(Disclaimer: This transcript is auto-generated and may contain mistakes.) You You Well good evening everyone welcome back to Mountain Baptist Church take your songbooks and Does anybody have a Christmas song they want to sing we've sung all of them. It feels like 10,000 times so No Okay well then Yeah Like this will be the last day. Oh Yeah, I was gonna do that last maybe oh we can do it first why not? Let's do song 429. You can't you can't end the Christmas season without doing a hark the herald Song 429 will sing hark the herald angels sing song if you would stand song 429 hark the herald angels sing glory to the newborn King peace on earth and mercy mild God and sinners Reconciled Joyful all ye nations rise Join the triumph of the skies With angelic host proclaim Christ is born in Bethlehem Hark the herald angels sing glory to the newborn King Christ by highest heaven adored Christ the everlasting Lord Late in time behold him come offspring of a virgin's womb veiled in flesh the Godhead see Hail the incarnate Deity Pleases man with men to dwell Jesus our Emmanuel Hark the herald angels sing glory to the newborn King Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace Hail the son of righteousness Light and life to all he brings risen with healing in his wings mild he lay his glory by born that man no more may die born to raise the sons of earth born to give them second birth Hark the herald angels sing glory to the newborn King come Desire of nations come fixing us thy humble home rise the woman's conquering seed bruising us the serpents had Adam's likeness now we face stamp thine image in its place Second Adam from above reinstate us in thy love Hark the herald angels sing glory to the newborn King All right, let's pray Heavenly Father Lord We just want to thank you God for today just the sermon this morning and the also the souls that were saved this afternoon I pray Lord now that you would just Be honored and glorified out of everything that's said and done for us in Jesus name. We ask all but Amen. All right may be seated And Turn to song 434 We'll sing Oh little town of Bethlehem You know used to be I used to be confident in my A cappella abilities, but now that I've been singing with Nick I have to like run through these in my head Because it's a lot easier to sing with brother Nick playing piano. So I will sing 434 Oh little town of Bethlehem Oh Little town of Bethlehem how still we see the lie Above Thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by Yet in thy dark street shineth the Everlasting light The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight For Christ is born of Mary and gathered all above While mortal sleep the angels keep their watch of wandering love Oh Morning stars together Proclaim the holy birth And praises sing to God the king and peace to man on earth How silently how silently the wondrous gift is give so God Imparts to human hearts the blessings of his have No, we may hear his coming but in this world of sin Where meek souls will receive him still the dear Christ enters in Oh Holy child of Bethlehem Descent to us we pray Cast out our sin and enter and be born in us today We hear the Christmas Angels the great glad tidings tell Oh Come to us abide with us our Lord Emmanuel Amen Well, welcome back to Mount Baptist Church on this Sunday evening and Just some announcements here Find our soul winning stuff buried in here Yeah Get our sewing numbers did we have any earlier this week? I didn't think so. What's that? Okay, and then today I think we had to write so yeah at the beginning I didn't think we were gonna see any But yeah at the end there that was nice so So that's gonna be it for the year except for if anybody gets saved during this week, so Right now we have 368 that gets us 370 so you got to win 30 people to get a 400 so We're gonna do some work this week so but no obviously the last year's totals was 327 and so Every year it's gone up And we have nine baptisms on here for the year and so But keep up the good work with the soul winning and obviously this coming year be it'd be great to break 400 But I know that we were last year. I Think last year we were just wanting to break 200. I think we didn't break 200 until last year It was like over 300. So but anyway You know having more people go out soul winning is what's going to do to do the job there. So Just general search announcements we have Regular services Sunday this Wednesday At 7 p.m. Lord willing will be doing 3rd John and so doing 2nd I did 2nd John doing 3rd John and then planning on jumping into Exodus actually coming into the new year, so but So be reading next it is kind of get into that as we get into that study And then the soul winning times this week, you know, just kind of keep on the whatsapp there to see What's going on as far as any times and and all that so We have our chapter memory Psalm 2 so try to get that memorized by New Year's and then And then 1st Corinthians 4 2 is our memory verse for the week We have our New Year's party this coming Friday. So don't forget about that Well, probably just try to bring snacks and stuff like that I mean the idea is that you eat dinner before you come and Then it's just kind of like a snack type thing. So any type of Any type of snack that you want to bring Obviously as a church, we'll make sure we have refreshments and stuff like that And then games we're gonna try to do some games and different things like that. Maybe we'll do the Pictionary We got the Bible trivia. And so So yeah men against women against in Bible trivia See see what happens there no, but well We'll try to get some games together there and and then also men if you have any Ten minute sermons will try to do some popcorn preaching. So it may not be just like all the sermons at once maybe we'll just kind of Scatter them throughout depending on if anybody or how many we have And so I'm not planning on preaching. So you want to hear preaching then? every sermon so Then the men the women's prayer meeting is that Next Saturday and again men on this Friday. We're gonna try to you know, maybe at seven o'clock somewhere around there. Whoever whatever Men can make it to that time or make it at that time. We'll try to Maybe go into the office and pray and do some do like a men's prayer of time at that time just so that we're not trying to do it another day and But I think it'd be it probably it's a good idea for the men to go ahead and pray in the New Year And we'll be praying at the as a church when we come in when it comes to midnight, but We'll try to do that with the men there birthdays anniversaries Remember there were scenes. Let's not forget them because Next Sunday. We'll have a new bulletin with no December on there. So And then the pregnancy is being prayer for all the ladies on the pregnancy list here. And so excited new babies everywhere But just being prayer for all these ladies and all the families and just everything there And I Think that's about all I got we got the new invitations So just remember try to get rid of all the invitations that you have in your car stuff somewhere So you don't mix them up and accidentally give out the the wrong address those reference cards have the wrong address on them And I'm torn and what we want to do with that I don't know how many we have how many we have left of those reference cards We'll have to look at that. I do like having those reference cards But I kind of want to have the right address on there as well Maybe maybe we'll do reference cards that don't have any address on it. So it doesn't matter You know, we could have those forever and it doesn't change anything. So I think it might be a little Redundant to have it on both but we'll look into that Bibles we're gonna be ordering. Well, I think we already did order right, but they're on backorder Okay, so I think we have plenty of Bibles right now, but the ones with the mountain range on them are backordered. Of course everything is But But we have plenty of Bibles back there that we can use anyway, so that's about all I got for announcements we're gonna sing one more song and Who's reading Oh brother Anthony brother Anthony's gonna be reading Revelation chapter 17 for us All right song 420 song 420 we'll sing there's a song in the air Song 420 there's a song in the air There's a star in the sky There's a mother's deep prayer and a baby's low cry and the star reigns its fire while the beautiful seeing for the manger of Bethlehem cradles a king There's a tumult of joy or the wonderful birth for the Virgin sweet boy is the Lord of the earth High the star reigns its fire while the Beautiful seeing for the manger of Bethlehem cradles a king in the light of that star by the ages Impearled and that song from afar Has swept over the world Every heart is a flame and the beautiful seeing in the homes of the nations that Jesus's King We rejoice in the light and we echo the song That comes down through the night from the Friendly throng hi, we shout to the lovely Evangel they bring and we greet in his cradle our Savior and King All right, take your Bibles and turn to Revelation chapter number 17 Revelation chapter 17. We'll have brother Anthony read that for us Revelation Chapter 17 Bob reads and there came One of the seven angels which had the seven vials and talked with me saying unto me come hither I will show unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters with whom the kings of the earth Have committed fornication and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast full of names of blasphemy having seven heads and ten horns and The woman was a raid and purple and scarlet color and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication and Upon her forehead was a name written Mystery Babylon the great the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth And I saw the woman drunken with the bloods with the blood of the Saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus And when I saw her I wondered with great admiration and the angel said unto me wherefore didst thou marvel I will tell thee the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carryeth her Which hath the seven heads and the and ten horns? The beast that thou sawest was and is not and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit and go into perdition and They that dwell on the earth shall wonder whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world When they behold the beast that was and is not and yet is and here is the mind which hath wisdom Seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth And there are seven kings five are fallen And one is and the other is not yet come and when he cometh he must continue a short space in the beast that was and is not even he is the eighth and is the of the seven and goeth into perdition and The ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings Which have received no kingdom as yet, but receive power as kings one hour with the beast These have one mind and shall give their power and strength unto the beast These shall make war with the lamb and the lamb shall overcome them for he is lord of lords and king of kings and They that are with him are called and chosen and faithful and he saith unto me the waters which thou sawest Where the horse it is our peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues and the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast These shall hate the whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire For God hath put in their hearts to fulfill his will and to agree and to give their kingdom unto the beast until the words of God shall be fulfilled and the woman which thou Sawest is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth. Let's pray Lord Thank you for your word and thank you for this continued the study of revelation I pray God should be a pastor Robison this afternoon. Help us all to learn Jesus name of great. Amen Amen So you're there in Revelation chapter 17 and we are continuing our study through the book of Revelation and This chapter actually is a pivotal point as we're going through here because if you remember Chapters 1 through 11 are on chronological order then 12 through 22 are in chronological order and a lot of those chapters Parallel each other but this and once you get to this point, we're actually going past Where we went in that first Chronological order events so chapter 11 was where it stopped and it stopped at 7 Trumpet sounding and chapter 16 We see the seventh file poured out. I believe it's happening at the same time chapter 17 Is and on is going further than where you were going once you got the chapter 11, okay? Chapter 17 and 18 are very much linked Chapter 17 is going to be talking about Babylon Chapter 18 is gonna be talking about the destruction of Babylon. So Chapter 17's I kind of look at it as like a little interlude if you will of the story to say hey Let me show you who this is, right? It's kind of like Babylon's gonna be destroyed and we saw that in chapter 14 it says Babylon has fallen has fallen chapter 16 says great Babylon is coming to remembrance and Chapter 17 is really just telling you let me talk about let me show you who this is Okay, and let's read verse 1 through 5 here and we're gonna see that Babylon is gonna be liking unto a whore Okay. Now that's a biblical term and today in a you know, you say that word and they're just like I can't believe you Call someone a whore. It's like well, that's what the Bible says But we're gonna see that it's actually called the great whore in verse 1 I was gonna put that as the thumbnail, but I figured it would get strikes on YouTube, you know But it says in verse 1 it says there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials and talked with me saying unto me come hither I will show unto thee the the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters With whom the kings of the earth have committed to fornication and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast Full of eyes of blasphemy having seven heads and ten horns and the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet and scarlet color Indecked with gold and precious stones and pearls having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication And upon her forehead was a name written mystery Babylon the great the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth Now when you first see this, you're like what in the world am I looking at? Right? There's a whore sitting on a scarlet colored beast that has seven heads and ten horns and All this stuff about basically being decked, you know talking about basically arrayed with all this beautiful type of stuff Right, but it's committing fornication. There's filthiness There's abominations and then this name is given and there's three parts of this name one is mystery Mystery and then the second is Babylon the great then the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth so this whore is the mother of Harlots and abominations of the earth now go down to verse 18 Let's see exactly. Who is this woman? Who is this whore that we're talking about? Because it kind of gives you this cryptic image It's kind of like revelation 12 where you see this image of the woman that's clothed with the Sun The moon's at her feet and she has a crown of 12 stars and you're just like what am I looking at? What am I why is it saying it this way? But in Revelation 17 verse 18, it's gonna be very clear that the woman is a city Okay, so very simple It says in verse 18 and the woman which thou sawest is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth So what are we dealing with here Babylon in the end times? Remember in Revelation 13? You're gonna have the fact that the beast is gonna have You know basically power over the whole world It's gonna be a one world government one world currency one world religion, right? well the city in which he rolls from the city that's basically ruling the world is going to be Babylon it's gonna be like another Babylon. Now what we're gonna get to is that that's what those seven heads represent is Basically, there's been other Babylon's if you will in the past, but there's going to be the Babylon the great that's going to come at the end and We're dealing with a city and the woman is arrayed so when you're dealing with the woman don't obviously I'm sure he saw an actual woman Right, but the woman represents something the woman represents this great city that's ruling over the whole world okay, and It says that the woman's arrayed in purple and scarlet Now you can probably remember that Jesus was given in one place It says a purple robe in other places says scarlet robe, which obviously is not a contradiction I believe it's both Either he had a robe that had both colors or they it's in different places where they put a scarlet robe on them in another Place they put a purple robe on them, but it's a sign of royalty And the idea there is obviously they were mocking him and all that But the idea there is that this woman is decked in purple and scarlet gold precious stones and pearls and basically Fat and sassy if you will and so the city is is just that it's a it's a city. That's very well off But how did it get well off by committing fornication with the kings of the earth? by by all the wickedness and abominations and I'm gonna I'm gonna you know, just tell you who I believe this city is now The city could be a country could just be a city but I Believe it's talking about America if we're in the day in age where this happens I believe America is the only one that fits this bill as far as a nation that would be over all the all the world That's influencing the whole world This would fit the bill that this is America Now the city could be an actual city. Okay, meaning this is that When we get to different countries that ruled over the whole world They had cities that that were like the capital city, right so you think of Knoth for example in Egypt you think of Nineveh. That's a very well-known one in Jonah Nahum, that's the capital city of Assyria and you go down the line with you know With Babylon and with Persia and you know, you think of Shushan the palace you think of Shinar with Babylon And how they have like these capital cities that we're going to be destroyed Okay, so it could be that it could be like well, New York City is like the capital of America, you know if you will or maybe it's maybe it is DC, but we don't really know what's going to happen As far as what's going to be that city that's going to be completely annihilated. It could be the whole country Maybe the whole country is just represented with that But we're dealing with a city here that's ruling over the kings of the earth and this is this is a future thing that's going to happen and go to Go to Revelation chapter 19 Revelation chapter 19 I want to make a point here that sometimes when it talks about a city It's not sometimes it's talking about the physical city like the physical building the roads whatever is in it but sometimes when it's talking about the city, it's talking about the people and One way to show you this is to show you New Jerusalem, which is the Lamb's wife or if you will the bride of Christ Is a city but it's also Dealing when you're talking about New Jerusalem or the the Lamb's wife is the people. Okay. So if I said New York City's wicked for example Obviously, I'm talking about the people and I'm talking about what they're doing The people that are in it are wicked. I'm not talking about the physical building being wicked Right, and so but if I said New York City, you know, I could be talking about the physical city You know like the roads in New York City are horrible. I have no idea I've never been there, but but you could be talking about the actual physical inanimate objects of the city So in Revelation chapter 19 verse 7, it says let us be glad Rejoice and give honor to him for the marriage of the Lamb is come and his wife hath made herself ready And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen clean and white for the fine Linen is the righteousness of what Saints? So we're talking about the Lamb's wife. We're talking about All the saved we're talking about the Saints Okay, and it's it's liking the all the Saints to the Lamb's wife well, then you go to Revelation chapter 21, and you're actually going to be talking about the physical city coming down and the physical city being arrayed in certain Precious stones and gold and different things like that So I just want you to see that a city could be talking about the people it could be talking about the actual physical city So Revelation chapter 21 verse 9 it says and there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full the rat I'm sorry full of the the seven last plagues and talked with me saying come hither I will show thee the bride the Lamb's wife and he carried me away in the spirit to a Great and high mountain and showed me that great city the holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven from God and this whole chapter it goes on to talk about the Wall about it the foundations the streets like everything And even the gates going into it We're talking about the physical objects of the city and it's talking about the Lamb's wife the bride New Jerusalem, but then you have New Jerusalem or the the Lamb's wife being talking about the people the Saints themselves So when you're talking about this whore This Babylon the great. I believe you're dealing with not just a physical place But the people itself that make up that city that make up that that Great city that rolls over the earth now go to revelation chapter 17 revelation chapter 17 and verse 6 This city in the end is going to end up killing a lot of Christians Notice what it says in verse 6 Then I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the Saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus And when I saw her I wondered with great admiration Notice in go to revelation chapter 18 revelation chapter 18 verse 24 Revelation 18 verse 24. This is after it's being destroyed Or had been destroyed Revelation 18 verse 24 says and then her was found the blood of prophets and of Saints and of all that were slain upon the earth So this city is like the linchpin to all the murders of you know that are going across the board for Christians and basically, that's where it's all going down and Then when it says I wondered with great admiration that term admiration has changed or This is the way that I've read the etymology of it is that it's been weakened to mean like highly esteemed But if you just looked up like where that word comes from in like the 16, you know 1600s It meant astonishment or wonder so that's why later on it says why is that? Why does thou marvel? So when it's saying he he wondered with great admiration, he's basically just an astonishment. He's just in Like can't fathom what he's seen now when when he sees this You got to imagine that John is seeing the future Imagine seeing if he's actually seeing the city. He's actually seeing what's going on. Imagine Someone in the first century AD looking at 2021 and what they see He imagined you just he mentioned describing that to people right You kind of think about the man that was caught up to the third heaven it says, you know I saw things which are not law for me for me to speak It's kind of like just imagine going from first century AD going to to now the 21st century and then trying to explain What's in the 21st century? And trying to explain what you're even talking about It's like well, they have this device that you can click on stuff and you can talk to people and you can see people on the screen they'd be like What are you talking about? Right? And so when it comes to that you can imagine why he would be like an astonishment Now it could just be that he's just an astonishment at the fact that this city is responsible for so much murder Okay, and the fact that the city is is killing that many Saints But think about how this applies when you look at Revelation chapter 6 Revelation chapter 6 is when I believe you know, basically after the abomination of desolation has taken place and based and When the fifth seal is open the abomination desolation could have happened to add the fifth seal or maybe even right before it and the fifth seal is when Christians are being killed on mass and There's a lot of bloodshed when it comes to that and so in Revelation 6 and verse 9 it says when he had opened the fifth seal I saw under the altar the souls of them that were Slain for the Word of God for the testimony Which they held and they cried with a loud voice saying how long O Lord holy and true dost thou not judge and avenge our blood On them that dwell on the earth Babylon Is responsible it says in Revelation 18 and in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all that were slain upon the earth That's a strong statement But if you think about it you think about America and how much blood were you know were guilty of? Because of all the nation building and policing the world and killing innocent people around the world You can almost even look at right now that America is responsible for bloodshed all around the world and You know that is one big reason. I mean when you think of America America is the superpower of the world and When you have the one world government obviously All the other nations are going to come in and give their power, but who has the military who has all? The power right now, it's America Okay, and when you get into Revelation 18 when you see like all the stuff that they're buying and everything else I believe it's very clear to be America and in Revelation chapter 17 and verse 7 Notice that it gives you this big Mystery like cryptic kind of saying about this woman sitting on a scarlet colored beast Then it's going to explain who the woman is and who the beast is what the heads represent What the horns represent? What the waters represent? So this chapter is going to define all this stuff for you In Revelation chapter 17 verse 7 it says in the angel said unto me Wherefore didst thou marvel I will tell thee the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carrieth her Which hath the seven heads and ten horns? So basically the angels like I'm gonna tell you the mystery. This is a mystery But I'm gonna tell you what it is Revelation chapter 17 verse 1. What's the mystery of the woman? Well, I mean the mystery is first of all, she's the great whore that sit upon many waters But in chapter chapter 17 verse 18, it says that the woman in which thou sawest is that great city So we've already covered that the woman is that great city that rules over all the kings of the earth in the end times and You can say well, which city is that? And some people will say well, it's Jerusalem right because he's going to be setting up Because he's going to be setting up the image there and the abomination desolation. I don't believe it's Jerusalem one because Babylon is going to be destroyed and never inhabited it again and Jesus Christ is going to rule and reign from Jerusalem. So that doesn't make any sense Okay, so that's one big reason why it can't be Jerusalem But also, you know in Daniel it does say that he's gonna set up palaces in the Holy Land I believe So but so I'm not saying he's not gonna be around there or there's nothing going on there, but I don't believe that's where Everything's going down. I believe that it's going to be You know Babylon which is I believe America the USA if it's in our day Okay, obviously if it's a hundred years from now, that could be a different country Could be something something different than that, okay Now we see the woman is that city and you can argue who that city is whatever But I've heard other people say well the great whore is false religion and I do think that you could have kind of a dull meaning here meaning that if you think about All I'm gonna get into the seven heads if you will as far as what they represent But if you think about it They all had false religions and they're all very well linked when I show you what who these seven heads are Like what country or what nations they represent and you'll kind of see that It's just kind of the same thing going down the line as far as their false religion So I can definitely see the great whore being because talks about their Sorceries and stuff like that in Revelation chapter 18 and how it's it's the city. It's the physical like government political realm the great whore but then you have the the great whore of like religion and When you have the great whore of religion, you're gonna be dealing with like the Catholic Church for example Orthodoxy, you know all the idolatry and everything else that goes into that And how that would definitely fit But let's just keep it on the the simple like we're talking about the city that's rolling over the whole world now in Revelation chapter 17 Let's talk about the beast, okay, so the woman is clearly a city Like I said, you could look at the secondary meaning of the woman being false religion worldwide false religion In verse 3 of Revelation 17 It says so he so he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast full of names of blasphemy having seven heads and ten horns So let's talk about this beast. It has seven heads ten horns verse 8 of Revelation 17 the beast that thou sawest was and is not and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit and Go into perdition and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder whose names were not written in the book of life from the Foundation of the world when they behold the beast that was and is not yet is Here is the mind which hath wisdom. Okay, so let's talk about this beast The seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sit it and there are seven kings Five are fallen One is and and the other is yet to come it's not yet come I'm sorry The other is not yet come and when he cometh He must continue a short space and the beast that that was and is not even he is the eighth and is of the seven And goeth into perdition. You're like, what are we talking about here? Okay, so when you're dealing with these seven heads and ten horns Do you remember in Revelation chapter 12 you had the seven headed dragon That had seven heads and ten horns, right? That's the devil and It said it on the the the the the horn or on the heads of the dragon. There was seven crowns So those heads represent seven kingdoms But then when you look at Revelation 13 and you're dealing with this beast that comes up out of the sea it has seven heads and ten horns and Then it says on the horns are ten crowns So what you're going to see here is that there's seven kingdoms represented with the heads But then there's seven kingdoms represented with the ten horns Here's the thing with the seven heads though in John's day Five of them were already done and fallen Okay, so what it shows you is that the seven heads represent seven kingdoms of you know throughout history Whereas when we get to the the horns those kingdoms are in the end times Those kingdoms are all ten kingdoms that are there in the end times Does that make sense? So Who are these seven? That are you know that are mentioned here. Well five are fallen one is and and the other is not yet come so Let's think about this real quick. What Kingdom was in John's day. I Don't believe that we should look at this in 2021 and be like one is today Okay, because obviously when John wrote this is in the first century AD. What was the clear? Kingdom the world power at that time Rome the Roman Empire was that world kingdom at that time So we know that the sixth Kingdom because five are fallen one is the sixth head is Rome Okay Well, let's backtrack who was before Rome well Before Rome you had Greece Before Greece you had Persia before Persia you had Babylon and Then I believe the first two heads was Egypt and Assyria I believe Egypt is very clear because when you think of Genesis and Exodus who's the superpower? Egypt After after the flood who's the superpower? Egypt's the superpower then you get into the Kings and all that stuff of Israel and Assyria is the one that's taken out it Oh and Nineveh that capital city is like and done to everything that's described about Babylon and Babylon being destroyed It is literally paralleled with Nineveh being destroyed, which is the capital city of Assyria. I don't really want to get into that proof I've done it before dealing with this as far as Egypt and Assyria I'm going to show you from Daniel that Babylon the media the median Persian Empire and The Grecian Empire are clearly stated in Daniel as being those world kingdoms and then the fourth kingdom doesn't save Rome But obviously just from looking back in history, you can know that Rome was that that fourth one, you know, that's mentioned there now when it comes to the one that is yet to come I Believe that's America and I want to look I want you to look at Jeremiah chapter 50 Jeremiah chapter 50. I Want to I want you to look at a couple verses here because The one that is yet to come It just so you know Jeremiah 1551 is all about Babylon Okay, if you know that Jeremiah was obviously writing at the time of the captivity Of Jerusalem and all that But then he actually prophesied a Babylon being destroyed So he prophesied that Babylon was going to destroy Jerusalem all that stuff was going to happen But then he prophesied that Babylon was going to get destroyed And so this obviously applies to the physical Babylon that was in Calvia but it also applies to the Babylon that were Gonna be seeing in the future So when you deal with Egypt the Syria Babylon itself The Medo-Persians the Grecians the Romans in the one that's to come they're all considered Babylon And I'll show you why they're considered Babylon because of what it represents. Okay, think of Babylon as this Encompassing term to basically mean a world kingdom Throughout the ages there Babylon has smooth places and even with the Persian Empire if you look at I believe it's an Ezra Where it talks about the king Cyrus it says Cyrus king of Babylon And that I do not believe is a mistake. I Believe it's basically stating that he that he's Babylon and in in first Peter chapter 5 It said it talks about the church that's in Babylon. Well, that can't be talking about Babylon and Calvia Because Babylon and Calvia no one dwells there right you remember that that was gonna be destroyed. No one's gonna dwell there again So what Babylon are we talking about? I believe it's talking about Rome. Okay, so Babylon has moved on many waters if you will It's moved from location to location throughout time from mountain to mountain You know on after time from city to city if you will throughout time and that it's moved Locations and I believe it's coming to America It's coming to to America near you. I mean basically is what's gonna happen here But I want you to think about these verses. It doesn't say America in the Bible don't go all crazy cryptic and as far as like numerology be like, oh, you know Obama's in there and America's in there, you know, if you go through the Hebrew and you cross you go this way and that way and this way and You know, no When people come up to me like Obama's in the Bible I'm like, no he's not Like obviously yes wicked people are in the Bible and reprobates are mentioned in the Bible But the name Obama is not in the Bible. Okay Now Barak is you know? So if you want to say Barack's in there because of judges, but that's different Jeremiah chapter 50 in verse 12 here Dealing with Babylon talking about Babylon. It says Your mother shall be sore confounded So Jeremiah 15 verse 12 your mother shall be sore confounded. She that bear you shall be ashamed behold the hinderer most of the nation shall be a wilderness a Dry land in a desert because of the wrath of the Lord it shall not be inhabited But it shall be wholly desolate everyone that goeth by Babylon shall be a stat astonished and hiss at all her plagues But What I want you to focus on is that it calls it the hinderer most of the nation's Think about America. Is it an old country? No, actually, it's a very young country if you think about it Right. I mean 1776 technically I mean is where we had our independence But I mean you're dealing with a country that's just over 200 years old That's not very old when you think about how old these other countries are So when you think about the hinderer most of the nations you think about a new nation That's a world power and our our nation is the newest of any world power I mean think about all the other nations and how long they've been around How about this go down to verse 37 verse 37? Verse 37 it says this a Sword is upon their horses and upon their chariots and upon all the mangled people That are in the midst of her and they shall become as women a sword is upon her treasures and they shall be robbed Now it's obvious talking about them being destroyed and everything, but it talks about them being a mangled people now I Don't specifically think this is talking about like mingled like, you know Mixed race marriages or anything like that. Okay. Well what I believe is talking about is culturally Our nation is known as the melting pot of the world I mean, I remember in in school learning this that America is the melting pot What do you do when you melt things together in a pot? You're mingling it, right? When you think about it America has got all these different cultures that are coming in at you know all together into one nation Whereas when you go to like Italy they have like their own customs and it's kind of just unique to Italy We got Italy stuff here. You know, I mean like it's all kind of brought in here and it's melded into into our culture Okay, and so I believe those two verses right there show you that very very good proof that hey We're talking about America or if it's not America, it's a nation. It's gonna be a newer nation Maybe a hundred years from now Some other nation pops up, right? Like let's say next year another nation kind of get built up and then it becomes a superpower and then that becomes Babylon, right? It's possible but it's going to be a newer type of nation. It's not going to be an old nation that we're dealing with there so just something to think about when it comes to America being that Babylon now, let's go all the way back to Genesis chapter 11 and see why is it called Babylon? I Believe it's called Babylon because of the Tower of Babel Okay, so look at Genesis chapter 11 Genesis chapter 11, so Babylon goes all the way back to right after the flood What was unique about the Tower of Babel? Well, they wanted to stay together speak the same language and be one nation One group of people and they did not want to be scattered abroad The idea of Babylon is to bring everybody together World government world religion world currency Everything is one. That's the the center vocal point So that's what all these other nations tried to do in the past and they all stretch themselves to the point where they fell okay, and The same thing is gonna happen. Obviously Babylon is gonna be destroyed in the future So that means America is gonna be destroyed in the future if it is Babylon But in Genesis Genesis chapter 11 verse 1 It says and the whole earth was of one language and of one speech and it came to pass as they journeyed From the east that they found a plane in the land of Shinar and they dwelt there. Where is Shinar and how is that significant? Shinar is the central location or the capital of the Chaldean Babylon So that's where the Tower of Babel was Okay Keep reading there It says and they said one to another go to let us make brick and burn them thoroughly and they had brick for stone and slime they had for mortar and They said go to let us build us a city and a tower. So it's not just a tower But it's also a city in Shinar Whose top may reach unto heaven and let us make us a name lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth What's the whole point of what they're doing here? So that they stay together and they don't get scattered from each other from me from one another verse 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel? Because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all The earth see God what didn't want it to be all into one nation, but throughout history, you know, what keeps happening? Everything keeps going back in the one scattered away. Everything keeps coming back in the one scattered away, right? So from the very beginning after the flood he's scattering everybody changing all their languages. Whereas Everything keeps trying to go back to being one language, you know one nation not individual nations a one world government if you will and That keeps going back and then it fails keeps going back fails. So from Egypt what happened? You know, he basically had this world power base coming into one it gets scattered then you have a Syria Everybody's kind of coming into one scattered you go to Babylon itself Okay, Babylon with Nebuchadnezzar and the kings throughout that and you have even in Shinar You have that go Go to Daniel chapter 2 Daniel chapter 2 Daniel chapter 2 and I'm going to show you clearly a progression of kingdoms Dealing with this image that Nebuchadnezzar had a dream about and in this image It shows you that Nebuchadnezzar is the head of gold and Babylon's a head of gold but then there's like inferior kingdoms going down the line if you will and So like gold silver then it goes into You know brass and then it goes into iron and so iron strong But it's not like a precious metal like the others and then you get into the four that the feet and the toes Which how many toes is a normal person have? Ten which represent those ten horns that are made of clay in Iron and you can think of the mingling of the clay and the iron that hind your most Which would be the hind your most if you think about that progression is mingled and it has the strength of that former kingdom of iron But it's not it because it's mingled together. It's not actually as strong. Okay, so I know I'm supposed to read it for you before I explain it But the idea here is I'm just trying to explain what we're dealing with here And I wish I had a chart but basically you have you know, just one through seven Egypt Syria Babylon Persian for sake of argument because the media the median are empires in there Persian Grecian you had the Roman and then you have that which is to come And that's the seventh head. Okay, and The eighth it says is of the seven so that beast That ascends it to the bottomless pit That's talking about the Antichrist the man of sin that's going to do that But let's look at this these kingdoms here verse 32 so Daniel chapter 2 verse 32 it says this image his head was of gold and his breast and his arms of silver and his belly and his thighs of brass and His late his legs of iron his feet part of iron and part of clay so this is the image remember he was gonna kill all the wise men and everything because He's like you need to tell me what it is and you need to tell me the interpretation Daniel obviously God gives him the vision and all that stuff But basically this image has gold silver brass iron and then iron mixed with clay Okay, and notice what it says in verse 37. So he's gonna explain what did these represent? It says verse 37 thou o king are the king of kings for the God of heaven have given thee a king kingdom a kingdom Power and strength and glory and wheresoever the children of men dwell the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given unto into Into thine hand and hath made thee ruler over them all So is he is he a world ruler or just over his kingdom? No, it's over everybody. He's a king of kings It says thou art this head of gold Okay now This would be the third head on that seven-headed beast if you will It doesn't mention but you gotta see in Daniel's day. Where's he at? He's at that first. He's right there in Babylon when Babylon's in power That's where he's at. So he's moving forward from where he's at going forward. Okay, because you say well, I only see four beasts You know, or I only you know, I only see five You know because obviously that last kingdom is the toes right I only see five, you know, I supposed to be seven well, the other two had already happened. Okay at this point Assyria was taken out by the Chaldeans and then Egypt was taken out by the Assyrians. I mean it just went down that line But keep reading there says verse 39 and after thee shall rise another kingdom inferior to thee so the next kingdom is not going to be as strong and And another third kingdom a brass which shall bear rule over all the earth notice that there's a there's a theme here It's a kingdom that's ruling over all the earth. You say well, you know, there was England and all that Yeah, but they weren't ruling over all the earth in America right now isn't technically ruling over all the earth Even though it is a superpower. It's not technically at this moment ruling over all the earth You know, we don't have not every country is just basically Following our laws using our currency and doing everything that America does Okay, you still have people that don't do what we're doing, right? it says in verse 40 in the fourth Kingdom shall be strong as iron for as much as Iron breaketh in pieces and doeth all things and as iron that breaketh all things shall break in pieces and bruise and Whereas thou sawest the feet and toes part of potters clay and part of iron the kingdom shall be divided But there shall be in it of the strength of the iron for as much as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay And as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly broken and Whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men But they shall not cleave one to another even as iron is not mixed with clay sound familiar The high or most part of nations and a mingled people Okay Obviously, I think you're more so dealing with the culture aspect in the religion aspect and all those different things that you know America used to be more of a like You know Christian nation off those principles and the culture was what it was But then everything's kind of been mingled since then with all the cultures and different religions and everything verse 44 And in the days of these kings What kings the ten toes? So in this kingdom there's ten kingdoms going on at this time It says in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom Which shall never be destroyed and the kingdom shall not be left to other people But it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms and it shall stand forever for as much as thou sawest that stone Was cut out of the mountain without hands that it break in pieces the iron the brass the clay the silver and the gold the great God had Had have made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter and the dream is certain in an interpretation there. I'm sure So notice what what part of that that image gets struck by the stone the feet Okay, when he destroys that kingdom it destroyed them all Because you destroy the feed everything crumbles after that and so But when you see the the seven-headed beast What you're dealing with is you're dealing with kingdoms throughout time That fifth one that has fallen was Greece the sixth that he was in that has fallen We're waiting. We're in between the sixth and the seventh coming and when the seventh comes the beast that is not and yet is and When it says is not that mean he died Because it talks about Rachel weeping for her children when it talks about a Matthew chapter 2 When Herod killed all the children from two years old and under all the male children from two years old and under It says, you know, it talks about this prophecy of Rachel weeping for children because they are not So when it says are not and even Jacob talks about this when he thought that Joseph had died his son Joseph died He said he is not he is surely rent in pieces You know and when he's talking about Simeon, you remember when he was anyway He bases Simeon is not and Joseph is not using Simeon's dead Joseph's dead and you're gonna take away Benjamin You know like he kind of goes into that so we're talking about the fact that this the antichrist is going to actually die and Then he's going to ascend out of the bottomless pit and obviously we know that this shows how he's going to try to Imitate and be in the stead of Christ, which is what actually antichrist means Antichrist means like basically in the state in instead of Christ in the place of Christ and he's gonna claim to be the Messiah. He's gonna claim to you know be the Christ and and the Savior of the world if you will and people like John Hagee who Doesn't believe that Jesus Christ came to be the Messiah. He's going to actually believe in the Antichrist and believe that is the Messiah but That being said is that he's going to go into perdition and when it says that he's of the seven of Those seven heads and shall be the eighth is that there's a kingdom right now if let's say there's a kingdom that's going to be set up You know the heads can represent a kingdom, but it could also represent the leader of that kingdom, right? It can represent when you say a king in the Bible. Sometimes it could represent the king Okay, let's say you're talking about King David, right? But if you're saying like the king in that time you could be talking about the kingdom so That being said is that sometimes we're dealing with these heads It could be talking about the physical king kind of like Nebuchadnezzar thou art that head of gold Right, obviously, he's a man But at the same time that head of gold also represent represented Babylon after Nebuchadnezzar died So it can represent the king But it also could just represent the kingdom itself and when it says that the seventh head will be You know, he's of the seven and shall be the eighth is why is that because he dies and comes back to life. That's why Okay, that's why he's called the eighth So Go to Revelation chapter. Yeah, Revelation chapter 13 and verse 1 Revelation chapter 13 verse 1 again You see this this beast that comes up out of the sea kind of like Godzilla, you know Not the same but you know Is anybody else thought of that? You know, it's got seven heads I mean, I don't know what the name of those monsters were that came up out of the sea to fight Godzilla, but Anyway, no one no one did anyone ever watch Godzilla and like and King Kong like fight each other back in these old like Japanese movies Nothing brother Dave, yeah, okay someone good night everybody's looking at me like what are you talking about? Mothra nothing. No, okay You guys are too spiritual for me Anyway So in verse 1 here It says and I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw the beast rise up out of the sea having Seven heads and ten horns and upon his horns ten crowns and upon his heads the name of blasphemy and the beats Which I saw was like until a leopard and his feet were as the feet of a bear and his mouth was as the mouth of a lion and in the dragon gave him his power and his seat and great authority and I saw One of his heads as it were wounded to death and his deadly wound was healed and all the earth wondered after the beast So when it says that in Revelation 13, that's talking about the beast that was and is not Right. One of the heads was wounded Right. So we're talking about the seven heads. One of those heads was wounded to death and that deadly wound was healed So when it was healed he was considered the eighth okay, and Also, it talks about the fact that this beast it looks like a leopard it has the feet of a bear and has the mouth of a lion and In Revelation chapter 7 and you don't have to turn there for sake of time But in Revelation chapter 7, there's four beasts that come up out of the sea There's four beasts that come up out of the sea and these beasts represent Babylon Medo-Persian Grecian and the Roman Empire and then actually there's ten horns that are mentioned which would represent that next kingdom So the same progression but it gives you a progression and I went at nauseum through this in Revelation I'm sorry Daniel chapter 7 So if you want to see like point by point that that that that the first beast is Babylon and the second beast is the Medo-Persian Empire then you really got to listen to that sermon because there's no way I can go through all that tonight But in Revelation chapter 7 it says the first it says four great beasts came up from the sea diverse one from another in verse 3 Sound familiar you have a beast rising up out of the sea The first beast was like a lion Go down to verse 5 and behold another beast a second like to a bear Verse 6 after this I beheld and lo another like a leopard sound familiar It's a leopard with the feet of a bear in the mouth of a lion But then it says about the fourth beast It says in verse 7 after this I saw in the night visions and behold a fourth beast Dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly and it had great iron teeth sound familiar to that image the image of iron you had the gold silver brass, but what was the fourth one iron and It devoured and breaking pieces and stamped the residue with the feet of it And it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it and it had ten horns That image of Nebuchadnezzar that he saw had ten toes Then the the beast that we see coming out in Revelation 13 has ten horns I I Considered the horns and beheld and behold there came up among them another little horn before whom There were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots and behold in this Horn were eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouse speaking great things That's the Antichrist the little horn coming up out of the ten horns so and go back to Revelation chapter 17 actually look at Actually, I was going to show you Just where it talks about that. There's three horns plucked up Okay, so you have these ten horns three horns are plucked up in verse 20 there It says another ten horns there weren't that were in his head So this is the fourth beast with ten horns and of the other which came up behold Whom three fell even of that horn that had eyes and a girl and a mouth that that spake very great things Whose look was more stout than his fellows I beheld and the same horn made war with the Saints and prevailed against them So just to show you that that little horn that comes up out of the ten horns That is the Antichrist. It's gonna make war with the Saints. We see that in Revelation chapter 13 I don't want to go rehash Revelation chapter 13 But after that beast comes up out of the sea and his deadly wound is healed He's ascending out of the bombless pit. They're wondering after the beast and then he goes to make war with the Saints but the thing that I want you to see or Something that I believe here is that look at Revelation chapter 17 with these ten horns revelation 17 and verse 12 the seven heads Represent seven kingdoms throughout time. Does that make sense? It's very clear that in John's day five of them were not even kingdoms anymore Five are fallen one is and one is not yet come Obviously in our day that sixth one is fallen too because Rome fell But The one we're looking for is the one the seventh kingdom that has seven or it has ten horns okay, and Not only does it talk about the head itself being wounded But it talks about how he comes out of one of these horns So the seventh head I believe represents these ten kingdoms coming together To form this one world government and each horn represents a kingdom It's interesting I forget who was telling me but that the United Nations actually are regarding ten Nations as being a part of the United Nations, you know as far as being the the key nations if you will I don't know if that I haven't looked into it Okay, but if you think about the League of Nations after World War one and the United Nations after World War two What do you think's gonna happen after World War three? I Personally believe after World War three, you're going to have a new world order you know one world government and Notice in Revelation chapter 12. I just want you to be very clear here that these ten horns Are in John's day were not kingdoms yet It didn't have power yet meaning that this is something coming in the future these ten horns Revelation 17 verse 12. It says in the ten horns, which thou sawest are ten kings Which have received no kingdom as yet. So when he says that five are fallen one is He's saying the ten kings have not received a kingdom as yet Okay That's something that's gonna happen in the future but receive power as kings one hour with the Beast So this is something that happens in the end where you're gonna have these ten kings These have one mind and shall give their power and strength unto the Beast These shall make war with the Lamb and the Lamb shall overcome them for he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings They they that are with him are called Called and chosen faithful and he sent them to me the waters which thou sawest which the horse sitteth are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues and again That just shows you that it's just explaining to you what that means when it says waters is talking about multitudes of people within these nations but When it's talking about these ten kings we're talking about in the future there's going to be these ten kings That's not throughout the space of time the seven heads are When you look at Daniel 7, it says that those ten horns three are plucked up by the roots. I Believe that represents this world war that's going to happen in three kingdoms are going to lose Three kingdoms are going to lose and after that happens this little horns going to rise up So when you look at Revelation 12, what do you have you have wars rumors of wars you have famine you have pestilences and You have this flood that that that the devil is trying to completely annihilate every human being But obviously the earth opens up her mouth and I believe that's dealing with world war Because right now if we set up set off all Or nuclear weapons. I Don't know how many times they say you can destroy the world, but it was a lot Meaning We have the power to just annihilate everybody But that's not going to happen. Okay, so That's what the devil wants. He wants to just completely annihilate each other But there's going to be three kingdoms that I believe are gonna fall and I believe the Antichrist is actually going to die at that time because in Daniel chapter 11 it says That you know talking about the flood and the arms of a flood and it says the Prince of the Covenant will be broken Meaning he's going to die and that's when he's gonna have the wound in the head that meaning he dies he's literally gonna raise from the bottomless pit and everybody's gonna be wandering after the beast and That's what these ten horn and then the ten horns are going to give those ten kingdoms even the fallen ones obviously But even the ones that were victors are going to give all their power Unto the beast so I believe after this war the ten kings get power over the whole world so that makes sense like kind of like right now the UN wants to be in Charge of everybody like every single nation, but they're not They're gonna have power for one hour and they're gonna give all that power to the beast. Okay, so that's what's happening with Babylon in Babylon so that's the beast right? That's the kingdom but the woman that sits on the beast of the city in which this takes this is basically like the command center if you will of all the stuff going down and I believe that to be I believe that to be America. Okay, that's just my personal belief. It's the higher most of the nation's It's the mingled people, you know as far as culturally It's the melting pot of the world. I Believe it fits the bill I believe it will fit the bill if it's destroyed if it was destroyed today, it would fit the bill of Revelation chapter 18 But that's that's for next week Revelation 17 to end the chapter here It's interesting that when we get the revelation chapter 18 It's actually not obviously God's doing this. I'm going to show you how but when Babylon is destroyed It's actually destroyed by these ten kings It's interesting because the whore is used Destroyed and that's how people treat whores They use them and then they just they're done with them you think of am is it amnon amnon, you know, Absalom Well with Absalom's sister and amnon, you know, they were half brother half sister or whatever How he like forced her and then he hated her he like used her and then hated her and just wanted to discard her and That's why I believe Babylon's referred to as a whore One she commits fornication with all the kings of the earth But two she's kind of just tossed off By these kingdoms that used her. Okay Now in Revelation 17 and verse 16 it says in the ten horns, which I saw upon the beast these shall hate the whore and Shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire This is the same kingdoms that were committing fornication with her But they're going to hate the whore This is why you should stay pure get married And I know this is another sermon for another day But you listen you act like a harlot or a whore or a whoremonger listen You're not going to have love like you do with a marriage See marriage is honorable and all in the bed and the file but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge and There is a stark contrast between the bride of Christ And New Jerusalem and great and Babylon the great the great whore and so But keep going here it says that they're gonna they're gonna burn her with fire They're gonna eat her flesh and burn her with fire Notice why verse 17 for God had put in their hearts to fulfill his will and to agree and give their kingdom unto the beast Until the words of God shall be fulfilled and the woman which thou sawest is that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth I believe they're gonna do it because God's gonna put it into their hearts to do it So actually when you think about all this stuff that God is pouring out on the earth And then he puts it into the minds of the kingdoms they literally just eat their own I Mean isn't that what happens today? I mean you think about all the liberals. They just eat their own and It's actually you know Humors have time to step back when you see all these like these people that are just constantly Trying to virtue signal you and try to make you look like you're not moral or something like that and then they get like eaten by their own people and And So when it says they'll eat her flesh and burn her with fire I mean, that's that's straight-up Hollywood right there. That's straight up the the media industrial complex I mean that's straight up everybody that's in charge right now That's trying to influence and put their propaganda through they literally eat each other And I don't believe it's by accident. Actually. It may even be God that's putting it into their minds to do it Because he's gonna do it with Babylon and in Revelation chapter 18, which we'll get to Lord willing next week We're gonna see the actual destruction, but this chapter is to show you who it is. I hope that all made sense I hope that you understand that's those seven heads represent seven kingdoms throughout time and I hope you know that those ten horns represent ten kingdoms in the end times and That the Antichrist is coming out of that final kingdom with those ten horns. He's going to die He's going to raise again. Obviously trying to picture Christ you say well, you know, how can he raise from the dead? Bible says it I believe it Okay, how can God die the Bible says that I believe it So that's that's why I stand on that Okay It says he's gonna send out of Obama's pit. I believe he's gonna send out of Obama's pit and how that happens I don't know exactly Okay, I believe it's the same man too, by the way, because that same man is gonna be cast into the lake of fire so That's what it is but revelation chapter 18 next week Lord willing and we'll get into the actual destruction of Babylon Let's end with a word prayer there. Heavenly Father We thank you today and pray to be with us throughout the rest of this week I pray to you to help us to understand a book of Revelation and it's definitely interesting To hear about Babylon considering we may be living in Babylon or at least in the the future Babylon That's that's going to take place and Lord just prayed you to Help us to understand these passages and to to bring glory to your name and if we are in the Gonna be going into the end times and what we just pray that you help us to win many souls to you and more We love you and pray else in Jesus Christ name. Amen The brother they will come and sing one more song and then we'll be dismissed All right, take your song books turn to song 432 Song 432 we'll sing angels from the realms of glory if you would stand Sing song 432 Angels from the realms of glory Wing your flight o'er all the earth Ye who sang Creation's story now proclaim Messiah's birth Come and worship come and worship worship Christ the newborn King Shepherds in their field abiding watching or your flocks by night God with man is now residing yonder shine