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That's the headquarters he Club, His High Lost Vegas.
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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, What's Up? What's Up? Welcome back to
his High radio podcast where we shine a light on
the truth culture in the movement of the Kingdom through music, scripture,
and community. I'm your host, I'm your brother missing his
out and today we're diving into Revelation chapter eighteen. That
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is Revelation chapter eighteen, and we're gonna break it up.
We're gonna go through verse one to verse eight, so
make sure you grab your bibles now. This is a
powerful section of scripture that shows us judgment and fall
of Babylon, a prophetic picture of a corrupt world system
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judge by a righteous God. Hallelujah. And as always, we
will talk through it verse by verse feature insights from
our favorite pastor, Pastor Chuck Smith. He is my my
favorite Bible teacher of all time, and I will share
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my home thoughts as well as we follow up. But
before we die, man, we got to set the tone.
We have to go before God in prayer. And also
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you that is very encouraging. Thank you for your faithfulness.
And I hope and pray that you will get a
lot out of it and this will help you with
your walk with the Lord, to walk closer with him.
And also our sister Quincy jumps in our sister will
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you are able to log into the Life Chat. We
appreciate y'all. Hey man, unless it gonna be for our Father.
In prayer, Heavenly Father, we thank you for this time
that you've given us. Father God, once again, Father, to
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look into scripture. Help us to dig deep, Old God,
help us to get some nuggets. Help us to get
the treasure that you're hidden in your word that will
minister and nourish our souls, O God, so that we
can live and we can grow stronger and vible. God.
We don't want to just make it into the kingdom.
We want to thrive in your kingdom, O God. We
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want all of your benefits and everything, O God, that
you've given us. You've given us everything needed to live
a life of godliness. So God, help us, O God,
to cut off our lusts. Let us not live by
our lust or by our own emotions or own understanding.
To help us, O God, to live according to your
word in the mighty name of Jesus. And God's people said,
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hey man, you know paths, your bibles and your highlighters
as we go verse by verse through the Word of
God today. But first I just want to mention great
job to my brother Zone three. Man. He came out
to our church on Friday night. We had a conference,
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a three day conference, all day of praise conference. Saying,
my man wrapped, he done, he set the mic on fire.
You know what I'm saying. The place was anointed and
powerful and my brother was touched by the presence and
power of God. And brother, keep it up, you have
a gift. Keep it up, my brother, keep serving God.
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Allow God to use you. Brother. And also just shout out,
shout out to missus hisss hopping our money for their dancing.
They worked hard. They got up at six o'clock with
the dance group and they prayed, and they practice and
through the soreness and the pain and all that they
grind and they got through to it. So I want
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to give a shout out to them as well. Also
Sister Quincy for taking Aliyah to the dance practices all
the time and all the work and everything that happened
behind the scenes. Man, we had a busy weekend, a
great weekend, and man, I'm just excited, and I just
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have a great family, a kingdom family. You know what
I'm saying. All right, Well, that's it for all the
mushy stuff. Let's get into sphere the God together. Amen.
So let's go ahead and read it. Take it from
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verse one to verse eight. Now, if you remember chapter seventeen.
In sixteen, we have all these judgments that were poured
out on planet Earth, and each chapter is mentioned how
the great Babylon is falling. In last chapter we talked
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about how the religious system is falling. How you can
trace the Babylonian system all the way back to Genesis,
where it originated the birthplace of it. And once you
go to different cultures you could see pieces of this
Babylonian system in them. There's mother son worship, which was
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Satan was trying to mock and counterfeit the Messiah. We
knew that the Messiah would be born of a woman,
a virgin birth, and so he tried to mimic that
through history. If you go to Egypt, you got Ra, right,
it's I forget the other name, but you got in Babylon,
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his Nimrod, it's Simaramas and Tammus, these different gods that
you would see that these pagans worshiped. And also I
came to the revelation that every time we try to
build our own religious system outside of God, any type
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of worship outside of the way God prescribes us to worship,
is a part of Batylon. Anything that is unbiblical. We
can build our own kingdom. If it's a godless kingdom,
it's a part of Batylon. And that's just the wickedness
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of man's heart. So now we're gonna see the commercialism,
the commercial system, the corporate system, the system that we're
alling in. Right now, we're gonna see it. Judge. This
system that we are in is gonna come to an end,
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and rightfully, so you can see how the system it's
an evil system it is. It's a wicked system that
we are a part of. Just think about it. If
you want to buy a house, you go to the bank,
right and get along, get along from who, get along
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from the banks that we're gonna see here in this chapter.
As we keep going, we're gonna see who's really in charge,
because the people who control the banking system of the
world are the people who are really calling the shots.
We're gonna see how the kings of the earth commit
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fornication with them. It's Babylonian system. And see the Bible
says that the the bowerer is serving to the lender.
They want to bring you under their power by keeping
you in debt. Right the credit card. A lot of banks,
a lot of people, they sell you debt. That's slavery.
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What happened to the good old days when they told
you to save up your money and buy what you need.
Then they came into the system where you just take
it now and pay for it later. But you don't know.
You just put a chain around your neck that you
might not be able to remove. We got to get
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smart with our money, smart with our system. And at
the end of this, I want to show you God's system.
God's system, the system that He has intended. Now, of
course we could use it for good, right, God can
redeem anything. But we just got to be smart with
our money and understand what type of system that we're
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living in today. Why do you think they don't teach
us about money in school. There's an agenda behind it.
Hey man, all right, well let's dive into it. After
these things, I saw another angel coming down from heaven,
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having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory.
And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, Babylon
the Great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a
dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit,
in a cage for every unclean and hated bird. For
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all the nations have drunk of the wine of the
wrath of her fornication. The kings of the earth have
committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth
have become rich through the abundance of her luxury. And
I heard another voice from heaven saying, come out of her,
my people, Let you share in her sins, and that
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you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached
to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Rendered to
her just as she rendered to you, and repay her
double according to her works. And the cup which she
has mixed mixed double for her. And the measure that
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she glorified herself and lived luxuriously in the same measure,
give her torment and sorrow. For she says in her heart,
I sit as queen, I am no widow, I will
not see sorrow. Therefore her plagues will come in one hour, death,
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in mourning, and famine, and she will be utterly burned
with fire. For strong is the Lord God who judges,
and man strong is the Lord God who judges. All right, well,
let's go back, let's start breaking it down. Verse one,
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and after these things, I saw another angel come down
from heaven, having great power, and the earth was lightened
with his glory, the whole earth. This angel is now
one of the seven Bull angels that we've been reading about.
Now he comes with great authority and glory. Now, check
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out the fact that the whole earth is illuminated. Now
this signifies a moment of divine power and holy presence. Like, imagine,
the whole entire earth is illuminated, like the light is shining.
But this light was meant to expose darkness. He's gonna
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expose some foul and nasty demons in this Babylonian commercial
system that we're in. This verse also reminds us that
God's judgment isn't just darkness and wrath. It's also a
revelation of his majesty. Now, this angel literally lights up
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the world, showing us how soon curious in divine This
next move is Heaven is stepping with authority, and I
can't wait. Hallelujah, man, this angel just lights up the
entire world verse two, and he cried mightily with a
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strong voice. Now everybody's gonna hear this voice saying, Babylon
the great is fallen, is fallen, and it's become a
habitation of devils. Now listen to that. A habitation, This
is where devils habitate. How discussed, how disgusting, and a
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hold of every foul spirit. Now foul, that's an odor.
These these demons actually have a smell, right, It's a stench.
It's disgusting. In a cage of every unclean and hated bird.
Now remember now, in the scriptures, when we interpret parables
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and we come into interpretation of different stories of the Bible,
birds have always been associated with evil, with demons and
unclean things. I think of the story of Father Abraham
when he came into covenant with God, Jehovah, God and
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they I believe, I'm off the top of my head.
I believe it was a cow. I believe they cut
it in half and they both had to walk through it.
Or I believe no I think God walked through it,
and Abraham was either on the side or sleep or
something like that, and God walk through it. And basically,
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covenant is this is that I enter into an agreement.
I enter too a contract. And if it's between two people,
the two people walk through the center of it, and
they say, may the way that this cow was slaughtered,
may it happen to me? If I don't keep my
innothers bargain right. And of course we know God is
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gonna keep his in. God is the only one that
could keep his in of this covenant. But the job
of Moses, now, if you read, during that situation, birds
would come and they will try to defile that sacrifice.
And Abraham's job was to shoot away the birds. He
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kept them away. Now that is a picture of our salvation.
God has done a wonderful work. Jesus died on the
cross and shed his blood. We are in a covenant
with God through the blood of Christ. But evil and
wicked birds will try to come and defile it. They'll
try to take our They want to take our anointing away,
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and if they can't take it away, they want our flesh.
They'll try to come through our flesh to diminish our
anointing in our walk with God. Amen. And so that's
just a picture of that. And then if you look
through scriptures where it talks about birds and talks about
these evil birds. Right now, this is the final fall
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of Babylon, the system of spiritual adultery and worldliness. This
is it for them. Her corruption has reached every level.
Demons and evil spirits dwell there even Now that's like, man,
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that's just become a like an infestation. Have you ever
sometimes when I do yard work and you go to
the where the water shut off valves or whatever, and
sometimes you open that cover and there's a whole bunch
of bugs under there, and then you know, as soon
as they see the light, they scatter, and roaches and
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they run around and all that infested. That's what I
think of when when they say that every evil spirit
dwells there in this Babylonian system. Now the reputation is fallen,
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is falling, echoes finality. Now Babylon represents a system it
could be media, political, politics, economic that turns his back
on God. When it falls, it becomes a spiritual wasteland.
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Now it has happened when sin runs unchecked, or should
I say, this is what happens when is left on checked. Now,
this system, the media, as we know, is an area
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where we minister as his hoh nation with our radio,
our podcast, our events, our music, all that. We're in
the media sector. Now, the political, the economic, the economic
also is a powerful section to be in to minister
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in because you need finances to run the other entities
right now under the Babylonian system. Now remember, I believe
it's in verse seventeen where it says the kings of
the earth gave their power to the beast to make
war against the lamp. This world is at war with God.
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So the media is at war with God. The politics
that that, economics are at war with God. And we're
going to talk about that a little more more a
little later. But let's keep going. Let's go to verse three.
For all the nations have drunk of the wine of
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the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the
earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of
the earth are wax rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
Now the world has prospered through her corruption. Think about it. Nations, kings,
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emerchants alike benefit from Babylonian the Babylonian sinful system. Now
this hits home. Babylon is about compromise for profit. You
see it today, culture, corruption and even governments selling out
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for riches and the world is drunk on it all
not even realize how toxic this really is. Now, you
could get very rich if you buying into this system.
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So we have to ask ourselves what is priority? Is
it priority for us to live a life of holiness
or to live a life of luxury? Right? Because think
about it, God is giving us a choice on how
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we should live, how we should decide to live. On
one hand, we can live by our lustful desires. If
we allow our lust to get so strong and unchecked,
then there's no telling what we can get involved in.
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Think about these countries that promote sex trafficking. Why to
satisfy the lust of men? They kidnap young women and
young boys for that matter. They come up missing and
they take them who God knows, who knows where, and
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people can come and have their way. They pay. They
do it because they can profit. They do it for
a profit. Why do they corrupt the politicians? Right? It
says that the kings of the earth can be in
farnication with her. So this is the banking system. This
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is there's powers, beloved that are behind the political system
of the world. Don't think that our president is in control.
Don't think that these kings and these representatives of these
different nations that they're in control. This chapter right here
is exposing a system that is behind all this, and
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God is judging it. The nations of the world are
committing funication because they can profit. They can profit. All right,
let's go through some more of this and then we'll
fall back or some more because I just want to
explain on that a little more. Now verse four and
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I heard in other ways from Heaven saying, come out
of her, my people, that ye be not partake of
her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.
Now this is a clear call to separation. God causes
people to exit Babylon, both spiritually and literally, if they're
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going to avoid judgment. Now this is God's mercy. He's
warning his people don't get too comfortable in this world's system.
They say, wake up, call for all the believers not
to compromise with this culture. We're in this world, but
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we're not of it. We don't have to cheat and
be cutthroat and do all the things that this world
does to gain a profit or to get ahead. All right,
let's go through verse five. And her sins have reached
unto heaven and God has remembered her iniquities. God's patience
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has an end, which is sobering to me. Right, I
remember at one time I just thought I could do
whatever and God will always forgive. And God will Now
you know, his patience won't run out, and grace will
always be there. No, you can run out of grace.
You can run out of God's patience. Man. See Babylognians.
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The Babylongnian sins are stacked high, and judgment is no
longer delayed. See, God has like a measurement. Even when
God was talking to Father Abraham and he was saying,
when the nations, when their cup is full of iniquity,
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then that's when he will judge. And this is scary.
It means that there is a limit her sins reach heaven.
That's like saying it's overflowing. Now you might get away
with sin for a while, but not forever. God doesn't
forget injustices, God will remember. And so this Babylonian system
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is getting away with it. Now it seems like they're winning.
It seems like the people of God are behind economically
and politically and all this stuff. But there's a limit
to it. God is just patiently waiting. Now verse six,
we ward her even as she rewarded you, and double
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and double into her double according to her works and
the cup which she has feeled full of her double.
Am I read right?
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Yeah?
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I said double a couple of times, double, double judgment.
Now Babylon receives divine payback. This is divine payback right here,
double for her evil. See, God's judgment is perfect, just
in proportional. He measures it out. It's not revenge, is justice.
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Everything she poured out in corruption, oppression, and sin, God
is about to pour it back double. And don't just
look at this Babylonian system. This is how God is
going to judge our individual lives. If you read the scripture,
it's always saying that we're going to be judged according
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to our works. That could be a scary thing or
that could be a good thing. It depends on if
your works. Look at your works, look at the fruit
of your life. What are you doing? What are habits?
What are your disciplines? What are you practicing. Do you
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have a prayer time, do you take time out to study?
Do you spend time with God. I have a routine,
you know, I go, I do my push ups to
kind of help me start. It's just it's about discipline,
creating new habits. I get into the word, I do
this podcast, I spend time with the family. There's different things,
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you know that. There's different if you kind of structure
your life in discipline your life. You know, I go
to church, we do outreach, then you can produce good fruit.
Now I'm not saying I'm perfect. There's areas I definitely
need to work on, But I'm saying it doesn't have
to be a scary thing if our works are good.
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Verse seven. How much she has glorified herself and live deliciously,
so much torment and sorrow give her, for she said
in her heart, I sit as queen, and I am
no widow, and I shall see no sorrow. Babylon's pride
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is her downfall. Remember, the Bible says God will resist
the proud and give grace to the humble. She thought
that she was untouchable, living in luxury without fear of
loss or even God's judgment. This is the pride of
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the world. I don't need God, is what they say.
I don't need God. I'm self made. But God always
brings down pride. If you exalt yourself, he will humble you,
especially when you build your own success off of sin,
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off of corruption. Have you built your fortune off of sin?
You know how many people make money off of pornography,
having pornographic websites. They're making money off of the souls
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of people. Now Revelation eighteen, verse eight. Therefore shall her
play come in one day, death, in mourning and famine,
and she shall be utterly burned with fire. For strong
is the Lord God who judges her. Amen. Now her
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destruction will be sudden, and it will be complete, and
just one day everything will be gone. Why because the
judge is almighty. Don't mistake delay for weakness. If God
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moves is fast and its final. Babylon's fall is a
reminder the world system will not last, but the Kingdom
of God will amen. The world system will not last.
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Evil has an expiration date. All right, belove it, Let's
go ahead. And take a quick music break. I got
Chris Elijah with heart on my sleeve right here on
the His High Radio podcast. Keep it lying start.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I thought you was my man. I watch you wash
your hands. I thought you were my brother. How you
need a bail for wife?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Like me?
Speaker 4 (32:16):
And you wear ies?
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Can't down at ivy ground lately, I've been praying up
to God. Out hold them prayers lad call drop lost connection.
I can't understand, and my problem won't let me call you.
That's the fall of man. Handy man can't even fix
these issues. We gonna need a lamp. Tell me why
so much smoke can here when we just need a band.
I see your mama first at your past. I praise
your hands the best day of my life.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
I know you miss your dad.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
That feeling mutual war, they're paying mutual warf I know
what innocent man hung up by some cut of course,
I mean nails. We can't make this space to usual,
got in break like we used to do. It starts
with me not you can't let this brotherhood die. It's
take the funeral roof father, heal us from his pride
that to be beautiful, you.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Ship what we med about it while we holding to
it and been the saint since did he died. I
know we're going through it, and spoke to you in
much though I invited you. The gatherers rejected invitations like
my fellings, don't be mattering. You add him in about it.
I'm just keeping it a buck. We try pulling back
the lambs, but our progress is getting stuck and I'm
trying to fight this pride and not the side would
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give enough. I mean, you leave me to Christ and
hind you got him in the talk. That's just exception
from the devil got you in the camel clutch. Phyllis
Jumper took conclusions like were playing double dutch. I'm returning
back to faith of making sure I keep in touch.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
That's love. Do it even if I don't get a response.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
I mean I hurt, though I won't lie about it.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Lord knows I missed my sister and I'm on fire
about it. Some nights I cry about it, but it
leads to prayer more and.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
I know that God is faithful, so I'm sticking to
the Lord.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Please was moved forward.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
All right, all right, we are back. I'm your boy,
mister his hot and this is his Hot Radio podcast
and we're breaking down Revelation chapter eighteen. We're talking about
the Babylonian commercial system and how it is fallen and
once God Judges' final it'll never that's it. It'll never
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be revived again. So we need to know what is
priority in our own lives. That was Chris Elijah with
feelings on my sleeves. So it's time for the next segment.
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back to our topic. Back to our topic. We're talking
about the commercial system of Babylon. God is finally judging it.
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It was a long time coming, right. It's a system
that we know, the system that we grew up in. Now,
the problem with the system is that it's corrupt. People
are living by their lust. Wants us to live by
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our reason. He wants us to reason with him. He
gave us a brain, he gave us a way to
reason and to understand things. That's why we have to
get into his word. We have to renew our minds
by the word of God so that we don't get
caught by our lust, so that we can put keep
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our lust in check, so we will know that we can.
We're supposed to live a life of the spirit. Now
I wanted to break down this Babylonian system a little further.
Think about the advertisements out there today. Think about how
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they play on your lust. See, that's how evil and
wicked this system is. They know what they're doing. They
know that we all have a desire for God. There's
a God's shape hole in every one of us, and
we all long and we're like thirsty, and we're not
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satisfied with the things of this world, right, and so
this Babylonian system is there to distract us from what
can really and truly satisfy our souls. So remember growing up,
how years ago for Christmas everybody had to have a
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Cabbage Patch doll. Now this is when I was real young.
These cabbage packs little dolls. You know, people were going
crazy for him. They would fight in the malls to
get it for their child. Right then after that it
was Tickle Me Elmo, where there was almost riot. There's
always something that one item you gotta have, and it's
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not a good Christmas if we don't have this item. Right, Like,
this is how are luss how this average, this commercial
system can really deceive us. They they play on our
desire for God. Right, they play on it. They know
that there's something in there that we know that we're missing.
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We know that that's why Jesus said that if you
drink of this water, you will never thirst again. All right,
sorry for that interruption. It's almost time for me to
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go to work, so we might hear some crazy alarms
here as we're doing this podcast. I do this early
in the morning before I get along head on out
with my day. I spent some time with God that
I head out, so excuse me for that. But anyway,
as I was saying that this Babylonian system, there is
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a desire in every man for God, and we try
to satisfy that with the things of this world. We
always think if we get that one thing, you know,
satisfy us, right, that one car, that dream car, or
that relationship. People are really getting ripped off with relationships
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because at the beginning, when the emotions are there and
you think that this is gonna be it, this is
gonna satisfy me, and once you get it, you come
up empty. Then you go to the next one and
the next one, and then you just damage and ruin
life after life, right? Or how many times you wanted
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that new thing and then and a month later it's like, oh,
you don't even care about it. Right, You're still thirsty,
You're still hungry. And that's what this Babylonian system is
aiming at. And so now the advertisements, they know that
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you have this desire for God and it delays, it
distracts it, or some people don't even get satisfied because
they don't drink other waters that Jesus says, you think
you drink these waters, you'll never thirst again. Amen, And
that's what he was addressing. Now, how many commercials and
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uh like they know how to manipulate and play with
their minds, like we need They tell us these commercials,
you need this thing. You probably wasn't even thinking about it.
How many times have you scroll on TikTok and you
just there's something there and they just tell you, oh, wow,
you better buy this because they're gonna delete this video
and these the supplies might run out and if you
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don't get it now, you might not ever get it.
Then there you go click click, and you know, got
your card out, your credit card out or whatever, and bam,
you better buy that thing. Then all of a sudden,
six months later, they're still playing the same video as there.
It's an advertisement things, it's a it's a thing that
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they know that is inside of us. Hey man, now
it's your choice. If you live in this Babylonian system,
you will live a frustrated life because sin and corruption
can never produce what they promise. Never. It'll never And
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that's what Satan does. Satan will always promise you something
and he will not deliver on his promise. Now, I
was talking about the corruption of the world. How you
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can get rich, how you can get rich, and there's
a lot of wealth in this Babylonian system. If you're
willing to participate with the corruption. Think about I know
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we've talked about sex trafficking and prostitution. People do that
because there's profit behind that. A lot of these rich
organizations and rich people they've done corrupt things to obtain
the riches that they have now. And once you do
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it that way, you have to keep doing correct things.
You're always looking over your shoulder because somebody else might
come and do to you what you did to them. Right,
and then just look at the economics of the world.
Remember at one time that the United States of America
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was the economic powerhouse. Then it went over to Japan
became the economic powerhouse, and now China has become an
economic powerhouse. Like the money keeps moving around, and so
whichever city that is producing or profiting in the most
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off of this Babylonian system during the time of this
prophecy is Babylon the Great. It could very well be
a city. It could be New York, or it could
be I don't know, Dubai or or some commentators say
that the Antichrist, the beast is going to rebuild the
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ancient city Babylon itself. But once the city is built,
it's going to be very profitable, very profitable. So our
questions we need to ask to ourselves is what are
we willing to compromise to gain a profit? Are we
willing to sell our souls? Are you willing to cheat
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on your taxes? Are you willing to steal from your job?
Are you willing to get someone fired so that you
can get promoted? Are you willing to steal? Are you
willing to like we need to have integrity, right, just
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actually a little personal story. My wife gotta nail in
the tire. It was on the treads or whatever, so
I knew it could be repaired. But I mean, I thought, well, actually,
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let me say this. I thought that I had to
replace the tire, right, And so I'm looking for a
tire shop. One is twenty four hours because I gotta
get this done before I have to go to work.
And you know, my wife needs the other car. So
I put some mirror in it enough to drive it
a little bit, and I take it to the first shop,
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tire shop. And first of all, I pull up and
they didn't even see me pull up. They're sitting there.
They come out of the office. They're sitting there eating watermelon.
There's two guys, like outside, there's a guy in the door.
There's a lady that comes out, and I'm sitting here
like hello, and you know, the car's running, My light's on,
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like I know you see me here. So finally I
turned the light off, turn the car off, and I
get out, Hello, can I get a tire? And so
the guy comes out barely speaking English, which is okay,
but we uh talk about the tire and he's, well,
he doesn't know they might have sold out of the
one I needed, and the one they have might be
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a little whiter than the one I got now, And
so before it's said and done, he says, Okay, this
is gonna be sixty five dollars. I'm like, I'm just
gonna get used tired. You know that's pricey. And he's like, yeah,
I know it's kind of pricey, but you know you're
an emergency now, you need it, get it now, and
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this and that any other and you can, you know,
try to get a different one later or something like that.
I'm like, man, who wants to waste money like that?
And I just tell the guy. I'm like, uh no, thanks,
I'll just go keep I'll go to another spot. He's
like okay. Then I walked away. Now normally sometimes I'll
just do it just to you know, because I already
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drove kind of far to get to this spot. I'm
surprised that they're I gotta search around and see if
there's a twenty four hour tire shop closer to my house.
But I had to go almost like fifteen minutes away
to get to this spot. And I'm like, just the
Holy Spirit is signed me. I was just like, you know, what, No,
I'm not just gonna waste money like that. Sixty five dollars.
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So at GPS another spot it was actually closed a
little frustrating. I'm like, oh, I'm gonna go to a
spot that I know, you know, I've been to, like
probably probably a couple of months ago. It was another
maybe ten minutes away, further away from the house. But
I go to the spot. The guy looks at it,
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he said right away, twenty five bucks. He looks at
the nail. There's a nail and the tire. Then fifteen
minutes bam, he changed your tires out. I'm good. Twenty
five hours later, and I'm like, man, this corrupt system.
Like these people they think that you're at a disadvantage.
You didn't want to capitalize on it. They were betting
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on me, just saying Okay, I'll pay this sixty five
dollars when all it costs US twenty five dollars to
repair the tire and get the nail out of it. Like,
I don't know, believe it. You guys gotta like we
gotta really pray and ask God to help us in
this corrupt system. And I never really saw it like
this until I started reading the Book of Revelation and
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to understand, now, is it evil to make a profit. No,
it's not. But Jesus tells us to store our treasures
in heaven where moth don't corrupt and thieves don't break in,
and to use the riches of this world to win souls. Right,
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We're supposed to use our resources for kingdom purposes. That's
why when you sold into this podcast, when you sold
into this ministry, you're storing up riches for yourself in heaven.
Because I make sure that this is good ground. I
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make sure we're faithful to the work here and that
we're living it out and man and man. But yeah,
I just wanted to break down and just try to
open up your eyes and see this Babylonian system that
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we are actually a part of that's all around us,
and how to navigate through it. Just keep your integrity,
to store up your riches in heaven. And if you
do have a bag, don't get it in a corrupted way.
Earn it. The Bible says, little by little. You know,
we're supposed to get our inheritance, we're supposed to build,
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We're supposed to leave houses to our children. Were supposed
to provide for our families, but we're supposed to work
for it. We're supposed to the labor of our hands,
you know, or what we work for, or you know,
the things that that God has given us to get
our wealth and riches. And we're not supposed to worship
that wealth. We're supposed to give and be generous with it.
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It's not supposed to possess us, because if it does,
that's when we become corrupt. I don't want to be
in a habitation with foul birds and spirits and all
that stuff, with broaches and the bugs and beetles, and
you know, I don't want to be a part of
that system. That's man. I want to give some rain
right now and start spraying, you know what I'm saying. Anyway,
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my time is up. It's time to close out. This
wraps up our deep dive into Revelation eighteen and one
through eight. Stay tuned for the next episode as we
cover nine through twenty four and see the full collapse
of the Babylonian system. This isent, this is final. The
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system will never be revived again. Because when you see
the reign of Christ, Jesus says, come by with no money,
come freely. He freely gives to every man. No man
will lack. The guy's kingdom will see and take a
look at his economic system as we get there. But
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until then, stay kingdom minded, keep your lights shining, and
always remember, don't just listen to the beat, live out
the message. Check out my brother's Zone three. He's got
some hot music out there. Keep that fire burning, my brother.
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because we are getting you prepared and ready for the
return of the King. Amen, I'm gonna close out like
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I always do. Is that about us? It's all about
the Christ in us. God bless
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Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, What's Up? What's Up? Welcome back to
his High radio podcast where we shine a light on
the truth culture in the movement of the Kingdom through music, scripture,
and community. I'm your host, I'm your brother missing his
out and today we're diving into Revelation chapter eighteen. That
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is Revelation chapter eighteen, and we're gonna break it up.
We're gonna go through verse one to verse eight, so
make sure you grab your bibles now. This is a
powerful section of scripture that shows us judgment and fall
of Babylon, a prophetic picture of a corrupt world system
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judge by a righteous God. Hallelujah. And as always, we
will talk through it verse by verse feature insights from
our favorite pastor, Pastor Chuck Smith. He is my my
favorite Bible teacher of all time, and I will share
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my home thoughts as well as we follow up. But
before we die, man, we got to set the tone.
We have to go before God in prayer. And also
we have to make sure you guys know how to
join us on the Life Chat. So I want to
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encourage you to download his hop radio app his HLP
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and then once you're there, go ahead and click the
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go to life chat. His easy only takes five seconds
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of register. Just type in the username, type in your
email address, and type in a password, something easy to
remember just in case you might need it later. Then bam,
you are a part of the community. You will say
hi to the family, say what's up to our brother's
Zone three? It is faithfully, my brother is hungry. Other word, man,
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he meets us up in here on this podcast. He
comes logs into the life Chat and man, my brother
is faithful, very encouraging to see you there, my brother
every day and even when you can't make it, he
comes on and he checks out the replay and if
there's nothing there, it'll hit me up. He's like, hey,
did you record a podcast today? Man? And I'm telling
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you that is very encouraging. Thank you for your faithfulness.
And I hope and pray that you will get a
lot out of it and this will help you with
your walk with the Lord, to walk closer with him.
And also our sister Quincy jumps in our sister will
not sister, but my wife misses his hot she jumps
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in from time to time. So thank y'all for whenever
you are able to log into the Life Chat. We
appreciate y'all. Hey man, unless it gonna be for our Father.
In prayer, Heavenly Father, we thank you for this time
that you've given us. Father God, once again, Father, to
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look into scripture. Help us to dig deep, Old God,
help us to get some nuggets. Help us to get
the treasure that you're hidden in your word that will
minister and nourish our souls, O God, so that we
can live and we can grow stronger and vible. God.
We don't want to just make it into the kingdom.
We want to thrive in your kingdom, O God. We
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want all of your benefits and everything, O God, that
you've given us. You've given us everything needed to live
a life of godliness. So God, help us, O God,
to cut off our lusts. Let us not live by
our lust or by our own emotions or own understanding.
To help us, O God, to live according to your
word in the mighty name of Jesus. And God's people said,
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hey man, you know paths, your bibles and your highlighters
as we go verse by verse through the Word of
God today. But first I just want to mention great
job to my brother Zone three. Man. He came out
to our church on Friday night. We had a conference,
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a three day conference, all day of praise conference. Saying,
my man wrapped, he done, he set the mic on fire.
You know what I'm saying. The place was anointed and
powerful and my brother was touched by the presence and
power of God. And brother, keep it up, you have
a gift. Keep it up, my brother, keep serving God.
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Allow God to use you. Brother. And also just shout out,
shout out to missus hisss hopping our money for their dancing.
They worked hard. They got up at six o'clock with
the dance group and they prayed, and they practice and
through the soreness and the pain and all that they
grind and they got through to it. So I want
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to give a shout out to them as well. Also
Sister Quincy for taking Aliyah to the dance practices all
the time and all the work and everything that happened
behind the scenes. Man, we had a busy weekend, a
great weekend, and man, I'm just excited, and I just
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have a great family, a kingdom family. You know what
I'm saying. All right, Well, that's it for all the
mushy stuff. Let's get into sphere the God together. Amen.
So let's go ahead and read it. Take it from
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verse one to verse eight. Now, if you remember chapter seventeen.
In sixteen, we have all these judgments that were poured
out on planet Earth, and each chapter is mentioned how
the great Babylon is falling. In last chapter we talked
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about how the religious system is falling. How you can
trace the Babylonian system all the way back to Genesis,
where it originated the birthplace of it. And once you
go to different cultures you could see pieces of this
Babylonian system in them. There's mother son worship, which was
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Satan was trying to mock and counterfeit the Messiah. We
knew that the Messiah would be born of a woman,
a virgin birth, and so he tried to mimic that
through history. If you go to Egypt, you got Ra, right,
it's I forget the other name, but you got in Babylon,
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his Nimrod, it's Simaramas and Tammus, these different gods that
you would see that these pagans worshiped. And also I
came to the revelation that every time we try to
build our own religious system outside of God, any type
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of worship outside of the way God prescribes us to worship,
is a part of Batylon. Anything that is unbiblical. We
can build our own kingdom. If it's a godless kingdom,
it's a part of Batylon. And that's just the wickedness
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of man's heart. So now we're gonna see the commercialism,
the commercial system, the corporate system, the system that we're
alling in. Right now, we're gonna see it. Judge. This
system that we are in is gonna come to an end,
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and rightfully, so you can see how the system it's
an evil system it is. It's a wicked system that
we are a part of. Just think about it. If
you want to buy a house, you go to the bank,
right and get along, get along from who, get along
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from the banks that we're gonna see here in this chapter.
As we keep going, we're gonna see who's really in charge,
because the people who control the banking system of the
world are the people who are really calling the shots.
We're gonna see how the kings of the earth commit
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fornication with them. It's Babylonian system. And see the Bible
says that the the bowerer is serving to the lender.
They want to bring you under their power by keeping
you in debt. Right the credit card. A lot of banks,
a lot of people, they sell you debt. That's slavery.
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What happened to the good old days when they told
you to save up your money and buy what you need.
Then they came into the system where you just take
it now and pay for it later. But you don't know.
You just put a chain around your neck that you
might not be able to remove. We got to get
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smart with our money, smart with our system. And at
the end of this, I want to show you God's system.
God's system, the system that He has intended. Now, of
course we could use it for good, right, God can
redeem anything. But we just got to be smart with
our money and understand what type of system that we're
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living in today. Why do you think they don't teach
us about money in school. There's an agenda behind it.
Hey man, all right, well let's dive into it. After
these things, I saw another angel coming down from heaven,
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having great authority, and the earth was illuminated with his glory.
And he cried mightily with a loud voice, saying, Babylon
the Great is fallen, is fallen, and has become a
dwelling place of demons, a prison for every foul spirit,
in a cage for every unclean and hated bird. For
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all the nations have drunk of the wine of the
wrath of her fornication. The kings of the earth have
committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth
have become rich through the abundance of her luxury. And
I heard another voice from heaven saying, come out of her,
my people, Let you share in her sins, and that
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you receive of her plagues. For her sins have reached
to heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Rendered to
her just as she rendered to you, and repay her
double according to her works. And the cup which she
has mixed mixed double for her. And the measure that
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she glorified herself and lived luxuriously in the same measure,
give her torment and sorrow. For she says in her heart,
I sit as queen, I am no widow, I will
not see sorrow. Therefore her plagues will come in one hour, death,
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in mourning, and famine, and she will be utterly burned
with fire. For strong is the Lord God who judges,
and man strong is the Lord God who judges. All right, well,
let's go back, let's start breaking it down. Verse one,
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and after these things, I saw another angel come down
from heaven, having great power, and the earth was lightened
with his glory, the whole earth. This angel is now
one of the seven Bull angels that we've been reading about.
Now he comes with great authority and glory. Now, check
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out the fact that the whole earth is illuminated. Now
this signifies a moment of divine power and holy presence. Like, imagine,
the whole entire earth is illuminated, like the light is shining.
But this light was meant to expose darkness. He's gonna
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expose some foul and nasty demons in this Babylonian commercial
system that we're in. This verse also reminds us that
God's judgment isn't just darkness and wrath. It's also a
revelation of his majesty. Now, this angel literally lights up
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the world, showing us how soon curious in divine This
next move is Heaven is stepping with authority, and I
can't wait. Hallelujah, man, this angel just lights up the
entire world verse two, and he cried mightily with a
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strong voice. Now everybody's gonna hear this voice saying, Babylon
the great is fallen, is fallen, and it's become a
habitation of devils. Now listen to that. A habitation, This
is where devils habitate. How discussed, how disgusting, and a
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hold of every foul spirit. Now foul, that's an odor.
These these demons actually have a smell, right, It's a stench.
It's disgusting. In a cage of every unclean and hated bird.
Now remember now, in the scriptures, when we interpret parables
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and we come into interpretation of different stories of the Bible,
birds have always been associated with evil, with demons and
unclean things. I think of the story of Father Abraham
when he came into covenant with God, Jehovah, God and
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they I believe, I'm off the top of my head.
I believe it was a cow. I believe they cut
it in half and they both had to walk through it.
Or I believe no I think God walked through it,
and Abraham was either on the side or sleep or
something like that, and God walk through it. And basically,
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covenant is this is that I enter into an agreement.
I enter too a contract. And if it's between two people,
the two people walk through the center of it, and
they say, may the way that this cow was slaughtered,
may it happen to me? If I don't keep my
innothers bargain right. And of course we know God is
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gonna keep his in. God is the only one that
could keep his in of this covenant. But the job
of Moses, now, if you read, during that situation, birds
would come and they will try to defile that sacrifice.
And Abraham's job was to shoot away the birds. He
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kept them away. Now that is a picture of our salvation.
God has done a wonderful work. Jesus died on the
cross and shed his blood. We are in a covenant
with God through the blood of Christ. But evil and
wicked birds will try to come and defile it. They'll
try to take our They want to take our anointing away,
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and if they can't take it away, they want our flesh.
They'll try to come through our flesh to diminish our
anointing in our walk with God. Amen. And so that's
just a picture of that. And then if you look
through scriptures where it talks about birds and talks about
these evil birds. Right now, this is the final fall
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of Babylon, the system of spiritual adultery and worldliness. This
is it for them. Her corruption has reached every level.
Demons and evil spirits dwell there even Now that's like, man,
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that's just become a like an infestation. Have you ever
sometimes when I do yard work and you go to
the where the water shut off valves or whatever, and
sometimes you open that cover and there's a whole bunch
of bugs under there, and then you know, as soon
as they see the light, they scatter, and roaches and
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they run around and all that infested. That's what I
think of when when they say that every evil spirit
dwells there in this Babylonian system. Now the reputation is fallen,
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is falling, echoes finality. Now Babylon represents a system it
could be media, political, politics, economic that turns his back
on God. When it falls, it becomes a spiritual wasteland.
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Now it has happened when sin runs unchecked, or should
I say, this is what happens when is left on checked. Now,
this system, the media, as we know, is an area
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where we minister as his hoh nation with our radio,
our podcast, our events, our music, all that. We're in
the media sector. Now, the political, the economic, the economic
also is a powerful section to be in to minister
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in because you need finances to run the other entities
right now under the Babylonian system. Now remember, I believe
it's in verse seventeen where it says the kings of
the earth gave their power to the beast to make
war against the lamp. This world is at war with God.
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So the media is at war with God. The politics
that that, economics are at war with God. And we're
going to talk about that a little more more a
little later. But let's keep going. Let's go to verse three.
For all the nations have drunk of the wine of
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the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the
earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of
the earth are wax rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
Now the world has prospered through her corruption. Think about it. Nations, kings,
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emerchants alike benefit from Babylonian the Babylonian sinful system. Now
this hits home. Babylon is about compromise for profit. You
see it today, culture, corruption and even governments selling out
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for riches and the world is drunk on it all
not even realize how toxic this really is. Now, you
could get very rich if you buying into this system.
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So we have to ask ourselves what is priority? Is
it priority for us to live a life of holiness
or to live a life of luxury? Right? Because think
about it, God is giving us a choice on how
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we should live, how we should decide to live. On
one hand, we can live by our lustful desires. If
we allow our lust to get so strong and unchecked,
then there's no telling what we can get involved in.
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Think about these countries that promote sex trafficking. Why to
satisfy the lust of men? They kidnap young women and
young boys for that matter. They come up missing and
they take them who God knows, who knows where, and
(22:41):
people can come and have their way. They pay. They
do it because they can profit. They do it for
a profit. Why do they corrupt the politicians? Right? It
says that the kings of the earth can be in
farnication with her. So this is the banking system. This
(23:02):
is there's powers, beloved that are behind the political system
of the world. Don't think that our president is in control.
Don't think that these kings and these representatives of these
different nations that they're in control. This chapter right here
is exposing a system that is behind all this, and
(23:28):
God is judging it. The nations of the world are
committing funication because they can profit. They can profit. All right,
let's go through some more of this and then we'll
fall back or some more because I just want to
explain on that a little more. Now verse four and
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I heard in other ways from Heaven saying, come out
of her, my people, that ye be not partake of
her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues.
Now this is a clear call to separation. God causes
people to exit Babylon, both spiritually and literally, if they're
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going to avoid judgment. Now this is God's mercy. He's
warning his people don't get too comfortable in this world's system.
They say, wake up, call for all the believers not
to compromise with this culture. We're in this world, but
(24:39):
we're not of it. We don't have to cheat and
be cutthroat and do all the things that this world
does to gain a profit or to get ahead. All right,
let's go through verse five. And her sins have reached
unto heaven and God has remembered her iniquities. God's patience
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has an end, which is sobering to me. Right, I
remember at one time I just thought I could do
whatever and God will always forgive. And God will Now
you know, his patience won't run out, and grace will
always be there. No, you can run out of grace.
You can run out of God's patience. Man. See Babylognians.
(25:31):
The Babylongnian sins are stacked high, and judgment is no
longer delayed. See, God has like a measurement. Even when
God was talking to Father Abraham and he was saying,
when the nations, when their cup is full of iniquity,
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then that's when he will judge. And this is scary.
It means that there is a limit her sins reach heaven.
That's like saying it's overflowing. Now you might get away
with sin for a while, but not forever. God doesn't
forget injustices, God will remember. And so this Babylonian system
(26:17):
is getting away with it. Now it seems like they're winning.
It seems like the people of God are behind economically
and politically and all this stuff. But there's a limit
to it. God is just patiently waiting. Now verse six,
we ward her even as she rewarded you, and double
(26:46):
and double into her double according to her works and
the cup which she has feeled full of her double.
Am I read right?
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (27:00):
I said double a couple of times, double, double judgment.
Now Babylon receives divine payback. This is divine payback right here,
double for her evil. See, God's judgment is perfect, just
in proportional. He measures it out. It's not revenge, is justice.
(27:26):
Everything she poured out in corruption, oppression, and sin, God
is about to pour it back double. And don't just
look at this Babylonian system. This is how God is
going to judge our individual lives. If you read the scripture,
it's always saying that we're going to be judged according
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to our works. That could be a scary thing or
that could be a good thing. It depends on if
your works. Look at your works, look at the fruit
of your life. What are you doing? What are habits?
What are your disciplines? What are you practicing. Do you
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have a prayer time, do you take time out to study?
Do you spend time with God. I have a routine,
you know, I go, I do my push ups to
kind of help me start. It's just it's about discipline,
creating new habits. I get into the word, I do
this podcast, I spend time with the family. There's different things,
(28:32):
you know that. There's different if you kind of structure
your life in discipline your life. You know, I go
to church, we do outreach, then you can produce good fruit.
Now I'm not saying I'm perfect. There's areas I definitely
need to work on, But I'm saying it doesn't have
to be a scary thing if our works are good.
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Verse seven. How much she has glorified herself and live deliciously,
so much torment and sorrow give her, for she said
in her heart, I sit as queen, and I am
no widow, and I shall see no sorrow. Babylon's pride
(29:17):
is her downfall. Remember, the Bible says God will resist
the proud and give grace to the humble. She thought
that she was untouchable, living in luxury without fear of
loss or even God's judgment. This is the pride of
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the world. I don't need God, is what they say.
I don't need God. I'm self made. But God always
brings down pride. If you exalt yourself, he will humble you,
especially when you build your own success off of sin,
(30:00):
off of corruption. Have you built your fortune off of sin?
You know how many people make money off of pornography,
having pornographic websites. They're making money off of the souls
(30:21):
of people. Now Revelation eighteen, verse eight. Therefore shall her
play come in one day, death, in mourning and famine,
and she shall be utterly burned with fire. For strong
is the Lord God who judges her. Amen. Now her
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destruction will be sudden, and it will be complete, and
just one day everything will be gone. Why because the
judge is almighty. Don't mistake delay for weakness. If God
(31:09):
moves is fast and its final. Babylon's fall is a
reminder the world system will not last, but the Kingdom
of God will amen. The world system will not last.
(31:32):
Evil has an expiration date. All right, belove it, Let's
go ahead. And take a quick music break. I got
Chris Elijah with heart on my sleeve right here on
the His High Radio podcast. Keep it lying start.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
I thought you was my man. I watch you wash
your hands. I thought you were my brother. How you
need a bail for wife?
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Like me?
Speaker 4 (32:16):
And you wear ies?
Speaker 3 (32:17):
Can't down at ivy ground lately, I've been praying up
to God. Out hold them prayers lad call drop lost connection.
I can't understand, and my problem won't let me call you.
That's the fall of man. Handy man can't even fix
these issues. We gonna need a lamp. Tell me why
so much smoke can here when we just need a band.
I see your mama first at your past. I praise
your hands the best day of my life.
Speaker 4 (32:38):
I know you miss your dad.
Speaker 3 (32:40):
That feeling mutual war, they're paying mutual warf I know
what innocent man hung up by some cut of course,
I mean nails. We can't make this space to usual,
got in break like we used to do. It starts
with me not you can't let this brotherhood die. It's
take the funeral roof father, heal us from his pride
that to be beautiful, you.
Speaker 5 (33:10):
Ship what we med about it while we holding to
it and been the saint since did he died. I
know we're going through it, and spoke to you in
much though I invited you. The gatherers rejected invitations like
my fellings, don't be mattering. You add him in about it.
I'm just keeping it a buck. We try pulling back
the lambs, but our progress is getting stuck and I'm
trying to fight this pride and not the side would
(33:31):
give enough. I mean, you leave me to Christ and
hind you got him in the talk. That's just exception
from the devil got you in the camel clutch. Phyllis
Jumper took conclusions like were playing double dutch. I'm returning
back to faith of making sure I keep in touch.
Speaker 4 (33:44):
That's love. Do it even if I don't get a response.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
I mean I hurt, though I won't lie about it.
Speaker 4 (33:51):
Lord knows I missed my sister and I'm on fire
about it. Some nights I cry about it, but it
leads to prayer more and.
Speaker 5 (33:57):
I know that God is faithful, so I'm sticking to
the Lord.
Speaker 4 (33:59):
Please was moved forward.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
All right, all right, we are back. I'm your boy,
mister his hot and this is his Hot Radio podcast
and we're breaking down Revelation chapter eighteen. We're talking about
the Babylonian commercial system and how it is fallen and
once God Judges' final it'll never that's it. It'll never
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be revived again. So we need to know what is
priority in our own lives. That was Chris Elijah with
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about the commercial system of Babylon. God is finally judging it.
(40:38):
It was a long time coming, right. It's a system
that we know, the system that we grew up in. Now,
the problem with the system is that it's corrupt. People
are living by their lust. Wants us to live by
(41:01):
our reason. He wants us to reason with him. He
gave us a brain, he gave us a way to
reason and to understand things. That's why we have to
get into his word. We have to renew our minds
by the word of God so that we don't get
caught by our lust, so that we can put keep
(41:23):
our lust in check, so we will know that we can.
We're supposed to live a life of the spirit. Now
I wanted to break down this Babylonian system a little further.
Think about the advertisements out there today. Think about how
(41:45):
they play on your lust. See, that's how evil and
wicked this system is. They know what they're doing. They
know that we all have a desire for God. There's
a God's shape hole in every one of us, and
we all long and we're like thirsty, and we're not
(42:05):
satisfied with the things of this world, right, and so
this Babylonian system is there to distract us from what
can really and truly satisfy our souls. So remember growing up,
how years ago for Christmas everybody had to have a
(42:27):
Cabbage Patch doll. Now this is when I was real young.
These cabbage packs little dolls. You know, people were going
crazy for him. They would fight in the malls to
get it for their child. Right then after that it
was Tickle Me Elmo, where there was almost riot. There's
always something that one item you gotta have, and it's
(42:51):
not a good Christmas if we don't have this item. Right, Like,
this is how are luss how this average, this commercial
system can really deceive us. They they play on our
desire for God. Right, they play on it. They know
that there's something in there that we know that we're missing.
(43:12):
We know that that's why Jesus said that if you
drink of this water, you will never thirst again. All right,
sorry for that interruption. It's almost time for me to
(43:35):
go to work, so we might hear some crazy alarms
here as we're doing this podcast. I do this early
in the morning before I get along head on out
with my day. I spent some time with God that
I head out, so excuse me for that. But anyway,
as I was saying that this Babylonian system, there is
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a desire in every man for God, and we try
to satisfy that with the things of this world. We
always think if we get that one thing, you know,
satisfy us, right, that one car, that dream car, or
that relationship. People are really getting ripped off with relationships
(44:18):
because at the beginning, when the emotions are there and
you think that this is gonna be it, this is
gonna satisfy me, and once you get it, you come
up empty. Then you go to the next one and
the next one, and then you just damage and ruin
life after life, right? Or how many times you wanted
(44:39):
that new thing and then and a month later it's like, oh,
you don't even care about it. Right, You're still thirsty,
You're still hungry. And that's what this Babylonian system is
aiming at. And so now the advertisements, they know that
(45:06):
you have this desire for God and it delays, it
distracts it, or some people don't even get satisfied because
they don't drink other waters that Jesus says, you think
you drink these waters, you'll never thirst again. Amen, And
that's what he was addressing. Now, how many commercials and
(45:31):
uh like they know how to manipulate and play with
their minds, like we need They tell us these commercials,
you need this thing. You probably wasn't even thinking about it.
How many times have you scroll on TikTok and you
just there's something there and they just tell you, oh, wow,
you better buy this because they're gonna delete this video
and these the supplies might run out and if you
(45:53):
don't get it now, you might not ever get it.
Then there you go click click, and you know, got
your card out, your credit card out or whatever, and bam,
you better buy that thing. Then all of a sudden,
six months later, they're still playing the same video as there.
It's an advertisement things, it's a it's a thing that
(46:15):
they know that is inside of us. Hey man, now
it's your choice. If you live in this Babylonian system,
you will live a frustrated life because sin and corruption
can never produce what they promise. Never. It'll never And
(46:37):
that's what Satan does. Satan will always promise you something
and he will not deliver on his promise. Now, I
was talking about the corruption of the world. How you
(46:58):
can get rich, how you can get rich, and there's
a lot of wealth in this Babylonian system. If you're
willing to participate with the corruption. Think about I know
(47:19):
we've talked about sex trafficking and prostitution. People do that
because there's profit behind that. A lot of these rich
organizations and rich people they've done corrupt things to obtain
the riches that they have now. And once you do
(47:40):
it that way, you have to keep doing correct things.
You're always looking over your shoulder because somebody else might
come and do to you what you did to them. Right,
and then just look at the economics of the world.
Remember at one time that the United States of America
(48:02):
was the economic powerhouse. Then it went over to Japan
became the economic powerhouse, and now China has become an
economic powerhouse. Like the money keeps moving around, and so
whichever city that is producing or profiting in the most
(48:28):
off of this Babylonian system during the time of this
prophecy is Babylon the Great. It could very well be
a city. It could be New York, or it could
be I don't know, Dubai or or some commentators say
that the Antichrist, the beast is going to rebuild the
(48:51):
ancient city Babylon itself. But once the city is built,
it's going to be very profitable, very profitable. So our
questions we need to ask to ourselves is what are
we willing to compromise to gain a profit? Are we
willing to sell our souls? Are you willing to cheat
(49:14):
on your taxes? Are you willing to steal from your job?
Are you willing to get someone fired so that you
can get promoted? Are you willing to steal? Are you
willing to like we need to have integrity, right, just
(49:37):
actually a little personal story. My wife gotta nail in
the tire. It was on the treads or whatever, so
I knew it could be repaired. But I mean, I thought, well, actually,
(49:57):
let me say this. I thought that I had to
replace the tire, right, And so I'm looking for a
tire shop. One is twenty four hours because I gotta
get this done before I have to go to work.
And you know, my wife needs the other car. So
I put some mirror in it enough to drive it
a little bit, and I take it to the first shop,
(50:20):
tire shop. And first of all, I pull up and
they didn't even see me pull up. They're sitting there.
They come out of the office. They're sitting there eating watermelon.
There's two guys, like outside, there's a guy in the door.
There's a lady that comes out, and I'm sitting here
like hello, and you know, the car's running, My light's on,
(50:42):
like I know you see me here. So finally I
turned the light off, turn the car off, and I
get out, Hello, can I get a tire? And so
the guy comes out barely speaking English, which is okay,
but we uh talk about the tire and he's, well,
he doesn't know they might have sold out of the
one I needed, and the one they have might be
(51:05):
a little whiter than the one I got now, And
so before it's said and done, he says, Okay, this
is gonna be sixty five dollars. I'm like, I'm just
gonna get used tired. You know that's pricey. And he's like, yeah,
I know it's kind of pricey, but you know you're
an emergency now, you need it, get it now, and
(51:25):
this and that any other and you can, you know,
try to get a different one later or something like that.
I'm like, man, who wants to waste money like that?
And I just tell the guy. I'm like, uh no, thanks,
I'll just go keep I'll go to another spot. He's
like okay. Then I walked away. Now normally sometimes I'll
just do it just to you know, because I already
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drove kind of far to get to this spot. I'm
surprised that they're I gotta search around and see if
there's a twenty four hour tire shop closer to my house.
But I had to go almost like fifteen minutes away
to get to this spot. And I'm like, just the
Holy Spirit is signed me. I was just like, you know, what, No,
I'm not just gonna waste money like that. Sixty five dollars.
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So at GPS another spot it was actually closed a
little frustrating. I'm like, oh, I'm gonna go to a
spot that I know, you know, I've been to, like
probably probably a couple of months ago. It was another
maybe ten minutes away, further away from the house. But
I go to the spot. The guy looks at it,
(52:31):
he said right away, twenty five bucks. He looks at
the nail. There's a nail and the tire. Then fifteen
minutes bam, he changed your tires out. I'm good. Twenty
five hours later, and I'm like, man, this corrupt system.
Like these people they think that you're at a disadvantage.
You didn't want to capitalize on it. They were betting
(52:55):
on me, just saying Okay, I'll pay this sixty five
dollars when all it costs US twenty five dollars to
repair the tire and get the nail out of it. Like,
I don't know, believe it. You guys gotta like we
gotta really pray and ask God to help us in
this corrupt system. And I never really saw it like
this until I started reading the Book of Revelation and
(53:19):
to understand, now, is it evil to make a profit. No,
it's not. But Jesus tells us to store our treasures
in heaven where moth don't corrupt and thieves don't break in,
and to use the riches of this world to win souls. Right,
(53:41):
We're supposed to use our resources for kingdom purposes. That's
why when you sold into this podcast, when you sold
into this ministry, you're storing up riches for yourself in heaven.
Because I make sure that this is good ground. I
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make sure we're faithful to the work here and that
we're living it out and man and man. But yeah,
I just wanted to break down and just try to
open up your eyes and see this Babylonian system that
(54:25):
we are actually a part of that's all around us,
and how to navigate through it. Just keep your integrity,
to store up your riches in heaven. And if you
do have a bag, don't get it in a corrupted way.
Earn it. The Bible says, little by little. You know,
we're supposed to get our inheritance, we're supposed to build,
(54:47):
We're supposed to leave houses to our children. Were supposed
to provide for our families, but we're supposed to work
for it. We're supposed to the labor of our hands,
you know, or what we work for, or you know,
the things that that God has given us to get
our wealth and riches. And we're not supposed to worship
that wealth. We're supposed to give and be generous with it.
(55:13):
It's not supposed to possess us, because if it does,
that's when we become corrupt. I don't want to be
in a habitation with foul birds and spirits and all
that stuff, with broaches and the bugs and beetles, and
you know, I don't want to be a part of
that system. That's man. I want to give some rain
right now and start spraying, you know what I'm saying. Anyway,
(55:39):
my time is up. It's time to close out. This
wraps up our deep dive into Revelation eighteen and one
through eight. Stay tuned for the next episode as we
cover nine through twenty four and see the full collapse
of the Babylonian system. This isent, this is final. The
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system will never be revived again. Because when you see
the reign of Christ, Jesus says, come by with no money,
come freely. He freely gives to every man. No man
will lack. The guy's kingdom will see and take a
look at his economic system as we get there. But
(56:25):
until then, stay kingdom minded, keep your lights shining, and
always remember, don't just listen to the beat, live out
the message. Check out my brother's Zone three. He's got
some hot music out there. Keep that fire burning, my brother.
(56:48):
Check out our website. Give it a couple of kicks
and the tires. Take it for a test drive. Check
out all the pages. We got a lot there. Check
out every page. Comment on our blogs and share us
on social media network. Share us with your family members
(57:10):
and loved ones. Check out our app do the same thing.
Go through every page, every tab. Trust me, there's something
there for you and something there for your loved ones
because we are getting you prepared and ready for the
return of the King. Amen, I'm gonna close out like
(57:31):
I always do. Is that about us? It's all about
the Christ in us. God bless
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