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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Welcome to Turning Point. A massive earthquake levels mountains while
people dodge one hundred pound hailstones. That's terrifying, But is
it the worst of the Tribulation? Today, Doctor David Jeremiah
sheds light on more of the Seven Vile Judgments paving
the way to Armageddon, continuing his series Escape the Coming Night,
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here's David with the conclusion of the Earth's Worst Days.
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The Bible predicts some very dark days for this planet
during a period of time we call the Great Tribulation.
And while we live in the lap of luxury in
this country and look around at all the good things
we have, it's hard for us to assimilate this truth
that there are some difficult days ahead for those who
reject the Lord. During the Tribulation period, there will be
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some of the worst days this world has ever seen,
and the Bible describes them very carefully. We'll talk about
it again in just a moment, but first let me
tell you about a very special resource that is being
introduced in the month of July. It's the very first
fiction book from David Jeremiah. My friend Sam O'Neil and
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I got together and we've written this book called Vanished
a fiction novel, and it's going to be available to
you during this month for a gift of any size.
It's a wonderful story that will help you see the
future in a different way. It's fast paced action, three
hundred and sixty eight pages hardback. It includes a discussion guide,
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and folks, you need to read this. It's a really
great story and it's a new way to present what
God has in store for us in the future. So
when you said your gift during the months of July,
be sure you ask for your copy of Vanished. My
first fiction book was Simonial. Thank you so much for
your investment in what we're doing. Here's part two of
the Earth's Worst Days.
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The reason God extends this third judgment upon the Earth
is because the earth dwellers have killed God's people. They
have taken the lives of God's children who have refused
to take the mark of the Beast and be marked
by the Antichrist. And because they have taken the lives
of God's people, God now is going to require blood
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at their own hands, and as a preliminary judgment, he
is going to surround them with blood on every hand.
They listen to me, I don't want to make this
so graphic that you dream about it.
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But it is like this. You go into the.
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Kitchen and you turn on the spicket, and instead of water,
you get blood. You go to take a shower, you
turn on the shower. Instead of the clean, clear water
in which you have bathed your body in days past,
red stinking blood comes out of the faucet.
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And out of the spicket.
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People on the earth begin to respond, even as the
people did in Moses's day, asking somehow that God would
remove the judgment for those who may think that these
judgments of God are not righteous. And I never preached
through the Book of Revelation, or even as I remember
preaching through the Book of Daniel. But what somebody doesn't
write me a letter, or see me after the service,
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or make an appointment to take me to lunch, to
say to me, pastor all this bloodshed, all this judgment,
It just doesn't seem like that's the way God is.
But I want you to notice how clearly God is vindicated.
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In this passage.
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The voice out of the altar speaks clearly to the
effect that God is just in judging his enemies who
had caused the martyrdom of his people. Once again, it
is the altar that is the focus of the message.
Remember the importance of the altar. The altar has been
the shelter of the martyrs. In the Book of Revelation,
back in the sixth chapter, we saw the souls of
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those who had been beheaded for the cause of Christ.
Where are they under the altar? And what are they saying?
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Lord?
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How long before you go and avenge our blood upon
this earth? And the Lord said, just wait a while
until the cup is full, and I will do it.
And now the voice out from under the altar comes,
and the voice says that the time of revenge and
the process of answering the prayer has finalized and is here.
Everyone who has criticized the Lord for judging his people
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is silenced as the result of this pronouncement. The Bible
says in verse seven, Even so, Lord God, Almighty, true
and righteous are thy judgments. That's Heaven's answer to our
questions about whether God is righteous in doing what he does.
One of these days, when we are able to see
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eternity in perspective, when we're able to see the outpouring
of God's love upon this earth and the result of
having spurned that love and trampled his invitation underfoot once
and for all, perhaps not until we are in our
ea eternal place, we will understand that the judgments.
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Of God are true and righteous.
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As hard as they are for us to swallow and
to understand, as difficult as it is for us to
coincide a God of love and a God of justice
and holiness, the Bible says for us is clearly as
it can be written, that God's judgments are true and
they are righteous, and we are never to question them.
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God does that which is right.
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Now.
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I just add to this a word from Habaccic the Prophet,
which seems.
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To give to me great encouragement in preaching so authoritatively.
This is what Habakk the Prophet says in two twenty
of his letter, The Lord is in his holy temple.
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Let all the earth keep silence before.
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Him, or let God be true and every man a liar.
In essence, what we are saying is that because he
is God, he has the right to the last word,
andast word on judgment from God is that he is
righteous and just in doing what he does. All right,
let's look at the fourth vial verses eight and nine.
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The scripture says, the fourth Angel takes the censor like
the one from the altar, and he overturns it. And
it says, and the fourth Angel poured out his vial
upon the sun, and power was given unto him to
scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat,
and blaspheme the name of God, which hath power over
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these plagues.
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And they repented not to give him glory.
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Now, when God created the sun, we know that he
created it in such a way that it would shine
on both the godly and the ungodly.
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But here in the.
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Tribulation period, only the ungodly are going to feel the
heat of the sun.
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Like it is described here.
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The heat is so intense that many will die from
its effect.
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Some of us here know what it's like to have
a terrible sunburn.
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The vast majority of the ungodly people will die from
the effect of an overwhelming sunburn because there will be
no protection from the sun. Some scientists have believed that
God will simply remove some of the protective atmosphere between
the Sun and the Earth, so that the absolute rays
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of the Sun will be able to scorch the skin.
How he does that selectively is only answerable by the
miracle power of God. He puts some kind of sun
shield on his own, and yet the sun reaches out
and scorches those who have not embraced him as their lord. Now,
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the particular judgment that we are talking about here again
is predicted for us in the Word of God. It
is one of the plagues that is predicted by our
Lord as a sign of the times. You remember what
the Lord said in the Book of Luke, chapter twenty one.
Listen carefully Luke twenty one twenty five, and there shall
be signs in the sun, and in the moon and
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in the stars. The Old Testament prophet Isaiah, on two occasions,
spoke of this day in prophecy. In Isaiah twenty four
and verse six, we read, therefore hath the curse devoured
the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate. Therefore
the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men
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are left Isaiah forty two to twenty five. Therefore God
hath poured upon him the fury of his anger and
the strength of battle, and it hath set him on
fire round about. Yet he knew not, and it burned him,
yet he laid it not to heart. So the fourth
plague that is dumped on the earth in this closing
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period of the tribulation is this overwhelming heat that scorches
the skin of those who have refused to acknowledge the Lord. Now,
just stop and back up for a moment. Think about
all these things happening one after another, the sores and
the blood, blood everywhere in the water, and then all
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of a sudden you no longer have any protection from
the sun, and when you walk outside, you're scorched with
the heat. Let's add to that the fifth vial in
verses ten and eleven, Chapter sixteen, Verses ten and eleven,
and the fifth Angel'll poured out his vile upon the
seat of the beast, and his kingdom was full of darkness,
and they gnawed their tongues for pain and blasphemed the
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God of Heaven because of their pains and their sores,
and repented not of their deeds. Now God seems to
be bringing his judgment closer to the very source of
the problem. He moves away from his global judgment now,
and he particularly zeroes in on the beast himself, and
the scripture says that he centers his judgment upon the
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seat of Satan himself. Now, if you remember earlier in
this book, we are told that there was a place
where Satan was localized. Do you remember the letter to
the church at Pergamus. The letter to the Church of
Pergamus describes Pergamus as the place where Satan's throne was.
But it seems to be that throughout the generations there
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has been a place on this earth that has been
so evil that it has been identified as the very
center of Satanic activity. We would not have too much
difficulty brainstorming that there are some places that could be
candidates for such a description, even in our own country.
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But the Bible says that God is now going to
judge the place where Satan dwells. We do not know
where the throne of Satan is in our world today,
but it does seem that in the future it will
be located in Babylon, which is to be rebuilt Babel,
in the center of all of man's rebellion against God.
Going back to the Tower of Babel where Nimrod a
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word which means rebel, where Nimrod said that he would
defy God, and he would reach up to God with
his project that he was going to do. And Babylon
has ever since been the seat of power of gentile
corruption incarnated with Satanic power and destruction. And God is
going to reach out. And the Bible says that the
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particular kind of judgment that He is going to pour
out upon the earth because of this beast is a
plague of darkness. Notice what it says. The Bible says
in verse ten and eleven that his kingdom would be
full of darkness. And they gnawed their tongues for pain.
Once again, this takes us back to the plagues of Egypt.
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Do you remember that in the plagues of Egypt there
was a precedent for this plague. Let me read it
to you. And the Lord said, unto Moses, let you
out thine hand toward Heaven, that there may be darkness
in all the land of Egypt, even darkness that may
be felt. Have you ever been in a place that
dark darkness that may be felt? And Moses stretched forth
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his hand toward Heaven. And there was a thick darkness
in all the land of Egypt. For three days they
saw not one another, neither rose any from his place
for three days, but all the children of Israel had
light in their dwellings. That's exactly what's going to happen.
God is going to pour out upon this earth a
kind of thick darkness upon all those who have denied Him.
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And somehow, in the midst of that darkness from which
they cannot escape, there will be little envelopes of light
where all of God's children are going to be protected.
Isaiah the Prophet speaks of this coming darkness. He writes
in Isaiah sixty two. For behold, the darkness shall cover
the earth, and gross darkness the people. Joel, the Prophet
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speaks of this coming darkness, a day of darkness and
of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness,
as the morning spread upon the mountains. Name him, the
prophet speaks of this darkness. But with an overrunning flood,
he will make an utter end of the place thereof,
and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
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Name one eight. Jesus spoke of this coming darkness. But
in those.
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Days after the tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and
the moon shall not give her light, and the stars
of heaven shall fall and the powers that are in
heaven shall be shaken Mark thirteen, twenty four and twenty five.
Just as the sore in the first plague was a
symbol of the inner infection of the men who had
the sore, the darkness of the fifth plague is a
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reflection of the darkness of the heart and soul of
men who have denied God. Now some folks really question
how these could all literally be happening and there be
any life available here on this earth. And I have
read all of the various and sundry things that have
been written to describe how if these happen in certain sequence,
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that life can still be sustained.
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But then I stopped to think about how foolish that was.
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For if God can create a body that can be
burning and yet not be consumed, which is what the
resurrection body of the unbeliever will be like, then God
is not going to have any difficulty sustaining the lives
of those that he punishes during the throes of the punishment.
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God can do that, just.
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As God is going to protect his own in the
midst of all these judgments. God is going to sustain
the lives, at least for the duration of the judgment
for many of these people who have blasphemed his name.
Then we come to the sixth seal in verses twelve
through fourteen, and we read, and the sixth Angel poured
out his vile upon the great river Euphrates, and the
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water thereof was dried up, that the way of the
kings of the East might be prepared. And I saw
three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth
of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast,
and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For
they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go
forth under the kings of the earth and of the
whole world, to gather them to the battle of the
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Great Day of God Almighty.
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Now we're not.
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Going to dwell long here, except to say that this
is one of the preparation plagues so that the battle
of Armageddon can take place. Here we have in the
sixth vile judgment a very similar judgment to the sixth
trumpet judgment. If you have your bibles open, turn over
to the Book of Revelation Revelation chapter nine, and I
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want us to read, beginning at the thirteenth verse. This
is the sixth trumpet. It is corresponding now to the
sixth bowel judgment or vile judgment. And the sixth angel sounded,
and I heard a voice from the four horns of
the golden altar, which is before God, saying to the
sixth angel, which had the trumpet loosed, the four angels
which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the
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four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour
and a day and a month in the year for
to slay The third part of Men talks about the
two hundred million men who are able to march, and
of course the Euphrates River is dried up. Now, when
we get to the nineteenth chapter and we talk about
the campaign of Armageddon, you will see how this prophecy
is absolutely essential. For the Euphrates River must be dried
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up in order to provide a way for the gigantic
armies of the Orient to march into the battle arena
where the battle of Armageddon is going to be fought.
And the Bible says that one of the plagues that
God is going to pour out upon the people of
that day is going to dry up the Euphrates River,
and it will become just like a dried bed over
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which these gigantic army can march right into the plain
of Meghetto, where the battle of Armageddon is to be fought.
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There.
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Historic commentators on the Book of Revelation as a man
by the name of Seiss, and he has written this
about the river Euphrates. He said, from time immemorial, the
Euphrates River with its tributaries, has been a great and
formidable boundary between the peoples of the east and those
of the west. It is a river that runs a
distance of eighteen hundred miles, and it is scarcely crossable
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anywhere or at any time. It is from three to
thirty feet in depth, and most of the time it
is still deeper and wider. It was the boundary of
the Dominion of Solomon, and it is repeatedly spoken of
as the northeast limit of the lands promised to Israel.
History frequently refers to the great hindrance the Euphrates has
been to military movements, and it has always been a
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line of separation between the peoples living east of it
and the peoples living.
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West of it.
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But when this plague is poured out upon the earth,
it won't be there anymore. God's going to dry it up.
It just like a highway right into the plain in
the Ghiddo. And he will do this without having to
explain it, without having to understand it any further. We
just know he's going to do it. Has he ever
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done anything like that before? He did it twice, didn't
he? He dried up the Red Sea, and you remember how
that was just in a moment's time he dried it up.
I remember a man telling me one time that that
really didn't happen, that the Red Sea was not really
dried up, that it was just at low low Ebb,
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and that there were stones sticking up out of the water,
and they just kind of walked across the stones.
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And I asked the.
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Man into what did the Egyptian army drown? That's what
I like to know. No, God dried up the Red
seaed you know what, forty years later he dried up
the River Jordan, just so people wouldn't forget that he
knew how to do it, and so we would have
two reminders that if God wants to dry up through
Euphrates River, he can do that too. And He's going
to do it in the tribulation period. Now at the
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end of this sixth vile judgment, if you've got all
these things are happening, one right after the other, the
darkness and the sores and the blood and all of this,
and the river drying up, and people are looking around
at all these cataclysmic things. And obviously God is up
to something. He is about to finish his judgment upon
this earth. But I want to remind you of something
that we have learned in the Book of Revelation, and
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I think it's one of the most important lessons, and
I hope we don't ever forget it. In the midst
of God's judgment, there is mercy. How marvelous it is
to me that in all of the judgments, in the
seal judgments, in the trumpet judgments, and now in these
final vile judgments. As he moves through to the end,
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the sixth judgment occurs, and then before the seventh judgment
takes place, there's a parenthesis. And guess what the parenthesis is.
It's another invitation from God, another plea from God, another
opportunity from God presented to those who have denied Him
and have spurned his grace. Notice the parenthetical warning before
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the last vile judgment in verse fifteen, Behold, I come
as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth
his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame?
What is Jesus doing here? Finally, in the midst of
these terrible judgments, we read these words of Christ. Behold,
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I come as a thief. If men will not hear
the voice of God, he lays his heart open to
listen to the voice of utter destruction and evil and damnation.
When the kings and the peoples of the earth will
not listen to God, when they begin to hear the
voices of the spirits of darkness, like the frogs that
came out of the mouth of the dragon, they have
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to make a choice between the voice of God who
comes to plead to them, and the voice of darkness
that will ultimately be their ruin. So, just before the
final judgment, just before God completes his cup of wrath
once again, he says, let me ask you one more time,
let me remind you one more time, let me plead
with you one more time, Let me warn you one
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more time. Yes, He's a god of justice and a
god of judgment. But he is a God of mercy
and revelation is filled with that truth over and over again.
And that brings us to the last part of this chapter.
And the seventh vile and the seventh Angel poured out
his vial into the air, and there came a great
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voice out of the Temple of Heaven from the throne, saying,
listen to this.
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Now it is finished. It is finished.
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There was a day on Golgatha when Jesus Christ hung
between the heavens and the earth, and he was paying
the penalty and receiving the judgment for our sin. And
when he had paid the last drop of that judgment
and all of God's wrath had been exercised upon him
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for us, all the words from our Lord's lip cried out,
it is finished.
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The judgment is done.
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Now in the Tribulation period, as the last viile is
poured out upon this earth, once again, the word from
heaven is it is done.
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It is finished. The judgment is over.
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And if you've read these verses, you know that they
described the final end of the Tribulation period, culminating in
the Battle of Armageddon and all of the physical trauma
of that time.
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Let me just read it to you.
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And there were voices and thunders and lightnings, and there
was a great earthquake such as was not since men
were upon the earth. So mighty an earthquake, and so great.
And the great city or the city of Jerusalem, was
divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell,
and Great Babylon came in remembrance before God to give
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unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness
of his wrath. And every island fled away, and the
mountains were not found. I believe that's a literal truth.
All the islands are dissolved, all the mountains are leveled,
and there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven.
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Every stone about the weight of a talent, and that
is one hundred pounds. By the way, how would you
like to be walking around while one hundred pound hailstones
are falling out of heaven? You say, is that that's literal?
Think about this now. And the hail came down from heaven,
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And the battle of Armageddon is all a part of this,
as we shall see in the nineteenth chapter. And God's
judgment is poured out upon this earth, and God has
finally vindicated himself against the rebels who have so spurned
his grace and his love.
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Well, it's not a pretty story, but it is a
true one, and I hope you're listening carefully. Tomorrow we're
going to talk about the end of world religion. Nothing
so dominates the landscape of news media and everyday talk
than religion, not necessarily Christianity, but religion as a whole,
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across the whole realm, everything that people qualify as religion.
But one day all of that is going to be ended.
And the Bible tells us what happens when religion no
longer exists on this earth from the seventeenth Chapter of Revelation,
and that's what we're going to talk about tomorrow. I
hope you'll be with us then. I'm David Jeremiah, and
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this is Turning Point and this is the Book of Revelation.
Thank you for listening, See.
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Welcome to Turning Point. A massive earthquake levels mountains while
people dodge one hundred pound hailstones. That's terrifying, But is
it the worst of the Tribulation? Today, Doctor David Jeremiah
sheds light on more of the Seven Vile Judgments paving
the way to Armageddon, continuing his series Escape the Coming Night,
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here's David with the conclusion of the Earth's Worst Days.
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The Bible predicts some very dark days for this planet
during a period of time we call the Great Tribulation.
And while we live in the lap of luxury in
this country and look around at all the good things
we have, it's hard for us to assimilate this truth
that there are some difficult days ahead for those who
reject the Lord. During the Tribulation period, there will be
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some of the worst days this world has ever seen,
and the Bible describes them very carefully. We'll talk about
it again in just a moment, but first let me
tell you about a very special resource that is being
introduced in the month of July. It's the very first
fiction book from David Jeremiah. My friend Sam O'Neil and
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I got together and we've written this book called Vanished
a fiction novel, and it's going to be available to
you during this month for a gift of any size.
It's a wonderful story that will help you see the
future in a different way. It's fast paced action, three
hundred and sixty eight pages hardback. It includes a discussion guide,
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and folks, you need to read this. It's a really
great story and it's a new way to present what
God has in store for us in the future. So
when you said your gift during the months of July,
be sure you ask for your copy of Vanished. My
first fiction book was Simonial. Thank you so much for
your investment in what we're doing. Here's part two of
the Earth's Worst Days.
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The reason God extends this third judgment upon the Earth
is because the earth dwellers have killed God's people. They
have taken the lives of God's children who have refused
to take the mark of the Beast and be marked
by the Antichrist. And because they have taken the lives
of God's people, God now is going to require blood
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at their own hands, and as a preliminary judgment, he
is going to surround them with blood on every hand.
They listen to me, I don't want to make this
so graphic that you dream about it.
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But it is like this. You go into the.
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Kitchen and you turn on the spicket, and instead of water,
you get blood. You go to take a shower, you
turn on the shower. Instead of the clean, clear water
in which you have bathed your body in days past,
red stinking blood comes out of the faucet.
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And out of the spicket.
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People on the earth begin to respond, even as the
people did in Moses's day, asking somehow that God would
remove the judgment for those who may think that these
judgments of God are not righteous. And I never preached
through the Book of Revelation, or even as I remember
preaching through the Book of Daniel. But what somebody doesn't
write me a letter, or see me after the service,
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or make an appointment to take me to lunch, to
say to me, pastor all this bloodshed, all this judgment,
It just doesn't seem like that's the way God is.
But I want you to notice how clearly God is vindicated.
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In this passage.
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The voice out of the altar speaks clearly to the
effect that God is just in judging his enemies who
had caused the martyrdom of his people. Once again, it
is the altar that is the focus of the message.
Remember the importance of the altar. The altar has been
the shelter of the martyrs. In the Book of Revelation,
back in the sixth chapter, we saw the souls of
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those who had been beheaded for the cause of Christ.
Where are they under the altar? And what are they saying?
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Lord?
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How long before you go and avenge our blood upon
this earth? And the Lord said, just wait a while
until the cup is full, and I will do it.
And now the voice out from under the altar comes,
and the voice says that the time of revenge and
the process of answering the prayer has finalized and is here.
Everyone who has criticized the Lord for judging his people
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is silenced as the result of this pronouncement. The Bible
says in verse seven, Even so, Lord God, Almighty, true
and righteous are thy judgments. That's Heaven's answer to our
questions about whether God is righteous in doing what he does.
One of these days, when we are able to see
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eternity in perspective, when we're able to see the outpouring
of God's love upon this earth and the result of
having spurned that love and trampled his invitation underfoot once
and for all, perhaps not until we are in our
ea eternal place, we will understand that the judgments.
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Of God are true and righteous.
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As hard as they are for us to swallow and
to understand, as difficult as it is for us to
coincide a God of love and a God of justice
and holiness, the Bible says for us is clearly as
it can be written, that God's judgments are true and
they are righteous, and we are never to question them.
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God does that which is right.
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Now.
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I just add to this a word from Habaccic the Prophet,
which seems.
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To give to me great encouragement in preaching so authoritatively.
This is what Habakk the Prophet says in two twenty
of his letter, The Lord is in his holy temple.
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Let all the earth keep silence before.
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Him, or let God be true and every man a liar.
In essence, what we are saying is that because he
is God, he has the right to the last word,
andast word on judgment from God is that he is
righteous and just in doing what he does. All right,
let's look at the fourth vial verses eight and nine.
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The scripture says, the fourth Angel takes the censor like
the one from the altar, and he overturns it. And
it says, and the fourth Angel poured out his vial
upon the sun, and power was given unto him to
scorch men with fire. And men were scorched with great heat,
and blaspheme the name of God, which hath power over
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these plagues.
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And they repented not to give him glory.
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Now, when God created the sun, we know that he
created it in such a way that it would shine
on both the godly and the ungodly.
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But here in the.
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Tribulation period, only the ungodly are going to feel the
heat of the sun.
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Like it is described here.
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The heat is so intense that many will die from
its effect.
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Some of us here know what it's like to have
a terrible sunburn.
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The vast majority of the ungodly people will die from
the effect of an overwhelming sunburn because there will be
no protection from the sun. Some scientists have believed that
God will simply remove some of the protective atmosphere between
the Sun and the Earth, so that the absolute rays
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of the Sun will be able to scorch the skin.
How he does that selectively is only answerable by the
miracle power of God. He puts some kind of sun
shield on his own, and yet the sun reaches out
and scorches those who have not embraced him as their lord. Now,
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the particular judgment that we are talking about here again
is predicted for us in the Word of God. It
is one of the plagues that is predicted by our
Lord as a sign of the times. You remember what
the Lord said in the Book of Luke, chapter twenty one.
Listen carefully Luke twenty one twenty five, and there shall
be signs in the sun, and in the moon and
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in the stars. The Old Testament prophet Isaiah, on two occasions,
spoke of this day in prophecy. In Isaiah twenty four
and verse six, we read, therefore hath the curse devoured
the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate. Therefore
the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men
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are left Isaiah forty two to twenty five. Therefore God
hath poured upon him the fury of his anger and
the strength of battle, and it hath set him on
fire round about. Yet he knew not, and it burned him,
yet he laid it not to heart. So the fourth
plague that is dumped on the earth in this closing
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period of the tribulation is this overwhelming heat that scorches
the skin of those who have refused to acknowledge the Lord. Now,
just stop and back up for a moment. Think about
all these things happening one after another, the sores and
the blood, blood everywhere in the water, and then all
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of a sudden you no longer have any protection from
the sun, and when you walk outside, you're scorched with
the heat. Let's add to that the fifth vial in
verses ten and eleven, Chapter sixteen, Verses ten and eleven,
and the fifth Angel'll poured out his vile upon the
seat of the beast, and his kingdom was full of darkness,
and they gnawed their tongues for pain and blasphemed the
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God of Heaven because of their pains and their sores,
and repented not of their deeds. Now God seems to
be bringing his judgment closer to the very source of
the problem. He moves away from his global judgment now,
and he particularly zeroes in on the beast himself, and
the scripture says that he centers his judgment upon the
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seat of Satan himself. Now, if you remember earlier in
this book, we are told that there was a place
where Satan was localized. Do you remember the letter to
the church at Pergamus. The letter to the Church of
Pergamus describes Pergamus as the place where Satan's throne was.
But it seems to be that throughout the generations there
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has been a place on this earth that has been
so evil that it has been identified as the very
center of Satanic activity. We would not have too much
difficulty brainstorming that there are some places that could be
candidates for such a description, even in our own country.
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But the Bible says that God is now going to
judge the place where Satan dwells. We do not know
where the throne of Satan is in our world today,
but it does seem that in the future it will
be located in Babylon, which is to be rebuilt Babel,
in the center of all of man's rebellion against God.
Going back to the Tower of Babel where Nimrod a
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word which means rebel, where Nimrod said that he would
defy God, and he would reach up to God with
his project that he was going to do. And Babylon
has ever since been the seat of power of gentile
corruption incarnated with Satanic power and destruction. And God is
going to reach out. And the Bible says that the
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particular kind of judgment that He is going to pour
out upon the earth because of this beast is a
plague of darkness. Notice what it says. The Bible says
in verse ten and eleven that his kingdom would be
full of darkness. And they gnawed their tongues for pain.
Once again, this takes us back to the plagues of Egypt.
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Do you remember that in the plagues of Egypt there
was a precedent for this plague. Let me read it
to you. And the Lord said, unto Moses, let you
out thine hand toward Heaven, that there may be darkness
in all the land of Egypt, even darkness that may
be felt. Have you ever been in a place that
dark darkness that may be felt? And Moses stretched forth
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his hand toward Heaven. And there was a thick darkness
in all the land of Egypt. For three days they
saw not one another, neither rose any from his place
for three days, but all the children of Israel had
light in their dwellings. That's exactly what's going to happen.
God is going to pour out upon this earth a
kind of thick darkness upon all those who have denied Him.
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And somehow, in the midst of that darkness from which
they cannot escape, there will be little envelopes of light
where all of God's children are going to be protected.
Isaiah the Prophet speaks of this coming darkness. He writes
in Isaiah sixty two. For behold, the darkness shall cover
the earth, and gross darkness the people. Joel, the Prophet
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speaks of this coming darkness, a day of darkness and
of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness,
as the morning spread upon the mountains. Name him, the
prophet speaks of this darkness. But with an overrunning flood,
he will make an utter end of the place thereof,
and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
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Name one eight. Jesus spoke of this coming darkness. But
in those.
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Days after the tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and
the moon shall not give her light, and the stars
of heaven shall fall and the powers that are in
heaven shall be shaken Mark thirteen, twenty four and twenty five.
Just as the sore in the first plague was a
symbol of the inner infection of the men who had
the sore, the darkness of the fifth plague is a
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reflection of the darkness of the heart and soul of
men who have denied God. Now some folks really question
how these could all literally be happening and there be
any life available here on this earth. And I have
read all of the various and sundry things that have
been written to describe how if these happen in certain sequence,
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that life can still be sustained.
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But then I stopped to think about how foolish that was.
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For if God can create a body that can be
burning and yet not be consumed, which is what the
resurrection body of the unbeliever will be like, then God
is not going to have any difficulty sustaining the lives
of those that he punishes during the throes of the punishment.
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God can do that, just.
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As God is going to protect his own in the
midst of all these judgments. God is going to sustain
the lives, at least for the duration of the judgment
for many of these people who have blasphemed his name.
Then we come to the sixth seal in verses twelve
through fourteen, and we read, and the sixth Angel poured
out his vile upon the great river Euphrates, and the
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water thereof was dried up, that the way of the
kings of the East might be prepared. And I saw
three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth
of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast,
and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For
they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go
forth under the kings of the earth and of the
whole world, to gather them to the battle of the
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Great Day of God Almighty.
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Now we're not.
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Going to dwell long here, except to say that this
is one of the preparation plagues so that the battle
of Armageddon can take place. Here we have in the
sixth vile judgment a very similar judgment to the sixth
trumpet judgment. If you have your bibles open, turn over
to the Book of Revelation Revelation chapter nine, and I
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want us to read, beginning at the thirteenth verse. This
is the sixth trumpet. It is corresponding now to the
sixth bowel judgment or vile judgment. And the sixth angel sounded,
and I heard a voice from the four horns of
the golden altar, which is before God, saying to the
sixth angel, which had the trumpet loosed, the four angels
which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the
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four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour
and a day and a month in the year for
to slay The third part of Men talks about the
two hundred million men who are able to march, and
of course the Euphrates River is dried up. Now, when
we get to the nineteenth chapter and we talk about
the campaign of Armageddon, you will see how this prophecy
is absolutely essential. For the Euphrates River must be dried
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up in order to provide a way for the gigantic
armies of the Orient to march into the battle arena
where the battle of Armageddon is going to be fought.
And the Bible says that one of the plagues that
God is going to pour out upon the people of
that day is going to dry up the Euphrates River,
and it will become just like a dried bed over
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which these gigantic army can march right into the plain
of Meghetto, where the battle of Armageddon is to be fought.
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There.
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Historic commentators on the Book of Revelation as a man
by the name of Seiss, and he has written this
about the river Euphrates. He said, from time immemorial, the
Euphrates River with its tributaries, has been a great and
formidable boundary between the peoples of the east and those
of the west. It is a river that runs a
distance of eighteen hundred miles, and it is scarcely crossable
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anywhere or at any time. It is from three to
thirty feet in depth, and most of the time it
is still deeper and wider. It was the boundary of
the Dominion of Solomon, and it is repeatedly spoken of
as the northeast limit of the lands promised to Israel.
History frequently refers to the great hindrance the Euphrates has
been to military movements, and it has always been a
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line of separation between the peoples living east of it
and the peoples living.
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West of it.
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But when this plague is poured out upon the earth,
it won't be there anymore. God's going to dry it up.
It just like a highway right into the plain in
the Ghiddo. And he will do this without having to
explain it, without having to understand it any further. We
just know he's going to do it. Has he ever
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done anything like that before? He did it twice, didn't
he? He dried up the Red Sea, and you remember how
that was just in a moment's time he dried it up.
I remember a man telling me one time that that
really didn't happen, that the Red Sea was not really
dried up, that it was just at low low Ebb,
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and that there were stones sticking up out of the water,
and they just kind of walked across the stones.
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And I asked the.
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Man into what did the Egyptian army drown? That's what
I like to know. No, God dried up the Red
seaed you know what, forty years later he dried up
the River Jordan, just so people wouldn't forget that he
knew how to do it, and so we would have
two reminders that if God wants to dry up through
Euphrates River, he can do that too. And He's going
to do it in the tribulation period. Now at the
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end of this sixth vile judgment, if you've got all
these things are happening, one right after the other, the
darkness and the sores and the blood and all of this,
and the river drying up, and people are looking around
at all these cataclysmic things. And obviously God is up
to something. He is about to finish his judgment upon
this earth. But I want to remind you of something
that we have learned in the Book of Revelation, and
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I think it's one of the most important lessons, and
I hope we don't ever forget it. In the midst
of God's judgment, there is mercy. How marvelous it is
to me that in all of the judgments, in the
seal judgments, in the trumpet judgments, and now in these
final vile judgments. As he moves through to the end,
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the sixth judgment occurs, and then before the seventh judgment
takes place, there's a parenthesis. And guess what the parenthesis is.
It's another invitation from God, another plea from God, another
opportunity from God presented to those who have denied Him
and have spurned his grace. Notice the parenthetical warning before
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the last vile judgment in verse fifteen, Behold, I come
as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth
his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame?
What is Jesus doing here? Finally, in the midst of
these terrible judgments, we read these words of Christ. Behold,
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I come as a thief. If men will not hear
the voice of God, he lays his heart open to
listen to the voice of utter destruction and evil and damnation.
When the kings and the peoples of the earth will
not listen to God, when they begin to hear the
voices of the spirits of darkness, like the frogs that
came out of the mouth of the dragon, they have
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to make a choice between the voice of God who
comes to plead to them, and the voice of darkness
that will ultimately be their ruin. So, just before the
final judgment, just before God completes his cup of wrath
once again, he says, let me ask you one more time,
let me remind you one more time, let me plead
with you one more time, Let me warn you one
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more time. Yes, He's a god of justice and a
god of judgment. But he is a God of mercy
and revelation is filled with that truth over and over again.
And that brings us to the last part of this chapter.
And the seventh vile and the seventh Angel poured out
his vial into the air, and there came a great
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voice out of the Temple of Heaven from the throne, saying,
listen to this.
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Now it is finished. It is finished.
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There was a day on Golgatha when Jesus Christ hung
between the heavens and the earth, and he was paying
the penalty and receiving the judgment for our sin. And
when he had paid the last drop of that judgment
and all of God's wrath had been exercised upon him
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for us, all the words from our Lord's lip cried out,
it is finished.
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The judgment is done.
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Now in the Tribulation period, as the last viile is
poured out upon this earth, once again, the word from
heaven is it is done.
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It is finished. The judgment is over.
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And if you've read these verses, you know that they
described the final end of the Tribulation period, culminating in
the Battle of Armageddon and all of the physical trauma
of that time.
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Let me just read it to you.
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And there were voices and thunders and lightnings, and there
was a great earthquake such as was not since men
were upon the earth. So mighty an earthquake, and so great.
And the great city or the city of Jerusalem, was
divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell,
and Great Babylon came in remembrance before God to give
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unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness
of his wrath. And every island fled away, and the
mountains were not found. I believe that's a literal truth.
All the islands are dissolved, all the mountains are leveled,
and there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven.
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Every stone about the weight of a talent, and that
is one hundred pounds. By the way, how would you
like to be walking around while one hundred pound hailstones
are falling out of heaven? You say, is that that's literal?
Think about this now. And the hail came down from heaven,
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And the battle of Armageddon is all a part of this,
as we shall see in the nineteenth chapter. And God's
judgment is poured out upon this earth, and God has
finally vindicated himself against the rebels who have so spurned
his grace and his love.
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Well, it's not a pretty story, but it is a
true one, and I hope you're listening carefully. Tomorrow we're
going to talk about the end of world religion. Nothing
so dominates the landscape of news media and everyday talk
than religion, not necessarily Christianity, but religion as a whole,
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across the whole realm, everything that people qualify as religion.
But one day all of that is going to be ended.
And the Bible tells us what happens when religion no
longer exists on this earth from the seventeenth Chapter of Revelation,
and that's what we're going to talk about tomorrow. I
hope you'll be with us then. I'm David Jeremiah, and
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this is Turning Point and this is the Book of Revelation.
Thank you for listening, See.
Speaker 4 (24:49):
You next time.
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