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You ever heard of the United Nations? Uh, nations? Well, the United Nations at this point, They have no teeth. They got a loud bark, but no teeth. They can’t enforce anything. They have no armies. They can’t do nothing. And they try to get different nations to come together and try to have peace. They’re the problem. But they can’t solve anything because there’s no wisdom there. So one of these days, some Superman’s going to come on the scene. I had somebody mention the other night.

I was listening to this woman now, the Greta Van Suster. And she’s talking about, it’s a shame what ISIS is doing. And that’s just true. shame. Somebody ought to do something about that. She says, all the nations need to come together and fight this. All the, got to have some common denominator that draws people together. See, that would solve the problem if you only had a one-world government. You know, it’s going to make sense. It’s going to be reasonable because then you can solve all these world problems on this globe that that we live on.

Well, that’ll be interesting to see how that all comes about. But it says they will give their power to them. What makes these nations do what they do? I explain a little bit this way. Now, you know that when John was caught up into heaven, in heaven he got a chance to see both sides of the issue. You see, he got to see the angelic world and And then he also got to see the human world. He saw it from a human perspective and a divine perspective.

In heaven, he got to see the angels working behind the scenes. So as you go through the book of Revelation, you’ll notice he’s talking about in the angels, the angels, the angels, the angels. That’s all the way through. Every chapter is about angels. He is seeing how God uses his angels to accomplish his will. the people upon the earth, they only see the consequences of things. They can’t see what’s causing it. And that’s the same way it is today.

God has angels that are working, but you can’t see it and you just think that was just a coincidence. That’s a strange coincidence. Yeah, right. Maybe it’s not a coincidence. Maybe there’s somebody doing something. A God working behind the scenes. And you’ll get to heaven one of these days and you’ll find out how God has protected you in a miraculous way. And things that God allowed and things God did not allow for your benefit and you don’t have a clue about it.

Anyway, I do believe in the providence of God. And so he says that this is going to happen. But now why do they do this? Because you see, God also has a plan. God can use the wickedness of man to accomplish his purpose. People that rebelled against God, God is free to use them to whatever way he wants to. He could beat the tar out of them and he can use them to accomplish things for him. But look what he says here down in verse 17, for God had 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.

Now, God is able because of the wickedness of man and the rebellion of man because they would not believe the truth. God shall send them strong delusions that they would believe the lie, so that they would believe what the Antichrist said because they would not believe the truth. So God is free to cause them to believe a lie. So they bring it upon themselves so God gets his purpose accomplished. And so I go through here and make some might have strong statements about.

The wisdom of God who knows and understands everything in advance. Just because we don’t see God working in people’s lives, you know, like with angels behind the scene, we don’t see that. We don’t see how God may be working in your own personal life. But He may be working in your life in ways that you’d say, well, that was a miracle. That was a miracle. That was a miracle. And God may be doing miraculous things in your life every day, and you’re not even aware of it.

Now go back to chapter 13. Back to chapter 13. Now remember this, when you read Daniel in chapter 7, it mentions these three beasts. And those three beasts, he mentions the bear and the lion and the leopard. Well when he starts describing this last world power, and we know it’s coming from the devil because it’s the devil that’s mentioned in chapter 12 that has the seven heads and the 10 horns and you’ll notice what he says here in verse two, and the beast, which I saw was like a leopard, amazing.

And his feet, well the feet of the bear, that’s interesting. His mouth as the mouth of a lion, that’s interesting. These are the same three things that were descriptive of three beasts in the Old Testament, but the fourth beast was one that was diverse from all the beast. In other words, is it possible that in the end time all of these nations, these kingdoms, can become all revived. You hear about the revival of the Roman Empire. Well, maybe the other kingdoms are also revived.

We just don’t know. But it appears that the Bible makes this statement in Daniel chapter 2 and verse 43 and 44. It says that the stone cut out of a mountain without hands is going to hit upon the feet, these ten toes and destroy all of these kingdoms together. So maybe there’s more than meets the eye. Isn’t it something that one of the worst places where happened today is over there in Iran and Iraq? Iran and Iraq. Did you happen to know where Babylon was located?

and the Medes and the Persians came from Persia, which was Iran. So here you have these same nations coming to power again today, and it ain’t over yet. And so there’s a problem that we have sometime when we know the scripture says in the book of Isaiah, trying to put it all together, that Babylon, when it’s destroyed, that nobody will go there. Nobody will be there. But the problem is, we just had a world with Iraq, and there’s people there, and there’s even a Babylon over there.

They were trying to rebuild Babylon again. But it’s not totally wiped away like it appears that it should be. So maybe it’s a future fulfillment that’s going to happen in the future. And what we’re seeing is the rebuilding of something that’s supposed to be taking place in the tribulation period and maybe it’ll all come together. But you know what I’ve learned? I’m sure God is going to figure it out. I don’t believe he has a doubt in his mind what’s really going to take place.

Because, man, I can come up with so many different scenarios. to figure all the stuff out. But what we do know is this. There’s going to be this beast come on the scene, right? And he’s going to have a political agenda to roll the world, right? And he’s going to have the nations turn against the believers and try to wipe them out. It’s a move to wipe out all believers because Christ is coming back. And the Bible says that they prevail against the saints back there in the book of Daniel.

So they prevail against the saints and they are the ones that will be ruling in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom. So that means that Christ is coming back, that stone that’s cut out of the mountain without hands, he’s coming back and this is not the rapture, this is that the revelation of Christ. When he comes back in power and great glory and he’s going to set up his kingdom. But first of all he has to destroy these nations and that’s why they’re being drawn together into this great big old bowl.

And so the battle of Armageddon that plagues place there in the plains of Jezreel, which is I’ve been there, I’ve walked there. I mean it’s huge, it’s just like the Bible says, I mean it’s got it all. It’s like a great big old bull. And God says he’s going to send forth his angels. And they’re going to go out and they’re going to, with sickles in their hands and they’re going to cut these grapevines. They’re going to pull these grapevines from all over the world and pull them into this big old bowl.

And then God’s going to jump in there in this wine press and just stomp them with his feet until the blood is as high as the horse is bridal. Can you imagine what this is going to be like? You’ll find that in chapter 19 of Revelation also. part of chapter 18. But this is incredible. But now look at something about this beast. See in verse 2 of chapter 13, he says, and his mouth as a mouth of a lion and the dragon.

Now who is the dragon? That’s the devil. Gave him his power and his seat and great authority. Now the devil is not the beast. How do you know that? I made it up. No, behold your place right here and just turn over there to chapter 19. Revelation chapter 19, when Christ comes back in power and great glory, you’ll find that in verse 11 down through there where He comes back and He really is the night in shining armor. And so there’s going to be this battle of Armageddon.

So He asked in verse 17 for all the files of the year to come and just get your fill because there’s enough food for everybody and so what did they come? And it says in verse 18 that they may eat the flesh of kings and of captains and mighty men in the flesh of horses and then that set on them in the flesh of all men, bow free and bond, maul and great. And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against him that set on the horse and against his army.

So the Bible says back there in the book, Good Annual, that they are going to be standing against the Prince of Princes. They are going to be fighting against the Lord himself. Zechariah chapter 14 talks about in that day when he comes, he will go and fight with his army and he’s coming to the earth and his feet will touch upon the Mount of and it will cleave in the mist. So now we have at the end of the tribulation period the bottle of Armageddon it’s showdown time, make war against Him.

So in verse 20 and the beast was taken and within the false prophet, now when you go to chapter 16 of Revelation you’ll find that he talks about the dragon, the beast and the false prophet that’s the unholy Trinity, just like we have the holy Trinity. We have God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. This is the same thing you have here. So this is the unholy. And the beast was taken within the false prophet. These are the two that’s mentioned in Revelation chapter 13.

And these are the two beasts. One from the sea, one from the land. The one from the sea is the political. One from the land is the religious. So there’s a head of the religious system and ahead of the political system that takes place in the tribulation period. And so he says there that brought miracles before him with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the base and then that worshiped his image these both to the both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.

So this is what happened at the end of the tribulation period, they are cast into the lake of fire. Then you see there in verse 1 and I saw an angel come down of chapter 20 from heaven having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand and he laid hold on the dragon that oh serpent which is the devil and Satan and bound him a thousand years. So the beast and the false prophet is not the devil.

He uses them, but he is the devil, but he has his man and he gives him his power in his throne. And then he says that the devil is cast into a bottomless pit for 1,000 years so that he cannot deceive anybody anymore. And then you go all the way over there to verse 10. Looking in verse 10 of chapter 20, and the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are.

So the devil is separate from the other two, I believe. So there’s the devil and there’s the beast and there’s the false prophet. And so these are all cast into the same place except the two were cast in a thousand years at least before the devil was cast into health and people should not think that the devil is ruling hell. The devil is not ruling hell and when you get down there he’s just gonna ask you to shovel some more coal in there and make it hotter for you.

He’s not ruling. He’s not in power. Wouldn’t it be a shame to have to spend eternity in a lake of fire with the devil. Would that make your day? Now go back to Revelation chapter 13. Revelation 13. So he goes down through here and he tells about this beast and then verse 4, and they worship the dragon which gave power unto the beast and they worship the beast. Well we know he doesn’t take power until about the middle of the tribulation period.

So it’s probably going to be three and a half years. That’s why you find in verse 5 and there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies, power was given to Him to continue 40 and two months. How long is 40 in two months? Why? It just happens to be three and a half years. This is what we call the great tribulation. The whole thing is seven-year tribulation, but the great tribulation, the last part of it.

And so, great things, great power, people are deceived, all kind of wickedness going on. It is the wrath of the Lamb and the wrath it also says of God and so there’s the wrath of Satan because in the last part of chapter 12 of the book of Revelation it talks about woe unto the inhabitants of the earth for Satan is cast out for he knoweth that he hath but a what short time. So the devil is going to be cast out and he’s got a short time and he’s got three and a half years to do all of the damage he can do and buddy does he do it.

So this is what’s coming. Now look in verse 11. So verse one is the beast of the political system and chapter 13 and verse 11 and I saw another beast coming up out of the earth and he had two horns like a lamb, spake as a dragon. In other words the devil is behind both of them and he causes both to work together. So the head of the religious system seeks to get people to worship the beast. You see the purpose of the Holy Spirit is to get us to worship Christ.

Everything is a copycat. Christ’s ministry was three and a half years, his three and a half years. He had a wound by the head but he did live. Whether he was killed and come back to life, it’s not really that clear but there’s a possibility He could have died and come back to life. Or he had a deadly wound, a mortal wound, but didn’t die for some reason. But the Bible makes his statement in verse 14. And he saved them that dwelt on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast.

Say unto them that dwelt on the earth that they should make an image to the beast which had the wound by a sword and did live. Now he had a wound, he lived, but did he die? Well, there’s a question there, but it really doesn’t bother me at all. Now the last part of verse 12 says that he had a deadly wound, so it has to be something miraculous and the world wonders after this beast. And so they worship the beast.

Now how do you worship the beast? By yielding your allegiance to the beast, by submission to the beast by obeying the beast. And this is why sometimes it’s so hard for us to realize, how in the world can these people be deceived to take a mark where they can’t buy or sell if they don’t take this mark? Who in the world be so dumb to do something like that? Have you looked at your wallet lately and seen that little card that you’ve got?

Because you can’t work if you don’t have that little card. What’s it called? So it’s a security card, don’t you have one? We already have a government where we’re required to have a number. Don’t everybody have a number? Just about everybody? Now when the kids are born, they automatically give them one? There’s no wonderful. Is the world already being conditioned? You know I was over in Israel one year and this was probably 25 years ago. I now remember looking at the license plates and it scared me to death.

I looked at life in place and everywhere I’m sorry, I was 666. I thought it was a long time ago, but nothing ever came from it. But I believe that the world is being conditioned to accept a world leader. People right now and even our president at this very moment, it was down in the Everglades we need to get all the nations together on this common enemy which is greater than ISIS and anything. This is the most desperate thing that we need to solve.

It’s on the top priority of our list. I mean… And it’s pushing toward globalism. Everybody’s got to come together. We’ve got to have a common denominator that pulls all the nations together. And after a while, see, you lose your sovereignty. And America is on the verge of losing its sovereignty. We’re not the nation we used to be. I don’t like what I see. But I know how God says in the last days, people will be so deceived. They see, I wonder, how can they be so blind?

How can they be so blind? Can’t they see? Evidently not. And they don’t see anything wrong. And so I can see how we can have all these nations come together and how much better off mankind will be. If there’s no other governments, there’s no other army, so who you’re gonna fight? So it just makes such good common sense for the bee. Now they got all this problem going on with it. The dollar going up and the dollar going down and they call it fiat money and nothing’s backed by any silver and nothing backed by any gold.

And all we’ve got is confidence in a piece of paper that could be destroyed tomorrow. And all the assets that everybody thinks they got, they nothing to it. Talk about what China wants to do and what Russia wants to do with their money. And it’s all over the, you know what we need. we need a one-world currency. That would solve the problem. But it would just make sense. A one-world government. A one-world religion. See, we’ve got all these religions in the world.

So if we’re gonna have one-world religion, we might as well have one that, you know, one that if people don’t accept it, they can be forced to accept it. I know such a religion. Why don’t we just let the religion of it? You know, Christianity and Islam It’s so much in common. It just goes together like a hand and a glove. It’s just we believe the same thing. Did you know there’s people right now trying to get Chris Lomme established between Muslims?

I mean, they’ve been doing it. I went to one of their meetings 30 years ago. They call it Kaza back then. And I asked a person, I said, who’s putting this thing on? Oh, just people in general. I says, you’re a Muslim, aren’t you? Well, this has nothing to do with that. I says, you’re a Muslim, aren’t you? He says, this has nothing to do with the religion of Islam. I says, are you a Muslim? He said, well, I’m a Muslim, but we’re not, I says, and these other speakers?

Well, I says, you’re deceptive. You’re deceptive. And I walked out of the meeting. I thought it was going to be a meeting of something good. It was I turned Denver, Colorado. But what they’re doing today, no, it didn’t just start. This thing’s been going on for a while. Conditioning people, how that, you know, there’s good Muslims and there’s bad Muslims.

That’s like there’s good rattlesnakes and there’s bad rattlesnakes. So he says here in this verse, these things are going to happen. It’s coming down the line. You and I can see some of these things. Isn’t it true that you would hate for any of your relatives or people you know and love be here doing this time. Did you realize that the Rapture took place right now? We would be caught up to meet the Lord in the air and people that have never trust the Lord.

This is what they’re going to be facing. I would recommend talking to them, doing what you can in the morning. You can’t tell them what day is coming. I can’t tell you who the Antichrist is, but I do believe that it’s going to happen like the book says. I don’t have to worry about all the little details. All I know is that I got, I think I got the big things, I got the big picture. There’s a lot of little things I don’t need to worry about.

But we are living at a very exciting time in human history. And the Lord is coming back before this. That just shows you how close it could be. You see, you’ve been sinned for 40 years. I know. We’re 40 years closer. Look up here. This hand represents you and me and the wallet represents sin. We all have sin. Everybody does wrong. And God says that He loves us in spite of all of our sins. Did you know it’s not just the things that you did.

Did you know the Bible says to Him that Noah to do good and do it to not do him it is. You didn’t do it. It’s still sin. If you know right and you don’t do right that’s a sin. Not to call you what I hear, I didn’t hang anybody, I didn’t, you know, do this, I didn’t rob a bank. All of us have sinned against God. And the Bible says the wages of sin is death, eternal separation from the Lord.

But God loves us and wants us to have, eternal life wants us to go to heaven. But going to heaven, you’d have to be pervy. Nobody’s pervy. God says you cannot earn your way to heaven by any good deeds that we’ve done. This hand represents Jesus Christ, He’s the Lord God in the flesh. flesh. He came into the world because he loves us. He took all the sin of the whole world and paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead.

Instead, if you and I would believe he did it for us, he would put this payment he made to our account and we get to go to heaven about what Christ did for us. It is a gift. And I, when I read Ephesians 2, 8, 9, I sometimes say the other, but I need to emphasize a little bit more for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it is not a gift. It is the gift of God.

Not a works list. Any man should boast. It is the gift of God. It’s not something that doesn’t have great meaning to it. The gift of God is eternal life. To live with the Lord for all eternity. That’s the best news anybody can ever hear. So Christ took our sins, paid for it, came back from the dead and promises whosoever believe it, should not perish but have everlasting life. Let’s pray, shall we? We’ll head bow nice clothes and no one looking around.

If you’re here tonight and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, why not do that? Why not just talk to the Lord and say, Lord, I got questioned. Maybe I’ve got a few doubts. You’ll never live long enough to have all the answers to all of your questions. But a few things you do know, you’re not perfect. And you can’t earn eternal life by your good works. And Christ died on that cross and paid for his sins, and you can believe that.

You can believe that. It’s a choice. And if you will believe it, he said he would put that payment that he made to your account. You go to heaven on what he did for you. That payment is a payment for all of your sins, not some of them, not most of them, all of them. So will you trust Him? With head by a nice close, no one will look around. I’m not going to embarrass you, not going to have you forward.

But right where you’re sitting, say, yes, I will trust Christ as my Savior and preach our life for you to pray for me in closing. And what did I all before we closed? If you’re watching by the internet, right there on the screen, say, yes, I will trust Christ as my Savior, if you will. We’d love to hear from you. Just Click it and let us know that somebody out there accepted Christ of their Savior. Father, we thank you so much for being good to us.

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Caught up to meet the Lord in the air. So live today and every day. leaving that the Lord is coming soon. Just keep looking up.