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And welcome back, everyone, this week.

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So good to be back.

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We had a wonderful, wonderful church

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We had our, um, uh, homecoming

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 exactly one year since a tornado came through and took our

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 church down and, and uh, several people

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 and and we got really tore up.

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And so it's nice to have a homecoming and have folks

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The Greasons came and sang for us, and that was all,

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 as always, a blessing.

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Brother Dwayne, uh, was brother to

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 the uh, you know, some of the folks that were up there and family

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Miss him miss him a lot and having his family come

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 back and sing for us is always such a blessing.

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And we really appreciate it.

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Absolutely.

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But it was a good service and a great way to start off the week, I thought.

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And we had pretty good food afterwards.

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So, you know, I mean, we're Baptist.

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We like to eat.

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Brother Dennis, how is your day going?

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Yeah, good, good.

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I've been in yard yard mowing mode all day, but beautiful day.

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Awesome.

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I was about to say today is the day to be out there doing it.

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It wasn't too, too hot today and it was,

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I love Mondays now, man.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Oh, I look forward to that someday.

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How about you, brother Brian?

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Yeah, just a busy day

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 getting back at it, going back to work and had a good day.

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Drove a lot as usual, you know, but hey, I

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 got the minister to some folks today and that's always good and got to

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 get to come here and talk about Jesus.

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Awesome.

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But we're going to dive in here in just 2nd

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Nice start at the top of this chapter.

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It's pretty dense.

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Only thing I really wanted to throw out there this week to kind of kick us off.

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Um, yeah, I've been been watching a lot of stuff

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 about some of the different, uh, different things that are going on

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 and they will say they're doing Christian things, and a lot of times they'll have a

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Um, but they mislead people a lot and they kind of

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 kind of lead people astray and uh, we're going to talk about being led astray here in a second.

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Uh, and following not the right.

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try not to do that ourselves.

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Yeah, and try not to do it ourselves.

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Yeah, do our best.

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When good Lord willing will give some wisdom on it.

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But one of the things that I had noticed when I was looking at some of these

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 I've said it a 100 times on here, and I'm probably going to say it a 100 more.

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If there is a wall of secrecy around a thing that somebody is

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 just to not even bother going.

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Don't even bother getting involved, but if you go in anyway and you get involved

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 your number one red flag is if they're not talking about it.

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That is a, it comes from a cult mindset

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 of create an inner group that is ostracized from

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 the stuff that we've had you had you study and all of that.

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And so be very careful when you see that.

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Um, and the 2nd thing in it,

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 there were 3 things that I noticed about it, and the 2nd thing was, where does the

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Because almost all these groups are promising you?

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Oh, man, you come in here and we're going to teach you how to realize

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Where is that voice coming from?

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How are they teaching you?

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Because the answer from scripture is to study

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You want to hear the voice of God, you study the

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You want to know what God has for your life?

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You want to know what God is calling you to do, study the scripture and pray.

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There is 0 substitute.

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That's one of my dad's favorite sayings because it is just,

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 it's so plain that the only way to find

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 and intentionally studying the scripture.

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And again, it's not done in secret.

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It's not this thing where you're, you're, and I'm not saying don't have

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But you're not going to get some big revelation and

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 some big thing that you got to keep to yourself and can't tell people if you're

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 in there, and he's with the Holy Spirit, so he's inside of you, and you got

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 to shut out the things that are coming from outside and listen to you,

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Now, if it's coming from inside of you, that ain't the voice of God.

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your sinful nature.

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I mean, we're supposed to, what Jesus whispers

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That's right.

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God don't keep secrets.

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That's right.

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He's not holding anything back, is he?

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 it's such a huge red flag, get run.

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Run, don't walk, don't slow down.

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Do not pass, go and collect your $200 on the way out, just get out.

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 hey, this is why what you what you're explaining is not a good thing.

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If it's not or if it was a good thing and maybe that they're just

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 a little quirky, hey, maybe, you know, a pastor can actually help you see that.

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And so if there, if people are making you promise that, but it's

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 that kind of thing, um, a lot of Christian summer camp type stuff, do that.

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I mean, completely wiped out.

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The interesting thing was, though, that's not when they had their Bible study.

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That's not when they had their lessons.

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That's not when we sat down and talked about things.

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We had the discussions while everybody was fresh and feeling good.

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You're literally high off of all these chemicals, your body is pouring

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And it's God's way of trying to get us to do a little bit of physical exercise.

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 your ability to discern things is very much diminished and is very lowered.

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And if you're not, and especially, again, going back to that summer camp example,

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 and you're getting 4 hours of sleep a night and you're not

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 they just said something that is completely wrong.

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So be very cautious.

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That wall of secrecy, the truth coming from

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That is a cult in the making.

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 and incorrect things coming in.

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 the Holy Spirit's in you, and that's God speaking through, you got to listen

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And when you walk by the mirror, that's, you're seeing God reflected back at you.

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I mean, there are people right here in DeCalb County.

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that are teaching people that garbage and it's like, ah, please stop.

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When you hear that stuff, I promise it is not scripture.

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The way you get revelation from God is to study,

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And what the Holy Spirit reveals to you will never go against scripture.

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And it'll never add to scripture.

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It's different inside.

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Like the Holy Spirit will just light up a passage.

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Those are awesome.

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The Holy Spirit will give you, um, will give

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You'll get more understanding.

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Don't get me wrong, but the spirit can kind of prompt you.

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Hey, go talk to that person.

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Go hold that door open for that lady as she walks out or that guy as he walks out.

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Even though you just heard them yell at somebody about doing the same thing and sometimes

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 that's the Holy Spirit letting you know, hey,

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 you know, I'm trying to get your attention.

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Uh-oh, I've got stuff ringing over here.

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Got people trying to sell me stuff.

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Let's do a game.

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Yeah, so again, it's that study, study, study, and that's what

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 to the scripture that speaks of the rebuilding and

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 destruction in Isaiah chapter 13.

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This is what it says in verse 19.

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In Babylon, the glory of the kingdoms and the

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 beauty of the Chaldees, excellency shall be

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 as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,

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 it shall never be inhabited, neither shall

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 it be dwelt in the generation to generation, neither shall the Arabian

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 pitch 10th there, neither shall the shepherd make their

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 fold there, but wild beast of the desert, shall

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 lie there, and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures

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 and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs

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 shall dance there.

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And the wild beasts of the island shall cry in their desolate houses,

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 and the dragons in their pleasant palaces.

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And her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

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So just a little preface there to

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 kind of where we were at in chapter

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 17 and what we're going to and what we're looking at at commercial

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 Babylon in this chapter.

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Yeah, and I got, that's kind of what my cheat sheet's

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 about from Dr. Walberg.

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We're looking at 2 different parts of Babylon, I guess, right?

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And chapter 17s dealing with the religious Babylon and chapter

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 18 with the commercial and political.

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And it's important to understand too, that the

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 religious Babylon is in effect, right off the rapture, right?

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It's the 1st half of the tribulation.

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And the Antichrist is going to overthrow it.

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Because he wants to be worse.

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That's right.

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And so it ends at the midpoint of the tribulation

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 when he sets up his image in...

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That's what we were talking about last week.

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You know, we said, we're going, we kind of went back, you know.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah.

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So that's, you know, that and this chapter 18 is going to

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 deal with Babylon falling at the end of the great tribulation.

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So it's the end of the 7 years.

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Absolutely.

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And then there's the destroyer

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 of of the religious Babylon is the beast in the Ten Kings.

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Yeah. and the destroyer

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 of the commercial is Jesus at a 2nd coming.

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That's right.

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Right?

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And then he has here the result of

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 religious Babylon going away was no mourning and

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 the result of the commercial Babylon going away is great morning.

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Yeah, right.

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It gets on their pocket, right?

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that pocketbook.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Well, and that shows you the state of the state of the world that

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 the the thing that was religious, they were all following.

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They were all worshiping.

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They were all a part of.

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He didn't even care when it left.

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Like I say, it hits their pocketbooks and, oh, they got something else to worship.

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And that's something we're all looking for.

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Right, right.

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Everybody in this world is looking to worship something.

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right.

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We're wired that way.

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that's right

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Amen.

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All right, verse one.

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Hit it.

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All right.

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After these things, I saw another angel coming

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 down from heaven, having great authority, and the earth

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 was illumined with his glory.

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You want me going through three?

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Ty, Harry on deck?

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And he cried out with a mighty voice saying, fallen,

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 fallen, is Babylon the Great?

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She has become a dwelling place of demons in a prison

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 of every unclean spirit and a prison of every unclean and hateful bird.

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For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion

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 of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed

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 acts of immorality with her.

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And the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality.

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Yeah.

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So after these things, it's how he starts out, right?

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So it's like almost like another vision, kind of.

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Yeah. of a 2nd vision and it's kind of a tracing back.

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Well, it's after the series of sevens that we've had, right?

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You know, they after after the judgment of

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 religious Babylon, after that those things.

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Now we got this.

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Yeah, yeah.

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This angel

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 was a great and powerful angel.

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and was an angel, a high ranking

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 and high authority.

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So what happens here?

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I mean, it this this is it becomes the epicenter.

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For every unclean spirit,

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 every sinful desire, every

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 murderous and lustful and inconceivable

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 thought or action that could ever, that there could ever be.

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you know, I mentioned before, we was on, on, on the air

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 here, 148 speaks of in the

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 tense that it has fallen.

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But what we have to realize here is when Jesus

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 says it, it's going to happen.

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It's going to happen.

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It's going to happen.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And this is I don't I

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 don't be stickler, but a lot of times we'll pigeonholes

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 angels into one or 2 names.

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Yeah. know how many there are, right?

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This is another angel.

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It's not Michael.

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It's not Gabriel.

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all the angels names.

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But it is another angel, great authority, and illumines the whole earth.

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Yes, absolutely.

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Absolutely.

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Yeah.

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So everyone

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 from government to merchants to brokers,

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 to traders, to business owners, have

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 come into an unholy alliance in this place.

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I mean, it's not good business.

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But, you know, I mean, we find ourselves in that today, don't we?

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That's what I was going to say.

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Yeah, you know, there's no ethics in business anymore.

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or in government anymore.

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And and what we'll trade with.

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We'll trade with anyone who will stick a dollar in our face.

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Yeah.

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You know?

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I think I think right now in the world today, we can look

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 around and see a preview of this Babylon.

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again.

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It's here.

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It's here.

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I mean, look look at and I'm not saying the United States is Babylon.

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I won't go there.

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But look at look at the United States where we've come from.

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In the 19 or early 1900s.

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This was a seriously Christian nation all the way up through probably

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 the 1950s into 1960 when the freaks started running around.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Everybody went to church whether they were a believer or not.

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There was just a respect for the things of God.

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And, you know, you look at Hosea's wife.

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Yeah, right.

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That's kind of what America looks like now.

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We've straight away would just gone to other idols.

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We've promoted porn and filth all

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 over the world out of Hollywood.

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And Western Europe is the same way.

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Yeah.

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It's the whole Western world that's really a sneak pick

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 of what this Babylon is.

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Right, yeah.

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And and we just because, you know, before, I

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 know when I was a kid, you know, if it

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 was on regular TV, you know, if it was on 39

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 or 12, you know, if you had those channels.

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I mean, if it was on regular TV or public tell

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 or anything like that, then you pretty much didn't have

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 to worry about what you were watching, what your kids were watching, that kind of thing.

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I mean, because it was pretty good.

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But, you know, but you had your HBOs

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 and your Cinemaxes and your things like that that started coming up with those

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 things and cable TV was, you know, was creeping in.

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And everybody was like, oh, you know, if you get that,

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 you can't let your kids watch it.

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you know, that kind of thing.

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But now those things that are on there are just

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 common, right?

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I mean, we have become so numb

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 to the things of this world.

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Bull and frogs.

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Like you turn the heat up slow.

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And they don't even know they're dying, right?

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Yeah, we look around now.

430
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We're known to this stuff and we don't have a clue.

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You know, somebody from the 1950s stepped out into today,

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 they would be blown away.

433
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Yeah, at what would...

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Do you guys remember it was a Brandon Frazier

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 movie where he had been, he and his parents,

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 they thought the, the, big bomb had dropped and

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 his dad locked them all in the bomb shelter and then he comes out?

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You know, and he comes out in the 90s, but

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 they went in in the 50s when he was still just a baby

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 and he so his whole life, he's been brought up like

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 the world is still the 1950s and he comes out, you know,

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 and his dad's telling, man, I don't know how bad things are going to be up there without atomic bomb going off.

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And they just really, you know, his dad's just

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 like, oh, yeah, it's going to be bad, but you got to go up there because I got to get some medicine.

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Hopefully they'll have rebuilt by this point.

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And he comes out and he's looking around going, oh, wow.

447
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The world's just been destroyed.

448
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Look at how awful.

449
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He's just in the middle of New York.

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And it's so true.

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I mean, we put up with so much stuff, the foul language from

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 our social media and television.

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I mean, we would see men kissing on television.

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And nobody thinks anything about it.

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right.

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I mean, we're in Sodom and Gomorrah, man.

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Well, and it's not even things nothing about it.

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It's that it's being pushed that that

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 is the purpose of the show.

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And they're trying to push all this trans audiology and

461
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 all that stuff is normal.

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Yeah.

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I mean, dude, we're living in

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 a Babylon system.

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We are.

466
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We really are.

467
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And so it's not going to be a big transition, right?

468
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No, it's not like they're going to be like, oh, God.

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They're not even going to realize it's changing.

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I mean, because it's just gonna be business as usual.

471
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Yeah, it's just it's just a further step from where we currently are.

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And it's not even a huge step.

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Because like you say, it's there used to be a

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 certain level of reverence and respect for the

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 fact that we were a Christian nation, and it was something that everybody just understood

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 that there were certain lines you just don't cross and you move on from it.

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Even if you want to cross those lines, you just don't because it's not going to go well for you.

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And over time, we have slowly teased

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 that idea out.

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I mean, we've we've removed responsibility from the leaders.

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We've removed responsibility from people in general.

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If you're the right person.

483
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We're not going to hold you responsible because you've just had it so bad.

484
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We just don't want to come out.

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We don't want to get on to you real hard.

486
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And it's like, we've completely ignored the fact that there

487
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 are responsibilities that people have just from

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 the fact that we're human beings and God put us on the earth.

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He gave us responsibilities to take care of the place.

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This stuff doesn't stop it at like adult

491
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 television either.

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I mean, you know, this is this is our children.

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They, uh, homosexuality has been brought

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 widely into children's TV.

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Uh, and and, you know, early.

496
00:22:02,283 --> 00:22:05,333
I mean, because so so they're they're shaping their young minds

497
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 into thinking, oh, this is this is okay.

498
00:22:08,166 --> 00:22:11,333
And at the very least, I'm going to be completely tolerant of it, you know?

499
00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:13,616
And look, this is not a hate thing, right?

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I mean, we, we, we're not out there trying

501
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 to, trying to kill homosexuals and and, and,

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 uh, and run them out of town.

503
00:22:21,549 --> 00:22:23,766
We want to, we want to, we want to love them.

504
00:22:23,816 --> 00:22:25,666
We want to tell them the truth and we want them to be safe.

505
00:22:25,750 --> 00:22:27,483
Well, and here's the interesting thing about that.

506
00:22:27,549 --> 00:22:30,549
They put all this stuff into these kids programming and

507
00:22:30,549 --> 00:22:32,166
 into these children's shows and stuff like that.

508
00:22:32,216 --> 00:22:35,333
You go back, there was an episode of Arthur where one of the teachers got married and

509
00:22:35,349 --> 00:22:36,483
 he was getting married to another man.

510
00:22:36,549 --> 00:22:39,666
I mean, now granted, these are animals, but still, it

511
00:22:39,666 --> 00:22:42,183
 was clear that you had 2 men getting married and it's like, what in the world?

512
00:22:42,250 --> 00:22:43,683
I mean, I grew up watching R3, you know?

513
00:22:43,750 --> 00:22:46,866
And, uh, the, was it not Daniel

514
00:22:46,866 --> 00:22:50,033
 Tiger's neighborhood, uh, yeah, it may have been that one.

515
00:22:50,099 --> 00:22:50,516
I don't remember.

516
00:22:50,583 --> 00:22:52,016
There was another kid show that same thing.

517
00:22:52,083 --> 00:22:55,083
They come out and they have this transgender person parading

518
00:22:55,083 --> 00:22:58,083
 down the street and dancing around and having, you know,

519
00:22:58,083 --> 00:23:02,033
 trying to make it look like it's so fun and so good and such an acceptable thing.

520
00:23:02,099 --> 00:23:05,099
The interesting thing to me is, all

521
00:23:05,099 --> 00:23:08,566
 right, what I hear them say over in Hollywood,

522
00:23:08,583 --> 00:23:09,950
 the statements they make as well.

523
00:23:10,016 --> 00:23:13,066
But the thing is, transgender people and homosexuals,

524
00:23:13,083 --> 00:23:16,200
 they exist and they, you know, they live out in the world, and we're just trying to make shows

525
00:23:16,200 --> 00:23:19,200
 that reflect, you know, a little bit more so they can

526
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,250
 identify with with the TV, just like the rest of you people

527
00:23:22,266 --> 00:23:23,283
 have been able to for years.

528
00:23:23,283 --> 00:23:24,349
And it's like, okay, fine.

529
00:23:24,416 --> 00:23:25,183
They make a show for them.

530
00:23:25,266 --> 00:23:27,900
Make sure that you tell everybody this is specifically for this group.

531
00:23:27,966 --> 00:23:30,833
And just let that show be out there.

532
00:23:30,849 --> 00:23:33,849
And then if people don't want to watch it, we can avoid it instead of sneaking it into shows

533
00:23:33,849 --> 00:23:35,166
 that have never been that before.

534
00:23:35,166 --> 00:23:36,483
But you know why they won't do that?

535
00:23:36,549 --> 00:23:39,716
Because it's not going to make them any dad blame money.

536
00:23:39,716 --> 00:23:43,183
Because there's just not enough of the people that follow those ideas

537
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:44,933
 and actually practice that stuff.

538
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,433
It's toxic empathy.

539
00:23:46,500 --> 00:23:49,016
Yeah, because people their own morality.

540
00:23:49,150 --> 00:23:51,116
Compromising it.

541
00:23:51,183 --> 00:23:54,783
Yeah, and that group is, it's the one percent.

542
00:23:54,900 --> 00:23:57,466
Yeah, it's such a tiny, tiny percentage.

543
00:23:57,549 --> 00:24:00,716
It's not the majority of people who have

544
00:24:00,716 --> 00:24:04,433
 that ideology, but we want to accept it and go along with it.

545
00:24:04,500 --> 00:24:06,299
We want to not buck the system.

546
00:24:06,366 --> 00:24:09,416
We want to sit back and let it happen and let it go.

547
00:24:09,483 --> 00:24:11,283
And again, I'm not saying it.

548
00:24:11,349 --> 00:24:14,466
I can't, I can't stop you from having those feelings

549
00:24:14,466 --> 00:24:18,233
 and whatever they are, but I also know that it's

550
00:24:18,250 --> 00:24:21,549
 sinful and it's wrong. and and

551
00:24:21,549 --> 00:24:24,549
 just like any other sexual immorality is, right?

552
00:24:24,599 --> 00:24:27,950
Just like when I have, if I have a bad thought, uh,

553
00:24:27,966 --> 00:24:30,966
 towards a woman that is not my wife or

554
00:24:30,966 --> 00:24:33,366
 whatever, that, you know, that's that's sin.

555
00:24:33,416 --> 00:24:34,133
It's wrong.

556
00:24:34,200 --> 00:24:34,916
It's immoral.

557
00:24:34,983 --> 00:24:36,299
needs to be rooted out.

558
00:24:36,416 --> 00:24:36,766
Absolutely.

559
00:24:36,783 --> 00:24:39,000
And I'll tell you what, man, shame on churches.

560
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:42,000
And shame on pastors who will not

561
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:43,316
 tell the truth and call it love.

562
00:24:43,383 --> 00:24:44,583
Yeah, yeah.

563
00:24:44,650 --> 00:24:45,183
It's awful.

564
00:24:45,250 --> 00:24:46,866
They're leading.

565
00:24:47,049 --> 00:24:49,616
They're just watching people fall off a cliff and clapping.

566
00:24:49,683 --> 00:24:51,049
Yeah, cheering them on.

567
00:24:51,116 --> 00:24:51,766
Oh, you're fine.

568
00:24:51,849 --> 00:24:52,750
affirm you.

569
00:24:52,799 --> 00:24:54,416
And that's not love.

570
00:24:54,483 --> 00:24:55,500
It's not compassion.

571
00:24:55,566 --> 00:24:57,666
It is the opposite.

572
00:24:57,716 --> 00:24:58,616
Exactly.

573
00:24:58,683 --> 00:25:01,733
I mean, it's like going up into to go skydiving with somebody

574
00:25:01,750 --> 00:25:04,750
 and you're saying, okay, we're about to jump out of the plane and

575
00:25:04,750 --> 00:25:06,599
 you notice that person doesn't have their parachute.

576
00:25:06,666 --> 00:25:09,666
If you let them jump out of that plane, I'm sorry, you can

577
00:25:09,666 --> 00:25:12,183
 clap for them all the way down, but...

578
00:25:12,250 --> 00:25:12,716
can't wear this.

579
00:25:12,783 --> 00:25:13,733
Yeah, guess what?

580
00:25:13,799 --> 00:25:15,650
You clapping for them and saying, good job.

581
00:25:15,716 --> 00:25:17,150
I'm glad your back isn't itching.

582
00:25:17,216 --> 00:25:19,966
Well, that back's not going to itch much longer on that ground smacks them in the face.

583
00:25:20,049 --> 00:25:22,150
And I mean, it's the same thing.

584
00:25:22,200 --> 00:25:23,633
Hand the dang parachute.

585
00:25:23,700 --> 00:25:26,866
But this is where we are drunk on the wine of

586
00:25:26,883 --> 00:25:28,316
 the passion of her immorality.

587
00:25:28,383 --> 00:25:31,250
The kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her.

588
00:25:31,316 --> 00:25:33,466
And now we got the Western world.

589
00:25:33,549 --> 00:25:35,349
looks like this too, right?

590
00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:39,000
It's merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality.

591
00:25:39,066 --> 00:25:39,716
Absolutely.

592
00:25:39,783 --> 00:25:44,033
I don't know have any stats on it, but something like Pornhub.

593
00:25:44,099 --> 00:25:44,566
Yeah.

594
00:25:44,650 --> 00:25:47,283
I mean, 1000000000s of dollars coming into that thing.

595
00:25:47,349 --> 00:25:48,716
Just crazy.

596
00:25:48,783 --> 00:25:51,783
It is a it is a multi-billion dollar industry, and that's just from the ads.

597
00:25:51,849 --> 00:25:55,799
That's not counting the fact they also people will pay them to be able to access the stuff.

598
00:25:55,866 --> 00:25:59,166
Only fans and all these places where people think, well, I'm not hurting anybody.

599
00:25:59,216 --> 00:26:00,833
Yeah, you are.

600
00:26:00,900 --> 00:26:03,833
Those people that are being depicted in that.

601
00:26:03,900 --> 00:26:05,450
they in slavery?

602
00:26:05,516 --> 00:26:07,616
Let me point out by those people.

603
00:26:07,683 --> 00:26:09,349
Well, some of them are, by the way.

604
00:26:09,416 --> 00:26:12,466
And the answer, that's a whole nother tangent, but yes, some of

605
00:26:12,483 --> 00:26:13,799
 the people in these sites.

606
00:26:13,866 --> 00:26:15,066
very late. absolutely.

607
00:26:15,116 --> 00:26:18,533
Well, I was going to say, some of them are just are actually being exploited

608
00:26:18,549 --> 00:26:21,549
 and they're actually people that have been basically told

609
00:26:21,549 --> 00:26:23,099
 either do this or we've got a

610
00:26:23,283 --> 00:26:24,716
got a gun over here and we're going to kill you.

611
00:26:24,783 --> 00:26:28,733
You know, and so they're they're doing what they have to to try and survive a really horrible situation.

612
00:26:28,799 --> 00:26:31,799
But what I was going to say is it's, you point out, like, the

613
00:26:31,799 --> 00:26:34,799
 porn hub stuff, as web developers, we

614
00:26:34,799 --> 00:26:37,849
 get stats on what devices are widely used

615
00:26:37,866 --> 00:26:41,166
 from them because so many people,

616
00:26:41,166 --> 00:26:45,366
 and it's such a representative number from

617
00:26:45,366 --> 00:26:48,299
 the world and what was going on in technology.

618
00:26:48,366 --> 00:26:50,516
We literally get our stats from Pornhub.

619
00:26:50,583 --> 00:26:53,700
Because they just, there's so many people using it.

620
00:26:53,700 --> 00:26:54,416
And they publish them.

621
00:26:54,483 --> 00:26:56,400
They freely publish it and we're all like, okay, thanks.

622
00:26:56,466 --> 00:26:59,583
So we know how long this iPhone has been used and

623
00:26:59,583 --> 00:27:03,299
 how fast is it actually fallen out of favor with the general public and all that.

624
00:27:03,366 --> 00:27:04,616
We don't even have to worry about it.

625
00:27:04,683 --> 00:27:06,233
We don't even have to collect that data on your own sites.

626
00:27:06,299 --> 00:27:07,200
You just get it from them.

627
00:27:07,266 --> 00:27:10,616
Yeah, and guess, you know, in verse three, you know, we were just talking about this.

628
00:27:10,683 --> 00:27:13,133
The word immorality is what my version has.

629
00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,533
And that, and the Greek was is Porneo.

630
00:27:15,599 --> 00:27:16,133
Yeah.

631
00:27:16,150 --> 00:27:16,866
It's porn.

632
00:27:16,916 --> 00:27:17,633
It is porn.

633
00:27:17,700 --> 00:27:18,716
It's porn.

634
00:27:18,783 --> 00:27:21,599
And people fall into this porn addiction.

635
00:27:21,599 --> 00:27:22,849
And I'm talking about Christians.

636
00:27:22,916 --> 00:27:23,750
Absolutely.

637
00:27:23,816 --> 00:27:26,816
And they keep going down the rabbit hole deeper and

638
00:27:26,816 --> 00:27:28,966
 deeper and deeper and pretty soon they're acting it out.

639
00:27:29,049 --> 00:27:31,266
It always leads nowhere good.

640
00:27:31,316 --> 00:27:32,150
Absolutely.

641
00:27:32,216 --> 00:27:33,166
you're exactly right.

642
00:27:33,250 --> 00:27:36,250
And it corrupts their minds

643
00:27:36,250 --> 00:27:39,416
 to such a point as, you know, they start out.

644
00:27:39,549 --> 00:27:42,900
They start out looking at these women in our

645
00:27:42,900 --> 00:27:45,650
 men or whatever because it's not just men, but whatever it is.

646
00:27:45,716 --> 00:27:49,733
Uh, you know, it may be in something they

647
00:27:49,750 --> 00:27:52,750
 picked up on Facebook, like a bikini picture that

648
00:27:52,750 --> 00:27:55,866
 pops up or whatever, you know, this ad that comes up

649
00:27:55,866 --> 00:27:57,233
 that kind of catches their eye.

650
00:27:57,299 --> 00:28:00,950
They're like, okay, well, you know, that's not that bad because she's not naked.

651
00:28:01,016 --> 00:28:04,183
And then and then it gets to like, well, you

652
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,166
 know, man, I think I'd like to see more.

653
00:28:06,250 --> 00:28:10,016
So where can I find more of this, right?

654
00:28:10,083 --> 00:28:11,516
I can't find this on Facebook.

655
00:28:11,583 --> 00:28:12,599
So let's go.

656
00:28:12,849 --> 00:28:13,866
is there another site?

657
00:28:13,916 --> 00:28:15,049
And so they go to this other side.

658
00:28:15,116 --> 00:28:15,883
Go to Google.

659
00:28:15,900 --> 00:28:16,549
Right.

660
00:28:16,616 --> 00:28:18,716
And it gets a little bit worse and it gets a little bit worse.

661
00:28:18,849 --> 00:28:22,866
And what what you what you once would not have tolerated at all.

662
00:28:22,916 --> 00:28:26,150
And we're not corrupted by it all has now corrupted

663
00:28:26,166 --> 00:28:28,733
 you and you're getting deeper and deeper and deeper into it.

664
00:28:28,799 --> 00:28:31,916
And it's not like we're just we're sitting here going, well, porn bad,

665
00:28:31,916 --> 00:28:33,716
 cigarette's bad, this bad, that bad.

666
00:28:33,783 --> 00:28:36,783
It's the whole point of being a

667
00:28:36,783 --> 00:28:38,583
 Christian and living the Christian life.

668
00:28:38,650 --> 00:28:41,883
And I'm probably going to talk about this Sunday, but it's obedience

669
00:28:41,883 --> 00:28:45,716
 and obedience is the only way we have show to show love to God.

670
00:28:45,783 --> 00:28:46,799
Yeah, that's right.

671
00:28:46,866 --> 00:28:50,333
Only thing we have, and we're supposed to be Christians and in a relationship with

672
00:28:50,349 --> 00:28:52,750
 the living God, and he's called us to holiness.

673
00:28:52,799 --> 00:28:54,833
It's called us to be just like Jesus.

674
00:28:54,966 --> 00:28:57,483
And man, you ain't getting there looking at porn.

675
00:28:57,549 --> 00:28:58,016
Amen.

676
00:28:58,016 --> 00:28:58,483
No.

677
00:28:58,500 --> 00:29:00,049
You're going backwards.

678
00:29:00,116 --> 00:29:00,883
other way.

679
00:29:01,016 --> 00:29:01,666
Exactly right.

680
00:29:01,750 --> 00:29:05,766
That's exactly because and the guilt that comes from it.

681
00:29:05,816 --> 00:29:08,933
I talked to tons of

682
00:29:08,950 --> 00:29:11,950
 guys who've been steeped into it,

683
00:29:11,950 --> 00:29:14,400
 you know, and drawn into it deeper and deeper and deeper.

684
00:29:14,516 --> 00:29:15,416
They didn't want to be there.

685
00:29:15,483 --> 00:29:18,116
I mean, they honestly, I believe them.

686
00:29:18,250 --> 00:29:21,250
I believe that they didn't, they really did not want to be in that

687
00:29:21,250 --> 00:29:25,266
 place watching those things, but yet they get drawn back to it.

688
00:29:25,316 --> 00:29:29,383
you know, and usually it's, you know, idle time that they have.

689
00:29:29,466 --> 00:29:32,516
They're by themselves, you know, they get drawn into

690
00:29:32,516 --> 00:29:35,816
 and and they they don't want to be there, but little by little,

691
00:29:35,816 --> 00:29:37,250
 they they keep getting drawn into it.

692
00:29:37,266 --> 00:29:40,733
And then they try to break it and then they go back to it because because

693
00:29:40,750 --> 00:29:42,716
 sexual immorality is one of those things.

694
00:29:42,716 --> 00:29:45,283
It really is intoxicating.

695
00:29:45,366 --> 00:29:46,266
It's like a drug.

696
00:29:46,316 --> 00:29:49,433
And, and, and, and

697
00:29:49,450 --> 00:29:52,383
 so, and so it's hard to, to break that cycle.

698
00:29:52,450 --> 00:29:53,466
It's hard to get away from it.

699
00:29:53,516 --> 00:29:57,466
And and these guys, they, they, they, they, they fall into it.

700
00:29:57,549 --> 00:30:00,549
They they watch it, you know, they they've

701
00:30:00,549 --> 00:30:04,083
 tried to get away from it for a year and then all of a sudden, boom, they're back on it again.

702
00:30:04,150 --> 00:30:06,966
And then they got all this guilt from it.

703
00:30:06,966 --> 00:30:10,016
And Satan uses that guilt to keep them from spreading the

704
00:30:10,016 --> 00:30:13,066
 gospel from sharing Christ from, you know, being a

705
00:30:13,083 --> 00:30:16,250
 witness and because they feel so ashamed of

706
00:30:16,266 --> 00:30:19,500
 what they've done and the things that they've looked at, that they're

707
00:30:19,500 --> 00:30:21,166
 just like, I'm useless for God.

708
00:30:21,250 --> 00:30:24,250
And so they're just over here in the corner, and that's where Satan wants to keep them.

709
00:30:24,299 --> 00:30:26,566
And it's a self-reinforcing cycle, right?

710
00:30:26,650 --> 00:30:29,766
Because the more you get into that, the harder it is to actually have

711
00:30:29,766 --> 00:30:32,633
 a connection with your spouse or with if you're married.

712
00:30:32,700 --> 00:30:33,116
Yeah.

713
00:30:33,116 --> 00:30:35,333
Unrealistic.

714
00:30:35,349 --> 00:30:38,466
And then it's, and if you're not married, it's hard to ever create

715
00:30:38,466 --> 00:30:41,466
 the relationship that's necessary to get to the point where you're married because

716
00:30:41,466 --> 00:30:43,266
 you're looking for the wrong thing.

717
00:30:43,316 --> 00:30:45,466
You're interacting in the wrong ways.

718
00:30:45,549 --> 00:30:48,599
And it's just a self-reinforcing cycle of, I'm alone,

719
00:30:48,599 --> 00:30:50,450
 I'm alone, I'm alone, I'm alone, I'm alone.

720
00:30:50,516 --> 00:30:52,966
And it's like, well, goodness.

721
00:30:53,166 --> 00:30:56,166
And then, of course, to make it even worse, we have the rest of the

722
00:30:56,166 --> 00:30:58,316
 world going, well, yeah, well men should be alone.

723
00:30:58,383 --> 00:30:59,400
Men ought to be alone.

724
00:30:59,466 --> 00:31:00,366
Look at how garbage they are.

725
00:31:00,416 --> 00:31:01,133
Look at how bad they are.

726
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:03,900
Go look at these sites and all the stuff they look at and all this stuff.

727
00:31:03,966 --> 00:31:07,016
Go look at the stats from Pornhub where they actually release the stats on

728
00:31:07,016 --> 00:31:10,316
 what their top videos are and what kind of content people consume.

729
00:31:10,383 --> 00:31:13,500
I mean, it gets, you look at those numbers and the titles

730
00:31:13,500 --> 00:31:16,433
 of this stuff and it's like, good lord, what is wrong with you people?

731
00:31:16,500 --> 00:31:19,616
But goodness, you've got people out there pushing that and

732
00:31:19,616 --> 00:31:20,933
 saying, look at how bad this is.

733
00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:21,599
Look at how bad.

734
00:31:21,666 --> 00:31:24,900
And it's like you're creating the environment where this is easy to

735
00:31:24,900 --> 00:31:27,900
 grow and develop and get worse and worse and it's just a

736
00:31:27,900 --> 00:31:29,033
 self-reinforcing cycle.

737
00:31:29,166 --> 00:31:30,066
Oh, yeah, yeah.

738
00:31:30,416 --> 00:31:31,849
Well, and it's square.

739
00:31:31,916 --> 00:31:35,516
You know, if you get your kids there, you might want to put them to the side.

740
00:31:35,583 --> 00:31:39,349
and explain it to them in a little bit different way.

741
00:31:39,416 --> 00:31:42,416
But when you when

742
00:31:42,416 --> 00:31:45,716
 you get into these things, uh, it, it, it,

743
00:31:45,716 --> 00:31:49,250
 what, what you're taking in your eyes, uh, it,

744
00:31:49,266 --> 00:31:51,966
 it, it starts to come out and then it, and then it gets physical.

745
00:31:52,016 --> 00:31:55,016
First, 1st time, uh, the 1st kind of

746
00:31:55,016 --> 00:31:58,483
 physical point of it, uh, may be like masturbation or

747
00:31:58,500 --> 00:32:02,333
 something, you know, that you, you go through that part of it and you,

748
00:32:02,349 --> 00:32:04,566
 and you think, well, I'm still not hurting anybody.

749
00:32:04,616 --> 00:32:06,416
You know, it's just me.

750
00:32:06,483 --> 00:32:09,599
I'm here by myself, whatever, you know, it's going on

751
00:32:09,599 --> 00:32:10,966
 and I'm not hurting anybody.

752
00:32:11,049 --> 00:32:14,766
But boy, your mind just keeps getting more and more corrupted, more and more corrupted.

753
00:32:14,816 --> 00:32:18,533
And sooner or later, you're like, ah, you know, this is just not enough.

754
00:32:18,599 --> 00:32:19,366
Right.

755
00:32:19,450 --> 00:32:21,483
This is not enough, you know.

756
00:32:21,549 --> 00:32:23,516
The self-gratification of it is not enough.

757
00:32:23,583 --> 00:32:27,233
Not that the self gratification is

758
00:32:27,250 --> 00:32:30,900
 right and it's because it's seeing too and what you're doing.

759
00:32:30,966 --> 00:32:34,083
So now you say, okay, I'm

760
00:32:34,083 --> 00:32:38,283
 going to go out there and I'm going to seek somebody to draw into this with me that's

761
00:32:38,283 --> 00:32:41,816
 not my wife or that I'm not married to if you're single and

762
00:32:41,816 --> 00:32:45,049
 and I'm going to feed my my

763
00:32:45,066 --> 00:32:48,066
 addiction to this by exporting someone

764
00:32:48,066 --> 00:32:50,400
 else and by drawing someone else into my sin.

765
00:32:50,466 --> 00:32:51,366
Right, exactly.

766
00:32:51,366 --> 00:32:53,216
It's an extremely selfish thing.

767
00:32:53,283 --> 00:32:56,216
Yeah, but it's about fulfilling my desires.

768
00:32:56,283 --> 00:32:56,750
That's right.

769
00:32:56,766 --> 00:32:59,883
You might pretend to care about the other person, but

770
00:32:59,883 --> 00:33:01,250
 it's really about pleasing myself.

771
00:33:01,316 --> 00:33:01,849
That's right.

772
00:33:01,866 --> 00:33:02,333
Exactly.

773
00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:04,666
And it's about self-control too, isn't it?

774
00:33:04,750 --> 00:33:07,200
Yeah, and you think the Bible's an outdated book.

775
00:33:07,266 --> 00:33:08,516
What does it say?

776
00:33:08,583 --> 00:33:10,200
Flea sexual immoral.

777
00:33:10,266 --> 00:33:10,616
right.

778
00:33:10,683 --> 00:33:11,400
Yes, right.

779
00:33:11,466 --> 00:33:11,766
Run away.

780
00:33:11,816 --> 00:33:12,466
Yeah.

781
00:33:12,483 --> 00:33:12,950
Run away.

782
00:33:13,016 --> 00:33:16,133
And the only way that we can do that is by keeping our mind on

783
00:33:16,150 --> 00:33:19,200
 Christ and how do we keep our mind on Christ, we got to stay in his word.

784
00:33:19,266 --> 00:33:22,316
We got to stay around people who will

785
00:33:22,316 --> 00:33:25,316
 continue to bring up his word and and,

786
00:33:25,316 --> 00:33:28,016
 you know, those are the things that keep us from the...

787
00:33:28,150 --> 00:33:31,266
The less time, if you are a young single man and

788
00:33:31,266 --> 00:33:34,566
 woman, women too, because I know some women get drawn

789
00:33:34,566 --> 00:33:35,700
 into this, let me be clear about that.

790
00:33:35,766 --> 00:33:39,000
I mean, here we got, you know, the let me say this.

791
00:33:39,066 --> 00:33:42,366
I don't mean to cut you up, but but here we are, um,

792
00:33:42,366 --> 00:33:45,299
 uh, on the news.

793
00:33:45,366 --> 00:33:46,983
It seems like more and more and more.

794
00:33:47,049 --> 00:33:50,166
A lot of these cases with sexual

795
00:33:50,166 --> 00:33:52,316
 abuse in high schools and schools.

796
00:33:52,316 --> 00:33:52,616
Oh, yeah.

797
00:33:53,400 --> 00:33:54,416
becoming more winning.

798
00:33:54,483 --> 00:33:56,216
Not that the men are not doing it.

799
00:33:56,283 --> 00:33:58,316
I'm not saying, but it's becoming more and more.

800
00:33:58,383 --> 00:33:59,700
We didn't think that way before.

801
00:33:59,766 --> 00:34:03,066
But now you've got these 35 year old teachers

802
00:34:03,066 --> 00:34:06,066
 that are that are attracted to 16, 18 year old

803
00:34:06,066 --> 00:34:09,066
 guys and and what gets me,

804
00:34:09,066 --> 00:34:12,183
 what tears me up about this is the way people perceive it.

805
00:34:12,250 --> 00:34:14,349
Like, you got these dads on there.

806
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,449
You see that you get, you read these news articles and

807
00:34:17,466 --> 00:34:20,699
 then you look at the comments and you got men on there going, well,

808
00:34:20,699 --> 00:34:23,633
 Ned, if that was my teacher, I'm, you know, blah, blah, blah.

809
00:34:23,699 --> 00:34:26,750
If that was my son, I'd be going, high five, you know, and

810
00:34:26,766 --> 00:34:28,866
 just cheering their son on.

811
00:34:28,916 --> 00:34:32,216
No, you have no idea what

812
00:34:32,216 --> 00:34:33,233
 it does to that young mind.

813
00:34:33,300 --> 00:34:34,433
You have no idea.

814
00:34:34,500 --> 00:34:36,166
I don't care if it's an 18 year old boy.

815
00:34:36,250 --> 00:34:38,216
I don't care if it's a 16 year old boy.

816
00:34:38,283 --> 00:34:41,633
Listen, it's it's how they process things during

817
00:34:41,650 --> 00:34:44,766
 that during that adolescence and how that frontal lobe

818
00:34:44,766 --> 00:34:48,900
 has not developed and how that heart is not where it needs to be completely yet.

819
00:34:48,966 --> 00:34:51,000
And so you got this.

820
00:34:51,250 --> 00:34:54,849
Listen, if it's a woman teacher, she is a,

821
00:34:54,849 --> 00:34:56,583
 she's a predator just like that man is.

822
00:34:56,650 --> 00:34:58,983
They're both they're all predators, right?

823
00:34:59,050 --> 00:35:02,166
going after your children, but there's no difference.

824
00:35:02,216 --> 00:35:03,233
There's no difference.

825
00:35:03,300 --> 00:35:06,650
Let's stop making a difference in between the women and the men when

826
00:35:06,666 --> 00:35:09,000
 it comes to this type of thing because there is no difference.

827
00:35:09,066 --> 00:35:12,599
They're sick, twisted people who have let Satan take over their lives.

828
00:35:12,666 --> 00:35:13,433
Exactly.

829
00:35:13,500 --> 00:35:16,616
And there is a huge, huge difference between

830
00:35:16,616 --> 00:35:20,333
 somebody in their 20s or early 30s and

831
00:35:20,349 --> 00:35:23,466
 somebody that is under 20 years old and people that

832
00:35:23,466 --> 00:35:27,300
 are in their 20s doing whatever they're going to do with whoever that's also their age or older.

833
00:35:27,366 --> 00:35:28,383
There's a huge

834
00:35:28,866 --> 00:35:29,816
there's a vast.

835
00:35:29,883 --> 00:35:33,116
I mean, from 20 to 25 years old.

836
00:35:33,183 --> 00:35:35,516
There is so much growing that goes on, and that's not even counting.

837
00:35:35,583 --> 00:35:37,800
In fact, your frontal lobes really not developed until you're like 36.

838
00:35:37,983 --> 00:35:38,516
Right.

839
00:35:38,516 --> 00:35:41,983
But we also live in reality, my understanding.

840
00:35:42,066 --> 00:35:42,083
Yeah.

841
00:35:43,449 --> 00:35:46,616
But we also live in reality and we understand that, you know, families don't typically

842
00:35:46,616 --> 00:35:47,866
 come for people that are pushing 40.

843
00:35:48,066 --> 00:35:49,083
So we get that.

844
00:35:49,150 --> 00:35:52,150
You're probably going to get married and have kids before then and you're

845
00:35:52,150 --> 00:35:53,283
 going to be learning, okay?

846
00:35:53,349 --> 00:35:54,066
That's the truth.

847
00:35:54,116 --> 00:35:54,883
You're going to be learning.

848
00:35:54,966 --> 00:35:58,500
But there is, that is such a huge thing.

849
00:35:58,566 --> 00:36:01,916
And by the way, not a single state, regardless

850
00:36:01,916 --> 00:36:05,083
 of the age of consent, because some states have some really low ages of consent.

851
00:36:05,166 --> 00:36:06,066
Alabama is one of them.

852
00:36:06,116 --> 00:36:08,033
It makes me sick, 16 years old.

853
00:36:08,099 --> 00:36:09,300
I think it's dumb, but I get it.

854
00:36:09,366 --> 00:36:11,283
They don't want to be throwing teenagers in jail.

855
00:36:11,349 --> 00:36:12,116
I understand.

856
00:36:12,183 --> 00:36:12,949
I get why they did it.

857
00:36:13,016 --> 00:36:13,916
I just disagree with them.

858
00:36:13,983 --> 00:36:16,849
But it doesn't matter how low that age is.

859
00:36:16,916 --> 00:36:18,716
Every single state.

860
00:36:18,783 --> 00:36:22,250
All in the United States and in most European countries, if

861
00:36:22,266 --> 00:36:25,383
 you are a school employee, period, and you

862
00:36:25,383 --> 00:36:28,500
 have a relationship with a student that has not reached the age of majority,

863
00:36:28,500 --> 00:36:32,216
 which is typically right around 2021 years old, Alabama's

864
00:36:32,216 --> 00:36:35,383
 19, but in most states, 2021, if you're not dealing

865
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:39,000
 with somebody that old, you cannot have a relationship with them, it is illegal.

866
00:36:39,066 --> 00:36:42,300
And I mean, even our laws in the most liberal areas

867
00:36:42,300 --> 00:36:44,566
 recognize this is not okay.

868
00:36:44,650 --> 00:36:47,949
And yet we have a tendency to ignore it when it happens.

869
00:36:47,949 --> 00:36:51,599
And we have a tendency because of this garbage of getting drunk

870
00:36:51,599 --> 00:36:53,566
 off of the wine of that immoral passion.

871
00:36:53,583 --> 00:36:56,816
And I mean, hey, this, like you say, it's a reflection of what's going on today.

872
00:36:56,883 --> 00:37:00,599
And it's something that's just so easy to get drug into.

873
00:37:00,666 --> 00:37:03,833
And then you find yourself in these horrible places where

874
00:37:03,849 --> 00:37:06,183
 you've done these dumb, stupid things.

875
00:37:06,250 --> 00:37:08,766
And my, I'm so glad you said it the way you did.

876
00:37:08,816 --> 00:37:09,650
It's so selfish

877
00:37:09,849 --> 00:37:12,849
The one thing that I wish people

878
00:37:12,849 --> 00:37:16,083
 would get a little bit more comfortable saying to young people when they when

879
00:37:16,083 --> 00:37:19,083
 they do something dumb like that and they make a stupid mistake is to

880
00:37:19,083 --> 00:37:22,199
 look at them and say, you know, kid, that was stupid.

881
00:37:22,266 --> 00:37:25,566
That was selfish, and that was amazingly short-sighted.

882
00:37:25,616 --> 00:37:28,066
And you're going to be dealing with this.

883
00:37:28,150 --> 00:37:30,183
Even if even if she she doesn't get pregnant.

884
00:37:30,250 --> 00:37:33,666
You're still going to be dealing with the results of this for the rest of your life.

885
00:37:33,716 --> 00:37:35,083
Can't erase the memory.

886
00:37:35,166 --> 00:37:37,266
And the memories are not going to go away.

887
00:37:37,316 --> 00:37:38,150
And here's the thing.

888
00:37:38,216 --> 00:37:41,866
Everybody wants to look at somebody in that situation said, it's going to be okay.

889
00:37:41,949 --> 00:37:42,783
You're going to be okay.

890
00:37:42,849 --> 00:37:44,216
Let me tell you something.

891
00:37:44,283 --> 00:37:47,883
From experience, you get used to it, but you're never okay.

892
00:37:47,949 --> 00:37:48,483
Yeah.

893
00:37:48,483 --> 00:37:50,099
You get used to it.

894
00:37:50,166 --> 00:37:52,916
You have to carry that, but it is a weight.

895
00:37:52,983 --> 00:37:55,550
It weighs you down and you carry it the rest of your life.

896
00:37:55,616 --> 00:37:56,683
It never fully goes away.

897
00:37:56,766 --> 00:37:58,199
And I think that is by design.

898
00:37:58,266 --> 00:38:01,083
God is doing that to remind you, hey, that was dumb.

899
00:38:01,150 --> 00:38:02,050
Yeah.

900
00:38:02,050 --> 00:38:05,400
I mean, really imagine, imagine the way, you know, we're

901
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:06,466
 talking about the world is right now.

902
00:38:06,550 --> 00:38:09,250
and what this is going to look like after the rapture.

903
00:38:09,300 --> 00:38:10,016
Absolutely, yeah.

904
00:38:10,083 --> 00:38:12,300
I started to say we're a pale reflection of this.

905
00:38:12,366 --> 00:38:13,683
more and more intense.

906
00:38:13,683 --> 00:38:14,583
Absolutely.

907
00:38:14,699 --> 00:38:15,116
free for all.

908
00:38:15,183 --> 00:38:16,683
Because there's nothing to hold it back anymore.

909
00:38:16,750 --> 00:38:19,449
I mean, there's no there's no morality at all.

910
00:38:19,500 --> 00:38:20,583
Right.

911
00:38:21,116 --> 00:38:23,866
Just whatever your pride puts on you, I guess, you know?

912
00:38:23,949 --> 00:38:25,566
But, all right.

913
00:38:25,616 --> 00:38:26,333
Verse four?

914
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:26,866
verse four.

915
00:38:26,949 --> 00:38:27,550
Yeah.

916
00:38:27,550 --> 00:38:30,599
And I heard another voice from heaven saying,

917
00:38:32,216 --> 00:38:35,633
 come out of her, my people, that you be not

918
00:38:35,650 --> 00:38:39,300
 partakers of her sins, and that you receive not her plagues.

919
00:38:39,366 --> 00:38:42,416
So God is, he's warning the

920
00:38:42,416 --> 00:38:45,650
 people that are left here just as Lot

921
00:38:45,666 --> 00:38:48,666
 and his family were worn before God when

922
00:38:48,666 --> 00:38:50,400
 he destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.

923
00:38:50,466 --> 00:38:54,366
He warns them to move out of the way because judgment's coming.

924
00:38:54,416 --> 00:38:56,516
I mean, it's on its way.

925
00:38:56,583 --> 00:38:58,016
It's headed your way.

926
00:38:58,083 --> 00:39:02,099
Yeah, you know, it's a warning for today too, isn't it?

927
00:39:02,166 --> 00:39:03,966
Don't be sharing in other people's sins.

928
00:39:04,016 --> 00:39:05,266
Yeah, yeah, it is.

929
00:39:05,349 --> 00:39:05,816
Absolutely.

930
00:39:05,883 --> 00:39:09,050
Deuteronomy chapter 4 and verse

931
00:39:09,066 --> 00:39:10,500
 30 and 31 says this.

932
00:39:10,566 --> 00:39:13,683
When thou art in tribulation and all these things are come upon

933
00:39:13,683 --> 00:39:16,733
 the, even in the latter days, if thou

934
00:39:16,750 --> 00:39:20,050
 turn to the Lord thy God and shalt be obedient unto his voice.

935
00:39:20,099 --> 00:39:23,099
For the Lord thy God is a merciful God,

936
00:39:23,099 --> 00:39:26,266
 he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor neither forget the

937
00:39:26,283 --> 00:39:29,099
 covenant of thy fathers, which he sware unto them.

938
00:39:29,166 --> 00:39:29,883
Of course.

939
00:39:29,949 --> 00:39:32,949
This fits more the

940
00:39:32,949 --> 00:39:36,250
 144,000 than anybody, but we know there

941
00:39:36,250 --> 00:39:39,966
 will be many saved during tribulation time, right?

942
00:39:40,016 --> 00:39:43,666
I mean, there's there's going to be people who are here that

943
00:39:43,683 --> 00:39:46,733
 will trust because these 144,000 are preaching

944
00:39:46,750 --> 00:39:49,866
 the word and they'll turn away from this stuff right before it's too late.

945
00:39:49,916 --> 00:39:51,349
But it's fixing to be too late.

946
00:39:51,416 --> 00:39:52,250
Yeah, it is.

947
00:39:52,383 --> 00:39:53,583
We're right there at it, ain't we?

948
00:39:53,650 --> 00:39:56,283
And just think of all the martyrs we were about, right?

949
00:39:56,349 --> 00:39:59,216
All those are beheaded for the cause of Christ.

950
00:39:59,283 --> 00:40:00,349
Yes, absolutely.

951
00:40:00,416 --> 00:40:01,133
Absolutely.

952
00:40:01,199 --> 00:40:04,250
So we got to realize that this stuff is sin and

953
00:40:04,266 --> 00:40:05,883
 we got to call it as it is, right?

954
00:40:05,949 --> 00:40:08,349
Let's start calling seeing, seeing.

955
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:09,833
Don't shy away from it.

956
00:40:09,966 --> 00:40:11,033
Yeah, yeah.

957
00:40:11,099 --> 00:40:14,516
You know, and I actually heard an official in the

958
00:40:14,516 --> 00:40:17,583
 United Methodist Church, a little higher ranking that

959
00:40:18,250 --> 00:40:21,716
 used a piece of scripture to say that because

960
00:40:21,716 --> 00:40:24,766
 the law has been, she basically was

961
00:40:24,783 --> 00:40:26,750
 saying that the law is obsolete.

962
00:40:26,816 --> 00:40:29,816
And I didn't have a chance

963
00:40:29,816 --> 00:40:32,633
 to question any of that, but why?

964
00:40:32,699 --> 00:40:35,933
In every letter in the New Testament, does it constantly encourage

965
00:40:35,949 --> 00:40:37,016
 us not to sin?

966
00:40:37,083 --> 00:40:38,033
Yeah, yeah.

967
00:40:38,099 --> 00:40:41,150
If there's if sin doesn't exist

968
00:40:41,166 --> 00:40:44,099
 anymore because of grace, that's a big problem.

969
00:40:44,099 --> 00:40:45,949
You need to go read Romans chapter 6 again.

970
00:40:46,016 --> 00:40:46,483
Amen.

971
00:40:46,500 --> 00:40:46,966
Amen.

972
00:40:47,050 --> 00:40:47,516
Yeah.

973
00:40:47,583 --> 00:40:49,983
Shall we sin because of grace?

974
00:40:50,050 --> 00:40:51,300
Certainly not.

975
00:40:51,366 --> 00:40:52,016
Certainly not.

976
00:40:52,016 --> 00:40:52,733
No, of course not.

977
00:40:52,800 --> 00:40:54,533
He was so against it.

978
00:40:54,599 --> 00:40:55,366
Absolutely

979
00:40:55,616 --> 00:40:58,483
But churches are teaching some serious garbage.

980
00:40:58,566 --> 00:41:02,400
And we need to understand, don't participate in other people's sins.

981
00:41:02,466 --> 00:41:06,533
Don't sin yourself in the only way we have to not sin.

982
00:41:06,599 --> 00:41:09,233
is to stay close to God and follow him.

983
00:41:09,300 --> 00:41:11,516
That's what he called us to do is follow him.

984
00:41:11,583 --> 00:41:14,150
And that means like John 15, abide in me.

985
00:41:14,216 --> 00:41:14,750
right.

986
00:41:14,816 --> 00:41:18,166
And that's praying in Bible studies, spending quiet time with meditate

987
00:41:18,183 --> 00:41:20,033
 on his word, praise him, worship him.

988
00:41:20,099 --> 00:41:21,000
live in it.

989
00:41:21,066 --> 00:41:21,833
It's lifestyle.

990
00:41:21,900 --> 00:41:23,866
And when you do sin, repent.

991
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:25,500
Yeah, that means we will.

992
00:41:25,500 --> 00:41:27,116
We will. turn from it.

993
00:41:27,183 --> 00:41:28,983
And here's the thing.

994
00:41:29,050 --> 00:41:32,050
You know, you hear people say now, well, I mean, he's

995
00:41:32,050 --> 00:41:35,349
 already paid the price for your sins, so why are you having to repent now?

996
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,250
You know, if he's already paid the price.

997
00:41:37,316 --> 00:41:39,116
Repenting is for you.

998
00:41:39,183 --> 00:41:43,833
That's for, that's for your soul to, it's

999
00:41:44,283 --> 00:41:47,883
 not that you sin and you lose your salvation, but you sin and

1000
00:41:47,883 --> 00:41:50,449
 it brings you into a place of separation, right?

1001
00:41:50,516 --> 00:41:53,150
I mean, like, like you're separating yourself from God.

1002
00:41:53,216 --> 00:41:54,233
He's still there.

1003
00:41:54,300 --> 00:41:57,466
He still lives in you, but, but, but

1004
00:41:57,483 --> 00:42:00,833
 when we repent, it means we're recognizing what we done and

1005
00:42:01,566 --> 00:42:04,683
 and we're recognizing that it's wrong, that it's sin and

1006
00:42:04,683 --> 00:42:06,050
 we don't, we don't want to do it again.

1007
00:42:06,116 --> 00:42:07,133
It breaks us.

1008
00:42:07,199 --> 00:42:10,733
It hurts us because it hurts the father and we want to turn away from it.

1009
00:42:10,866 --> 00:42:14,099
Yeah, and it's the same dynamic like I always think of Andy Griffith.

1010
00:42:14,166 --> 00:42:16,083
I hope he does something bad.

1011
00:42:16,150 --> 00:42:19,449
Breaks the streetlight with a slingshot or something, hides it from his daddy.

1012
00:42:19,500 --> 00:42:21,233
There's a rift in between them.

1013
00:42:21,300 --> 00:42:22,250
Yeah, that's it.

1014
00:42:22,266 --> 00:42:23,516
And it's the same with our heavenly Father.

1015
00:42:23,583 --> 00:42:27,416
When we do something, you know, we're pulling at them and go try to hide with a fig leaf over us or something.

1016
00:42:27,483 --> 00:42:28,250
I see it.

1017
00:42:28,316 --> 00:42:28,550
Yeah.

1018
00:42:28,616 --> 00:42:29,516
It's dumb.

1019
00:42:29,583 --> 00:42:30,599
We can't hide from him.

1020
00:42:30,666 --> 00:42:32,816
Oh, like we could hide a shot. score that relationship.

1021
00:42:32,949 --> 00:42:33,900
Yeah, absolutely.

1022
00:42:33,966 --> 00:42:34,616
Absolutely.

1023
00:42:34,683 --> 00:42:36,116
Opie to Andy.

1024
00:42:36,183 --> 00:42:36,716
right?

1025
00:42:36,783 --> 00:42:39,716
You go say, I'm sorry, I won't do it again and you don't do it again.

1026
00:42:39,783 --> 00:42:40,250
That's right.

1027
00:42:40,316 --> 00:42:40,733
That's right.

1028
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:41,866
Go to dad.

1029
00:42:41,949 --> 00:42:42,716
Yeah.

1030
00:42:42,783 --> 00:42:44,216
And because he loves you.

1031
00:42:44,283 --> 00:42:45,116
Confess.

1032
00:42:45,183 --> 00:42:48,233
Yeah, he loves you and he wants to, there's consequences

1033
00:42:48,250 --> 00:42:49,616
 for sin, but he loves you.

1034
00:42:49,683 --> 00:42:52,683
Well, and I always think of that, uh, and it may have

1035
00:42:52,683 --> 00:42:55,849
 been that episode where Opie had done some stuff and he

1036
00:42:55,866 --> 00:42:58,916
 ended up with this other guy telling Andy, well, why don't you just, why don't

1037
00:42:58,916 --> 00:43:00,283
 you just let the boy do what he wants?

1038
00:43:00,366 --> 00:43:02,400
Oh, that was Buddy Epsom in that episode?

1039
00:43:02,466 --> 00:43:03,783
Oh, yes, yeah, Jay Clamp.

1040
00:43:03,849 --> 00:43:04,266
Yeah.

1041
00:43:04,316 --> 00:43:06,166
Just let the boy do what he wants.

1042
00:43:06,250 --> 00:43:07,266
says, you can't do that.

1043
00:43:07,316 --> 00:43:09,883
You know, the young un needs to learn right.

1044
00:43:09,966 --> 00:43:11,099
And that's exactly how God is.

1045
00:43:11,166 --> 00:43:12,716
That was some big wisdom in that episode.

1046
00:43:12,783 --> 00:43:13,683
Yeah, it really was.

1047
00:43:13,750 --> 00:43:13,916
Yeah.

1048
00:43:13,916 --> 00:43:14,333
Yeah.

1049
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:15,650
And that's how God is for us.

1050
00:43:15,716 --> 00:43:18,716
He's saying, look, don't go and do this stuff over and over and over

1051
00:43:18,716 --> 00:43:22,433
 again because for one thing, even apart from the removal from God.

1052
00:43:22,500 --> 00:43:24,650
He saying even apart from that, you're destroying your life.

1053
00:43:24,716 --> 00:43:25,916
You're making your life worse.

1054
00:43:25,983 --> 00:43:28,800
You're making things harder on yourself, and I've got a better way for you.

1055
00:43:28,866 --> 00:43:32,099
I mean, it's like, it's so clear and it's

1056
00:43:32,099 --> 00:43:35,750
 so obvious when you read the scripture, God's just begging us, hey, can you pay attention?

1057
00:43:35,816 --> 00:43:37,316
I've got something better in store for you.

1058
00:43:37,383 --> 00:43:38,099
Why do you keep doing this?

1059
00:43:38,166 --> 00:43:40,016
The rules and the obedience is about love.

1060
00:43:40,083 --> 00:43:43,133
It's about protecting us from ourselves and other people.

1061
00:43:43,199 --> 00:43:46,199
You know, it's not just harshness and

1062
00:43:46,199 --> 00:43:47,750
 hit wanting to hit us with a lightning bolt.

1063
00:43:47,883 --> 00:43:48,349
That's right.

1064
00:43:48,416 --> 00:43:50,933
And don't get me and don't get me wrong.

1065
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,650
I get that yes, you can say,

1066
00:43:54,666 --> 00:43:56,766
 well, I have no desire to go out and kill somebody.

1067
00:43:56,816 --> 00:43:59,266
Why I don't need the scripture to tell me.

1068
00:43:59,349 --> 00:44:00,416
I don't need Bible to tell me that.

1069
00:44:00,483 --> 00:44:02,099
It's like, okay, well, what about the sexual immorality?

1070
00:44:02,166 --> 00:44:03,666
What about what about the porn?

1071
00:44:03,716 --> 00:44:05,933
What about, what about lying?

1072
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:08,266
Yeah, what about any of these other things?

1073
00:44:08,349 --> 00:44:11,400
You can't tell me that you actually do keep

1074
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:15,166
 all this stuff and you make the decisions that are good for your life without having a little bit of guidance?

1075
00:44:15,250 --> 00:44:16,383
The guidance came from somewhere.

1076
00:44:16,449 --> 00:44:17,949
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1077
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:18,900
How do you mean?

1078
00:44:18,966 --> 00:44:20,216
Verse five?

1079
00:44:20,283 --> 00:44:20,583
Yeah.

1080
00:44:20,650 --> 00:44:23,883
We won't do more than 5 or whatever you want to do, brother.

1081
00:44:23,949 --> 00:44:25,916
Man, I might go through 8 if you let me.

1082
00:44:25,983 --> 00:44:26,333
Okay.

1083
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:27,050
Hit it.

1084
00:44:27,116 --> 00:44:28,183
Hit it.

1085
00:44:28,199 --> 00:44:31,316
For her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and

1086
00:44:31,316 --> 00:44:32,983
 God has remembered her iniquities.

1087
00:44:33,066 --> 00:44:36,183
Pay her back, even as she is paid, and give

1088
00:44:36,183 --> 00:44:39,300
 back to her double, according to her deeds, and the cup,

1089
00:44:39,300 --> 00:44:41,333
 which she has mixed, mixed twice as much for her.

1090
00:44:41,349 --> 00:44:44,466
To the degree that she glorified herself

1091
00:44:44,466 --> 00:44:47,766
 and lived sensuously to the same degree,

1092
00:44:47,766 --> 00:44:50,883
 give her torment and mourning, for she says in her heart,

1093
00:44:50,883 --> 00:44:54,833
 I sit as a queen, and I am not a widow, and I will never see mourning.

1094
00:44:54,900 --> 00:44:58,133
For this reason, in one day, her plagues

1095
00:44:58,150 --> 00:45:01,199
 will come, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will

1096
00:45:01,199 --> 00:45:04,366
 be burned up with fire, for the Lord God, who judges her as strong.

1097
00:45:04,500 --> 00:45:05,333
Wow.

1098
00:45:05,349 --> 00:45:07,800
It's serious, ain't it?

1099
00:45:07,866 --> 00:45:08,633
Very serious.

1100
00:45:08,699 --> 00:45:09,650
Very serious.

1101
00:45:09,716 --> 00:45:09,949
Yeah.

1102
00:45:10,016 --> 00:45:14,083
I mean, we can read it read it right here, you know, and it says, oh, man, that's, ooh, that sounds big.

1103
00:45:14,166 --> 00:45:17,083
Man, living through that would be.

1104
00:45:17,349 --> 00:45:18,483
We won't live through it.

1105
00:45:18,550 --> 00:45:20,400
What's the wrath of God being poured out, right?

1106
00:45:20,466 --> 00:45:21,533
I mean, it is.

1107
00:45:21,599 --> 00:45:24,466
He won't forget the sins of Babylon.

1108
00:45:24,599 --> 00:45:27,766
They have a long list of

1109
00:45:27,783 --> 00:45:30,833
 unrepentant wrongs that they've done

1110
00:45:30,849 --> 00:45:32,516
 and through the ages.

1111
00:45:32,583 --> 00:45:34,550
Yeah, always back to babble.

1112
00:45:34,616 --> 00:45:35,383
It really does.

1113
00:45:35,466 --> 00:45:36,066
Yeah, yeah.

1114
00:45:36,250 --> 00:45:36,783
absolutely.

1115
00:45:36,900 --> 00:45:38,933
And God's going to remember our scene.

1116
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,566
you know, unless they've been forgiven, right?

1117
00:45:41,650 --> 00:45:45,000
I mean, you know, if you've been saved,

1118
00:45:45,000 --> 00:45:48,116
 he throws your sins of the sea of forgetfulness, but if you stand before

1119
00:45:48,116 --> 00:45:51,949
 God and without the

1120
00:45:51,966 --> 00:45:54,966
 righteousness of Jesus Christ, then you're standing there

1121
00:45:54,966 --> 00:45:57,599
 and you're sin, your own goodness and you're not good enough.

1122
00:45:57,666 --> 00:45:59,400
And you're standing there naked.

1123
00:45:59,516 --> 00:46:03,583
Yeah, you got to be willing to confess to them, then the Bible tells us he'll forget them.

1124
00:46:03,666 --> 00:46:07,383
And this is God, you know, eye for nine, tooth for tooth.

1125
00:46:07,449 --> 00:46:08,283
It is double.

1126
00:46:08,349 --> 00:46:08,883
Yeah.

1127
00:46:08,949 --> 00:46:09,416
Oh, yeah.

1128
00:46:09,849 --> 00:46:14,099
Yeah, if you didn't like the Old Testament, you better watch out because here we go.

1129
00:46:14,166 --> 00:46:14,816
Yeah.

1130
00:46:14,816 --> 00:46:18,349
This so-called great city.

1131
00:46:18,416 --> 00:46:21,050
is now she's going to get what's coming to her.

1132
00:46:21,116 --> 00:46:21,583
right?

1133
00:46:21,716 --> 00:46:24,416
Double portion, reaping what you sow.

1134
00:46:24,483 --> 00:46:27,783
Obadai, 1115,

1135
00:46:27,783 --> 00:46:31,683
 for the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen as thou hast done.

1136
00:46:31,750 --> 00:46:33,300
It shall be done unto thee.

1137
00:46:33,366 --> 00:46:36,300
Thy reward shall return upon thine own head.

1138
00:46:36,416 --> 00:46:38,083
Psalms 137.

1139
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:42,533
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down.

1140
00:46:42,599 --> 00:46:45,533
We wept when we remembered Zion.

1141
00:46:45,599 --> 00:46:48,650
We hanged our harps upon the willows of the

1142
00:46:48,666 --> 00:46:49,983
 mind of the myths there.

1143
00:46:50,050 --> 00:46:53,216
For there, they that carried us away

1144
00:46:53,216 --> 00:46:56,216
 captive, required of us a song, and they

1145
00:46:56,216 --> 00:46:59,333
 that wasted us required us of mirth, saying,

1146
00:46:59,349 --> 00:47:01,616
 sing us, one of the songs of Zion.

1147
00:47:01,683 --> 00:47:04,500
How shall we sing the Lord's song of a strange land?

1148
00:47:04,566 --> 00:47:07,683
If I forget thee,

1149
00:47:07,683 --> 00:47:10,316
 O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.

1150
00:47:10,449 --> 00:47:13,449
If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave

1151
00:47:13,449 --> 00:47:16,500
 to the roof of my mouth, if I prefer not

1152
00:47:16,500 --> 00:47:18,766
 Jerusalem above my chief joy.

1153
00:47:18,849 --> 00:47:22,199
Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem,

1154
00:47:22,199 --> 00:47:25,316
 he said, race it, race it, even to the

1155
00:47:25,316 --> 00:47:26,449
 foundation thereof.

1156
00:47:26,583 --> 00:47:29,633
O daughter of Babylon, who

1157
00:47:29,650 --> 00:47:31,983
 art thou, who art to be destroyed?

1158
00:47:32,050 --> 00:47:35,166
Happy shall he be that rewardeth thee

1159
00:47:35,166 --> 00:47:36,966
 as thou hast served us.

1160
00:47:37,016 --> 00:47:40,016
Happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth

1161
00:47:40,016 --> 00:47:41,983
 thy little ones against the stone?

1162
00:47:42,066 --> 00:47:46,199
Listen, God's judgment on them

1163
00:47:46,199 --> 00:47:48,900
 will be fair and it will be just.

1164
00:47:48,966 --> 00:47:49,733
That's right

1165
00:47:49,916 --> 00:47:50,816
That's right.

1166
00:47:50,883 --> 00:47:52,199
And he's glad to do it.

1167
00:47:52,266 --> 00:47:53,766
Glad to do it.

1168
00:47:53,816 --> 00:47:55,916
Now, you take that and swallow that for a minute.

1169
00:47:55,983 --> 00:48:00,833
He's going to be glad to avenge the saints.

1170
00:48:01,566 --> 00:48:02,933
And that's what's going to happen.

1171
00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:03,466
Right.

1172
00:48:03,550 --> 00:48:07,449
That reminds me of, I think it's Matthew 25, you know, the sheep and goat's judgment.

1173
00:48:07,500 --> 00:48:10,250
Where God takes sins against us personally.

1174
00:48:10,383 --> 00:48:10,983
He does.

1175
00:48:10,983 --> 00:48:13,800
And as much as you did to the least of these, you did to me.

1176
00:48:13,866 --> 00:48:14,400
right.

1177
00:48:14,466 --> 00:48:14,883
Right?

1178
00:48:14,949 --> 00:48:16,083
And that's where this is coming from.

1179
00:48:16,150 --> 00:48:18,183
They've done this stuff to him.

1180
00:48:18,250 --> 00:48:18,849
That's right

1181
00:48:18,966 --> 00:48:22,500
Because they've killed the saints, the blood of the martyrs and all these things.

1182
00:48:22,566 --> 00:48:25,683
Man, you don't want to be on that end.

1183
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:26,566
No, no.

1184
00:48:26,583 --> 00:48:27,483
Batman one.

1185
00:48:28,150 --> 00:48:30,000
I was just going to say, you know, I always go back.

1186
00:48:30,066 --> 00:48:31,983
I see this and you go back to verse four.

1187
00:48:32,050 --> 00:48:35,283
And, you know, he's calling my people,

1188
00:48:35,283 --> 00:48:38,400
 come out of her, my people, so you will not take part in

1189
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:41,699
 her sins and so you will not receive her plagues.

1190
00:48:41,766 --> 00:48:45,533
Verse 5 is a continuation of that thought because her

1191
00:48:45,550 --> 00:48:48,116
 sins have piled all the way up to heaven.

1192
00:48:49,083 --> 00:48:51,949
I mean, the reveling in sin.

1193
00:48:52,016 --> 00:48:55,433
And then the arrogance, the arrogance that is shown

1194
00:48:55,449 --> 00:48:59,466
 here of, I am a queen, not a, what was it?

1195
00:48:59,466 --> 00:49:01,916
She said, I rule as a queen, I am no widow.

1196
00:49:01,983 --> 00:49:04,550
I will never experience grief or I will never mourn.

1197
00:49:04,616 --> 00:49:06,533
God goes, really?

1198
00:49:06,599 --> 00:49:08,033
You think so?

1199
00:49:08,099 --> 00:49:11,099
Isn't it funny that in verse

1200
00:49:11,099 --> 00:49:14,333
 5 that he says their sins will reach all the way to heaven and they've

1201
00:49:14,349 --> 00:49:17,400
 been trying to, they tried to do that at

1202
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:19,066
 the Tower of Babble, didn't they?

1203
00:49:19,083 --> 00:49:20,883
And they weren't successful.

1204
00:49:20,949 --> 00:49:23,216
They're, they're, they're...

1205
00:49:23,283 --> 00:49:25,683
Yeah, their tower didn't reach it, but their sins did.

1206
00:49:25,750 --> 00:49:26,583
That's right.

1207
00:49:26,650 --> 00:49:27,250
That's right.

1208
00:49:27,300 --> 00:49:28,066
right.

1209
00:49:28,150 --> 00:49:29,816
Yeah, this is a little bit too.

1210
00:49:29,883 --> 00:49:32,750
You know, she sits as a queen, not a widow.

1211
00:49:32,766 --> 00:49:36,300
And that just reminded me of another one is remember

1212
00:49:36,300 --> 00:49:39,416
 the parable Jesus told about the farmer who piled up

1213
00:49:39,416 --> 00:49:40,966
 the grain and all the silos.

1214
00:49:41,050 --> 00:49:41,400
Oh, yeah.

1215
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:42,599
I'm done.

1216
00:49:42,666 --> 00:49:43,133
I'm done.

1217
00:49:43,199 --> 00:49:45,599
I'm going to sit back, kick back and relax.

1218
00:49:45,666 --> 00:49:47,583
And what did God say to him?

1219
00:49:47,650 --> 00:49:50,099
It's like your life is required of you this very night.

1220
00:49:50,166 --> 00:49:50,883
Today.

1221
00:49:50,949 --> 00:49:52,150
What are you going to do with all this now?

1222
00:49:52,266 --> 00:49:52,916
Right, yeah.

1223
00:49:52,983 --> 00:49:54,183
Absolutely.

1224
00:49:54,250 --> 00:49:56,283
You collected all this, but you can't do anything with it.

1225
00:49:56,349 --> 00:49:56,599
Wow.

1226
00:49:57,900 --> 00:49:58,433
Yeah.

1227
00:49:58,500 --> 00:50:01,500
I mean, Babylon's going to

1228
00:50:01,500 --> 00:50:05,333
 live in fame and fortune and luxury, and

1229
00:50:05,949 --> 00:50:09,116
 her success is only going to bring arrogance

1230
00:50:09,116 --> 00:50:10,916
 and pride and sin to it, right?

1231
00:50:10,983 --> 00:50:12,599
I mean, We see that today, too.

1232
00:50:12,666 --> 00:50:13,316
We do.

1233
00:50:13,383 --> 00:50:13,683
We do.

1234
00:50:13,750 --> 00:50:15,550
She feels like she can't be touched.

1235
00:50:15,666 --> 00:50:19,983
That nothing's going to touch her, but ultimately she's going to be destroyed.

1236
00:50:20,050 --> 00:50:24,066
Oh, but we created artificial intelligence and we've created this medicine and that medicine.

1237
00:50:24,116 --> 00:50:25,733
We're living in another...

1238
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:26,150
Yeah, yeah.

1239
00:50:26,216 --> 00:50:27,166
What have we done?

1240
00:50:27,250 --> 00:50:28,616
All the things we've done.

1241
00:50:28,683 --> 00:50:29,633
Tower babble stuff, man.

1242
00:50:29,699 --> 00:50:30,000
Yeah.

1243
00:50:30,000 --> 00:50:30,349
Yeah.

1244
00:50:30,783 --> 00:50:31,433
Human achievement.

1245
00:50:31,500 --> 00:50:31,966
That's right.

1246
00:50:31,983 --> 00:50:32,750
Apart from God.

1247
00:50:32,816 --> 00:50:33,533
Which means nothing.

1248
00:50:33,599 --> 00:50:34,199
Nothing.

1249
00:50:34,316 --> 00:50:36,050
And again, it goes back to pride.

1250
00:50:36,116 --> 00:50:36,766
It does.

1251
00:50:36,783 --> 00:50:37,433
Pride.

1252
00:50:37,500 --> 00:50:40,500
And I mean, all of this sin, all of

1253
00:50:40,500 --> 00:50:42,766
 every single bit of it goes back to pride.

1254
00:50:42,849 --> 00:50:43,800
Absolutely.

1255
00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:44,216
Yeah.

1256
00:50:44,216 --> 00:50:46,783
But how long is it going to take for this to happen?

1257
00:50:46,866 --> 00:50:47,933
Oh gosh.

1258
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:49,366
One hour.

1259
00:50:49,383 --> 00:50:49,733
One day.

1260
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:50,866
One day.

1261
00:50:50,949 --> 00:50:54,550
Well, in this one, one day, it's going to be an hour and a minute, but yeah, in a minute.

1262
00:50:54,599 --> 00:50:56,566
playing words there.

1263
00:50:56,650 --> 00:50:57,849
Didn't mean to.

1264
00:50:57,900 --> 00:50:59,216
I'm just that dumb.

1265
00:50:59,283 --> 00:51:00,233
Just that clever.

1266
00:51:01,599 --> 00:51:03,349
I was going to say clever, but you know.

1267
00:51:05,349 --> 00:51:07,150
And one day her plagues will come.

1268
00:51:07,199 --> 00:51:08,150
Plagues, man.

1269
00:51:08,216 --> 00:51:11,033
And here's a question I got for you, brother Brian.

1270
00:51:11,099 --> 00:51:14,266
This happens at

1271
00:51:14,283 --> 00:51:17,283
 the end of the great tribulation, but maybe I'll

1272
00:51:17,283 --> 00:51:18,599
 wait till the next 2 verses here.

1273
00:51:18,666 --> 00:51:20,883
Okay, yeah, let's read 9 and 10 then.

1274
00:51:20,949 --> 00:51:23,949
And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication

1275
00:51:23,949 --> 00:51:27,666
 and live deliciously with her, shall be shall

1276
00:51:27,666 --> 00:51:30,783
 bewhale her and lament for her when they

1277
00:51:30,783 --> 00:51:32,750
 shall see the smoke for her burning.

1278
00:51:32,816 --> 00:51:35,866
standing afar off for the fear

1279
00:51:35,883 --> 00:51:39,000
 of her torment, saying, alas, alas, that

1280
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:42,233
 great city of Babylon, that mighty city for in

1281
00:51:42,250 --> 00:51:45,116
 one hour is thy judgment come.

1282
00:51:45,250 --> 00:51:48,900
So this commercial Babylon

1283
00:51:48,900 --> 00:51:51,000
 is going to be the center of everything.

1284
00:51:51,066 --> 00:51:54,233
It'll be where

1285
00:51:54,250 --> 00:51:57,483
 the best entertainment is, the

1286
00:51:57,483 --> 00:52:00,783
 best food, the most successful businesses

1287
00:52:00,783 --> 00:52:01,983
 will all be right here.

1288
00:52:02,050 --> 00:52:03,300
This is where everybody's going to come.

1289
00:52:03,366 --> 00:52:04,800
That's just going to be the epicenter.

1290
00:52:05,099 --> 00:52:08,599
And those who counted on her for

1291
00:52:09,250 --> 00:52:12,300
 all these things will soon have

1292
00:52:12,300 --> 00:52:15,300
 their lives turned upside down just like a

1293
00:52:15,300 --> 00:52:19,083
 whole lot of people who count on worldly things today.

1294
00:52:19,616 --> 00:52:22,733
You know, they, they, they, they're counting on worldly

1295
00:52:22,750 --> 00:52:26,466
 wealth, on worldly fame, on, on the

1296
00:52:26,466 --> 00:52:29,516
 next high, the next, uh, you know, the

1297
00:52:29,516 --> 00:52:32,566
 next, the next most popular thing that can, uh,

1298
00:52:32,583 --> 00:52:35,816
 that can satisfy them, the most, the most popular drug

1299
00:52:35,816 --> 00:52:36,883
 that's out there now.

1300
00:52:36,966 --> 00:52:40,383
And and just like today, I mean, those

1301
00:52:40,383 --> 00:52:42,833
 things eventually just end up empty.

1302
00:52:42,900 --> 00:52:43,550
Yeah.

1303
00:52:43,616 --> 00:52:45,083
And you think of something like COVID.

1304
00:52:45,966 --> 00:52:46,566
Yeah.

1305
00:52:46,616 --> 00:52:47,750
Shut the world up.

1306
00:52:47,816 --> 00:52:48,583
Yeah, yeah.

1307
00:52:48,666 --> 00:52:49,383
Something like that.

1308
00:52:49,449 --> 00:52:50,816
But it's going to be on a mascot.

1309
00:52:50,883 --> 00:52:51,716
On a mask, yeah.

1310
00:52:51,716 --> 00:52:52,250
Huge scale.

1311
00:52:52,383 --> 00:52:54,416
Yeah, we're just getting a little we just got a little taste of it then.

1312
00:52:54,483 --> 00:52:58,199
And I guess, I guess my question is, and this, and anybody

1313
00:52:58,199 --> 00:53:00,833
 listening, and it's okay to be a little bit confused by some of this stuff.

1314
00:53:00,900 --> 00:53:01,550
Oh, yeah.

1315
00:53:02,050 --> 00:53:06,250
Because we all, I mean, Brian and I have different ideas about parts of it too.

1316
00:53:06,300 --> 00:53:07,199
And it's okay.

1317
00:53:07,266 --> 00:53:07,866
It's okay.

1318
00:53:07,916 --> 00:53:11,083
And this one, it just

1319
00:53:11,099 --> 00:53:14,266
 confuses me a little bit as to who's going to be left at

1320
00:53:14,283 --> 00:53:15,416
 the end of the tribulation.

1321
00:53:15,483 --> 00:53:20,516
to mourn this, you know?

1322
00:53:20,583 --> 00:53:21,650
Yeah, yeah.

1323
00:53:21,716 --> 00:53:24,883
That's a good question.

1324
00:53:24,966 --> 00:53:28,016
One, we know the 144,000 will

1325
00:53:28,016 --> 00:53:30,833
 still be here because they're sealed to the to the complete end of it.

1326
00:53:30,900 --> 00:53:34,433
So we know that they'll be they'll be mourning for sure.

1327
00:53:34,500 --> 00:53:37,616
Now, however many other, and

1328
00:53:37,616 --> 00:53:40,616
 the only reason they're still going to be here is because they're sealed to the end of it.

1329
00:53:40,683 --> 00:53:44,033
But as far as as other people

1330
00:53:44,050 --> 00:53:48,366
 who haven't taken the mark of the beast, It's going

1331
00:53:48,366 --> 00:53:51,483
 to be rare to see somebody here because most of them have already

1332
00:53:51,483 --> 00:53:54,483
 been martyred and killed and never made it

1333
00:53:54,483 --> 00:53:57,533
 through some of this stuff that's going on here, you know, uh,

1334
00:53:57,550 --> 00:54:01,083
 so, uh, because they're not, they're not,

1335
00:54:01,083 --> 00:54:03,949
 they're not sealed in the same way the 144,000 are.

1336
00:54:04,016 --> 00:54:04,483
Right.

1337
00:54:04,500 --> 00:54:07,500
So I think it's going to be a scarce number

1338
00:54:07,500 --> 00:54:10,500
 of people that will make it through that'll be able

1339
00:54:10,500 --> 00:54:11,866
 to mourn this over.

1340
00:54:11,949 --> 00:54:12,599
I just wonder.

1341
00:54:12,783 --> 00:54:16,316
The description here, though, makes me think that we're

1342
00:54:16,316 --> 00:54:18,883
 looking at because it refers to the kings and the merchants.

1343
00:54:18,966 --> 00:54:22,683
It's almost like these are the people that have been running everything this whole time.

1344
00:54:22,750 --> 00:54:25,866
And that's the specific group that is witnessing this

1345
00:54:25,866 --> 00:54:27,783
 and is mourning the loss of the city.

1346
00:54:27,849 --> 00:54:28,866
The loss of their money.

1347
00:54:28,916 --> 00:54:30,166
Yeah, the loss of their money.

1348
00:54:30,250 --> 00:54:31,750
And that's what they're really mourning.

1349
00:54:31,800 --> 00:54:35,699
You know, Babylon, the powerful city for in a single hour, your doom has come.

1350
00:54:35,766 --> 00:54:38,933
You know, with it specifically calling them

1351
00:54:38,949 --> 00:54:42,066
 kings and then in the next verse calling them the merchants

1352
00:54:42,066 --> 00:54:45,116
 of the earth, it's almost like it's just these

1353
00:54:45,116 --> 00:54:48,116
 handful of rulers that probably, like

1354
00:54:48,116 --> 00:54:51,283
 say, I don't think it's very many, but it's enough that there were

1355
00:54:51,300 --> 00:54:53,933
 some there to actually witness this and see it happen.

1356
00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:58,316
I mean, yeah, just literally 1000000000s of people have been killed.

1357
00:54:58,383 --> 00:55:00,233
Oh, yeah, absolutely. these judgment.

1358
00:55:00,300 --> 00:55:00,650
Absolutely.

1359
00:55:00,666 --> 00:55:02,099
Especially in the bowls.

1360
00:55:02,166 --> 00:55:03,233
My goodness.

1361
00:55:03,300 --> 00:55:04,133
Yeah, absolutely.

1362
00:55:04,150 --> 00:55:04,983
Bang, bang, bang.

1363
00:55:05,050 --> 00:55:06,366
Yeah, and I think I think you're right.

1364
00:55:06,416 --> 00:55:09,416
Not to be confused because what I was saying, I think I think

1365
00:55:09,416 --> 00:55:12,416
 they'll, I think you'll have a certain group of people that

1366
00:55:12,416 --> 00:55:14,516
 will say, man, you know, I wish they would have repented.

1367
00:55:14,583 --> 00:55:18,050
I wish they would have come to the Lord, I wish they would have done the right thing, but

1368
00:55:18,066 --> 00:55:21,833
 then you're going to have the rest of them that are like, okay, there goes my business.

1369
00:55:21,900 --> 00:55:23,750
You know, what am I going to do now?

1370
00:55:23,816 --> 00:55:26,683
They're still not thinking about this whole thing's fixing to come to end.

1371
00:55:26,766 --> 00:55:27,666
fixing to be destroyed.

1372
00:55:27,716 --> 00:55:30,949
I'm fixing to stand for the judgment, or the great white throne of judgment.

1373
00:55:31,016 --> 00:55:34,666
And all they're thinking about is I've lost my wealth.

1374
00:55:34,750 --> 00:55:38,349
I've lost my prosperity and I don't have the house anymore.

1375
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:40,550
I don't have the car anymore, you know, that kind of thing.

1376
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:43,616
See, I think to me, and it's just me talking.

1377
00:55:43,683 --> 00:55:46,916
I think maybe this fall of

1378
00:55:46,916 --> 00:55:48,716
 Babylon is happening.

1379
00:55:48,783 --> 00:55:49,916
It could be.

1380
00:55:49,983 --> 00:55:50,933
It could be, it could be.

1381
00:55:51,000 --> 00:55:51,300
Yeah.

1382
00:55:51,300 --> 00:55:54,650
That one day or one hour, could be like the hour

1383
00:55:54,666 --> 00:55:57,666
 of judgment, like, like, uh, uh, uh, what was

1384
00:55:57,666 --> 00:55:58,916
 it called, a euphemism or whatever?

1385
00:55:58,983 --> 00:56:00,183
It's not a literal hour.

1386
00:56:00,250 --> 00:56:00,783
Sure.

1387
00:56:00,849 --> 00:56:04,866
Maybe this Babylon is happening in stages as the bowls are being poured out.

1388
00:56:04,916 --> 00:56:06,949
Right, right. in that last 3.5 years.

1389
00:56:07,016 --> 00:56:07,783
Yeah, could be.

1390
00:56:07,866 --> 00:56:08,216
Could be.

1391
00:56:08,283 --> 00:56:09,783
I don't I don't know.

1392
00:56:09,849 --> 00:56:10,566
Yeah, yeah.

1393
00:56:10,616 --> 00:56:13,783
But we're going to read a lot coming up here

1394
00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:17,400
 about, oh, man, just the destruction of this thing.

1395
00:56:17,466 --> 00:56:18,666
Yeah, absolutely.

1396
00:56:18,666 --> 00:56:19,566
It's nasty.

1397
00:56:19,616 --> 00:56:20,633
Yes, yes.

1398
00:56:20,699 --> 00:56:21,000
Yeah.

1399
00:56:21,066 --> 00:56:23,283
Do you want to read?

1400
00:56:26,283 --> 00:56:27,183
They probably got through 19.

1401
00:56:27,366 --> 00:56:28,383
That's what I was thinking.

1402
00:56:28,449 --> 00:56:29,849
I was like, can we do it?

1403
00:56:30,349 --> 00:56:31,750
All right, well, we'll do it.

1404
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:31,966
11.

1405
00:56:32,283 --> 00:56:35,400
And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn over her

1406
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:37,433
 because no one buys their cargoes anymore.

1407
00:56:37,500 --> 00:56:40,733
Cargoes of gold and silver and precious stones and

1408
00:56:40,750 --> 00:56:43,849
 pearls and fine linen and purple and silk and scarlet, and

1409
00:56:44,216 --> 00:56:47,266
 every kind of citron wood and every article of ivory and

1410
00:56:47,283 --> 00:56:50,333
 every article made from very costly wood and bronze and iron

1411
00:56:50,349 --> 00:56:53,349
 and marble, and cinnamon and spice and

1412
00:56:53,349 --> 00:56:56,400
 incense and perfume and frankincense and wine and

1413
00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:59,750
 olive oil and flying flour and wheat and cattle and sheep,

1414
00:56:59,766 --> 00:57:03,583
 and cargoes of horses and chariots and slaves and human lives.

1415
00:57:04,099 --> 00:57:07,266
The fruit you long for has gone from you, and all things that

1416
00:57:07,266 --> 00:57:10,316
 were luxurious and splendid have passed away from you, and men

1417
00:57:10,316 --> 00:57:11,633
 will no longer find them.

1418
00:57:11,699 --> 00:57:14,816
The merchants of these things, who became rich from her, will

1419
00:57:14,816 --> 00:57:17,816
 stand at a distance because of the fear of her torment,

1420
00:57:17,816 --> 00:57:20,866
 weeping and mourning, saying, whoa, whoa, the great

1421
00:57:20,883 --> 00:57:24,183
 city, she who was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet,

1422
00:57:24,183 --> 00:57:27,483
 and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, for

1423
00:57:27,483 --> 00:57:30,599
 in one hour, such great wealth has been laid waste,

1424
00:57:30,599 --> 00:57:33,599
 and every shipmaster, and every passenger and sailor, and

1425
00:57:33,599 --> 00:57:37,133
 as many as make their living by the sea, stood at a distance, and

1426
00:57:37,150 --> 00:57:40,500
 were crying out as they saw the smoke of her burning, saying,

1427
00:57:40,500 --> 00:57:42,416
 what city is locked, the great city

1428
00:57:42,416 --> 00:57:42,583
city.

1429
00:57:42,666 --> 00:57:45,716
And they threw dust on their heads and were crying out, weeping

1430
00:57:45,716 --> 00:57:49,066
 and mourning, saying, whoa, whoa, the great city,

1431
00:57:49,083 --> 00:57:52,500
 in which all who had ships at sea became rich by her wealth,

1432
00:57:52,500 --> 00:57:54,716
 for in one hour she has been laid waste.

1433
00:57:54,783 --> 00:57:55,849
Yeah, yeah.

1434
00:57:55,916 --> 00:57:56,083
Wow.

1435
00:57:57,066 --> 00:58:00,183
So, so, those that

1436
00:58:00,183 --> 00:58:03,583
 counted so much on this Babylon for everything are

1437
00:58:04,316 --> 00:58:09,116
 going to find their their lives empty and they're

1438
00:58:09,116 --> 00:58:13,016
 soon going to know what it's like to gain the whole world and lose their soul.

1439
00:58:13,083 --> 00:58:15,116
Absolutely will.

1440
00:58:15,183 --> 00:58:15,833
Yeah.

1441
00:58:15,900 --> 00:58:19,433
It strikes me too, how it's

1442
00:58:19,449 --> 00:58:23,699
 kind of like the Old Testament genealogy, how specific they are.

1443
00:58:23,766 --> 00:58:25,983
You know, I can't believe anybody would think the Bible's made up.

1444
00:58:26,050 --> 00:58:28,199
You go back and read some of this stuff in the Old Testament.

1445
00:58:28,266 --> 00:58:29,883
names you can't pronounce.

1446
00:58:29,949 --> 00:58:31,316
just, I mean, just strung together.

1447
00:58:31,383 --> 00:58:33,533
And how specific is this?

1448
00:58:33,599 --> 00:58:36,349
Every tiny little detail.

1449
00:58:36,416 --> 00:58:40,133
He's just laying out here, everything you could possibly own or buy, you know?

1450
00:58:40,199 --> 00:58:44,583
And it's like, the accuracy of the Bible is unparalleled.

1451
00:58:45,966 --> 00:58:49,333
What if all

1452
00:58:49,866 --> 00:58:52,866
 the casinos in Las Vegas were destroyed

1453
00:58:52,866 --> 00:58:57,300
 right now and all the, the, you know, yeah, yeah, we can celebrate that.

1454
00:58:57,366 --> 00:59:00,783
But I mean, but you think about all the people that would be standing back and

1455
00:59:00,783 --> 00:59:05,216
 and the great loss that they would have, you know, you

1456
00:59:05,216 --> 00:59:08,083
 have, you have one of them destroyed and their insurance would build it back.

1457
00:59:08,166 --> 00:59:11,216
You have a you have a 100 of them destroyed and the insurance company's

1458
00:59:11,216 --> 00:59:12,650
 going to say, I can't pay that.

1459
00:59:12,716 --> 00:59:13,550
They're destroyed too.

1460
00:59:13,616 --> 00:59:15,349
The insurance company just went broke.

1461
00:59:15,416 --> 00:59:16,433
They just went broke.

1462
00:59:16,500 --> 00:59:16,733
Yeah.

1463
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:20,150
And so then so you got the people who own it.

1464
00:59:20,216 --> 00:59:23,933
You got the people who work there.

1465
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:27,349
You got the people who who are

1466
00:59:27,366 --> 00:59:31,016
 the patrons of those places, who,

1467
00:59:31,016 --> 00:59:33,050
 you know, all, I mean, it just trickles.

1468
00:59:33,116 --> 00:59:34,366
It just trickles down the line.

1469
00:59:34,383 --> 00:59:37,383
And you could imagine them all sitting out

1470
00:59:37,383 --> 00:59:40,683
 to the outside of it and just looking at Las Vegas burning

1471
00:59:40,683 --> 00:59:42,483
 and saying, oh, God.

1472
00:59:42,550 --> 00:59:45,666
everything we everything we

1473
00:59:45,666 --> 00:59:47,699
 are, we've built our whole lives on, it's gone.

1474
00:59:47,766 --> 00:59:48,300
destroyed.

1475
00:59:48,366 --> 00:59:49,800
Well, and again, it burn up.

1476
00:59:49,916 --> 00:59:53,816
It specifically in these verses calls out kings, merchants, sailors.

1477
00:59:53,883 --> 00:59:54,233
Yes.

1478
00:59:54,250 --> 00:59:56,766
The seamen that were...

1479
00:59:56,766 --> 00:59:57,483
Yeah, to the lowest person.

1480
00:59:57,550 --> 00:59:59,516
Yeah, it's calling these out.

1481
00:59:59,516 --> 01:00:02,516
And the way I always think of those verses is,

1482
01:00:02,516 --> 01:00:05,516
 if you've ever been down to like Miami or anything like that and you

1483
01:00:05,516 --> 01:00:08,516
 see those shipping areas down there, like that's what I'm thinking about is the way this

1484
01:00:08,516 --> 01:00:12,116
 is being described is it's a place where people are coming in and there's

1485
01:00:12,116 --> 01:00:15,116
 a river or something coming up from the sea where they can come in there

1486
01:00:15,116 --> 01:00:18,116
 and drop off their cargo and and the merchants

1487
01:00:18,116 --> 01:00:21,116
 are there selling and buying and moving stuff and the kings are up

1488
01:00:21,116 --> 01:00:24,166
 there ruling and just running things and

1489
01:00:24,183 --> 01:00:25,383
 then all of a sudden it's gone.

1490
01:00:25,449 --> 01:00:25,916
Yeah.

1491
01:00:25,916 --> 01:00:27,283
Just...

1492
01:00:27,366 --> 01:00:28,683
Sounds like a newt, don't it?

1493
01:00:28,750 --> 01:00:29,216
It does.

1494
01:00:29,283 --> 01:00:29,750
Kind of does.

1495
01:00:29,883 --> 01:00:30,483
Yeah.

1496
01:00:30,550 --> 01:00:33,599
But I mean, you know, we already know that, I

1497
01:00:33,599 --> 01:00:36,716
 mean, water transportation is not

1498
01:00:36,716 --> 01:00:39,833
 good now anyway, by this point, you know, we've

1499
01:00:39,849 --> 01:00:40,866
 wanted to get that before.

1500
01:00:40,916 --> 01:00:43,366
Everything's dead.

1501
01:00:43,449 --> 01:00:44,050
Yeah, yeah.

1502
01:00:44,099 --> 01:00:45,166
Stench.

1503
01:00:45,250 --> 01:00:48,416
Well, and it kind of makes me wonder if at that point the

1504
01:00:48,416 --> 01:00:51,583
 reason the sailors are there is because they can't they can't go anywhere else.

1505
01:00:51,666 --> 01:00:53,333
They're out there.

1506
01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:56,816
Their boats are just kind of stuck in the sludge, there, that stinking

1507
01:00:56,816 --> 01:00:58,133
 blood over in the harbor.

1508
01:00:58,199 --> 01:01:01,366
Yeah, and imports and exports are

1509
01:01:01,383 --> 01:01:03,233
 they're they're they're done.

1510
01:01:03,300 --> 01:01:07,366
They'll stand back and they're going to watch their careers and their wealth just fade away.

1511
01:01:07,449 --> 01:01:09,599
There aren't any other cities left.

1512
01:01:09,666 --> 01:01:10,133
No.

1513
01:01:10,150 --> 01:01:13,016
I mean, they've already been wiped out.

1514
01:01:13,083 --> 01:01:16,199
Listen, we live right now in the

1515
01:01:16,199 --> 01:01:20,266
 most materialistic country in the United States.

1516
01:01:20,283 --> 01:01:22,983
Yes, that's ever existed.

1517
01:01:23,050 --> 01:01:23,949
Yeah, I would say so.

1518
01:01:24,000 --> 01:01:25,666
And definitely in the world right now.

1519
01:01:25,750 --> 01:01:27,550
This one's going to put us shame.

1520
01:01:27,599 --> 01:01:31,083
We've been, yeah, we've been spoiled with luxuries that,

1521
01:01:31,916 --> 01:01:35,383
 you know, that other countries can't even imagine.

1522
01:01:35,466 --> 01:01:38,516
And every day, every day, we

1523
01:01:38,516 --> 01:01:41,866
 hear these high road people, these, these high

1524
01:01:41,883 --> 01:01:45,000
 executive businessmen jumping

1525
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:48,233
 off of buildings and shooting theirselves in the head and committing suicide

1526
01:01:48,250 --> 01:01:51,000
 because they've lost their wealth.

1527
01:01:51,066 --> 01:01:51,716
Yeah.

1528
01:01:51,716 --> 01:01:54,883
You know, they're, they're,

1529
01:01:54,900 --> 01:01:57,949
 they're, their, their wives and their kids most of the time,

1530
01:01:57,966 --> 01:01:59,633
 they don't even know they're broke.

1531
01:01:59,699 --> 01:02:02,866
Like they're hiding it from their families and they're and they're like,

1532
01:02:02,883 --> 01:02:06,183
 you know, the whole time they're about to go bankrupt

1533
01:02:06,183 --> 01:02:07,800
 and they don't have anything left.

1534
01:02:07,866 --> 01:02:08,766
And so what do they do?

1535
01:02:08,816 --> 01:02:10,916
They just everything's done.

1536
01:02:10,983 --> 01:02:12,833
Everything's gone, so they take their own lives.

1537
01:02:12,900 --> 01:02:14,266
I mean, can you imagine?

1538
01:02:15,599 --> 01:02:18,849
It's because they have...

1539
01:02:20,099 --> 01:02:21,599
They have built who they are.

1540
01:02:21,666 --> 01:02:23,933
around this world.

1541
01:02:24,000 --> 01:02:27,000
you know, that's the that's their identity.

1542
01:02:27,066 --> 01:02:30,416
They have no idea who they are in Christ Jesus.

1543
01:02:30,483 --> 01:02:33,233
And we've got to understand something.

1544
01:02:33,300 --> 01:02:37,083
And if you're listening, then please listen to this because we're

1545
01:02:38,283 --> 01:02:42,233
 not to find our identity in the world, we find our identity in Jesus Christ.

1546
01:02:42,300 --> 01:02:42,650
Amen.

1547
01:02:42,716 --> 01:02:43,250
Absolutely

1548
01:02:43,383 --> 01:02:46,433
We find our identity in a savior who

1549
01:02:46,449 --> 01:02:49,800
 loves us, who died for us, who paid the penalty for our sins,

1550
01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:53,216
 who is preparing a place for us in heaven right now,

1551
01:02:53,216 --> 01:02:55,016
 and who's going to come back and get us.

1552
01:02:55,599 --> 01:02:58,616
Listen, that's what causes us to focus on

1553
01:02:58,616 --> 01:03:02,150
 him and to not worry about the things of this world, right?

1554
01:03:02,216 --> 01:03:05,383
I mean, because if every if I lose everything else in

1555
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:06,949
 this world, I've still got Jesus.

1556
01:03:07,083 --> 01:03:10,083
This is why

1557
01:03:10,083 --> 01:03:13,383
 that Job was able to survive what he did.

1558
01:03:13,449 --> 01:03:15,716
Because I'm going to tell you something.

1559
01:03:15,783 --> 01:03:19,083
I don't know how many Christian people could survive

1560
01:03:19,083 --> 01:03:22,849
 what Job survived and lose what Job lost and

1561
01:03:22,866 --> 01:03:25,983
 still not go out and probably

1562
01:03:25,983 --> 01:03:27,716
 jump off of building themselves.

1563
01:03:27,783 --> 01:03:29,933
I mean, that would be going through your mind.

1564
01:03:30,000 --> 01:03:33,000
But the only reason, the only reason

1565
01:03:33,000 --> 01:03:36,000
 that Job didn't do that is because his hope

1566
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:37,666
 was in God.

1567
01:03:37,750 --> 01:03:39,300
His hope was in his father.

1568
01:03:39,366 --> 01:03:41,516
I thought you were going to say because of his sweet wife.

1569
01:03:41,583 --> 01:03:44,283
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1570
01:03:44,349 --> 01:03:47,816
Yeah, that was that goes back to the to the nagging wife he had.

1571
01:03:47,883 --> 01:03:50,283
But you're right, man.

1572
01:03:50,349 --> 01:03:53,400
And if you want to be a CEO, everybody likes

1573
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:56,400
 to talk about, oh, man, I wish I was a CEO and had all this money and all

1574
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:57,833
 this power and all this, blah, blah.

1575
01:03:57,900 --> 01:04:01,500
Are you willing to give your entire life to it and work 120 hours a week?

1576
01:04:01,566 --> 01:04:02,333
Yeah.

1577
01:04:02,349 --> 01:04:04,800
Not even go home to your family most time.

1578
01:04:04,866 --> 01:04:05,400
Yeah, yeah.

1579
01:04:05,466 --> 01:04:06,233
It's not worth it.

1580
01:04:06,300 --> 01:04:08,333
It's not hard your wholesale into it.

1581
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:09,300
You sold out to it.

1582
01:04:09,366 --> 01:04:10,733
I see you are.

1583
01:04:10,800 --> 01:04:12,166
I see guys doing it all the time.

1584
01:04:12,250 --> 01:04:14,166
I see guys doing all the time.

1585
01:04:14,216 --> 01:04:16,316
And they consume themselves with it.

1586
01:04:16,316 --> 01:04:19,366
And they get up at daylight and they and they

1587
01:04:19,383 --> 01:04:22,616
 go to bed at midnight, you know, because and

1588
01:04:22,616 --> 01:04:25,783
 then they can't sleep at night because they're thinking about all the things.

1589
01:04:25,866 --> 01:04:28,683
I mean, you know, I'm sure all of us have been there.

1590
01:04:28,750 --> 01:04:31,866
If you got something heavy on your mind and you wake up

1591
01:04:31,866 --> 01:04:34,916
 at 3 or 4 o'clock in the morning and you can't go to sleep because you can't

1592
01:04:34,916 --> 01:04:37,966
 get that thing off your mind, you don't want to be thinking about it, but it hits

1593
01:04:37,983 --> 01:04:39,233
 you like a ton of bricks.

1594
01:04:39,300 --> 01:04:42,349
And the more you put on yourself like that, the more

1595
01:04:42,366 --> 01:04:45,366
 that happens and it wears on your body, it wears

1596
01:04:45,366 --> 01:04:47,633
 on your health and everything.

1597
01:04:47,699 --> 01:04:51,233
So you need to ask yourself, where's your self worth, right?

1598
01:04:51,366 --> 01:04:54,716
You know, what what are who do you depend on?

1599
01:04:54,783 --> 01:04:58,133
And if it's if it's anything other than Jesus,

1600
01:04:58,150 --> 01:05:01,316
 then we need to take a self-imventory and back up.

1601
01:05:01,383 --> 01:05:02,150
Right.

1602
01:05:02,216 --> 01:05:05,333
And why are you really spending 80 hours of work at week

1603
01:05:05,349 --> 01:05:06,550
 to make somebody else some money?

1604
01:05:06,599 --> 01:05:07,616
For nothing.

1605
01:05:07,683 --> 01:05:09,349
Man, your kids don't know you.

1606
01:05:09,416 --> 01:05:10,433
You're missing.

1607
01:05:10,500 --> 01:05:11,566
You're missing life.

1608
01:05:11,650 --> 01:05:15,250
Yeah, you've missed that little girl, that little boy walking, talking.

1609
01:05:15,300 --> 01:05:18,900
You know, I, you know, I, I've said this on here before.

1610
01:05:18,900 --> 01:05:21,900
I had to, I was,

1611
01:05:21,900 --> 01:05:24,949
 when I was working for the natural gas company, uh, I

1612
01:05:24,966 --> 01:05:28,016
 started, I started on the side, uh, working for a

1613
01:05:28,016 --> 01:05:31,250
 guy that, uh, was doing wiring and plumbing and stuff like that.

1614
01:05:31,316 --> 01:05:34,433
Just trying to make some extra money, you know, Nicole and I,

1615
01:05:34,449 --> 01:05:35,766
 you know, hadn't been married, we're young.

1616
01:05:35,816 --> 01:05:39,166
Uh, she, she, we just had a baby, uh,

1617
01:05:39,183 --> 01:05:42,233
 I've done this before actually before Tatum was born.

1618
01:05:42,300 --> 01:05:45,533
But I started working with them and great

1619
01:05:45,550 --> 01:05:47,400
 people, great guys, nothing wrong with this.

1620
01:05:47,466 --> 01:05:50,699
But for me, I was working sometimes.

1621
01:05:50,699 --> 01:05:54,166
I'd get off work at 4 o'clock and I would work till 10 or 11 o'clock.

1622
01:05:54,250 --> 01:05:57,599
And I started thinking, uh-uh,

1623
01:05:57,599 --> 01:06:00,116
 no, after Tatum was born, I was like, I'm not missing this.

1624
01:06:00,183 --> 01:06:01,800
I want to be there.

1625
01:06:01,866 --> 01:06:05,583
If I can possibly be there when she walks and when she talks, I want to be there.

1626
01:06:05,650 --> 01:06:06,250
And guess what?

1627
01:06:06,300 --> 01:06:07,250
The Lord blessed me with that.

1628
01:06:07,316 --> 01:06:08,516
I got to hear 1st words.

1629
01:06:08,583 --> 01:06:11,699
I got to see her walk across the floor, you know?

1630
01:06:11,766 --> 01:06:15,366
And got to see the same thing with Brenna,

1631
01:06:15,366 --> 01:06:18,599
 you know, I didn't miss those things because I wasn't

1632
01:06:18,599 --> 01:06:21,349
 so consumed with the things of this world.

1633
01:06:21,416 --> 01:06:24,766
And if my priorities,

1634
01:06:24,783 --> 01:06:27,783
 I'm going to tell you, if I hadn't rededicated my life and I hadn't got right

1635
01:06:27,783 --> 01:06:30,533
 with God during that time, then that wouldn't happen.

1636
01:06:30,599 --> 01:06:33,650
I would have been, I would have stayed consumed and

1637
01:06:33,666 --> 01:06:36,833
 I mean, I may not, I may not even have a family today.

1638
01:06:36,900 --> 01:06:37,800
I'll be honest with you.

1639
01:06:37,866 --> 01:06:40,866
And you know, because I was so consumed with what I could make and

1640
01:06:40,866 --> 01:06:43,383
 what I could do and providing for my family.

1641
01:06:43,449 --> 01:06:44,283
And ignoring them.

1642
01:06:44,349 --> 01:06:45,483
Yes, yeah, yeah.

1643
01:06:45,550 --> 01:06:46,866
You lose your family.

1644
01:06:46,916 --> 01:06:48,716
You lose your family because of it.

1645
01:06:48,783 --> 01:06:50,400
God provides me.

1646
01:06:50,466 --> 01:06:50,933
He does.

1647
01:06:50,949 --> 01:06:52,016
He is so good.

1648
01:06:52,083 --> 01:06:54,416
You'll never see one of his begging bread, right?

1649
01:06:54,483 --> 01:06:56,633
No, no.

1650
01:06:56,650 --> 01:06:57,366
Grace the Lord.

1651
01:06:57,416 --> 01:06:57,883
Verse 20.

1652
01:06:57,900 --> 01:06:58,550
Verse 20.

1653
01:06:58,800 --> 01:07:02,266
I know we got just a little bit to go and we're, sorry, 714.

1654
01:07:02,650 --> 01:07:04,616
So, verse 20.

1655
01:07:04,916 --> 01:07:08,750
Rejoice, rejoice

1656
01:07:08,766 --> 01:07:11,883
 over, over her, thou heaven, and you holy

1657
01:07:11,883 --> 01:07:15,533
 apostles and prophets, for God hath avenged you on her.

1658
01:07:15,599 --> 01:07:17,566
Do we want to go on?

1659
01:07:17,583 --> 01:07:18,783
I mean, read the rest of it.

1660
01:07:18,849 --> 01:07:19,316
as well.

1661
01:07:19,316 --> 01:07:19,783
Okay.

1662
01:07:19,866 --> 01:07:23,283
And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone

1663
01:07:23,283 --> 01:07:26,283
 and cast it into the sea, saying, thus with violence

1664
01:07:26,283 --> 01:07:29,400
 shall the great city, Babylon, be thrown down and shall

1665
01:07:29,400 --> 01:07:30,766
 be found no more at all.

1666
01:07:30,849 --> 01:07:34,016
And the voice of the harpers, the musicians, and the pipers,

1667
01:07:34,016 --> 01:07:37,316
 and the trumpeters shall be heard no more, and

1668
01:07:37,316 --> 01:07:41,150
 all thee, and no craftsmen, and whatsoever craft he be,

1669
01:07:41,166 --> 01:07:44,216
 shall be, shall be found anymore in the, in the sound

1670
01:07:44,216 --> 01:07:47,566
 of a millstone shall be heard no more at

1671
01:07:47,583 --> 01:07:48,833
 all in thee.

1672
01:07:48,900 --> 01:07:52,316
And at the light of the candle, shall know more at all in thee,

1673
01:07:52,316 --> 01:07:55,433
 and the voice of the bridegroom, and of the bride,

1674
01:07:55,449 --> 01:07:58,683
 shall be heard no more at all in thee, for

1675
01:07:58,683 --> 01:08:02,099
 thy merchants here, and where the great

1676
01:08:02,099 --> 01:08:05,099
 men of the earth, for thy sorceries, were all

1677
01:08:05,099 --> 01:08:06,300
 nations deceived.

1678
01:08:06,366 --> 01:08:09,533
And in her was found the blood of the prophets and

1679
01:08:09,550 --> 01:08:13,566
 of the saints and of all where were slain upon the earth.

1680
01:08:13,616 --> 01:08:17,083
So, 22

1681
01:08:17,100 --> 01:08:18,833
 different outlooks on this situation.

1682
01:08:18,899 --> 01:08:22,666
You got one from the

1683
01:08:22,683 --> 01:08:23,699
 earthly outlook.

1684
01:08:23,766 --> 01:08:25,866
The earth is mournful.

1685
01:08:25,916 --> 01:08:28,966
And then you got from heaven, you got this rejoicing

1686
01:08:28,983 --> 01:08:30,416
 going on, right?

1687
01:08:30,483 --> 01:08:32,699
You know, there's there's 2 different things going on here.

1688
01:08:32,766 --> 01:08:35,816
It all depends on which one you have

1689
01:08:35,816 --> 01:08:37,133
 the most invested in, right?

1690
01:08:37,199 --> 01:08:39,166
to the Christian.

1691
01:08:39,250 --> 01:08:42,600
God is avenging the saints, right?

1692
01:08:42,666 --> 01:08:43,566
He's getting revenge.

1693
01:08:43,616 --> 01:08:46,733
He's setting all the rights wrong, but to the person of

1694
01:08:46,750 --> 01:08:48,300
 the world, life is over.

1695
01:08:48,366 --> 01:08:50,633
Everything's been destroyed, they've lost everything.

1696
01:08:50,699 --> 01:08:52,199
They lost it all.

1697
01:08:52,266 --> 01:08:52,916
Where's your hope?

1698
01:08:52,983 --> 01:08:54,116
Where's your hope?

1699
01:08:54,183 --> 01:08:54,783
hope.

1700
01:08:54,850 --> 01:08:56,399
And this is the fulfillment, man.

1701
01:08:56,466 --> 01:08:58,016
This is this is Daniel.

1702
01:08:58,083 --> 01:08:59,399
This is Daniel coming together.

1703
01:08:59,399 --> 01:09:02,449
And he said, and he gave out in chapter

1704
01:09:02,466 --> 01:09:05,333
 9, verse 24, he gives out the reason for all this.

1705
01:09:05,399 --> 01:09:08,399
He said, 70 weeks have been decreed for your people in your holy

1706
01:09:08,399 --> 01:09:11,399
 city to finish the transgression, to make

1707
01:09:11,399 --> 01:09:14,566
 an end of sin, to make a atonement for iniquity, to

1708
01:09:14,583 --> 01:09:17,816
 bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision

1709
01:09:17,816 --> 01:09:20,266
 and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place.

1710
01:09:20,350 --> 01:09:21,300
Yeah.

1711
01:09:21,366 --> 01:09:22,016
Here it is.

1712
01:09:22,083 --> 01:09:22,916
Here it is.

1713
01:09:22,983 --> 01:09:23,283
It's done

1714
01:09:23,466 --> 01:09:26,516
And like a millstone thrown into the

1715
01:09:26,516 --> 01:09:30,116
 sea, causing a great wave and just dissipating.

1716
01:09:30,183 --> 01:09:33,300
The great city of Babylon's going to be gone just like that.

1717
01:09:33,366 --> 01:09:34,983
Well, what about Daniel chapter two?

1718
01:09:35,050 --> 01:09:38,350
The stone cut without hands falls on those 10 toes

1719
01:09:38,350 --> 01:09:40,266
 and pulverizes the entire statue.

1720
01:09:40,316 --> 01:09:41,383
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

1721
01:09:41,466 --> 01:09:42,666
Kingdom of God is here.

1722
01:09:42,783 --> 01:09:43,383
destroys it.

1723
01:09:43,449 --> 01:09:44,100
destroys it.

1724
01:09:44,166 --> 01:09:45,116
The kingdom of God.

1725
01:09:45,183 --> 01:09:48,233
Life as

1726
01:09:48,250 --> 01:09:52,266
 you know it, if you're here during this time, will come to a great halt.

1727
01:09:52,316 --> 01:09:55,783
No more music, no more marrying,

1728
01:09:55,800 --> 01:09:59,699
 no more restaurants, no more production

1729
01:09:59,699 --> 01:10:03,000
 and activity going on and building and, you

1730
01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:05,100
 know, all the things that have been happening.

1731
01:10:05,166 --> 01:10:06,066
like they're going up.

1732
01:10:06,116 --> 01:10:08,750
They're like, we still, we're still productive here.

1733
01:10:08,816 --> 01:10:09,649
Come to Babylon.

1734
01:10:09,716 --> 01:10:12,716
That, that, you know, that may be, there's, there's going to be some kind of

1735
01:10:12,716 --> 01:10:15,833
 advertisement, some kind of sign that's

1736
01:10:15,850 --> 01:10:18,899
 just like, come to Babylon, city of the great,

1737
01:10:18,899 --> 01:10:22,500
 you know, we, everything else is already in bad shape,

1738
01:10:22,500 --> 01:10:26,333
 but if you'll come to Babylon, the best restaurants, the best entertainment,

1739
01:10:26,350 --> 01:10:29,466
 the, the, if you want a job and you want to make good money.

1740
01:10:29,516 --> 01:10:30,883
Come to Babylon.

1741
01:10:30,966 --> 01:10:31,800
We got it here.

1742
01:10:31,866 --> 01:10:33,066
We've made it through.

1743
01:10:33,116 --> 01:10:34,616
Nothing's going to destroy us.

1744
01:10:34,683 --> 01:10:36,600
And then...

1745
01:10:36,600 --> 01:10:37,316
We said as a queen.

1746
01:10:37,383 --> 01:10:37,983
Boom.

1747
01:10:38,050 --> 01:10:39,550
Oh, is quiet.

1748
01:10:39,600 --> 01:10:41,750
Always quiet in Babylon.

1749
01:10:41,883 --> 01:10:45,183
And you can see here,

1750
01:10:45,183 --> 01:10:47,933
 God's people were not treated well in that city, right?

1751
01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:48,083
Right.

1752
01:10:48,666 --> 01:10:49,733
They are not treated well.

1753
01:10:49,800 --> 01:10:51,833
They were outcasts.

1754
01:10:51,899 --> 01:10:52,616
They were murdered.

1755
01:10:52,683 --> 01:10:53,516
They were destroyed.

1756
01:10:53,583 --> 01:10:56,583
Does that

1757
01:10:56,583 --> 01:10:58,016
 not seem like the world we live in today?

1758
01:10:58,083 --> 01:10:58,800
It is today.

1759
01:10:58,866 --> 01:10:59,816
It is today, man.

1760
01:10:59,883 --> 01:11:04,133
You look and here I go in my political soapbox,

1761
01:11:04,149 --> 01:11:08,216
 but look at look at what the so-called progressives would like to do.

1762
01:11:08,350 --> 01:11:11,399
They'd like to shut you up if you start talking about religion.

1763
01:11:11,466 --> 01:11:13,616
They let them keep religion out of government.

1764
01:11:13,683 --> 01:11:17,449
They got the same mentality that

1765
01:11:17,466 --> 01:11:18,966
 the bunch that fallen Hitler had.

1766
01:11:18,966 --> 01:11:21,533
And at the same time, they're calling everybody else Hitler.

1767
01:11:21,600 --> 01:11:23,149
These people are mean.

1768
01:11:23,216 --> 01:11:26,933
I'm telling you, they are mean spirited people and you do not trust them.

1769
01:11:27,066 --> 01:11:30,066
But you know, there's only one religion they want to keep out, right?

1770
01:11:30,116 --> 01:11:32,866
They could care they could care less about anything else.

1771
01:11:32,949 --> 01:11:35,050
Oh, they're inclusive for everything except Christianity.

1772
01:11:35,100 --> 01:11:35,699
Sure, sure.

1773
01:11:35,766 --> 01:11:36,000
Yeah.

1774
01:11:36,066 --> 01:11:36,483
Yeah.

1775
01:11:36,483 --> 01:11:36,949
Yeah.

1776
01:11:37,016 --> 01:11:38,750
And I'm going to tell you something.

1777
01:11:38,816 --> 01:11:41,933
And of course, you listen to that that I sent you.

1778
01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:43,366
I meant to send that to Tyler too.

1779
01:11:43,449 --> 01:11:47,050
I need to send that to Tyler also, but Jeff LeBorg

1780
01:11:47,050 --> 01:11:50,399
 had gave a prophecy update a few weeks ago and he

1781
01:11:50,399 --> 01:11:53,399
 just reiterated some of the things that we've been talking about as

1782
01:11:53,399 --> 01:11:56,750
 far as the Muslim religion.

1783
01:11:56,816 --> 01:12:00,233
It is the fastest growing religion in

1784
01:12:00,250 --> 01:12:01,266
 the world.

1785
01:12:01,316 --> 01:12:03,883
And it is dispersing all over the world.

1786
01:12:03,966 --> 01:12:06,233
Look at all the immigration that's happening in Europe.

1787
01:12:06,366 --> 01:12:07,800
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

1788
01:12:07,866 --> 01:12:10,616
Europe is basically Muslim.

1789
01:12:10,683 --> 01:12:12,949
It's almost a Muslim nation.

1790
01:12:13,016 --> 01:12:15,416
London is what some of the people call London.

1791
01:12:15,483 --> 01:12:16,133
Right.

1792
01:12:16,199 --> 01:12:16,433
Yeah.

1793
01:12:16,500 --> 01:12:16,833
Yeah.

1794
01:12:17,100 --> 01:12:18,250
London.

1795
01:12:18,300 --> 01:12:18,716
Right.

1796
01:12:18,783 --> 01:12:20,149
I would want to go visit there.

1797
01:12:20,216 --> 01:12:23,266
I had a young lady tell me she was going to have a chance

1798
01:12:23,283 --> 01:12:27,533
 to travel abroad and take

1799
01:12:27,550 --> 01:12:30,966
 like a year and go to school in London.

1800
01:12:31,016 --> 01:12:34,066
And she said, what do you think about that?

1801
01:12:34,149 --> 01:12:35,100
I said, stay away from it.

1802
01:12:35,166 --> 01:12:36,833
Stay away from it.

1803
01:12:36,899 --> 01:12:39,649
If nothing else, just for the very influence of it right now.

1804
01:12:39,716 --> 01:12:42,350
That progressive group is having their way over there.

1805
01:12:42,366 --> 01:12:45,666
They're stifling free speech or doing everything they can to stamp out.

1806
01:12:45,716 --> 01:12:46,916
Absolutely.

1807
01:12:46,983 --> 01:12:47,816
in that place.

1808
01:12:47,883 --> 01:12:50,883
So there, I mean, it's a it's an epicenter of

1809
01:12:50,883 --> 01:12:54,183
 kidnapping and and and the

1810
01:12:54,183 --> 01:12:57,533
 pornography that we've been talking about, all that stuff's going on, man.

1811
01:12:57,600 --> 01:13:00,649
They're, they're, they're, they're taking children and it's

1812
01:13:00,666 --> 01:13:03,000
 going on here too, but, but man, it's, it's crazy.

1813
01:13:03,066 --> 01:13:05,283
And rape statistics have gone off the chart.

1814
01:13:05,350 --> 01:13:06,116
They have, yeah.

1815
01:13:06,183 --> 01:13:06,949
A lot of those.

1816
01:13:06,966 --> 01:13:07,383
Absolutely.

1817
01:13:07,449 --> 01:13:08,100
Well, absolutely.

1818
01:13:08,166 --> 01:13:11,399
Well, I started to say London is such a dangerous, dangerous place

1819
01:13:11,399 --> 01:13:14,750
 right now because of the Muslim

1820
01:13:14,766 --> 01:13:17,816
 influence because of Islam coming in there and the Sharia law and

1821
01:13:17,816 --> 01:13:21,233
 all of those rules coming in that they're allowing to just run rampant

1822
01:13:21,250 --> 01:13:22,916
 through their country.

1823
01:13:22,983 --> 01:13:26,100
And like you said, the rape statistics, the,

1824
01:13:26,100 --> 01:13:29,566
 and the, the, the kidnappings and all that, and

1825
01:13:29,583 --> 01:13:31,316
 you have no ability to defend yourself.

1826
01:13:31,383 --> 01:13:34,433
I mean, even

1827
01:13:34,449 --> 01:13:38,050
 as simple as, oh, well, you know, carry some pepper spray with you.

1828
01:13:38,100 --> 01:13:38,333
Really?

1829
01:13:38,399 --> 01:13:38,933
You want try that?

1830
01:13:39,000 --> 01:13:40,250
Because they'll lock you up for it.

1831
01:13:40,316 --> 01:13:44,683
I mean, you cannot carry anything with you to defend yourself.

1832
01:13:44,766 --> 01:13:48,300
You're supposed to wait on the police who are also not allowed to carry anything to

1833
01:13:48,300 --> 01:13:49,800
 deal with the bad guys.

1834
01:13:49,866 --> 01:13:52,383
Yeah, they have to get they have to go sign paperwork to get a gun.

1835
01:13:52,449 --> 01:13:55,616
And it's like, yeah, good lord.

1836
01:13:55,683 --> 01:13:58,800
That's where that's where that's where the liberals want us.

1837
01:13:58,866 --> 01:13:59,633
Yes.

1838
01:13:59,649 --> 01:14:00,716
They want us there.

1839
01:14:00,783 --> 01:14:03,833
Like, no no guns, you know, no way to defend yourself, no

1840
01:14:03,850 --> 01:14:07,016
 way to defend your home and and to defund

1841
01:14:07,016 --> 01:14:10,183
 the police and take away our

1842
01:14:10,199 --> 01:14:13,250
 protection that we have, you know, outside of our homes

1843
01:14:13,266 --> 01:14:15,533
 or to get them in a place.

1844
01:14:15,600 --> 01:14:18,649
And I know there's bad police like they're, they're,

1845
01:14:18,666 --> 01:14:20,766
 you know, good, there's good and every job.

1846
01:14:20,816 --> 01:14:21,283
get that.

1847
01:14:21,366 --> 01:14:24,966
And so, but for the most part, they're there to protect us, right?

1848
01:14:25,016 --> 01:14:26,383
So let's don't defund them.

1849
01:14:26,466 --> 01:14:28,083
Let's don't take their guns away as well.

1850
01:14:28,199 --> 01:14:31,733
And so, hey, I am all for reform

1851
01:14:31,750 --> 01:14:35,050
 and fixing some of these departments that are really rough and

1852
01:14:35,050 --> 01:14:38,216
 going in there and getting rid of these guys that probably that never should have gotten the jobs.

1853
01:14:38,583 --> 01:14:39,116
I' all for that.

1854
01:14:39,183 --> 01:14:39,649
You know what?

1855
01:14:39,716 --> 01:14:40,183
Let's do that.

1856
01:14:40,266 --> 01:14:41,166
But guess how you do that?

1857
01:14:41,216 --> 01:14:42,649
You got to spend some money on it.

1858
01:14:42,716 --> 01:14:43,616
You can't defund them.

1859
01:14:43,683 --> 01:14:45,483
That just makes the problem worse.

1860
01:14:45,550 --> 01:14:49,199
No, but guys, I'm telling you, listen to me.

1861
01:14:49,266 --> 01:14:52,500
This Muslim influence that's going on, it

1862
01:14:52,500 --> 01:14:55,550
 is dangerous and it is nasty and

1863
01:14:55,566 --> 01:14:59,166
 and we also heard some

1864
01:14:59,166 --> 01:15:02,166
 statistics or actually the Koran

1865
01:15:02,166 --> 01:15:05,216
 talks about a man who comes in

1866
01:15:05,216 --> 01:15:10,916
 and actually fits the the Modi,

1867
01:15:10,916 --> 01:15:13,966
 yes, who comes in and who fits the very

1868
01:15:13,983 --> 01:15:17,149
 identity of who the Antichrist is, right?

1869
01:15:17,216 --> 01:15:19,016
Exactly to the point.

1870
01:15:19,083 --> 01:15:22,083
And in this in their Muslim Bible,

1871
01:15:22,083 --> 01:15:25,800
 in in the Kuran, that he comes in in this last time.

1872
01:15:25,866 --> 01:15:28,566
And man, he's their savior, but he's not, right?

1873
01:15:28,616 --> 01:15:31,316
And Israel thinks that their savior may be alive right now.

1874
01:15:31,383 --> 01:15:32,516
They've narrowed it down to 2 guys.

1875
01:15:32,583 --> 01:15:33,649
Is that what Jeff was saying?

1876
01:15:33,716 --> 01:15:34,616
That's what he was saying there.

1877
01:15:34,683 --> 01:15:37,733
And they're so fooled into thinking this that

1878
01:15:37,750 --> 01:15:39,416
 they really don't know who it is.

1879
01:15:39,483 --> 01:15:42,716
So when this body comes in, they could mistake

1880
01:15:42,716 --> 01:15:46,333
 him, because he's going to come in, he's going to say, look, I'm not against Israel, right?

1881
01:15:47,050 --> 01:15:47,766
I'm not against you.

1882
01:15:47,816 --> 01:15:48,533
I'm not...

1883
01:15:48,600 --> 01:15:50,100
We'll do a seven-year piece of coconut.

1884
01:15:50,166 --> 01:15:50,816
Yeah, yeah.

1885
01:15:50,883 --> 01:15:52,983
And they're going to say, okay, this could be the guy.

1886
01:15:53,050 --> 01:15:54,716
We'll let you rebuild your temple.

1887
01:15:54,783 --> 01:15:55,316
That's right.

1888
01:15:55,383 --> 01:15:55,800
That's right.

1889
01:15:55,866 --> 01:15:56,933
Oh man, it's here.

1890
01:15:57,000 --> 01:16:00,116
We already have a mayor

1891
01:16:00,116 --> 01:16:03,583
 in New York who's a Muslim, and I

1892
01:16:03,600 --> 01:16:06,716
 mean, we're talking about the largest city in America

1893
01:16:06,716 --> 01:16:08,033
 now.

1894
01:16:08,100 --> 01:16:11,633
So what would hold

1895
01:16:11,649 --> 01:16:14,766
 us back from everybody else starting to follow suit, right?

1896
01:16:14,816 --> 01:16:19,066
Well, you got New York, you got Minnesota and the state they're in.

1897
01:16:19,149 --> 01:16:20,949
You've got trying to do law in Texas.

1898
01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:22,250
And that's why I started saving.

1899
01:16:22,316 --> 01:16:25,133
Texas, they're allowing them to have their sharia courts and crap out there.

1900
01:16:25,199 --> 01:16:26,866
Yeah, these toxic empathy people.

1901
01:16:26,949 --> 01:16:28,449
These so-called progressives are all about it.

1902
01:16:28,500 --> 01:16:29,933
Oh, just let them live their lives.

1903
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:31,366
You know, who live their best life.

1904
01:16:31,500 --> 01:16:32,750
They want to kill you.

1905
01:16:32,816 --> 01:16:33,533
They do.

1906
01:16:34,083 --> 01:16:35,449
They're serious.

1907
01:16:35,516 --> 01:16:38,033
The people who are serious about Islam want to kill you.

1908
01:16:38,100 --> 01:16:38,816
Absolutely.

1909
01:16:38,883 --> 01:16:39,300
absolutely.

1910
01:16:39,416 --> 01:16:42,716
And these people will go out and march a pro-Palestinian and

1911
01:16:42,716 --> 01:16:45,833
 all this garbage and there's like gays for pro-Palestine.

1912
01:16:45,899 --> 01:16:48,600
They throw people off buildings who are gay.

1913
01:16:48,666 --> 01:16:49,266
right.

1914
01:16:49,316 --> 01:16:50,083
hate you.

1915
01:16:50,166 --> 01:16:51,233
They hate you.

1916
01:16:51,300 --> 01:16:53,149
Yes, they hate the sight of you.

1917
01:16:53,216 --> 01:16:55,133
They hate the anything you have to say.

1918
01:16:55,199 --> 01:16:56,449
And that's not just Christians.

1919
01:16:56,516 --> 01:16:59,750
They hate Christians a lot too, even though they want to say that they don't.

1920
01:16:59,816 --> 01:17:00,583
They absolutely do.

1921
01:17:00,666 --> 01:17:03,666
But when it comes to the non-Christians, they hate you

1922
01:17:03,666 --> 01:17:06,483
 because everything you stand for is the opposite of what they stand for.

1923
01:17:06,550 --> 01:17:07,683
Because you're spineless to them.

1924
01:17:07,750 --> 01:17:08,166
Exactly.

1925
01:17:08,216 --> 01:17:11,216
Yeah, and this is what this, the Antichrist will do just like

1926
01:17:11,216 --> 01:17:14,266
 a, just like this, the, the, the mayor of New York.

1927
01:17:14,350 --> 01:17:17,850
He is going to, he is going to be

1928
01:17:18,483 --> 01:17:20,633
 sympathetic to all the causes, right?

1929
01:17:20,699 --> 01:17:23,399
He doesn't seem like he hates all those people.

1930
01:17:23,466 --> 01:17:24,833
But I can promise you he does.

1931
01:17:24,899 --> 01:17:27,899
And this antichrist will come in and

1932
01:17:27,899 --> 01:17:31,016
 he'll seem that he is sympathetic to all the causes to

1933
01:17:31,016 --> 01:17:34,066
 all the people, if you're transgender, if you're gay, whatever you

1934
01:17:34,083 --> 01:17:37,133
 are, if you want to practice Christianity, I don't care if you want

1935
01:17:37,149 --> 01:17:40,266
 to, if you want to, uh, continue being a Jewish person

1936
01:17:40,266 --> 01:17:43,383
 and practicing your, uh, your, your,

1937
01:17:43,383 --> 01:17:45,483
 uh, Jewish customs, then I don't care.

1938
01:17:45,550 --> 01:17:48,600
All these, all these things he's going to, he's going to

1939
01:17:48,600 --> 01:17:50,033
 adhere to until he doesn't.

1940
01:17:50,100 --> 01:17:50,816
Right.

1941
01:17:50,883 --> 01:17:53,283
And eventually, you know, the Constitution is going to go away.

1942
01:17:53,350 --> 01:17:53,949
Yeah.

1943
01:17:53,949 --> 01:17:57,300
But until then, I mean, we've introduced just

1944
01:17:57,300 --> 01:17:58,316
 stupid stuff.

1945
01:17:58,383 --> 01:18:00,716
The idea of a hate crime.

1946
01:18:00,783 --> 01:18:01,733
Yeah.

1947
01:18:01,750 --> 01:18:02,649
How subjective is that?

1948
01:18:02,699 --> 01:18:03,533
Exactly.

1949
01:18:03,600 --> 01:18:06,600
The hate crime could be anything you want to define it as.

1950
01:18:06,666 --> 01:18:09,533
And basically, it's going to be you speaking out against gays?

1951
01:18:09,600 --> 01:18:10,016
Yeah.

1952
01:18:10,016 --> 01:18:11,083
Death penalty.

1953
01:18:11,166 --> 01:18:11,933
Yeah, absolutely.

1954
01:18:12,000 --> 01:18:12,350
Exactly.

1955
01:18:12,416 --> 01:18:13,733
Anything that they disagree with.

1956
01:18:13,800 --> 01:18:15,300
That's right.

1957
01:18:15,300 --> 01:18:15,766
Done.

1958
01:18:15,850 --> 01:18:16,683
Nope, you're gone.

1959
01:18:16,750 --> 01:18:17,166
Amen.

1960
01:18:17,216 --> 01:18:20,633
And, you know, the crazy thing was I saw a video one time

1961
01:18:20,649 --> 01:18:23,949
 where a Muslim here in America,

1962
01:18:23,949 --> 01:18:27,716
 he goes into this shop or in this church and he's talking to these people.

1963
01:18:27,783 --> 01:18:30,416
And as he's talking to him, he's talking to him in Arabic.

1964
01:18:30,483 --> 01:18:32,583
And so they can't understand a word he's saying.

1965
01:18:32,649 --> 01:18:36,066
Well, they, somebody threw the translation and some of the most horrible,

1966
01:18:36,066 --> 01:18:39,116
 horrible things of what, yeah, I want to come in here and I want to burn

1967
01:18:39,116 --> 01:18:41,633
 this place to the ground with you still in it and blah, blah, blah.

1968
01:18:41,699 --> 01:18:42,600
what did you just say?

1969
01:18:42,666 --> 01:18:45,233
Oh, I said, God bless you and all I do this.

1970
01:18:45,300 --> 01:18:46,550
And it's like, you did not.

1971
01:18:46,616 --> 01:18:49,616
And I mean, they think it's okay to lie as

1972
01:18:49,616 --> 01:18:51,283
 long as they're getting all eyes away.

1973
01:18:51,366 --> 01:18:52,083
Exactly.

1974
01:18:52,199 --> 01:18:55,366
And I mean, this dude said it with boldest brass in there saying

1975
01:18:55,383 --> 01:18:58,133
 that to this woman and I was like, good Lord, this is awful.

1976
01:18:58,199 --> 01:19:03,116
This thing, man, this thing started with a

1977
01:19:03,116 --> 01:19:04,666
 guy named Nimrod.

1978
01:19:04,750 --> 01:19:05,949
I'm going to challenge God.

1979
01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:06,600
Yes.

1980
01:19:06,600 --> 01:19:08,633
And I'm going to build a tower that reaches to heaven.

1981
01:19:08,699 --> 01:19:12,166
Whether that was a literal thing or a combination of whatever.

1982
01:19:12,250 --> 01:19:14,766
And it's going to end with God saying, you don't challenge me.

1983
01:19:14,816 --> 01:19:15,583
That's right

1984
01:19:15,783 --> 01:19:16,250
That's right.

1985
01:19:16,750 --> 01:19:17,516
You will not challenge me.

1986
01:19:17,583 --> 01:19:18,783
Absolutely.

1987
01:19:18,850 --> 01:19:19,750
He's going to bust it.

1988
01:19:19,800 --> 01:19:20,333
right.

1989
01:19:20,399 --> 01:19:22,733
The train of his temple fills the temple.

1990
01:19:23,283 --> 01:19:25,850
Or the train of his his train, his rope.

1991
01:19:25,916 --> 01:19:25,966
yeah

1992
01:19:26,100 --> 01:19:26,633
Yeah.

1993
01:19:26,766 --> 01:19:29,283
And that's, you know, that's the thing.

1994
01:19:29,350 --> 01:19:31,083
It's this is coming to a head.

1995
01:19:31,149 --> 01:19:32,466
It's coming to a head fast.

1996
01:19:32,583 --> 01:19:36,533
Get ready.

1997
01:19:36,600 --> 01:19:37,066
Yeah.

1998
01:19:37,149 --> 01:19:39,850
Oh my goodness.

1999
01:19:39,966 --> 01:19:43,199
If you're listening, you don't, you know, so some

2000
01:19:43,199 --> 01:19:46,199
 of this stuff, I rejoice in my heart over, just because of

2001
01:19:46,199 --> 01:19:49,850
 how awful this world is today, and

2002
01:19:49,866 --> 01:19:53,883
 I know how I can't imagine looking at this world today through God's eyes.

2003
01:19:53,949 --> 01:19:57,250
and the pain that he must feel for

2004
01:19:57,250 --> 01:19:59,816
 these people spitting in his face and in his son's face.

2005
01:19:59,883 --> 01:20:02,933
And you don't want to be here.

2006
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:06,649
I ought not be rejoicing over it as much as I do.

2007
01:20:06,783 --> 01:20:07,616
Sure, yeah.

2008
01:20:07,683 --> 01:20:10,683
Because our hearts ought to be broken for people that listen to this

2009
01:20:10,683 --> 01:20:12,416
 stuff and just throw it away.

2010
01:20:12,483 --> 01:20:13,550
Yeah.

2011
01:20:13,566 --> 01:20:14,100
Put it away.

2012
01:20:14,166 --> 01:20:14,816
That's right.

2013
01:20:14,883 --> 01:20:15,533
Amen.

2014
01:20:15,550 --> 01:20:16,266
It is.

2015
01:20:16,316 --> 01:20:20,033
It's heartbreaking, but at the same time, We're going home.

2016
01:20:20,166 --> 01:20:21,783
to make their own decisions here.

2017
01:20:21,850 --> 01:20:25,983
And if you're listening and you've not made that decision, your decision is made.

2018
01:20:26,050 --> 01:20:27,300
Yeah, that's right.

2019
01:20:27,300 --> 01:20:29,216
You've either got to be with him or against him.

2020
01:20:29,283 --> 01:20:32,449
And that's literally how God sees this, according to John chapter 3.

2021
01:20:32,583 --> 01:20:33,233
Amen.

2022
01:20:33,250 --> 01:20:35,050
You either have life or you don't.

2023
01:20:35,699 --> 01:20:37,616
And you can choose life.

2024
01:20:37,683 --> 01:20:39,183
That's the thing.

2025
01:20:39,250 --> 01:20:39,716
It is a choice.

2026
01:20:39,850 --> 01:20:42,183
Do not let anybody fool you.

2027
01:20:42,250 --> 01:20:45,366
It is a choice that you can make has

2028
01:20:45,366 --> 01:20:48,666
 no, it is, God does not predestine

2029
01:20:48,666 --> 01:20:50,166
 you to do one thing or the other.

2030
01:20:50,216 --> 01:20:53,266
And every single case we see of that

2031
01:20:53,283 --> 01:20:56,449
 in the scripture is an exception to the rule, not the rule,

2032
01:20:56,466 --> 01:20:59,466
 where God did have a plan that required a certain

2033
01:20:59,466 --> 01:21:03,899
 thing to happen and he had to pick somebody, that's the

2034
01:21:03,899 --> 01:21:05,216
 exception to the rule, not the rule.

2035
01:21:05,283 --> 01:21:08,100
Even then, even then, their hearts were hardened.

2036
01:21:08,166 --> 01:21:09,666
They have every chance in the world.

2037
01:21:11,350 --> 01:21:12,300
to change it. to change it.

2038
01:21:12,366 --> 01:21:16,616
You know, God would have got it done another way if they

2039
01:21:16,616 --> 01:21:19,066
 had changed their minds and their hearts, but they didn't.

2040
01:21:19,149 --> 01:21:19,916
Absolutely.

2041
01:21:19,983 --> 01:21:23,449
The way I've always looked at it is he looked down at Pharaoh

2042
01:21:23,466 --> 01:21:26,933
 and at Judas and he went, okay,

2043
01:21:26,949 --> 01:21:29,949
 I know that they're going to make this decision

2044
01:21:29,949 --> 01:21:32,949
 and I know that none of the paths they have in front of them

2045
01:21:32,949 --> 01:21:35,050
 lead them to changing their mind.

2046
01:21:35,100 --> 01:21:35,633
Yeah.

2047
01:21:35,649 --> 01:21:38,050
And all he did was shortcut it.

2048
01:21:38,100 --> 01:21:39,833
God is not responsible for your sin.

2049
01:21:39,899 --> 01:21:40,916
No, no, no, he's not.

2050
01:21:40,983 --> 01:21:42,533
He did not predestine your sin.

2051
01:21:42,600 --> 01:21:42,766
Exactly.

2052
01:21:42,783 --> 01:21:47,100
He did not predestine your refusal to accept the salvation he's offered you free.

2053
01:21:47,166 --> 01:21:51,116
Jesus is going to say in the coming chapter or come drink of the water of life without cost.

2054
01:21:51,183 --> 01:21:51,949
Yes.

2055
01:21:52,016 --> 01:21:52,366
Amen

2056
01:21:52,500 --> 01:21:54,116
It's a decision that you have to make.

2057
01:21:54,183 --> 01:21:54,833
Amen.

2058
01:21:54,899 --> 01:21:55,666
Exactly.

2059
01:21:55,750 --> 01:21:59,466
And next week, we'll pick up with Revelation 19.

2060
01:21:59,699 --> 01:22:01,916
Oh, man, it's awesome.

2061
01:22:01,983 --> 01:22:03,783
Praise and worship to God.

2062
01:22:03,850 --> 01:22:06,666
The wedding celebration of the lamb.

2063
01:22:06,716 --> 01:22:10,783
And Jesus going to war.

2064
01:22:10,866 --> 01:22:11,883
Yeah.

2065
01:22:11,883 --> 01:22:13,250
He's getting ready for war here.

2066
01:22:13,316 --> 01:22:14,633
We getting watch, man.

2067
01:22:14,699 --> 01:22:15,050
Yeah.

2068
01:22:15,116 --> 01:22:16,783
We get some back and just watch it.

2069
01:22:16,866 --> 01:22:17,816
Spectators.

2070
01:22:17,883 --> 01:22:18,300
Yep.

2071
01:22:18,366 --> 01:22:21,366
And so next week, that one's

2072
01:22:21,366 --> 01:22:24,666
 that one's, hmm, that 19 is a powerful, powerful chapter.

2073
01:22:24,716 --> 01:22:26,816
So definitely looking forward to that.

2074
01:22:26,883 --> 01:22:30,000
And, um, we hope everybody can

2075
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:33,166
 join us, uh, for finishing

2076
01:22:33,183 --> 01:22:36,233
 this, getting ready to finish this out because we're getting close to the end of Revelation here.

2077
01:22:36,300 --> 01:22:37,666
We're only a few chapters away.

2078
01:22:37,750 --> 01:22:39,116
about to wind it up.

2079
01:22:39,183 --> 01:22:39,783
That's right.

2080
01:22:39,850 --> 01:22:41,050
Hey we made it in less than a year.

2081
01:22:41,100 --> 01:22:45,166
All right,

2082
01:22:45,183 --> 01:22:46,850
 brother Dennis, why don't you dismiss us tonight?

2083
01:22:46,916 --> 01:22:50,033
Father in heaven, thank you so much for this time together with

2084
01:22:50,050 --> 01:22:53,100
 my brothers and with you, Father, we know you're with us.

2085
01:22:53,166 --> 01:22:56,516
Two or more gathered in your name and Father, I pray that those

2086
01:22:56,516 --> 01:22:58,433
 who are gathered listening online.

2087
01:22:58,500 --> 01:23:02,033
Father, whether it's live or whether it's later on, Father, you know.

2088
01:23:02,050 --> 01:23:04,566
Lord, I pray for their salvation.

2089
01:23:04,616 --> 01:23:07,733
Lord, that they would turn to you, that they would hear these things, and

2090
01:23:07,750 --> 01:23:11,350
 it would cause fear, because it should

2091
01:23:11,350 --> 01:23:14,699
 cause fear in us, because your judgment is going to be terrible,

2092
01:23:14,699 --> 01:23:16,433
 but Lord, we know it's righteous.

2093
01:23:16,500 --> 01:23:17,699
It's perfect, it's pure.

2094
01:23:17,816 --> 01:23:21,166
And fatherly, we know that you are making all things new and

2095
01:23:21,183 --> 01:23:24,350
 that you are going to put an end to the evil of this world and the hurt of

2096
01:23:24,366 --> 01:23:26,283
 this world, the sorrows and the suffering.

2097
01:23:26,350 --> 01:23:27,850
Father, come soon.

2098
01:23:27,899 --> 01:23:28,850
Lord come soon.

2099
01:23:28,916 --> 01:23:32,216
Father, thank you for this time together and I

2100
01:23:32,216 --> 01:23:35,333
 pray for your protection until we come again in Jesus' name.

2101
01:23:35,399 --> 01:23:36,050
Amen.