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