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That we could find many people that need to hear the gospel and we could get them saved. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. That's all I have as far as announcements. We'll go ahead and sing our psalm of the week, psalm 15. The special handout we have has psalm 15. Also, you could use your Bible. Psalm 15. All right everyone, that is psalm chapter 15. Sing it out all together. Lord, who shall abide in thy tender land? Who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. He that hath mighteth not with his tongue, nor to lend evil to his anger, nor to love for coach against his behavior. He that hath mighteth not with his tongue, in his eyes a vile person is content, but he honours in them that fear the Lord. In his eyes a vile person is content, but he honours in them that fear the Lord. In his eyes a vile person is content, but he honours in them that fear the Lord. In his eyes a vile person is content, but he honours in them that fear the Lord. In his eyes a vile person is content, but he honours in them that fear the Lord. In his eyes a vile person is content, but he honours in them that fear the Lord. In his eyes a vile person is content, but he honours in them that fear the Lord. Chapter 17 Chapter 17 Revelation chapter 17 So he carried me away in the 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. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication. And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her I wondered with great admiration, and the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. The beast that thou sawest was, and is not, and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition, and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is, and is not, and yet is. And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings, five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come, and when he cometh he must continue a short space. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seventh, and goeth into perdition. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet, but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. These shall make war with the lamb, and the lamb shall overcome them, for he is lord of lords, and king of kings, and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful. And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the horse sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate, and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfill his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled. And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you for Revelation chapter 17, Lord. I pray that you fill Pastor Shelley with your spirit, Lord, and that we'd be able to learn from this chapter and make applicable changes in our lives. Praise in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Last week we were going through the wrath of God that was being poured out. And the wrath of God being poured out is seven vile judgments, seven trumpet judgments. And that kind of encaps that final second half period of Daniel's 70th week when we talk about the end times. And chapter 17 is still chronological, but a large portion of chapter 17 is just kind of giving us some back story and just kind of filling in some details about the whore that's about to be judged. So it's not necessarily deviating from our chronology because Babylon is going to be destroyed as kind of a final judgment after those seven vials are poured out. However, it's just that it's going to give us a lot of information about the whore specifically before it deals with its destruction. It says in verse 1, And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither, and I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters. So there's seven angels that have the seven vile judgments. They've poured out their judgments in the previous chapter. One of them is coming and talking to John and explaining to him who this whore is that's about to be judged. Now, of course, a lot of things that are happening in the book of Revelation are kind of symbolic or just visions that John's seeing, and they symbolize things that are going to happen in the future. And so he's kind of seeing this interesting picture of a literal whore, and he's seeing a beast, and he's seeing these heads and horns, but they represent different things. Now Babylon is actually described in the Old Testament as well. Keep your finger here and go to Jeremiah 51. Go to Jeremiah 51. It says that the great whore sitteth upon many waters. Now, you might think initially that that's just talking about water itself or the seas or the oceans or something, but in the latter end of that chapter, it tells us exactly what it means. And honestly, chapter 17 is really convenient because it gives us all this symbolic language and all these different visions, and then the second half of the chapter is telling you exactly what all that means. So we don't even have to wonder what it's meaning. We know exactly what it means. In Jeremiah 51, the Bible is talking about Babylon. Now, because the Bible is able to have dual fulfillment, not everything in Jeremiah 51 relates to the end times Babylon. And vice versa, not everything that is in Jeremiah 51 relates to the current state of that Babylon. So there's crossover, there's applications just for that time period, and there's applications that are just for the future. But there's going to be a lot of similarities, and that's why God uses this terminology to kind of help us see, okay, this is similar to things that have happened in the past. Now, in Jeremiah 51, I want to go back just a few verses. Let's look at verse number seven for a moment. Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord's hand that made all the earth drunken. The nations have drunken of her wine, therefore the nations are mad. Now, what's interesting about this is how God's kind of describing Babylon being a tool that he's using to accomplish his will. And his will, according to this, is to make the nations drink of her wine and for the nations to be mad. And so it's just kind of that mad is just another way of describing that they're crazy or that they're drunk or that they're foolish. You know, when we think of if we talked about someone and said that this person's mad, often we're thinking of angry. But another application of the word mad is like crazy or they've done they're doing something foolish or something stupid even. And you would say like, man, this person's mad that they are in the sense that they're crazy or they've gone insane or they're just out of their mind. That's another application of mad. And it's basically alluding to the idea of when someone drinks alcohol, a lot of times they become mad, not just angry, but out of their mind, foolish, making a lot of crazy decisions. And they've just kind of gone insane temporarily. And so he's trying to describe how he's used Babylon to cause other nations to do the same thing. Verse 8, Babylon has suddenly fallen and destroyed. How for her? Take balm for her pain. If so be, she may be healed. We would have healed Babylon, but she has not healed. Forsake her and let us go, everyone, into his own country, for her judgment reaches unto heaven and is lifted up even to the skies. The Lord has brought forth our righteousness. Come and let us declare in Zion the work of the Lord our God. Make bright the arrows. Gather the shields. The Lord has raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes, for his device is against Babylon to destroy it. Because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple. Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon. Make the watch strong. Set up the watchmen. Prepare the ambushes. For the Lord hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon. O thou that dwells upon many waters, abundant in treasures, thine end is come and the measure of thy covetousness. Now what's interesting is how much overlaps and how many things are very similar. What's interesting about Babylon specifically is when you study the Old Testament, you'll notice that Babylon is destroyed very quickly. In fact, one day. You have the writing on the wall, is kind of the famous phrase, where Daniel's brought in to translate this writing that's been put on the wall. And it's basically just telling them that they're destroyed, that they're doomed. And in fact, the Bible says in that night, after he translates it, and he's basically saying, you know, you've been found wanting, and that they're going to be destroyed, then that night, the Babylonian kingdom is wiped out by the Medo-Persian empire, and they've just kind of taken over, just all of a sudden. This is similar to how the Bible describes the end times Babylon, that it's going to be destroyed suddenly. That it's just going to be a very quick, sudden, and complete destruction, just like overnight essentially, and just a very quick period of time. Additionally, when it talks about Babylon, it's talking about, you know, her judgment reaching up to the skies. The Bible kind of describes it being burned or destroyed in the sense where it's literally going up into the skies. Also, what I think is pretty interesting is, in verse 11, it said, for his devices against Babylon to destroy it, because it is the vengeance of the Lord, the vengeance of his temple. Now, the Babylonian kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar, they came into Jerusalem, and they destroyed the temple. They desecrated the temple, and they destroyed it. So God's saying, my vengeance is to repay them for having destroyed my temple, so I'm judging them. What's interesting is how the end times Babylon kind of has a similar parallel, in the sense that the Antichrist is going to go into the Lord's temple, and he's going to proclaim himself as God, and he's going to also desecrate the temple and commit the abomination of desolation, and so God is judging, you know, again, the beast and the kingdom for doing that. Now, the Antichrist is not necessarily Babylon, but he used Babylon to get to that place, to then proclaim himself, and to have that abomination of desolation. So by extension, I believe it's kind of the same way, how the Babylonian kingdom brought Nebuchadnezzar to the place to destroy the city of Jerusalem, and in a similar vein, God is going to judge Babylon for the destruction of, or the vengeance on the temple. I don't know why I'm getting so much feedback. Also, verse 13 brings up, You know, again, the many waters is a description of many peoples. Now, I think in the Old Testament, the Old Testament Babylon, this could have probably been understood too by the fact that the Babylonian kingdom was marching through the land and devouring just virtually every kingdom. I'm sure in that process they're accumulating a large number of different people groups, because whenever you come in, you conquer some kind of a nation, essentially you either have to join their army or be slain or be killed. So a lot of times it's a culmination. They're just gathering up and heaping up to themselves all kinds of different nations and armies and groups of people, and so Babylon's a conglomerate of lots of different groups and people. Well, similarly, saying the end times Babylon is going to be kind of a conglomerate of people. It's going to have all kinds of different groups all gathered together as one. This is that particular horror that it's upon many waters. Now, I think it's very likely that we could be in an end times timeline, that the end times could be near. They may be still hundreds of years, who knows? But if it happens sometime near our lifetime, it would make sense that it's America, and America fits the bill perfectly, and America is also a nation that is based upon many waters. If you were to try and say, what is the nationality of America? Like, who are Americans? We really don't have any specific just, well, we're this ethnicity. We can't just say, like, we're English, or we can't just say we're German, or we can't just say we're Irish, or we can't just say we're Native Americans, or we can't just... You know, America's really just a huge mix of virtually all of Europe. I mean, it's Spanish, German, French, Irish, some of the Scandinavian countries. There's going to be even people groups from other parts of the world, especially nowadays. We even have virtually everybody from every nation at this point. But especially even in the early stages of America's history, you know, we were a conglomerate of a lot of European nations. It wasn't just one group. Louisiana was heavily influenced by the French. You have Texas being heavily influenced by the Spanish, specifically. They built many Spanish missions here, and so the Spanish had a big influence. And then, of course, the New England colonies, they're heavily influenced from Europe, as far as UK, Britain, obviously the Church of England. They're heavily influenced by Switzerland, Germans. Germans really had a big influence in places like Pennsylvania and other areas. So you have just a huge conglomerate of just all these various people groups, and really you could never say that America was just, well, we're just the Germans, or we're just the Irish, or we're just the French. It's like it's always been a mix. It's always been a giant group, and today it's never been more diverse than today. I mean, you literally have people from every continent, Asia, Africa, Europe, Japan, Russia, I mean, Australia, I mean, you name it. Even usually in our church, if we got all the members together, I guarantee we could represent a lot of different countries if we go back just a few generations. We say, like, where are your parents from or your grandparents from? I bet we could trace all kinds of different continents, all kinds of different countries, all over the place. AI Canada exists, okay. Some people are Canadian, too. You're just French, French light, okay. But again, it's like America is not really even like Canada, because Canada is pretty much just French. Now, today it's just like everything, too. It's just all kinds of crazy stuff. But for the longest time, Canada was mostly just French. Mexico was mostly just the Spanish mixed in with the indigenous people, and they became the Mexicans, essentially. But, you know, America isn't really just coming from one particular funnel. It's really just like all kinds of people groups. It's always been many people, and it today is even more than it's ever been. So it really fits this concept of the Babylonian concept of a nation built upon many waters, upon many people groups. And what are the other descriptions mentioned here? Abundant and treasures. Oh, yeah, I wonder what nation is abundant in treasures. How about America? The richest nation on earth, filled with the most exotic treasures. Additionally, it even says this, the measure of thy covetousness. I mean, I wonder what country in the world seems to be the most covetous, if we were to really try and measure that. Yeah, America's really fitting this bill pretty well, isn't it? Go back to Revelation, chapter number 17. Go back to Revelation, chapter number 17. And let's skip down for just a second, but skip down to verse 15. The Bible says this, And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the horse itteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. Not only that, it's describing multiple languages. That's crazy. It's crazy to think of a country having multiple tongues. Because this is not normal. There are some other examples of this, but for the most part, when you think about times past, and we wind the clock back a little bit, I mean, you would think if you go to Germany, you're going to hear German. You know, you go to France, you're going to hear French. You go to virtually any country. Russia, you're going to hear Russian, right? You're going to have pretty much the main dialect. But you know, in America today, while English is our predominant language, there are sections of America where you go, and it's only Spanish. There's Chinatown. There's all kinds of different parts of America where people are speaking all kinds of various languages, and we really have a pretty big mix of languages here in America, a lot of people speaking a lot of different languages, a lot of mixture and all kinds of crazy things, where you don't really see that as much in other parts of the world. You go to other parts of the world, they pretty much speak their country's language, and then maybe English. Maybe English. Of course, maybe some exceptions to this would be things like India. I think India, a lot of people there speak maybe Hindi and then like a local or native tongue, and then they might speak English on top of that. But again, it's still kind of based on that particular region. Their dialects are kind of based on that particular region and that particular area, whereas America has virtually every diverse kind of dialect. They have the Mandarin dialect, and then they have American, and then they have Spanish, and then they have, I'm sorry, American. English is what I meant by that. English, but again, it's just like you go in different parts of America, you'll find areas where they're not speaking English. You can even find Arabic, which is crazy, but you can find all kinds. Go to Houston, and you'll just go to an apartment complex, and it's like all Arabic, and you go to the next one, it's all Hindi, and you go to the next one, it's all Spanish, and you go to the next one, and it's just like, it's crazy. It's Ebonics, that's a different kind of language, but that's the one that's actually receptive at least, okay. But it's just crazy to think about how America really does fit this bill. Every time we look at what the Bible is saying here, you can see how that could be potentially what America is being described as, and it's unique that other countries in the world aren't fitting all these bills. Yeah, maybe they fit a few of these, but they're not fitting all of them. It's like India. Yeah, maybe they have a lot of languages there, but do they really have all the treasures, and are they really in charge of the whole world, and are they really the one that is influencing everybody? I know people like their videos. No, I'm just kidding. Nobody likes their videos. But they're actually, I think they're like the number one channel on YouTube. I think it's like an Indian-based channel or something like that. What is it? T-Series, yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's crazy how they have like one of the most, number one channels, but that's because, you know, there's a billion of them, and they have nothing better to do so they all watch the same channel, alright? So that's how it works. Look at verse 2. The Bible says this, With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of their fornication. So it's saying that specifically all the rich people, all the leaders of the world, have somehow committed fornication with this country, and they have some kind of business deal with this country. And I feel like that's a world view or a foreign economic policy that sometimes people miss because they'll talk about like, well, I feel like America is being influenced by China. And they're like, no, no, no, I feel like they're being influenced by Russia. No, no, no, I feel like they're being influenced by Israel. No, I feel like they're being influenced by, you know, some other country that they want to bring up. And it's like, the answer is just yes. It's like, yes, our country probably is being influenced by China. Yes, it is being influenced by Russia. Yes, it is being influenced by Israel. It's like all the kings of the earth have been committing fornication with America. All of the kings of the earth have been getting their hands dirty into foreign policy, into the secrets, and making business deals with all kinds of companies and trying to push their particular agenda on America. Just like, literally, how a whore works. How a whore, it's like, no, no, I thought she was with this person. Yes. And I thought she was with this person. Yes. It's not like she's exclusive to one customer. No, she has lots of customers. And some customers are more prevalent than others, more prolific, maybe have abused her worse, but at the same time, they've all gotten a share. They've all gotten a chance to take advantage of her, and they've committed fornication with her specifically. It says that the earth's been made drunk with the wine of her fornication. This is what I think is interesting. It sounds like, when we read this, that it's like Babylon's getting people drunk, and she's, like, causing all this. But when we read in Jeremiah 51, the Bible says that God was doing it, didn't it? And it's like God is using that tool to kind of make these nations mad. And I think that we have to understand that sometimes God allows bad people to do bad things to still accomplish His will. And that sounds weird. I'm not a Calvinist, so I would never say that bad things are somehow giving glory to God. That's the Calvinist view. But I would say this, that sometimes God allows bad things to happen, or bad people to do bad things, so that He can accomplish a good thing, or as a judgment. Because if you're going to be wicked and you're going to rebel against God, then God may cause some whore to come down your path and to destroy you and to ruin you and to cause you to get drunk and to cause you to get mad and to cause you to basically be punished through her actions. He says, hey, you want to go down that path? Well, then I'll take you down that path, and I'll lead you down this path of destruction. And you think that you're the one that's going to reap the benefits of this, but you're really going to reap sorrow and pain and woe. You know, the children in this room, if you decide to forsake your parents' instruction, if you decide to not do what the Bible says, and you say, hey, I just want to go out there and have some fun, don't think that God won't allow you to go out there and have some fun in your mind. God will allow you to sin. God's going to allow you to go down a dark road. But you know what? Many times he may let you go down that dark road to bring you to a really bitter end, a bitter end of horrible destruction and woe and sorrow. You know, God gives us a ton of freedom. God allows people to go out there and do whatever they want for the most part, but the problem is when he finally judges, it's a swift and complete destruction. And, you know, some sins even have built-in punishments. Fornication is one that has a built-in punishment because you have the baggage of that potential relationship. When we talk about it from a carnal perspective, you can potentially bring with you diseases even. Diseases, bastard children, broken relationships, physical abuse. There's all kinds of damage you can do to your body. You can mentally damage yourself. You can become dysfunctional in these relationships forever. Like, there's just so much damage and destruction, and that's just the carnal thing. God's just going to let... That's just the sampler to what God could then bring upon you when you go down this dark road. And nations that do such a thing where they get involved with other nations and they're committing all these grievous sins, yeah, there's going to be a lot of baggage. These foreign governments that have nestled their way into America, yeah, there's going to be a lot of baggage from doing so, a lot of evil, because then all of a sudden when they don't like you, now they have the CIA coming in and overthrowing your government and replacing you. You don't think that happens? You don't think that foreign government officials or foreign kings or foreign leaders have tried to nestle their way into American politics and they got caught with their hand in the cookie jar and then the CIA comes in and just completely replaces them, comes and takes their whole family out in the middle of the night. Happens all the time, folks, because there's no such thing as a free lunch and these people are going to get what's coming to them. And God used Babylon to destroy all the other nations and cause all kinds of evil to be poured out on them and then he waited and he's like, all right, now it's your turn. So sometimes God is saying, hey, I'm going to use this really evil person to punish you and then as soon as I'm done punishing all of you, now I'm going to punish them. It's kind of like how he uses the devil. God uses the devil to punish people, but eventually the devil is going to get what's coming to him too, okay? But it doesn't mean that God somehow is getting glory out of bad things happening or evil things happening. It's a punishment. It's just a punishment and it ultimately shows his justice and how you reap what you sow, but at the end of the day, sometimes people think they're in the driver's seat and they're really not. Let me explain something. Hollywood thinks they're in the driver's seat and they're not. Jews think that they're in the driver's seat and they're not. The devil thinks that he's in the driver's seat and he is not. The only person in the driver's seat is God and God is the one that's allowing all these things to happen and many times we think of people knowing what they're doing and they get so prideful, they think that they're somehow accomplishing some great thing like, Oh, look, I can rebel against God. He's letting me do whatever I want. Yeah, but you don't know he's wanting you to do that. He's allowing you to do that. It's not that you're getting away with something. Oh, look, I can resist God's will. No, you can't. Whatever God wants to happen will happen every single time in an ultimate final sense. And so he is the one that's allowing these nations to essentially expose themselves and go down a dark road. So again, we're using a lot of symbolism here. It's going to explain this in a minute. Verse 4, And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness. I don't know what's going on with that. Of her fornication. So according to the Bible, again, this woman is described as being very decadent. All the kinds of the best luxuries of this world. Purple. Scarlet's also considered a color of royalty or riches. Gold. Precious stones. Pearls. She has a golden cup. But notice what's in the cup. It's full of abominations. And it's trying to describe, there's a city, there's a particular area, there's a particular country that's full of abominations. It just has every abomination and it's full of them. Just all the worst kind of abominations. Verse 5, And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon the Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth. So it's saying, it's like this place is an originator of evil. Like this place is somehow shipping out the worst kinds of filth, the worst kinds of abomination, and just harlots. I'll say something. It seems like America is exploding with harlots more than I've ever seen before. Like, it almost seems like our current generation of young women are just the most whorish generation that America's ever seen. Just more harlots than ever before, girls going on TikTok and bragging about how much of a whore they are, making it a competition to see how many people that they can commit whoredom with. And, you know, sometimes we don't realize that America is like the number one exporter of a lot of this filth. We're the number one exporter of pornography. We're like the number one consumer and exporter of pornography. We're the number one in infidelity. They looked at all the countries and they said, hey, who has the highest infidelity rates? And a lot of articles are saying America's number one. And I don't understand how they calculate this number. I don't even know what it means entirely. But they were saying of single and married people, 71% are committing infidelity. 71%. That's insane to me. And what was really crazy about this particular article that I saw is the next few were mostly like European countries. I think, you know, forgive me if I get them wrong, but just off the top of my head there were countries like Germany or France or the UK, some of those. I think Australia also might be up there. But they were somewhat close to us, maybe like high 60s, low 60s. But then after you got about five or six down, the numbers changed dramatically. Instead of being like 70%, it's now like 50 and then 40 and like 30. It's just like America really stands out and a couple other European nations as just having just insane, insane infidelity rates amongst single and married people. Crazy numbers. We're shipping out all kinds of stuff through Hollywood. Our music and our movies are literally everywhere in the world. I mean I don't care where you go in this world. When you visit, I mean if you go to the Philippines, you know you're going to see McDonald's and you're going to hear like Britney Spears and whatever on the radio while you're there. Like you go anywhere, it's just American music, American movies, American t-shirts, American restaurants. I mean I don't care if you go to Australia. I don't care if you go to the Philippines. I don't care if you go to Europe. I don't care if you go to Africa. I don't care where you go. I mean we went to Bahamas and it was funny, I'm thinking like I don't know what we're going to eat and they're like oh well we have Marco's Pizza. I'm thinking like Marco's Pizza is the Bahamas? I'm like how did, I mean you just, it's like we have just our claws into every other nation in the world. Our tentacles have stretched out and they're literally everywhere. It's crazy what's going on. And it's saying that this specific area is the mother of harlots and abominations. Basically encouraging not just the youth of our country, but emboldening the young ladies of other countries and other parts of the world to follow like suit, to dress like American women. Let me tell you something, American women dress like horse. They dress like harlots. Other countries, other nations, it's shameful to dress like American women dress. It's embarrassing. But you know what? Women all over this world are being emboldened to dress like whores and to act like whores because of American women and because of America specifically. And I haven't even talked about one abomination. How about faggots? You want to talk about a nation filled with faggots and homosexuals and pushing a homosexual agenda? That's America. You want to talk about a nation full of abomination? It's America where literally we have trannies representing our government. We have literal sodomites and faggots like Pete Buttigieg representing our country. What is he? Over the transportation or something? The Department of Transportation? The Secretary of Transportation? I mean the guy should be lined up against the wall and shot in the head by our government. And if you know our government wouldn't do it, I would volunteer for free. I mean it's disgusting how abominable our country and our nation is. We have some of the worst places in the world. San Francisco, New York City, L.A. filled with literal faggots. You know what's destroying Texas? Austin. Because it's filled with faggots. I mean there's so many fags everywhere. Even Dallas has a little street over here. Cedar Springs. And there's this disgusting little street over here where they have the rainbow flag and all of the street corners. I mean it's literally, our nation is representing fags at such an extreme rate. We're having, in Dallas, in Dallas we're having drag queens presenting themselves in front of children. And the cops aren't even doing anything about it. I mean, just an average citizen of many Muslim countries would take the law into their own hands and deal with that situation. But our actual law enforcement will do literally nothing. In fact, we even have law enforcement officials who are literal open sodomite faggots. When we were in Watauga, one of the police officers over there was an open sodomite. What was this faggot's name? I can't even remember this stupid faggot's name. I hate them and I don't want to remember their name. I'll think about it in a minute. But here's the thing. This is insane. We live in an insane world where we have literal open sodomites. I mean, in Texas in 2003, it was illegal to be a fag. It was illegal. You would be arrested for being a homosexual. And fast forward 20 years, now he's the literal cop. I mean, that's insane, folks. That's insane, the rapid expansion of where we're going. You go to all kinds of other parts of the world and America is trying to force and twist the arms of other countries into accepting homosexuality and accepting sodomy. You have Texas elected officials like Ted Cruz getting up and condemning Uganda for having laws against sodomy. You know, specifically Uganda had the death penalty if a homosexual molested a child. The death penalty if they act, not just for being a sodomite, for molesting a child. And Ted Cruz said that that was an abomination. And of course, the U.S. is constantly putting sanctions on foreign countries, on other nations who are not accepting of sodomy and of this filth and of this abomination. I mean, there's all this political pressure. There's pressure that the CIA might just come in and do a coup d'etat and just overthrow the kings of other nations. They might just twist the arm of them so much economically and destroy them economically for not accepting sodomy. I mean, America is literally shipping and exporting sodomy at will. You don't even understand what's really going on in the world, how bad it really is. I mean, we are the worst in this category. Not only that, we have to be one of the most, you know, egregious of importing human trafficking. I mean, when you talk about the abominations of the earth, when you talk about the worst of the worst, we are the top of the food chain here, of just the worst people, the worst filth, the worst sinners, and even just promoting it, trying to encourage other nations to do it, trying to involve other people in it. And that's what a whore is. A whore is the most filthy and disgusting person, and they're trying to corrupt everybody else. She's trying to drag everybody else down with her, everybody to be corrupted by her, everybody else to be defiled with her. And, you know, as soon as she gets them a little defiled, she'll move on because she doesn't actually care about them. She just wants to destroy the innocent. She's going to hunt for the precious life. And you know what? That's what America is doing, is just trying to corrupt nations and make everyone disgusting and filthy like it is. Who wants some apple pie now? Oh, America is just so wonderful. You know, I can't wait to get a flag and wrap it around my body and just sing, God bless America. It's like, what do you think that we're exporting? You know what's so funny to me? How many Christians, they'll say like, we should boycott Starbucks, you know, because Starbucks supports fags or whatever. Or Starbucks doesn't support marriage between one man and one woman. We should boycott them, or we should boycott Target. It's like, okay, let's talk about America. What does America support? What does America represent? Are you going to boycott America? Yeah, they would love to just sit here and sing about how great America is, and then be like, but I'm going to boycott Target, you know. They don't even get it. They don't even understand what's really going on. It's a decoy, folks. Our nation is wicked as hell, and people just don't want to face the facts because they just want to live in the past. They just want to think about, no, it's just great and just wonderful, and Donald Trump's going to bring us back to this wonderful state. Oh, the guy that literally shut down every single business in America? The guy that said that he's going to fight for LGBT rights against extremist religions? Oh, the guy that says he's going to let Caitlyn Jenner use whatever bathroom it wants? Yeah, if we get Trump in there, boy, I'm sure everything will go hunky-dory. I don't even think he's going to get in there, even if he did. It's cool if you don't recognize that America is headed down into hell. We are full of abominations. And let me say this. Even if we're not at Babylon, we are doomed. We are doomed as a nation. I'm going to get to that point in a minute. Let's keep reading here, though. Verse 6, and I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus, and when I saw her, I wondered with great abomination. I've talked about a lot of bad stuff. There's something that hasn't happened yet, but whatever country or whatever city is Babylon is going to add, on top of all the horrible things that it's doing, martyrdom, just extreme martyrdom, just slaughtering of Christians like you've never seen before. Let me tell you something. God's going to be really angry about that. You say, like, well, that would never happen in America. Well, did you know in South Dakota and in Georgia, they just passed a new legislation on anti-Semitism? Now, if you read their legislation, it's virtually like two lines or three lines. It's like almost nothing. What it says is it says, we have decided to adopt for legal proceedings this definition of anti-Semitism written by this particular Holocaust organization. So then you go and read what definition they accepted from this Holocaust website, and it says these things are anti-Semitism. It just gives a long list of things. It's like if you think that Jews control banks, you're an anti-Semite. If you think that the Holocaust may have been exaggerated, you're an anti-Semite. Then it says this. If you say things like this, and it gives multiple quotes of things that you would say, things like the Jews killed Jesus, then you are now in violation of their code of anti-Semitism. So South Dakota, your favorite Republican governor, Kristi Noem, who's literally making it illegal to say a statement like, Jews killed Jesus. I wish she was my governor so I could write her a letter with that. I would just write her a letter that specifically says, I might even just do it anyways and send it to her and just say, hey, maybe I can visit sometime. The Jews killed Jesus, Kristi. Oh, you're an anti-Semitic. Yeah, pretty soon they might start arresting you for reading the Bible out loud. Now, I know a bunch of people aren't going to have a problem with that because they're a Zionist fool, so they're not going to get up and actually say what the Bible says. They're not going to read 1 Thessalonians out loud. They probably don't even like that book anyways. They're going to just cherry pick things out of the... They might start reading the Talmud before they start reading that. I mean, it's insane what's going on in our country, but let me tell you something. Real Christians are going to stand strong and they're going to be slaughtered in a nation that's... The censorship is out of control, folks. I believe Florida has already done something similar to this and these people are just on the back end heels. You say, well, that's unconstitutional. Yeah, it is. You know what? There's a lot of unconstitutional things happening in our country. How about the fact that you can't even own a firearm in certain states that has... Oh, well, it has too many bullets in its mag. It's like, what are you talking about? You really think that the Constitution was saying, well, we don't want to infringe on your right to bear arms unless it has too many bullets in the mag, or bump stocks, or we don't want it to actually fire rapidly or anything like that. I mean, no, there are so many unconstitutional laws in our country right now, you would have to be a fool again not to realize how much the Constitution doesn't even exist. The Constitution's been gone for a long time, folks. Well, I think that you're a fear monger. I'm not trying to be a fear monger. I just want you to be real and recognize that there could be some real persecution headed down the pike, where you can't say anything about the Jews. And you know why I think that's such a big deal is because there's been a lot of noticing going on lately, where people recognize, they say, hey, the BLM, if you follow that tentacle, it goes back to Jews. And then they're like, oh, banks are really bad, and you follow that tentacle, and it's like Jews again. And then you see, like, AIPAC, oh, Jews, the presidential cabinet, oh, Jews, oh, Hollywood, oh, Jews, oh. It's just like, oh, man. And then you notice there's, like, this octopus head of Jews with their tentacles everywhere. And it's not just Christians that are noticing. A lot of people are noticing. And October 7th of last year, there was a big propaganda event where you're trying to feel bad for Israel, and it's almost like the exact opposite happened where a lot of Americans were saying, like, I don't think Israel's the victim that they keep making themselves out to be. And here's the thing. When you corner someone and you put them there and they have no other option, they start doing drastic things. They start doing crazy things. And you know what? I guarantee that most Jews right now, they're terrified of how much noticing's going on, and they're going to want to put the brakes on them. Now, most, normally, citizens, they'll just start adopting weird language. They'll be like, you know, got to watch out for Brazilians or tiny hats or whatever. But Christians are going to still read the Bible. They're going to still read the Bible out loud. They're going to still say what the Bible says. And you know what? Persecution might actually start with the house of God on that particular issue. And you know what? I'm ready for it. I'm ready. Bring it on! Why would I want to sit here and be like, I just want to hide in Babylon? You know, the only reason that we even have free speech is that people used it. You know, some of our founding fathers said, give me liberty or give me death. And I feel like so many Americans don't feel that way at all. They're like, give me shackles and tick-tock and I'll be good. You know, it's like they don't really care about freedom at all or liberty. The baby boomer generation has sold out America and doesn't care about freedom or liberty. But you know, we need some people to stand up and push back if we want to have real liberty in this country. Otherwise, you know, we're just doomed for another reason. But I'm telling you this, you know what? The blood of martyrs of Jesus Christ, that's a real thing. There are going to be a lot of people that die in the future for the cause of Christ specifically. A ton, a ton of people are going to die by Babylon. And that would make sense because you know what? Where is the vast majority of Christians today? America. America has the most Christians and America. Now, I have no idea what's going to happen. I'm committed to this country and I want to stay here to the bitter end. But I just wonder and I could be totally wrong. This is a side thought. I've just wondered if God's going to make the persecution so bad in America quickly enough that anybody that actually believes the Bible is just going to leave. And I'm not saying this, you know, because it's for sure true. I'm just hypothesizing. So if this doesn't happen, don't worry about it. This is what I thought. The pre-tribbers, they're going to stay here no matter what, okay? But think about it this way. If they make it soul winning illegal, the pre-tribbers are still going to continue being their pre-trib, I do nothing for Christ's self, okay? Just waiting. But I'm going to not want to do that. And here's the thing. I'm going to get sick and tired of going to jail every five seconds for going soul winning or something. It could get to a point where they're literally hunting down the real soul winners and they all get pushed out to other countries in this world. And then the end times come. And what's happening is that sleeping giant's going to wake up, and all those pre-tribbers are going to get stuck here, and they think they're going to get raptured, but really they're just going to all get beheaded. Now, I have no idea. Maybe that's completely wrong. Maybe the people that are doing something for God are going to be one beheaded. I don't know. But I think it'd be cool to survive to the rapture. You know, I think that'd be cool. And to get a lot more people saved than just sitting around in America hoping that my 401k doesn't dissolve. Thinking like, oh, I just hope... And, you know, some Christians that were really faithful died a martyr's death. But some Christians that were kind of disobedient died this kind of a punishment-style death, too. So I don't think you could really point to either being definitive. I mean, you have, I believe it's Urijah. Urijah fled into Egypt, which is kind of a picture of the world, whenever there's persecution, and then he got drug out and killed whereas Jeremiah was preserved. Jeremiah came out of Babylon unscathed because he stayed faithful. And he was safe in jail. Now, if you understand anything about the game of Monopoly, it's exactly how the world works. At the end of the game of Monopoly, the safest place is jail, okay? And the way our jails are going, that might even be true in America. You never know. It's like, what are you in for? Preaching the Word of God, you know, sharing memes, saying that Hillary Clinton is evil? You know, it's like, that's what jail's now going to be filled with, and rapists and pedophiles and stuff are roaming the streets and in Hollywood and our government. But I don't know what's going to happen, but I want to be willing to do whatever the Lord would have me to do. And I don't want to be so covetous and just cling onto America and just love America so much that I would literally be rebellious to God and be kind of like the early disciples who just couldn't get out of Jerusalem. You know, they just couldn't. They just hang on too much to that. And I think for a lot of Americans, there's a big temptation to just get so fixated on your nice house and your nice car and your comfortable life and all the things that we have, all the riches that we have here. But, you know, that's not really a spiritual thing, is it? And the people that have a loose grip on this world that might be willing to spend their latter days, albeit it wouldn't be that long, but just a little bit of their life out preaching the gospel might be the ones that get a lot of rewards and survive in the rapture. Now, again, I have no reason to leave America right now. I'm not leaving America anytime soon, nor do I want to. I'm not even going to try. They're just going to basically have to kick me out first, okay? But I want to be willing, if I need to, to leave and just preach the gospel somewhere else. And I think that that's something that we should at least consider. You know, the Bible says in verse 7, And the angel said to me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit and go into perdition, and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life and the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was and is not, and yet is. So the Bible's slowly unraveling or revealing to us what this symbolism is. Specifically, it says that the beast that carries this woman has seven heads and ten horns, and it says that this beast is going to ascend out of the bottomless pit, okay, which was really interesting. It also says the beast that was and is not and yet is. So the beast, according to the text, is the antichrist. The beast is that antichrist, and the antichrist is going to die and have kind of a pseudo-resurrection, and he's going to come back. So that's why it's kind of talking about the fact that he was and is not and yet is. I believe it's talking about the fact that he's kind of twice dead, but he's still alive, he's still kicking, and I have no idea how that works. But, at the end of the day, he's the one exception, someone who goes to hell, sends out of the bottomless pit, and comes back to life, and that's probably the strong delusion that God's giving. You know, the Bible talks about how God's going to send strong delusion that people believe a lie. I think part of it is just this mock resurrection to help people kind of like think this really is the Messiah, really is the Christ, and so this is kind of what that is alluding to. It also says in verse 9, and here's the mine which hath wisdom, the seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings, five are fallen, one is, and the other is not yet come, and when he cometh, he must continue short space. So, when it's talking about this beast, this beast has seven heads and seven mountains, okay, and specifically it says that these are representative of seven kings, or kingdoms is kind of how you can look at that. The five which were, or the five that have passed, is, I believe, Egypt, Assyria, and then you get the Daniel's vision where you have the Chaldeans, then you have the Medo-Persians and the Grecians. That's those five. Then the one that is, is Rome, because currently they're still under Roman occupation. So the Roman kingdom, that sixth kingdom, is currently going on, and then the seventh is the future Babylon, which I believe, and it makes a lot of sense, would be America. And the Bible is saying that the beast, in verse 11, and the beast that was and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. So it's like the Antichrist is somehow the king of the seventh kingdom. So if they're in America, let's just say, I don't know, the election in 2024 goes awry, and there's a crazy civil war, and people suspend the constitution, and there's this overthrow of the government, and instead of actually having a constitutional republic, all of a sudden we turn into an actual kingdom with a king. And then that particular king is now the king of Babylon, and that particular king then marches through Europe in some kind of a conquest to destroy Islam, because Islam is the biggest threat, and we're going to rescue that Jew, okay? So he goes through and conquers, and then gets all the way to the Middle East, and they're like, oh look, it's our Messiah. It's the guy that's come here to liberate the Jews, and to free the Jews, and to rescue the Jews. And all the Jews are thinking this is their Messiah. But then he's like, fake, I'm not really Jewish. I'm a different God, but I am God, and he's going to go in the temple, and he's going to declare himself God, but he's the God of forces. And this God of forces is now, hey, I'm also not American, sorry. I'm the eighth kingdom. So it's basically you have this anti-Christ kingdom set up. He was from the seventh. He used the seventh, he used that horror to get him to his position of power and authority, but then once he's set, he's killed. He comes back to life. He's like, hey, I'm actually God, and this is my millennial reign. This is my eighth kingdom. And so now you have the kingdom of the beast. It's not really America anymore. America was just the horror that was used to get there. She's now discarded. Now it's all about him and his new kingdom. Now specifically, you'll see there's a change in the politics of the world because it says in verse number 12, in the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings which have received no kingdom as yet but received power as kings one hour with the beast. So imagine again, America goes through some turmoil to where now we're no longer a constitutional republic. We have a king. That king marches through Europe into the Middle East. Now, here's something you have to understand. If someone goes through Europe literally massacring and destroying everything, you know what will happen? A lot of political instability. Now all of a sudden, everything's on the table. Who's really in charge? Who's really the leaders? Some people don't understand that when we invaded Iraq, it was to overthrow their government and to install our own government. So a lot of times through military conquest, you're replacing the government. So what most likely is going to happen is that this Antichrist is going to march through some section of the world and it's going to cause all of these nations to be politically leaderless and he's going to take these ten guys that either financed them or helped them or is his buddies or whatever and he's going to install each one of them through that seventh kingdom, America or whatever. America, we're bringing back democracy for everybody and so we're going to set up ten guys and they're going to all be the ten kings of that particular region that's been massacred. And the Bible says for one hour, basically the political landscape of the world will be these ten kings are having this power. But they're going to, in their first hour, have a meeting and say, you know what? We've all decided that we're going to just give all of our power unto the Antichrist. So they give all of their power and authority. So it's not really, I don't think when you study this, it's not really ten people that are in power right now. It's almost like ten people who sweep in kind of under the radar and they end up then becoming kings just temporarily but the whole, it was a charade the whole time. Just the charade then ultimately what? Give all their power unto the Antichrist because now these ten kings have basically just subdued themselves and no longer want to look at the world as having nations. It's that one world government. They say, hey, look at what just happened. We can't allow Islam to do this again. If we just keep ourselves divided into different nations, well then Islam will just eventually repopulate and we'll do this all over again and we'll just keep having all these wars and wars. We need a police state. We need a one world leader. We need to just unify and rally together for peace and safety. And as soon as they say peace and safety, sudden destruction is going to come upon them, okay? And they're going to give all their power and wield it all unto this one Antichrist and he's going to say, you know what? We can have this peace and safety. We just have one problem. Christians. Because everybody else is like lining up, let's get the mark, let's go for the, you know. But there's one group, this one pesky group. The group that has the Baptist bias, okay? And they're going to come for that Baptist bias, okay? These people just don't want to get that mark. And it says, verse 14, These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them. For He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and they that are with them are called and chosen and faithful. You know what this makes me think of in verse 14? It makes me think of the Beatles. And I'm pretty sure it was John Lennon. You can correct me if I'm wrong in this, but I think it was John Lennon specifically, or it was one of the Beatles. He was one of the Beatles, right? Help me. Isn't he the guy that literally said, we're going to be more famous than Jesus? And he pretty much said like, I don't remember the time frame, but like 50 years or 100 years from now, people will be listening to us and they won't be reading a Bible. That to me is the idea of like warring on the Lamb and warring on Jesus. Where essentially this one world leader is going to say, look, we're going to literally eliminate Christianity. Christianity has plagued this world, has plagued this earth through the Holy Crusades or through whatever, through all these events throughout history. Christianity is the real problem and so we're going to make war with the Lamb. We're going to end Christianity once and for all. And they think they can literally eliminate Christianity. But here's the thing, before all the Christians get eliminated, what's going to happen? Christ is going to return and rapture them and deliver them and then after pouring out all of his wrath, he's going to come and literally destroy all of them. He's going to massacre them. Because that's what it's saying, the Lamb's going to overcome them. So, again, I think it's pretty obvious that these 10 leaders, they're probably either, you know, major CEOs of American companies or they're probably just foreign government leaders right now. Leaders of Iran or Iraq or Russia or China or just basically all these, I mean, they hate America. There's a ton, a ton of kings that would love to destroy America and to see it wiped off the face of the map and they're just, they're willing to even give up their national identity and their supreme authority and sovereignty to the Antichrist just to see America massacred and wiped off of the planet. And, of course, the Antichrist is a big sellout. He's just using and abusing the whore. He's not American. He doesn't like America. He's not for America. He's just going to lie and use flattery to pretend like he likes America, to use them to get and to climb to his power authority and once he gets there, he's going to discard America and he's going to let those 10 kings, yeah, burner with fire, destroy it, get rid of it, let's just massacre Christians and just everything. And, of course, it's interesting how God even can still judge at this really late period in human history through mankind that he's going to allow these 10 kings to end up destroying. It says, For God hath put in their hearts to fulfill his will and to agree and give their kingdom unto the beast. You know, a lot of these evil people, again, they think that they're so unique and they have their own ideas, but a lot of times, they're just doing what God wants them to do. It's just crazy to me to think how the devil doesn't realize how he's a pawn in God's scheme. Like, the devil in his mind is thinking, like, oh, man, I got him now. I'm going to get Judas to betray him. And it's like, well, that's what I wanted you to do. And it's just like, oh, man, you know, the devil just always thinks that he's going to somehow usurp God's authority, but no, no, he's going to do exactly what God wanted him to do. He's the tool he's going to use to fulfill his will. And it says, The woman which thou sawest in that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth. What nation is ruling over the kings of the earth other than America? Go to Leviticus chapter 18. It's the last place I want us to go. I think it's super clear, and as we get even more descriptions, as we go into chapter 18 and we talk about Babylon in great detail, it's not going to sound anything different than what we've read so far. It's just going to make America seem even that much more likely. Now, again, let's just say hypothetically, Christ is coming in 500 years. It could very well not be America whatsoever. We could just be wiped off of the map tomorrow. We're already a declining civilization. So I would say, most likely, if America is the end times of Babylon, it's going to have to happen pretty soon, because we are just headed on a crash course of destruction, and what some people just don't recognize or realize is how much God hates America. And you say, how do you know that, Pastor Shelley? Well, you know, I've actually read the Bible before, okay? And I think that some people think, like, because we're in the New Testament, that, like, God's different or something. But I want to remind us for a second what he was like in the Old Testament. Now, look at Leviticus chapter 18, and I want to look at verse number 22. The Bible says this, Now, in this specific chapter, I believe this is the first time it mentions abomination, but everything in this chapter is an abomination. And God's trying to talk about, when you enter into the Canaanites' land, when you go into this Promised Land, don't do anything like they did. Don't be like them at all. The things that they're doing are abominations. Now, Babylon is described as being full of what? Abominations. You want to know what an abomination is? It's being a faggot. That is one of the worst abominations described in the Bible. It's super clear. It's abomination. If we keep reading, look what it says in the next verse. It says this, Look, if God doesn't do it, the land itself will literally just vomit out Americans. God will cause San Francisco to just erupt into lava and just pour itself into the sea. It's so defiled. It's so gross. It's so full of abominations. New York City is full of abominations. L.A. is full of abominations. Austin is full of abominations. America as a country is just full of abominations. And here's the thing. God cannot just say, Oh, don't worry about it. That was Old Testament when I cared about sin. That was the only time I really cared about abominations. Wait a minute. I thought we just read a chapter in the Bible that's a New Testament chapter where God's really mad about a particular country, a particular city that's full of what? Abominations. And he's going to destroy them just like he destroyed Old Testament cities. So you know what that tells me? God feels the exact same way. And that God is saying the land wants to puke you out. You're so gross and so disgusting. How can you literally think the God of the Bible isn't looking down from heaven at one of the most defiled, gross, wicked nations in the world and thinking like, I'm never going to judge you. No. No, my friend. He will judge. But just like he judged every other nation that was similar to it, it was a swift destruction. Egypt, swift destruction. Babylon, swift destruction. Future Babylon, swift destruction. Just like he said, hey, the end time is going to be like the days of Lot and the days of Noah. Days of Lot, swift destruction. Days of Noah, swift destruction. I don't think that rock shot off and hit the moon, but it was a swift destruction, okay? And look at chapter 20 for a moment. It says in verse 23, And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you. For they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them. God hated the Canaanites. Why do you think God replaced them? Why do you think God allowed the children of Israel to go in there and massacre every woman, every man, and every child? You know, there's not very many times when you read in the Bible where God says, Massacre the men, women, and children. All of them. Not only just them, their animals, everything, just complete annihilation, complete destruction. Well, let me tell you something. That's what's going to be in store for Babylon where every man, woman, and child, just a complete destruction and death and just evil. He's just going to wipe it off the face of the map. That's how it's described, and it's sad. Sad to think about, but that's how God feels. God is that angry. God is that mad. Don't sit here and think like, oh, God loves America. God thinks America is so wonderful. It's so great. No, no, no. God is very angry at America. God hates America. God abhors America. And the only reason he hasn't destroyed it yet is he's just waiting for us to get a few more people saved. He's waiting for Christians to just get a little bit more. But, you know, it would be a sad day when Christians stop preaching the gospel because then there would be no reason for God not to just destroy it. It's a bad day. It's a sad day when Christians stop preaching the gospel because then he's like, all right, I'm going to grab Lot and drag him out, and the rest of you are nuked. And it wouldn't even surprise me if God literally uses the nukes that have been created to just wipe America off the face of the map. We'll get into that in a later chapter. And the nuclear bombs that have been created since World War II, if they're honest about what they've created, it's a complete destruction, folks. It's going to be gone. It's insane. They even just say, I don't even know what's real, but they say that they're 500 times more powerful than what they dropped on Japan. There's somebody out there in the world that's so stupid, they said, I don't think nukes exist. I'm just like, ask Japan about that. Like, really? What do you mean nukes don't even exist? How stupid of a thought is that? Like, do you not think grenades exist? Do you not think that fire exists? I mean, are you going to start denying fire? Well, of course fire exists. Yeah, grenades exist. You don't think that they can just keep making explosions bigger and bigger and bigger? What do you think a nuke is? It's just an explosion. Now we're going to deny explosions and fire? Are we even here? I don't think nukes exist. Look, stop watching YouTube. You know what they left on YouTube? They got Baptist Bias off, and they just leave the dumbest videos ever for you to just sit here and say, I don't think that nuke exists, man. Hey. You're just basically one step away from the movie Idiocracy, okay? Where you're just like, you don't even believe anything anymore. You're just so brain dead. Stop watching GoobTube, okay? Where it's just making you turn into a goober. I'm not joking. Anything that's true is being censored off YouTube. Like, every conspiracy theory, every good piece of information, all the preaching that was worthwhile is being scrubbed from YouTube. So if you're like, I just watch YouTube all day. Well, I guarantee you know what you watch? Lies. I guarantee you watch the dumbest, the most misinformed propaganda you could possibly watch. Because I guarantee they're not putting the greatest documentaries on YouTube anymore, folks. They're gone. They're not there. Why did I get all this research on YouTube? You know, I watched this video on the earth being flat on YouTube. And then I watched it. Nobody went to the moon. And then the moon's made of cheese. And then there's not even nukes. And I'm so researched. How about read the Bible? Okay? And if you want to tell me about a conspiracy theory, it better not be a YouTube video. Or if it is, it better be labeled something like, you know, in Chinese or something because they had to hide it. If it's like, look at this YouTube video. Ten million views. It's exposing everything. It's like, no. It's propaganda. It's lies. It's not real. You're being duped. Okay? Yes, nukes exist. Okay, folks. Don't get weird ideas. You know what makes you normal? This. Don't listen to the Mother of Harlots and Full of Abominations. That's what's being shipped out everywhere, all over the world. We need to get plugged into the Word of God. And you know, you say, oh, I feel like you make me not like America as much after a sermon like this. Good. You know, I was trying to think, like, what's the application of the sermon? Don't like Babylon. Stop liking Babylon so much. Get a looser grip on Babylon because, you know what? We may even have to just let it go. And even if you don't let it go, God's going to nuke it anyways, all right? So, just stop watching YouTube. All right, let's go to prayer. Thank you, Heavenly Father, so much for the Word of God. I pray that you would just give us wisdom and that we would know what to do in the end times. If we're there, if our children are there, our grandchildren, that they would have wisdom, that they would know where to go and how to flee and how to survive through difficult times. I pray that you'd also give them boldness to preach the Word of God. And if they have to be a faithful martyr, that they would have the courage and the steadfastness to do so. I pray that you'd also, you know, spare God's people during this horrible time of evil and tribulation and persecution as much as possible. And I pray that you would just motivate us to be spiritual and to get a looser grip on the things of this world that we would eliminate the covetousness in our hearts and our minds and that we desire to do things that are pleasing unto you. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. All right. Amen. For our last song, we're going to be going to 355. What a friend we have in Jesus. Song 355. What a friend we have in Jesus. 355. Sing it out together. What a friend we have in Jesus. All our sins and griefs to them. What a privilege to carry everything to God and friend. Oh, the peace we are before them. Oh, the needless way we fare. All because we do not carry everything to God and friend. Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged. Take it to the Lord in prayer. Can we find a friend so faithful? Who will all our sorrows share? Jesus knows our every weakness. Take it to the Lord in prayer. Are we weak and heavy men? Covered in the load of care. Precious Savior, still our refuge. Take it to the Lord in prayer. Do thy friends despise forsaking? Take it to the Lord in prayer. In his arms he'll take and shield me. That will find us all this care.