Revelation Study Ch16 Cont

Major change. You had other skirmishes that would take place in that large area with the

Philistines into the time of David. But then you have another major one shift that, this is huge, in the book of Isaiah.

In the book of Isaiah, you have a, around 733

B .C., you have Tiglath -Pileser. He's coming down, he's making his way from Galilee, and he is just taking all of these areas.

I mean, just marching his way. He then takes, you don't know how strategic this place is.

You control this area, you control trade and everything that comes and goes. That's why it's so important.

Whoever controlled Valley of Jezreel basically controlled the trade flow and who could come and go because the plain was so big.

Tiglath -Pileser comes down around 733 and he makes his way. I mean, just wreaking havoc.

He captures the Valley of Jezreel, 733, which then sets the stage for Shalmaneser, his successor, to then surround

Samaria. And Shalmaneser doesn't succeed in the destruction of Samaria, but his successor does,

Sargon. Hey, buddy. Hey. His successor does.

Sargon, 722, major defeat upon who?

Remember? Northern Kingdom falls. The Northern Kingdom falls in Samaria in 722.

The Northern Kingdom never exists in the way that it does again. They're hauled off into captivity by the

Assyrians. That's where Samaria becomes the inbred people that nobody liked. Remember?

Because what was Assyria, and we're not going to finish, and Assyria, what was their method of operation in war?

You take these people out, you send them to another land, you intermarry the nationalism out, and then you take other people that you have captured in other lands, you bring them in, you plant them in this area, and you intermarry out the nationalism.

Remember, nationalism in and of itself is not bad, because what does nationalism do?

It helps you protect your home front. But when you're dispersed all over in the diaspora, okay, of the

Samarian captivity, they go off. They're breeding out nationalism so they'll never come back and fight.

Matter of fact, they breed it out so bad here that they don't even get along with the Jews in the upper or lower.

Remember? Matter of fact, even the weak of Jesus is, because they're so disliked, not that Jesus disliked the

Samaritans, but when they would make their trek from Galilee, they would hop the Jordan, come this way, go around through the

Decapolis, so they didn't have to go through Samaria, and they'd hop over. That's actually what Jesus does on the week of his crucifixion.

He goes around. He comes down through Jericho. I don't know if y 'all remember all that.

That's what takes place. He's following, basically, Jesus is following the caravan, or the caravan's following him as he's making his way to Jerusalem to be crucified that week before.

So whoever controls this controls basically everything in Israel, okay?

Then you have another huge, this is very significant, in the

Valley of Jezreel. You have a bunch of reforms that take place, or a bunch of kings that come. Then in the southern kingdom, you have a man that rises to power, or is made king at eight years old.

He, after being king for eight years old, he begins to honor and obey the

Lord. I believe that's Josiah's conversion, and that he was 16 years old, and he begins to go out.

I think it's four years after his conversion. He then goes out, and he begins to lay waste to all the high places where everything that the

Samaritans had infiltrated into the southern kingdom, he begins to fix. He kills the priest of the

Baals. He burns up their altars. He knocks down the groves in the high places. He then goes where they had the homosexual prostitutes inside the temple complex, and he kills them all.

Then he digs up the bones of those people, and he burns them as a fulfillment on the altar, as a fulfilled prophecy of the prophet.

But as he is making very great reforms, he gets word in 609 that Pharaoh Niko is coming.

I mean, you can't see down here, but this is Egypt. Pharaoh Niko's making his way up to go fight over here

Nebuchadnezzar's son, who is Nebuchadnezzar.

At this point, the Babylonian empire is beginning to get feet.

With the fall of, this would have been in 609, with the fall of Nineveh in 612, with some help of the

Scythians, maybe some of the Babylonians in 612 BC, you have now the rise of the

Babylonian empire. Well, Pharaoh Niko says, hey, we've got some Assyrians with us.

We'll go over here. We'll squash Nebuchadnezzar before he comes and gets us, because what's

Nebuchadnezzar's goal? World domination by his father's decree.

As they're trying to do that, Josiah says, you ain't coming through my land.

And that sounds pretty reasonable, doesn't it? Well, Pharaoh Niko says, hey, let me tell you something.

Your God told me to go, and your

God told me if you don't get out of my way, I'm going to kill you. Josiah should have listened.

Okay? We know that God at times speaks through pagan kings. He did through the

Pharaoh of old when Abraham gave Sarah to him, and he said, hey, dude, you about got me killed.

I was fixing to sleep with your wife. You know you don't take another man's wife? Okay. So he should have listened, and he didn't.

He dresses up as a regular fighter. He goes to the valley of Megiddo. And that defeat of the killing of Josiah in that battle, that paved the way for the fall of Judah.

And you say, well, how does it pave the way for the fall of Judah? Because every reform that Josiah had enacted falls when

Josiah falls. Now, when it fell, the battle of Megiddo, now what does that make

Israel to Egypt? Makes them a vassal state.

Okay? Now that they're a vassal state, who actually is running the show? Is it Judah or is it

Theronica? Theronica. So now you understand why great defeats are understood as in the battle of Megiddo or in the

Jezreel valley of Megiddo. And just another tidbit of information of how important the valley of Jezreel is in biblical redemptive history.

Anybody know member Jehu? Remember Jehu? He's the one that threw what's -her -face off the bow or had his guys, the eunuchs throw

Jezebel down from the balcony and then the dogs ate her and it fulfilled the prophecy that she was going to be spread out all over the

Jezreel valley and all of that. Well, how did that happen? Because what happens as soon as a dog eats?

What did they do? They defecated her all over. Okay? But if you know anything about Jehu, Jehu was the

Hebrew John Wick. That was a bad dude. Okay?

But there is a prophecy against him in this area to be fulfilled.

Jehu, although he was the Hebrew John Wick, he overstepped his boundaries at times.

He had been commissioned by God to go out and kill all of Ahab and all of Jezebel's descendants, but he went a little overboard.

He did kill Joram, and he did kill Ahab's Ahia, but one of those was the king of Judah.

Should he have done that? Well, he wasn't commissioned by God to do that, but then he went out and anybody that Ahab knew, he was killing.

So he went a little overboard, and if you go to the book of Hosea, chapter 1, one of the child, the childs, one of the children that is born to Gomer, just to let you know, if you're going to get married young men at some point in time in your life, don't marry a woman named

Gomer. Okay? He marries Gomer, and Gomer was what?

Prostitute. Imagine that guy. I don't want to get off on that tangent, but anyway.

One of the kids, the name is going to be Jezreel, and you go, why?

No reason to ask why. God tells you why, because you're going to name him Jezreel because I'm going to take care of Jehu's bloodshed in that valley, and that's what he does.

So understand Valley of Jezreel, Valley of Megiddo, Plain of Megiddo, Mount of Megidion, however you want to understand that.

Great defeats for people. Major falls and transition of empires and dynasties take place there.

Remember, Jehu had a dynasty. Because of what he did, God says, I'm going to make a dynasty. I'm giving you commission.

When he was anointed king to go do what he was to do, if you want to go back,

I think it's, yeah, 2 Kings, chapter 9, when he is commissioned to go,

Elijah sends a younger prophet to anoint him as king. So when he sends him there, he's like, hey, man,

I need to talk to you, and he's with his friends. They go into a back room, per se.

They go away from the other group, and he says, hey, man, you're king, and he anoints him king. Well, then when he comes back out, and here's what you're supposed to do.

You're supposed to go kill the dynasty of Ahab and Jezebel. He gives him specific instructions.

Well, then he goes out with his buddies. His buddies were like, hey, what was all that about? He's like, you know how old

Babylon people are. That guy didn't know what he was talking about. Well, then when they find out, actually, that he is king, dude, they're on board for wreaking havoc and being the justice of God.

Okay. So Jehu is given a dynasty, but that dynasty does the same thing that Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, does.

Anybody remember who Jeroboam is? He was an idolater. They do the same thing. So God says, hey,

I'm going to wipe your dynasty out. You did not continue to end the ways that you were supposed to. So understand, this area, great falls of dynasty, strategic defeat, change, and upheavals, upheavals, upheaval of life.

That brings us to, let's now, that gives you the background of the area.

It says here in verse 13 of chapter 16, and then I saw coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet three unclean spirits like frogs.

One, the dragon, the beast, false prophet. The dragon, Satan. We all agree.

False prophet or the beast, we would agree. And its original context would have been who?

Rome. Rome. Okay. The original beast would have been Rome.

If you remember when I said that once we, the second beast that comes up out of the land will eventually be called the false prophet.

Here it is. This is it. This is where it's called the false prophet. So you have the dragon.

He empowers the beast. The beast then has beast two. Beast two becomes the cheerleader for beast one.

So here it is. It's saying that coming out of the mouth of the dragon and the beast and the false prophet are three unclean spirits like frogs.

Why frogs? Anybody have any, any reason why it'd be frogs? Tie back to the

Exodus. Sure. Were frogs unclean beings? Unclean animals.

Beings don't sound right. Unclean animals. You know rats are actually much cleaner than people think.

Are they? Yeah. Oh good. What about frogs though? Unclean.

Yeah. What did things that came out of the water, what did they have to have to be clean?

Scales. Scales. Had to have scales. There was other things that, you know, things that came out of the water had to have scales.

They couldn't, they had to, they had to be strikers. There was all specific things. You go, man that's weird.

Well why do they have to be strikers and have scales? Well one, animals that have scales don't, are usually not bottom feeders.

And if you're a bottom feeder, what do you eat? You eat that and anything that's dead.

And God made it clear that anything that you eat is going to feed off of life. See that's the whole point of the

Mosaic legislation when he said you don't eat shellfish. Not because it ain't good, because it eats off turds or whatever.

Okay. It eats off whatever on the bottom of the ocean. That's why.

God says my people will feed off of that which gives life. What do frogs eat? Anything they can get, they're like, they're like swine.

They'll eat whatever they can get their hands on. So this is a picture of uncleanness. Frogs are unclean and out of the mouth of the beast.

False prophet. Empowered by the dragon are these unclean spirits.

And these unclean spirits, remember this isn't, this isn't literal. This is literally what he saw, but this isn't literal.

It wasn't like, uh, you seen the, uh, the ten -headed dragon, belch, and frogs came out.

Okay, that's not. This is an imagery of what's taking place. I believe though right here in where you see in verse 13, there is a shift from the destruction of Jerusalem to now pointing to the end of the age.

And we'll get there because he says that he's bringing them all together for the great war of the great day of God Almighty.

There's one of those. There's one of those coming. When is that?

It's the end of the age. It is the end of the age. Now, I believe that what we're seeing here is a picture of, uh,

John rooted in the Old Testament goes, man, political upheavals and huge transitions took place here.

So God's rooted back in the Old Testament is saying this great day is going to be a huge upheaval and transition.

It's going to be so huge that when we get to verse 17, it's going to be the end of the world.

This, this, uh, Armageddon, Har -Megidion, Valley of Megiddo, is all this is, is a precursor of what is going, is a precursor of what is, is being described as the last great day, last great battle.

And I will even say that if you, cause I understand the book is parallel progressivism or parallel progressive.

If you turn your Bible over to chapter 19, you know what you're going to read?

Almost the same thing. It says that the armies of the world are gathered together and they're going to make war against God and his saints.

And then what happens? That great, oh man, the best depiction of Jesus Christ ever.

What does he descend on? He descends on a white horse. And what's on his head? He's got the crowns of all the kingdoms.

His eyes are like fire. He's got a sword that comes out of his mouth. He's on a white charger and his blood is drenched with the blood of his enemies.

He's got a tattoo on his leg. It says King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And what does he do? He comes and he lays waste to all the enemies of God.

That's what this is talking about. That's what this is talking about. And I believe that the

Revelation 19 passage points back to, if you want to go look at, points back to the

Isaiah 63. Isaiah 63 actually, my favorite hymn, and we won't sing it because it's gory.

My favorite hymn is who is he that comes out of Edom? Go read Isaiah 63 and you will see why we don't sing that in the main service.

It talks about the bloodshed, the blood all over him, talking about making justice and vengeance, and his hands and his arms just filled with blood.

That's why we don't sing that hymn. It was written in 1809 by Thomas Kelly, so this isn't something new.

But it's talking about this great day. So you've got the dragon, the beast, the false prophet, which continue on through the end of the age.

Remember, is there a beast in every generation? Is there? Has to be.

Because what is the beast? It's a political operative.

We've said this already. We've seen it through, even through Daniel. How many beasts were in Daniel? There were four.

We go now to Revelation, and the beast continues to live. And how do we know that?

Because if you go to Daniel chapter 7, it says that the beasts are given an extension of life for a time.

It's Daniel chapter 7, verses 10 and 11. So when you think that the beasts are dead, what happens?

God says, wait a minute. They have been overthrown, but I'm giving them an extension of life for a time to carry out his purposes.

So the last major in biblical narrative, we would say in its immediate context, who was the beast that was in view?

It would have been Rome. Who was the person that was the cheerleader for Rome at this time?

It would have been Nero. Now, fast forward, every generation is going to have a cheerleader.

Are you raising your hand? Yes, sir. Do you make a distinction between the beast and the man of sin that's referred to elsewhere?

The man of sin is actually different than the beast. The man of sin actually would be the false prophet that would point to the beast.

The beast is always a political religiosity institution, okay?

Always. Now, if you're speaking of that speaking of Nero as the beast, is that what you're speaking of?

I was referring to the passage. Okay, well, the man of lawlessness is actually someone that will be raised up at the end of the age.

Because you have two, and it's like this isn't, I'm not saying this is what you're doing, but what happens is people conflate.

Anybody know what conflate is? It's when you take two ideas and you push them together, and then you're making an idea that the text really is not saying.

So normally, when you conflate something, it has a bad connotation. Politicians do it all the time.

All the time. I'm not saying you're a politician, okay? But what happens is we're looking at the man of lawlessness and go, wait a minute, that's the beast.

And it is often said by commentators and preachers that the man of lawlessness, that's being spoken, if you're partial preterist or preterist, is the man of lawlessness is speaking of Nero.

I do not, okay? I do not. Nero was called the beast. But the real reason why

Nero is called a beast is because if you remember, when you had two beasts that come out of the dragon, one comes up out of the ocean and one comes up out of the sea.

Y 'all remember that? I mean, one comes up out of the sea and one comes up out of the land. Remember? The one that comes up out of the sea was the religious figure.

We would say that would have been Rome. Then it says there's another one that comes up out of the land. And what was that guy's purpose?

To point back to the religious political thing. Hey, you worship him. You do this.

I'm going to enforce the law that you worship him. Well, when the man of lawlessness comes on the scene, that's at the end of the age.

I do believe that that is the final figure that raises himself up, places himself to be

God, and he will present himself in, because it says, in the temple of God, I believe.

You remember, what's the temple? It's not the structure. It's the people of God. That's what the man of lawlessness, from my understanding, okay?

Now, if you, if someone disagrees with me, that's fine. That's pretty, that's pretty interesting. Yeah, well, you have to remember,

Paul gives them specific instructions on what they're doing. Remember, Thessalonians, both books are about the great day of the

Lord has already come. And he's like, no, it hasn't come. And here's why it hasn't come.

One, it hasn't come because the man of lawlessness has not been revealed and the, the great apostasy has not taken place.

Notice that those two are connected together, the great apostasy and the man of sin.

So when the man of sin is revealed, what does he do? He causes great apostasy by doing what?

By telling people, don't follow Christ, follow the beast, follow whatever religious political figure that is, institution, follow it at the end of the age.

Now, if you were a historicist, they would say that the man of sin would be who?

The pope. Who is the beast? Roman Catholic church. Yeah.

So you see how every generation has an understanding. I think the historicist is wrong.

Okay. And then obviously, if you're a futurist, it's going to be some guy. Um, some people think it's

Donald Trump. Okay. Um, there's going to be some guy at the end of the day. Yes, sir.

He's got a horn. Good. I was going to say my point of interest when I was at Bob Jones, my freshman year in college, they had

Ian Paisley declared the pope was anti.

Hey, and I want you to know, I would agree. I would agree with anybody that says that the pope is, is antichrist is okay.

Is it's when you put that definite article in front of it, when it says he is the, and remember our historical confession or some of the historic, not hours, historical confessions, which is one of the reasons why we didn't adopt the 1689.

One of the reasons upon multiple others is because they claim that the pope is the antichrist.

I can't affirm that. Okay. I can't. I can. I understand why the

Baptist of our forefathers did. Okay. I understand and the Westminster confession. I understand why they did that because from their time and they saw that this is it who persecuted more people than anybody, the

Catholic church, who put himself in the place of God claiming to be God, the pope. Okay. So no,

I do not believe the man of lawlessness is the beast. Good question though. Good question. So meanwhile, back to our scheduled programming, which we will not finish today.

All right. I believe this is here, the final great day of the political religious false prophet bringing in all the armies of the world.

And here's why, because it says in verse 14, for they are spirits of demons.

And what are these demons doing? Anybody can read? What does it say? What did you say? Okay. Yeah.

Actually, I like that better than mine. Mine says performing signs. I don't, I prefer that because and I really do believe that's the idea.

Okay. I want everybody in this room to know I'm totally and completely against any false teaching.

I don't believe in faith healers in that sense, but don't think for one minute that some of the stuff that they do ain't real.

Okay. Now I'm not talking about some guy holding some guy's leg down and doing a little polar chicken, popping his leg and making it grow two inches.

I've always said this. If you can make a guy's leg grow two inches, then go down there where people's appendages have been blown off and make it grow a foot.

What is it for God? What's two inches or a foot? Okay. That's my argument. But don't think that God hasn't given those people, and I know, and I will take any question on this.

Okay. Don't think that God hasn't given them and empowered them with the ability to do miracles to mislead people.

Okay. Excuse me. I'm so sorry. Don't think that God doesn't send, and I'm going to use,

I'm going to use a first Thessalonians man of lawlessness thing, that God will not send them a strong delusion to believe a lie rather than the truth.

Look. It's all through Scripture. You continue to suppress the truth and unrighteousness.

God is in no way obligated to continue to pursue you with truth.

God can say, you want it? Okay. You want, you want your sin?

Here you go. Matter of fact, you want it so much? I'm going to give it all over to you. What does Romans 1 say?

He gives them over, whether it's unbelief to, I want to follow false teaching. I'm this king.

Here you go. Yes, sir. I think it's interesting too how that points back to the Exodus passage when you have the false magicians.

They throw their rods down and become snakes. Yep. There is a demonic power that is associated that they are enabled with, but it is always subjected to the

Holy Spirit and the spirit of Christ being greater. Sure.

Always. Yeah. That's showing the, the authority, right? Yeah. Yes. The supremacy and authority of God's person.

Now I want you to understand that I do believe that demons can do crazy stuff. Okay. Obviously they can.

I believe that demons possess people and do wild stuff. Okay. Lord, Lord, did we not do this, that, and the other?

I was going to, I was going to, yeah, I was going to bring that up because it's, it's interesting when you talk about that Matthew 7 passage, it's 21 through 23.

He's, notice what Jesus says. He says, Hey, uh, Lord, Lord, did we not do things in your name?

Hey, they are actually speaking theologically correct because Jesus says, they're going to say this to me.

He's not just making a Lord, Lord. So they're making a, a theologically correct statement about Jesus.

Maybe a matter of fact, they're going to say the same thing that Thomas did when he saw the risen savior and went, what

Lord, my Lord. Okay. So they say, Lord, Lord, did we not do miracles?

Did we not do all of these things? And notice what Jesus does not say to them. Ah, those were fake.

You thought you did, but you didn't know. He doesn't say that. He goes, no, no, no. Depart from me.

I never knew you. He never says you didn't do those things. Never. What's that?

Yeah. And the, and because they were doing it for wanton gain, if you want to go to the, to the, to the, uh, the, the, the, both

Peter passages, it says they've been trained in wantonness practices. So what did they do?

And matter of fact, even Peter says they have been carved out for this purpose for destruction. So those people that do that, do those signs and miracles to mislead people to follow themselves for wantonness gain, he says,

Hey, these people have been, been carved out in eternity past for destruction. Okay. So don't think that these signs, man,

I like that miracles are not real. This is the real deal. Okay. This is for real.

That's why when they see these things, why do people go, why are people misled?

Why? Just like a man's misled for the lust and desire of another woman for his eyes, which is sinful.

Same way. A person can be misled or, um, enamored by a miracle.

Even when Jesus did miracles. Okay. He went out. I've said this a billion times.

When Jesus was going out, he was doing miracles. He was doing signs and wonders. They were, everybody was just all up in arms about the miracle.

And Jesus actually, remember the one guy, uh, if I remember correctly, it was the one that came down through the roof and, and so I'm open to correction, but it was one of the lame men, but I think it was the one that came down through the roof and Jesus said, your sins are forgiven.

He went to that point about his walking, your sins are forgiven. And the commotion was, who is this?

Who's this guy? This guy said the sins are forgiven. Who is he? And the conversation then continues to go on.

And Jesus said, well, what's easier for you to do? Say your sins are forgiven or say, get up and walk.

And I think that's hilarious because they couldn't do either. They couldn't do either. One, they couldn't say your sins are forgiven because they had already made the statement.

Who can only forgive sin? God. And that way he picked up stones, wanted to kill him one time because of that. And he says, then, okay, well, you know what?

Check it out, dude. He doesn't walk. God picked up his bed and walked. That's probably the happiest day of his life. Imagine hearing the

Lord tell you your sins are forgiven. Oh man. I'm not talking about when regeneration comes and you feel the forgiveness of your sins.

I'm talking about the Lord of glory. The one with the nail scars in his hand, the spear in his side, nails in his feet goes, hey, your sins are forgiven.

Buddy, that'll change you. And he says, your sins are forgiven. People were just enamored with the fact that he was doing all of these miracles.

And Jesus says, you understand the only reason why I'm doing this is to show you that the son of man has the power to forgive sins.

What accompanied the apostles when they went out and preached the gospel? What was it?

Miracles. Yeah, you're right. But as they preached the word, what did they do? They did just like their master did.

They're going to preach the word. You know what? We're going to show you that we have the power, that we have the authority to forgive sin given to us by our master by doing the same thing he did.

Get up and walk, raising people from the dead. I mean, some crazy stuff. I mean, what about Paul?

I mean, they were trying, Paul was making tents and they were trying to get his sweat rags. Remember? That's the signs and miracles.

Remember Peter walking down the road and people getting in his shadow? Y 'all remember that crazy thing?

What happened when they got in his shadow? They were healed. Those people were getting freaked out about those things, but not remembering that the fact that that was to show that they had the power to forgive sin.

Simon the Magician. I got to wrap it up. Dang it. Simon the Magician. He was probably the only...

You guys been studying him longer than me, so correct me if I'm wrong. Probably the only one in scripture that was baptized as a false convert.

Simon the Magician in Acts by Philip the Evangelist. Remember the one that preached to or got up in the chariot with the

Ethiopian eunuch and says, hey, Isaiah 53 is talking about Christ. The very place you're going, that guy's been crucified, dead, resurrected.

And he says, what do we do? And he baptized the Ethiopian eunuch. Well, also

Simon the Magician or Simon Magus comes into the local assembly.

He says, hey, I want to be a believer. Philip baptizes him, but why?

Remember that whole narrative in Acts? Why did Simon the Magician want to be part of the covenant community? He wanted to do the miracles and there's actually something that takes place in church history after that.

It's called simony. That's what it's rooted in. They wanted to do this. They wanted to pay. Remember, he tried to buy the miracles.

He tried to buy the speaking in tongues and all that. That's where simony comes from in church history.

So when you hear somebody, if you're reading books or whatever in church history, that this person was involved in simony, that's what it was.

They were trying to buy their way into right standing with the church. Indulgences actually kind of fall along that line.

So Simon the Magician tries to do the same thing. He wants the signs and miracles. Why? If he can heal people, what's he going to do?

He's going to do just like Kenneth Copeland. He's going to do just like Benny Hinn. He's going to do just like Paul White and every one of them brothers that are damned to hell.

He was going to go out there and he was going to charge them money to then make money and prostitute the word of God.

Oh, I get fired up about false teachers. Man, when I first got saved, I had no, I think we should have round them up and burned them.

I want to tell you, I did. I thought that's wrong. I had a man had to pull me to the side and rebuke me for it, but I saw,

I'm new Christian. I'm seeing people led astray. I said, what was wrong with rounding them people up and burning them?

They did it. They did it in the inquisition. They did it. Some of them, but then he told me, Hey, some of those were real

Christians. Don't wrap, don't, you don't be the one to wrap up the good with the bad.

You let God handle that. And I remember when he said that to me, I said, okay, I get it.

God forgive me. That's murderous. But man, I just saw them as such a detriment. Look, we can, if people hurt the body.

Okay. That you, you can get over that. But if you mislead someone's soul and they die, that's forever.

That's forever. You know, now I didn't just stop me from going out there and preaching condemnation down in front of a

Titus harvest dome or down there at the Coliseum. When they came down there, which Joel Osteen, buddy,

I've, I tried to call fire down from heaven out there, but the violence

I wanted to do on them, I had repented of, but God, please consume them or break their teeth.

So the Valley of Jezreel, I got to wrap it up. Valley of Jezreel, Armageddon, Mount Gil, uh, uh, uh, harm

Gideon, Mount of Gideon, all of those synonymous terms of up governmental and transitional upheaval in which in the apocalyptic vision is a reminder that when these armies gather on that final day, just like they gathered in the

Valley of Jezreel to fight when Christ returns on that white charger, we'll talk about that when we get to 19, that is that really what he's going to come.

There's just, just an imagery. Uh, we'll get into all that. But when Christ returns, I just want you to know this is a, this is no fight.

Hey, the fastest UFC fight ever lasted five seconds. Jorge Mazdaval throws a flying knee and flattens

Ben Askren. I mean, flatten. Hey man, when that battle takes place on the final day, it ain't even going to be that.

It's going to be spoken and it's over. It's over. And it talks about, and we, we read earlier in the book that that says that that Valley will be the blood will come up to the, to the bridle of the, the horse.

All that's imagery. That's actually the, where the blood's talking about coming up to the bridle of the, that's the imagery of the final great day.

Once again, progressive parallelism or parallel progressives. This is it. The same thing said different way.

Same thing said a different way. Same thing said a different way. Um, all right, well,

I guess next week we'll pick up at verse 15. Will you, uh, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry.

Um, Stephen Bear, will you close us brother? One who's had victory over death,

Lord, and you risen from the grave and that you will judge. We thank you that we can rest in that truth and that promise

Lord help us to be busy as the church out there seeking to win others to you,

Lord, and to lay siege to just the cultural institutions that are anti -Christ in their thinking and in their word.

Lord, we just ask that you'd be with us as we go into worship, that she would help us to worship in spirit and truth and bring glory and honor to your name.