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See, I have a few little objections to certain things and I can’t swallow it all because I have problems with other verses that says, even what about this? But what about this? So before I just believe something because well, that’s the standard position of most independent fundamental Bible evolutionary minded Baptist. I just have to wait. How do I know that’s the truth? So I read it and study a little bit more and at least I want to be able to say I’ve read it, I’ve studied, I’ve looked at all the options and this is what I think.

So when I tell you what I think, it still might be a little yank-yology. That means that I can’t swear by the hair of my chinny chin chin. But this beast that is talking about seven heads, ten horns, the ten horns, as you see, are ten kingdoms. In verse 12, the ten horns which thou sought ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet. So they didn’t exist at this time until it’s not talking about Rome doesn’t exist yet.

And is talking about whoever this woman is is writing upon this beast and is talking about doing the tribulation period. Wasn’t doing it then. It doesn’t say it doesn’t in between. It’s doing this seven year tribulation period. I saw a woman riding on a beast. Now, the beast hates the woman. Whoever the woman is, the beast hates this woman. Well, how do you know that? Glad you asked. Well, how do you know that?

Glad you asked. Look what he says there in verse 13. These kings have won mine, give their power and strength unto the beast. So it’s done democratically. They do it because they want to. They’ve been lied to, deceived. And in verse 14, These shall make war with the lamb and the lamb shall overcome them, for he is the Lord of Lord and King of kings. And they that are with him are called and chosen and faithful. So this is talking about the kings that are going to be existed.

Whoever this beast is, he’s the one that is destroyed by the Lord when he comes back. And when you read the book of Daniel in chapter two, verse 43 and verse 44, It says, in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven come to the earth. He’s the stone cut out of the mouth and without hand and destroys this gentile power. So the woman that’s riding on this beast, well, the beast is the Antichrist because he’s the head of this last world government.

So whoever this woman is, it’s got to be somebody that the beast don’t like, but he had to give them a ride. Look, verse 15. And he said unto me, the waters which thou saw us with the horse saideth are people and multitudes and nations and tongues and the ten horns which thou saught upon the beast, thee shall hate the whore shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh burner with fire. Whoever this woman is, the beast is going to destroy her.

The beast don’t the beast hates this woman. Whoever this woman is, the beast hates the woman. And it says in verse 17, for God hath put in their hearts to fulfill His will and to agree and give their kingdom unto the beast until the words of God shall be fulfilled and the woman which thou thought is, there it is, The job to underline it. That great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth. So whoever it is has to be a place where the Antichrist, the head of this last world government will set up his palace in the Holy Land and he is going to rule as king over the earth.

whatever city that might be. Now as you read it and you come across a few other verses that says a little bit more that might give a little bit more light. Look there in chapter 18 in verse 10. When this city or a country or whatever it is when it falls, or whoever this woman is that’s riding upon this beast, she is throne and whoever the beast is is going to try to destroy her completely. In verse 10 standing afar off for the fear of her torment.

Alas, alas, that great city, Babylon, that mighty city. And one hour is that judgment come. One hour. Now that’s a short period of time. So whoever this woman is, she is going to be destroyed in a short period of time. Not long, but a short period of time. Looking verse 18, and cried when they saw the smoke of her burning saying, what city is like unto this great city? Now are we talking about New York City? Well it might be New York City.

After all, look how bad she is and there’s a lot of commerce being done and when you reach some of the descriptions through this you might come to the conclusion it has to be. Unless between now and the tribulation period something else happens that overshadows the greatness of America. Now, it might be America. It might be Rome. It might be Babylon over there in Iraq. But maybe it might be something else. But look what he says there in verse 21.

He said, and a mighty angel took up a stone like a giant, a great millstone cast it into the seasam, thus would violence shout that great city Babylon be thrown down and shall be found no more at all. And that in verse 22 found no more. In verse 23, no more, no more, no more. Wonder what city this is. Now maybe you have it all figured out. But I still have a few little problems with a few little things here and there.

But let’s just jump over to a place where God wants to show somebody something. And it’s amazing that it uses these words. Take your Bible look there in Revelation chapter 21. Revelation chapter 21. And look in verse 1. And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was passed away. No more sea. John saw the Holy City, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

Now here’s a holy city coming down from God out of heaven called the Holy City. Do you know of any other place that’s called the Holy City? The Holy City. Jerusalem is is called the Holy City. The nation of Israel called the Holy People, a holy nation. But look over here in verse nine. He said, and there came unto me one of the seven angels, which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues talk with me saying, come up here.

I will show thee the bride, the land’s wife. And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain and showed me and underlined these three words, that great city. And what city was that great city? The holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God. So we know according to the Bible, there is going to be a great city, new Jerusalem, holy Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven down to the earth. And there will be a new heavens and a new earth.

Now take your Bible and turn all the way over there to the book of Daniel. The book of Daniel. And chapter 9, remember the 70 weeks of Daniel is not upon everybody in the world as far as prophecy goes. I believe it deals mostly with the nation of Israel. And you look there in verse 24, 70 weeks are determined upon and underlined this word, die people. And upon this word, die holy city. Now the holy city, Israel, is supposed to be a city of peace, but it’s been everything but a city of peace.

When he makes the statement about the city been destroyed. It mentions that up there in verse 25 down to verse 26 and the city shall be destroyed and the sanctuary. But what city do you think he’s talking about? The city here that’s going to be destroyed is the city of Jerusalem. Now take your Bible and turn over there to the book of Matthew and the Bible tells us something else that’s going to happen here and I want you to see it in chapter 24 Matthew chapter 24 and look there in verse 15.

Remember where Christ was when he gave this prophecy. He was sitting there while his disciples were you know marveling over the temple, Herod’s temple. And he told him, says, this temple is going to be destroyed. And he said, well, when’s all this going to happen? And then he talks about some things. And he says in verse 15, when ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken up by dang of the prophets, sent in the holy place. Then he says, let them who soever read it, let them understand, and they’re to flee.

So forth out of there. Well, when does this take place in verse 15 in the middle of the tribulation period. Well then where must the guy be? That’s gonna do all of this. He claims to be God. When you read 2 Thessalonians in chapter 2, it says that he goeth into the temple and claims himself that he is God. So we know where he’s at. And when you read the book of Daniel, and I believe in chapter 11, he talks about he shall plant his palace between the seas and the Holy Land.”

So if he’s in the Holy Land and he heads up this last world government, then the city that he’s riding upon, and remember who does the Antichrist make a peace treaty with. It’s made with the nation of Israel. Israel is a woman. Is it possible that in the last days that the Arab nations will make peace with the woman that they hate the most? There isn’t anything anybody where they hate more than Israel. Israel is the most despised. In Matthew in chapter 23, look there where he says in verse 34, he says, wherefore behold I send unto you prophets and wise men and scribes and some of them ye shall kill and crucify.

Some of them shall you scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city. That upon you become all the righteous blood shed upon the earth from the blood of righteous able unto the blood of Zechariah. Able is your A, Zechariah is your Z, all the way from A to Z. I thought I just thought that for you. You know, home ye slew between the temple and the altar. Barely I send you, get it. All these things shall come upon this generation.

All these things that he’s talking about shall come upon this generation. What generates the people that are living during the tribulation period. Because in he gets to chapter 24 he explains where it’s going to take place, who is coming, and what’s going to happen to this city. Now when you look in verse 37, oh Babylon, Babylon, O Rome, O Rome, oh New York City, New York City, what does it say? Says, Jerusalem. Jerusalem. Remember the 70 weeks of Daniel is upon a thy people and upon thy holy city.

So here you have the tribulation period. Why should I believe it’s anybody else? I don’t necessarily have to believe it’s anybody else. I’m not saying it is. I’m not saying I’m right, but I’m giving you another option just to look at, you know, to consider, to think. Because the last thing you want to do is just believe what everybody says. I don’t want you to believe it because I say something. You got a Bible. You read it and you studied.

If you don’t agree with me, just have chapter in verse. That’s all. Just chapter in verse. But look what he says, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, bow that killeth the prophets and stone up them, which are synodim. When he talks about over there, you have martyred God’s people, you have slain God’s people. What city has been wicked, more wicked than the city of Jerusalem over the years? And last of all, he sent his son. And what did they do to him? didn’t God say that the peace treaty will be made with Israel, this woman, and one who makes the treaty hates the woman.

So when you see this, then when you read chapter 12 about the woman and how the beast goes after the woman, and we know that that woman there is the nation of Israel, then you can see a little bit more as you take that and use that to understand some of the other scriptures. Not sin and right, but it sure looks good to me. He says, how often I would have gathered thy chickens or children together, even as a hen gathered her chickens under whoming and you would not.

Now look in verse 39, for I say unto you ye shall not see me hence for him, till ye shall say, blessed is he that cometh and the name of the Lord. Now is it possible that God is going to use the tribulation period and use this wicked nation to chasten God’s people when Israel was in the land and they wouldn’t obey the Lord? Didn’t God promise even in the book of Deuteronomy that he was sent another nation that spoke another language and bring them in as a rod to chasten God’s people and they were taken away captive in the court in Jeremiah, they would be there for 70 years.

Well, it happened just like God said. Now, if He kept His word on that, is it possible that He’s not through with the chasening of Israel? So when you read chapter 9 of the book of Daniel and it talks about to finish the transgression, to finish the sins upon Israel, The seven years, seven years, is God’s chasin’ upon God’s people and upon His holy city, Jerusalem. And how it’s going to have this great earthquake read Zechariah 14. Now, who would have ever thought this because when John wrote Jerusalem, it had already been destroyed.

The temple had already been destroyed. 70 AD, written about 90 AD. So you’re talking about 20 years, there’s already Pat. So it seems like you’re talking about some other place. When it might be written in such a way, throw the curiosity seeker off, but somebody who really wants to know the truth, you look at it and you read it and you’re studying it, say, is it possible? Now go back there to the book of Revelation chapter 11.

Revelation chapter 11. And you’ll notice in chapter 11, it makes a statement there in verse eight. And verse eight says, and their dead bodies shall lie in the street of, and here’s those three words again, the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt where also our Lord was what? And where were these two prophets killed? In Israel. Where was the Antichrist? Where was his throne in Israel? So now look there very quickly in Revelation in chapter 12.

And there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman clothed with a son. Now as you go through this you’ll see that this woman is talking about Israel. Look in verse 3 and it had the great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns. Just a coincidence. And he’s after the woman and he wants to kill the son that this woman is going to have. Last part of verse 4. To devour her son as soon as he’s born. What didn’t that happen when Christ was born?

Mm-hmm. Then when you read chapter 5 and she brought forth a man-childed, this woman, what woman? Isn’t that an Israel? And the sun was caught up into heaven. And that’s where he’s at. And then there’s going to be a little battle going on and we’ll get into that next week when we talk about the whole chapter. But look in verse 13, when the dragon saw that he was cast into the earth, and that takes place in the middle of the tribulation period, persecutes the woman which brought forth the man child in the midst of the week Daniel 927.

When ye shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel, this is that time. And he know it that he hath but a short time. And he says to the people that are born the earth, whoa, whoa, whoa. For he knoweth that his time is short and he hath great rap that’s up in verse 12. And then you come down here to verse 17 and the dragon was rocked with the woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed.

This is Israel. So is it possible that the woman of chapter 17 might be Israel? I don’t know. I can look at it from all those angles. You said, do you have a purpose? Well, of course I do. Which one do you hold to? Well, if you haven’t figured it out by now, you probably won’t. But I’m not saying that it’s it’s not the other reviews. I’m just saying that I have a problem with some of the logic, some of the reasoning and that I can’t definitely prove it by scripture.

But the book of Revelation, the tribulation period, is about Israel. It’s about the holy city. And that this city is going to be destroyed because God’s going to see to that. That’s why it’s going to be destroyed. And it’s just like here’s the anti-Christ and he sets up his place there in Israel and he is head over all all the earth. And people could say, well, how could you make war against so great a power? Look who he is.

Look where is that? He’s in the Middle East. He’s sitting in the ideal spot. And if he’s ahead, then he controls all of commerce all over the world. Now, there is a possibility. The Lord may come back tonight. And there’s a possibility. The Lord may not come back for a hundred years, whether you like it or not. There’s been people every century since Christ that will believe He’s coming back in their lifetime and two thousand years has passed. I believe He could come back.

He could come back at any moment, but He could, any moment, but he could be on down the road and everything that you see today may not exist that away in 50 years or 25 years. But I believe that the Word of God, it will not change. It will still be saying the same thing, but people will be able to understand it better. I don’t have to understand everything to believe that the Word of God is true, that We’re living at a miraculous time upon the earth.

And I love life. I can’t hardly wait for the next day. I love knowing what I know. And I’m also thankful I don’t know all of it. There’s some things I’m glad I don’t know yet. I don’t know how to handle it. I don’t know what I’d do with it. It’s about me knowledge that would be too much to bear. God doesn’t let us see everything or know everything. He says secret thing belonging unto the Lord. And I believe this time goes on more of a be revealed.

So this is not in concrete, but I need to explain to you, mind you, so that you can study better and you might come up with a greater understanding. Look up here. And just in case somebody happens to be watching Saudi Arabia or Pakistan or who knows where, I want people to know. God loves you. This hand represents you and me. The Bible says that you and I are all sinners, and that we have all sinned, we’re all condemned.

And God says that He loves us, and He wants us to go to heaven, and to go to heaven we have to be perfect, as righteous as God, and none of us are perfect, none of us are righteous. And God says that you cannot save yourself, you cannot earn eternal life, you cannot work your way to heaven. We need a Savior. This hand represents Jesus Christ. He is the Lord God in the flesh. He came into the world because he loves us, but he hates our sin because our sin separates us from him.

So Jesus Christ took the sin, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead, and said if we would believe he did it for us, he would put this payment to our account and we get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did. That’s good news. Best news in all the world. One of these days, it’s going to all be over. One of these days were me out of here. And the longer I live, the more excited I get about it.

I’m more excited about it now than I was 35 years ago, 40 years ago. Because I know I’m getting closer to this side than I was on the other side. I’ve got family on the other side, so every time I lose somebody that I know, heaven gets a little bit more precious to me. And I wonder sometime, I wonder what they’re doing. I wonder what Hank’s doing today. What do you think he’s doing right now? You think he’s listening to the sermon?

You think he’s looking at you? He’s not very looking down at you. Say, you’d not go ahead and get busy. Do something. I don’t know. But it’s great to wonder sometimes we live at a great time in history. One day it’ll all be over. Let’s pray, shall we? Every head bowed and every eye closed. No one looking around. If you’re here tonight, and the auditorium, or if you’re listening by internet, God loves you. He loves you so much that he died on that cross to pay for your sins.

He said, if you believe he did it for you, he would give you as a free gift of our lasting life. He said, you couldn’t earn it, you couldn’t work for it, you can’t buy it. You see, it’s gift. It’s totally free. Friend, I never heard that before. Not until I was 18 years old. Somebody gave me the good news. I didn’t know that you could have eternal life and know that you’re going to heaven. But when I heard it, I was not going to turn it down.

God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, the who so ever believe it than him should not perish but have everlasting life. So if you’re here tonight and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, would you trust him right now? Just talk to the Lord. You can’t make a mistake that way. Only the true and living God knows your thoughts. to say something simple like this, Lord, I don’t understand at all. I know my sinner.

I believe Christ died paid for my sins. And right now I will trust him as my Savior. I believe he died for me. Infinite friend, if you’ll trust him, God will save you and give eternal life. Our Father, we thank you so much for this time together. We thank every person here. We’re thankful for the radio ministry, for the internet ministry. And we pray, Lord, that people around the world of the seeing here and understand that in spite of all the things that are going to come up on this earth, we’re all going to die.

And we need to know you as our Savior. I pray that you’d help each person to see and understand, so they’ll put their trust and the payment you made for them. And know that you’ll give them as a free gift of a lasting life. We thank you for it in Christ’s name 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.

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