WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.200 The whole earth was of one language and of one speech. 00:04.200 --> 00:06.400 They came to pass as they journeyed from the east, 00:06.400 --> 00:09.800 but they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. 00:09.800 --> 00:15.200 And they said one to another, Go, go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. 00:15.200 --> 00:18.600 And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 00:18.600 --> 00:23.800 And they said, Go to, let us build a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven. 00:23.800 --> 00:27.800 And let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. 00:28.400 --> 00:32.200 And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built. 00:32.200 --> 00:36.200 And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language, 00:36.200 --> 00:38.200 and this they began to do. 00:38.200 --> 00:41.400 And now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. 00:41.400 --> 00:44.400 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, 00:44.400 --> 00:47.800 that they may not understand one another's speech. 00:47.800 --> 00:52.600 So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth, 00:52.600 --> 00:54.800 and they left off to build the city. 00:54.800 --> 01:00.400 Therefore is the name of it called Babel, because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth, 01:00.400 --> 01:04.400 and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. 01:04.400 --> 01:06.400 These are the generations of Shem. 01:06.400 --> 01:11.000 Shem was a hundred years old and begat Arphaxed two years after the flood. 01:11.000 --> 01:16.800 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxed five hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. 01:16.800 --> 01:21.000 And Arphaxed lived five and thirty years, and begat Sila. 01:21.500 --> 01:27.200 Arphaxus lived four hundred and three years after saved Sila when begans sons and daughters. 01:27.240 --> 01:25.480 Sila lived thirty years after警Via Ephlike tran рассказ Felix Immediately Vogtu 01:30.440 --> 01:32.840 massa boobs 01:39.880 --> 01:46.620 UE Them НА uni 01:46.620 --> 02:11.620 Had Shiraked Live 200 Years,... 02:11.620 --> 02:16.860 years and beget sons and daughters and Terah lived 70 years and beget Abram, Nehor and 02:16.860 --> 02:23.300 Haren. Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah beget Abram, Nehor and Haren and Haren 02:23.300 --> 02:28.820 beget Lot and Haren died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity in Ur of 02:28.820 --> 02:35.940 the Chaldees and Abram and Nehor took them wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, 02:35.940 --> 02:42.180 name of Nehor's wife Milka and the daughter of Haren, the father of Milka and the father 02:42.180 --> 02:48.380 of Iska. But Sarai was barren, she had no child and Terah took Abram, his son, and Lot, 02:48.380 --> 02:54.980 the son of Haren, his son's son and Sarai, his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife 02:54.980 --> 03:00.340 and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees to go into the land of Canaan and 03:00.340 --> 03:05.540 they came on to Haren and dwelt there and the days of Terah were 205 years and Terah 03:05.540 --> 03:09.500 died in Haren. Let's pray. Father God we thank you dear Lord for the King James Bible, 03:09.500 --> 03:12.940 we thank you for this wonderful church you've given us and all the people therein dear Lord 03:12.940 --> 03:17.140 we love you and we ask that you please bless the pastor as he preaches your word in Jesus 03:17.140 --> 03:23.420 name we pray, amen. Amen. Okay we're in Genesis chapter 11 this evening, we're continuing 03:23.420 --> 03:28.900 our Bible study with the book of Genesis and this chapter is a very interesting one, one 03:28.900 --> 03:32.380 that a lot of people know about because of the fact that it highlights what we would 03:32.380 --> 03:36.380 commonly refer to as the Tower of Babel and obviously that's not necessarily what it's 03:36.380 --> 03:40.900 called within the chapter but because it's taking place in the geographical location 03:40.900 --> 03:45.940 that we would consider today to be Iraq in the Bible it's considered Babylon that's why 03:45.940 --> 03:51.660 they refer to it as the Tower of Babel. So after the flood Noah's descendants were commanded 03:51.660 --> 03:56.980 to replenish the earth right? God blesses the womb, he blesses Noah and his family and 03:56.980 --> 04:00.980 he tells them to just go make a lot of babies, replenish the earth but instead of actually 04:00.980 --> 04:06.420 spreading into all the earth what the world ends up doing is essentially collecting together in 04:06.420 --> 04:13.420 Shinar which later on of course is Babylon, Iraq is what we consider today to be and they 04:13.420 --> 04:20.020 essentially gather there together, unified together in their rebellion against God and 04:20.020 --> 04:25.020 so God has to intervene by confounding the languages and this is essentially where we 04:25.020 --> 04:30.620 find the beginning of all different types of languages in all the world. Look at verse 04:30.620 --> 04:36.780 number one here, we're going to look at the fact that there's centralized power in Shinar. 04:36.780 --> 04:42.100 It says in verse number one of chapter 11, and the whole earth was of one language and 04:42.100 --> 04:45.900 of one speech. Now we don't know for sure, be on the shadow of a doubt, if there was 04:45.900 --> 04:51.060 various languages before the flood but obviously if you have one family surviving the flood 04:51.060 --> 04:55.540 there's only one language that's being spoken and so although there are many people in the 04:55.540 --> 04:59.980 world at this particular time there's only one language being spoken and so we have the 04:59.980 --> 05:05.060 world speaking one unified language. It goes on to say in verse number two and it came to pass 05:05.060 --> 05:10.100 as they journeyed from the east and that they found a plain in the land of Shinar and they 05:10.100 --> 05:15.540 dwelt there and they said one to another, go to let us make brick and burn them thoroughly and 05:15.540 --> 05:21.700 they had brick for stone and slime had they for mortar and they said go to let us build us a city 05:21.700 --> 05:28.460 and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven and let us make us a name lest we be scattered abroad 05:28.460 --> 05:35.820 upon the face of the whole earth. So obviously what we see here is one particular people and 05:35.820 --> 05:40.740 they're centralized in Shinar speaking one language and a lot of people would assert and 05:40.740 --> 05:47.060 surmise that this is possibly what's called the proto-indo-european language that this parent 05:47.060 --> 05:52.860 language from which all languages in the Indo-European area stem from and so they're 05:52.860 --> 05:58.860 speaking one language they are gathered together to create this tower and let's look at the 05:58.860 --> 06:03.940 spiritual significance of this particular project that we see here. Well the first thing I want you 06:03.940 --> 06:09.420 to notice is the fact that this tower essentially represents man's attempt to work their way to 06:09.420 --> 06:15.380 heaven right. We'll get into the specifics of what the Tower of Babel symbolizes in the New 06:15.380 --> 06:19.380 Testament regarding end times but first and foremost right off the bat we could obviously 06:19.380 --> 06:25.420 see that this is man's attempt to essentially earn or get eternal life right. Obviously you know 06:25.420 --> 06:29.580 they're not going to be able to build the tower high enough to get to heaven it's somewhat 06:29.580 --> 06:34.660 ridiculous to think that maybe there was someone there who literally thought that they can build 06:34.740 --> 06:40.340 this tower construct it until it reaches heaven. You know it's just as ridiculous as a person 06:40.340 --> 06:45.300 today thinking that they can work their way to heaven right. As ridiculous and absurd as it would 06:45.300 --> 06:51.620 be for these guys to think that they can literally band together be in unity construct the tower and 06:51.620 --> 06:57.940 reach the eternals well in like manner is just as stupid and may I say even retarded for anybody 06:57.940 --> 07:03.820 to think that they can do any type of commandments that they can work their way into it to the 07:03.820 --> 07:08.500 eternal by their own righteousness. But you know you have people out there think that they 07:08.500 --> 07:12.940 think they can literally earn their way into eternal life that they can keep the commandments 07:12.940 --> 07:18.780 of God that they can do righteous works and construct their lives and build it all the way 07:18.780 --> 07:23.980 up into heaven but it doesn't exist. The Bible says not by works of righteousness which we have 07:23.980 --> 07:29.380 done but according to his mercy he saved us and the entire Bible obviously but more specifically 07:29.380 --> 07:37.420 the New Testament emphasizes the fact that salvation eternal life heaven can only be obtained 07:37.420 --> 07:42.860 through our faith in Jesus Christ. Why is that? Well because of the fact that it's our faith that 07:42.860 --> 07:48.340 gives us access to the righteousness of Jesus right. You know there's only one righteous person 07:48.340 --> 07:54.060 who has ever existed who is perfect in all ways and that's the Lord Jesus Christ and the Bible 07:54.060 --> 07:59.020 makes it abundantly clear that it that we can't earn eternal life by our own righteousness because 07:59.020 --> 08:04.180 our righteousness are as filthy rags. So it doesn't matter how high our tower gets right. 08:04.180 --> 08:09.580 Doesn't matter how many people you know agree with us regarding the construction of the tower 08:09.580 --> 08:16.180 to make it to heaven. It doesn't matter if you have 1.8 million people a part of one religion 08:16.180 --> 08:22.700 thinking that they can work their way to heaven it's not gonna work and so this is a ridiculous 08:22.700 --> 08:28.660 attempt by mankind to thinking that they can earn eternal life or they can get to heaven based 08:28.660 --> 08:34.780 upon building this tower. You know what they forgot to recognize is the fact that you know 08:34.780 --> 08:40.300 the Lord which we know to be in the New Testament being Jesus Christ he is the ladder that gets us 08:40.300 --> 08:46.100 into heaven right. It's not by our own construction but rather through Jesus Christ. You know you 08:46.100 --> 08:51.340 think of the dream that Jacob had where there's a ladder from the earth reaching into heaven and 08:51.340 --> 08:57.740 the angels descending and ascending upon it that is Jesus Christ because in John chapter 1 we see 08:57.740 --> 09:03.180 that it's Jesus whose angels are descending upon and descending upon. It's essentially showing us 09:03.180 --> 09:08.680 that Jesus Christ is the ladder that gets us to heaven. We can only get to eternal life or get to 09:08.680 --> 09:15.020 heaven through Jesus. I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh unto the Father but by me. 09:15.020 --> 09:21.020 And so the tower represents man's attempt to work their way to heaven and folks make no mistake 09:21.020 --> 09:25.380 about it this is something we have constantly have to emphasize not just in church but we're 09:25.380 --> 09:31.460 out preaching the gospel because from the beginning this is what people have believed right. That 09:31.460 --> 09:37.780 somehow their morality can give them merit and grace with God and somehow their righteous works 09:37.780 --> 09:43.620 can earn them eternal life if they just do enough good works if they can just keep enough of God's 09:43.620 --> 09:48.140 commandments you know that somehow will give them favor with God but it just doesn't work that way. 09:48.140 --> 09:54.580 And here we have a powerful symbolic representation of that and look folks you know the Bible tells us 09:55.060 --> 10:01.940 though hand join in hand the wicked shall not be unpunished meaning that you can get the entire 10:01.940 --> 10:08.980 world listen to me you can get entire forums you can get entire religions to agree with you regarding 10:08.980 --> 10:14.740 working your way to heaven you guys can be unified in your message of reaching heaven by your good 10:14.740 --> 10:21.540 works doesn't do you any good because though hand join in hand though people are unified in her 10:21.700 --> 10:27.700 heresy the wicked shall not be unpunished it's not like God's taking a vote in heaven thinking you 10:27.700 --> 10:32.900 know all right raise your hand if you want to get into heaven by your good works and if he can just 10:32.900 --> 10:38.260 get enough votes enough signatures on the ballot that somehow he's going to change his mind you 10:38.260 --> 10:42.980 know you know people think well you know how do you think how do you know your religion is right 10:42.980 --> 10:49.140 when there's one point whatever billion people in this world that believe in this particular 10:49.140 --> 10:52.260 religion well guess what that just means that 1.8 billion are going to hell 10:53.700 --> 10:58.980 just because there's a volume of individuals that believe in heresy is not going to persuade God to 10:58.980 --> 11:04.260 change his mind on salvation okay why because broad is the way that lead it to destruction 11:04.260 --> 11:09.060 and many there be which go in there at the Bible says you understand and so you know just because 11:09.060 --> 11:13.860 you have multitudes of people agreeing with another with one another the wicked shall not be 11:13.860 --> 11:18.340 unpunished though hand join in hand and another thing that we can learn from this particular story 11:18.340 --> 11:25.300 regarding the Tower of Babel is that unity isn't always a good thing you know a lot of times on the 11:25.300 --> 11:30.340 internet people say like oh we just need to be unified you know we just need to join together 11:30.340 --> 11:35.460 and as long as you just believe in God you just believe in a higher power or even if they say you 11:35.460 --> 11:41.780 know as long as you say you're a Christian right we should be unified there's too much division 11:42.420 --> 11:49.220 but God actually divides people here right he sees what's going on he doesn't like it he wants 11:49.220 --> 11:56.580 sovereign nations divided nations divided tongues and therefore he confounds the language completely 11:56.580 --> 12:02.100 stops the project of the Tower of Babel in order to divide people into different regions in different 12:02.100 --> 12:06.740 parts of the world what is that showing us it's showing us that division is good we obviously know 12:06.740 --> 12:12.500 that unity is good but we need to find out in what particular context right like we need unity 12:12.500 --> 12:19.460 in marriage for example division is not good in marriage right you know what God has joined together 12:19.460 --> 12:25.780 let not man put asunder a sunder means to divide right you know you made a covenant before God 12:25.780 --> 12:32.340 till death do you part you got to stay that way no one should divide that relationship that God 12:32.340 --> 12:36.740 hath joined together through the covenant that these two individuals have made and so in that 12:36.740 --> 12:42.660 particular case unity is necessary and we're obligated to be unified with our spouse till 12:42.660 --> 12:49.060 death do us part unity in the local New Testament church is necessary right and I'm always talking 12:49.060 --> 12:54.340 about that because that's important you have a lot of churches that are divided and I'm talking about 12:54.340 --> 13:00.420 local congregations that are divided people differ on the message of salvation they differ on 13:01.220 --> 13:05.860 essential doctrines of the Christian faith that's not good you understand the Bible says that we 13:05.860 --> 13:12.500 need to endeavor to keep the spirit of the unity in the bond of peace meaning that we need to make 13:12.500 --> 13:17.620 sure that we are in agreement with the doctrines in this church you say what if we're not then go 13:17.620 --> 13:22.420 find a different church you're like what if I don't agree with you on this mess I like what you say 13:22.420 --> 13:26.180 about other stuff but when it comes to salvation I just don't agree then go find some heretical 13:26.180 --> 13:31.300 church that you can agree with when it comes to salvation because there is no like well we just 13:31.300 --> 13:36.340 have differences of opinion when it comes to salvation you know I just you know I don't I 13:36.340 --> 13:40.980 like what you say about other stuff I like what you say about politics I just don't agree that 13:40.980 --> 13:46.340 salvation is by grace to your faith then you're in the wrong church you understand why because 13:46.340 --> 13:51.780 the Bible tells us that we need to be unified in the doctrine of salvation in church and the Bible 13:51.860 --> 13:56.580 tells us that we have to endeavor to keep that spirit of unity right what does that mean it means 13:56.580 --> 14:01.220 we have to work at it and obviously when the Bible talks about that it's specifically referring to 14:01.220 --> 14:06.420 doctrine but it's just in all areas right having fellowship one with another meaning that we should 14:06.420 --> 14:10.500 not be at odds with one another in church you understand what I'm saying like we got to get 14:10.500 --> 14:16.580 along right and this doesn't mean that we have to like each other okay we have to we definitely have 14:16.580 --> 14:20.340 to love each other but it doesn't mean we have to like each other all right and you're like oh yeah 14:20.340 --> 14:24.980 good because there's one there's one lady in the church I just don't like her you know what I mean 14:25.540 --> 14:28.500 and I'm not saying that I've heard of anything that you're not not like you know a certain sister 14:28.500 --> 14:34.660 in Christ in here I'm just saying you know natural the natural propensity for us is that maybe we 14:34.660 --> 14:38.660 don't click with certain people in church right that's completely normal and natural but we do 14:38.660 --> 14:43.620 have to be diplomatic when we go to church though and the Bible says as much as lies within you leave 14:43.620 --> 14:49.940 peaceably with all men meaning that you need to be kind and cordial and at least agree on the 14:49.940 --> 14:57.380 fundamentals of the faith because God wants unity in a church not just around doctrine but just in 14:57.380 --> 15:02.340 general and obviously when the Bible talks about fellowship it's fellowship that's centered around 15:02.340 --> 15:06.580 the things that we believe the core doctrines of the Christian faith as we talked about on Sunday 15:06.580 --> 15:10.580 but you know it helps to just like each other too though right it helps that we have fellowship 15:10.580 --> 15:16.020 with one another when it comes to soul winning and evangelism and maybe you have the same interest 15:16.020 --> 15:20.980 the same hobbies you have some of the same backgrounds but even if you don't possess those 15:20.980 --> 15:26.740 things in common with others there should be unity when it comes to doctrine okay you're like well I 15:26.740 --> 15:31.700 don't you know I just don't really have a whole lot in common with people in this church because 15:31.700 --> 15:36.740 some of them are ghetto or something you know or they're of a different tax bracket or whatever 15:36.740 --> 15:41.140 you know yeah but what about salvation though what about the doctrines of the Christian faith 15:41.220 --> 15:47.140 that's what's more important to God and so we need to have unity in those areas and you know 15:47.700 --> 15:56.100 overlook the skin color overlook how ghetto someone is or how much money someone's making 15:56.100 --> 16:02.980 you know we should obviously make sure that we get along with one another and uphold doctrines 16:02.980 --> 16:10.100 above you know someone's political ideologies or whatever oh man this guy doesn't like my 16:10.100 --> 16:15.540 favorite political you know politician or whatever well neither do I so what's what's the issue here 16:15.540 --> 16:23.860 you know we should not be centered around politics you know whether you're a Democrat there's no 16:23.860 --> 16:29.060 Democrats in our church but you know whether you're you're Republican Libertarian or whatever maybe 16:29.700 --> 16:35.940 you know we're Christians and that's what we need to have unity around and so obviously don't 16:35.940 --> 16:41.460 misunderstand me unity is important in a church it's important in marriage it's important with 16:41.460 --> 16:49.300 other Christians however there needs to be a healthy level of division between us and others 16:50.260 --> 16:55.300 okay why because from the beginning that's how it was God divided the light from the darkness 16:55.300 --> 17:01.140 he divided the Israelites from the Egyptians he divided clean from unclean right he obviously 17:01.140 --> 17:08.500 wants there to be a distinction between us and them okay us and unsafe people and yes even us 17:08.500 --> 17:14.260 and other so-called Christians who are fellowshipping with with the evil works of darkness 17:14.260 --> 17:18.020 the Bible tells us have no fellowship with the unfavorable works of darkness but rather 17:18.020 --> 17:22.820 reprove them what is he saying there needs to be division and quite frankly this is not something 17:22.820 --> 17:29.460 you have to necessarily work on okay like you don't have to like work on having division with others 17:30.260 --> 17:37.300 just be a good Christian and you'll find division just believe the Bible and people will be divided 17:37.300 --> 17:41.940 with you that's just how it works because Jesus said in Matthew chapter 10 I came not to bring 17:41.940 --> 17:47.860 peace but a sword you know he's come to set people at variance with one with another and you know as 17:47.860 --> 17:54.100 much as we want unity with our spouses there are certain instances where the sword of the word of 17:54.100 --> 18:00.020 God divides right because one spouse maybe is not a Christian maybe they don't believe in the Bible 18:00.740 --> 18:05.700 maybe their loyalties are not to Jesus Christ well at that point guess what your loyalty is to the 18:05.700 --> 18:12.900 Lord Jesus Christ okay and you know obviously that is the exception to the rule the rule is there 18:12.900 --> 18:18.340 should be unity in marriage here's the exception when your spouse wants you not to serve Jesus Christ 18:19.140 --> 18:25.140 to be loyal to Jesus Christ at that point you choose Jesus you know over you know your spouse 18:25.780 --> 18:28.740 and obviously that's not always going to be the case you're not always going to have to have to 18:28.740 --> 18:35.140 make that decision but there are instances when that decision has to be made okay and you know 18:35.140 --> 18:39.060 obviously that's the case you know there's division with friends there's division with family 18:39.060 --> 18:43.620 division is good we need division between us and other churches why because just because a church 18:43.620 --> 18:48.260 calls itself Christian doesn't mean it actually is just because they claim to believe in Jesus 18:48.340 --> 18:52.980 doesn't mean it they actually do just because they claim to believe the gospel doesn't mean 18:52.980 --> 18:58.260 they actually believe in the right gospel Robin talks about another Jesus another gospel another 18:58.260 --> 19:05.780 spirit and we need to be careful that we don't become unified with other segments of Christianity 19:06.820 --> 19:12.660 regarding second and secondary tertiary issues but we don't agree on the primary issues 19:13.620 --> 19:20.500 right it's just like well this guy's right on Israel he's right on sodomites but hold on say 19:20.500 --> 19:26.420 he doesn't believe that Jesus Christ is God though so there is no unity there I don't want 19:26.420 --> 19:29.860 nothing to do with people who don't believe that Jesus Christ if they don't believe that Jesus 19:29.860 --> 19:32.820 Christ is God I want nothing to do with you especially if you call yourself a Christian 19:33.700 --> 19:36.980 right because if you're calling yourself a Christian you're you're you're like a false 19:36.980 --> 19:41.300 prophet you're a false convert you're a liar you're a deceiver because you're denying the 19:41.300 --> 19:46.580 Jesus Christ whose God came in the flesh you're preaching another Jesus you're believing in another 19:46.580 --> 19:53.460 Jesus okay and so the point the point is is that God does want division in various instances he 19:53.460 --> 19:59.140 wants division between us and the world us and other Christians and he wants division with nations 19:59.140 --> 20:07.540 as well believe it or not you know he wants America to be divided from other nations he wants other 20:07.540 --> 20:14.020 nations to be divided from us why because it's God's will that nations be divided and have their 20:14.020 --> 20:19.700 own you know specific sovereign will with their own governments why because God judges nations 20:19.700 --> 20:24.980 that's why and the Bible tells us that the wicked shall be turned into hell and all nations that 20:24.980 --> 20:29.700 forget God and you know what if we're all unified together that means all nations agree with one 20:29.700 --> 20:34.020 another and all nations are going to split hell wide open but he wants certain nations to make 20:34.020 --> 20:39.700 decisions for themselves he wants them to be characterized by righteousness by biblical morality 20:39.700 --> 20:44.260 or whatever may be and you know what there's a big difference between America and India for example 20:45.620 --> 20:51.140 we actually know that like America has its issues for sure it has a lot of things it's got to pay 20:51.140 --> 20:59.300 for right but let's just be honest there's difference between America and this idol worshiping 21:00.020 --> 21:07.220 filthy nation known as India it's a false religion that promotes filth and disgustingness 21:07.220 --> 21:11.700 and it's not godly there's nothing Christian about it they need to make sure the individuals 21:11.700 --> 21:16.500 within that nation need to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ if not they're going to suffer the 21:16.500 --> 21:21.940 severe penalty that comes with being an idol worshiping nation right so in that case it's 21:21.940 --> 21:26.900 good that there's division hey there should be division between us and Israel right but 21:26.900 --> 21:31.220 unfortunately you know Babylon is always like trying to get with Israel and stuff and always 21:31.220 --> 21:35.540 trying to help Israel and you know constantly just aiding Israel whatever there should be a 21:35.540 --> 21:40.500 division between the two and you know the message of America first is a legitimate message 21:40.500 --> 21:46.020 because it simply means that every nation should take care of itself you understand and so you know 21:46.020 --> 21:50.340 the point being here is that from the beginning this is the biblical model that nations were 21:50.420 --> 21:58.660 supposed to be divided its own language its own cultures you know its own laws and set of rules 21:58.660 --> 22:05.060 because nations were to seek after God right based upon the boundaries that God has set before them 22:05.060 --> 22:10.820 and one of the reasons why God wanted you know divided nations sovereign nations is because of 22:10.820 --> 22:14.260 the fact that he obviously had the foreknowledge that the word of God would be in different 22:14.260 --> 22:18.980 languages right not only that but he has the foreknowledge that different nations would be 22:18.980 --> 22:25.380 in heaven it's not just one nation that's going to be in heaven the Bible talks about in Revelation 22:25.380 --> 22:33.300 chapter 7 that John sees in heaven people of different tongues and tribes and nations would 22:33.300 --> 22:38.660 be in heaven right different various people from different walks of life different nations are 22:38.660 --> 22:44.820 going to believe on the Lord that is God's will he wants a variety of different people regardless 22:44.820 --> 22:50.740 of their ethnicity to be in heaven he does want the Indians to be in heaven okay he wants Jews to 22:50.740 --> 22:58.260 be in heaven he wants you know Iranians to be in heaven he wants Russians to be in heaven 22:58.820 --> 23:05.060 but he wants these nations to choose okay and so the tower of Babel said well what's wrong with 23:05.060 --> 23:11.780 the tower of Babel you know everyone agrees on one single objective to reach heaven here's the 23:11.780 --> 23:19.220 problem it's without God this is the major difference here that makes it extremely wicked 23:19.220 --> 23:26.020 and evil is that they are trying to do something that is good without God you understand what I'm 23:26.020 --> 23:33.940 saying wanting eternal life is good wanting it without Christ bad right wanting you know 23:33.940 --> 23:40.900 the result of biblical living is good wanting it without Christ is bad and so what this is is an 23:40.900 --> 23:46.420 objective for something that is good to reach the heavens and obviously they had other selfish 23:46.420 --> 23:51.780 desires which is to make a name for themselves but they had this objective to reach heaven but 23:51.780 --> 23:57.380 they wanted it without God and who do they have at the helm leading this project is Nimrod which 23:57.380 --> 24:04.900 is obviously a picture of the Antichrist okay and so it's important for us to recognize that although 24:04.900 --> 24:10.100 unity is important we don't want to just flippantly throw that word out there as though it's some sort 24:10.100 --> 24:16.980 of Christian virtue it's actually godless if you don't have biblical guidelines to guide it right 24:16.980 --> 24:23.780 we need to make sure that we are led by biblical standards and principles that tell us unity has 24:23.780 --> 24:30.420 to be obtained through the word of God and look even within Baptist churches for example where 24:30.420 --> 24:35.220 we would agree on a lot of things there's things that we don't agree on and you know what there's 24:35.220 --> 24:41.380 good churches out there independent Baptist churches out there that believe right on salvation 24:41.380 --> 24:45.860 they believe right about the King James Bible old IFB churches as we will call them but you know 24:45.860 --> 24:51.620 there is division between us though and some of it's just necessary right meaning that we can love 24:51.620 --> 24:58.580 them from a distance you see division is good because it keeps us kind of operating on our own 24:58.580 --> 25:04.740 terms you know worshiping God as we see it in the dictates of the word of God regarding secondary 25:04.740 --> 25:09.300 and tertiary doctrines and things of that nature and so it's good to have separation in that regard 25:09.300 --> 25:14.420 why because then one church can't tell another church what to do right other Baptist churches 25:14.420 --> 25:19.220 can't come in here and try to say hey you need to put the star of remphan up or something 25:19.220 --> 25:24.420 we need to kind of remodel this place a little bit make it more judyizing or whatever you know 25:24.420 --> 25:30.820 that would be wrong and so there needs to be a difference between us and them the Bible says 25:30.820 --> 25:37.460 some have compassion making a difference making a distinction between the two and so that's important 25:37.460 --> 25:41.380 and look folks that's why labels are important right that's why when you came to this church it 25:41.380 --> 25:48.180 says first works Baptist church you know if if distinctions didn't matter then let's just all go 25:48.180 --> 25:53.620 to the Jehovah's Witness temple or whatever let's just go to the Morbid Tabernacle let's just go to 25:53.620 --> 25:57.380 some Pentecostal church because they say that they're Christians the reason we wouldn't go 25:57.380 --> 26:03.060 to places like that is because there a lot of them are cults who have transgressed the doctrines 26:03.060 --> 26:09.140 of Christ we want nothing to do with them okay very important go to Revelation chapter 13 if you would 26:09.140 --> 26:18.820 Revelation chapter 13 so what we have here is a hundred years after the flood you have humanity 26:19.380 --> 26:25.220 gathering together in Shinar they're dwelling in the land of Shinar and they come up with the 26:25.220 --> 26:30.900 objective to make a tower and a city or excuse me to make a city and a tower that will reach 26:30.900 --> 26:37.460 unto heaven because they don't want to be scattered in all the earth and we can surmise that Nimrod 26:37.460 --> 26:42.900 according to Genesis chapter 10 is the one responsible with heading up this this this 26:42.900 --> 26:48.260 project because it tells us that this is the beginning of his kingdom in Babel so it's possible 26:48.260 --> 26:54.180 that Nimrod was the one responsible for this so obviously this pictures represents man's attempt 26:54.180 --> 27:00.500 to work their way to heaven without God but it also foreshadows Satan's plan for centralized power 27:00.500 --> 27:07.940 okay and this is very important because this kind of gives us the first indicators here that Satan 27:08.980 --> 27:15.220 is seeking to create a unified people in this world again without God right and there's no 27:15.220 --> 27:20.580 coincidence that it's called the Tower of Babel it's in Babel and then you have what's called end 27:20.580 --> 27:28.340 times mystery Babylon okay that is essentially being used as a footstool in order to create 27:28.340 --> 27:34.660 the one world government one world financial system one world religion with the Antichrist 27:34.660 --> 27:39.540 at the helm heading the entire thing up look at Revelation 13 and verse number one it says and I 27:39.540 --> 27:45.060 stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea having seven heads and 27:45.940 --> 27:51.860 and upon his horns ten crowns and upon his heads the name of blasphemy and the beast which I saw 27:51.860 --> 27:55.940 was likened to a leopard and his feet were as the feet of a bear and his mouth is the mouth of a 27:55.940 --> 28:00.260 lion and the dragon give him his power in his seat and great authority now this is important 28:00.260 --> 28:05.940 in Revelation 13 you essentially have John describing this imagery that he's seen and it 28:05.940 --> 28:13.220 represents the Antichrist but it also represents his kingdom so when the Bible talks about the beast 28:13.220 --> 28:19.300 obviously we know it's referring to the man of sin the son of perdition but it also represents 28:19.300 --> 28:26.260 his kingdom okay and so we have this beast coming up out of the sea and it's somewhat of a conglomerate 28:26.260 --> 28:32.820 of various beasts right different creatures we have the leopard we have the lion we have the bear 28:32.820 --> 28:39.300 and then the dragon who obviously is satan is the one who's giving this beast the power to reign over 28:39.300 --> 28:44.180 the world now what's interesting about this is that back in the book of Daniel you have some 28:44.180 --> 28:49.220 prophetic imagery being given to Daniel and it's very similar to what we see here in Revelation 13 28:49.220 --> 28:56.500 right you have the difference being is that in the vision of Daniel you have various beasts coming 28:56.500 --> 29:02.500 up out of the sea so these are individual kingdoms right starting off with Babylon and then you go 29:02.500 --> 29:07.460 into the Medo-Persian Empire the Grecian Empire and then ultimately it's the Roman Empire all 29:07.460 --> 29:15.140 represented by a different animal but it starts off with the the Babylonians right Nebuchadnezzar 29:15.140 --> 29:21.140 who is essentially reigning there and he has a very powerful kingdom so when you look at that 29:21.140 --> 29:26.020 and you compare to what we see in Revelation chapter 13 Revelation 13 is a conglomerate 29:26.020 --> 29:32.740 of those previous kingdoms it's almost like you know the Antichrist is actually accomplishing 29:32.740 --> 29:38.740 what previous kingdoms failed to do right you have the kingdom of Babylon the Medo-Persian Empire 29:38.740 --> 29:45.140 the Grecian Empire all these empires sought to take over the world okay and to overcome the 29:45.140 --> 29:50.980 world and to a certain degree they kind of did right they essentially conquered the known world 29:50.980 --> 29:57.220 at that time but they didn't really succeed at conquering the entire world under its empire for 29:57.220 --> 30:03.780 a long period of time whereas the Antichrist is actually going to succeed in ruling over the 30:03.780 --> 30:08.340 entire world this is not something that is just localized because a lot of times people will look 30:08.340 --> 30:13.460 at Revelation 13 like the Preterists will look at Revelation 13 and the events and end times prophecy 30:13.460 --> 30:19.460 and just think well this is already past this is more of a local thing but no Revelation 13 30:19.460 --> 30:27.060 debunks that because this is an empire on a global scale the Bible says that all the people 30:27.060 --> 30:33.220 in the world worship the beast understand implying that it's just all nations tongues 30:33.220 --> 30:39.940 that are under the delusional influence of the Antichrist okay the point that I'm making here 30:39.940 --> 30:47.140 is that what we see here is a progression of Satan's attempt to unify the world under a 30:47.140 --> 30:54.260 particular empire okay it starts off in Genesis 11 with the Tower of Babel under Nimrod that fails 30:54.980 --> 31:00.900 later on what we see is the Babylonian Empire take over that fail fails then the Spirit of Babylon 31:00.900 --> 31:04.900 goes to the Medo-Persians then it goes to the Grecians and then the Romans take over and the 31:04.900 --> 31:11.060 Romans they actually keep this power for quite some time right but even then it fails as well 31:11.540 --> 31:18.340 and now we have a new Babylon okay because in the book of Revelation chapter 17 and 18 31:18.340 --> 31:24.020 talk about mystery Babylon which is going to be an empire that the Antichrist utilizes 31:24.580 --> 31:30.340 in order to establish his one world government one world financial system one world religion 31:31.060 --> 31:36.980 now the only similarities that we actually have when it comes to the Antichrist's empire compared 31:36.980 --> 31:43.140 to the empires that came before him is the amount of time that he rules for because a lot of these 31:43.140 --> 31:49.060 empires didn't necessarily they didn't necessarily have a whole lot of longevity within them they 31:49.060 --> 31:55.140 end up getting destroyed and they didn't you know reign for for for long periods of time and the 31:55.140 --> 32:00.340 same goes with the empire of the Antichrist his empire literally only lasts for three and a half 32:00.340 --> 32:06.020 years because when you look at Daniel's 70th week which is the seven-year period highlighted in the 32:06.020 --> 32:10.900 book of Revelation it's composed of three and a half years of tribulation three and a half years 32:10.900 --> 32:17.140 of God's wrath and those seven years that's being highlighted in the book of Revelation you know the 32:17.140 --> 32:24.020 Antichrist is not ruling for those entire seven years and in fact we have the Antichrist coming 32:24.020 --> 32:28.900 on the scene in the beginning and the Bible says that a crown is given to him and he's going forth 32:28.900 --> 32:35.140 conquering and to conquer but we know that he's not yet ruling as of yet being the one who just 32:35.140 --> 32:41.380 takes over the entire world because according to Revelation 18 he's ruling with you know 10 other 32:41.380 --> 32:48.500 kings and these other kings have their own sovereign power it's not until the Antichrist 32:48.500 --> 32:54.340 receives the deadly wound to the head his deadly wound is healed he comes back to life he goes 32:54.340 --> 33:00.580 into the temple of God proclaiming himself to be God then those 10 kings give their power onto the 33:00.660 --> 33:06.180 beast right they basically say like you're the man you're the leader of the club now you know we 33:06.180 --> 33:11.140 were all co-ruling but now you're the main man this is the guy that we got to follow or whatever 33:11.140 --> 33:16.260 and they relinquish their power to give it into the beast and it's at that point that you have the 33:16.260 --> 33:21.140 new world order and folks make no mistake about it the new world order is a legitimate thing okay 33:21.940 --> 33:25.940 you know don't think because of the ties that have been turning over the last couple years 33:25.940 --> 33:28.820 maybe this is just not ever going to happen no it is going to happen 33:30.180 --> 33:36.660 how do we know because you have Revelation 13 here okay it's literally going to take place well 33:36.660 --> 33:42.980 that already happened no it didn't because it never in history has the entire world worshiped one man 33:44.180 --> 33:50.260 where everyone agrees that this is the guy who should rule over us and we're talking about every 33:50.260 --> 33:58.820 nation and tongue okay very important and so what we have here with the tower of babel is the 33:58.820 --> 34:05.860 introduction to Satan's attempt to unify the world against God and he fails miserably throughout the 34:05.860 --> 34:13.780 centuries throughout history but God will allow him to succeed in end times because of the fact 34:13.780 --> 34:18.980 that it's just prophesied that that's what's going to take place okay and there's a lot more 34:18.980 --> 34:24.420 that I can say about that regarding the beast and the anti-christ obviously I preach various 34:24.420 --> 34:28.980 sermons on this talking about the fact that the anti-christ will be a jew and I'm not just saying 34:28.980 --> 34:33.620 that because I have some sort of you know unbiased opinion you know or some biased opinion against 34:33.620 --> 34:39.300 them it's just it's a biblical concept you know it's no no one can really deny that okay 34:40.900 --> 34:48.260 and so obviously when we look at current history current events and match it up to what's going on 34:48.260 --> 34:54.420 in the bible you can kind of see some of the you know the precursors to establishing this one world 34:54.420 --> 35:00.900 government right you say like what well you know ai being one of them right you can see how ai is 35:00.900 --> 35:06.100 going to be utilized in a technological way to establish the one world now i'm all for ai by the 35:06.100 --> 35:12.820 way you know i use ai i like new world order technology because i'm already saved and i'm 35:12.820 --> 35:16.100 already going to heaven there's nothing you can do to stop us you might as well just utilize it 35:16.100 --> 35:22.420 when in rome amen but let's just be honest a lot of this stuff is going to be used in order to 35:22.420 --> 35:28.100 establish the one the new world order okay the one world currency one world financial system 35:28.100 --> 35:33.140 and you know when you look at revelation chapter six you kind of see how those first four horsemen 35:33.140 --> 35:38.260 of the apocalypse are essentially being used as a springboard to essentially establish this one 35:38.260 --> 35:43.220 world government because you have the first four horsemen of the apocalypse you have the anti-christ 35:43.300 --> 35:47.860 you have wars and rumors of wars famines pestilences death on a massive scale 35:48.580 --> 35:53.460 and of course then we have the introduction of the mark of the beast and you know right now if 35:54.420 --> 35:58.980 the jews or the anti-christ were to come out and try to introduce the mark of the beast 35:58.980 --> 36:05.300 everyone would completely reject it they'd just be like no way this is the mark of the beast 36:05.300 --> 36:07.940 i mean you got people calling anything the mark of the beast nowadays 36:08.900 --> 36:12.580 back in 2020 the vaccine was the mark of the beast some people were saying right 36:13.220 --> 36:17.780 you know anything could be the mark of the beast and i personally think that that's done by design 36:19.060 --> 36:25.220 i don't think that's on accident i think you know people have to say things like that in order to 36:25.220 --> 36:32.340 desensitize people to bible prophecy and not take it serious because if you have christians and these 36:32.340 --> 36:37.700 christian influencers constantly talking about the end of the world this is the mark of the beast 36:37.700 --> 36:42.500 and then it doesn't happen what does it do it causes people to not have faith in the bible 36:43.700 --> 36:48.340 or it causes people to say well maybe this particular scripture doesn't really mean what 36:48.340 --> 36:54.580 i always thought it meant because how many times has this happened and you know the new the anti-christ 36:54.580 --> 36:59.620 doesn't pop up jesus doesn't return all these events that we see highlighted in the book of 36:59.620 --> 37:06.820 revelation never really take place maybe this we're just interpreting it wrong okay but really what 37:06.820 --> 37:12.260 it is is that you know the bible tells us that there's going to come a time mox scoffers in the 37:12.260 --> 37:16.900 last day who shall scoff at the bible right saying where is the promise of his coming 37:16.900 --> 37:21.380 for since the fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the 37:21.380 --> 37:29.220 creation so you will have scoffers mockers in the end times that are desensitized to bible prophecy 37:29.220 --> 37:33.140 because you have people who are desiring to be teachers of the law understanding neither what 37:33.140 --> 37:38.660 they say nowhere of they affirm a bunch of women on social media thinking that they can teach the 37:38.660 --> 37:45.140 bible and teach you bible prophecy oh jesus is coming on march 22nd or whatever he's coming on 37:45.140 --> 37:51.220 october whatever it never happens people sell their property they go all crazy about it and 37:51.220 --> 37:57.380 what does it do it causes people to mock the bible that's all done by design because satan 37:57.380 --> 38:02.900 wants the public to lose faith in the bible or at least think maybe we're not interpreting it 38:03.700 --> 38:09.300 as you know the accurate interpretation as noted by the fact that these elements exist yet the end 38:09.300 --> 38:16.340 is not yet understand what i'm saying and so what's going to happen is that you know the technology 38:16.340 --> 38:20.660 for the market of peace is going to come out and it's going to go in the right hand or in the 38:20.660 --> 38:25.060 forehead and then people are going to be like no that's the mark that's the mark that's the mark 38:25.060 --> 38:29.860 and then but then nothing happens though and then people are going to be like oh maybe maybe maybe 38:29.860 --> 38:35.620 this stuff is just false so then now you get a society that is accustomed to this technology 38:36.420 --> 38:41.700 they're embracing the technology you know it's more convenient you can pay you can watch your 38:41.700 --> 38:47.220 netflix in your forehead or whatever you know you could you could watch disney plus on your forehead 38:47.220 --> 38:53.140 and you know pay for whatever you know get your starbucks just you know everything is just 38:53.140 --> 38:59.220 convenient the world just never comes to an end so then people become accustomed to this technology 38:59.220 --> 39:05.060 so that by the time we reach the end times and you have these catastrophic events that are taking 39:05.060 --> 39:10.740 place like the wars and rumors of wars the famines and the pestilences people are going to be like oh 39:10.740 --> 39:16.660 yeah roll that thing out right now we have sovereign currencies right different currencies 39:17.780 --> 39:21.940 and different technologies to access that currency well in the end times you know the 39:21.940 --> 39:26.500 anti-garage is just going to be like why don't we just all join together and just make one currency 39:26.500 --> 39:32.660 because you know we were going through this catastrophic event and all these the wars has 39:32.660 --> 39:39.380 created so many so much disease so many people have died let's just band together create a tower 39:39.380 --> 39:44.900 so to speak right for the greater good understand and this is why people will accept the mark of the 39:44.900 --> 39:51.700 beast in the end times no one's going to be like oh mark of the beast oh no this is bad people are 39:51.700 --> 39:55.700 going to be like people have been saying it's bad for years people have been saying that this is the 39:55.700 --> 40:00.740 mark of the beast for years it never happened took me up put it who do i got to worship you know 40:02.820 --> 40:07.700 and that's what's going to take place so that's how the anti-christ is going to unify the world 40:07.700 --> 40:12.180 under that one world currency is through the mark of the beast obviously and you know think about 40:12.180 --> 40:20.660 this okay is if you go on the internet today and research the mark of the beast you tell me 40:20.740 --> 40:26.420 how much time is spent on actually talking about the technology and how they're going to roll it 40:26.420 --> 40:32.020 out and what's going to happen and you know what companies are going to be using it and how little 40:32.020 --> 40:37.780 time is actually spent in talking about the underlying motive behind the mark of the beast 40:38.500 --> 40:42.020 which most people don't even know about most people reject the mark of the beast because they 40:42.020 --> 40:46.500 just say oh you know right hand in the forehead this is really bad this is anti-christ but what 40:47.460 --> 40:51.940 they don't actually realize is that the purpose of the mark of the beast according to the bible 40:51.940 --> 40:57.220 is not to necessarily unify the world because the anti-christ loves the world or something 40:57.220 --> 41:04.180 it's literally intended to weed out christians the purpose of the mark of the beast is to identify 41:04.180 --> 41:10.020 you it's to find you it's to find you and me right that's the purpose why because christians can't 41:10.020 --> 41:14.580 take the mark of the beast even if you're just dying eats and raising canes and it just ain't 41:14.580 --> 41:20.500 going to happen just kissing goodbye you know even if you're dying to get some goyslop you're 41:20.500 --> 41:25.940 just like one more plate of goyslop before you know before the tribute is just like it ain't 41:25.940 --> 41:29.860 going to happen because you can't buy or sell without the mark and the reason that the mark 41:29.860 --> 41:36.100 of the beast is being rolled out is because you know satan through the anti-christ has the 41:36.100 --> 41:40.420 knowledge that you can't do it and he wants to make war with the saints and to overcome you 41:40.420 --> 41:44.820 how is he going to do it by rolling out the mark of the beast to identify who can't take it and 41:44.820 --> 41:49.860 put them to death when that happens that's the purpose of the mark of the beast the one world 41:49.860 --> 41:54.420 religion that we see highlighted in the book of revelation takes place when the anti-christ comes 41:54.420 --> 42:00.500 back to life this pseudo resurrection right he's possessed by the devil it's not it's not a 42:00.500 --> 42:06.260 resurrection that is based upon the power of the spirit it's a resurrection it's a pseudo 42:06.340 --> 42:11.060 resurrection based upon the possession of satan of that body and when he comes back to life which 42:11.060 --> 42:16.420 in my opinion it's going to be three days and three nights after he dies in order to mimic 42:16.420 --> 42:21.140 jesus christ then the bible says that the world will wonder after the beast and say who's able 42:21.140 --> 42:25.620 to make a war with the beast you know why are they saying that well because of the fact that 42:26.340 --> 42:31.140 i believe that the anti-christ will receive a deadly wound to the head in a particular war 42:32.100 --> 42:38.420 okay he's going to be somewhat of a war hero and you know and again this is all speculation 42:39.300 --> 42:42.260 but you know if it happens i'm just going to tell you and i told you so okay 42:44.500 --> 42:49.140 you know this is all speculation in my opinion it's going to be a war against some sort of 42:49.700 --> 42:57.380 muslim country okay because you know when you look at mainstream christianity and what the 42:57.380 --> 43:03.700 narrative is that they're constantly pushing and how they blend politics with religion to them the 43:03.700 --> 43:10.020 anti-christ is going to be some sort of muslim the imam or whatever right they think that they're 43:10.020 --> 43:14.340 constantly pushing that because they believe that the jews are god's chosen people and whatnot 43:14.340 --> 43:19.860 they're constantly pushing that narrative and so how is this going to play out you're going to have 43:20.420 --> 43:26.900 the anti-christ come on the scene and make war with some muslim country who's not part of the 43:26.900 --> 43:33.380 Rothschild banking system right and they're going to use that as a platform to fight against them 43:33.380 --> 43:38.660 and you know they're going to win you know the anti-christ is going to win but at a cost he's 43:38.660 --> 43:44.900 going to receive a deadly wound to the head yes he might end up eradicating a large percentage 43:44.900 --> 43:50.660 of muslim countries but in doing so he's going to die which would ultimately make him a what a war 43:50.660 --> 43:57.060 hero of sorts right because he finally accomplished what fox news baptist has always wanted to be done 43:57.940 --> 44:01.300 you know you really think christians are going to be for this christians are for muslims dying now 44:01.300 --> 44:08.900 what are you talking about christians are for like the bombing of schools and killing children 44:09.780 --> 44:16.100 and just just killing people all in the name of israel and zionism they're for it now 44:16.900 --> 44:23.380 how much more then so you're going to have this figure this nimrod of sorts 44:25.380 --> 44:29.780 who has this kingdom and he's on the four he's on the you know he's on the front lines 44:29.780 --> 44:35.380 he's fighting the battles he's like david of old right and it's going to be like a david versus 44:35.380 --> 44:40.340 goliath because you have this little tiny country known as israel fighting against this goliath of 44:40.340 --> 44:47.300 nations of these muslim countries who's just been who we've been told is just the anti-christ 44:47.300 --> 44:51.300 they're going to fulfill bible prophecy they're the ones who need to be destroyed 44:51.300 --> 44:55.940 he's going to he's going to succeed in that objective but in doing so he's going to die 44:55.940 --> 44:59.780 but when he dies three days three late three three days and three nights later he is going 44:59.780 --> 45:04.260 to come back to life not because he's christ but because he is anti-christ he's going to be possessed 45:04.260 --> 45:10.100 by satan but because you have mainstream christians who are so dumb and know nothing 45:10.100 --> 45:15.300 about the bible other than what john haggis telling them other than what these dispensations 45:15.300 --> 45:18.660 have been feeding them they're going to be like you know what maybe this is the christ 45:19.700 --> 45:25.620 he came back to life this is the messiah he's the imminent one 45:28.020 --> 45:31.540 you know and and they're going to believe on him and one of the ways they're going to 45:31.620 --> 45:35.940 have to be sealed within that religion is through the mark of the beast making them reprobate 45:35.940 --> 45:40.980 damning their souls and this is why the world wonders after the beast okay it's because it 45:40.980 --> 45:46.740 comes back to life and so you know at that point then you have a one world government because he's 45:46.740 --> 45:51.620 going to rule over the entire planet the entire world every religion will come together because 45:51.620 --> 45:57.540 every religion including islam believe it or not will worship the anti-christ because the bible 45:57.540 --> 46:01.780 literally says that the world will say who's able to make war with him this guy was just shot in the 46:01.780 --> 46:08.900 head someone blew his brains out bro's been dead for three days and three nights and he just comes 46:08.900 --> 46:15.700 back to life how can anybody kill him right he just comes back to life no one is able to kill him 46:15.700 --> 46:20.100 this must be the christ and when he goes into the temple proclaims himself to be god people are just 46:20.100 --> 46:26.500 going to believe it obviously saved people will not believe it okay even our beloved pre-trib 46:27.300 --> 46:31.700 brothers who are saved are not going to believe it you know and hopefully if it happens in our 46:31.700 --> 46:35.940 lifetime we'll be in close proximity to some of them so we can just give them the eye when it 46:35.940 --> 46:42.180 happens you know like i told you right i told you didn't i tell you here's after the tribulation 46:42.180 --> 46:48.020 watch it again you know here's babalon usa go watch this and call me in the morning take two 46:48.020 --> 46:53.700 of these and call me in the morning hey what was that you're saying about what was all that nonsense 46:54.100 --> 46:58.740 what's all that crap you're saying before yeah not funny anymore now is it now you know that 46:58.740 --> 47:04.820 this is the anti-christ oh oh oh you know how come you're not in heaven yet why haven't you been 47:04.820 --> 47:11.620 raptured you know how come your clothes haven't fallen to the ground you just you just go to 47:11.620 --> 47:17.940 heaven nude like the preacher of rapture teaches what's going on here oh that's right because it's 47:18.020 --> 47:23.460 false that's why and then we'll say all right now come on let's go let's let's uh let's go preach 47:23.460 --> 47:27.380 the gospel and you know we'll forget about this later but we got to we got to rub it in their 47:27.380 --> 47:34.100 face just a little bit you know before i'm halfway kidding here so then that creates that one world 47:34.100 --> 47:39.300 government you have nimrod the anti-christ ruling over the system the point that i'm making here 47:39.300 --> 47:43.780 and obviously i i'm going from genesis to revelation right you know the point that i'm 47:43.780 --> 47:49.780 making here is that it all began we see the objective we see the blueprints all the way in 47:49.780 --> 47:56.900 genesis chapter 11 with the tower of about very primitive to say the least but it is the first 47:56.900 --> 48:02.820 attempt in creating this and they almost succeeded were it not for the intervention of god confounding 48:02.820 --> 48:10.260 the languages right and so this is shinar is the what archaeologists would say is the cradle of 48:10.260 --> 48:16.660 civilization and the reason for that is because when archaeologists are actually you know digging 48:16.660 --> 48:21.700 up these sites and looking for these cultures you have these different cultures just appearing 48:21.700 --> 48:30.740 abruptly there's not an evolution of languages and math and culture there's not like a fading into 48:31.300 --> 48:36.260 you know from one language to another it's just one one language here and one completely different 48:36.260 --> 48:43.380 language right here no blending no evolution at all showing us that somehow these languages just 48:43.380 --> 48:49.780 appear which goes according to the genesis account of the tower of babel the confounding of languages 48:49.780 --> 48:54.660 because it's not just the confounding of languages you know god is obviously you know in stealing 48:54.660 --> 49:01.860 instilling excuse me you know knowledge of structures of buildings of math in that particular 49:01.860 --> 49:06.660 culture and language and it's not just one person that's speaking a language it's obviously groups 49:06.660 --> 49:12.180 of people who are speaking this particular language so you have these guys that are building this tower 49:12.980 --> 49:19.380 and they're like past the hammer and then the guy's like clicking at him and then the guy was like 49:19.380 --> 49:28.180 chang chong chang and the guy's like and so they can't continue the project right and then the 49:28.180 --> 49:37.060 other guy's like you know you know all these you know languages and you know all the Punjabi or 49:37.060 --> 49:41.300 whatever you know all the and then you can see how that can create a lot of frustration so then what 49:41.300 --> 49:46.740 do they do they start searching out the people who speak that language the clicks go with the clicks 49:47.940 --> 49:55.060 the chains go with the chains right everyone just groups up together and now it's time to 49:55.780 --> 50:01.220 now that now there's division and so it's just like he's not with us because he don't click like 50:01.220 --> 50:06.980 we click okay by the way click language is a real language by the way just let you know 50:06.980 --> 50:11.700 the reason you're laughing though is because it is funny you know and if you're offended at that you 50:11.700 --> 50:17.140 need to grow some thicker skin you don't even click so why are you offended no one in here clicks 50:18.820 --> 50:24.980 okay at least i don't think no one so you have these groups separating one with another 50:25.460 --> 50:30.420 and then they go to a particular geographical location they set up camp and that's how that 50:30.420 --> 50:35.380 culture is created and i'm telling you right now archaeologists have discovered that some cultures 50:35.380 --> 50:42.500 just appear abruptly and they can't explain why but the bible explains it they have they have these 50:42.500 --> 50:50.820 advanced you know math and science and architecture and language and it just doesn't evolve it appears 50:50.820 --> 50:57.940 abruptly basically proving the events of the tower of babel okay and so very important go to 50:57.940 --> 51:02.980 act chapter 2 if you would act chapter 2 i'm going to continue reading in genesis 51:05.060 --> 51:09.140 11 verse 5 you're going to act chapter 2 it says and the lord came down to see the city and the 51:09.140 --> 51:15.620 tower which the children of men built it and the lord said behold the people is one and they have 51:15.620 --> 51:21.780 all one language and this they begin to do and now nothing will be restrained from them 51:21.780 --> 51:28.260 which they have imagined to do go to let us go down by the way what is the us there is the trinity 51:29.300 --> 51:34.740 right just how he says in genesis 1 let us make man in our image he's referring to the father the 51:34.740 --> 51:39.860 son and the holy ghost in like manner we see here the trinity being described oh trinity is not in 51:39.860 --> 51:46.260 the bible we're seeing it right here go to let us go down and they're confound their language 51:46.260 --> 51:50.500 that they may not understand one another's speech and of course that causes them to disperse into 51:50.500 --> 51:56.980 all regions of the world now this isn't the first time or should i say this isn't the last time 51:56.980 --> 52:02.820 that god confounds the languages okay because he actually does it again in the new testament 52:02.820 --> 52:07.540 right he divides the language look at act chapter 2 verse 1 it says when the day of pentacos was 52:07.540 --> 52:13.540 fully come they were all with one accord in one place and suddenly there came a sound from heaven 52:13.540 --> 52:17.700 as a rushing mighty wind and it filled all the house where they were sitting and there appeared 52:17.700 --> 52:22.500 unto them clove and tongues like as a fire and it sat upon each of them now it's interesting 52:22.500 --> 52:28.900 what we have here is the disciples in one accord just like we see in genesis 11 the people are of 52:28.900 --> 52:34.420 one right they're in unity together the problem is is that in acts two you know it's good that 52:34.420 --> 52:38.900 they're in one accord but it's bad because they're not dividing each other to go into all nations to 52:38.900 --> 52:46.100 preach the gospel because the commission was given to them in matthew 28 in mark 16 to go into the 52:46.100 --> 52:50.820 world and preach the gospel to every creature and then of course he reiterates in act chapter 1 of 52:50.820 --> 52:57.220 verse number 8 to go into jerusalem judaea samaria and the uttermost parts of the world what is he 52:57.220 --> 53:03.300 saying you need to preach the gospel to the gentiles go and reach other people but the problem 53:03.300 --> 53:07.620 is is that they're in jerusalem in one accord they're not really they're not really going 53:07.620 --> 53:15.460 anywhere so then what does god do he supernaturally enables them to speak different languages now don't 53:15.460 --> 53:22.020 let the pentacosmos hijack this chapter because that's what they like to do like oh no this means 53:22.020 --> 53:28.980 that they're like you know speaking you know in this divine heavenly language which no man can 53:28.980 --> 53:35.940 understand the halachalaballah and the six-pack dolla habanonisa and hashurabana honda and that was 53:35.940 --> 53:40.100 just the indicator that they're just filled with the spirit cloven tongue should tell you what this 53:40.100 --> 53:46.180 was referring to cloven means divided so it's referring to the fact that he gave him a dividing 53:46.180 --> 53:52.340 language a language that they previously did not know and here's the proof it says in verse four 53:52.340 --> 53:58.260 and they were all filled with the holy ghost and began to speak with other tongues as the spirit 53:58.260 --> 54:03.060 gave them utterance like well i don't know pastor you know it says there with other tongues that 54:03.060 --> 54:08.740 sounds like the halachalaballah stuff you know that sounds like the the the jibber jabber that 54:08.740 --> 54:13.700 you're mocking there well let's keep reading it says and there were dwelling at jerusalem jews 54:13.700 --> 54:18.420 devout men out of every nation under heaven now when this was noised abroad the multitude came 54:18.420 --> 54:23.220 together and were confounded because that every man heard them speak in his own language 54:23.220 --> 54:32.660 so it's interesting in genesis 11 he confounds the people he confounds their language gives them 54:32.660 --> 54:39.620 divided tongues in order to go out into all nations in act chapter 2 he confounds their language he 54:39.620 --> 54:43.620 divides their tongue and the people that are listening to them are confounded but the difference 54:43.620 --> 54:48.260 is this the disciples don't go into all nations all nations come to them they come to them look 54:48.260 --> 54:52.340 what it says in verse seven and they were all amazed and marveled saying one to another behold 54:52.900 --> 54:59.700 are not all these which speak galileans and how here we every man in our own tongue wherein we 54:59.700 --> 55:05.220 were born parthenians and meads elamites dwellers of messipitania and in judaea capodosia ponches 55:05.220 --> 55:11.380 in asia phrygian pamphylia and egypt and parts of libyans about sirene and strangers of rome jews 55:11.380 --> 55:16.340 and proselytes cretes and arabians we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of god 55:16.820 --> 55:21.620 so again he supernaturally enables them to speak in different languages with the intent to preach 55:21.620 --> 55:26.260 the word of god into them this is showing us that the reason god wanted different languages to begin 55:26.260 --> 55:32.180 with because he wants the word of god in different languages he wants people to be reached in 55:32.180 --> 55:35.700 different languages he wants different nations to be established and to be reached in that 55:35.700 --> 55:40.580 particular language this is showing us you know for example when we go to mexico to go preach the 55:40.660 --> 55:45.860 gospel we're not preaching in english we need to reach mexicans with uh with mexican i'm just 55:45.860 --> 55:50.340 kidding with spanish with spanish you know a lot of people say like oh do you speak mexican 55:50.340 --> 55:56.660 you know it's like do i speak a mexican no i speak spanish right you know when we go to 55:57.220 --> 56:01.540 if we're to go to greece for example we're not going to necessarily be speaking 56:02.100 --> 56:06.020 english or spanish we're going to speak in greek right god wants us to reach people in that 56:06.020 --> 56:11.700 particular language and you know this is also demonstrating that the word of god is in different 56:11.700 --> 56:17.620 languages now we believe that for english the word of god is in the king james bible right that is 56:17.620 --> 56:21.780 the inspired preserved word of god for the english-speaking people we accept no substitutes every 56:21.780 --> 56:26.100 other modern version is inferior to the king james but that's not to say that the word of god does 56:26.100 --> 56:32.820 not exist in different languages understand and so this is demonstrating here god's supernatural 56:33.380 --> 56:38.340 capability of enabling people to just automatically speak a different language in 56:38.340 --> 56:43.060 order to reach them in that language okay and so go back to genesis if you would 56:46.820 --> 56:53.940 go back to genesis so what we have here in genesis chapter 11 is man's attempt to 56:54.500 --> 56:59.460 reach heaven by being unified god does not want that he wants sovereign nations so he confounds 56:59.460 --> 57:04.340 the language and then of course they are scattered into all nations thereafter now i'm going to spend 57:04.340 --> 57:09.860 more time talking about abraham next week but the main point i want to make with this particular 57:09.860 --> 57:16.820 sermon is the fact that you know this is the this is why god wanted to disperse the nations 57:16.820 --> 57:23.140 and you know sometimes people have this idea that oh man if we can just you know all be unified 57:23.140 --> 57:27.780 if we could all just work together in one accord but what they don't realize is that god's will 57:27.780 --> 57:33.220 god's desire is for there to be separate nations in order for the word of god to be in separate 57:33.220 --> 57:37.780 languages to reach different individuals and obviously when you think about it even today 57:38.980 --> 57:43.940 the word of god isn't necessarily in every single language right it should be but it's 57:43.940 --> 57:48.340 in some instances it's not there's certain nations out there that don't possess the word of god 57:48.340 --> 57:54.820 a canonized version of the bible in their language right and why is that is it because god's keeping 57:54.820 --> 57:59.380 it from them no it's actually they're keeping it from themselves that's actually what it is 58:00.100 --> 58:05.540 because again god's will is for the word of god to go out in different nations so if you find a 58:05.540 --> 58:11.460 nation that does not possess the word of god in their language it's not because god doesn't want 58:11.460 --> 58:17.540 them to have it it's because they don't want to have it that's what it is because god wants the 58:17.540 --> 58:21.620 word of god to be available to everyone but if you find a nation that does not have it it's because 58:21.620 --> 58:26.820 of the fact that they're not responding to the light that god has given to them so why why is it 58:26.820 --> 58:31.700 in english and you know so perfectly in english because people who speak english have sought the 58:31.700 --> 58:38.020 word of god i mean we have a group of people seeking to hear the teaching of god's word on a 58:38.020 --> 58:43.700 thursday night here tonight that's showing us that people prioritize the word of god understand 58:43.700 --> 58:48.420 which is why it's in english and so you know it should be in every language you know the gospel 58:48.420 --> 58:53.060 is obviously in every language but the word of god is a canonized bible does not exist in every 58:53.060 --> 58:57.540 language but it's not because god doesn't want it in every language it's because the the nations 58:57.540 --> 59:02.500 don't want it understand and obviously there's nations out there that have the word of god 59:02.500 --> 59:09.860 to a certain degree but it's not perfect it's incomplete it's a bad translation you say pastor 59:09.860 --> 59:13.780 what's your take on that well if they really wanted a perfect addition they would get one 59:13.780 --> 59:20.740 yeah that's how it is you know and and for example in spanish you know and a lot of people you know 59:20.740 --> 59:26.180 in spanish churches don't like this but this is true you know there's a major controversy 59:26.180 --> 59:30.660 within fundamental baptist churches specifically regarding the translation of the spanish bible 59:32.020 --> 59:38.340 and you know the the controversy is this and this part should be non-controversial for just anybody 59:38.340 --> 59:44.660 okay who speaks spanish and this this is it that the word of god is not the reyna valera 1960 59:46.660 --> 59:53.220 like that's not the word of god why because when we examine the 1960 it has all types of problems 59:53.220 --> 59:59.860 it reads like the modern versions of the bible it completely changes verses it's a corrupted 59:59.860 --> 01:00:06.980 version of god's word understand now i personally like to read the reyna valera gomez but then other 01:00:06.980 --> 01:00:12.740 people are like well you know that one has issues this this version you know the the the 1602 is 01:00:12.740 --> 01:00:18.100 better and so there's always this division between spanish churches of what specific 01:00:18.100 --> 01:00:22.900 bible needs to be used but here's the question why isn't there a perfect version why is there 01:00:22.900 --> 01:00:26.980 division within spanish churches when it comes to the spanish bible i'll tell you why because at the 01:00:26.980 --> 01:00:34.260 end of the day they don't really want it that's why they don't really want it now i personally think 01:00:34.340 --> 01:00:43.860 the 1569 1602 is great and the reyna valera gomez is superior is there minor issues with it yes but 01:00:43.860 --> 01:00:48.180 here's the thing if if if the spanish world actually wanted the bible they would get the 01:00:48.180 --> 01:00:54.100 perfect word of god because god would give it to them based upon their desire to have it but let 01:00:54.100 --> 01:00:58.660 me tell you let me tell you this the vast majority of fundamental baptist churches they're content 01:00:58.660 --> 01:01:07.380 with the 1960s they're content with it why i don't know tradition and it's just like oh the gomez came 01:01:07.380 --> 01:01:14.020 out in 2010 though that's more of like a modern version 1960 was not that long ago what are you 01:01:14.020 --> 01:01:21.540 talking about 1960 was not that long ago and let's just let's just talk about how it's guilty by 01:01:21.540 --> 01:01:28.260 association of the era that it was made it do you really want to talk about the 60s sexual 01:01:28.260 --> 01:01:32.500 revolution and all that all the all the gay stuff that came out during that time and feminism and 01:01:32.500 --> 01:01:37.060 all this and then that's when it comes out and then all of a sudden everyone just gets rid of 01:01:37.060 --> 01:01:42.180 the previous versions of the spanish bible and they just stick with the 1960 and look i've talked 01:01:42.180 --> 01:01:51.780 to pastors so-called about this issue of the 1960 and i've showed them like hey uh it says this and 01:01:51.780 --> 01:01:55.860 it's not supposed to say that because the original language is this and they're just like see no evil 01:01:55.860 --> 01:02:02.660 here no evil speak no evil this is what we've always used who cares what we've always used what 01:02:02.660 --> 01:02:09.220 is right to use you know it's just like hey this one says you're supposed to grow into salvation 01:02:09.940 --> 01:02:15.140 that's not what the bible says you should get rid of the 1960 and it's just like no we're just 01:02:15.140 --> 01:02:20.340 going to keep using the 1960 and i've literally talked to pastors where i've shown them all the 01:02:20.420 --> 01:02:26.500 errors okay i'm talking about pastors here who are in the general area 01:02:28.500 --> 01:02:33.460 you know who i've shown all the errors and they were like okay i'm going to start reading from 01:02:33.460 --> 01:02:40.100 the gomez and i'm like oh great or the 1602 great and then i and then you know i started 01:02:40.100 --> 01:02:43.540 listening to their preaching i'm like hey i've noticed you're still preaching from the 1960 01:02:44.100 --> 01:02:49.540 i thought you say you're making the switch and this is what they say well on my own time i read 01:02:49.540 --> 01:02:54.820 the gomez but when i'm preaching i use the 1960 oh so the word of god is good for you but it's 01:02:54.820 --> 01:03:02.500 not good enough for your people then shameful but let me explain to you why spanish pastors won't 01:03:02.500 --> 01:03:07.940 make the switch because then they'll lose all their preaching engagements they'll lose all the love 01:03:07.940 --> 01:03:16.660 offerings keep your love offering i rather just be right with god i rather be accurate keep your 01:03:16.660 --> 01:03:22.420 funds keep your money keep your stupid preaching engagements why would i want to run up with a 01:03:22.420 --> 01:03:27.620 bunch of people who like false versions of the bible anyways why would i want to run with people 01:03:27.620 --> 01:03:29.940 who have no integrity when it comes to the word of god 01:03:32.980 --> 01:03:37.300 and you know this is one of the reasons why the spanish world does not possess the perfect word 01:03:37.300 --> 01:03:42.500 of god and why they're not content with what they have i'll tell you why because of the fact 01:03:42.500 --> 01:03:50.260 that they're content with garbage that's why you know and this is a renovator gomez church you 01:03:50.260 --> 01:03:56.820 could also use the 1602 of course but one version that we do not accept whatsoever is the 1960 and 01:03:56.820 --> 01:04:01.620 if you use the 1960 you better prove to me that that is the word of god and come to me after the 01:04:01.620 --> 01:04:06.900 service and demonstrate to me why that is the word of god and you're going to get moded because i've 01:04:06.900 --> 01:04:11.700 been doing this for years and look i'm telling you right now like i i didn't even know about the issue 01:04:11.700 --> 01:04:16.420 until i started preaching in spanish because then you know i was a part of a spanish ministry before 01:04:16.420 --> 01:04:20.420 i was the spanish pastor and i was like i don't know what i'm gonna do so i just i just like 01:04:20.420 --> 01:04:25.060 translated all my english sermons into spanish and then i had one sermon and i was just like 01:04:25.700 --> 01:04:30.660 i can't preach this because this this bible doesn't say that that's weird and then i started 01:04:30.660 --> 01:04:36.180 researching i'm like oh man this is a bad version of the bible but then you have these so-called 01:04:36.260 --> 01:04:41.300 king james only churches who claim to reject the modern versions of the bible 01:04:42.020 --> 01:04:50.580 but yet they're good with one modern version which is the 1960 hypocrisy and so you know 01:04:52.980 --> 01:04:55.540 does it have anything to do with what i'm talking about here in chapter 11 01:04:56.500 --> 01:05:01.700 not really but you need to hear it and you know the point that i'm making here is that the word of 01:05:01.700 --> 01:05:06.100 god god's will is for the word of god to be in all languages just like it's god's will for all 01:05:06.100 --> 01:05:12.260 people to be saved but does that mean everyone's going to be saved no the only people are going 01:05:12.260 --> 01:05:17.860 to be saved those who want it you understand so just because it gets god's will doesn't mean 01:05:17.860 --> 01:05:23.620 that it's man's will all the time though sometimes they just reject it and so let's pray father we 01:05:23.620 --> 01:05:29.540 thank you so much for your word lord help us to recognize the importance of biblical unity within 01:05:29.540 --> 01:05:36.340 marriage within a church but the necessity of division with other churches with false 01:05:36.340 --> 01:05:41.940 doctrine with heresy and i pray that lord you'd help us as your people to recognize that the sword 01:05:41.940 --> 01:05:47.460 does divide you do bring variance between us and others lord and i pray that you'd help us 01:05:48.180 --> 01:05:54.580 to recognize the importance of just reaching people in their language and and the fact that 01:05:54.580 --> 01:06:00.900 you can found of the languages obviously to to bring to stop this ungodly objective of reaching 01:06:00.900 --> 01:06:08.260 heaven through this tower and lord but all things work together for good and ultimately those 01:06:08.260 --> 01:06:12.980 languages would ultimately be the languages that people hear the word of god in and they would call 01:06:12.980 --> 01:06:16.260 upon the name of the lord from and i pray that you bless us as we go on our way give us a great 01:06:16.260 --> 01:06:27.140 weekend in jesus name amen song number 191