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Speaker 1 (00:00):
As bad as the book is, you need to know
what you are graced out of.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Doctor Tony Evans talks about the intense judgment and consequences
yet to come, and why it matters for believers.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
You need to be inspired to be a witness of
Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless Biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. A dramatic pause
often builds anticipation, setting the stage for something monumental about
to unfold. In the Book of Revelation, such a pause
precedes the intensifying judgment and unveiling of God's plan. Today,
(00:40):
doctor Evans unpacks the powerful imagery found in this portion
of scripture and a message titled the Pit, the Army,
and the Little Book. Let's listen in When the.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Lamb chapter eight broke the seventh Seal, there was silence
in heaven for about half an hour. You see movies
where the things get quiet and then something happens. Well,
this is a break before the next unleashing of judgment.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Verse thirteen of chapter eight.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Then I looked, and I heard an angel flying in
mid heaven, saying with a loud voice, whoa whoa, whoa
to those who dwell on the earth because of the
remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels that
(01:32):
were about to sound. Translation, Okay, you think that was
bad what we just went through.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
In chapter eight, he says, you think that was bad? Whoa, whoa, whoa? Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
In other words, this is getting ready to get worse.
He comes to chapter nine. Then the fifth angel sounded,
and I saw a star from heaven which had thought
to the earth, and the key of the bottomless Pit
was given to him.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Okay, Satan is.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Going to be given a key to unlock the bottomless pit.
In Luke chapter eight, verse thirty one, the pit is
defined as the abode of demons. He opened verse two
the bottomless pit, and smoke went out of the pit,
like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun
(02:30):
and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.
Then out of the smoke came locust upon the earth,
and power was given to them, as the scorpions of
the earth have power. Locusts that are that have scorpion power? Okay,
(02:54):
why are they being let loose?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Verse four. They were told not to hurt the grass
of the earth.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the
men who do not have the seal of God on
their foreheads. Every seventeen years, in the city that I'm from, Baltimore,
and in the state of Maryland, there is a chakada infestation,
(03:22):
which are locusts. They germinate underneath the ground and live
there for seventeen years, but about every seventeen years. I
went to Baltimore to see my father a couple of
years ago. I got out of the plane, walked down
the baggage clean and these locusts are flying all over
(03:43):
the place. They are flying, people screaming, you know, ladies
and men running because they are there by the mega millions,
I mean it's millions of them. You walked outside and
was one taxi all almost totally covered by them. Okay,
Now they only live once they leave underground and they
(04:05):
come up.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
They only live for five months.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Okay, they only live for five months, but they they
create habit now where they live.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Now they're flying all over the place.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So people got to get the windshields, they got to
be going and all that, because they'll cover the windshields
so you don't have a car accident. So so they're
going through all of this all over the place, and
they scare people. But what they eat is grass and
tree and that's that's what they eat. And they're there
to mate and the ones who made it they go
under and you know, have their babies for the next
(04:38):
seventeen years. Okay, so you can imagine how they're proliferating
underneath the ground once they come up, when they're there
that long. But they but they only mess with other
than being scared because they're flying all over the place.
They're only mess with the green stuff, the grass and
the trees and all that. Okay, Well, this is a
different kind of locusts because these locusts have the tales
(05:02):
of scorpions and they are told they're instructed, don't mess
with the grass, you know, don't mess with the green stuff,
don't mess with any tree. You are specifically for those
who do not have the seal. Now, who are those
who have had the seal? These are those Remember the
(05:23):
one hundred and forty four thousand were sealed. These were
Jewish evangelists who are who are sharing the gospel during
the tribulation period. So the sealed ones are those who
respond to the gospel, okay, or as you and I
would say today, those who get saved, they have a
divine seal of protection, so they are not going to
(05:47):
be stung or invaded by the scorpions. Remember the scorpions
come from the bobomless pit. The bottomless pit is the
place of demons, so they're coming. The demons are coming
out like scorpions, okay, And they are instructed to leave
the believers alone, those who are sealed or under divine production,
and they invade. And of course, as I told you before,
(06:10):
this is where Hollywood gets a lot of its ideas
from the Book of Revelations. When it comes to the
list sci fi stuff that they do. They get this
and look how bad it gets.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Verse five.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
And they were not permitted to kill anyone. You say, well,
that's good, Not quite. But to torment for five months,
now this is great because remember locusts stay out and
live for five months. So they're still carrying God's same
time cycle back in the back in the Book of Revelations.
(06:46):
It's still the same time cycle, but they're doing something different.
They're attacking people and they're torment. White was like the
torment of a scorpion. When it sings a man. And
in those days men will seek death and will not
find it. They will long to die, and death flees
(07:09):
from them. So the sting, the however they do, it
will provide great misery that will not bring death. Okay,
so that's elongated suffering. The appearance of the locusts interesting
(07:30):
characterization of these demons was like horses prepared for battle.
In other words, if you hear if you hear the
chickatas or the locusts when they when they come out,
the sound is deafening because there are millions of them
all making the same sound at the same time, so
it's a it's a deafening sound when you're around this.
(07:52):
And of course all throughout the Old Testament, locusts will
used for judgment, so they would take the crops and
all that. Well, in this case, it says they're like horses,
so they're like a whole herd of horses running.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It says that on their heads appeared to be crowns
like gold. So these locusts are carrying authority with them,
tharity from hell. And their faces were like the faces
of men. There's some strange looking dudes, okay, their faces
like the face of men.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
They're moving like horses, it says.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And they had hair like the hair of a woman,
face of a man, hair like a woman. And their
teeth was like the teeth of lions. So you can
imagine being bit by this demonic creation from Hell. Okay,
(08:48):
they are let loose, which I'm glad they locked up
right now, because they have to be let loose by Satan.
But Satan can't let them loose, and let's give them
the key to do so.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
They had breastplates chests over their chests of iron, so
you they can hurt you, but you can't hurt them.
And the sound of their wings was like the sound
of chariots and of many horses rushing to battle.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
And I Robert explain that sound.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
So this is a devastating infestation from Hell, a devastating
infestation from hell.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
They have tails like.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Scorpions and stings, and in their tails is the power
to hurt men. For five months. They have as a
king over them, the Angel of the Abyss. His name
in Hebrew Abadon. In the Greek, his name is Opoleon.
(09:58):
In other words, that's the for saint. He's their king.
He's been given the key, and he is running the show. Now,
he's running the show that God allowed. Because the devil
can only do what he's given permission to do. So
the question is under what conditions are such permissions given? Okay,
(10:23):
so there's a great theological truth. So they are let loose.
The first woe is passed. Behold, two woes are still
coming after these things. That seems like enough for me,
but he says, no, no, there two more woes.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Coming, and we'll hear what they have in store when
doctor Evans continues our study in just a moment. First, though,
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the Book of Revelation right after this.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
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Speaker 1 (12:50):
Then the sixth Angel verse thirteen sounded, and I heard
a voice from the four horns of the Golden Alta,
which is before the Lord One, saying to the sixth Angel,
who has the trumpet, released the four angels who are
bound at the great River Euphrates, and the four angels
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who have been prepared.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
For the hour and day and month and year were released.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
In other words, they were set up for the right
time to be let go so that they would kill
a third of mankind. So by the time you get
to three and a half years in the tribulation, half
of the world has died. In three and a half years,
half of the world has died. Now, why would God
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allow something so horrific? That's a fair question, because this
is horrific, and no other way to explain half the
world being slain Verse twenty. The rest of mankind who
were not killed by these plagues did not repent of
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the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons,
and the idols of gold and silver, and of brass,
and of stone and of wood, which can neither see,
nor hear, nor walk.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And they did not repent.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Of their murders, nor of their sorcerers, nor of their immorality,
nor of their thefts.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Now you would have thought, you would have thought.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
That after all of this, I'm sorry, I apologize, I
confess in cycloth and ashes.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I'm prostrate, Have mercy on me.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Okay, you would think with all of this going on,
men would be running to God.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Okay, while all all this is going on, they're getting harder.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
They're worshiping demons, it says, and the demons are killing them.
So you're dealing with a world that has become so
anti God that mercy hasn't changed them, and wrath hasn't
changed them. They've rejected the witness, even though they they've
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seen what's going on, because the witness is you'll see it.
I mean, this is gonna be worldwide news. No corner
of the globe is missing this. And so God has
allowed technology to advance to such a place where mankind,
seeing devastation like this, saying I'm not gonna respond to God.
Now you are getting bits and pieces of that today, Okay,
(15:52):
you're getting depending on where you are, you're getting bits
and pieces of the hardness of men's heart in the
rejection of God. And it used to be if you
aren atheist, you kind of whispered it. But now it's
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become bold. It's the anti God movement in America even today,
the removal of the God of the Bible from every system.
It's it is become horrific. And you're seeing that, you're
seeing a false God has become dominant. You're seeing, I mean,
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it's just so, I mean, I can see the storm clouds.
I can see the storm clouds. I'm not a date predictor,
but I can see the storm clouds. And it says
twice they did not repent. The point being they could
have because if you if you did not and you
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should have, then you could have. So we're dealing with
a refusal to repent, not you know, an impossibility where
you can't repent. Okay, So therefore it is absolutely critical.
That's why the Bible says, in the day you hear
my voice, harden not your heart. Don't go hard against me,
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because you're setting yourself up for me to have to
release something I don't want to release. But see, here's
the problem. When you align with the devil, you get
your wish.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Let's put it in another way.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
You can pray thy will be done, or God can
pray your will be done. He'll give you what you want.
Remember in the Old Testament, Israel was begging for me.
They will complain. Ain't about manna, begging for me, complain
about manner. They just just complaining, complaining, complaining, by the way,
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which is why the Bible says so much about complaining.
Neither were they thankful. Romans One says, So they complain
and complain and complain, complain.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
And God says, okay, you're complaining. You don't have meat.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Okay, I'm gonna give you meat and more meat, and
more meat, and more meat and more meat. And he
rained down meat, meat on top of meat, on top
of meat, on top of meat. And it was so
much meat that it was decayed and it began to stink,
it says. And yet they got meat, and they had
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leanness in their souls. So you can get a lot
of stuff you want without God. You can get a
lot of stuff without God. You get money without God,
power without God, popularity without God, and notoriety without God.
You can get all you want without God and be
stobbing in your soul. Some of us know what that
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feels like. Okay, so let me just introduce Chapter ten.
I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, clothed
with a cloud, and the rainbow was upon his head,
and his face was like the sun, and his feet
like pillars of fire. So we got a majestic angel
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now coming down from heaven. And he had in his
hand a little book which was open. He placed his
right foot on the sea and his left foot on
the land, and he cried out with a loud voice,
as when a lion roars. And when he had cried out,
the seven pills of thunder uttered their voice. So you've
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got this roaring in nature. When the seven pills of
thunder had spoken, I was about to write, and I
heard a voice from heaven saying, seal up the thing
which the seven bialds of thunder have spoken, and do
not right them. I don't want them revealed yet. Then
the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and
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on the land, lifted up his right hand and swore
by him, And who lives forever and ever, and who
created heaven and the things in it, the earth and
the things in it, and the sea and the things
in it, that there will be delayed no longer. I
didn't think there had been a delay. But in other words,
there's more come in. But in the days of the
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voice of the Seventh Angel, when he is about to sound,
then the mystery of God is finished. And he preached
to his servants to prophets. So here's what's happening. You
are now coming into You're closing in on the end
of the tribulation. We're not going to wait any longer,
(20:56):
any longer for what for the coming of Jesus Christ.
We're not gonna wait any long So we're now rushing now.
The question you may want to ask is, well, wait minute,
but we only in chapter ten. So but if Jesus comes,
what else is there to write about other than heaven.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
No, what he's gonna do is with.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
A lot of movies and TV shows, he gonna start
over again and take you back.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
When we get to the next chapter, he's gonna take
you back. But this time when he takes you back,
instead of dealing with events, he's gonna deal with personalities.
So that's when you're gonna find out about the Antichrist
and the false prophet and you go, so.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
He gonna he gonna roll it forward. Then he's gonna
roll it.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Back and show you the people that he talked about
in the events that he's just gone through. Okay, so
the book is divided between events and personalities and see,
so that's what's going to happen. But he said, I
heard the voice, So in chapter eleven you're gonna find
out about the two witnesses.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
So as you can see, the tribulation is no joke.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Now, God knew folk weren't gonna like this book, and
that's why he says at the end of the book
there's a curse on anybody who messes with anything written
in it, because as bad as the book is, you
need to know what you are graced out of and
you need to be inspired to be a witness.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
For Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Doctor Evans will return with a closing prayer to wrap
up today's broadcast in just a moment. Before he does, though,
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three two two two. Well, tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the US,
but no matter where you live, God's given each of
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us a blessing to be thankful for. We'll take a
short break from our Revelation study to bring a special
message for this Thanksgiving from doctor Evans right now, though
he's back to finish out today's broadcast with this closing prayer.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
Father, thank you for the Word of God that goes
forth through this ministry and for every year that hears it.
I pray that you will use the word in the
life of each person individual, so that they know that
they are hearing from you and are transformed by what
they hear. I pray that that transformation touches them at
their place of need, wherever they're hurting, struggling, wherever they're
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in pain, or wherever they're celebrating. May you be the
center of that, and may they be able to say,
because of the Word that they've heard and because of
the true God that they're interacting with right now, that
you have showed up and shown.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Off on their behalf, doing good by them no matter
what their circumstances happen to be. Thank you for how
you're going to touch every listener today in your own
special way, in Jesus' name. Amen,
As bad as the book is, you need to know
what you are graced out of.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Doctor Tony Evans talks about the intense judgment and consequences
yet to come, and why it matters for believers.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
You need to be inspired to be a witness of
Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless Biblical teachings
from the archives of doctor Tony Evans. A dramatic pause
often builds anticipation, setting the stage for something monumental about
to unfold. In the Book of Revelation, such a pause
precedes the intensifying judgment and unveiling of God's plan. Today,
(00:40):
doctor Evans unpacks the powerful imagery found in this portion
of scripture and a message titled the Pit, the Army,
and the Little Book. Let's listen in When the.
Speaker 1 (00:51):
Lamb chapter eight broke the seventh Seal, there was silence
in heaven for about half an hour. You see movies
where the things get quiet and then something happens. Well,
this is a break before the next unleashing of judgment.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Verse thirteen of chapter eight.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Then I looked, and I heard an angel flying in
mid heaven, saying with a loud voice, whoa whoa, whoa
to those who dwell on the earth because of the
remaining blasts of the trumpet of the three angels that
(01:32):
were about to sound. Translation, Okay, you think that was
bad what we just went through.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
In chapter eight, he says, you think that was bad? Whoa, whoa, whoa? Okay.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
In other words, this is getting ready to get worse.
He comes to chapter nine. Then the fifth angel sounded,
and I saw a star from heaven which had thought
to the earth, and the key of the bottomless Pit
was given to him.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Okay, Satan is.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Going to be given a key to unlock the bottomless pit.
In Luke chapter eight, verse thirty one, the pit is
defined as the abode of demons. He opened verse two
the bottomless pit, and smoke went out of the pit,
like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun
(02:30):
and the air were darkened by the smoke of the pit.
Then out of the smoke came locust upon the earth,
and power was given to them, as the scorpions of
the earth have power. Locusts that are that have scorpion power? Okay,
(02:54):
why are they being let loose?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Verse four. They were told not to hurt the grass
of the earth.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Nor any green thing, nor any tree, but only the
men who do not have the seal of God on
their foreheads. Every seventeen years, in the city that I'm from, Baltimore,
and in the state of Maryland, there is a chakada infestation,
(03:22):
which are locusts. They germinate underneath the ground and live
there for seventeen years, but about every seventeen years. I
went to Baltimore to see my father a couple of
years ago. I got out of the plane, walked down
the baggage clean and these locusts are flying all over
(03:43):
the place. They are flying, people screaming, you know, ladies
and men running because they are there by the mega millions,
I mean it's millions of them. You walked outside and
was one taxi all almost totally covered by them. Okay,
Now they only live once they leave underground and they
(04:05):
come up.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
They only live for five months.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Okay, they only live for five months, but they they
create habit now where they live.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Now they're flying all over the place.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
So people got to get the windshields, they got to
be going and all that, because they'll cover the windshields
so you don't have a car accident. So so they're
going through all of this all over the place, and
they scare people. But what they eat is grass and
tree and that's that's what they eat. And they're there
to mate and the ones who made it they go
under and you know, have their babies for the next
(04:38):
seventeen years. Okay, so you can imagine how they're proliferating
underneath the ground once they come up, when they're there
that long. But they but they only mess with other
than being scared because they're flying all over the place.
They're only mess with the green stuff, the grass and
the trees and all that. Okay, Well, this is a
different kind of locusts because these locusts have the tales
(05:02):
of scorpions and they are told they're instructed, don't mess
with the grass, you know, don't mess with the green stuff,
don't mess with any tree. You are specifically for those
who do not have the seal. Now, who are those
who have had the seal? These are those Remember the
(05:23):
one hundred and forty four thousand were sealed. These were
Jewish evangelists who are who are sharing the gospel during
the tribulation period. So the sealed ones are those who
respond to the gospel, okay, or as you and I
would say today, those who get saved, they have a
divine seal of protection, so they are not going to
(05:47):
be stung or invaded by the scorpions. Remember the scorpions
come from the bobomless pit. The bottomless pit is the
place of demons, so they're coming. The demons are coming
out like scorpions, okay, And they are instructed to leave
the believers alone, those who are sealed or under divine production,
and they invade. And of course, as I told you before,
(06:10):
this is where Hollywood gets a lot of its ideas
from the Book of Revelations. When it comes to the
list sci fi stuff that they do. They get this
and look how bad it gets.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Verse five.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
And they were not permitted to kill anyone. You say, well,
that's good, Not quite. But to torment for five months,
now this is great because remember locusts stay out and
live for five months. So they're still carrying God's same
time cycle back in the back in the Book of Revelations.
(06:46):
It's still the same time cycle, but they're doing something different.
They're attacking people and they're torment. White was like the
torment of a scorpion. When it sings a man. And
in those days men will seek death and will not
find it. They will long to die, and death flees
(07:09):
from them. So the sting, the however they do, it
will provide great misery that will not bring death. Okay,
so that's elongated suffering. The appearance of the locusts interesting
(07:30):
characterization of these demons was like horses prepared for battle.
In other words, if you hear if you hear the
chickatas or the locusts when they when they come out,
the sound is deafening because there are millions of them
all making the same sound at the same time, so
it's a it's a deafening sound when you're around this.
(07:52):
And of course all throughout the Old Testament, locusts will
used for judgment, so they would take the crops and
all that. Well, in this case, it says they're like horses,
so they're like a whole herd of horses running.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
It says that on their heads appeared to be crowns
like gold. So these locusts are carrying authority with them,
tharity from hell. And their faces were like the faces
of men. There's some strange looking dudes, okay, their faces
like the face of men.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
They're moving like horses, it says.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And they had hair like the hair of a woman,
face of a man, hair like a woman. And their
teeth was like the teeth of lions. So you can
imagine being bit by this demonic creation from Hell. Okay,
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they are let loose, which I'm glad they locked up
right now, because they have to be let loose by Satan.
But Satan can't let them loose, and let's give them
the key to do so.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
They had breastplates chests over their chests of iron, so
you they can hurt you, but you can't hurt them.
And the sound of their wings was like the sound
of chariots and of many horses rushing to battle.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
And I Robert explain that sound.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
So this is a devastating infestation from Hell, a devastating
infestation from hell.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
They have tails like.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
Scorpions and stings, and in their tails is the power
to hurt men. For five months. They have as a
king over them, the Angel of the Abyss. His name
in Hebrew Abadon. In the Greek, his name is Opoleon.
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In other words, that's the for saint. He's their king.
He's been given the key, and he is running the show. Now,
he's running the show that God allowed. Because the devil
can only do what he's given permission to do. So
the question is under what conditions are such permissions given? Okay,
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so there's a great theological truth. So they are let loose.
The first woe is passed. Behold, two woes are still
coming after these things. That seems like enough for me,
but he says, no, no, there two more woes.
Speaker 2 (10:38):
Coming, and we'll hear what they have in store when
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Speaker 1 (12:50):
Then the sixth Angel verse thirteen sounded, and I heard
a voice from the four horns of the Golden Alta,
which is before the Lord One, saying to the sixth Angel,
who has the trumpet, released the four angels who are
bound at the great River Euphrates, and the four angels
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who have been prepared.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
For the hour and day and month and year were released.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
In other words, they were set up for the right
time to be let go so that they would kill
a third of mankind. So by the time you get
to three and a half years in the tribulation, half
of the world has died. In three and a half years,
half of the world has died. Now, why would God
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allow something so horrific? That's a fair question, because this
is horrific, and no other way to explain half the
world being slain Verse twenty. The rest of mankind who
were not killed by these plagues did not repent of
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the works of their hands, so as not to worship demons,
and the idols of gold and silver, and of brass,
and of stone and of wood, which can neither see,
nor hear, nor walk.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
And they did not repent.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Of their murders, nor of their sorcerers, nor of their immorality,
nor of their thefts.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Now you would have thought, you would have thought.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
That after all of this, I'm sorry, I apologize, I
confess in cycloth and ashes.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
I'm prostrate, Have mercy on me.
Speaker 1 (14:48):
Okay, you would think with all of this going on,
men would be running to God.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Okay, while all all this is going on, they're getting harder.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
They're worshiping demons, it says, and the demons are killing them.
So you're dealing with a world that has become so
anti God that mercy hasn't changed them, and wrath hasn't
changed them. They've rejected the witness, even though they they've
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seen what's going on, because the witness is you'll see it.
I mean, this is gonna be worldwide news. No corner
of the globe is missing this. And so God has
allowed technology to advance to such a place where mankind,
seeing devastation like this, saying I'm not gonna respond to God.
Now you are getting bits and pieces of that today, Okay,
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you're getting depending on where you are, you're getting bits
and pieces of the hardness of men's heart in the
rejection of God. And it used to be if you
aren atheist, you kind of whispered it. But now it's
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become bold. It's the anti God movement in America even today,
the removal of the God of the Bible from every system.
It's it is become horrific. And you're seeing that, you're
seeing a false God has become dominant. You're seeing, I mean,
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it's just so, I mean, I can see the storm clouds.
I can see the storm clouds. I'm not a date predictor,
but I can see the storm clouds. And it says
twice they did not repent. The point being they could
have because if you if you did not and you
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should have, then you could have. So we're dealing with
a refusal to repent, not you know, an impossibility where
you can't repent. Okay, So therefore it is absolutely critical.
That's why the Bible says, in the day you hear
my voice, harden not your heart. Don't go hard against me,
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because you're setting yourself up for me to have to
release something I don't want to release. But see, here's
the problem. When you align with the devil, you get
your wish.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Let's put it in another way.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
You can pray thy will be done, or God can
pray your will be done. He'll give you what you want.
Remember in the Old Testament, Israel was begging for me.
They will complain. Ain't about manna, begging for me, complain
about manner. They just just complaining, complaining, complaining, by the way,
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which is why the Bible says so much about complaining.
Neither were they thankful. Romans One says, So they complain
and complain and complain, complain.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
And God says, okay, you're complaining. You don't have meat.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Okay, I'm gonna give you meat and more meat, and
more meat, and more meat and more meat. And he
rained down meat, meat on top of meat, on top
of meat, on top of meat. And it was so
much meat that it was decayed and it began to stink,
it says. And yet they got meat, and they had
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leanness in their souls. So you can get a lot
of stuff you want without God. You can get a
lot of stuff without God. You get money without God,
power without God, popularity without God, and notoriety without God.
You can get all you want without God and be
stobbing in your soul. Some of us know what that
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feels like. Okay, so let me just introduce Chapter ten.
I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, clothed
with a cloud, and the rainbow was upon his head,
and his face was like the sun, and his feet
like pillars of fire. So we got a majestic angel
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now coming down from heaven. And he had in his
hand a little book which was open. He placed his
right foot on the sea and his left foot on
the land, and he cried out with a loud voice,
as when a lion roars. And when he had cried out,
the seven pills of thunder uttered their voice. So you've
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got this roaring in nature. When the seven pills of
thunder had spoken, I was about to write, and I
heard a voice from heaven saying, seal up the thing
which the seven bialds of thunder have spoken, and do
not right them. I don't want them revealed yet. Then
the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and
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on the land, lifted up his right hand and swore
by him, And who lives forever and ever, and who
created heaven and the things in it, the earth and
the things in it, and the sea and the things
in it, that there will be delayed no longer. I
didn't think there had been a delay. But in other words,
there's more come in. But in the days of the
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voice of the Seventh Angel, when he is about to sound,
then the mystery of God is finished. And he preached
to his servants to prophets. So here's what's happening. You
are now coming into You're closing in on the end
of the tribulation. We're not going to wait any longer,
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any longer for what for the coming of Jesus Christ.
We're not gonna wait any long So we're now rushing now.
The question you may want to ask is, well, wait minute,
but we only in chapter ten. So but if Jesus comes,
what else is there to write about other than heaven.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
No, what he's gonna do is with.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
A lot of movies and TV shows, he gonna start
over again and take you back.
Speaker 2 (21:22):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
When we get to the next chapter, he's gonna take
you back. But this time when he takes you back,
instead of dealing with events, he's gonna deal with personalities.
So that's when you're gonna find out about the Antichrist
and the false prophet and you go, so.
Speaker 3 (21:36):
He gonna he gonna roll it forward. Then he's gonna
roll it.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Back and show you the people that he talked about
in the events that he's just gone through. Okay, so
the book is divided between events and personalities and see,
so that's what's going to happen. But he said, I
heard the voice, So in chapter eleven you're gonna find
out about the two witnesses.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
So as you can see, the tribulation is no joke.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Now, God knew folk weren't gonna like this book, and
that's why he says at the end of the book
there's a curse on anybody who messes with anything written
in it, because as bad as the book is, you
need to know what you are graced out of and
you need to be inspired to be a witness.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
For Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Doctor Evans will return with a closing prayer to wrap
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but no matter where you live, God's given each of
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us a blessing to be thankful for. We'll take a
short break from our Revelation study to bring a special
message for this Thanksgiving from doctor Evans right now, though
he's back to finish out today's broadcast with this closing prayer.
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Father, thank you for the Word of God that goes
forth through this ministry and for every year that hears it.
I pray that you will use the word in the
life of each person individual, so that they know that
they are hearing from you and are transformed by what
they hear. I pray that that transformation touches them at
their place of need, wherever they're hurting, struggling, wherever they're
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in pain, or wherever they're celebrating. May you be the
center of that, and may they be able to say,
because of the Word that they've heard and because of
the true God that they're interacting with right now, that
you have showed up and shown.
Speaker 1 (24:26):
Off on their behalf, doing good by them no matter
what their circumstances happen to be. Thank you for how
you're going to touch every listener today in your own
special way, in Jesus' name. Amen,
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