07-11-2021

Thanksgiving for Worship, Teaching, and the Morning Service

Lord, thank you so much for the service thus far and for being with us and and even guiding down to the songs that we sing and thank you that you meet with us. Thank you for the Sunday school lesson this morning from Brother Dave and Lord it was very very in line with the message today.

We ask you to bless Brother Bill and protect him as he's away from us today. Bring him back safely. We'll miss him and watch over us today Lord. May we stay in the word just like the music today was wonderful doctrine and let us stay in the word and may you guide us and teach us in Jesus name.

Amen. Yeah, the doctrinal message and the song Betsy put up there was fantastic and it's like reading the bible almost. Well, we're in making our way through Romans chapter 11 and let me see if I can get this thing to work.

Sometimes you have to click on it once. All right, so we've kind of jumped off into this area of Paul giving us the possibility of God plucking the Gentile church off the tree and re-inserting the Jews and we know that's exactly what will happen during the tribulation time period.

The last seven years that's when that will happen and of course my belief is my interpretation of certain scripture is that when the Lord actually returns at the second coming any Jewish person who's still alive on the planet will receive him as their messiah and that's what I think Paul meant when he said all Israel shall be saved and so that's going to be a joyous event.

It doesn't mean that there there's a mistaken notion out there because so many false books that have been written about the end times it's unfortunate and people mean well and they just I don't know they I think sometimes young men learn things in seminary and it colors the way they read the scripture the rest of their lives and they interpret it through that sieve and so that's a problem but they get the idea that the church is not in on the planet during that seven years which is false the church is here till the end in fact that the when they ask Jesus the apostles ask him tell us when the end of the world will be.

The word is age and it's a reference to the church age the age that they were about to go into at Pentecost when will that age be over and he answered that question and it's the answer to his question in Matthew 24 answered and gave signs of when the end of that age would happen and the church is very much still here in fact people are added to the church throughout the seven years or at least a lot of the seven years hundreds of thousands of gentiles will be saved and as I just said I believe all the Jews will be saved.

They're still alive at the end of it so you know that that's an amazing thing to understand. So it's sad that books mislead people and they call it predominantly a Jewish time period. It's not predominantly a Jewish time period it's a Jewish and a church time period and it's talking about God's people and we've given much evidence of that in the last few messages.

So if you missed those go out and check out the archives at parkmeadowschurch .com and listen to some of the previous messages where frequently well I'm going to lose my voice here and it didn't bring any water when you know it frequent it's probably because Matt's here.

He can get me some water. I always forget when Matt's here but anyway so many times up here we'll push a little box up there and it'll show you. Well there's the church beyond chapter 3 of Revelation.

Here it is again here it is again. So you've seen all those. You can go back and check that out. So we've gotten to the place here where the seven angels the same ones that have the seven trumpets also have these vials seven vials they're pouring out which are plagues from God which are judgments on the world system.

That's what they're designed for just like hell is designed for Satan's children not for God's children and none of God's will ever set foot in hell. But these plagues are designed predominantly for thank you so much to chasten the world system and technically to destroy the world system as Satan has it set up and it will be destroyed by the end.

But that's not the only role the scripture is very clear that it also has the role of the church being under so much trials and tribulation that she purifies herself which means experiential righteousness.

It's her making herself be better people that hasn't happened yet. Okay I mean that I mean look at the church today. It's probably in the saddest state it's been in in the history of the church and I think the Laodicean church in the early chapters of Revelation sort of picture the end church rather you know perhaps the Lord meant for it to do that.

But certainly there are many churches that pattern themselves after that Laodicean lukewarm church and so the church there's no way in the world the church is making herself ready right now. But when that tribulation hits and she has to go through it and God takes all of our toys away that's gonna make a big difference.

Anytime you go through trials and tribulations you clean your life up. I'm talking about if you're God's person if you're already God's child you live better you drawn closer to him you pray more you read the scripture more and you stop sinning more because that's a double negative.

You sin less stop sending more. That takes no it makes no sense. Okay so we're about to see these. We already talked about these seven vials last time and here they are and these just point out what happened and give you the verses where they happened.

And the last one down there is a violent worldwide earthquake. Cities fall islands flee mountains are not found. And then there is hail and you can use that word hail there to match up certain different chapters of the book of Revelation where they're not chronological where there's a parenthetical that talks about some of the stuff that's in the chronological part and you can match them and that's going to help us with our chronology chart that we're building to match these things up.

But this is interesting because Dave Huber came up to me at the end of the service last time and I hadn't really gotten to that seventh one or finished it and I we ran out of time so we stopped right about here and he said man I got to show you something because I found this you know while you were talking about that because we've had this talk before we sort of have a like a three-stage plan.

Maybe it's cut back to two now who knows. But it's like a three-stage plan and one of them this phase two included well maybe you know maybe sometime it's wise to get away from the United States and get off maybe out in the Caribbean or somewhere on an island that's predominantly Protestant where the taxi drivers talk to you about the Lord.

I've been on them. They're like that everybody talks to you about the Lord. There are islands like that out there maybe that would be a good place to be next. And then you end up in a cave in South America for the last three and a half years all right.

So you got to have a sailboat to get there all right. So there's the plan now. Interesting thing is I was telling you right at the end of last time I met this wonderful cab driver on St. Martin one time who reminded me of Brother Otis.

He just the same doctrinal stance. I mean he believed in sovereignty of God really strong and he said our church has seven members and all the churches here persecute us because of our belief in the sovereignty of God because they're all Arminian he said and he knew the whole thing.

I mean he was like talking to Otis the cab driver so I was messing with him. I said well you know the scripture where it says you know the islands will sink into the sea. I said man what do you. How do you deal with that.

You live on this little island. He said I will have a boat. God will give me a boat. And I said okay I'm with you then. So that's great. Well anyway so we've talked about that before like because the plan includes islands and then ending up in a cave in a mountain.

Right. And here it says the islands flee and the mountains are found. Not so naturally we tend to interpret things. You know you you interpret so much through a sieve. So what do you. How do you read that.

You read that the islands will sink into the ocean and the mountains will fall in on themselves. Right. And so Dave comes up to me and says you should see. You know you should actually see the the Greek words for these things.

They're not saying that. I said really. And so thanks to you we now have this in the notes. So let's take a look at that where it says the mountains are not found in the Hebrew I'm sorry in the Greek it means to find or to perceive or be able to see something.

So it doesn't say the mountains sink or fall in on themselves. It says you can't see them. You get where you can't see the mountains. Now I want you to think about nuclear winter because you were all over that.

And Joel this morning I don't know if you were noticing that little stuff about the darkness. How many times did it mention in the day of the Lord there shall be utter darkness. Listen when all it takes is just one button to be pushed by one human being.

And Russia releases hers this direction. We release ours that direction. China gets involved. And you will have no more crops. You're talking about how it says you're going to have a famine. You know there's nothing even to offer to the Lord all of that stuff.

One or two buttons get pushed then the rest of them get pushed. And you're going to have total darkness because the dust cloud and it'll be radioactive dust cloud will be such that the sun can't get through and the crops can't grow.

Little animals won't have anything to eat. The fish in the sea will die. What are you going to do. Well you got to hope the Lord tells you what to do before it happens. And he will. He says that he will hide his people.

So the mountains don't fall in. They're just the people can't see him because you can't see through. Like if you're trying to land an airplane you got like a thousand yards of visibility. And that's it.

You just can't see the mountains anymore. That's what that means. Isn't that cool. Doesn't mean they go away or they fall in. Now it's interesting to take a look at what it the little uh greek word for flee where it says the islands flee.

You think. Well it means they just sink into the ocean. Right. Well not really. Uh it actually means they run away or they vanish. You can't see them anymore. You can't see them anymore. It can mean a place to escape to.

So you like you. They just don't. When you have nuclear winter and you've got the the clouding and the mist that's out there with the nuclear material in it all over the world. You don't see the skyscrapers.

If there are any left. I think those do. I think scripture is clear that those fall in. Uh. But uh you can't see a mountain from a distance. You can't if you're out on a ship. Even if you were out on a ship you couldn't see the islands.

That's what it means. Doesn't mean they fall in. Isn't that interesting. And we didn't know that after years of studying this we didn't know that till last sunday morning after the service when they brought this up and we start looking at it.

Uh just because we just assumed it meant oh you know islands sink and the mountains fall in. Doesn't say that in the original. So it's so interesting how the lord promised that as we get closer to these events he will shed more light on the scripture for us so that we understand these things better.

And we see that happening almost every week now. So this little greek word phyo fugo it means to flee away or to seek safety by flight. It means um something to avoid by flight something bad to be saved by flight to escape safely out of danger.

Or poetically it means to ban it to flee away or to vanish. So it just doesn't show up. Isn't that interesting. Now i want to remind you of this scripture once again zephaniah 2 1 through 3. It may be you shall be hid in the day of the lord's anger.

Is that interesting. It may be you'll be hid like you'll be there. They just can't see you. Now what's interesting is i wonder about this. Anybody's been in military or i just probably just need to ask john quinn and my rocket guys this question.

If you got nuclear winter and and you've got uh you know radioactive material in the clouds can the satellite still see through and see you hiding in your mountain. And i bet the answer is no. So the technology is gonna pretty much be gone.

Have you ever noticed how in the book of revelation they're fighting with bows and arrows and spears and swords. It's not good you know. But i think there are stages of it where you still have the weapons.

But i think there comes a point of annihilation where uh the nukes that have been built my whole lifetime they were built to be used ladies gentlemen they weren't built to just be stockpiled. And i believe they will be used.

And i think you read in joel today where it pictures the use of those and uh many other places. But the saints have been hidden on the earth from the time the seventh trumpet began to blow. If you go back in the messages we've preached in the last few weeks right.

As the very beginning of the blowing of the seventh trump the bible says that god releases the church from her responsibility of witnessing because she can't both witness and hide. Right. So the lord releases her from the responsibility of witnessing.

He raises up three different witnesses that are more powerful than the church. You have 144 000 virgin uh israeli witnesses going around the world evangelists. You have an angel circling the earth shouting don't listen to him.

Listen to the one true god. Don't take the mark of the beast. That's an amazing witness. And you have the two witnesses for three and a half years on the streets of jerusalem street preaching who they try to kill.

Everyone tries to kill them is killed until the very end of that when when lucifer indwells the antichrist and he comes and has power to kill them and they kill them. They throw a party and they give gifts like at christmas for three and a half days.

And then the spirit of life comes from god. And they rise up and stand on the streets on full television. Cnn even can't say anything about it. They have to show it. And there they are. And and do they repent.

No they hate god. And then those two ascend into a cloud and disappear out of their sight. How do you think that people of satan are feeling at that point. Well we thought we killed them. Well you did kill them but god raised them back up and all of this stuff.

So you've got these witnesses there the church is allowed to hide. And then the seven miles are poured out. Now i do have to say that i think i don't think it works like so many of the charts even the one we use just until we can get ours fixed to kind of give some idea of the chronology.

Remember that we put it up here a few times. What they tend to do is have the trumpets one two three four five six. And then it'll show a long line. You know over this much of the chart it says seventh trumpet and underneath that it'll have these seven vials.

I think if you read it carefully some of these vials are lined up with the first second third fourth fifth and sixth trumpet and the seventh. They're not all under the seventh. I believe that i'm gonna totally finish my investigation before i say that dogmatically.

But i'm pretty sure that the sixth vial for example happens during the sixth trump not the seventh. So they've got those drawn incorrectly i think. But we'll make sure that by the time we're done and you can even help investigate it yourselves.

Look up things like the this great hail thing that happens where the hail stones are about the size of a volkswagen bug falling out of the sky and killing millions of people. You can line those. You see them in like two places.

So if you line them up they have to be in the same time period chronologically so that helps you line up things. So that's what we're gonna. That's how we're going to approach it. And i've never seen that approach taken any of the books i've read they always just say that well they're part of the seventh trump and they happen in order like that.

I don't think they do but we'll see. Um so anyway um the very worst parts of it however i do believe happen after the church is allowed to stop her witnessing and begin to hide all right. So i heard the angel of the water say thou art righteous oh lord which art which was which shall be because thou has judged thus.

So now we see that these vials are judgments upon the world system for they have shed the blood of the saints and the prophets. You see the world will be killing every christian and jew they can find.

That's why during that time period i don't want to be in a country like america that has the best technology to find me. Who knows exos aerospace may have built some of that technology to find me. That would be ironic wouldn't it.

Uh so i'm gonna have john put a destruct button in those things where we can push a button and those go away. That would be good. But anyway um the blood of the saints and the prophets have been shed by the world system.

And so god is pouring out these judgments upon the world system as judgment because of what they've done. And it even turns the water into blood to drink because they're worthy because of the blood they shed of god's people.

You see that you see the righteousness there. And i heard another one um out of the altar say even so lord almighty true and righteous are thy judgments. And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun and the power was given to him to scorch men with fire.

We talked about that one right the end of last time if you remember. And so there is climate change but it's not man that causes it. It's god. And um the upper atmosphere is damaged to the point where the sun's rays can get through more than they have up until now.

And they begin to scorch the people and men were scorched with great heat. It's a good time to be in a cave because temperature remains pretty constant in a cave and blaspheme the name of god. So did they repent when these things happen.

Do the people of the world satan's children the tears. Do they repent when they were. When they're spanked. No they just get angrier at the father. They hate god. It's not that they don't believe in him at this point.

They just hate him. They hate the one true god. They hate the lord jesus christ. And so they're scorched. But they blaspheme the name of god which has power over these plagues. And see they blame god for the plagues.

They don't look at themselves and say well this happened because we're sinners. And you know people still do that. People all the time will say well you know the god of the old testament was kind of mean spirited.

Wasn't he. You know he killed people and stuff. Right. You've heard people say that and they don't realize. Well no wait a minute. He's not mean he's holy and he judges sin. And the sin belongs to us.

It's our fault. If we point the finger at god people will be doing that to the very end. So they blaspheme the name of god which has power over these plagues. And they repented not to give god any glory.

Isn't that something that's sort of where we ended last time. Now remember we've had this ongoing discussion of the fig tree. And um so let's look at this close. This is a close-in view of the destruction of what the bible calls the harlot.

And then and we're talking about revelation chapter 17. It gives us a close view of this destruction of the harlot. It's a false religious system and a false world system a one world government with no borders.

Which is what all the uh i don't say all you never mean all but so many of our young people between the age of high school age and up to 30 years old now they believe you shouldn't have borders. They've been taught that by the liberal establishment predominantly the democratic party in the united states and the liberal universities on the east coast and west coast.

And they buy into it. Well that's great because the antichrist is going to say i'm going to get rid of the borders and they'll follow him because they love a person that does that and they hate a person that wants to put a wall up there and and keep your nation your nation like you would keep your home your home and not just let anyone walk in off the street and come in your home.

It's tantamount to the same thing. If you don't believe in putting up borders then why do you have a lock on your front door. Just let any street bum come in and eat your food rape your wife kill your kids and take everything you got and leave.

You don't need a border right. Well you say well that's not true. Well if you need a border then your whole nation is just a family. It's uh it's americans it's we're a family. You need to keep people out.

But now they've all been trained that that's evil because they call good evil and they call evil good and we're there so we're already too you know the foothills to them. If you say the seven years are a mountain we're already well up the foothills almost to the mountains i think on the timeline.

So this world system that has everything backwards is going to be destroyed. It's called a harlot but also the religious system will be a one world religion and it's called a harlot too. So you have kind of a two two meanings of it i think going on here at the same time.

So you got a secular one and you got a religious one all right. So now this one we're going to talk specifically about the destruction of the secular one and it starts. I'm skipping some of it because we're not doing a verse by verse study through revelation.

It kind of seems like it sometimes but we're just looking at the high points starting with about verse 12 the 10 horns which you saw are 10 kings. It is a an ancient roman confederacy of modern nations that are where the ancient roman empire used to be.

And you have to remember that the roman empire extended all on into iraq and iran and includes those and a lot of the former soviet union countries are are now islamic. It includes those as well. And so these will be 10 world leaders that probably are alive right now.

They may not be in control now but they will be the leaders of these 10 particular ancient whatever the ancient roman empire used to be which is predominantly europe but also some of where the former soviet union was asia asia minor and then you know russia and the arab nations.

Russia used to rule under the soviet union all those nations. So there'll be kings from those areas of the world. And it says they have received no kingdom as yet. So you see they're not currently world leaders right now but they'll be raised up and they will be the world leaders when this seven years begins.

But they receive power as kings for one hour with the beast. Now one hour. What do you think. That means literally an hour. Do you think it just represents a short period of time. It's just like a short period of time.

They're not going to be in power forever because antichrist is going to turn on them. He uses them to get control of everything and he gives them power and they do give him their allegiance. The beast is the antichrist and these kings have one mind and shall give their power and strength to the antichrist.

These shall make war with jesus christ. Anything to do with christianity. I want you to pay attention here. You've been taught that at the same time as the great resurrection there are only two in the word of god.

The first one is at the end of the church age. Second one is at the end of the millennial kingdom. There are only two and the rapture cannot happen until after the first one which is at the end of the church age which is the end of the seven years or close to the end of seven years.

And so at that time jesus will establish his power set up his kingdom and reign for a thousand years. And that's a foreview. Verse 14 is a foreview of that hasn't happened yet in chronology here. But it's going to happen.

So like what does that tell us. We're going to have to go through battles terrible fierce battles. But we win in the end. It's good to know that when you're fighting a war isn't it. It's good to know that you win in the end and that you'll be immortal.

And no one can kill you in the end. Jesus said whosoever liveth and believeth me shall never die. So satan blows up death bigger than it really is. The person dying he's in shock. He doesn't feel it. He doesn't he doesn't even have a clue what's going on.

Everybody's watching said oh this is horrible. Look what's happening to this poor person. Satan just wants you to fear death. And the bible says no christian on this earth needs to fear death because you don't die.

Whosoever lives and believes in me shall never die jesus said. And then he said believe us now this because he knew that's hard for us to believe in his fleshly body. We fear death in the flesh but in the spirit we don't need to because we never die.

So at worst death is a thump in your head. And you just wake up. And with jesus there is no cessation of life none whatsoever. So we don't need to fear any of this like we're immortal already. We're already living eternal life now.

We don't have to die to get it. We have it now. Jesus said whosoever believe in me has eternal life doesn't say you'll get it. You have it. So he has the son has life he has not son of god has not life.

You have it in the greek. It's now present tense. You already have it. So we don't need to worry about these things. But we do need to hide if you like your head. Because the predominant matter of death will be islamic in nature.

They learned it from the islamics. They won't be in power by now though because antichrist is going to kill them too. And he's going to set up a new god to worship called the god of forces. But they will still have the practice of decapitating christians and jews.

It's not a bad way to go if you think about it i don't want to try it out or anything. But you know i don't fear it. I do fear it enough to run and hide in that cave though i'm supposed to laugh when i say that.

Okay. And he said unto me the waters which thou sawest where the whore sitteth. What. Whatever this one world system is it's multitudes. It's peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues. And that interprets the passage that we read earlier in one of the earlier chapters of revelation.

If you remember i referred to this it shows that we have an out the water here is an allegory which pictures people groups. And so this includes many of the nations of the world at that time. And they're all involved with this.

And so this is what's being judged. And the ten horns which you saw upon the beast these will hate the whore. Now what's interesting about that is that now we're looking at the religious harlot. So the one world church that the bible says is seated on seven hills which rome is seated on seven hills and everyone knows it's known that since ancient history it's called the city of seven hills.

If you go there and look you see the seven hills and that's where the false church is seated. It doesn't mean it's only catholicism in my mind i used to think it was. But it's also all the false protestant churches that follow along with her and antichrist uses the false religion for three and a half years to gain control of the whole world get everybody believing that right is wrong and wrong is right.

They won't be preaching the true gospel. They'll be saying follow the antichrist and he'll use that. But then at the end of the first three and a half years he turns on them and destroys the false religion too because he's going to set up his own religion.

Isn't that something. So he's about to obliterate the catholic church and the megachurch protestant megachurch movement's going to be killed destroyed in every city and he will go through and just simply destroy him.

Because why he has trained the leaders of these ten nations to hate christianity and any other even islam and to hate buddhism and all of those. Because there's only one true god the god of forces the antichrist says and they'll kill everyone that doesn't bow the knee to that new god.

And it's basically lucifer is who he is. So there you go and there's the description of it right there in 16. You don't. You find it you know your whole life you read this. You don't really pay attention to the fact that it says that the ten crowns hate the whore because you think they are.

You think they are the harlot right. Well there are places where it calls them the harlot too because they because they're a false they're a false one world government not led by gods you know. But they're satanic.

But anyway they hate the religious whore. And we see that in verse 16 for god has put in their hearts to fulfill his will. So let me ask you is the antichrist in control. Is satan in control or is god still sovereign.

They're all just playing out what god says is going to happen. It's like brother otis taught us so many times in the 13 years he was with us that god uses the lost people and the tares and even satan he uses them all.

They all serve him. They wouldn't like it if you told them. But he is sovereign over everything they do. They fulfill his purposes. And god put in the hearts of these evil kings to fulfill god's will and punish the world system and the false religion of the world and destroy it.

So god uses lost kings to destroy the roman catholic church the protestant false church and everything that's false religion. And they do it in the name of a new false religion. But he still destroys all the false religions that exist right now.

Everything that exists right now that's false will be destroyed by these false kings. Is that funny. I mean it's it's kind of ironic. Don't you think god put in their hearts to fulfill his will and to agree and to give their kingdom to the beast until the worlds of words of god should be fulfilled.

And the woman which thou saw is the great city which reigns over the kings of the earth. I don't think that's rome. But it could be. But i think that's a secular secular harlot that spills the blood of the saints.

And it could be new york city right now. It would be if this happened now because it's the financial center of the world. And you're about to see whoever this city is you're about to see it totally annihilated in one hour.

That's nuclear i think. And after these things i saw another angel come down from heaven having great power and the earth was lightened with this angel's glory and cried mightily with a strong voice saying babylon the great is fallen.

So this is the mystery babylon. This is not ancient babylon. Nor is it has nor does it have to be geographically where babylon was. Because this is mystery babylon. And it is the future one world government of false uh the false world leadership and all that.

And it's and it's led apparently by a city. And i would pick new york. I'm guessing at that one though. I would pick new york city as being that city and i can picture what you're about to see. I've been there so many times in the harbor.

Out there you can put a 10 000 boats out there people out there in the water watching this city fall. They were out there watching the two towers fall when it happened. But imagine this. They cried with a strong voice saying babylon the great is fallen is fallen.

And it's become the habitation of devils. That means demons in the greek and the hold of every foul spirit. These were already there. This is one reason this place is being destroyed. Those are already there.

The demonic forces have taken over most of the cities of the united states and the governments and the seminaries and the universities. Not all but i'm saying most are controlled by satan and they're part of his world system.

And they're controlled by people that are filled with demons. And they think they're exercising their own free will and the bible says satan moves them at his will. So they have no free will. They're responding to what satan is telling them to do.

But they don't know that. They think it's their own idea because he puts thoughts in their heads. And there you have it habitation of demons and the hold of every foul spirit and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.