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So these 10 nations will become one kingdom. This one kingdom, I believe, these 10 nations are going to get together and give their power to one person. And that will be the head of the last one world government. So they’re five or fallen, one is yet to come and the eighth is of the seventh. The eighth is of the seventh. So the eighth one has to be part of these 10. Because they’re going to give their power. If they gave it, that means they have to be democracies.

Somehow, somewhere along the line. So I believe this to come. Now look there in verse 10. There are seven kings, five are fallen, one is, the other is not yet come. When he cometh, he must continue a short space. The beast that was is not, even he is the eight and is of the seven and goeth into perdition and that 10 horns which thou sawth are 10 kings which have received no kingdom as yet. So when they say well this is a revival of the old Roman Empire it was divided up when they had 10 generals and so forth and blah blah blah.

It says they never had one yet. They haven’t existed yet so it can’t be just a revival of the Roman Empire. I can see where they get it from but I have problems with it. I’m not saying I’m totally accurate 100%, but there’s a few questions in doubt that I have not been able to find anybody that can answer some of my questions that would make me totally believe it. So therefore I believe this. Now, and he says these 10 horns have not received their power yet.

And he says in verse 13, they have one mind and shall get this give their power and strength unto the beast. So these last 10 nations, and whether these are just 10 nations or 10 sections of the globe that’s cut up in different sections and they give their power to a person that will rule. You see, right now people around the world economically are in a chaos. I I mean, there’s the money woes all over the world. It’s not just in America.

Right now they’ve got trouble up there with, well, all of them, Ireland and Spain, Greece and Portugal, and I mean, it’s all in the news. So what they are gonna come up with eventually down the road is seeing that they need a one world currency, one world bank and a one-world government, a one-world religion. All of it is just setting the stage for what God prophesied in His Word 2,000 years ago. And in some cases a lot longer than that when you go all the way back to the book of Daniel.

And get what else it says. And these 10 kings in verse 14, these shall make war with who with the Lamb. So here in Daniel chapter 2 they make war with the Lamb. In Daniel chapter 7 they make war with the Lamb and in Revelation chapter 17 they make war with the Lamb. So is it possible that all of these are saying the same thing about the same event and you start with them and you back up and you can find a little bit better or maybe a key that helps unlock some of the other things.

Remember this, it is very difficult sometimes for people to understand how God sometimes does things. For example, let’s take the book of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, four books in the Bible. Now. If you was going to try to understand when did these take place? So Matthew, he recorded from here up to here. And then Mark comes along and he records what happened from here to here. And then Luke comes along and records what happened here to here. And then John comes along and records what happened to here to here.

See, there’s how he said it was to understand the Bible. That’s how each one did it, and all you gotta do it, just read them, and that’s over a period of all these years, and that’s what happened. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. If in every one of these books, it talks about and ends with the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the resurrection of Jesus Christ. So talking about the death, barely the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

at the end of each one of these books, right? Well, you know that he couldn’t have done that four times. True? So you don’t read it that way. You have to put it down as Matthew and Mark and Luke and John and they all happened at the same time. That way all the crucifixions lines up together. It’s not four events, it’s only one time. just viewed at from four different angles. Matthew always pictured Christ as the king of Israel and Mark as the servant and Luke as the perfect man and John as God.

So whenever you study these books, you’re seeing Jesus Christ as the King of Israel. And so in the book of Matthew talks about the gospel of the kingdom, talks about him coming and setting up the kingdom of heaven, and the phrase son of man is mentioned about 31 times. Because the son of man shows his humanity and the Son of God, His divinity. So you have a little bit better understanding that whenever you read each one of these Gospels, it’s all about Christ.

But each one revealed different things. Though Jesus was the King, He was a servant. And though He was God, He was a man. He was the perfect God-man. But one of these by itself will not explain them. So what you do is you can line up something that’s the same in every one of them and that’s the cross. And you go backwards and you can understand a little bit more about it. Now when we come to the book of Revelation, there’s a lot of things that seems like it ought to be like this.

Oh, you know, we got the seven seals, Then we have the seven angels and we got the seven trumpets and we got the seven bowls of judgment and they all happen afterwards like this. You’re going to have trouble because they are written it’s, it’s, you’ll have the the angels, the trumpets, the bowls of judgment, the seven seals on and it’s parallel. It’s like it’s all happened at the same time but from four different views. So as you study each one of these, you might see something from the eye of God, as God sees it.

Then you’ll see something from the man’s view, as man sees it. And then from my person perspective as a servant of the Lord and as Christ ruling upon the earth, because the whole book is about the revelation him being revealed and he is clue who he claimed to be he is the king. Now take your Bible and turn back there now to the book of Revelation and chapter 8 Revelation chapter 8. Now notice now in verse 5 verse 5 and the angel took the sensor and filled it with fire of the altar cast it into the earth.

I want you to underline or notice these four things that are mentioned here. One is voices, thundering, lightening, and an earthquake because these same things that happens is not that’s going to happen four or five, six times throughout the book. It might be clues that is going to happen at a certain time, and if you line those up, then you can line up all the stuff that goes before it, and you know where it’s supposed to be. Now, I do not have all the answers to the book of Revelation.

It’s just too much here. But I’ve got a few little things that you might take it and run with it and say, I can see this and see that, and maybe it’ll help you a little bit more. even if it does nothing more than cause you to study the book. God promises a blessing to those who study this book. And then what he says, here in verse five, voices, thunderings, lightnings and earthquake. Now take your Bible looking Revelation chapter 11, chapter 11.

And you’ll notice now this is in chapter 11 and around verse 19 I wanna show you, I want you to read from verse 15 down. So look in verse 15. The seventh angel, now if the seventh angel is sounding then it’s at the end of something because there’s seven angels, had seven trumpets and here’s a seven angels. So it’s probably closer to the end of the tribulation period. But look what he says. The seventh angel sounded and there went great voices in heaven saying, the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ.

He shall reign forever and ever. Now, wait a minute, that’s what we’ve read to a three times over there in the book of Daniel that there’s coming a time when his saints, his people will possess the kingdom. So we know that The next thing to happen, there’s the tribulation period. Christ comes back to the earth and there is 1,000 years on the earth. The kingdom that He’s going to set up, that’s the kingdom from heaven. The king is going to rule.

Now, it was going to happen way back here, time of the cross, but they rejected Christ, so they rejected the king. So the kingdom was postponed. The king is coming back. They will accept the king and the kingdom will be set up upon the earth. And the saints shall possess the kingdom. So that’s why when you read in the book of Daniel, when he says the saints shall possess the kingdom and talking about until the ancient of days in these tinned right here, every one of those will be existed when Christ comes back.

And that’s what ends the Gentile dominion over the nation of Israel. And Israel will dominate the world. Now here in Revelation chapter 11 and verse 15, the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of His Christ, and He shall reign forever and ever. But evidently it hasn’t happened yet. It’s seen as though it has, but it’s real and it’s going to. And but it’s written as though it’s sadon dio. But look what else she says.

And the four and twenty elders which sat before God on their thrones fell before upon their faces and worshiped God. Say, and we give thee thanks O Lord God Almighty which art and was an art to come because thou has taken to thee thy great power and hath reigned. And the nations were angry and thy wrath is come, the time of the dead that they should be judged, and that thou should have give reward unto thy servants the prophets.”

So this is talking about everything that’s going to happen. It’s kind of like put it all in a little nutshell of what’s going to take place and then he’s talking about when he’s going to give rewards. You see, when Christ comes back at the end of the tribulation period, there’s going to be rewards for people who have served the Lord and they’re going to rule and reign with Christ. After the great white throne judgment that takes place over here, the Bible talks about He is going to give the rewards to His saints according to their words.

So you see, just because we believe salvation is by grace, and I do totally, 100%, you’re saved by grace don’t have to do one work of any kind. God will save you, give you turn life and you get to go to heaven when you die. But I’m not there yet. I am not just interested in getting my little pinkies inside the pearly gates. That’s already been taken care of 50 years ago. There just might be something else there that I want.

I don’t know what it is. I can’t explain it all. But if There’s one reward that God wants to give to me. I want it. You say, you’re greedy. Call it anything you want. I don’t want to miss out on one blessing, one reward. I don’t want to miss out on anything. I want all that God wants me to have. If that’s wrong, then you’ve got a problem with God. God says that we are reward motivated people. Now, as we’re moving right along here, look what he says here in verse 19, and the temple of God was opened in heaven.

And there was seen in his temple the Ark of the Covenant. I believe it’s the one that was on the earth is made after the model of the one that’s in heaven, just like the tabernacle upon the earth was made after the pattern of the one that’s in heaven. and get these four things here in verse 19, and there were lightnings and voices and funders and an earthquake and great hill. I wonder if there’s a possibility if those things mentioned here could relate to the very same thing that’s happened in chapter eight.

Now see in my mind, I see that and I think it’s the light that goes on because I line up those things. And we know this happens at the end. So also I lined up something else. When I saw that, I also saw something. Look there in chapter 16 of the book of Revelation. Revelation chapter 16. Now in verse 13, he talks about, and I saw three unclean spirits like frogs. And you know how a frog catches his prey with the tongue.

The way the antichrist is gonna take over is gonna use the tongue, gonna lie, deceive, and convince. Buddy, he’s gonna be some orator. He’s gonna have all the right words to say and convince everybody that he is the answer and got the solution to the problems of the world. Can you believe that somebody would come on the scene and have that kind of ability and people are gonna swallow it? Boy, I could say a bunch right now, but we’ll just keep looking on here.

In verse 13 it says, out of the mouth of the dragon, that’s the devil, out of the mouth of the beast, that’s the antichrist, and out of the mouth of the false prophet, there’s your religious. So you have the antichrist, the political head and the religious head. And those two last ones are mentioned in the book of Revelation, chapter 13. One beast that comes out of the sea, one beast that comes out of the land, one is repolitical and one is religious, and they will be heads overall.

And their religious one causes the people to worship the first one. And there behind all of this is a devil that’s pulling strings and got people in the palm of his hand. They didn’t want God. They didn’t want the Holy Spirit. Don’t want the church. Don’t want the believers. Okay, this is what you got. The worst part of time the world has ever known. I’ve had it. Now, I want you to see. They’re in verse 14, for they are the spirits of devils or demons, miracles which go forth unto the kings of the earth.

Now get this, they go forth unto the kings of the earth and of a whole world to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. Behold I come as a thief. Now see the thief here, I come as a thief. This is when at the rapture or this is the end of the tribulation period. Well look at it. I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watch it and make it his garments. I keep it this garment unless he walk naked and they see a shame and he gathered them together in a place called in the Hebrew tongue and there’s that little fancy word Armageddon.

You ever heard of that before? Call the battle of Armageddon. This is at the end of the tribulation period because this is when they’re going to have this great big earthquake. This is when the Lord’s coming back. When the Lord comes back, He takes care of these ten nations, these ten toes, these ten kings, and then He says here in verse 17. And the seventh angel, so that means it fits the seventh angel, it must be toward the end, right?

I mean, there’s not an eighth or ninth or tenth, the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air. There came a great voice out of the temple of heaven from the throne saying it is done. Now in Daniel and chapter 9 when he talks about the 70 weeks of Daniel it talks about so much time in order for to bring in the treaty and to bring in the sacrifices and they cause the oblations to cease and they cause in the righteousness and so forth of God to be set up into the kingdom.

All these things are mentioned there. And he says, it’ll be all done. It’ll be completed. So now we’re studying the book of Revelation how God says, it is done. Now we know when he died on the cross and he says these words, it is finished, that that’s all there was to do for the payment of the sins of the world. He died. Now he’s telling us that in order to set up his kingdom. It’s done. He’s done everything he said he was going to do.

All these prophecies are all coming together and God is keeping his word. When he says that Christ is the spirit of prophecy, he is the epitome of prophecy. He is the person of prophecy. He is the fulfillment of all prophecy. Look what he says here. In verse 18, and there were, hmm, voices, thunders, lightnings, there was a great what? Earthquake. Such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty and earthquake and so great. I wonder if it could be put together with the one over in chapter 11 and verse 19, or chapter eight and verse five, If there’s any connection in all of this or when you go all the way back to Zachariah in chapter 14 And you read it and it says that no the the Lord the day of the Lord has come And his feet will touch upon the

Mount of Olives and it will cleave in the mist And all these things is going on and in verse 12 and Zachariah says and this shall be the plague Where will God will smite the nations that have come against Jerusalem? And while they stand upon their feet, their flesh out and simmer away off their bones and out of their eye sockets and blah, blah, blah. Now look what he says. Verse 19, “‘And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and great Babylon came and remembered before God.

To give unto her the cup of the wind of the fierceness of his wrath.'” This is at the end, but it’s going to get really bad. Now, I know that sometimes we wonder whether or not who is this Babylon. Just question. Well, a couple of them. In verse 20, and every island fled away. The mountains were not found. There fell upon men a great hail out of heaven. And every stone about the weight of a talent, which they say is about a hundred to 120 pounds.

I don’t know. It doesn’t matter to me. Probably pretty heavy. Probably gonna give somebody a bad headache. Every stone. And men blaspheme God because of the plague of the Hail. For the plague thereof was exceeding great. Now, so this is what’s going to come. It’s going to happen. And some of this toward the end of the tribulation period. But like I said, you take these verses that I just referred to, the one in Revelation chapter 8, chapter 11, chapter 16, and you put them together this way, and then you read the scriptures up to them.

and you’ll be surprised how that they will line up. But if you try to put one here and then the next one here and then the next one here, did you got the same thing? I know history repeats itself, but not that quick. And that’s why I don’t believe that the other way that many of the Bible scholars have tried to explain it because I got too many problems with it. Like I said, I’m not saying that I’m totally 100% correct, but I think I’m close enough until the experts get here.

All right, let me show you something. But just in case somebody is watching the broadcast tonight and you hear all of this and you could be scared to death. Do you know in spite of everything that you know, you don’t have to be afraid? We don’t have to be afraid because of what’s coming because I know what comes after this. It’s just like here I am. No, you can die with this. You can die with it. Yeah, I know, but what happens right after I die?

I mean, how long is it gonna take me to die? I don’t know, but soon it’s over with, I’m gone. And I will be in heaven, in paradise for all eternity. So I don’t have to worry about that. But until then, until then, yeah, we gotta live life. We got things to do. And there’s a lot of things God wants us to accomplish. So look up here. Jesus Christ is the Lord who’s coming back again, but He’s coming back to get those who have trusted Christ as their Savior.

And here is the reason why everybody should trust the Lord. See, this is you and me. This is sin. We all have sin upon us. God loves us. Now he hates our sin, but he does love us. And the thing for this sin is eternal separation from God into a literal fire burning hell. Now I know there’s people today that don’t even like to talk about hell and they wanna know, Are you sure church one of those hell fiber and stone preachers?

Yeah. Yeah, if you mean do I believe it, yes. If I didn’t believe it, why, what am I doing anything for it? You take away hell and there’s no reason to do anything. Who cares? But because I do believe that there is a hell, then I believe I need a savior. So what do I need to save you for if there’s no place to be saved from? If there is no hell, why did Jesus Christ down the cross keep me from going to a place that don’t exist.

But God loves us, wants us to go to heaven, and to go to heaven we have to be perfect just as righteous as God. None of us are perfect. None of us are righteous. We have all sinned and come short of God’s perfection. So none of us are good enough to go to heaven. Now this hand represents Jesus Christ. He’s the Lord. God in the flesh. He came into the world because he loves us. He hates our sin because our sins separate us from God.

So Jesus Christ took our sins, paid for it on the cross, came to the end. came back from the dead. He said, if I would believe he did it for me, he would give me as a free gift everlasting life. I get to go to heaven on what he did. He that they leave it on me. Believe what they did this should not perish but have everlasting life. So if I believe it, I have everlasting life. So 50 years ago in a little living room, the best I knew how I believed that Christ paid for my sins.

And I’m trusting him. Why him? Because he’s doing the paid for it. He’s when it came back from the dead. He’s God in the flesh. How can you go wrong by trusting the only true and living God there is? Can’t go wrong that way. So you trust Christ as your Savior, and He gives to you as a free gift ever lasting life. So I trust that Christ is my Savior, and I know that I’m going to heaven. And I hope that you have also.

If there’s any here tonight, if you’ve never trusted Christ as Savior, or if you’re watching by internet, why not right now in the kindness of this moment? Just realize, yes, Christ is coming back. And all these things that we talked about tonight, it is true. But you can escape all of this. You can escape the place called hell just by trusting Christ as your Savior. So in the quietness of this moment, just between you and the Lord, would you just say something simple like this Lord?

I know I’m a sinner. I don’t understand it all, but I believe Christ died and paid for my sins. And I’m going to trust Him as my only hope of going to heaven and preach. I’d like for you to pray for me. I’m not going to have you forward. Not going to embarrass you. I’m not going to call you out. I’m not going to point to you. But I’d like to know what I said made sense to you and the only way you can do that is Just to skip it a real quick and put it right back down.

I was doing it all. So yes, pray for me tonight. I will accept Christ as my Savior. I want to be certain of going to heaven when I die. Is anyone at all? Our Father, we do thank you so much for all you’ve done for us for the study of your Word. And Lord, even though there’s a lot of things we don’t know, there’s still a lot of things we can’t know. And the most important thing that in spite of how bad we are, it’s how good you are.

Your love does. paid for our sins, died and came back from the dead. And you said in your word, you’re coming back again someday. Until then, help us Lord to keep looking up. 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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