet of it.
It was diverse from all the beasts that were before it,
and it had ten horns.
I considered the horns,
and behold, there came up among them another little horn,
before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots.
And behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man,
and a mouth speaking great things.
So, I believe that this is talking about the Antichrist.
I don't think anybody would dispute that.
It says that this other horn, this little horn came up.
So, I believe the Bible is trying to give us this picture
that he started out little,
but this little horn came up,
and he ends up being the ruler of the whole world,
and a very evil and wicked person.
It says a mouth speaking great things.
He's obviously a man.
Now skip down to verse 15.
I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body,
and the visions of my head troubled me.
So, Daniel's very troubled by this vision that he's seeing.
He's seeing these things,
and he's like, what is going on here?
This is really bad.
I came near unto them, excuse me,
unto one of them that stood by,
and asked him the truth of all this.
So he told me and made me know the interpretation of the things.
These great beasts which are four are four kings
which shall arise out of the earth,
but the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom
and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever.
And I just want to pause here for just a second.
This is talking about the four major kingdoms that arise.
Babylon, the Medes and the Persians,
the Greek Empire, and the Roman Empire.
This is what it's talking about.
These four kings which shall arise out of the earth.
And then like that next verse says,
but the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom
and possess the kingdom forever.
So, you know, we know that the Roman Empire
died out a long time ago,
but there is a 70th week that's going to happen.
There's the prophecy of the 70 weeks,
and then Daniel kind of gives us history about that.
I'm going to get into that here in a minute,
but in that 70th week, that final week,
and remember week means a period of time of seven, right?
So when it's talking about a week in the Bible
it's talking about a week of years, okay?
Remember Jacob served for Rachel for one week
and it was seven years, right?
You all following me here?
So what I want to say, though,
is that right now we're in a pausing period
where that 70th week has still not been fulfilled,
it has not started yet.
And when that week happens,
there's going to be a continuation of this fourth kingdom
so it'll be like, people call it the revived Roman Empire.
You know, and I mean, I personally believe
we're living here right now in this revived Roman Empire,
that we are probably the Babylon of the end times.
I mean, I think if everything started happening right now
we'd know very surely that that would be the case.
So I'm not going to preach about Babylon too much tonight
as far as like getting into the end times Babylon too much,
but let's move on here.
Verse 19, it says,
Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast,
which was diverse from all the others,
exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron,
and his nails of brass, which devoured,
break in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet.
And of the ten horns that were in his head,
and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell,
even of that horn that had eyes and a mouth
that spake very great things,
whose look was more stout than his fellows,
I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints
and prevailed against them.
So this is obviously, again, talking about the antichrist
and what is he able to do?
Well, he's able to make war with the saints
and prevail against them.
And notice how it said that he comes from this fourth beast.
Now, obviously, things in scripture have happened
and then there's multiple layers upon layers of Bible prophecy,
so this stuff has already taken place,
but it also is still yet,
there's still things that are yet future.
So, look at verse 22, it says,
until the ancient of days came,
and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High,
and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
So when is that gonna happen?
Well, when the ancient of days came,
it's talking about when Jesus Christ comes,
and then it says judgment is given
to the saints of the Most High, has that happened yet?
No.
The time came that the saints possessed the kingdom,
has that happened yet?
No.
So, this same horn, back up to verse 21,
this same horn made war with the saints
and prevailed against them.
So when does he do this?
Well, right before the ancient of days comes
and the judgment's given over to the saints of the Most High,
and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
So, this has not happened yet.
This part has not happened yet,
and so this fourth beast kind of,
you know, the Roman Empire was kind of,
you know, it crumbled and fell
and was divided into four different generals or whatever.
I think I'm getting that right,
but anyway, the Roman Empire does not exist.
It became the Holy Roman Empire,
and so the Catholic Church basically ran the world
for a while as a religion slash government at the same time,
and what's the deal with the Catholic Church?
They're a false religion, and they like to kill saints too.
They like to shed the blood of the saints too,
and there's many books you can read about that.
Fox's Book of Martyrs is one of them.
But anyway, let me just move on here to verse number 24.
It says,
And the ten horns out of this kingdom
are ten kings that shall arise.
Okay, this has not happened yet.
And another shall rise after them,
and he shall be diverse from the first,
and he shall subdue three kings.
And he shall speak great words against the Most High,
and shall wear out the saints of the Most High,
and think to change times and laws,
and they shall be given into his hand
until a time and times and a dividing of time.
What is this talking about?
You're like, Pastor Thompson, I'm confused.
Well, I'm trying to explain it to you here.
This is the Antichrist that it's prophesying about right here.
He's going to speak words against God.
He's going to wear out the saints of the Most High,
and it says,
And they shall be given into his hand.
Who? We are going to be given into his hand
until a time.
What is that?
That's one year.
Times, that's two more years.
The dividing of time, that's a half a year.
So how much time is that?
Three and a half years.
What does the Bible say?
There's going to be three and a half years
where the Antichrist will reign, okay?
And it also says 42 months, okay?
So now turn over to Revelation chapter 13
because look, we get the main, you know,
Daniel's going to be interpreted by what Revelation says.
So the things that like need to be filled in the blanks,
we're going to find these things in Revelation.
So Daniel prophesied about these things.
That stuff was a lot of,
I mean, he did get a little bit of interpretation,
but in the end, he was still confused
about a lot of things.
And he said, you know, don't worry about it, Daniel.
Seal this up.
And in the time of the end, we will have, you know,
that'll be, you know, for the people
of the time of the end.
And then Jesus Christ, you know,
he gives the book of Revelation to John
and he explains to us what's going to happen.
Now, obviously we're not going to understand fully
a lot of the things that happen
until they're actually happening.
And we'll be like,
we'll probably be able to read the Bible
and be like, oh, okay, well, that's what that meant.
But one thing's for sure is that we as saints
will not be fooled by the Antichrist when he comes.
So, you know, let's look at Revelation chapter 13,
verse number one.
He's not going to be able to fool us.
He's going to fool the rest of the world,
but he should not be able to fool Christians.
But he's so good at deceiving,
just like Judas was very good at deceiving,
just like Ahithophel was good at deceiving.
And many other characters in the Bible.
But look at Revelation 13 when it says,
and I stood upon the sand of the sea
and saw a beast rise up out of the sea
having seven heads and ten horns,
and upon his horns ten crowns,
and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
So this person, this beast, does not like God.
It's blaspheming.
It's blasphemous to God.
And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard,
and his feet were as the feet of a bear,
and his mouth as the mouth of a lion,
and the dragon gave him his power.
Who's the dragon?
Remember what we were talking about this morning?
The devil, right?
And his seat and great authority.
Who is this person talking about?
He's talking about the antichrist.
The dragon's going to give him his power
and his seat.
And what do you think about
when you think of his seat?
Well, have you ever heard the term
the county seat?
Like in certain counties you'll have a town
that is the place that rules over that county.
So if you have to go to the county courthouse,
you're going to have to go to the county seat
to go to court.
So to like the main court of that county.
So basically it's his seat
or maybe his kingship of the world.
Because really the devil does run this world.
He has people deceived.
And so the devil's going to give this power
to this man, this antichrist.
He's going to give him great authority.
He's going to be a mighty one in the earth, isn't he?
Just like Nimrod.
And it says,
And I saw one of his heads
as it were wounded to death
and his deadly wound was healed
and all the world wondered after the beast.
So apparently this guy's going to get a head wound
and wounded to death
and his deadly wound was healed
and all the world's going to wonder after the beast.
This guy's going to die and come back from the dead
and people are going to worship him.
And that's, you know, it's basically,
he's probably going to use this to say that he is Christ.
He is God.
See, I can resurrect myself or whatever.
And so look at verse 4.
And it says,
And they worshiped the dragon
which gave power unto the beast.
So the devil, what's he want ultimately?
He wants to be worshiped like God.
He wants the world to worship him.
He wants to be like the most high
but the job is not open to him.
And so he's at odds with God over this.
But he's finally kind of getting what he really wants.
He wants, you know, it's the final showdown
between God and the devil
and the saints, us, people that are saved.
Just because you're a saint
doesn't mean you have a halo over your head
and you have like little wings
and you're going to float up to heaven
on the clouds and play a harp or something.
That's what I used to think when I was a kid.
But I was like, that sounds boring.
Heaven's not going to be boring, folks.
But look what it says in verse number 4.
And they worshiped the dragon
which gave power unto the beast
and they worshiped the beast
saying who is like unto the beast
who is able to make war with him?
And the answer to that question is
nobody is able to make war with him.
Everybody's going to be bowing down to him
and afraid of him.
And, you know, there's a conspiracy theory
that John Kennedy was the Antichrist.
I know that people thought that that was true.
There's like a fringe group of people
that said that he got taken to some secret island.
And I actually had a pastor that had a guy
that was coming to the church
and he was telling him all this stuff.
He was like, this guy was crazy.
You know, he said he swam out to the island
and looked and he could see John Kennedy from behind.
He could see the wound in his head or whatever.
It's like, okay.
Must have been Michael the Archangel, too.
I don't know.
But anyway, but if you think about it,
the Kennedy assassination was a big deal.
And that happened in the 60s, right?
So, and everybody cried.
Like, my mom still cries about it.
Like, it was a big deal in this country
and a lot of people in this room
weren't alive when that happened.
So, we can't really feel the impact
of what it would be like for a president
to get assassinated like that necessarily
or, you know, maybe a couple people were in here
or little kids or something when it happened.
But anyway, it's a big deal.
So, if a guy that's this world power
that people, you know, people are wondering
after this guy because he's resurrected from the dead,
you know, that's gonna sway a lot of people.
And people that aren't saved, what are they gonna think?
This must be Christ.
This must be, you know, God.
This must be Allah.
This must be whatever religion that they believe in.
They're probably gonna, you know,
they're gonna believe in him now.
So, all these religions that he's already been setting up
from the beginning of time, basically,
all of his nets are gonna close up at the same time.
All these religions are gonna follow him
just like he's always been planning,
just like he's always wanted.
And it says, and there was given unto him
a mouth speaking great things.
See, remember, I mean, this is like
paralleling Daniel right here.
A mouth speaking great things and blasphemies.
And power was given unto him to continue,
what does it say?
42 months.
How long is that?
Three and a half years.
And he opened his mouth and blasphemy against God
to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle
and them that dwell in heaven.
So people that are gone on and are in heaven,
he's gonna be blaspheming them.
He's gonna be blaspheming God.
He's gonna, he's just gonna, he's a God-hater.
He's against God, he's against Christ, he's against us.
Verse seven, and it was given unto him
to make war with the saints and to overcome them
and power was given over all kindreds
and tongues and nations.
And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him
whose names are not written in the book of life
of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
So people that aren't saved, they're gonna worship him.
Those that dwell upon the earth,
they're gonna worship him.
And what's it say?
All kindreds, tongues, and nations.
That's gonna be important later on,
so just think about that for a second.
All kindreds, tongues, and nations, okay?
So let's move on to point number two.
Point number two is that Nimrod pictures
the antichrist as a mighty hunter of the saints.
He pictures the antichrist as a mighty hunter of the saints.
Now it doesn't say that Nimrod is hunting people,
and I don't even know if that's necessarily
what it's talking about here.
But when you think of someone that's a mighty hunter,
you think of someone that, you know,
these people that, you know, they buy guns
and they go out and hunting and shooting and whatever.
But let's look back in our verses in Genesis chapter 10.
Look at verse number eight again.
So Nimrod was a mighty hunter before the Lord,
but the antichrist isn't gonna be hunting animals.
He's gonna be hunting people.
He's gonna be hunting Christians.
He's gonna be hunting the saints.
So look what it says.
And Cush begat Nimrod.
And by the way, Cush is the son of Ham.
Ham was the fruitcake that got on the boat with Noah, right?
And he saw his dad, you know,
he did something to his dad after the boat,
after he got off the boat, whatever.
But it wasn't Cush that was cursed.
It was Canaan.
So I just wanna make sure that that's clear.
But it says in Cush begat Nimrod,
it began to be a mighty one in the earth.
So we're talking two generations into after the flood
because Ham was the father, Cush is the son,
Nimrod is the grandson of Ham, okay?
So we're talking two generations here.
And it began to be a mighty one in the earth.
So we already kinda covered that.
And he was a mighty hunter before the Lord.
Wherefore it is said even as Nimrod
the mighty hunter before the Lord.
And it's just, you know, it's kinda interesting
that it just pops into this chapter
when it's giving us names.
It's basically this chapter is really focusing
on where the sons of Noah went.
Where did they go?
What were their names?
Where did they live?
Who were they related to?
So you can go back to this table of nations
here in Genesis chapter number 10
and you can kinda figure out who some of these people are
that it's talking about later on.
The more you read the Bible,
the more you're gonna understand
who some of these people are.
I mean, you're not gonna remember all these names.
So the Bible is, you know, this is a great tool
for you to come back to and say,
well, who's Mizraim?
And then you can study that out
and Mizraim is actually one of the sons of Ham
and he is the one that, that's where Egypt came from
is from that man.
So anyway, I don't wanna get off on too many rabbit trails.
I've got too much to cover here.
So what do hunters use even today?
What kind of weapon would they use besides a gun?
What is the first thing you think of?
If someone's a hunter, a bow and arrow, right?
I agree.
And I know there's still people
that hunt with a bow and arrow today
so it's not like some foreign concept, right?
Turn to Revelation chapter six, verse number one.
Revelation chapter six, verse number one.
Revelation chapter six, verse number one, the Bible says,
And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals
and I heard as it were the noise of thunder
one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.
And I saw and behold a white horse
and he that sat on him had a bow
and a crown was given unto him
and he went forth conquering and to conquer.
So most people believe and agree
that this is talking about the Antichrist.
This is not Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ comes back on a white horse
in Revelation chapter number 20
and he conquers these wicked people
that have taken over the Antichrist.
Look, the devil tries to pattern things after God.
He tries to mimic things and twist them around
and this is no different.
This Antichrist, what's he want people to do?
He wants people to worship him.
He wants people to worship his daddy Satan.
It's this evil trinity that kind of takes place at this time
where you have the dragon who's the devil
being God the father of their evil trinity.
Then you have the beast which is the human one
that is supposed to portray the son.
Then you got the false prophet I guess
that's supposed to represent
the power of the Holy Spirit or something.
So that's kind of the evil trinity
that you see at the end times.
So he comes back.
He's got a bow.
He's on a white horse.
So I mean it says that Nimrod
was a mighty hunter before the Lord.
Wherefore said, Even Nimrod the mighty hunter
before the Lord.
So I mean it's picturing this guy that's,
whatever type of hunter he was,
I mean there's a lot of people
that are probably really good hunters in the world
but why would they be named in the Bible
just because they're just some kind of good hunter
or whatever.
That doesn't make sense.
There's something more to that
and I believe that it's just to show us a picture
and I believe that it actually happened.
That these things actually happened.
But it says in verse number nine,
let's skip down to verse number nine
in Revelation 6, it says,
And when it opened the fifth seal,
I saw under the altar the souls of them
that were slain for the word of God
and for the testimony which they held.
And they cried with a loud voice saying,
How long, O Lord, holy and true,
dost thou not judge and avenge our blood
on them that dwell on the earth?
And white robes were given unto
every one of them and it was said unto them
that they should rest yet for a little season
until their fellow servants also
and their brethren that should be killed
as they were should be fulfilled.
So what's happening here?
Well, this guy comes on the scene.
The seals are opened up.
The first seal opens up.
It's the man on the white horse.
He's the antichrist.
He's got a bow.
He's a mighty hunter but who's he hunting?
Well, first of all, he breaks into World War I
or World War III probably.
It says he goes forth conquering and to conquer.
And so he goes after mankind as a whole
but then he zeroes in on the Christians
because that's really the goal.
He can't just come in and say,
Hey, I want to be the world ruler.
I'm going after Christians right away.
I mean, there would be a big uproar about that.
But the more things move along nowadays,
you see a lot of people that really have
a really bad antichristian attitude.
I mean, we saw several signs today
when we were out soloing that said,
Don't come here if you're this, this, this,
religious.
Just go away.
We don't want your religion
and just stuff like that.
It's like, okay, well, if you want to put it that way,
then I just won't knock on your door.
So people make it real clear
and some people are just mean.
Some people are mean but they act nice.
They're fake nice, you know what I'm talking about?
So they're like, Bless your heart.
You know, stuff like that.
That's like the Texas way of saying
you're stupid or whatever.
Oh, bless your heart.
It's really rude.
But I used to think it was nice.
Oh, thank you.
But anyway, so let's see.
So yeah, so what's happening here is
there's people that have been killed
and they're asking,
How long is it going to take
before you avenge us, Lord?
Which shows that asking for vengeance
to be taken upon people that do you harm
is not wrong.
And he's basically saying that
you're going to have to just rest
for a little while until
their fellow servants also and their brethren
that should be killed as they were
should be fulfilled.
So there's, you know,
it says in Daniel chapter 7
that he's going to wear out the saints.
It says that he's going to be speaking
these great things.
He's going to be killing them.
And that's what it's talking about.
So he's this mighty hunter
before the Lord,
but he's hunting human beings.
He's destroying.
He's destructive and wants to murder
and kill Christians.
So let's turn to Matthew chapter 24
and let's look at what Jesus kind of says
about this situation
because basically what happens here
is you have Jesus coming back
because later on in Revelation chapter number 6
it talks about the sun
and the moon being darkened
and the stars falling from the sky
and the heavens rolled back like a scroll
and that's when the Bible says in Matthew 24
that Jesus is going to come back after that
and that's after the tribulation.
So this is the tribulation,
the great tribulation
that people are going to be going through.
But Matthew chapter 24 verse 15 says,
when he therefore shall see
the abomination of desolation
spoken of by Daniel the prophet,
stand in the holy place,
whoso readeth,
let him understand.
He's talking about you right now.
Look at it,
understand it, okay?
Daniel spoke of it.
He said if this abomination of desolation happens,
stand in the holy place,
then let them which be in Judea flee
into the mountains.
Let him which is on the housetop
not come down to take anything out of his house.
Neither let him which is in the field
return back and take his clothes.
And woe unto them that are with child
and to them that give suck in those days,
but pray ye that your flight
be not in the winter,
neither on the Sabbath day.
For then shall there be great tribulation
such as was not since
the beginning of the world
to this time no, nor ever shall be.
What's Jesus talking about?
He's talking about this great tribulation
where the antichrist,
he goes into the temple
and I'm not gonna go
to the other verses about it,
but he goes into the temple
saying he's God
and then the Jews are gonna realize
right then and there
that he's calling himself God.
That's why they killed Jesus, right?
So he's gonna come,
people are gonna think he's the Messiah,
but he's really not
and this is the time
where he just betrays everybody.
And then he's like literally
going after Christians by name,
hunting them down,
and this is gonna be a short period,
but it's probably gonna feel
like a long period
if you're a Christian
and you're alive
on the earth at this time,
but Jesus said
it's a great tribulation
and that means a persecution
or an affliction against believers, right?
Such as was not since
the beginning of the world
to this time no, nor ever shall be.
So not only is this guy
a great one upon the earth,
but he's also a mighty hunter
upon the earth
and who's he hunting?
He's hunting Christians.
From this time forward,
there's a great tribulation
that takes place
and then Jesus is gonna come
and rescue those that are alive
and remain
and will be caught up to the Lord
and so shall we ever be with the Lord
and we'll be able to escape
everybody being killed.
Look what it says in verse number 22.
And except those days
should be shortened,
there should no flesh be saved,
but for the elect's sake,
those days shall be shortened.
So if he was allowed to continue
just doing what he was doing
and tracking Christians down
and murdering them,
there would be nobody else alive.
But God's not gonna allow that to happen,
but there will be people that die.
There are gonna be people
that are beheaded
and killed for the cause of Christ.
Look at verse 23.
Then if any man shall say unto you,
Lo, here is Christ,
or there, believe it not.
He's probably gonna have
these kind of traps set up
and fake things where,
hey, Christ has come back.
And what's Jesus warning us of?
Don't believe them.
It says in verse 24,
for there shall arise false Christs
and false prophets
and shall show great signs
and wonders and so much
that if it were possible,
they shall deceive the very elect.
But guess what?
It's not possible.
But what's Jesus saying?
Don't believe them.
If they're saying,
behold, he's in a desert place
do not believe them.
Because Christ is the clear testimony
in later on in his chapters
that signs are gonna appear in heaven
and things have to happen first.
And he's not just gonna be sitting,
chilling in a hut
somewhere in the desert.
He's not gonna be in some secret compound.
Don't fall for any trickery
because he's gonna come one way
and that's in the clouds
and every eye shall see him,
the Bible says.
Now turn to Revelation 7.
Revelation 7.
The Bible says in Revelation 7,
I gotta hurry up here.
So Revelation 7 says,
And one of the elders answered,
saying unto me,
What are these which are arrayed
in white robes,
and whence came they?
So this is after Jesus has come up
there's a great multitude
of every tongue, nation and kinder
that appears in heaven.
He said,
What are these which are arrayed
in white robes,
whence came they?
And I said unto him,
Sir, thou knowest.
And he said unto 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.
So these people that are,
there's gonna be people
that go through the great tribulation,
they're gonna get like
a special position with God.
And so that question's asked
for that reason
and he's saying they came out
of great tribulation.
So just for those pre-trib people,
the great tribulation is over
in Revelation chapter 6.
Game over.
All right, so now turn over
to Revelation chapter 13 verse 7.
And we've already kind of seen
this scripture already
but I wanna cover it again
just really quickly.
It says in Revelation 13, 7 it says,
And it was given unto them
to make war with the saints
and to overcome them,
and power was given him
over all kindreds
and tongues and nations.
So all the saved people
were already gone from the earth
basically at Revelation 7.
But Revelation 13,
what do you gotta understand
about Revelation?
You gotta split it in half.
It retells the story twice.
Gives different details, okay?
I don't have time
to get into that
but Revelation 20,
turn to Revelation 20
and I'm gonna move on
to my final point after this.
Revelation chapter 20
verse number 4.
The Bible says,
And I saw thrones,
and they that sat upon them
and judgment was given unto them,
and I saw the souls of them
that were beheaded
for the witness of Jesus
and for the word of God,
which had not worshipped the beast,
neither his image,
neither had received his mark
upon their foreheads
or in their hands,
and they lived and reigned
with Christ a thousand years.
So the reason I wanted
to show you this one
is because it says that
they were beheaded
for the witness of Jesus.
So there's probably gonna be
one system of murdering Christians
and the main thing
is probably gonna be beheading.
But why did they get beheaded
for the word of God?
Look, don't let anybody back you down
off the word of God.
The word of God
is the foundation of our faith
and so when people start saying,
well, you shouldn't say that
and it comes from the Bible,
they're wrong, you're right,
the Bible's right,
God's right, okay?
Don't back down from that position
because once you start doing that,
that's called compromise.
That's called being afraid of man
more than you're afraid of God
and obviously we fear for our flesh.
Nobody wants to be murdered
by somebody for something
that they say.
Those brats at Columbine
that murdered all those kids that day,
they were followers of Adolf Hitler,
followers of evolution
and they were walking around
asking people,
are you a Christian?
And they knew some of them were
and they asked this girl,
Cassie, are you a Christian?
And she said yes
and they shot her in the face.
But you know what,
she's probably in heaven right now,
she's with the Lord Jesus Christ,
one second of standing up
for the word of God
got her great rewards in heaven.
So it's gonna be over quick
and if it's not,
then you'll even get a better resurrection.
I know that doesn't sound like
a great thing to go through
but that's what the Bible says,
we're gonna have to go through
this stuff folks
and the pre-tribbers out there,
they're just acting like
we're gonna be whisked away
on a nice comfy pillow
and we're not gonna have to go,
why is Jesus talking about
great tribulation?
Lots of the tribulation saints,
yeah I know,
we're the tribulation,
you know,
Christians are the tribulation saints,
like what difference does it make,
it's not gonna be us,
it's gonna be these other
tribulation people,
it's like,
yeah but they're saved too,
like I don't know,
that doesn't make sense to me
how they logic that but,
don't worry about it,
it's just the tribulation saints,
they deserve to get all this stuff done to them,
we deserve to be with these people
that compromise
and just refuse to go soul winning
and they refuse to preach
the word of God
and refuse to put their preaching out there,
they're afraid,
they don't wanna say the word fag
in their pulpit
and all this other stuff,
they don't wanna,
you know,
call a spade a spade,
call out the false prophets
and they're the ones,
they're the ones that think
that they're going to heaven
with no persecution,
no that's not how God works,
see,
you withstand the temptation,
you withstand the trials
that you're going through
and then God's gonna protect you
and the person that's afraid
and hiding in a cave somewhere
or afraid to preach the word of God
or just,
you know,
they're hiding in a basement
or something together,
those are the people
that the antichrist
is probably gonna nuke,
not literally nuke
but you know what I mean,
he's gonna take them out.
Now,
point number three
is Nimrod pictures the antichrist
because he tried to make
a one world government in Babel,
okay,
this is my most controversial point
and you might not agree
with me about this
and I don't care,
I would agree with you
but then we'd both be wrong
so I'm just kidding.
Now,
I mean,
this point is,
you know,
people are gonna have
a different opinion about it
and I don't care,
you know,
this is just what I believe
about this
and you can,
you know,
a lot of this stuff
we see through a glass darkly,
we're not gonna,
nobody has it all figured out
but this is just what I believe
about this subject
about Nimrod.
So,
and why do I think it?
Well,
let's look back at Genesis
chapter number 10.
Genesis chapter number 10,
let's look at verse number 10.
So,
we've already established
he was a mighty hunter
in the Lord,
before the Lord
and point number two,
point number one,
he was a,
began to be a mighty one
in the earth
just like the antichrist
becomes a mighty one
in the earth
and point number three
is that he tries
to make a one world government,
that's what the antichrist
does too.
Look at verse number 10,
and the beginning of his
kingdom was Babel
and Eric
and Akkad
and Calna
in the land of Shinar.
So,
the land of Shinar
is where Babel is,
okay?
That's the beginning
of his kingdom.
So,
he began to be a mighty one
in the earth
and he has a kingdom.
So,
what does that tell you
about him?
He's a king.
The antichrist
is gonna be a king
and now turn to
Genesis chapter number 11,
which is the very next chapter
in the Bible.
And I believe that it tells us
a little bit about Nimrod
in chapter 10
because the first story
it jumps into
is the Tower of Babel,
okay?
So,
what does Babel
sound like to you?
Well,
it's kind of short
for Babylon, right?
So,
the tower was called Babel
but the city is called Babylon
and it's been around
for thousands of years.
It's buried in the sand
somewhere
where Sodom
and Sain tried to,
you know,
he thought he was the,
you know,
the next coming of Nebuchadnezzar
or something
and he tried to rebuild Babylon
but it didn't work
because God said
it wasn't gonna be
ever inhabited again.
And that means,
you know,
literally
and literally again
whoever the end times
Babylon is.
Now,
look at verse number 1
in Genesis 11.
It says,
and the whole earth
was of one language
and of one speech
and it came to pass
as they journeyed from the east
that they found a plain
in the land of Shinar
which is
what where Babylon is, right?
And they dwelt there
and they said one to another,
go to,
let us make brick
and burn them thoroughly.
And they had brick for stone
and slime had they for mortar.
And they said,
go to,
let us build a city
and a tower whose top
may reach unto heaven
and let us make us
a name.
Let us be scattered,
lest we be scattered abroad
upon the face of the whole earth.
So,
what are they trying to do?
Well,
they have one language.
They have one speech
and,
you know,
they're trying,
they're saying let us,
they're like all together
in this thing.
Let us make us a name
lest we be scattered abroad
upon the face of the earth.
And the Lord came down
to see the city
and the tower
which the children of men
builded.
He particularly comes down
to see this city
Does it say this
anywhere else in the Bible
about a city that was built?
It doesn't.
It talks about it
in this chapter here.
This city,
God personally comes down
and sees it, right?
Isn't that what it says?
The Lord came down to see
the city and the tower.
So the city and the tower,
they're two different things
in the same place, right?
Which the children of men
builded.
And the Lord said,
behold the people is one.
How many times have you
seen one?
One language,
one speech.
Now the people is one.
And they have all
one language.
And this they begin to do.
And now nothing
will be restrained from them
which they have imagined to do.
What are they imagining to do?
Make a tower
that reaches the heaven.
And God wants to restrain them
from doing that.
So he decides to do what?
Look at verse number seven.
Go to let us go down
and there confound
their language
that they may not understand
one another's speech.
So the Lord scattered them
abroad from thence
upon the face of all the earth
and they left off
to build the city.
They did not complete
the mission.
The mission was to what?
Build a tower that reaches
unto heaven.
Well, what are they trying
to build a tower that reaches
unto heaven for?
I mean, I don't know.
Maybe they're trying to see
if they can get up there
and fight God or something.
I don't know what
they're trying to do.
But it doesn't seem
like it's good
because if God thought
He wouldn't come down there
and confuse their languages.
So God had to intervene
in this situation.
It says in verse nine,
therefore is the name of it
called Babel because the Lord
did confound the language
of all the earth.
And from thence did the Lord
scatter them abroad
upon the face of the earth.
So now we live in a world
where there's borders,
there's multiple languages,
multiple cultures,
multiple just different types
of people in this world,
many kindreds, tongues,
nations, right?
That's how God wants it.
What does the devil want?
Well, he wants to make it
a one-world government,
doesn't he?
Here's an example
where he tries to do it
right off the bat, right?
Pretty much a couple
generations after Noah.
Noah's probably still alive
possibly when this happens.
But yeah, so here you have
the king, which is who?
Nimrod.
His kingdom is what?
Babel, Shinar,
which is where Babylon,
that's Babylon, okay?
So this is where Babylon
first kind of becomes a thing.
So the first time it's
tried to be done, it fails.
The second time it tries
to get done, it's gonna work.
And Babylon is also involved
in that.
It's the spiritual Babylon.
So there's a physical Babylon,
there's a spiritual Babylon,
and in the end times
it's gonna be both,
a spiritual and physical.
So things that we can
think about.
Babel is where God
confused the languages
to break up the
one-world government.
Babylon is the first kingdom
and the last of the kingdoms.
Spiritual Babylon is confusion
to the nations spiritually.
So I mean God confused
their languages,
but the devil wants to
confuse everybody spiritually
with all these different
religions and ways
and all this other stuff.
The physical city of Babylon
is a desolation unto this day.
I talked about the gates
of Babylon that are still there
with the dragons and
everything on there.
But another thing to think about
the spiritually wicked Babylon
will utterly be destroyed also
and uninhabited forever.
So when God judges Babylon,
the end times Babylon,
it comes into remembrance
from him.
Now you got Babel here
where the one-world government
was trying to be created,
but there's also a spirit
that goes along with this.
And those four nations,
or those four kings
that I was talking about,
Babylon is the first kingdom.
It's the head of gold
in the statue
in Daniel chapter,
I think it's Daniel chapter 2
or 3 or whatever.
But anyway,
that's not important.
What's important is
that Daniel,
so that kingdom is
the head of gold.
The Medes and the Persians
is the chest or whatever.
The second and then the third
is the Greek empire.
Fourth is the Roman empire.
But the last world empire
comes out of that fourth kingdom.
That fourth kingdom
is what brings forth
the Antichrist.
The 10 kings that reign
with the Antichrist,
those are end times kings.
Now turn to Daniel chapter 9.
I know I got to hurry up here.
Daniel chapter 9.
I got two places to turn to
when we're done.
So I want to explain to you
a little bit
the 70 weeks here.
I've explained it before,
so I don't want to go
into too much detail about it.
But Daniel chapter 9 verse 24,
70 weeks are determined
upon thy people
and upon thy holy city
to finish the transgression
and to make an end of sins
and to make reconciliation
for iniquity
and to bring in
everlasting righteousness
and to seal the vision
and the prophecy
and to anoint the most holy.
Know therefore and understand
that from the going forth
of the commandment
to restore and build Jerusalem,
so Jerusalem has been
destroyed at this point,
unto Messiah the Prince
shall be seven weeks, okay?
And threescore and two weeks.
The city, or excuse me,
the street shall be built again
and the walls even
in trebleth times.
Let's talk about Nehemiah's wall
and so on and so forth.
So the second temple
that gets rebuilt.
And it'll be in the wall,
excuse me,
even in trebleth times.
And after threescore
and two weeks
shall Messiah be cut off,
but not for himself.
So obviously Jesus Christ
gets killed when he comes
and then it's not for himself,
he died for us, right?
And it says,
and the people of the prince
that shall come
shall destroy the city
and sanctuary.
When does this take place?
70 AD.
The people of the prince,
who were the people
that destroyed the sanctuary?
The Romans, right?
The Roman Empire.
And who was the guy
that led the charge?
His name was Titus.
And he became the first,
like I think he became
the first Caesar or something,
or he became a Caesar.
Anyway, I don't want to mess
up my history here.
There's a lot of stuff
going on.
But what did they,
so it's saying the people,
who's the prince
that shall come?
Who's that talking about?
The Antichrist.
Correct.
So the people of the prince
that shall come,
where does he come from then?
Huh?
Rome.
But Rome is no longer here,
is it?
But it's that spirit of Babylon,
that spirit of Antichrist,
it's that spirit of wickedness
that's been traveling
through these different nations
all this time.
And this is where I would say
people might disagree with me.
But how else do you read that?
The people of the prince
that shall come
shall destroy the city
and sanctuary.
If this prince is the Antichrist,
then he comes from
the Roman Empire,
but the Roman Empire has been
gone for a long time.
So he's going to come
from that Babylonian type place
in the end times.
I believe that he comes
from end times Babylon.
I think that that's where
he gets his start.
He probably, and again,
this is my opinion,
I think that he gets his start
and then he probably comes up
from nothing and then he's able
to make war and wage war
against all these places.
What's America doing right now?
What are we doing?
We're trying to police
every nation.
We're trying to bring them
under the power
of the United Nations.
I mean, the fact that Russia
is allowing Ukraine
to ship out their grain
should tell you something,
that there's a dog and pony show
going on with all that too.
Because if you're at war,
you're not going to just
let people go,
yeah, here, let me make,
go ahead and make some money.
That doesn't make sense.
But anyway,
what the one world government
wants to do is bring
all these nations
under their power
so they can be
one world government,
just like they wanted to do
back in the time
of the Tower of Babel.
That's what they want to do.
That's what the goal is.
That's what the anti-Christ
goal is.
And it says,
shall confirm in verse 27,
who's the he?
The prince that shall come.
Shall confirm the covenant
with many for one week.
That's what?
One week is how many years?
Seven years.
69 weeks have already been
fulfilled up to this point
that it's talking about
where the sanctuary
is going to be destroyed.
This is talking about
the second temple.
Herod's temple
by the Romans.
That's a fact of history.
It happened.
So this guy,
this prince that shall come
in this last week
of human history
and rise up into power
and start this world war
and going forth to conquer
and conquer these people
who's eventually going to be
known as the anti-Christ.
So he shall confirm
the covenant with many
for one week.
In the midst of the week,
he shall cause the sacrifice
and oblation to cease.
There's going to be a temple
that's built.
The Jews are going to think
this guy's the Messiah.
Who's America's
best friend right now?
Israel, right?
So to me it makes sense
that this guy who's maybe
come from Babylon,
and maybe I'm wrong about this.
Maybe I am.
Maybe he comes from
Kazakhstan or something.
I don't know.
But when he gets wounded
and he has the deadly wound
in his head,
he's resurrected.
Where does he go?
He goes to the temple.
And then he declares himself
to be God.
This is the abomination
of desolation.
He sets up this image
inside that temple
and makes it desolate
once again.
And look, God doesn't care
about this temple.
This is not the real temple
of the Lord.
This is the Jews' temple
that they're trying
to put animal sacrifices in.
But in the midst of this week,
this seven-year covenant,
he's going to break
his covenant, right?
It says,
He shall confirm the covenant
with many for one week.
In the midst of the week
he shall cause the sacrifice
and oblation to cease.
And for the overspreading
of abominations
he shall make it desolate
even until the consummation
and that determinant
shall be poured
upon the desolate.
So he is going to bring in
the abomination of desolation.
Remember when Jesus said,
when you see the abomination
of desolation take place,
run for your lives.
Then you have this tribulation
or whatever that takes place
and then Jesus comes back.
Now I just want to show you
something real quick
and that's kind of
my three points there.
But Zechariah 5, real quick,
let's turn over there
and we'll be done here.
Zechariah 5,
I'm just going to start reading
while you turn there.
Then the angel that talked
with me went forth
and said unto me,
lift up now thine eyes
and see what is this
that goeth forth.
And I said, what is it?
And he said, this is an ephah
that goeth forth.
He said, moreover,
this is their remembrance
through all the earth.
And behold, there was lifted up
a tount of lead
and this is a woman
that sitteth in the midst
of the ephah.
An ephah is like this container,
it has this container
that's talking about
the lid that's made of lead.
This woman that sitteth
in the midst of the ephah
and he said,
this is wickedness.
And he cast it in the midst
of the ephah
and cast the lead,
or excuse me,
the weight of lead
upon the mouth thereof.
Then lifted I up mine eyes
and looked and behold,
there came out two women
and the wind was in their wings
and they had wings
like the wings of a stork
and they lifted up the ephah
between the earth
and the heaven.
And he said,
then said I,
to the angel that talked with me,
whither do these bear the ephah?
And he said unto me,
to build an house
in the land of Shinar
and it shall be established
and set there upon her own base.
Like, well why are you reading this?
Because the spirit of Babylon
continues on through
these different kingdoms
and then eventually
it's going to come back
to the end times Babylon
and that will be this woman,
this wickedness
that it's talking about.
So I think God has kind of
given us kind of a picture here
of how nations rise
and are destroyed
because the devil
doesn't care about people.
He just lets them get destroyed.
It doesn't matter to him.
His end game though
is through all these nations,
the land of Egypt,
the land of Assyria,
the land of Babylon,
the land of Babylon.
Actually before Egypt,
the land of Babel.
That's where it all started.
That's why I believe
that at end times
it's called Babylon once again.
And again, I'm not 100%
sure it's America,
but like I said,
if it happened right now,
if all this end time stuff
started to go into motion,
then I would definitely
think it's this country
because nobody else
has the influence
and the power
and the clout that we do.
Anyway, I'm out of time.
So point number one
is Nimrod pictures
the Antichrist
as the one world ruler.
Number two,
Nimrod pictures
the Antichrist
as a mighty hunter
of the saints.
And number three,
Nimrod pictures the Antichrist
because he began
by ruling Babylon.
Let's have a word of prayer.
Heavenly Father,
we thank you, Lord,
so much for the Bible, Lord,
and there's just a lot
there to chew on.
I pray that you'd help us
to study to show ourselves
approved, Lord.
And Lord, we don't all
have it figured out.
And Lord, I could be wrong
about some of this stuff,
but I just pray that you'd
help us to be discerning,
especially in the day and times
that we live in.
And Lord, we know that
it's closer tomorrow
than it was today
of your return.
And Lord, I just pray
that you'd help us
to discern the signs
of the times
and to seek your face
and to love your word.
In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
...to page 244.
We'll sing our last song
for today.
Page 244.
Amazing Grace, page 244.
Amazing Grace, page 244
in your Green Hymnals.
Let's sing it out loud
on that first verse.
Amazing Grace.
How sweet the sound
that saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost,
but now am found.
Was blind, but now I see.
Twas grace
that taught my heart to fear
and grace my fears relieved.
How precious did
that grace appear
the hour I first believed.
Through many dangers,
toils, and snares
I have already come.
Tis grace hath brought me
safe thus far,
and grace will lead me home.
On the last,
when we've been there
ten thousand years,
bright shining as the sun,
we've no last days
to sing God's grace
than when we first begun.
Amen.
Great seeing everyone.
Thank you for being here this Sunday.
We'd like to see you next week
at 10.30 in the morning
on next Sunday.
Brother Steven, would you
end us with a word of prayer, please?