Revelation 16 MirrorWord Bible Study

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Alright, tonight, uh, Revelation 16. Great chapter. And I want to start by saying, you know, today, I think it was yesterday or today, the Lord said to me, you know, John did not write this to theologians. You think about that. He didn't write this to like PhDs in theology, all these people have been studying studying church history. There's nothing wrong with any of that stuff, by the way. But he wasn't writing to people like that. And as I thought about it again, when we did John, unfortunately, we were we lost the recordings. Everything John John did was any miracle or any prophetic act that Jesus did, there's a spiritual meaning behind it. In other words, it was something physical with something spiritual behind it, something invisible, a spiritual principle. And I said this during John, and I've said it periodically, that John should have done a commentary, but he didn't. Because he wants you to get it by the Spirit. And so when I'm reading this, I mean, I'm not, you know, I don't, I'm a doctor, I don't have time to go study all the theologies and everybody's opinions about this. So I'm basing this on that this is the revelation of Jesus Christ. We've talked about that. And and and it's gotta line up with the Gospel of John and the first John. It's gotta line up with the Paul's teaching. And if it doesn't, then it's just an outlier, it should be thrown out. So it does line up, and that's the that's what I'm thinking about. So anyway, we'll start here. We've got to get going because there's a lot of stuff. But this is actually a pretty interesting chapter because we're all ready for a little wrath, right? Ready for those judgments to fall on everybody. But let's watch out here. He says, then I heard, now this is John describing, then I heard a sound of a loud voice coming out of the inner shrine. And I was thinking about, you know, you talk about the inner shrine of the temple. The real temple is Jesus Christ is the first temple on the earth. Let's face it, the temple is the human body, it always has been. And so this is all symbolism. It says, Command the seven celestial messengers. Now, seven is the completeness. In other words, we're gonna get a complete message of the uppouring of God's wrath or orge, his passionate desire. Okay? Origami. Orgi, his passion. That's where the word comes from. Seven means complete celestial messengers. These are people speaking or the other uh excuse me. I gotta slow down starting to speak in tongues when I talk too fast. Anyway, uh, you know, people say angels. Well, but you know, you think about it, anybody with a heavenly message is kind of an angel. It's a person with a it's a being with a message. So celestial messengers deport, notice this, pour upon the earth the weight of God's passion. Other versions will say wrath, the passion of God, which has been loaded onto the golden fire pans they received from the brazen altar of sacrifice. That's very interesting. Because, okay, so in other words, this is stuff, one, that was caused that that burned up the sacrifices, and two, it also caused incense to go up the prayers of the saints. And now it's being poured, it's going for the inner inner shrine to being poured out on something. And notice it's the seven seven celestial messengers. They have a this has a message. This is something that we can kind of visualize in our mind that's got a spiritual meaning. The pouring out of the fire pans of the brazen altar sacrifice is a message. Okay? Now, in the commentary, it says the golden fire pan was for the purpose of carrying fire in order to burn incense on the Day of Atonement once a year in the ultimate place of worship. Incense is what? The prayers of the saints, right? And I'm gonna I was gonna not read the rest of this, but I'm going in. Revelations 8:3. This was a preparation peculiar to the day of expediation. On other days, it was used as a custom of the priest to take fire from the brazen altar in a silver censer, but on the great day of atonement, where the Passover lamb is sacrificed, the high priest took the fire from the great altar in a golden censer. He took the fire on the altar. Listen, and when he came, was when he came down from the great altar, he took incense from one of the priests who brought it to him and went into the golden altar. And while he offered the incense, the people prayed without silence. In other words, it's it's the prayers of the symbolism of the prayers of the people, correct? And also, it says the source of every reference of to fire in the book of Revelation would always be the brazen altar of sacrifice. Brazen altar of sacrifice symbolizes the cross where the Lamb of God died, mankind's death. Okay, now think about it. If it's gonna be poured out, that means it's finished. What do you do after a barbecue? When you, you know, you the old days when we actually had to like have coals and heat them up, right? What do you do after when you're clean, you know, the barbecue's over? You clean and you throw out. You throw out the you throw out the the coals, don't you? It's over. It's a symbolism, it has a message, it's done. The barbecue is over. Anyway, says now this is there's seven of them. It says, and the first one departed and poured the contents of the golden fire pan upon the earth, and it broke out into terrible, grievous sores upon all those who did what? Worship the image and bore the mark. Now, oh, what was I gonna maybe I'll just go one chapter ahead here. See if I can find the Romans. I read this the other day. A callous heart, listen to this. This is Romans 2, 2.16. Do not underestimate the kindness of God's kindness, the wealth of his benevolence, and his resolute refusal to let us go, is because he continues to hear the echo of his likeness in us. Thus, his patient passion is to shepherd everyone into a radical mind shift. That's what he's doing here. Notice this a callous heart that resists change accumulates cause to what? Self-destruction. Well, God's righteous judgment is revealed in broad daylight. Anyway, why did I read that? It says the first one pours out this context upon the earth, and the earth probably symbolizes, I mean, dryness. Anyway, and and terrible, grievous sores uh upon all the uh those who worship the image and bore his mark. Now, you can take that literally that man, you know, God is pouring out things, but think about it. These people that are worshiping the image and and bore the mark are eating of the tree of the knowledge, the good and evil. You go to Deuteronomy 28, what happens? You know, there's 14 blessings, and there's a whole bunch of curses, and one of them soars, isn't it? And he says here, worshiping the image, not the image of God, which is manifest in Christ. Remember, he's the perfect image bearer that not only shows us who the true God is, he says, if you see me, you've seen the Father, he also shows you the true you. He's not a he's not a he's not of a He's not an image for or to try to be, he's the image of who you really are. He's the prototype of the real you, which I've said a million times. So they're worshiping the image, it's the image of the false image and bore its mark. In other words, in their flesh, ideas, we you know, they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. It's not an apple, it's an idea. If I do this, then I'm something. If I do this, I'm nothing. I'm terrible. God loves me, God hates me. I'm competing against everybody else because I have to be number one. And I bear in my flesh the results of that tree, thorns and thistles. Why else Jesus comes and says, I, you know, he bore all your sicknesses and infirmities. Where'd it come from? That tree. Anyway, the second one, now remember, it's seven of them, so which is a complete message of the finished work of atonement, the throwing out the coals, throwing out the fire, because the sacrifice is over. And the second one poured out his golden fire pan upon the sea, and its waters became like blood, which killed every living soul in the sea. Now, symbolism to me of the ocean, of the waters in the creeks, and the next verse is water and creeks, is people. Which goes back to uh in Exodus. Remember, he turned the Nile into blood. Now, it's interesting. Why blood? Why not iced tea? Or why not something else? Because now here it's become blood which killed every living soul. In other words, this is symbolism of what happened in the death of Jesus Christ. What happened? All died. If one died for all, all died. It's a symbolism of God in Christ being in union with Christ and we are co-crucified. That's what I believe this is talking about. Remember, the brazen altar, the passion of God has been poured out. The judgment was taken on the cross. Remember in John the 14th, or excuse me, Revelation 14, it said, I believe it's the seventh verse, it said, now is the time of his judgment. His one person, Christ. Christ bore the judgment. And now the results of the passion of God are being poured out onto mankind. And people who refuse to get on with it are gonna suffer for it. In John the John the uh John 3.18, I believe it says, for those who believe are saved, or saved, those who don't believe are not saved, something like that. Basically it's saying, and why? Because they don't believe. These are people that don't believe, they believe in the world system. And yet God uses that because the it's becomes based on the law, whatever law it is, based on the Ten Commandments, or it's the law of your own mind. Everybody's got a morality. I mean, in our country is really divided right now. The far right's got a morality based probably on biblical principles, the far left's got a morality too. They all got their own little morality, right and wrong, right? It's based on that instead of based on God's image, which is Jesus Christ made incarnate. Okay. So, and the third did the same. The third celestial message, remember, it's a celestial message. This pouring out of the contents is a message. It's a finished work message because it's no longer needed for the sacrifice. Interesting, isn't it? Different way of looking at it. Am I totally right? I don't know. Maybe. I think is I mean, I think this can be interpreted a million different ways. And I'm I'm basing this on it's a revelation of Jesus Christ and a finished work message. I'm basing it on all I know about what John wrote in 1 John and in the Gospel of John, what what Paul wrote. It's gotta line up. This is symbolism. Remember, John could not write a letter of pure theology off Patmos because he was there because of the testimony. And if you wrote pure theology, the Romans are gonna intercept it. So he's writing, he's writing a symbolism. He says, Then I heard the select the celestial messenger, the one that just poured out the blood, right? Now this is who interpreted the message of the wall in the waters, which is the blood, saying, Righteous are you in the conclusion of your judgment.

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Now, it's so easy. I mean, I read this countless times, just keep going over meditate on it. But listen to this. He said, Okay, remember, the rivers, the mountains, the ocean, representing all the peoples, I believe, of the earth, is now covered in blood, and they all die. If one died for all, all died. Now, listen, then I heard the celestial messages who interpreted the message, the message in the water, saying, Righteous are you. In other words, you people that have poured out the blood's been poured out, righteous are you? You look at that, you think, oh, he's talking about God. I don't think so. I think he's talking about the waters. Because of the blood, because of the sacrifice. Because we were co-crucified. Romans 3.23, all of sin fell short of the glory of the Lord. 24, all have been made righteous as a free gift by Jesus Christ. All have been made righteous. It says, righteous are you in the conclusion of your judgment. Jesus was judged and we bore, we hung on the cross with them mystically. He says, take up your cross. His cross is your cross. His judgment is your judgment. Your I amness defines time. We can say, well, the I amness of God, Jesus Christ. Yeah, how about ours? Well, God believes to be true about us based on Jesus Christ. He's the Son of God and Son of Man. You are the sons of God, daughters of God, and the daughters and sons of man. Same. I'm not saying you're the king of king, you're the little king, big king, king of little kings, big lord of little lords. You have a divine nature. One John, I believe, three-nine. Wow. Your I amness defines time, past, present, future. In other words, a sacrifice defined time, it restored your innocence, it restored your image and lightness, restored to your original form. Like your computer. You know, the without messing around and souping it up, making it stronger and changing the things. The natural, the way it was supposed to be. You pushed a button, turned it off, and it rebooted everything to the way it was reset to the beginning. You know, I was just thinking about it the other day. You know, and I think I said this Sunday morning, we were in Culpepper, Virginia, driving, and some guy had, you know, I'm not perfect, but I'm saved, and had the cross and all that. And I wanted to reach out and I said, Yeah, but you're perfect according to scripture. And then I thought to myself, you know, we define perfection in one way. You know, we we put up beautiful women, beautiful guys, you know, whatever, weightlifters, and then we define that as perfection. Maybe God's definition is not ours. By the way, he does say you're perfect. Hebrews 10, 14. He is forever. This is amplified completely. Remember, it's a mere message, it's just better in the mirror, but it's also in other versions. He is forever, past, present, future, completely cleansed and perfected you, made you perfect. Why would you argue with that? Why don't you just believe what he says? That's what I like to do. Alright, six. Since they are now listening, he's talking about probably the Jewish people here, by the way. Since they are the ones who poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets, you gave them blood to drink as their due. Wow. Eat my fish and drink my blood. If you don't, you have no part of me. Isn't that interesting? Remember in Hebrews 11, he's talking to Paul. He says, even though the Jews are enemies of the cross, from the godless from God's perspective, they're beloved. This is the blood of Jesus he's talking about. It's been poured out on all the people that persecuted God. It's been poured out on everybody. Everybody co-died. If one died for all, all died. That's what he's talking about here. That's God's passion. He knew when we hung him on the cross that we would co-di with him mystically. He knew that. The old Adam would die, and he knew when he was raised up you would be a new creation. He knew that. Jesus knew that. He endured the cross, ignoring and despising all the shame say, I am his joy. From his point of view, it was worth it. I was worth it. Alright. The blood of Jesus speaks of a bet uh better things. Okay, verse 7. Now it's kind of funny. The waters speak. There's a message in the waters, and now there's a message on the altar. The altar's gonna speak. And I heard the altar speak again. Now the altars were the sacrifice happened. Happened past tense. Mystically, when Jesus was the when Jesus was sacked, the crucifixion happened, the sacrifice has ended. There's no longer a need for a sacrifice. All of it pointed to Jesus. So he says, I heard the altar speak in the same language as the song of Moses and of the Lamb. And I think it was the last two chapters that talked about the song of Moses and the Song of the Lamb. And the song of the redeemed had the same song. He says, Oh Lord God, you certainly hold sway over all things. Righteousness and truth are your trademark in every detail of judgment. Your judgment is complete. Your judgment is perfect, and he bore that judgment on the cross. If I be lifted up, I'll draw all judgment to myself. Now is the hour of his judgment. Jesus Christ is judged. He said, if I be he says, everyone's current He says we're redeemed from the curse of the law in Galatians because everyone who hangs on the cross cross is cursed. And he curses, he hung on a tree. And I think the tree symbolized the tree of the knowledge of good and evil personally. I was really struggling with this, but all of a sudden it started coming alive. It's kind of fun. It's just a different way of looking at it. We can look at it literally. It's not literal. This is symbolism. This is something physical that we can kind of imagine in our mind and go, wow, this is what spiritually happened. Once and for all time, he's died and he won't die again. He's done it. Last thing he said on the cross is it is finished. Because it was finished. It was the seventh day, that moment. Work was done. Alright. In the commentary under seven, towards the middle of it, says, In God's act of righteousness, whose act God's, in which the human race was, past tense, acquitted and justified. Say I was acquitted and justified. Not going to be, I was. God spoke the language of the highest courts of justice, having had no one greater to swear by, he swore by himself, thus making it impossible for his resolve not to be fulfilled. Therefore, ending all possible grounds for dispute. You can dispute it all you want. You're wrong unless you agree with him. Anyone can dispute it. Alright, here we go. Keep going. Now remember we got seven celestial messengers. We had the water, a message in the water, the bloody water. We had a message from the altar. And now we have the fourth celestial messenger. This is a message being poured out, the coals, because they're no longer useful. This is the wrath of God being taken out on a person named Jesus Christ and then poured to earth. And if you don't receive it, it like Franco always likes to say, you know, gold remains gold. It has no value when it's hidden. But as soon as you dig it up, it has value, right? Faith has no value for a lot of people because it's been hidden. The Christ in you, right? They don't see Christ in them. The what is it? The mystery that's hidden from ages and generations. Colossians 1 27, 26. That's now revealed to the Gentiles, what Christ in you? In other words, he's been there the whole time. Discovering Christ is in you is the gold. Alright. The fourth celestial messenger poured out his golden fire pan upon the sun, given it authority to scorch mankind with his heat as it is in a fiery furnace. Okay? And mankind's mind were fried in the heat of their own natural light. In other words, the w the light of what they thought they could see blinded them. They just, like Pharaoh's day, continued to blaspheme the name of God, who had the authority over these plagues. They did not show any change of heart. That's the key. Towards God to acknowledge his thoughts about them as unbealed, where in Christ. Yeah, these I mean, the Pharisees were the first ones who did this. They refused to believe. Jesus said in John 1, he says, I came to his own didn't want to recognize him. Of course. Why would you recognize God incarnate when he comes and looks just like you? In other words, if you don't receive the message, it's not valuable to you. And when you don't receive it, what happens? He says, is it John six he says John 16, 33? Is it 31, 33? I can't remember. Says, in this world you have tri trials and tribulations, but be of good cheer. I've overcome the world. But if you're not knowing Jesus, you're still having trials and tribulations. And it says the lie is a what? Tudor to what? Grace. I believe it's Galatians 3.19. It's a tutor to grace. Because it's frustrating. There's no life in it. And you try, try, try, try, and you walk by that light of the do do do do do do da da da little you know, uh police do do do da da da da, right? And it doesn't work. Instead of just believing who you are by based on what Christ comes to present and the sacrament. That was given, and the finished work of the cross that changes your light by just gazing at Jesus, 2 Corinthians 3 18, which I'm not going to say tonight. Alright, the fifth messenger, celestial messenger. So message poured out the context of the golden fire pan upon the throne of the beast, and it turned its light the lights off. His entire kingdom was blacked out, and the people were gnawing their tongues in anguish and distress. In other words, if you're not in light, you're in darkness. And I'm just going to read John 3 18 here. Actually, the last verse, I just want to write Romans 1 in the book about the sun, because I just think this is interesting. Romans 1 21 to 23, it just says, Yet man, this is to the last verse, yet mankind only knew him in a philosophical religious way, from a distance, and failed to give him credit as God. They're taking him for grant granted, and lack of gratitude veiled him from them, darkened. They became absorbed in useless debates and discussions, which further darkened their understanding about themselves. Their wise conclusion only confirmed their folly. Their losing sight of God made them lose sight of who they really are. In their calculation, the image and likeness of God became reduced to a corrupt and distorted pattern of themselves. Suddenly a person has more in common with creepy crawlies than that of the original blueprint. That's the problem. Not believing the simplicity of the gospel and being blinded by it. And then down here, he says it talks about the beast, which is the worldly authority system. Also, you got John, uh I was gonna say John 3 18. And the lights are burning out. And you know, think about this. People are cursing and anguish. They're in tongues and anguish. And remember, remember the world, uh it's the tree of the knowledge of good and prone's. Greek word pronous, things that result in toils, hardships, and sufferings. There, there you go, right? There it's separation mode. Tongues in anguish and distress, and they blaspheme God, they belittle him, right? But it's interesting, is most people really don't know God, do they? They don't know he's love. I mean, they they think he's the old testament God, and they just are mad and you know, like, why is this isn't fair and that isn't fair. Anyway, I'll keep going. They cursed and blasphemed God of heaven out of their agony of their source, and still what? Refuse to change their minds about their doings. In other words, their doings instead of just being done and allowing the finish work. God's God's not it. I'm gonna flip over a scripture really quick. I just got another one, I'll go back to this. Hebrews, I just love Hebrews 4 in the con in the commentary. Uh listen to this. 412, commentary, Hebrews. Says the moment, this is the moment we cease from our own efforts to justify ourselves, in other words, stop doing by yielding to the integrity of the message that what announces the success of the cross, they're not announcing that. The word, God's word is triggered into action. But if you don't do that, if you're doing the do-do-do, da-da-da-da, the word of God is not kicked into action, and you're dried up and you're mad because nothing is working for you, and you're in darkness. Then we go back to John, the third chapter, starting in, I think, 18. Says, faith and not flesh defines us. Say faith and not flesh defines me. In the persuasion of our authentic sonship, there is no separation or rejection. Say there's no separation for me, and there's no rejection ever. For someone to prefer not to embrace this, this union, this authentic sonship, is to remain under their own judgment, sustained by what? Their futile efforts to define themselves through personal performance. Where we say, they refuse to change their mind about their doings. In their stubborn unbelief, they reject what is revealed and redeemed in the name of the Son, begotten only of the Father and not of the flesh, birth by God. They diffuse that. And this is the crisis. Other words to say judgment, the crisis, which means a crisis, which is crisis. The light is here right now, yet people are so addicted to their own darkness that they prefer a life of labors, annoyances, hardships, tongues of anguish and distress being in darkness. When someone is engaged in something worthless, they often fear exposure and feel threatened by the light. Not me. Alright, then this next one. Now, I always try to turn this into something positive because it does it talks about here that the demon spirits of the, we'll get into it a little bit, are rallying everybody to go to a go to a fight. I'm sure we're gonna have a good fight in the next chapter. But I isn't it amazing because it makes me think of the three kings and the birth of Jesus, right? They came from the east. And you know, the firepan dries it up, so there's no separation. Now they can just come come right over, and there's says there's invasion from the kings, okay? But anyway, says when I witnessed, then I witnessed three unclean spirits which had the appearance of frogs. And remember in the Old Testament in Exodus, remember one of the plagues was frogs, and they were all over, and then they died, and it stunk, okay, which had the appearance of frogs, and and the frogs in the ancient was something that was unclean, because of course, you know, the the uh plagues and stuff like that. It says, No, it's coming out of the mouth of the triune dragon, which is Setanos, the beast, which is the authority of the worldly system, and the false prophet, the religious system. In other words, what you can see physically, spiritually came out of them. And then school on. And it says, and they are spirits of demons doing signs. They probably have a stop sign, yield sign. I'm just teasing. They're doing signs which advertise, although the sign that advertises the great day of conflict to all the kings of the earth, the great day of conflict, trying to trying to make them gather their combined forces and bring them and the whole world to the battle of the great day of the Lord Almighty. So, what's the great day of the Lord Almighty? So this is taught, and I used to believe this because when I came to the Lord in the 1980s, man, I was into the old, I was into Revelations, man, and the end times and Jesus coming and hell ends in the great play, great, uh, late great planet earth, man. I was into it. Any day Jesus is coming home, which really put me in a pickle. And I won't go into it because it was a mindset that I couldn't do anything else because Jesus was coming any day. But you know, it says to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. So is he talking about some end time thing that we're waiting for? Or is he talking about the crucifixion? What's the great day? The great day is the crucifixion. Jesus says in Luke, I can't remember 16 or 18, right in there. I have to look it up. It says, I'm going to Jerusalem and all A-L, all the prophecies will be fulfilled. The death, the resurrection, the ascension, and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit Pentecost, all fulfilled. The great day of the Lord is that day. It's not an actual day. Just like, you know, the last day is a time period. It's that day forever and ever and ever in the last day. And I can prove that scripturally, but I'm not gonna do it tonight. I mean, so they're coming to battle. Uh the great, the battle of the great day of God Almighty. Of course, we think there's gonna be some cosmic battle at the end. Don't think so. There might be. I'm not saying I'm right about everything. I hey, this is tough stuff, but I know the great day of God of God Almighty was a crucifixion. In fact. I did get a scripture for this, too. Alright, ready? 2 Corinthians 2, 7. 7 through 9. 1 Corinthians 2, 7 through 9, if you want to look. But here we go. We voice words of wisdom that were hidden in silence for timeless ages. A mystery unfolding God's masterful plan whereby He, He, not we, He would redeem his glory in man, his glory in you, his glory in me. A master plan that he, not you, not me by my confession, by this, or whatever I did, would redeem my glory. It says our glorification has always been God's agenda, even before time we say God's glorification or my glorification was always on God's agenda. Wow. Neither the politicians, the beast, or the religious leaders, the false prophet, or Satanos, who's a binded all, or the three frog demons of the day had a clue about this mystery. If they did, they would have never crucified the Lord whose death redeemed our glory. It's gotta line up with the scriptures, with the teachings of Paul. If it doesn't, it's nonsense. It's an outlier to be thrown out. I'm gonna say it again. He says, They would have never crucified the Lord whose death has redeemed our glory. He's not going to redeem your glory, he has redeemed your glory. Say he's has redeemed my glory. That's what he says. You can look at yourself and go, I don't feel glorified, but he says you are. Now think about this. The great day of the Lord. Now he says, Oh, that you would awaken to my intentions. What's my intentions? Your glorification. Why must I come to you like a thief who suddenly breaks into your space unannounced? Jesus did show up like a thief. He stood right before them. And they didn't know him. He says, Guard your apparel. That's what you wear. Guard it. You've been clothed with Christ, you've been clothed in your nakedness, lest you feel exposed and embarrassed about your nakedness. Sin consciousness is what he's talking about here. You don't measure up because you feel guilty. You did something. It's the guilt condemnation system. Just like Adam and Eve, when they traded, what? What did they trade? Oh my god, they traded something. The awareness of their I amness because they were face to face with the Father. And our sweet communion for the fruit of the alternate tree, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. What's the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? If I do this, I get blessed and God loves me. If I do this, I get cursed, and God does not love me and hates me. It's like I analogize it to having goals that you can't do, and then you feel really bad because you don't achieve them. And what do you do? You don't want to tell your friends you didn't get your. You told your, you know, go tell everybody your goals, and then you don't achieve them. You don't want to go tell them because you're embarrassed. You hide, shrink. But Jesus Christ is the image bearer of God. He's the first, he's the perfect image bearer. He comes to show you the real you. And he's redeemed you. He declares that you're righteous, you're holy, you're innocent, you're a son, you're a daughter, you are filled, flooded temple with a Godhead. That's what he says. I suggest you don't argue, you just agree. Alright. And the fraud demons worked as one, gathering the kings of the earth together in one place with the Hebrew name Armageddon. Armageddon is an actual place in Israel. If you've been to Israel, been to this place a few times, it's called Har Magiddo. Har the mountain of Megiddo. Megiddo is a little hill. They call a mountain. And it's in the valley of Jezreel. It's close to Nazareth. It's close to where Elijah was up on, you know, he's up on Mount Carmel. You can see Mount Carmel from there. You can see Mount Tabor. I think it's Mount Tabor where Gideon rolled down and did the big fight. It's a valley. And it's a trade route where people traveled from Egypt all the way into Babylon. And you know something else I noticed this finally woke up to? You know, we talk about Rome and we talk about all these beasts. The only one that's really mentioned all the time is Babylon. Isn't that interesting? Babylon keeps coming up all the time. Now, Rome doesn't come up. It could. I mean, John is very familiar with Rome. Babylon keeps coming up. Interesting. The seventh celestial messenger poured his golden fire pan into the atmosphere. Okay? It's been poured out on the waters. It's been poured out on the earth. And now it's poured into the atmosphere. There is no way to get away from the finished work. What the pans represent, the finished work, the sacrifice already being done. A loud voice came from the throne in the inner shrine and said, it is irreversibly done. Irreversibly. There's no more sacrifice. It's a message. And if you don't receive the message, you hurt yourself. God's not hurting you. You hurt yourself. This ignited flashes of lightning with the roaring voices of thunder and a massive earthquake such as never been ever felt since the beginning of the human existence on the earth. There has never anything remotely like it. The earth rocked and rolled and rumbled. I really think this is when Jesus died at 3 p.m. And remember the earthquake and the everything got dark and the veil was ripped. I mean, a lot of things happened. I could be wrong, but so it doesn't matter. And the great city split into three portions, and the cities of the nations fell, and Babylon the Great was remembered. Babylon is symbolism of rebellion. It's a Gentile nation. It's one that brought Israel into exile. They're also the ones that wanted to build a heav a building to heaven. And remember, and God gave them all kinds of language, Babble. They all started babbling. They couldn't understand each other, and so they couldn't understand each other. They couldn't come into one thought of mind. It says Babylon, the great city, was remembered in the cup of God's great passion and desired to bring everything what to conclusion. Bring this world system to conclusion and bring it into the kingdom. Remember, is it Colossians 1, 13 or 14 says, He's delivered us from the dominion of darkness. In other words, darkness is our dominion into the kingdom of the Son of His love. He is the light of the world. And if he fallen, there is no darkness. He's the light of the world. Coming to him, seeing who he is, reflects who the Father really is, and reflects who the Son really is, and reflects who you really are. Amen.