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Speaker 1: The following presentation is Del Marvis Studio's production. You're listening

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to the Fact Hunter Radio Network. Here is your host,

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George Hobbs.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back truth seekers from around the world. It's time

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for another edition of our classic audio series, and tonight

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we turn the clock all the way back to May fifth,

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twenty twenty four. Certainly doesn't count as what we usually

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consider classic audio as far as the date, but it's

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very pertinent in regarding what we'll be discussing this coming Tuesday.

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This is Pastor Chuck Baldwin in his prophecy Message Number

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twenty one, Babylon the Great, Part one, the Mother of Harlot's.

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In this message, Pastor Baldwin begins an in depth study

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of Revelation seventeen, exploring the mystery of Babylon the Great,

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the figure described as the Mother of Harlot's, and the

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abominations of the Earth, and he makes it clear that

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this is not simply one corrupt system, but the origin

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of them all, the fountain head of false religion and

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spiritual deception that began an ancient Babel and continues to

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our day. He approaches the text with the conviction that

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the Book of Revelation was written in sixty eight a D. Which,

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for those of you who have studied the New Testament,

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you understand that most people believe that it was written

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in ninety five AD, although he makes and others make

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compelling evidence that it was written prior to the destruction

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of Jerusalem in seventy a d. So, with that early

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dating in view, he unfolds the prophecy as a warning,

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rooted in history and pointing toward the climactic struggle between

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truth and deception. He traces Babylon's roots from Nimrod to

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the Tower of Babel to the global influence seen in

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Revelation seventeen, and this sermon serves as a history lesson

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and a wake up call. Right Babylon is the antithesis

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of Christ Bride, the true Church, and her subductive power

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is as real today as it was in John's vision.

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So let's check out part one of this important series,

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Babylon the Great, the Mother of Harlot's. I will have

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Pastor Baldwin's website linked in the show notes if you'd

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like to check it out. God bleish Well, we have

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a lot to talk about Tuesday. Don't miss the next

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episode of the fact hunder this Tuesday night at eight

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pm Eastern time. God bless you all have a wonderful week.

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And here is Pastor Chuck Baldwin.

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Speaker 1: Open your bibles to Revelation chapter seventeen. This is prophecy

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Message twenty one in my series of prophecy messages. Before

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I begin reading this chapter, please hear me carefully. On

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this introduction. I want to summarize very briefly what we

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have learned so far, and then introduce what we are

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about to learn in this chapter. What we have learned,

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we took two trips through the destruction of Jerusalem. The

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first trip started with a trailer in chapter six and

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concluded with the Fall of Jerusalem and rise of the

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New Covenant Kingdom in chapter eleven. We have that message

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and prophecy Package set three, which is this package here

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and you can get the individual message right here. The

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seventh trumpet the Fall of Jerusalem and Rise of the

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New Covenant Kingdom. That's the message Satan tried to kill

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me to keep me from preaching. The most important chapter

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in all the Book of Revelation is chapter eleven, and

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that's what that message covers. On the rise of the

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New Covenant Kingdom. So we took two trips through the

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destruction of Jerusalem. The first trip started with a trailer

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in chapter six and concluded with the fall of Jerusalem

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and the rise of the new Covenant Kingdom in chapter eleven.

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The second trip took us through the destruction of Jerusalem again,

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but added many details that were omitted during the first trip.

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This took place in chapter twelve through sixteen, and most

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of those chapters was written in a mostly matter of

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fact style. Now in chapter seventeen, the story gets personal.

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The Lord Jesus, who is giving John this revelation, is

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going to bear his soul to explain just how deep

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and grievous the sins of Jerusalem were to Jesus personally.

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This is an up close and personal picture of Christ's

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broken heart over Jerusalem's manifold sins and blasphemies. So please

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understand that as we go through this, this is Jesus

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bearing his broken heart and soul over what Jerusalem had done.

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through that destruction was more or less historical in nature.

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This is very personal. You'll see that instantly Verses one

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and two. And there came one of the seven angels,

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has had the seven vials, and talked to me, saying

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the judgment of the great Horror that sitted upon many waters,

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with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,

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and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk

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with the wine of her fornication. Skip verse three. Will

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come back to that in a minute. Verse four. And

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the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and

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decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a

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golden cup in her hand, full of abominations and filthiness

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of her fornication. And upon her head was a name written.

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And notice all of these words now are in capital

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letters in the scripture. Mystery Babylon the Great, the Mother

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of Harlot's, and abominations of the Earth all capital letters.

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the Mother of Harlot's, and abominations of the Earth. Why

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would those names, or that name, and those words, why

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would they all be in capital letters. We remember when

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Jesus was crucified Matthew twenty seven thirty seven, and set

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this is Jesus, the King of the Jews, in all

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capital letters. It was said in mockery in all capital letters,

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hanging over his head as he was crucified. Now Jesus

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is talking about that apostate city of Jerusalem, now under

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divine judgment, and he capitalizes the name mystery, Babylon the Great,

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the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth. Jesus

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will always get the last word, always verse six. And

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saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.

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And when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

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The word admiration that doesn't mean respect. It means astonishment

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or bewilderment. With this chapter we are introduced to Babylon

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the Great. Now, first, let's give it. Let's give you

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the cast of characters. Number one, one of the seven

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angels which had the seven vials. This angel from the

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seven Viles judgment in chapter sixteen, that we talked about

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in our last prophecy message will be seen again in

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chapter twenty one. You'll see that in just a few moments.

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Number two, the great horror. This is postate Jerusalem, the

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city under divine judgment, which has been the consistent theme

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of the entire Book of Revelation to this point. I'm

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gonna give you six sub points under this. A John

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will shortly come to pass. That's a quote. That's Revelation

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chapter one, verse one, shortly come to pass. Jerusalem was

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destroyed within three to four years of John's writing the Revelation. Now,

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this is where it's very important that you have already

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watched Prophecy Message seven, which is located in Prophecy Package

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to the blue covered one entitled when did John write

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the Book of Revelation? That is one of the most

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important messages of the entire series. Knowing when John wrote

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the Revelation is the key that unlocks the door of

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understanding to the entire book. In that message, I showed

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you meticulously how John wrote the Revelation before the death

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of Nero, whose death occurred in sixty eight. A d

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Not in ninety five AD, twenty five years after the

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death of Nero, So Jerusalem was destroyed within three to

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four years of John's writing. The revelation consisted with what

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the revelation said in the very first verse, things which

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must shortly come to pass three to four years. That's

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pretty soon. Rome was destroyed centuries later. Therefore, this great

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whore must be Jerusalem and not Rome. B In calling

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earthly Jerusalem a great whore, John is contrasting earthly Jerusalem

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of Revelation is the contrast of the whore old covenant,

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earthly Jerusalem with the bride, new Covenant, New Jerusalem. Let

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me give you a scripture examples. Revelation seventeen one. There

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came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials,

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and talk with me, saying, unto me, come hither, and

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great horror that sitteth upon many waters Revelation twenty one

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to nine. And there came unto me one of the

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seven angels which had the seven vials full of seven

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last plagues, and talk with me, saying, come hither, and

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I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife. You

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see the contrast that the Lord is showing us in

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the Revelation. See Jerusalem was called the great city in

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Revelation chapter eleven, verse eight. So here she is called

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the great whore, the word great being consistent description that

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the Lord is using toward the city Jerusalem. D The

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use of the word harlot clearly comports with the Old

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Testament prophet's words of judgment against earthly Jerusalem Isaiah one

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twenty one. How is the faithful city becoming harlot? Listen

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to the second half of this First it was full

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of judgment, meaning justice, righteousness lodged in it, But now murderers.

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It was a city of justice and righteousness. Now it's

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a city of murderers. How has the faithful city become

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a harlot? Jeremiah two twenty For of old time, I

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have broken thy yoke and burst thy bands, and thou

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saidst I will not transgress whereupon every high heel, and

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under every green tree, Thou wanderersts playing the harlot. So

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again the Old Testament Prophets said saying the same thing

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hundreds of years earlier that John is now writing in

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the Book of the Revelation. F And the principal charge

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against Jerusalem that we saw in the last chapter, chapter sixteen,

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where the third Angel told John verses five and six.

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And I heard the Angel of the waters say, thou

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art righteous, o Lord, which art and ust and shalt be,

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because thou hast judged us, for they have shed the

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blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them

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blood to drink, for they are worthy. That was the

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accusation again against Jerusalem. It was the prophet murder capital

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of the world. That's recorded for us by the Lord

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Jesus whenever he was alive, and it was recorded in

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the Book of Revelation chapter sixteen. It's recorded again in

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woman drunken with the blood of the saints and with

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the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. We're going to

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see it again in chapter eighteen, verse twenty four. And

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in her Jerusalem was found the blood of prophets and

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of saints, and of all that were slain on the earth.

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The chief accusation against the city of Jerusalem was its

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murder of the prophets, and that included the chief prophet,

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Jesus Christ. F God's Angel accuses Jerusalem of leading the

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kings and inhabitants of the earth into spiritual fornication verse

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earth have committed fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth

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have all been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.

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So the accusation is that Jerusalem led the nations of

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the world into spiritual fornication, which is idolatry. Even today,

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ladies and gentlemen, Satan is using fae Israel to lead

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the nations of the world into spiritual fornication. The third

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character that we see is the scarlet colored beast, and

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for that we go to verse three that we skipped over.

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So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness,

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and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored

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beast full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and

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ten horns. Those of us who have already studied the

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earlier chapters in Revelation clearly understand who this beast is.

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If there was any out they are eradicated by John's

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identification of its seven heads and ten horns. Of course,

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those of you that have been faithful in our study

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of Revelation, you know we're talking about Rome. The beast

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is Rome, the great whore is sitting on the beast.

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It's an interesting phraseology. She is sitting on the Rome,

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meaning Jerusalem had no strength and power of its own,

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but is riding on the strength and the power of Rome.

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In the same way, foe Israel today has no strength

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and power of its own, but his riding on the

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strength and the power of the United States. That that

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makes the Zionist owned American capital beast like. Through its

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adulterous relationship with Rome, Jerusalem was able to seduce the

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kings and the inhabitants of the entire world. Here John

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is elucidating Ezekiel's prophecy in Ezekiel Chapter sixteen. If you

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have your Bibles and you want to turn there as

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I go through this, you'll have time to do that,

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because this is a very important prophecy which is being

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fulfilled by John's writing of the Revelation. I'll begin with

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verse six of that chapter. Ezekiel, Chapter sixteen and verse six.

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thee polluted in thine own blood, I said, unto THEE,

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when thou wast in thy blood live yea, I said,

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unto THEE, when thou wast in thy blood live. Now

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that expression, when thou wast in thy blood live grocious rights.

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Though thou wast file foul with blood, I said, live.

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their violence and the blasphemous nature and what they had done,

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I still said, unto them, I want you to live. Then,

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God through Ezekiel told Jerusalem that he had number one,

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clothed her to hide her shame. Number two he had

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protected her. Three he had loved her. Four he had

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made a covenant with her. Five he had washed her.

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Six he anointed her with oil. Seven, he had given

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her attire made from fine linen and silk. Eight he

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had given her jewelry made of gold and silver. Nine

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he had given her fine flour, honey, and oil. Number

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ten he had made her beautiful. Verse fourteen, And thy

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renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty, for

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it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put

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upon thee Saith the Lord God. So he reminds Jerusalem

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all he had done for her, though she had not

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deserved it. How he had cleansed her, forgiven her, protected her,

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loved her, anointed her, given her the most expensive attire

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and jewelry, made her beautiful among the nations of the world.

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But how did Jerusalem repay Jehovah for his tenderness and

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generosity toward her? I told you this is very personal.

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Jesus is bearing his broken heart to us Verses fifteen

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through seventeen of Ezekiel sixteen. But thou didst trust in

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thine own beauty and plagues the harlot because of thy

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renown and pour'st out thy fornications on everyone that passed

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by his it was, and of thy garments thou didst

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take and deckst thy high places with divers colors, and

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playst the harlot thereupon, and like things shall not come,

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neither shall it be. So thou hast also taken thy

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fair jewels, of my gold and my silver. Listen, whatever

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gold and silver God has given to us doesn't belong

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to us. It's his gold, it's his silver. We must

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honor him with that which he has given us. You

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claim it for yourself. You do not recognize his ownership

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of the gold and silver he has given you. You

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are as old Jerusalem, an idolator committing spiritual fornication. Thou

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hast taken thy fair drills and my gold and of

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my silver which I had given thee, and made this

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to thyselves images of men, and didst commit horedom with them?

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Then Ezekiel pronounces God's judgment against his sinful wife. By

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the way, in my Israel package, I think it's the

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first one, which is this one right here? I preached

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a message entitled God's Divorce from Israel. If you haven't

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watched that, you really need to watch that God's Divorce

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from Israel. Listen to this passage in Ezekiel sixteen. I'm

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now verses thirty five through forty one. Wherefore O harld

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hear the word of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God,

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because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered

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through the hortoms with thy lovers, and with all the

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idols of the abominations, and by the blood of thy children,

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which thou didst give unto them. Behold, therefore, I will

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gather all thy lovers with whom thou hast taken pleasure,

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and all of them that thou hast loved, and all

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of them that thou hast hated. And I will even

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gather them round about against THEE, and will discover thy

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nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

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And I will judge THEE as women that break wedlock

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and shed blood are judged. And I will give them

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the blood in fury and jealousy Verse thirty nine. And

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I will also give THEE into their hand. And they

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shall throw down thy imminent place, and shall break down

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thy high places. They shall strip THEE also of thy clothes,

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and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave THEE naked

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and bear. They shall also bring up a company against THEE,

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and they shall stone THEE with stones and thrust THEE

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through with their swords. They shall burn thine houses with fire,

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and execute judgments upon THEE in the sight of many women.

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And I will cause THEE to cease from playing the harlet.

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And thou also shalt give no hire any more folks,

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Ezekiel's prophecy is a perfect description of what happened to

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Jerusalem in seventy eighty. A perfect description, but you can

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see the broken heart of God even as he is

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destroying Jerusalem. In verse five, Jerusalem is called Babylon the Great. Now,

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remember that God already identified Jerusalem as Egypt and Sodom.

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Now he calls her Babylon in capital letters. So again

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Jesus is calling Jerusalem Egypt, Sodom, and Babylon. The Angel

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also declared that Jerusalem was drunk. She was drunk with

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the blood of the saints and with the blood of

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the martyrs of Jesus. Verse six. Now look at verses

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seven through eleven. And the Angel said, unto me, wherefore

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didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of

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the woman and of the beast that carrieth her, which

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hath the seven heads and ten horns. The beast that

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thou sawest was and is not, and shall a sin

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out of the bottomless pit and go into perdition. And

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they that dwell on the earth shall wonder whose names

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were not written in the Book of Life. From the

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foundation of the world, our names have been written in

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the Lamb's Book of Life from the Foundation of the World. Wow,

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we could spend a series of sermons just on that

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one statement. When they behold that the beast was and

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is not, and yet is first night, And here is

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the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven

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mountains on which the woman sitteth, and there are seven kings.

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Five are fallen, and one is, and the other is

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not yet come. And when he cometh you must continue

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a short space. And the beast that was and is

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not even he is the eighth and is of the seventh,

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and goeth into tradition. So we have the mystery of

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the woman and the beast that carrieth her. This is

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not new to those of us who have already discussed

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the former parts of Revelation. The woman is the great

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whore Jerusalem. The beast is the Roman Empire Nero. In particular,

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John is explaining this mystery in much the same way

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he explained the mystery of the number six hundred and

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sixty six in chapter thirteen. If you go back and

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remember that message in Prophecy Message eighteen, the beast the

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mark and the number of his name from Revelation chapter

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thirteen which is this message Right here we went into

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great detail to prove to you who the Beast is,

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what the mark is, what the number of his name meant, etc.

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And so this is all being referenced again here in

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chapter seventeen, John is unveiling too mystery, the mystery of

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the Beast Nero and the Roman Empire, and the mystery

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of the great horror Jerusalem. The seven heads represent seven mountains,

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explaining the Beast's geography Rome. The seven heads also represent

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seven kings or emperors, explaining the historical timeline the times

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of the Caesars. At this point I again direct you

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to prophecy message seven, When did John write the Book

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of Revelation? This message is one of the three most

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important messages introducing the Book of Revelation. I have those

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three messages on one DVD. The three messages are when

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did John write the Book of Revelation, the destruction of Jerusalem,

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and God, God's Chosen People. If you want to try

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to reach somebody with the truth of the New Covenant

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and what revelation really is all about, if you can

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get them to read this and watch this one DVD

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these three messages, their eyes will be opened hopefully by

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the spirit of God, and they'll begin to see the

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truth of revelation and prophecy and all that, and then

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they can study the rest of the things that we've

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discussed and they'll understand what they're hearing. Otherwise they're blind

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and they're still living under the skull field futurism and dispensationalism,

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and so they can't hear and they can't see the truth.

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That's why these three messages were put on this one DVD. Again.

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One of them is when did John write the Book

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of Revelation. You have to know when he wrote it

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to understand the book. So we've already rehearsed this in

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that message, but I'm going to briefly rehearse it again

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in the message today because of the text that we

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are in. In Chapter seventeen says seven kings, five are fallen,

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five have already died. Those five were Julius Caesar, Augustus Caesar,

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the Caesar when Christ was born, Tiberius Caesar, Caligula, and Claudius.

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Those were the five fallen kings. Then one is present

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tense number six. That's Nero, who was on the throne

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when John wrote the Book of Revelation. That's why it's

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so important to understand when John wrote it. If John

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wrote it twenty five years after the destruction of Jerusalem,

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you're going to come up with all kinds of bizarre

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interpretations of revelation. And that's what we got right now

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going on in our country. And if you watch my message,

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when did John write the Book of Revelation, I'll tell

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you how they came up with that ninety five AD date,

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and how ludicrous it is. Nero is number six. The

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emperor or the king that now is. He was on

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the throne when John was writing the Revelation on the

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island of Patmos. The other is not yet come, and

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when he cometh, he must continue a short space. Number seven.

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That would be Galba, who reigned for only seven months

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June of sixty eight to January of sixty nine eighty.

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In fact, the Roman Empire was in such disarray, and

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you remember this from previous messages, right, good. The Roman

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Empire was in such disarray after the death of Nero

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that there were three emperors within one year, Galba, Otho,

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and Vitilius, all three comprising the seventh Beast. And then

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there is the eighth beast verse eleven. And the beast

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that was and is not even he is the eighth

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and is of the seventh, and goeth into perdition. This

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refers to Vespasian and his Slavian dynasty that followed the

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Julio Claudian dynasty. Now, some say that galba Otho and

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Vitilius don't count as the seventh Piast, as each of

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them reigned for so short a period of time when

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Rome was collapsing and it was collapsing, and that therefore

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Vespasian is the seventh Beast. I have no heartburn with

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that interpretation, although I still believe galba Otho and Vitilius

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are the seventh Beast, because the scripture says that that

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reign contained a short space, well less than a year.

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That's pretty short. That doesn't describe Vespasian because he ruled

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for over ten years. So I don't think that Vespasian

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is the seventh. I believe he is the eighth, and

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it was Vespasian. Remember who healed the deadly wound of

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Rome brought about by Nero's suicide. You remember that right now?

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Notice the beast that was I mean verse eight, the

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beast that was that's the Caesars from Julius to Nero,

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and is not the Julia Claudian dynas the ending with

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Nero and the three failed emperors. And yet is the

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eighth was of the seventh the Flavian dynasty, arising from

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the disarray of the three failed reigns of galba Otho

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and Vitilius. The Flavian dynasty being Vespasian and his two sons,

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Titus the Conqueror of Jerusalem and Domitian, which John and

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the seven churches lived through. They lived up unto the

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reign of Domitian, the second son of Vespasian, the Flavian dynasty,

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the eighth king. So remember that the revelation was written

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to them, the seven churches in Asia Minor that were

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living through these kings and emperors ending with Domitian. Revelation

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was not written to Kenneth Copeland and John Hagy. It

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was written into the first century believers of Asia Minor,

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And so the interpretation of our book and revelation must

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match that reality. The beast is carrying the Great Horror.

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He's carrying her on his shoulders. She can't do anything

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without him. He's financing her. He's protecting her. He's prospering her.

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But the beast is about to turn against her and

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destroyer Verse eight. And they that dwell on the earth

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shall wonder whose names were not written in the Book

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of Life. From the foundation of the world, the unsaved

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Christ rejecting world wonders and marvels at the beast. Oh

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whah ah the beast. So today the unsaved Christ, rejecting

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world wonders and marvels at the great beastly systems of

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the world. Those systems consume their attention, focus, and loyalty.

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They are committed to the beastly systems of the world.

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They believe them to be wondrous and great, impervious to

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any enemy. Oh the beast. We saw a good example

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of that just over the last few years. However, genuine

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New Covenant Christians whose names are written in the Lamb's

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Book of Life are consumed with attentive of focused on,

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and committed to the New Jerusalem, the New Jerusalem. We

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are not impressed with the beastly kingdoms of the world.

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We are impressed with that kingdom, the New Jerusalem, to

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which God has made us part through the sacrifice of

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His son Jesus Christ on the cross. Now, this is

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very important, and I won't belabor it, but I can't

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stress enough the importance of it. If I was a

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professor and you were the class members, you would want

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to make a note next to what I'm about to

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say and write in your notebook I'm going to see

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this on the test. This is important. When you hear

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pastors and Christians spending so much time fretting over, defending, promoting,

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and fixating on the full earthly Jerusalem in Palestine, you

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can know that you are listening to men who have

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almost no understanding of Christ's New Covenant. Get out from

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amongst them. They are perverting the New Covenant Gospel of

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the Lord Jesus Christ, Verses twelve through eighteen. Now and

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the ten hornss thou saw us or ten kings, which

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have received no kingdom as yet, but receive power as

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kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind,

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and shall give their power and strength under the beast.

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These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb

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shall overcome them. For he is the Lord of lords

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and king of kings. And they that are with him

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are called and chosen and faithful, And he saith unto me.

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The waters which thou sawest, where the horse sitteth our

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peoples and multitudes, and nations and tongues. And the ten

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horns which thou sawce upon the beast. These shall hate

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the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, remember

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Ezekiel's prophecy, and shall eat her flesh and burn her

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with fire. For God hath put in their hearts to

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fulfill His will, and to agree and give their kingdom

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unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

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And the woman which thou sawest is that great city

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which reigneth over the kings of the earth. Okay again,

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the ten horns are the ten provincial rulers of the

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Roman Empire, who are of one mind with Nero, and

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give their power and strength to Nero and to the

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other beastly emperors of Rome. Verse fourteen. These shall make

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war with the lamb, that is, the children of the

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Lord Jesus Christ. The early Christian Church. Wholesale persecution of

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Christians commenced in the summer of sixty four AD during

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the reign of Emperor Nero. Now you're going to like

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this part. What caused Nero to become such a monster.

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What motivated him to persecute and slaughter so many Christians

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in Rome. He didn't start out that way. Here's how

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it happened. In an attempt to deflect accusations that he

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Nero had ignited the Great Fire of Rome. And in

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your study of Roman history, you'd probably remember that the

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Great Fire of Rome burned and destroyed over seventy percent

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of the city, and the rumors among the Roman citizenry

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were that Nero had started the fire himself as a

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false flag. Event I told you did like that, for

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which Nero singled out Christians escapegoats to shift the accusation

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that he had started the fire. He blamed the Christians

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for starting the fire. Some things never changed, right, Believe

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politicians are still politicians. Listen to Roman historian Tacitus. I've

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quoted him several times. I'm quoting him again to get

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rid of the report that he had started the fire

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as a false flag. To get rid of the report,

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fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on

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a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace. Accordingly,

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this is Tacitus, Roman historian. Accordingly, an arrest was first

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made of all who pleaded guilty. Then, upon their information

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their tattletaling they're giving up other Christians. An immense multitude

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was convicted, not so much of the crime of firing

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or burning the city I'm quoting, as of hatred against mankind.

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They were persecuted for having hate crimes, hate speech. Do

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I need to say anymore? What is happening today? Verse fourteen.

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And the Lamb shall overcome them, For he is the

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Lord of lords and king of kings. And look at

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this real close. And they that are with him are called.

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And what's that next word? Chosen? They that are with

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him are chosen and faith. Rome's attempt to destroy the

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Christians failed. Although many thousands perished in neroes persecutions, the

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early New Covenant Church thrived and prospered verse fifteen. The

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waters which thou sawest where the horse sitteth, are peoples

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and multitudes, and nations and tongues or languages where the

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horse sitteth. Where does the horse sit on Rome? So

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this is Rome being discussed. What the angel is saying

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is Rome is comprised of peoples and multitudes from all

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the nations and languages of the earth, which is true,

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such was the diversity of the Roman Empire verse sixteen.

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And the ten horns, the ten provincial leaders of Rome,

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with which thou sawest upon the beast. These shall hate

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the whore the city of Jerusalem, and shall make her

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desolate and naked, shall eat her flesh and burn her

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with fire. Unable to destroy the church, the beast now

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tires of being used and betrayed by Jerusalem, betrayed by Jerusalem,

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and sets out to destroy the city verse seventeen. This

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is very important verse. For God hath put in their hearts.

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Can I read that again? Can you underline that God

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hath put in their hearts? Whose hearts the Romans, Vespasian Titus,

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the Roman army, the Roman people, the Roman city, the

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Roman Empire. God hath put in their hearts to fulfill

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His will and to agree and give their kingdom. Unto

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the beast. The desire in the heart of Rome to

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destroy Jerusalem was put there by God. It was God's

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perfect will that Jerusalem be annihilated. It wasn't an accident,

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it wasn't a coincidence, a happenstance. It was God's perfect will,

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being carried out by the these pagans in Rome. God

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will often put his will in unsaved people to judge

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his faithless people. I believe we are beginning to see

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that in America as I speak, God hath put in

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their hearts until the words of God shall be fulfilled.

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From the days of Jerusalem's prophets in the Old Testament,

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I read Ezekiel to the days of John the Baptist,

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to the prophecies of Jesus, from his birth to his

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death and to his ascension, and to the days of

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the New Testament of apostolic writers. The will of God

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to Destroyujerusalem had been predicted throughout the Old Testament. Jesus himself,

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John the Baptist, the Apostles of the New Testament all

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predicted the destruction of Jerusalem. Now the words of God

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were being fulfilled. And verse eighteen. And the woman which

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thou sawest is that great city. There's that word great again,

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which reigneth over the kings of the Earth. Jerusalem, which

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had led the kingdoms of the Earth into blasphemy and

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spiritual destruction, is now itself being destroyed by the kingdoms

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of the Earth. The spirit uses three chapters in the

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Book of Revelation to describe Babylon the Great Chapter seventeen,

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Chapter eighteen, and chapter nineteen. So that means this message

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is part one our next prophecy message Babylon the Great,

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Part two from Revelation chapter eighteen. Let's stand forward.

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