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Revelation chapter 9, Revelation chapter 9.

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Please follow along silently as we read the entire chapter of Revelation chapter 9.

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The Bible reads,

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And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth,

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and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

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And he opened the bottomless pit, and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace.

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And the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

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And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth, and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.

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And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree,

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but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

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And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months,

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and their torment was as a torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.

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And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it,

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and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

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And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle,

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and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold,

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and their faces were as the faces of men.

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And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

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and they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron,

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and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

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And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails,

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and their power was to hurt men five months.

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And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit,

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whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

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One woe was passed, and behold, there come two woes more hereafter.

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And the six angels sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

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saying to the six angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

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And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

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and the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand,

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and I heard the number of them. And thus I saw the horses in the vision,

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and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire and of jacent and brimstone,

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and the heads of the horses, whereas the heads of lions and other out of their mouths, issued fire

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and smoke and brimstone. By these three was the third part of men killed by the fire and by the

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smoke and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

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for their power is in their mouth and in their tails,

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for their tails were like unto serpents and had heads,

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and with them they do hurt. And the rest of the men which were not killed by

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these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands,

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that they should not worship devils and idols of gold and silver and brass

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and stone, and of wood which neither can see nor hear nor walk.

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neither repent today of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication,

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nor of their thefts." Brother Mikey, could you pray for the service?

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Amen. Revelation 9 and we are on the fifth trumpet. Remember we only went through,

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chapter 8 only carried us through four trumpets. So we've already seen devastating things happening

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in the earth and so it's been a couple weeks since we've been here but

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hopefully you kind of remember a little bit where we are. All the sea life died and

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Well, because I'm covering the trumpets and the vials at the same time, just kind of because

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I wanted to show that they're sequential and happening right after, maybe not right after

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each other, but they are happening after each other.

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A trumpet will sound and then a devastating plague will come out and then...

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when the bull is poured out, then it's even worse.

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So I went through all that. If you didn't get a chance to listen to

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chapter 8, I would recommend that you do.

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So here we're on verse number one.

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The Bible reads, and the fifth angel sounded,

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and I saw a star fall from heaven onto the earth, and to him

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was given the key of the bottomless pit.

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So again, we are in the second half of the final seven years.

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Jesus has already come back.

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And so the wrath of God is being poured out upon the earth to the wicked, to the reprobates.

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And he has already sent back the 144,000 in chapter 7.

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They were sealed in their foreheads and nothing that God unleashes is touching them and quite frankly

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They are already

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Untouchable anyway, I believe but I mean I was kind of thinking about this afterward

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I was thinking if God really did want to hurt somebody that had everlasting life, which he wouldn't do but I'm just saying

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It's kind of like those arguments that atheists bring up.

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Could God make a rock so big that he couldn't lift it?

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People come up with these dumb hypotheticals.

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So maybe I was just foolishly thinking or something.

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But I mean, theoretically, he could hurt people,

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even if they were immortal.

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But obviously, it's just not in his nature.

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He would not do that.

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He would not pour his wrath upon them.

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So.

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And I think that he probably gives that distinction so that we know for sure that God is not hurting people that are His children on the earth.

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So, because I already proved that they were redeemed out of the earth, they're already saved.

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And so once you have a glorified new body, you cannot be hurt.

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You cannot die.

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You cannot be destroyed.

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And so even though it'll say those things in the Bible, I think it's just saying that

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for our sake so that we know that they cannot be hurt.

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And that so it's just kind of like when God was destroying Egypt, which is definitely

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a picture of the tribulation and the wrath of God.

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Because, I mean, what was happening to the children of Israel before God sent the two

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witnesses which was Moses and Aaron, if you think about it, what did he do?

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Well what was happening?

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They were killing their children.

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They had them in bondage for 400 out of 430 years or whatever it was.

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And then they started doing hard bondage and persecuting them even worse.

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making them go gather straw and still making them still have the same amount of bricks tail per day.

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So Pharaoh really ramped up his persecution against them when the two witnesses Moses and Aaron came

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to let the people to say let my people go. So but every time a plague would get unleashed it would say

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But in Goshen, these things weren't taking place.

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Goshen is where the children of Israel live.

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So they were kind of like that type of the people that were sealed in their foreheads.

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And even on the last plague where the death angel or whatever came and killed the firstborn,

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they had to put what?

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They had to mark their doors with the blood of the lamb.

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so that death would pass upon them.

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Of course, that's the picture of if you have the blood applied to you, you're saved,

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and you will not die, the death angel will pass over you.

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God will pass over your judgment, and you cannot go to hell.

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So I'm going to get into those things a little bit more as the sermon goes on here,

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but I just kind of wanted to touch on that.

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So the fifth angel sounds, he saw, I saw, so, and it says,

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I saw a star fall from.

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heaven unto the earth. And to him was given the key of the bottomless pit." This is an

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interesting statement because what does it say, Phil? A star, right? So what is it? It's

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a hymn. Are stars male or female? I mean, apparently so because I believe that this

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is talking about an angel. This is not a star like as in we would think of stars.

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Because why would it say it was given to him the key of the bottomless pit?

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Stars as we know them don't have hands to turn keys.

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Okay? And...

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And look, the Bible says that Jesus had the keys to death and to hell.

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So he can give the keys to whoever he wants to.

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And he's given those things, you know, we obviously have power that's given to us, but

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It says that...

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I saw this star fall from heaven to the earth.

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And so the star is being defined as a hymn

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and the key is given to hymn of the bottomless pit.

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Now I believe the bottomless pit that it's talking about here is hell.

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Now you're like, prove it. Okay, well let's look at a couple verses here.

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So, hold your finger here, let's go to Revelation chapter 11.

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A couple chapters ahead of you. Revelation chapter 11.

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And a lot of times hell is just called the pit, not necessarily the bottomless pit like

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in the Old Testament a lot of times in the Psalms and in some of the prophets it'll say

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the pit or things like that.

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But the pit or the bottomless pit is hell I believe.

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So Revelation 11 7 I'll prove it says, And when they shall have finished their testimony,

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Thanks for watching!

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the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them and shall overcome

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them and kill them." So, and this is an interesting passage too because I don't, I kind of always just

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had this picture in my mind for some reason, just sometimes you know you'll get an image in your mind

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when you read a verse or something that like he just he comes out of the bottomless pit right then

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and then kills them.

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But the beast that cometh out of the bottomless pit,

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this had to have happened before this takes place, actually.

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Before he kills them, he came out of the bottomless pit

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well before that happened.

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Because the beast is the beast who's the Antichrist

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was killed with the wound in his head,

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and then he comes back to life, right?

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and everybody wondered after the beast.

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But what is taking place in chapter 11 right here,

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this happens at almost the end.

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This happens at almost the very end of the final seven years.

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So the way it reads is like,

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and when they shall have finished their testaments,

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talking about the two witnesses,

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the beast that ascended out of the bottomless pit shall make war against

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them and shall overcome them and kill them.

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you

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I think it's just telling us this is the same,

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this is the antichrist.

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So he's gonna make war against them,

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he shall overcome them and kill them.

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So nobody else is able to kill him but the beast.

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And this is different like,

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here's your parallel to Egypt also.

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Moses and Aaron would go to Pharaoh and.

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God wouldn't allow them to be harmed.

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I mean, who else could just walk up to Pharaoh,

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the ruler of the whole world at that time,

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and say, let my people go.

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The Lord, thus saith the Lord, and then not be put in chains

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and killed right then on the spot.

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God just wasn't allowing that to happen.

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And so God's not allowing these guys to get killed either.

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And so, but here, he's going to allow them to be killed.

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That's the difference.

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So, God did not allow the Pharaoh to kill Moses and Aaron.

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But didn't Pharaoh threaten to kill Moses he finally did in the end

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He was like if I see you again, I'm gonna kill you. So he's like, all right. See you later

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and laughs, okay, so

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Let's turn to Revelation chapter 20

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But I what I wanted you to see there is that he came out of the bottomless pit

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So he basically goes to hell and when he comes back he is

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possessed of the devil.

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That's why he's the beast is the son of perdition.

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He is the antichrist.

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But he's not going to have these special abilities

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and special powers until the devil actually possesses him.

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And Judas, he was the son of perdition also.

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Why are they both called the son of perdition?

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Because they're both possessed by the devil.

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There's nobody else in the Bible that it says that the devil himself possessed them except

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for Judas Iscariot and the beast, okay, which is the Antichrist, the little horn of Daniel.

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So Revelation 20 verse 1 says, And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the keys

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of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.

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And he laid hold on that dragon, the old serpent which is the devil and Satan, and bound him

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a thousand years, and cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon

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him, that he should deceive the nations no more till the thousand years should be fulfilled.

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And after that he must be loosed a little season."

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But notice how it says that...

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This angel comes down from heaven and then he has these keys and he's able to unlock hell apparently

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and he's able to chain the devil up. It's this great chain that he has in his hand.

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So are these literal keys? Is this a literal chain?

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I mean I tend to think that it is, but...

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People will probably say, well, that's no, that's all anthropomorphic and whatever.

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It's all, you know, it's just figurative words.

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I don't really think that that's true.

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Why does it keep saying that these angels are giving these keys to unlock things?

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Maybe there is some kind of a lock.

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I don't know.

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I mean, to me it seems like it's talking about real things, but what do I know?

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But I wanted to look at something really quickly.

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Okay, so the beast, so right before this in chapter 19, the beast and the false prophet

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are taken and thrown in there, but they don't get to come back.

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But the devil does.

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So the devil is locked in that bottomless pit and he's shut up for a thousand years

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and then he's loosed again, once again.

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So this bottomless pit is another word for hell.

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Anyway, look at Luke chapter 10.

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chapter 10 now.

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Luke chapter number 10 verse 17 the Bible says and the 70 returned again with joy saying

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Lord even the devils are subject unto us through thy name and he said unto them I be held Satan

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as lightning fall from heaven.

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So Jesus is just saying something that he matter of factly saw and it says that he fell

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as heaven or I mean as lightning.

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Now I would tend to think that since...

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Satan is this, you know, beautifully created being and he's shot, you know, he shines more than other people

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he's like really proud of himself and that's what the devil's

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initial sin is his pride and

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He wanted to be God and you know all that stuff

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So he's you know as when he fell from heaven Jesus said it was like the lightning coming down

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He saw him as lightning coming down. What happened? What happens when you see lightning in the sky?

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Well, it lights everything up, doesn't it?

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But that's the same thing if a star fell.

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But why am I bringing this up?

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Because in the first verse it says, I saw a star fall from heaven.

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So it would probably be something that you probably could visibly see.

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But what it is, is this is some kind of an angel.

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And then when I had you turn to Revelation 20...

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It says, an angel came and I saw an angel come down from heaven having the keys.

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So stars and angels are being, they're being talked about as the same things.

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So you know, it's just, that's just what it's teaching.

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So but anyway.

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Let's look at verse number 19 where you're at.

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It says, Behold, I give unto you power

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to tread on serpents and scorpions,

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and over all the power of the enemy,

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and nothing shall by any means hurt you,

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notwithstanding in this rejoice not

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that the spirits are subject unto you,

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but rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven.

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I just thought this is like a really interesting passage

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because...

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They come back and they're like,

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hey, even the devils have to do what we say, basically.

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They're under our command.

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They're subject unto us.

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And then he just, out of the blue, just says,

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I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven.

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There's no place for them in heaven anymore,

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because they rejected God.

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Satan led a rebellion of a third of the angels.

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And they all turned against God, turned

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against the rest of the angels in heaven.

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And they have free passage apparently to a certain extent, or at least the devil does,

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to go back and talk back and forth with God.

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So because we see it in the book of Job, we see him go before God's throne and talk with

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God and he has that access now, but that access is going to be ending in the book of Revelation.

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And that's when the devil.

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gets really upset and that's when he really starts ramping things up against believers.

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So anyway, let's see verse number...

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Yeah, so verse number 19 again, but it says,

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but behold, I give you power to tread upon serpents and scorpions.

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So then he just starts talking about how, you know,

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I gave you this power to tread on.

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And so why is he saying serpents?

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Because Satan is that serpent that he's talking about.

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And he's talking about, and these devils are likened under serpents.

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They're likened under scorpions.

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Because how do snakes hunt?

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Well, they're stealthy.

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They hide in plain sight, maybe in camouflage.

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That's what predators do.

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They camouflage themselves, and then they strike

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when you're not expecting it, right?

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And then also, scorpions, they're powerful.

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They might be small, but they have those little pincher hands

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or whatever.

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They look like lobsters almost or whatever.

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And then they have a stinger at the end.

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And I've never been stung by one,

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and I don't want to be stung by one, but I heard it.

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It's not a fun thing to happen.

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So some are more poisonous than others.

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But from what I've heard, it's very painful.

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And all you have to do is, what's that guy's name?

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Coyote something or other, where he lets certain bugs bite

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him or whatever.

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What's his name?

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Coyote Peterson.

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Have you ever seen this guy?

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He's kind of an idiot, actually.

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But.

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Because, I mean, he's just letting these, the word, like, what has the worst sting?

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And it's like this Japanese, like, hornet that's like just humongous, right?

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And he's like, I'm going to let this Japanese hornet sting me.

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And then it's like, and then he like gives you the pain levels as he's, as he gets stung or whatever.

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Who's seen this before? Okay.

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And he's like, searing, hot searing pain, hot searing, you know, he's just like laying on the ground, rolling, ahhhh, you know.

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But so he ranks each thing that bites him or whatever.

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And so there's a certain kind of scorpion that gets him.

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And yeah, I mean, there's some pretty gnarly things

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that he lets attack him.

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And it looks like it hoits really bad.

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But I wouldn't recommend doing that.

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But he's letting these creatures bite him.

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So anyway, he's not letting snakes do it though.

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Not that I've seen anyway.

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So let's turn to Revelation 12 now.

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Revelation 12.

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So Revelation 12 is kind of where the Book of Revelation

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resets itself and then kind of tells the story

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with different details, kind of like how the Gospels would.

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And Revelation 12.3.

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says, And there appeared another wonder in heaven, and behold a great red dragon, having

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seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

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And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven, and did cast them to the earth,

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and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered, for to devour her

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child as soon as it was born.

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Now, this kind of seems like, what?

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This was cryptic or whatever.

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But who is the great red dragon?

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It's representing Satan, right?

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And his system, because the seven heads and the ten horns

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is representing his beast system.

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system.

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And so the ten kings or whatever, and the ten king come out of the seven or whatever.

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And then it says, and his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven.

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So now again, it's defined for us already in this chapter that stars are angels.

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You know, they can be.

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They're not probably, obviously they're not all stars or demons or something or whatever.

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I'm not trying to say that.

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But I'm just trying to say that in this chapter when that first verse, chapter nine,

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that first verse it says that that star falls from heaven and it's given to him.

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So it's obviously not talking about a celestial ball of fire, okay, that is like

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the Sun or something, but it's likening it unto an angel. So when it says

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they drew the third part of the stars of heaven and did cast them to the earth,

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this is talking about the fall of the angels, okay.

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And the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered

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for to devour her child as soon as it was born.

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I think that this is talking about Jesus.

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I think that Herod was moved to kill Jesus as soon as he was born.

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And, you know, obviously that didn't work out for him.

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But...

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Obviously, the devil wanted to kill the Messiah as soon as he would.

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What's the easiest time to kill somebody when they're first born, obviously?

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When they're innocent, they can't fight back, you know?

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So God had to make sure that that didn't happen.

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But the original rebellion and the final casting out, I think, are two separate events because

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just

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Obviously, there's, you know, the Bible doesn't really give us a lot of details about the

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timing of these things.

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But Satan fell at some point after mankind was made.

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Maybe 100, 120 years or something after they were made.

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It could have been sooner.

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The Bible doesn't really give us that much of a timetable.

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But you know, it was probably within the first 100 years or so.

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So, once the devil fell, he obviously convinced the other angels to follow him somehow.

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But we're not given great detail about that.

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We don't know how he convinced them, what happened exactly.

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Those things are just secrets unto us at this point.

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I think that God just doesn't want us delving too much

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into those things and worrying about those things

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and making those things like we already have enough doctrine

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that we hobby horse and just focus on that we shouldn't.

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So maybe God just doesn't want us

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to intrude on things that are too high for us.

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us. They're so high they're in heaven right but he's definitely talking about this rebellion

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here and it says in Revelation 12 verse number 12 it says Therefore ye heavens are therefore

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rejoice ye heavens and ye that dwell in them woe to the inhabiters of the earth and the

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sea for the devil has come down unto you having great wrath because he knoweth

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that his time is short.

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I think is what it says.

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I got my verse got cut off.

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Is that what it says?

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Anybody can anybody check me there?

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Violent.

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No.

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Let's see 12 verse 12.

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Sorry.

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Yeah.

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The devil's come down unto you having great wrath

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because he knoweth that he hath but a short time.

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So at some point in this final seven years, he.

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He is come down because he's kicked out of heaven.

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There's a great battle between Michael and the angels of heaven versus Satan and his

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angels and they're cast out of heaven.

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And so when Satan comes down he knows, okay, well this is, I have no more access.

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and they're cast out of the earth and they can't,

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I don't think that Satan can go back and forth

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at this point anymore.

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I mean, obviously the Bible doesn't say that,

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but why is he so mad?

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Because he's stuck on earth.

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And he knows, probably by reading the Bible,

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he probably knows the Bible way better than we do,

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that he's done.

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His time is really short,

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and he's, you know, woe unto the inhabitants of the earth

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because he hates mankind,

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so he wants to destroy mankind

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and take as many as he can with him.

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and then he hates us even more than he hates normal mankind. He already hates mankind,

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but then he hates Christians even worse. So now let's look at verse number three in our in

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Revelation chapter 9. It says, and there came out of the of the smoke locusts. Did I miss verse two?

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I'm sorry. I'll wreck here. Okay.

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I don't know if I read verse 2 yet.

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And he opened the bottomless pit and there arose a smoke out of the pit as the smoke of a great furnace.

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And the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

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So once this angel comes and he has the key, he's given this key to the bottomless pit,

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he opens the bottomless pit and the smoke comes out.

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And it's like this great furnace of fire.

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It's like a, you know, probably a big giant forest fire type smoke.

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And it says, the sun and the air were darkened by the reason of the smoke of the pit.

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So, I mean, in the last chapter, that was already happening.

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Remember, I was talking about how the air quality is probably already bad.

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It's probably already dark a lot of the time because, well, a third of the sun was darkened, you know,

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a third of the time it's darkened and then the moon also.

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everything's already off balance because remember the there was no wind for like

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30 minutes or whatever it was so there's already cataclysmic kind of things

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happening and all the sea life is already dead so you know you probably

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got rotting fish and sea life all over the place and then this happens and so

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verse 3 says

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and there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth.

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And unto them was given power as the scorpions of the earth

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have power.

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So they're definitely locusts.

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But what kind of locust?

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There are different kind of locusts than we've ever seen.

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And I don't know if anybody here has actually

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even seen like real locusts, the big type locusts

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that it's talking about.

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But.

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We've seen grasshoppers and those are like locusts,

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but they're just miniature ones.

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I've seen, like, when I used to live,

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I've seen them get like, grasshoppers

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that get like this big, this long.

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But locusts are like, you know, they can get pretty big.

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Locusts are a bigger creature.

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I'm not sure how big these ones are, but...

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They're definitely gnarly because look what it says, they're given power as the scorpions

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of the earth have power.

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And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any

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green thing, neither any tree, but only those men which have not the seal of God in their

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foreheads.

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So basically everybody else is going to get attacked by them.

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And to them it was given that they should not kill them,

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but that they should be tormented five months.

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And their torment was as the torment of a scorpion

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when he striked at the man.

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So who's ever been stricken by a scorpion before in here?

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Anybody?

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One person.

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OK.

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So I don't know what it feels like, but I'm sure it hurts.

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Because these people want to die.

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They seek death, but they can't find it, so it must be pretty bad.

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And especially if they're just doing it over and over again.

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Like every time you walk out of the house, all of a sudden these locusts are coming after you.

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I mean, this is five months.

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Here's the first timetable we're really given of how long these things take.

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Because we're given, you know, we're just told this trumpet blows and obviously this is a 42 month

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Well not it's not even a full 42 months because these things don't start happening until we're removed from the earth

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That's 75 days after the halfway point. So

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1,335 days into the final seven years

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that's when the plague start hitting and

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so it's almost a full three and a half years, but not quite and

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and so

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This specific one lasts for five months.

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That's like a season and a half.

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That's a long time.

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That's almost fall and winter.

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That's a long, long time for locusts

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to be coming after you anytime you go someplace.

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And I'm glad I'm not one of the beast people,

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because they're the ones that are getting it.

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And so, but let's hold your finger here and we'll switch over to Exodus chapter 10.

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But I was kind of just thinking about like I said earlier, I was thinking about all these

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things in Exodus, how they just kind of mirror, you know, these things in the tribulation

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or the final seven years, the book of Revelation match a lot of those things because again,

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you have two witnesses that come and they're tormenting Egypt.

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Right? When they say, when God tells them, hey, put your staff out and then the things turn to blood

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and you know the water turns to blood, locusts come out, frogs come out, darkness happens,

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the firstborn is dead, just all these different things but a lot of these same plagues are being

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poured on the earth but in a worldwide setting, not on just like a scale of just this one country.

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So, XS1013.

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And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east

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wind upon the land all the day and all the night.

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And it was morning, the east wind brought the locust.

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And the locust went up over all the land of Egypt and rested in all the coast of Egypt.

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Very grievous were they before them.

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There was no such locust as they, neither after them shall be such.

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they covered the face of the whole earth.

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so that the land was darkened, and they did eat every herb of the land and all the fruit of the

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trees which the hail had left. And there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs

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of the field, through all the land of Egypt. Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste,

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and he said, I have sinned against the LORD your God and against you.

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So you have these kind of similar scenarios going on here

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where there's similar plagues because locusts attack them too.

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But in this situation they are just, they're not stabbing people with their scorpion tails

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because these ones don't have scorpion tails.

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These ones are grievous, they're probably bigger than normal ones.

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They're probably just, it says that none come up after them like these ones.

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But I would also say that in Revelation,

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the ones that come out of this pit,

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there's nothing like that that has ever happened before

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or after that will ever happen either.

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So I mean, I'll take the ones from the one in Exodus

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over the ones that these guys are

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having to face in Revelation.

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So again, this is one of the only times

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we get specific timetables on how long a plague lasts.

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And when you think of the number five, it is associated with death in the Bible.

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So that's something to consider.

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And Revelation 9-6, back in our text says,

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And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it,

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and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

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It's like, just kill me. And they're like...

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No, no, no.

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They fake a sting and then they just like,

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that's the last one that was going to kill them or something.

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I don't know. I don't know. I mean,

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how do you seek to die and you just can't die?

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That is kind of strange because it seems like

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people kill themselves all the time.

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And, you know, there's nothing stopping them.

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But this is saying they shall seek to die

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and death shall flee from them.

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and the shapes of the locust.

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So it's going to explain what they look like.

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Now kids, you can do a drawing contest

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if your parents will let you based upon this description.

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And then next week when you come to church,

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show me the locust that whoever has

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the locust that looks the most like this description.

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I don't know.

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If you feel like that's wrong, don't do it.

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But I'm not asking you to make an idol.

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So.

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The shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle, and on their heads were

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as it were crowns like gold." So notice how it's saying it's like. So it's not saying that they

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were horses. It's not saying that they had like this horse body. That's not what it's saying.

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It says that the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle.

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So that means that what? They probably have armor on them.

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But it's not like these devils put little special armor on these locusts or something.

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They probably just look like that.

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They probably have some beefed up body parts or something.

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And there are these mega zord grasshoppers or something.

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These big giant locusts that look like they have battle armor on.

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And on their heads were as it were as it were crowns like gold.

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So they don't literally have crowns of gold on their head.

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They were as it were like crowns of gold.

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And their faces were as the faces of men.

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So that's kind of creepy.

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You have these locusts flying around,

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and they have faces like men.

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But they're probably obviously insects.

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You know how sometimes,

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you

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Some animals can look like they have a human face in a way, or at least fish or whatever.

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Maybe not human, but there's things that can look like they camouflage themselves to look like things.

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I don't know. But I've never seen locusts that have faces of men.

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I mean, that's pretty wild.

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But then it says, and they had hair as the hair of women.

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So, they have a face of men, hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

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So these aren't any regular old locusts.

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I mean, have you ever seen a lion with its teeth bared?

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I mean, that's pretty scary.

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So imagine being chased around by these things.

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That's going to be a pretty scary ordeal, you know, for five months, by the way.

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So these Israelis that are just blowing people up and laughing about it.

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They're going to be the ones running from the locust.

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And God will be laughing at them, apparently.

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So anyway, so these fates.

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But one thing to notice, though, why

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is it saying that they have the hair as hair of women?

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What's the difference between men's hair and women's hair?

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I mean, do women have more coarse hair than men?

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Is it that their hair is more oily than men,

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or men's hair more oily than women?

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What is the difference between the hair here?

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What's the Bible trying to say here?

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They're trying to say, the Bible's trying to say that their hair was long.

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That's what it's trying to say.

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Because you know, women are supposed to have long hair according to 1 Corinthians chapter

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11.

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So, I don't know.

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I think that's what it's saying.

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I mean, I don't know what else it would say.

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What else would it be saying?

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Because women kept long hair back then, just like they should right now.

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Alright, so and it says, and they had, let's see.

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They had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was as the

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sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. So this is a pretty crazy description of these

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things. I mean they look probably pretty freaky already, so the thing of nightmares, and just be

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quiet, you know. If you're not saved, hey be saved so you don't have to run into these things, you

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You know what I mean?

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because this is not something that you want to have chasing you around.

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So when they're, I mean, so it sounds like their wings are just super loud,

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so you can hear them coming. That makes it even more scary.

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You know, they have the, there is that factor of being scared,

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never knowing what's going to come around the corner,

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but there's also the factor of hearing them coming.

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You know they're coming and you're trying to run to get to whatever,

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the next house or whatever.

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You know, I'm thinking post-apocalyptic world here.

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report.

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Current apocalyptic world I guess I should say

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These things are you know, they're just bearing down on people sounded like you know these cherry

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I mean because it's loud when horses are pulling chariots

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I'm sure it's it's a loud deal and it says chariots of many horses running to battle

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So these things are super loud and they have these

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Breast plates of iron that are as it were breastplates of iron. So they're armored up is what it's saying

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So I don't think you could just take your nine millimeter out and blow them to pieces man

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No, I don't think so. I think that they are saying that because they're probably not easy to kill

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Yeah, like aliens one. Yeah, exactly. Don't watch that

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unless you were an adult.

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Okay?

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So it says,

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and they had tails like unto scorpions.

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So they're like them.

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And there were stings in their tails,

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and their power was to hurt men five months,

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just to hurt them, not to kill them.

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And they had a king over them,

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which is the angel of the bottomless pit,

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whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon.

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but in the Greek tongue half his name Apollyon.

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And that is translated into English, would be the destroyer.

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So that's a pretty cool name actually.

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So, but Apollyon or Pastor Shelley as we call him sometimes, the destroyer of the Red Heart

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Preacher Conference.

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But, I don't know, it's a nickname that people have been calling him lately or something.

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But he didn't really destroy the Red Hot Preaching Conference though.

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Let's see, so his name is Apollon or Abaddon in the Hebrew tongue and that name means the

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destroyer.

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So this angel is the king over them and he controls them apparently.

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Verse 12, one woe is past and behold there come two woes more hereafter.

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So remember that angel in the last chapter said, woe, woe, woe unto the inhabitants of

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the earth.

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Because everything is ramping up onto a worse plague.

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And to be chased around by these freaky things for five months would be pretty bad.

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And then they sting you.

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I mean, does it say that there's a limit?

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Like 39 save one stings?

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No.

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They could probably just sit there and sting you like crazy, and you're all stung up, but

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you won't die.

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You'll feel like you want to die. You'll feel you want to die, but then you're like I just can't die

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I'm alive. You know, I don't know. I don't know how it works, but

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They won't be able to die from the stings apparently so just really painful

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now

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So this is a huge plague though and

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This is a tribulation that god puts on the beast and his followers

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And I kind of tend to believe that this is a direct revenge for the tribulation that they put the saints through,

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except for the fact that they don't die.

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See, we...

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Anybody that goes through the tribulation that the devil put the saints through, or even through history has done this,

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and they tortured people and then killed them in horrific ways.

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But God is torturing them and making them live because they don't have everlasting lives.

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So why not just torture them for as long as possible on the earth to get what they deserve?

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And you're like, God wouldn't do that. Yeah, he would. I mean, he already told them in chapter,

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what, chapter six that he was going to avenge them.

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The people that got killed by the beast and got killed in history were asking,

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when are you going to make this right, God?

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So, I think that this is him making it right.

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This is a time that has never been seen before,

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and it is a worldwide plagues that are thrown out by God himself.

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And they've been being cooked up.

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for years. The things that he's had in store have been in store for years for the final judgment.

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It says, let's turn to Revelation 16. Revelation 16. So that first woe is passed,

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but the fifth vial comes after the fifth trumpet. So in the fifth vial, Revelation 16 10 says,

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And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast, and his kingdom was

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full of darkness.

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And they gnawed their tongues for pain, and blasphemed the God of heaven because their

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pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds."

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So would darkness just make you have pains and sores?

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Why do they have pains and sores?

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Why do you think that is?

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you

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Probably all the stings that they're getting right before all this.

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I mean, I never really put that together until now, but like, think about it.

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They have these, they're gnawing their tongues for pain because, you know, when you get stunged

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by these types of creatures, like bee stings will make you have anaphylactic shock, or

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they'll make you, they can make your tongue swell up.

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They can make your throat swell up.

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And you know, you go into, people are allergic to them and will die.

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Some people can die from one beast thing really easily because they're poisonous unto them.

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But I just kind of, I never really thought about it until now, but yeah, they're not.

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So the kingdom is full of darkness.

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So you had the locust and then the darkness follows that plague.

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Right? You know, I don't know how far on top of it, but it seems like they're going through it at the same time.

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or right after, you know.

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And it says they blasphemed God, the God of heaven,

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because of the pains and their sores.

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And if you get a whole bunch of stings on you,

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you're going to have sores probably because of them.

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But it says they repented none of their deeds.

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So they didn't stop doing the wickedness that they're doing.

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They're reprobates, right?

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And so they blat...

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Instead of saying, God have mercy on me, a sinner.

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What are they doing?

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They're just digging in, making it worse,

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hardening their hearts even more,

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stiffening up their necks.

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Exodus 10 verse 21.

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Exodus 10 verse 21.

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So, and it's really interesting because what follows

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after the plague of the locust in Exodus...

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Chapter 10, well, let's look at it. Verse 21, it says,

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And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand toward heaven.

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There may be darkness over the land of Egypt, even darkness which may be felt.

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That's kind of trippy.

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And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven, and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

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They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place.

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for three days, but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

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So see how it's not affecting the children of Israel? Those plagues aren't affecting

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the saved people, which would be equal to in the actual seven-year period that we're talking about

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tonight, that would be the people that have the seal of God on their foreheads. Those things are

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are not happening to them.

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So, but imagine a darkness so thick that you can feel it.

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That sounds really creepy.

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But that's what they experience and this is only three days.

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But it doesn't say how long this experience is happening to people on the earth.

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But it's so, but this darkness is making people not, I mean, they're already got these sores

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that's the, you know, now you can't even see when you're running.

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I mean, now the picture is complete for me.

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So you've got these locusts chasing you and you can't even see them coming because it's

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completely dark.

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I mean, think about that.

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You can't even run.

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How are you going to fight against something that you can't see?

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You know, it's so dark.

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I mean, it would be like, well, just turn the lights on.

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Well, if it's a darkness that's like the darkness in the land of Egypt, your light probably

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doesn't penetrate that darkness.

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That man-made light probably doesn't help.

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So who knows how long that happens for, but it's a pretty bad plague.

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It's bad enough to follow up the locust plague.

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So I mean, just imagine it's so dark that you can't see to do anything.

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In Egypt, they didn't move for three days because they couldn't see.

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Do you think they didn't have candles?

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They didn't have some way to light things.

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It was so dark, they probably couldn't even find a candle.

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And if they did, I mean, what do you think?

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Nobody thought to put an oil lamp somewhere?

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I mean, they probably did, and it probably just

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didn't do anything.

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Probably just couldn't penetrate the darkness

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that God put over it.

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So, and look, these people are reprobates.

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in Revelation. They have taken the mark of the beast. They cannot be saved. They're

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reprobates, as I've heard a preacher say before. Look at Revelation chapter 14. Look,

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there's people that are complete bozos that say that you could take the mark of the beast

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and still be saved. Well, let me just put that to bed right now. Revelation chapter

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Let's see what the Bible says.

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because you can't be.

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Look at Revelation 14, 9.

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It says,

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which is poured out without mixture into the cup of His indignation,

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and He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the

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presence of the Lamb." Does that sound like you could still be saved?

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and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever, and they have no rest day

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nor night.

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who worship the beast and his image and whosoever receive it the mark of his name.

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I mean is that not Michael Jordan from the free throw line with his tongue hanging out?

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That's just a slam dunk on anybody that says you could be saved after taking the mark of the beast.

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And no cutting your head off does not will not undo that.

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Cutting your hand off is not going to fix it because this is not just some

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scan, you know, some barcode that they put on you or something.

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This is something that you have intentionally done willingly.

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And it's not just like skin in your hand to check in at work or something.

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This is something you're worshipping the devil by taking this mark.

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You probably have to bow down in allegiance to it or something to the image of the beast or whatever it is and worship the beast.

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That's what the Bible says actually. Verse 12.

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Here's the patience of the saints.

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Here they which keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus.

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And I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, right blessed are the

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are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth.

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Yea, say it to the Spirit that they may rest from their labors

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and their works do follow them."

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Look, all the things that we do on this earth, all the toil that we do

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for the Lord,

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that stuff follows us to heaven. It's not like you

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don't lose those rewards. The works and the rewards that are everlasting,

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They follow you to heaven.

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you don't lose those.

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So, I mean, I believe that the loss of rewards

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is the things that you could have earned,

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the things you could have done.

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It's just like your rewards programs here on Earth.

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When you buy stuff at 7-Eleven,

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like if you stop buying stuff at 7-Eleven,

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you're gonna stop earning rewards, aren't you?

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Like, well, where's my rewards at?

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Well, you stopped shopping here like, you know,

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two years ago, so your rewards,

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you know, those rewards you still have.

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But the reward, you're still getting rewards for things that you're not doing.

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So it's the same thing here on Earth.

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If you're not continuing to do things that would earn rewards,

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that are everlasting rewards, then you just lose out and you suffer loss.

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Because you were not doing anything to gain those rewards.

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I don't think that you're losing anything that you've already done.

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Because that's an eternal thing.

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you

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How do you lose the eternal reward of getting someone saved and they're saved forever?

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How does that work? Because you don't lose your salvation. They don't lose their salvation.

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But so how do you lose the reward of something that you did that was a righteous act?

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Because that's what God's weaned on the at the judgment seat of Christ.

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You know, wood, hay and stubble. The gains that you make at the gym, that's wood, hay and stubble.

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You know, you're like, well, it just worked out, you know, every day.

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You know, instead of.

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You know, going sewing every day, I'm not saying you even have to do it.

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I'm just saying instead of doing things that would gain you

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rewards, you're like, we have it. I got gains.

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God, I was I was doing gains, man.

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That doesn't mean anything.

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You know, I was a bodybuilder for Christ.

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People could look at my guns and they just knew that I was saved.

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No, that doesn't happen.

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They could see how hard I worked out and they're like, are you a Christian?

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Because you work out pretty hard. No.

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Those are just wood, hay and stubble.

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Yeah, and look, our bodies are finite.

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They're going to, we're going to lose these bodies at some point and we're going to get new bodies.

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So, I mean, and look, I'm not against working out.

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I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that...

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that you're not going to lose eternal rewards,

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you're only going to suffer loss for things that just don't matter.

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Your video games, your bridge club,

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I mean, I'm just randomly throwing things out.

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I was thinking about the bridge club over here.

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Look, those things aren't bad or evil necessarily,

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but they're not also gaining you rewards.

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So.

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Those rewards don't, those works, those labors don't follow you.

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Well, you don't know how hard I worked to beat that level, Pastor Thompson.

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Well, let me tell you something. When I got Mike Tyson's Punch-Out when I was in sixth grade,

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I had a, I had a, it wasn't a Super Nintendo, it was just a Nintendo NES.

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And I got Mike Tyson's Punch-Out was the game that I picked.

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My grandpa bought it for me for Christmas.

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And I was allowed to play for one hour after school every day.

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And then I had to do my homework and then I had to go to football practice or whatever sport I was in.

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So every time I'd get off, I'd go straight down there and I would try to beat Mike Tyson.

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So it took me a while to get to where I could even beat all the guys because some of those guys are pretty hard.

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Like Sotopapinski, the second time, he's pretty hard.

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You know, there's a different pattern you have to get to beat these guys.

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And the second King Hippo or whatever, he's harder.

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You have to look at the blinks in their eyes and then, you know, the punches are coming

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or whatever.

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But Mike Tyson, he would just throw all kinds of crazy barrages at you.

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And if he hit you after a certain time stamp in the beginning of the round, he would just

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knock you down every time with one punch.

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And so if he knocked you down.

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He might just knock you out completely with one punch and then the game's over.

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It's like, I just spent all that time trying to beat that level just to beat Mike Tyson.

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It took me three months of every day coming home from school to beat Mike Tyson.

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And guess how many rewards I'm getting for that in heaven?

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Zero.

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But it sure was fun.

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I think I had to use a cheat code to finally figure out how to beat him.

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But anyway, so look, and how is what Pharaoh is doing, well how is what Pharaoh is doing

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likened unto what the beast is doing?

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Well how come every time it says these woes are happening and stuff and then the people

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are not repenting?

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They are not repenting from the evil works that they are doing.

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They're not repenting from their evil deeds they're doing.

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But Pharaoh would say he was going to do something,

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and then he would take it back immediately.

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And then Pharaoh hardened his heart,

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and he didn't let the people go.

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And so every time there was a plague, they got ramped up,

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and then he would just harden his heart even worse.

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That's what these reprobates are doing too.

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And Pharaoh was a reprobate.

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So you're like, what's a reprobate?

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It's when you're beyond the hope of salvation.

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And reprobates just get worse and worse over time,

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to the point where, you know, because the first thing

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that when Moses said, let my people go,

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that they may serve me, thus saith the Lord.

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And he said, who is the Lord that I should obey his voice?

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I mean, that's a pretty arrogant thing to say.

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He didn't start off on the right foot, that's for sure.

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And so he was just on his way right there and he just was so bad, he even was so obstinate

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that he allowed his son to be killed. You know, he had one son and that son, his son was like

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probably 15 years old or something, and his son died in that plague. And so he didn't have

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anybody to pass it on to but instead of just breaking down and you know saying I'm sorry, you know...

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fall upon mercy what does he do he ramps it up and then goes and tries to kill them after he lets them go I

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Mean, it's just worse and worse and worse

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But there's like one two three four five six

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There's tons of verses that

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I think there's more than that actually, but where Pharaoh just says no, I'm not gonna he he would harden his heart or God would harden

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His heart after he hardened his heart. So and that's what these people in the end times are doing. They're not getting better

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God's just beating them and smoking them and putting worse plagues on them and instead of just being like, oh, there's no more fish to eat

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There's nothing else in the sea left alive

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Oh God, wah, you know, they're just like raging out.

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They're, they're chimping out, I guess,

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is what the term is these days.

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And instead of getting sick, you know,

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but it's too late for them.

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So they just get worse.

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Hebrews 6 for says for is impossible for those who were once enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and were made partakers of

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The Holy Ghost and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come if they shall fall away to

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Renew them again unto repentance seeing they crucify themselves

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To themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame

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For the earth which drinketh in the rain, that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth

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herbs, meat for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessings from God.

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But that which beareth thorns and briars is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing, whose

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end is to be burned.

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But beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation,

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though we thus speak."

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So look, people that.

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have tasted the heavenly gift, they get to the point where they know they should be saved,

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they understand the truth, and then they reject it, there's no renewing them again to that repentance.

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They cannot be saved at that point. They are never going to get to that point again because

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they've rejected the Lord and He's done with them. So I realize that there's other interpretations

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for that, but the Bible, that's what the Bible teaches though. So...

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I mean, that's what happened with Pharaoh.

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That's what happens with any reprobate,

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is that they just, they make a choice in their heart.

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And we were talking to a guy out,

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so on him today, and he was already just ready

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to combat me right when I got to the door.

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He was not like being, he was just like,

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well, let me ask you a question.

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I was like, okay.

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He's like, why don't you come in and play some video games with me, and then we can

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talk equally about things, and then I can show you some things that I know.

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It's just like, he was just a real arrogant type of guy, but he was keeping it semi-cool,

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I guess.

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And then he just had a comeback for everything, and he was just a real proud person.

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And he was basically blaming God for all the Native Americans going to hell.

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if hell's real or whatever.

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But at the end of the conversation,

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he basically told us that he was Native American.

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I kind of figured he was gonna say that

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because he was trying to just get me to admit

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that, yeah, all these Indians went to hell

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that were in America 18,000 years ago.

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It's like, well, I didn't want to even go there

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and say that the world is an 18,000 years old,

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but I just said Native Americans haven't been here

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for that long, but anyway...

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but he...

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you

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He didn't even know his own religion.

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Because the Native American religion is just the peyote religion.

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It's some spiritism combined with Christianity.

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It's a bastardization of Christianity.

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It's doing drugs to see visions.

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And they call it taking peyote, which is a hallucinogenic drug

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that you get from plants that aren't even grown in the United States, without help.

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And they take that and that is them partaking of the Lord's Supper to them.

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And then they go into these sweat lodges and have visions and they let little children

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do it.

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The United States allows them to do these things and let their children take hallucinogenic

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drugs and have these trips or whatever in these, you know, I mean, if you're in a sweat

01:00:12.380 --> 01:00:15.240
lodge with a bunch of people in a dark place, that sounds like hell to me.

01:00:16.100 --> 01:00:20.940
I don't know why you know sweating like that in the sweat lodges just doesn't sound like fun

01:00:21.420 --> 01:00:27.940
But that's what they that's what they do you know and that that their religion. They're like our religion is so old

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No, it's not less than a hundred years old and

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Then I start telling him about you know he was like what word it start. I was I told him it started in I

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Said that started America. He's like oh, yeah, where it's like

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He's asking me questions, he was trying to trip me up or something, but I know more about his own religion than he does.

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And he just, when he realized that was the case, he just shut the door on me.

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I mean, I'm telling him about, because at the end he says, I'm Comanche.

01:00:59.100 --> 01:01:06.100
Because it was Quanah Parker, who was a half-white, half-Indian, the last chief of the Comanches,

01:01:06.100 --> 01:01:08.800
want to make that help make up and push.

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the peyote religion, which all native tribes in the world pretty much,

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I mean, at least in the Americas, and even around the world though,

01:01:19.640 --> 01:01:25.400
they all subscribe to the peyote religion. So, because it got pushed in all these different

01:01:25.400 --> 01:01:29.000
places. And the other guy was like a half white guy, his name was like Robert or something.

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No offense, Robert, but, you know, that's a super Native American name, isn't it?

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So somebody look up the name, somebody look up real quick the name of the starter of the

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Peyote religion real quick because Quan Parker only gets partial credit for it but he was super

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famous. Teddy Roosevelt like gave him a mansion in Oklahoma and he had like seven wives or something

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and when they tried to when they said hey you can only be married to one person at a time here and

01:01:59.160 --> 01:02:00.100
And he's like, well.

01:02:00.500 --> 01:02:02.860
He's like, well, you tell them which one it's going to be,

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or something like that.

01:02:04.260 --> 01:02:06.740
So he was, in other words, saying,

01:02:06.740 --> 01:02:09.860
I'm not divorcing them.

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But he was in movies.

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But when someone shot a native off of a horse from a mile away,

01:02:19.660 --> 01:02:20.900
that's when he gave up his arms.

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He's like, OK, well, I'm done.

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I'm done fighting.

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Because how are you going to win against that?

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Anybody find it?

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John Wilson. Oh, that's a sure native sounding name. What's the other one?

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Big moon.

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That sounds a little more native.

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But John Wilson.

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John Wilson.

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Yeah, that sounds super native, doesn't it?

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Sorry, I said Robert, but I knew it was some really white

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sounding name.

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John Wilson, starter of the peyote religion,

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and Quana Parker.

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I mean.

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Look, people are just so proud and want to fight.

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He's worried about people that went to hell before him.

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He should be.

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Why don't you worry about yourself

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and where you're going?

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And stop worrying about where all your dead relatives went.

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I mean, sorry, but the truth is is that the natives here

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were savages.

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You can get mad about it all you want, but it's just the truth.

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But all that's been whitewashed in history, and they want them to just, they want to just keep

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holding these people down and putting them on reservations and just, you know, cradle to grave

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entitlements and just letting them to themselves and look at what they've just destroyed themselves.

01:03:50.700 --> 01:03:58.420
I mean, there's poverty and death and molestation and murders that go unsolved in these reservations.

01:03:58.420 --> 01:04:00.500
It's not a pretty picture.

01:04:00.500 --> 01:04:05.320
Alcoholism is so bad that some of them have to be completely alcohol-free or they'll just

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all kill themselves.

01:04:06.320 --> 01:04:09.040
It's so bad.

01:04:09.040 --> 01:04:17.700
And I don't know how I got off on that trail, but it's just people like this will just...

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Um.

01:04:18.400 --> 01:04:22.640
They'll just dig in, you know, and that's, well, yeah, the guy we were talking to out there,

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you know, he's just so worried about, you know, beating me in some debate.

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He just doesn't want to listen to the word of God.

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And, you know, he's just more, he's worried about the Pygmies in Africa more than he's

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worried about his own soul, which, you know, we came there to help save,

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you know, we wanted to save the guy. It's not like we're out there just, you know, for our own.

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you know, our own self or something.

01:04:49.200 --> 01:04:52.900
So when we go soul hunting, it's a labor of love,

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and it's something that God really holds in high value.

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But you know, if they don't hold it in high value,

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that's their problem, that's their fault.

01:05:01.240 --> 01:05:03.080
We've done everything we can.

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So let's see, where am I at here?

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The six angels.

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OK.

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Yeah, okay, verse 13 back in our chapter it says,

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And the six angels sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar,

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which is before God, saying to the sixth angel, which had the trumpet,

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Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.

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And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour and a day,

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and a month and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

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So a third of the earth, there's already been a reduced number in the last plagues from last chapter,

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but now it's another third is getting chopped down.

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Which is interesting because verse number 16 says,

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and the number of the army of the horsemen were 200,000,000.

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And I heard the number of them.

01:05:59.900 --> 01:06:03.000
So who are these horsemen?

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Well, these are horsemen.

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that are with these four angels that are loosed,

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and they were in the Euphrates,

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that were prepared for an hour a day, a month, and a year.

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So it says,

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and the number of the army of the horsemen were 200,000,000.

01:06:18.700 --> 01:06:20.400
I heard the number of them.

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So how much is 200,000,000?

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Anybody know?

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200 million. Thank you, Brother Alex.

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He's an engineer.

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So now remember...

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A third of the angels fell from heaven with Lucifer.

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So if there's 200 million angels that are these devils that are,

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this devil horseman army or whatever,

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that is to slay a third of mankind,

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then how many would that be?

01:06:51.980 --> 01:06:56.140
How many, well how many, yeah, so there's 200 million.

01:06:56.140 --> 01:06:58.060
So how many total angels are there?

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based upon that math.

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600 million.

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So there's 600 million angels about.

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I mean, there could be more, give or take,

01:07:09.900 --> 01:07:13.100
but there's about 600 million angels total,

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and a third of them are devils that live here on this earth

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or are cast down on this earth.

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And a lot of them are trapped, and God has them trapped

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or whatever, but at this point, they're let loose.

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And so, I mean, that's a lot of devils.

01:07:29.120 --> 01:07:31.000
200 million?

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I mean, that's almost the population of the United States right now.

01:07:35.840 --> 01:07:38.640
And that's scary, right?

01:07:38.640 --> 01:07:41.680
Verse 17, and thus I saw the horses in the vision,

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and then it sat on them having breastplates of fire,

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of jascent, and brimstone, and the heads of the horses

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were as the heads of lions.

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you

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and out of their mouth issued fire and smoke and brimstone."

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So,

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apparently these horses are different horses than we've ever seen before also.

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I don't know that I've seen horses that look like that before, but

01:08:04.560 --> 01:08:08.000
by these three was the third part

01:08:08.000 --> 01:08:12.760
of men killed. So, the third part of the angels that fell

01:08:12.760 --> 01:08:16.000
are killing a third part of the mankind that's left on the earth.

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God just is not without irony.

01:08:18.800 --> 01:08:24.800
So the third part of the men are killed by the fire and by the smoke and by the brimstone which issued out of their mouth.

01:08:24.800 --> 01:08:30.800
I mean so basically you just have these horses that are just running around just torching people.

01:08:30.800 --> 01:08:35.700
I mean this sounds pretty freaky. It sounds like the freakiest...

01:08:35.900 --> 01:08:38.940
events that we've ever witnessed or heard of in our lives.

01:08:39.540 --> 01:08:45.140
For their powers in their mouth and in their tails, for their tails were like unto serpents and

01:08:45.460 --> 01:08:48.900
had heads and with them they do hurt.

01:08:50.000 --> 01:08:54.000
So when Brother Ramon read serpents earlier, I thought he was mistaken, but he's right.

01:08:54.000 --> 01:08:57.000
I thought it said scorpions and he didn't have his glasses on or something.

01:08:57.000 --> 01:09:00.000
But no, it says serpents.

01:09:00.000 --> 01:09:04.000
And so these specific creatures that they're riding on,

01:09:04.000 --> 01:09:08.000
they have power to hurt from their mouth and their tails.

01:09:08.000 --> 01:09:11.000
I mean, these sound really scary.

01:09:11.000 --> 01:09:15.000
It says, And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues,

01:09:15.300 --> 01:09:21.780
yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils and idols of

01:09:21.780 --> 01:09:28.820
gold and silver and brass and stone, and of wood which neither can see nor hear nor walk.

01:09:29.380 --> 01:09:35.860
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication,

01:09:35.860 --> 01:09:42.740
nor of their thefts." So, I mean, imagine just a population of reprobates left on the earth.

01:09:43.300 --> 01:09:51.300
There's no, you know, the evangelism that's going on is probably, you know, you got 144,000,

01:09:51.300 --> 01:09:59.700
you got that angel that's proclaiming the everlasting gospel, but there's very few and far in between

01:09:59.700 --> 01:10:04.900
that are actually not part of this beast system. And the people that have the mark of the beast

01:10:04.900 --> 01:10:08.820
can't be saved. So it's just pretty godless.

01:10:09.200 --> 01:10:14.320
and pretty evil. And so reprobates, they don't really have any loyalty to each other either,

01:10:14.320 --> 01:10:20.800
necessarily. They probably just have loyalty to the beast. But I mean, reprobates hurting other

01:10:20.800 --> 01:10:25.760
reprobates, they don't have a problem with that. And so who are they killing? Well, I mean, they're

01:10:25.760 --> 01:10:31.920
probably killing whoever they want. They repented not of their murders, nor of their sorceries.

01:10:31.920 --> 01:10:34.560
So they're sorcerers, they're into witchcraft.

01:10:35.000 --> 01:10:39.240
They're into worshipping the devil and their fornication.

01:10:39.240 --> 01:10:42.740
You know, and fornication is a very broad subject,

01:10:42.740 --> 01:10:46.440
but I would assume that a lot of these reprobates are sodomites too.

01:10:46.440 --> 01:10:52.240
So that's involved here and then they're thefts.

01:10:52.240 --> 01:10:58.140
So these people that are left over are not the kind of people that you want to be left behind with.

01:10:58.140 --> 01:11:01.140
You know, I'm falling on my sword if that was me.

01:11:01.140 --> 01:11:02.640
So just saying.

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they come anywhere near me I'm like okay you know thrust me through somebody kill me I don't want

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to deal with these freaks so anyway that's Revelation chapter 9 and then we'll we'll continue on next

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week with Revelation chapter 10 but I mean

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This stuff's really gnarly. I get that. It's a lot to take in. There's a lot of imagery here.

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Things that, like, we won't know until we actually see what they actually look like.

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These descriptions are pretty crazy.

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You know, snake tails and lion's heads and they can breathe fire and brimstone out and they can kill people with it.

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It's like, it's pretty wild.

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The fact that they just, you know, it shouldn't surprise me because they are reprobates, but

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that they don't repent of these evil things. Because people can still, they can repent of

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doing wicked things and still not be saved because people quit drinking all the time and

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they're not saved. People quit smoking and they, I mean people, they quit a lot of things,

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a lot of vices without being saved.

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but to be so brazen and so bold as to just throw it in God's face and blaspheme him,

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it's like the days of the Exodus but magnified times a million or whatever. So these

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creatures that come out, these demons that come out,

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It's a scary time for the earth, but we are not going to be here for that.

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I mean, that's one thing I like, you know, in the old life be either like, we're not

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going to be here for any of this.

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That's not true.

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We're going to be here for some of it, or if we're still alive at that time, whenever

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it happens.

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But we're not going to be here for this part.

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We're not going to be here for the wrath of God because we are not appointed under

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wrath.

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but to obtain salvation of our Lord Jesus Christ. So let's pray. Lord, thank you so much for the

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people who got saved today and thank you so much for our people and the faithfulness. Lord, I pray

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that you just bless our church, bless the weather this week, and help us to reach out to someone that

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needs to be saved and that we would do some extra things for you Lord and whatever that might be.

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pray that you'd help us to be zealous unto good works and that we would

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provoke each other by coming to church and that we would provoke each other

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unto love and good works. And we love you Lord.

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We thank you for our salvation. We thank you that we don't have to endure

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the things that this earth is going to have to endure. And we thank you for

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the vengeance that you give. And we thank you for

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saving us Lord. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.

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And now for our closing song, please turn in your blue songbooks to page 144.

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He is able to deliver thee.

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That is your blue songbooks, 144.

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He is able to deliver thee.

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first. Tis the grandest theme through the ages rung. Tis the grandest theme for a mortal tongue.

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Tis the grandest theme that the world e'er sung out.

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Let's start.

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to the

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Tis the grandest theme for a mortal strain.

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Tis the grandest theme.

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Let the tidings roll To the guilty heart,

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To the sinful soul.

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Look to God in the eyes of the Lord.

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And Brother Amon, would you close us in a word of prayer?

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Amen. Thank you for coming. We are dismissed.