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Now get thisCatal we say you are in verse 3 and I will give power unto my two witnesses And they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and three score days as 42 or another way of sin three and a half years He says and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and three score days clothes and sack love These two fellows have got the dream job. I Mean they don’t have to worry. I mean nothing can happen to them Because they have been given the power to do whatever they want to do and their judgment and And I believe there’s a lot of the so-called the seven angels that do what they do and Bring the plagues that they do Because of the command of these two individuals now.

I don’t have scripture to prove that but in Circumstantial evidence leads me to that conclusion, but look what he says in verse 5 and If any man any man will hurt them fire proceeded out of their mouth and devoured their enemies and if any man will hurt them he must in this manner be killed. Woo doggy, you got to watch what you say about those two. Now today you can bad mouth the preacher, you can have roast Reverend, potted pastor and nobody will do anything to you.

That’s why I said this would be a dream job. You know, it’s like I double dog dare you to say anything that upsets me. You are really being respect of the pastor. But that day isn’t here. This is doing the tribulation peered upon the earth. This is the worst part of time that the world has ever known. But God always has his witness and God is going to get his job accomplished. And God says that even the angel will be preaching an everlasting gospel or the messenger that preaches the message because God in spite of all the damages going to be going on, God is still a God of mercy.

And the Bible says there will be multitude of people of every nation that will trust Christ as their Savior. See God does not make anybody trust Him. You do not have to accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. You can do your dead level best to try to earn your way to heaven that God’s already said you can’t earn it, you can’t work, or you can’t buy it. You do not join a church to go to heaven. You cannot pay for salvation.

It’s already been paid for. Christ paid for all the sins of all the world when He died on the cross and all that you have to do, all that you can do is to accept that payment He made for you. And God will save you. And during this period of time they can also still be saved. And multitude of people, you read chapter 7 where it says that they trust Christ a Savior from all the nations. He says, where’s come of these?

He says, sir, these came out of great tribulation and it made their robes swight in the blood of the Lamb. So it was because of Christ and the payment He made. Now look at this. He says in verse 6, these have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the days of their prophecy and have power over water to turn them to blood and to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will. Now I can see why a lot of people believe that is a good possibility of Moses and Elijah because Elijah did part of this when he didn’t reign for three and a half years and also Moses because of the plague down in Egypt.

So is a good possibility that that might be them? But I can’t say dogmatically because I don’t have scripture that says Moses and Elijah but it could be them. But whoever it is, who doggy to be able to have the power. Maybe God can trust them. God probably couldn’t trust you or me. We’re probably misuse it. Are you explosive now? Do you lose your temper now and anger now if somebody makes you mad? Just think if you could speak.

Okay. That’s all she wrote. You eliminate the whole world, wouldn’t you? Look what he says here. In the verse six, these have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the days of their prophecy. Have power over water to turn them to blood. And the world. is going to be turned to blood. And it’s not going to reign. All these things are going to happen, and they’re listed in some of the bowls of judgment that God’s going to pour out upon the earth.

So God’s got his two men that are the two keys that says, boom, boom, boom, and what they say goes. It’s going to be awesome. And look what he says in verse seven. In verse seven, and when they have finished their testimony, the beast that ascended out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them and shall overcome them and kill them. So this is what’s going to take place. Now who are these two? Just look up there real quick in verse four.

See in verse four? And do you remember us reading anything like this over in the book of Zechariah in chapter four, where it says these are the two olive trees, the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. Remember we read it over there? That was written 400 and something years, almost 500, before Christ. Now we’re almost 2,000 years on this site that that’s a long period of time. I think that’s out of reach of those people who wrote like Zachariah and the fulfillment of the the scriptures.

And here we are. Are we living at a time on planet Earth when these things can happen? Is there a move on trying to make a peace treaty with Israel? Yes. All these things are true. Look what else happens here. That can’t be just a coincidence. Look at this. And it says there in verse 7, and when they shall have finished their testimony, they finished their testimony. The beast that sent it out of the bottomless pit and shall make war again.

This is the antichrist. This is the old devil himself. And you’re talking about the prince of the power of the heir. That’s why you have it going all the way over here. And there’s a battle in heaven. That’s in chapter 12 of the book of Revelation. And so he has got his man to do his will, just like God the Father has his Son to do his will. Satan is going to have his man to do his will and he’s going to do everything the devil wants them to do and he will give him his power.

He reads the 13th chapter of the relation and he says that Satan gives him his power to do what he does, the authority to do it. But remember they all have their limitations. The devil tried to get it Job. But God put a hedge about him and he couldn’t touch anything that he had. God moved away one of those hedges and allowed the devil to get at what he had. We couldn’t touch Job. Later on God took away another hedge and says you can get a Job but you can’t take his life.

See the devil always had limitation. He can’t do everything he wants to do. God is still in charge. God is on the throne. He is the boss and he can use everything that goes wrong in this world to his honor and to his glory. And just because things will always happen good in your own personal life, he says, all things work together for good to those who love him. Do you believe it though? He was that’s my favorite person?

All things work together for good to those who love the Lord to those who are called according to his purpose, not yours, his purpose. He always has a higher purpose than you do. You can’t see behind the scenes of how God is working, the providence of God. It’s not just an accident. God knows what he’s doing, and he says, this is what’s going to take place. So he makes a statement here in verse eight, and their dead bodies shall lie in the streets of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt where also our Lord was crucified.

I wonder where he was crucified. Anybody got a clue where he was crucified. I believe it’s a good possibility this takes place in Israel, in Jerusalem. Remember that’s where he’s gonna plant his tabernacle between the seas and the glorious holy mountain. This is the 70th week of Daniel, and it says these are determined upon thy people and upon thy holy city. So I believe this is where this is going to take place. The devil is going to sit up his man on his throne in the place where Jesus Christ is supposed to be.

It’s all coming together. I love it when I see a plan come together. Now look what he said. In verse 9, And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and a half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in the graves. So here’s these two guys. They’ve had their ministry for three and a half years. They done anything they wanted to do that they thought was right.

That God wanted them to do. They fulfilled the will of God. And they could not be killed. They couldn’t touch him, couldn’t harm him in any way. And then when they finished their testimony. In other words, when God is through doing what he wanted to do, he allows the old devil, the antichrist to take their life life and now they’re dead and their bodies are left in the streets of Jerusalem for three and a half days. Their dead bodies in the street and didn’t let them get buried.

I wonder why we would do a thing like that? Well look what he says, verse 10, and they that dwelt upon the earth shall rejoice over them and make Mary and shall sin give one to another and be all celebrated Christmas and everybody had a wonderful time. Well, they said, gifts to everybody, didn’t they? Well, they’re not what Christmas is about. This isn’t Christmas. This is talking about a time when people all over the earth can see two dead bodies laying on the street and that people all over the world can send gifts one to another.

Now, could they do that 2,500 years ago? Can they do it today? They can do it today. Do you think that we live in a time when you’ll be able to see two dead bodies land in the street on the other side of the earth? This was written that long ago. Just a coincidence? You imagine what people thought when they read this 2000 years ago? Never happened impossible. Can’t be done Yes, it can Because God’s word is true. Now.

Look what he says and verse 10 and They that dwelt upon the earth shall rejoice over them rejoice what because they’re dead Why are they rejoicing because of the Plagues that they brought upon the earth But why did they do all that because God was trying to get the people to wake up to realize the trust crisis their Savior? and it says, and yet they did not, they would not believe on Him, and they hardened their hearts. You’ll see that in the book of Revelation chapter 16, but look what he says here.

And he says, and shallFirstly gives one to another because these two prophets tormented them that dwell on the earth. And after three days and a half the spirit of life from God entered into them and they stood upon their feet and great fear fell upon them which saw them and they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them come up here. Now they hear the voice. At the rapture they don’t hear the voice. At the rapture when Christ comes in the air in a moment in the twinkle of an eye, phew we’re gone.

Here these two witnesses the world will come up hither they’ll hear the voice of God and they’ll see their two bodies come to life and ascend up into the sky. Now, you know, I could see how somebody could, you know, read this and say, this is this is for outman. This is wild. But what if it’s the truth? Are we saying that the God who created the heavens and the earth can’t do this? Can’t do this,ternity.dump. Can’t do this, can’t.

He is an imitated. He will look like he can create life in chapter 13, but he doesn’t have the power of life. He has the power of death. Only Christ has the power of death. iHUD.389. . Now get this. In the last part of that it says, and they ascended up to heaven in a cloud. and their enemies.

Do you think that if you’re reading the Bible and you saw that happen, you thought, wouldn’t you believe, you know, this thing might be true? This just might be true. And the same hour there’s an earthquake. And it says here in verse 13, and the same hour there was a great earthquake and the 10th part of the city fell, I believe it’s Jerusalem. And in the earthquake were slain 7,000 men. The remnant where a Friday and gave glory to the God of heaven.

The second world was passed, behold, the third world comeeth quickly and look now in verse 15. Because now we have moved through the tribulation period and it gives you a kind of a thumbnail sketch of what’s going to take place as a fulfillment if you read the book of Daniel, chapter 2 and chapter 7, chapter 9 and 11, all talking about the time when the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdom of Christ that belonged to him. See there verse 15 the seventh angel sounded.

Great voices in heaven say the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and His Christ and He shall reign forever and ever. That little sweet little baby Jesus that everybody talks about at Christmas time there’s nothing in the Bible that tells us to worship the birth of Christ, but we suppose worship the one that died on that cross. He was born that he might die. You can’t just go to the birth and leave it there.

If this one that was born was virgin born, if he truly was the holy one, he was God. And if he’s God, that changes everything. He’s not just a baby that was born. He died on the cross, came back from the dead, and the Bible says, he will come again. He is the king of Israel, and he is going to set up his kingdom. And that means that he’s going to rule and reign upon this earth, to realize that’s not far away.

Now, if I knew all of this and understood all of this, But I live back here. I might get discouraged. This is possible to happen in my lifetime. This could be fulfilled in our lifetime. We may not die. There is a generation living that will never see death. Because when Christ comes back in power and great glory, the Bible says we are going to be changed in a moment the twinkle of an eye and caught up to meet the Lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Seven years later, we’re back in glorified bodies. Wouldn’t it be awesome for supernatural people to be walking right on this earth? I will. If you don’t believe it, won’t be no skin off my nose. I can’t make you believe a word that I’m saying. I would like to see you disprove what I’m saying. I double dog dare you. I don’t don’t think you can do it. Because I believe the Bible is true. I believe that God means exactly what He says.

He’s coming back just like He said. And if you have not trusted Christ as your Savior, you will be lost just like He said. And if all this is true, then this is true. You don’t need someone to down the cross and pay for your sins to keep you from going to a place if it doesn’t exist. That’s why we need a Savior to save me from this final lake of fire. I don’t want to go to hell. I did not trust Christ as my Savior because I love the Lord.

I did it for fire insurance. I didn’t want to go to hell. You say, that’s not a good motive. It’s a good motive to me. That was 50 years ago, I was 18 years old. In a little old living room, I wasn’t in a church. So you don’t have to go to church to trust the Lord. You can trust the Lord anywhere, anytime. Up to the time you draw your last breath. But it makes sense to trust the Lord as soon as you can because afterwards, your God’s shall, now you got your whole life, you can serve the Lord.

You can learn all kinds of things and do things because see, what you have here is gonna be a result of what you did for the Lord. So your future has been determined by your own obedience to God today. So you don’t become obedient to go to heaven, but you should be obedient because you’re arguing there. I should be obedient because I am a child of God. Look what he says here. Luke down there in verse 17 saying, we give thanks, oh Lord God Almighty, which art and was an art to come because thou has taken to the thy great power and hath reigned.

The nations were angry, thy wrath has come, the time of the dead that they should be judged, and that thou should have give reward unto thy servants, the prophets unto thy saints, and then that fear thy name, small and great, should have destroyed them which destroy the earth. In other words, God says, I have had enough, and God’s going to step onto the world scene. And in chapter 10 it talks about a great angel, which I believe is the Lord himself, and he puts one foot upon the land, one foot upon the sea, and he says, time is no longer to be.

In other words, no more to lay. Time’s up. This is it. And God’s going to keep his word, just like he promised. So you and I, that no crisis are Savior, don’t get down and discourage. Look at our redemption, draweth nine. He’s on his way and if you’re listening closely, you can hear them rattling the silverware for the marriage supper of the lamb. It’s not gonna be long because this is where we’re headed. And then we’re gonna come back and power and great glory to this earth because Jesus that was born came back from the dead and is coming back again.

And I believe it with all my heart. Let me show you something. Letting this hand represent you and me. This wallet represents sin. We all have sin on us. Everybody is a sinner. It means nobody’s perfect. Now to go to heaven, you have to be perfect. But you see, we can’t go to heaven because of sin. But what do I do about my sin? Well, the pay for the sin is death and hell. So we’re all condemned. The whole world’s in the same boat.

and nobody can save themselves. You can’t get out of this mess. But God can do something for you. God says, you can’t earn eternal life. You can’t work your way to heaven. He says, this is what I did for you because I love you. God does not want us to go to hell. God wants us to go to heaven. So the Bible says that God sent his son, this hand representing Jesus Christ, into the world. He was born as a babe.

He was a holy one. He had no earthly father, so he had no sinful nature. Never did anything wrong. No fault was ever found in him. No sin, he didn’t have to die. But because of his love for us, he took all of our sin, and the Bible says he became sin for us. By doing so, then God, the father had to slay his own son. And that’s why he was the lamb that was slaughtered for our sins. He died and came back from the dead.

And God says, the only thing you and I have to do to go to heaven is believe he did it for you. If you will believe he did it for you, he’ll put that payment to your account. You get to go to heaven or what he did. You don’t earn it, you don’t worth it. You do not promise God anything. You don’t have to promise God you’re gonna stop being bad So that’d be a lie. But you still will be bad.

You don’t have to promise God, you’re gonna be good because you won’t. You’re not gonna change the way you are. You’re still a sinner. And no matter how hard you try, you just get frustrated because you realize inside, there’s still a lot of ugliness that you can’t get rid of. You need a new birth. Jesus Christ said, if you’ll believe He did it for you, It put this payment to your account. You get to go to heaven on what he did.

That’s the gift of God. For by grace are you saved through faith that not of yourself, it is the gift of God, not of works lest any man should boast. If offered you my microphone and you accepted, what would you have? Microphone. If offered you my Bible and you accepted, what would you have? No Bible. If offered you my wallet and you accepted, what would you have? An empty wallet. these people here, they know me so well. If Christ walked in here right now and offered you eternal life and you accepted what would you have?

Eternal life, if it’s eternal life, how long would it last? If it lasts forever, and all you send your paper, where would you go when you die? So can you know you’re going to heaven before you die? Sure. That’s why in spite of knowing all of this, I know this. I’m going up. I have eternal life. I’m God’s child. I know I’m going to heaven when I die. And if you have not trusted Christ as your Savior, you’ll be lost for all eternity.

It doesn’t have to be that way. Now, if I was to ask you to join the church this morning, you ought to really check us out before you do that, so you don’t want to do that. If I said you had to give money, well, how much? Oh, million. Now, aren’t you glad you don’t have to buy your way? If I said you had to pray, well, you got to, well, how long? How sincere. What do I pray for?

You see, it’s not that. But what do I have to do? Believe. You mean that’s all? God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. The who’s so ever, believe it. Should not perish. May He won’t go to hell. But have everlasting life. You mean that’s all I gotta do? He that believe it on me have everlasting life. And he that believe it, not the Son shall not see life, the wrath of God, abide at the fawn him.

Oh, believe it. If you’ll believe that when Christ died, He died for your sins, then you can know that you’re going to have me die. I told this to a person just the other day. I went to a hospital to see a guy that wears his security guard. And he brought up a guy that was a security guard with him. So I didn’t know the guy. For the first thing I asked us, sir, can I ask you two questions?

He said, sure. I said, isn’t it true you’ve heard all your that Christ died on the cross and paid for all the sins of the world. I said, yeah. I said, question number two, if he paid for all the sins of the world, why should you go to hell and pay for any? Yeah, I never thought of that. If he paid for all of them, why do you have to pay for them? Why do you have to go to hell and pay for sin if he already paid for your sins?

Because you haven’t accepted the payment he made. I said, will you accept the payment Christ made on the cross for you. Yes. Because that’s all you have to do. It’s where you believe it. I’m talking about you’ve got to really believe it. And he that believe it to me hath everlasting life. If he that believe it hath something, hath what? Have everlasting life. If you believe it you have everlasting life. How do I know when I really got everlasting life?

Well when you really believe it. Well how do you know you really believe it? When you can say you have it. You can’t say you have it. You don’t have it. You have to have it. Do you have Never lasting life. I had to. Best news in all the world. Let’s pray, shall we? Every head bound, every eye closed, no one looking around. If you hear this morning, and you’ve never trusted Christ as your savior, I hope that I’ve given you something to make you think yet the Bible is true.

I do see these things heading up. I am concerned about where I’m gonna spend eternity. Friend, don’t you wanna go to heaven? If you want to go to heaven, there’s only one way. You must accept Jesus Christ as your savior. So it’s just reasonable for me to say, well, would you trust Him? Would you believe He did it for you? And friend, we’ve had Boudnite’s clothes and no one looking around. I’m gonna ask you just a moment to raise your hand.

Raising your hand does not save you. It just lets me know that what I said made sense to you and you said, and preacher, that made sense to me. And right now I will trust Christ as my only hope of going to heaven. Would you trust Him? I’d like to have prayer for you. If you are this morning saying, yes, I will accept Christ as my Savior. And you’ve never done it before. Say, preach out, I want you to pray for Him.

It would just slip you in it very quickly and put it right back down. Anyone at all? Just slip it up real quick and put it right back down. If you have trusted Christ as your Savior, your God’s child and you’ll go to heaven when you die. A lot of people don’t know this. It’s a wonderful story. Our Father, we thank you so much for all you’ve done for us. We thank you for this time together, and for your word that’s given to us so we can understand these things.

And help our minds to be clear. We’re gonna have to give an account someday. Bless each one here in Christ and we pray, Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you were blessed by today’s message. If you have enjoyed our commitment to the clear gospel of Jesus Christ, You can reach Bibleline and pledge your support to keep us on the air in your area by dialing toll free 1-800-576-3771.

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