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Join us every Friday for encouragement, freedom, and biblical truth. Grab your coffee or grab your tea. It's going to be a good one. All right. So I am not hearing sound. So if you guys can hear me, if you guys can just give me a thumbs up. Let's see. Sounds good. Okay, did you guys hear the intro? No, so I had no sound on the intro, which is really not a big deal. Um as long as you guys can hear me, I think I'm good. So let me just give me one second. For some reason, when I am in StreamYard, it doesn't allow me to open my um so you heard it. Okay. All right. And so looks like I'm good there here. Uh let me check Rumble real quick. Sorry. This is what happens when you don't have nobody to help you out, you know. Um so let me just make sure. I think I'm live there. Okay. Oh, heard intro. Okay, good good deal, yo. All right, so for some reason I just can't hear it, but maybe I'm not plugged in or something. All right, as long as you guys can hear it, no big deal. Let me let me move on from day, okay? We're gonna move on for day yet. All right, so I am very excited about tonight, um, because I love when God's word just does what God's word does, and it confirms. So, with that being said, I'm probably gonna upset people here tonight, and that is not my intent. And what I mean by that is hello, Cheryl, hello, Glenda, hello Pam, hello Stephen. Uh, guys, lift up Kathy. I prayed over her once I saw the comment here this evening. So um, that's gotta be a lot to be going through, not only as a grandma, but also as um, you know, her daughter. I think she said daughter, right? Um, yeah, her granddaughter. Yeah, so her daughter, I guess. I I'm assuming it was, yeah, my granddaughter was born. Okay. Um, anyway, um, so I want to be very clear. And this is again where I stand and and why the Lord has removed me from these prophecy circles. And I know I sound like a beating dead horse. I get that, and you guys might be leaving right there just from that comment alone. But this is the reason we really need to watch who we listen to on YouTube, because it'll change the way that we formulate what the Bible says. And that is why I try very, very hard to make sure that I'm biblically sound here on this podcast, that I rightly divide the word of God, that I don't sensationalize the word of God. And when the Bible is brought forth in challenging chapters, such as a Revelation 17 or a Revelation 18, it's in those moments that we have to go back where? Do we have to go back to the book of Matthew or start in the book of Romans? Absolutely not. Why is that? Because Revelation, if you guys really want the totality of the book, from chapter six to chapter 19, it is not really for the church. I hope you guys understand that. It is for the Jewish people, right? The nation of Israel. It's just warnings for them in all transparency. So when you now, if you are a studier of God's word and you get into the Old Testament, there are some very telling parallels in Jeremiah, in Isaiah, and in Ezekiel that lead into um who Babylon is. So I want to just be very clear here. Um, I know I don't have that many people here yet, but I want to be very clear. Uh guys, if America, if New York, if London, if LA, if they're not even on the radar in the Old Testament, why are we bringing them on the radar in the New Testament, even when it doesn't even have to do with the church? Because it's not. Babylon is not New York, Babylon is not LA, Babylon is not London, Babylon is not America. These people are pushing you lies, and I I can name them, and you guys know that I would, right? And I really don't care. They they name, they do this to sell books and to sensationalize. Babylon is unequivocally Babylon. Babylon has never been destroyed. I hope you guys get that. It will be destroyed, utterly destroyed, to where it's going to be split. But Babylon has never been split. Babylon has never had anything happen that we're going to be reading about in this chapter. Um, so Jeremiah chapter 50. We talked about some verses last week, and I'm not going to go through them again. But Jeremiah, and it was funny because I'm reading Jeremiah. I was reading Jeremiah tonight. We got out of work, thank the Lord, um, early. And um as I'm reading that, I'm like, wait a second, did I already read this? Because it was sounding familiar. And I'm like, wait, no, ding, ding, ding. It's the same verses I used last Friday. So Jeremiah 50 is talking about the sons of Israel and Babylon, you know, the Lord warning and fleeing. Absolutely, Pam. Babylon is Babylon. It's not, let me put that comment up there. It's nothing different. Babylon is Babylon. Um, but anyway, so we um when I was reading it, then we get into chapter 51. And I verse 7 was very telling, which we're gonna go into that tonight because it kind of mirrors Revelation 17 and 18. And so, as always, I'm gonna be heavy into the Bible. Why? Because, but tonight it's gonna be done a little differently. I'm gonna have commentary on the screen from the Bible knowledge commentary. And the reason I wanted to do that is um as I was preparing for this evening, there were a few things that caught my eye right in the beginning when I started reading. And I stopped and paused and I said, wait a second, and we'll get to it. Um, and I am giving a little bit of an intro because I don't want us to come in here with these preconceived notions of what Babylon is. Babylon is Babylon. Babylon is not some mysterious place, Babylon is Babylon. And I don't want to convince you, let the Bible convince you. Let what we're putting up on the screen tonight convince you. And that's what these prophecy channels fail to do. These people who want to sell books and, you know, conference tickets and want to sell you, you know, a book of lies, because that's what they're doing. They're twisting the Bible for whatever agenda that they have. And the agenda is money, if I could be honest, the agenda is money. Um, so be mindful of that. I'm I'm not gonna say it's it's none of that. It Babylon is Babylon. And if that doesn't tickle your fancy, then you can fancy on because I'm not you you won't convince me. No one will ever convince me that it's something different because the Bible does not tell me that. So until the Lord convinces me, then I'll be convinced. Okay, let's get into this right away. And um, I'm gonna start, as you can see, I have a lot of things up on the screen here tonight. And um, the first thing is we're gonna be diving into uh make sure that's the right one here. We're gonna be diving into um a few passages tonight, but the main one here is that you can see on the screen is Revelation chapter 18. Now, I mentioned last week, uh verses one through three to me um could mean that it's still referring to the Babylon that just fell because of what verse three says. I mean, verse two. Um, because in a commerce political sense, I mean, are you really, you know, is it really a dwelling place of demons and unclean spirits? I mean, that just means it sounds very still uh ecumenical. Then we get in here for all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed acts of immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich by the wealth of her sensuality. This verse, unequivocally, verse three, is definitely referring to the commerce political system of Babylon. Now, again, the Bible doesn't say what do I think it may mean. Um, first of all, I believe that the religious system, the ecumenical system, is going to be global. I don't think really there's going to be many people left here in America. And I think those who are going to be left here in America, you know, are a lot of fake Christians who are going to be deceived. And I believe a lot of people are going to perish, unfortunately, when the rapture happens. And uh they're going to realize, oh my gosh, I was never saved. So I did have a form of godliness. Maybe I should have listened to that crazy girl on Life Clips podcast. Um, then I do believe a lot of these people are going to fly to Babylon, right? They're the doors are going to be opened. You know, where do you want to travel to? This and that. Um, and I don't know how it's going to look, but the Lord is going to move in ways that we cannot fathom. I hope you guys get that. God is going to move in such supernatural ways that I don't think any of us can sit back and even understand his ways, right? His ways and his thoughts are higher than ours will ever be. And we will never understand his ways. I'm not God. God is in control and God's going to make it happen. So, one thing, and let me pull that up really quick. Let's go super fast to Jeremiah 51. I think that's it, right? Yeah, 51.7. And I found this very interesting. Remember how we read, I don't know if you guys can see that highlighted on the screen. Remember how we read in Revelation 17 about this ecumenical system, about her description? And it says, Babylon has been a golden cup in the hand of the Lord, intoxicating all the earth. The nations have drunk of her wine, therefore, the nations are going mad. Now, what I found very interesting about that, so again, I literally was just reading that tonight. That's not even part of what I was going to get into tonight. Um and I found it very interesting because we read about this intoxication that will come upon the earth in this ecumenical system. And I it's just interesting, very, very interesting. So, any all the nations have drunk of the wine of the passion of her immorality. So, tonight I'm going to be connecting some dots as I did last week with scripture. Now we know, let me let me just go back to 17 super quick. So remember, we have here, I'm pointing to the screen, is if you guys can as a touch screen. So in chapter 17, when the ecumenical system is introduced, one of the seven angels who had the bowls was showing John, right? But now when we get to 18, there's another angel, which is clearly not the same angel of Revelation 17. But this is again why I feel like verses one, two, and three is still part of the first half, but leading into the second half, if that makes sense. Why? Because it says here, I heard another voice. Now, from heaven saying, Now, this is where I want to stop and pause tonight. And I'm not gonna go very far and I'm not gonna go very long tonight because I don't want to lose anyone. So Cheryl said, I agree the 70th week will be supernatural in all things we can't even imagine. Amen. Absolutely, absolutely. Now, I want us to pay attention very closely. If you're taking notes or listening to this back on playback, I'm gonna read four. I told you guys I was gonna go through 18 very slowly. I heard another voice from heaven. So clearly at this point, we know that John is no longer in heaven. You guys know that, right? So, first 17 was one of an angel that had the one of the angels that had the seven bowls. Then in verse one through three, there was another angel telling John verses one through three. Now John is hearing this voice from heaven. I believe it's God's voice, Jesus' voice. Why? It says, Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues. Let's stop and pause there, shall we? And I know we're not, uh, there is a delay uh here, um, but I what I would love, and in the chat here tonight, um, and I'm gonna pause for a little bit. I want you to tell me, please, just if you guys can show me a verse, I will stand corrected. And I mean that sincerely. Where is the church anywhere mentioned from if you want to be honest, from Acts to Jude? Um, I guess we would have to take out maybe Hebrews and first and second Peter because we know their audience, we know the audience in James as well. Where is the church ever in the New Testament, from Acts to Jude, referred to as my people? And guys, I never caught this. I never ever caught this, and I'll be honest, part of the delay for the book is the Lord knows I'm not here to profit. I'm here to make sure that the book is kind of like commentary. That's how I can describe it, but it's biblical and it's rooted in the Bible. So when I read the Bible, as you guys do as well, when we read something, we're like, wait a second, was that there the first time? And you're like, right, why do we get that feeling when we read the word of God? Because it's living, it's a living, active word of God. So it's we can't, it's not like a book, right? If we read a book, the chapter is never gonna change. I love listening to book on audios. So if I were to go back to chapter three, even though I'm in chapter eight, chapter three won't ever change. What's happening in chapter three won't ever change. But yet in the Bible, if I were to read Revelation 18, 4, as I have many times, I never caught what I saw reading it this time. So again, is my people ever in the New Testament referred to um in the New Testament? So to my knowledge, it is not. So I'm gonna go ahead and I'm gonna give this a little test. Oh, because I can't do it there. I have to do it here. Excuse me, please. Okay. So what I'm doing here is you guys can see, I just typed in, you can see right there, my people. Okay. That right there, when it turns red, is telling me, Kim, that that is the last mention of that name, my people. So we're gonna go up. I'm in Hebrews now. There's no my people. Still in 2 Corinthians, nothing. In Romans, he's quoting Old Testament there, right? Thank you, Cheryl. Cheryl said, My people, God's chosen people, are the Jews, so not the church. Amen. Okay, so I'm gonna prove my point here tonight. So again, Paul is quoting um the old testament. Same here. My people. I'm going somewhere, I promise. We're here in Matthew. Who is Jesus quoting? He's quoting Old Testament, my people. Now we're in Zachariah. Okay, so guys, I'm I'm making a point there. I just wanted to prove that to you. Okay, let's read verse four, and then we're gonna go into some dot dot moments. I heard good evening, Marie. Um, absolutely, Cheryl reminds me of the Exodus. Let my people go. Yeah, my people. So let's keep this in context now. Ah, Daniel and you were on the same page. I heard another voice from heaven. So someone audibly is telling John something. Come out of her, my people. Now remember, I said, and a lot of people thought that I was out there and left field. So I see your question, Stephen. I'm gonna start that. So it says here, okay, what I meant was remember how I said Babylon is Babylon. Worship in Babylon, I think, will resurrect again during the tribulation, not only for Gentiles, but for Jews. Now, I know we're stuck on this scripture verse that all they all have to be in their land. So we just like, oh no, Cam, it all happens in Jerusalem, from the signing of the peace treaty to the end. It's all it's all in Israel. I don't agree with that. And scripture alludes to it, that that's not happening. In part, I believe that there are maybe this just came from the Lord because this literally just went through my head. So maybe in Israel, in the first half of the tribulation, the remnant Jews, maybe they're the Orthodox Jews, you know, the ones that you see at the Wailing Wall today, the very religious Jews, maybe they're staying there because they know, hey, we can't go. We where do you go? Why are you going back to idolatry? And then there's this Tel Aviv, if I could put it that way, Jews that live in Israel. And then they go to Babylon for what? For the idolatry and the worshiping of different gods and just all the spirits that are, you know, again, we're gonna get to the Old Testament, just the things that were happening in the Old Testament are happening currently. And that's the first half of the tribulation. Then the second half of the tribulation, the Antichrist, I believe, is gonna set up in part his system, the political system, the commerce system in Babylon. I do not believe it's gonna be set up in Israel. Jerusalem is not ever split. It's Babylon that's split. It's Babylon is the great city. However, his worship in part is gonna be in both places. Is he going to be worshipped in the temple? We discussed this last week. It doesn't actually say that. It just says that he will set himself up and act like he is God. But where does the worship of him take place? I truly believe in Babylon. Verse 4, I think, solidifies this. So again, I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plague. Again, the tribulation is for the salvation of the Jewish nation. My people is not the church, my people is not the tribulation saints, my people are not Gentiles living in Babylon. My people is Israel. Who, why, who are they coming out of? God would never say, come out of her. Jerusalem is never mentioned by her, only one time, right? It does say the daughter of Zion, right? That's exactly what it says, the daughter of Zion. Jerusalem is never referred to, though, as a her. Jerusalem is referred to the daughter of Zion. It's referred to, um, I'm drawing a blank something with David, uh, the city of David. Thank you, Lord. And then it's Jerusalem is just referred to Jerusalem. However, would God ever say, Come out of Jerusalem, come out of her? Absolutely not. So that you will not participate in her sins and receive her plagues. Now I'm going to read on and then we're going to get to some scripture. For her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God remembered her iniquities. Clearly, right now, I 100% believe Babylon is Babylon. This is where it's taking place. Verse 6: Pay her back even as she has been paid, and give back to her double according to her deeds, and the cup which she has mixed, mixed twice as much for her, to the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously. To the same degree, give her torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, I sit as a queen. We're going to read this tonight, and I'm not a widow. What does that mean? Now hear this, and I will never see mourning. This has come under a lot of scrutiny, but it literally is in the passage we're going to read tonight. Now, what's funny about this? I did not know because I hadn't read that far when I had read Isaiah 13 and Isaiah 47, which we're going to see tonight. Now, I'm not going to read it all because it's a lot. You just want to write it down, Isaiah 13 and Isaiah 47, because I want to get to commentary. Um, but interesting enough, she didn't think that she would ever be destroyed. That was the principle. I'm not a widow. That's what she's referring to there. And then in verse 8, it says, For this reason, in one day her plagues will come, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire. For the Lord God who judges her is strong. Now we're going to stop. I'm not going to read anything else tonight. We're going to keep Revelation 18 contextually in context, like it should be. We're not going to sensationalize this. We're not going to make it into New York, LA, London, America. Babylon is 100% Babylon. Am I saying that? Is Kim from Life Clips Podcast saying that? Absolutely not. It is God who is saying that. Let me prove my point. Let's first go to Isaiah chapter 13. Now, what's interesting about Isaiah chapter 13 is it is both in the verbiage, it's something that is going to happen in Isaiah's, not in his day, but a future Babylon falling. But it also, just kind of like I Ezekiel and Jeremiah does, it also weaves in a future. We can see it, it lines up. So I guess my point that I'm trying to make here is we have to keep in context what the tribulation and who the tribulation is for and what it is about. We have to take America out of it. We have to take all these other countries out of it, and we have to put ourselves in the place of what? We have to put ourselves in the place of the Old Testament and what was happening there when Israel was not doing what Israel should have been doing as a supposed to be a righteous nation with, you know, a holy God, right? So when we read Isaiah chapter 13, this is the oracle concerning Babylon, which Isaiah, the son of Amos, saw. Now, I'm not going to go into all of this, right? It's just going to tell you what's happening. They're coming from a far country. This right here, verses one through five, is contextually future for Isaiah's day. Wail for the day of the Lord is near. It will come as destruction from the Almighty. Therefore, all the hands will fall limp, and every man's heart will melt. They will be terrified. So it's going, they will writhe like a woman in labor, and it's going through all of this stuff. Interesting when you get to verse 9, it says, Behold, the day of the Lord is coming, cruel with fury and burning anger. So, guys, I have news for you. If you think that God, which he is, God is absolutely loving, but if you think that God is some God who's just sitting back, loving on everybody, and everybody is his child, and there's going to be no judgment. There's not going to be God stepping into the story. You don't know who God really is. God is not about you. God is not about me. We are what? We are salt and light. We are supposed to what? Bring the nations to the foot of the cross. We are to share the gospel. We are to say, hey, this is this is what you need to do. This is your life change. And I'm going to get to something here tonight at the end. If you guys will stay, let me write myself a note before I forget. One of you guys, I'm going to give you guys an update of where I'm sitting here with the podcast, okay? Anyway, so cruel with fury and burning anger. Does that sound like a loving God? But he is loving. Because if he didn't do this here and also in the future, guys, do you really want the world to go with the pace that it's going at? I mean, with the raised hand, I'll be the first to tell you, come quickly, Lord Jesus. That we are divided in everything, not just here in America, but abroad. This world is absolutely disgusting. Okay. So, to make the land a desolation, and he will exterminate its sinners from it. For the stars of heaven and their constellations will not flash forth their light. The sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon will not shed its light. Guys, this has never happened. You guys get that, right? Verse 10 has never happened. This didn't even happen when Babylon was destroyed with King Nebuchadnezzar. We know that, right? Thus I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will also put an end to the arrogance of the pride and abase the haughtiness of the ruthless. I will make so he goes through all of this stuff. You guys get it? Okay, so this whole thing in Revelation, I mean, in Isaiah 13, parallels with Revelation 18 and really 17. So here it says in Babylon, the beauty of kingdoms and the glory of the Chaldeans' pride will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It will never be inhabited or live in from generation to generation. Guys, here again, that is not true. Babylon absolutely has been inhibited, I mean, inhabited after this. We know that Saddam Hussein was trying to rebuild Babylon for himself. If you see today, and I think someone might have said that. Um Daniel said they're building the largest container shipping port in the world in actual city of Babylon, Iraq. So Babylon is there today. You guys can just YouTube it and see. I mean, it is physically there. To say that it hasn't, you I don't know what you've been listening to too many prophecy channels. So anyway, um, then it keeps going. And what's interesting is chapter 14, and I believe it's Ezekiel 28, and I could be wrong on that. I don't have it written down. Um, what's interesting is after Isaiah 13 comes Isaiah 14, which is one of the chapters in the Bible. Listen, it's still talking about Babylon and Israel in Isaiah 14. But interesting enough, it's also giving so many people think um an introduction to who Satan is. Right? So this right here, the whole world is at rest. We know that that is not current day. This right here is what people say is uh Satan. Since you were laid low, no tree uh cutter comes up against us. Shoal from beneath is excited over you to meet you when you come. Now, a lot of people say it's referring to the king, or it could be referring to Satan. Uh, you know, I'm not gonna split hairs over that. I'm not gonna, you know, create a new church on that. All right. So, anyway, your pomp and the music of your harps has been brought down to Sheol. This can't be a king, but uh it could, but whatever. All right. Maggots are spread out as your bed beneath you, and worms are your covering. Um, how you've fallen from heaven, oh star of the morning, sun of the dawn, you've been cut down to earth, who have weakened the nations, but you said in your heart, I will send to heaven and I will raise my throne above the stars of God. Guys, I I again, I, me, Kim, I'm not gonna split hairs. I do believe that it is Satan. Anyway, I will sit on the mount of the assembly in the recesses of the north. Um, isn't that interesting that uh all these armies are always coming from the north against Israel? I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will make myself like the most high. Nevertheless, you will be thrust down to Sheol, to the recesses of the pit. So the reason I found that interesting is because this destroyer is also mentioned in Isaiah 13 and also Isaiah 47 about destroying um Babylon. So very interesting. Again, I can't, I'm not gonna start a new church over it. But anyway, so here we go in Isaiah 47. Now it says here, here's the verse, okay. Yet you said, I will be queen forever. These things you did not consider, nor remember the outcome of them. What are we what am I doing? I'm clicking the wrong button. What did we just read here? We read about her. I sit as a queen, and I am not a widow, and I will never see mourning. That's what we're reading right here in Isaiah 47.Anywhere in these passages in Isaiah 13 or Isaiah 47, you will never come to the conclusion that it's Babylon. So if it's Babylon here, why are we not saying it's now no longer Babylon in Revelation 17 and 18? So I do know we have a question from Stephen. Is the command to come out of Babylon mainly about behavior, belief, or allegiance? Forgive me if or answer already. So great question, uh, Stephen. No, it has not been answered already. I think all of the above. So that's an excellent question. It is about their behavior, it's about their belief, and it is about their allegiance. Um, it's about so belief. Let me expound upon that, Stephen. It is about them with idolatry and serving other gods. And we're gonna get to that when I read the commentary. So, very, very interesting question. Great question. Um, so when when God is saying come out of her, that is literally what he's saying. Come up out of the idolatry, come up out of the demon practices, come up out of what you think is is good for you, right? Because it's not. So, excellent, excellent question. All right, Kathy, we have an update. Thanks for the prayers. Had to pop off. Eden will be under observation, and poor baby can't eat for at least 24 hours. Needs to catch up on the broadcast. Girl, do not worry about this. You go take care of your family. Just know that we're praying for you, okay? Uh, Pam said, I think it's in so important, amen. I know you were gonna say here to know the Old Testament, to understand, absolutely, to understand the book of Revelation. Guys, this is why I love you guys. Our media does not cover what is really going on in the Middle East, billions flowing into Iraq to be a major international hub. Absolutely, absolutely, and you know, if I could be honest, this should actually excite us to know that you know how it all began was Babylon, and how it's gonna end is Babylon. And we can't really separate the two because that's what's gonna happen. But anyway, for your reading pleasure, I would really um suggest that you read Jeremiah 50, Jeremiah 51, then you read Isaiah 13, Isaiah 47, and then you flip back to Revelation 17 and 18, and you'll see them merging. They blend in ever so beautifully. Um, because God judged them here. We all know that, right? I think we know history, what happened to Babylon, and for that reason, why did Israel why did this happen to Israel? That's when the kingdom was divided. Remember, I mean, Babylon came in and Nebuchadnezzar plundered Solomon's temple, destroyed it, right? So that's when the second temple began during, I think, Nehemiah, right? Is when they started rebuilding the wall, if memory serves me. So history in the Old Testament is pointing to future, also in Revelation 17 and 18. I want to read this real quick. So you guys can really put it in perspective. Um, I already read that. We did that. So, what I'm gonna do here is I'm gonna read the commentary very quickly from Revelation. I have it right here if you guys can see my mouse. This is commentary. I'm not gonna read the whole thing because it's a lot. This is um from Revelation, I mean from Isaiah 13. And I'm right here. Let me kind of get this a little bigger on the screen. Okay, so I'm looking at the screen, I think it looks pretty good. All right, Isaiah's oracle concerns Babylon. Now I want to read this slowly and methodically so we can get this because I want us to really shake the notion of Babylon not being Babylon. And I I really, you know, Lib Rainard, Tom Hughes, uh Tyler from Generation 2434. I believe um Pete Garcia was one of them, or probably still is one of them. Um I I the list, I mean, I'm sure you guys can name them here in the chat. It goes on and on and on with people who want to make Babylon into something that it's not. And this is where it's very disheartening. And this is what I talked to the Lord about. This is why my channel is boring to a lot of people. That's why people don't come here and I only have a few people, right? I don't have hundreds in the chat where the chat is going wildly crazy because I'm not feeding into the sensationalism. So people really don't want to hear biblical truth, right? And it's really sad because biblical truth is beautiful truth. Biblical truth is where we all should be, where we all need to be, because it gives us hope, it gives us encouragement. I don't need to watch the news, I don't need to see earthquakes and all this other stuff. I literally just read the Bible and I'm like, Lord, this is gonna happen again. I literally can see the state of the church and say, Man, Lord, I really is there even gonna be a generation left? Anyway, so Isaiah's oracle concerns Babylon. Babylon deserved God's wrath, and it is going to again deserve God's wrath. For that city had been long now. Hear this, guys. For that city had been a rallying point of anti-God activity from the very beginning. And then he quotes Genesis 11, which we all know that's the Tower of Babel, right? It had been characterized by rebellion against God over the centuries as various dynasties ruled over that city. Notice this is very clear. Babylon has never been destroyed. It was viewed as a place of hatred against who? The God of Israel. Come out of her, my people. Oddly enough, they say the same thing. Even in the tribulation, it will be a center of hatred against God. Now, what's interesting is he did not just quote Revelation 17 by itself, nor did he just cite, I should say, not quote, cite Revelation 18 by itself. He cited both of those chapters. And I love this because sometimes I sit here and I'm like, Lord, am I on a no man's island? Because sometimes I feel like I'm just out here paddling, you know, by myself, and I don't I don't have any oars. I'm just letting the waves deride. I'm like, okay, is this am I out here on no man's island? And then I get to a commentary where I'm like, okay, thank you, Lord. You know, it's just proof. So anyway, I'm gonna skip all of this because I want to get down to um one more time. Okay, uh, hold on. Let me go back. Um

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I think it's here, it starts at 16. If I'm not mistaken. Yeah, 19, sorry. Okay, very important, too. I'm right here. Okay. The recipient of this destruction is Babylon, the city, not the entire empire.

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Very, very interesting as well. The destruction is not against Iraq, the destruction is against Babylon. Babylon has to come together in the future again, and it's already there. Okay, because of her pride, this is in um Isaiah 13. Thus I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will also put an end to the arrogance of the proud and abase the haughtiness of the ruthless. Okay, and godless idolatry, Babylon would be overthrown by God. The overthrow, as already stated, was done by the Assyrians. God's instrument of wrath under King I know, I've heard it. Senegal, sure, Senagra, Bababa, okay. Just as God overthrew the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, so he would overthrow the wicked city of Babylon. So, very interesting. And then, like I said, chapter 14 continues with the Babylon and other nations, and then in that chapter, interestingly enough, it describes the devil. So the next commentary that I'd like to read is what we read in Isaiah 47. Let me find my place first and then I'll zoom in. Okay, here we go. I, you know, I just I love when the Bible interprets it, it it um connects it in scripture. Interprets scripture. Babylon, again, is it New York? No, would it would God not just give us what it was? Some different city over the pond in the east. No, it's Babylon. Babylon prided herself in her sorcerers who supposedly told the future. Let's stop pause there for a moment. N-A-R, deliberance, Pentecostals. Right? These people are telling the future. You guys might maybe some might think I'm crazy when I expose these people, and that's why I say they're gonna be part of it. Why? Because they're they're practicing divination, they're practicing witchcraft. They wrap it up and think that they're saved and they're Christians, but they're not. So they will be part of Babylon. Maybe they'll be part of telling the future and casting spells to influence others. Very interesting, right? This is Isaiah 47, 12. What is that cross-reference? Stand fast now in your spells and in your many sorceries with which you have labored from your youth. Perhaps you will be able to profit. Perhaps you may cause trembling. Guys, I'm telling you. And I usually get gut punches when I say something, and maybe I shouldn't have said that. I never get a gut punch on that. Like ever. Pentecostals, charismatic, NAR, and deliverance are a poison straight from the pits of hell. I would say within the last 20 years, those churches, well, deliverance, I think. I mean, it's kind of always been around, but it's kind of made its, you know, popped its head out of the sand maybe 10 years ago. But all of these churches are growing for a reason. More people are into, especially our youth, are into these movements, those four movements, like never before. And there's a reason why. Because they're going to be flying over to Babylon to be part of the system. Anyway, so sorceries translates to whatever that fancy word is, a word used in the Old Testament only here, and then he quotes other ones. It suggests seeking information about the future by means of demonic forces. So I found that interesting because I think a lot of these people today who are in these four movements that I just mentioned, I believe some of them are just hearing their own voice in their head and they're making stuff up. But I do believe some of them hear it, but it's not from God, it's from demonic forces. Now let's forward back forward of what the New Testament says. What does it say? Test the spirits to see if they are of God. Anyway, so um the Lord mockingly urged the Babylonians to keep on in their spells and sorceries, which the city had been involved in since childhood. That is, since the nation was founded. In sarcasm, see, he's sarcastic. That's why I love God, because I'm sarcastic. He suggested the astrologers and the stargazers save them. Now, what I found interesting when you read Isaiah 47, and I have it in my notes actually in my Bible, a lot of these prophecy channels, especially prophecy watchers, they do mention things about astrologers. Astrology and stargazers, and they look at things that really are non-existent, kind of like who cares about aliens and UFOs. Uh, the other day, uh, Billy Crone, I guess he's on TikTok. I do not follow that channel, he just happens to pop up. And this is how prophecy twists things. Um, he said that I thought he was going in a good direction because he was talking about the false teachings and this and that, but he said this is why we need the book of Revelation. I'm like, what? I have it downloaded. I just have so much content, I probably couldn't find it. Um I let me hold on. Let me let me see if I can go there. I I keep using the wrong keyboard here. Let's see. And you guys can hear it. Oh, wait, I don't have sound, do I? Um, yeah, I can't do that until I have sound. Okay, hold on. Yeah, I don't know why when I am in StreamYard. Okay, yeah, I I can't do it. It won't give me sound. I can't pop it open. Anyway, that's what Billy Crone said. So very interesting because we need the book of Revelation. We don't need to tell people the gospel, instead, we need to bring them to Revelation. Said no true biblical pastor ever. All right. Astrology was common in Babylon, but their work was worthless, like mere stubble, uh, the dried stalks of grain that burn quickly. Okay. Um, and very quickly, those religious leaders could not save even themselves, let alone Babylon. Yet they persisted in their era. So here the Lord reminded his people call the house of Jacob Israel on the line of Judah their hypocrisy. So, Stephen, this may help with your question. They took oaths invoking God's name, but they were not righteous. They thought that being citizens of Jerusalem, the holy city, that they were not living there and claiming to rely on the Lord were adequate. Comfortable in Babylon, in the Babylonian Empire, and later the Persian Empire, they considered it unimportant to go back to Jerusalem. Guys, very interesting there. Do you not agree? So I think again, I don't know how to say this, but just say it. The religious Jews, I think, are gonna stay in Jerusalem, but they're gonna be comfortable now in the second half, first half and second half being in Babylon. Remember how we read how they were traveling and they were weeping? And that also says it in the Bible with them traveling and weeping, because now they're crying out for the Lord. Anyway, the Lord said he had prophesied what would happen, apparently referring to the coming captivity, knowing the coming exile. So, again, when we're reading this, we know that they're not Israel's not going into captivity again, right? That's never gonna happen again. God is now trying to woo his people, if I can say it that way, back to him. Let me read this really quick, and then I want to go into some podcast stuff, and then we're gonna end. Um, so here we go. I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues. For her sins have piled up as high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Now, very interesting there too, where God has remembered her iniquities. I think both past and during this present time, both of them merged together. Whatever happened in the Old Testament, it's gonna resurrect in the tribulation. Pay her back even as she has paid, and give back to her double according to her days in the cup which she has mixed, mixed twice as much for her, to the degree that she glorified herself and lived sensuously to the same degree, give her torment and mourning. For she says in her heart, I sit as a queen, and I'm not a widow, and I will never see mourning for this reason. In one day, her plagues will come, pestilence and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire for the Lord God who judges her strong. So we do know if I were to type in. Let me go up. We do know from Revelation 16, 19, the great city. What does that say? Babylon the Great, that's who it's referring to, not America, not New York, not LA, not London. Oh, why can't we just keep the Bible as it's supposed to be? I seriously, I would love to know. If you guys are sharing this with these prophecy channels, oh Kim's at it again, then have them listen. Tell me why you believe what you believe. Because the Bible never says it. So tell me why you believe what you believe. The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell. Didn't that sound familiar? What we just read in Isaiah. Babylon the Great was remembered before God to give her the cup of the wine of his fierce wrath. Guys, when destruction comes on Babylon, believe me, it will be desolate. All right. So, with that being said, that's where we're gonna end here because what we're gonna get into the rest, uh, we'll dive into a little bit more. Let me just close all of this out. Um, so I will be taking some time off during the summer. I I don't know when. Um, if you guys see the thumbnail, then that means I'm live. I I don't know. Um I want to be very clear that my job right now, I'm extremely busy. Um, my friend Lisa, I don't think she's here. Um, I haven't seen her in the chat in a while, but um whatchamacallit. Uh, you know, I kind of showed her some of my deals that I have and what I do. Um, it's very mentally draining. I just I'm very busy and I'm thankful for that, right? I'm thankful to have a job. Uh however, it's just it, it I want to come home and I just want to veg out, relax right there on my pillow. But um, so I do have I'm going to a Yankee game. Um, thank you, Stephen. I am going to a Yankee game. I took off work July 9th and then 10th, which is a Friday. So what I was thinking is that might be a great segue just to take off maybe two or three Fridays. I don't know. I don't know. Um, my fear is if I take off three weeks, people are gonna leave the channel and you know, not come back or just get bored and um well, not come back. So that's my fear is if I take off more than two weeks, um then the chat's gonna be down to like eight. But anyway, um I have to do what's best for me, though. I hope you guys understand that. And you know, again, I'm thankful to be working, but my job, you know, um it's a lot, you know. And um anyway, uh I love I love what I do in all transparency, but uh it's a lot of work, it's a lot of mental work. Um so but I am very, very, very excited and I want to see if maybe I can show you guys the images that I just downloaded to um here so you guys can see what we're gonna be doing. And I really felt led to do this. Where did I download them? Didn't I download them? What did I do? Where did I put them? I don't know. I thought I'd put them in the podcast thing. Did I not put them in the podcast folder? Well, I'll be people. I'll be um yeah. Oh, here we go. I created a folder. Woo! I don't know. All right, let me open that uh place, and I will show you guys uh video overlay. There we go. Add file. Can I do both of them? So can all right. So what I really felt at, I don't know. I think we're all pretty much um the same age or thereabouts here in the chat. So a long time ago, I believe it was VH1. Um, I'll be waiting for you to come back. Oh, thank you so much. Thank you, Cheryl. Thank you. All right, all right. Why the Yankees? Why not the Cubs? Because I wasn't bowling in Chicago and I don't like the Cubs. I like the Yankees. My co-worker, she got me these really pretty earrings, too. Aren't those nice? So thank you, my co-worker, for those beautiful earrings. Um, old, we're old. I think we're old. So, VH1, they used to have a series called Behind the Music. And what I really felt led to do, so again, I my channel has always been about, as I said three whatever weeks ago, um, it's always been about really calling out apostasy. And I just I got sidetracked, and I I really I'm feeling a tug from the Lord. He's just why did you leave? Like, I didn't want you to go in any other direction. Um, and that's including Bible studies, if I could be honest. He didn't call me to do that, right? He's called me to expose. So you you guys can say, go, I don't know. I don't know if this is gonna interest anyone, but we really do need to be very mindful of what's out there. So the first thing is this. I don't know if you guys can still hear me because I have a photo up. Um, it looks like I still have sound. So if I can get a thumbs up that you guys can still hear me. Pray for Sister Kim to convert. Nope, they ain't never gonna happen, Daniel. Born and raised in New York, my friend. They never gonna happen. That's funny. If anyone just a quick thumbs up that I am still audible. Oh, thumbs up, thank you. Okay, so this first one here is behind the apostasy. I'm gonna be doing two different things, and I don't know how it's gonna um oh, thank you, uh, Kathy. So behind the apostasy, and I quoted here 2 Timothy 3, 5, dot dot dot in the last days from men, and I kind of paraphrase there, we'll uh hold as a typo to a form of godliness, although they have denied the power, avoid such men as these. I actually need to fix that before I forget tonight, because it should be we'll hold to a form of godliness. But anyway, so behind the apostasy, I'm gonna be covering um how do I, oh, there we go. I'm gonna be covering just a gamut of teachers, and we're gonna listen to some stuff. One of the things that we're gonna be going through is Johnny Chang. You guys know that I loathe him. Um, I've been subscribing to some of his uh devotionals, and it is just a dirt dead poison. And I'm also gonna be you know showing you guys where these people come from. Um Redemption of Auburn, that's Elizabeth's church. I know I said I was gonna cover that, and um so if you have something under this umbrella of apostasy, uh, Daniel, if you can in the chat, that would be great because I wrote it down, but I don't have it. You had mentioned a gentleman in one of the chats. So if you can give me that as well, um that way I can write it down or we can cover something like that. So it's not always just gonna be about me. Um, if there's something that, you know, maybe you uh heard um, you know, maybe a friend you want to cover something to help someone. Sorry, I'm getting a hot flash. Hold on. Shouldn't say that. I'm getting a um a rush of warmth. So anyway, uh redemption of Auburn, Elizabeth's church. Daniel, I'll wait on your comment. I know that you had mentioned someone if I heard about them, but other things like that. This is what this is going to be. It's not gonna be very long episodes. If it's listening to a message and we sit here and we dissect it together as a group of people, that's what we're gonna do with that one. And I'll wait for Daniel's message. And while I'm waiting, this is gonna be the next one, and the one that I'm very, very, very excited about. This is literally behind the music, the truth about Christian worship today. And we're really gonna hone into that because worship today is not worship in the Bible in any way, shape, or form. So that is um what is going to be really, those are my permanent thumbnails. Um, and then I'll probably put something, you know, on the thumbnail of who we're gonna discuss. So that's the that's the basic template. Um, so the apostasy. But again, guys, this is your podcast. I hope you guys get that. This is you guys tune in. So, therefore, if we're tuning in, what do you want, you know, to hear when it comes to Pat? Thank you. Um, I could probably find him just like that. The other thing I want to discuss here, and that's probably gonna ruffle feathers, and you know, I don't care. But um, Philip Anthony Mitchell, people say, well, he preaches a good word. What do you mean he preaches it straight from the Bible? Well, no, he doesn't. So we're gonna put him up and we're gonna dissect it together. Now it's funny, he was dissecting the book of Jude, which he couldn't do that right. And lo and behold, he I think he's taken two months off. But lo and behold, why? Because he just published a book. Contend, I think is the title of it. So, guys, listen, God is about profiting. That's that's all God is to these people. And I can't remember the scripture verse, but false teachers are just using the name of God, you know, to pimp out the church house. And that's where we're at today. And it's that's what we're gonna do. So, anyway, I really don't know the totality of my time off. I just know that in all transparency, I need time off. So we start. Um, if memory serves me, this might actually be really good. And I think for all of us too, with the holiday. So, yeah, so July 3rd begins. I'm off. Our job is closed that day. And I'm sure all of you are independence weekend. We don't want to sit here on life clips. So I think that would work out perfect. So July 3rd and July 10th, there will not be a podcast. Again, I'll put this up. Um, guys, make sure that you check my posts um on my page, you know, if you think about it every once in a while. So July 3rd and the 10th, definitely the first two weeks of July, no podcast. I think that works out perfect. And then the 17th will be up in the air. Um, I'll see how I feel after those two weeks off again, because I'm not doing Wednesday. Um, and I'm really excited about diving into this, and I really felt like this is Rich. Okay, thank you. I wrote that down. Um, but if anyone has anyone, Rich, you know, Tidwell, we've got Redemption of Auburn. And I know there's other people who have commented and just forgive me. And guys, just so you know, if you've left me any emails at questions at lifeclipspodcast.com, even previously, I cannot retrieve those. That email is gone because my website, um my website's still active, but it's attached to Google and that's gone. So that eight dollar fee is no longer. Um, and I think I canceled my yearly fee, but um I it's still active for however long that year is. So the life clips podcast is still there.com, but not the email. So if you want to email me, it's lifeclips podcast at gmail.com and and feel free. So, like again, if you guys know anyone who's stuck in something, um it is I'll put the link in the chat here, Glenda. Um, so if you go to my channel, again, I'm on my computer, so it looks different, but under posts, I can't do that. I gotta do this. Under posts, it will have there's the link um to where it is. So I let me look at it on my phone and I can tell you what it looks like. So if you're on YouTube, all right. So if you're on YouTube, I don't know, I know this is what it looks like with mine. So we're gonna view the channel. So there's my channel, right? So if you scroll over, right, this little nifty bar gives you everything that you need. Right here are posts. If you click that, you'll see posts that come up. Okay, so that's everything that's been posted. So it's kind of like a you know, like a Facebook feed. Um, and you can find everything there. Hopefully that helps. Yeah. Um now, Glenda, since you are still here, very, very important. My stream yard uh cancels. Guys, I've I've canceled everything except for, of course, for my except for my video editing. I still need to do that, and that's a hundred a year, but um, there's just no point in me dishing out money anymore. So Canva, my buzz sprout, I went down to the cheapest one. Um, as I really try to stay, that's why I'm I'm not gonna be going two hours long unless the Lord leads. But anyway, so Glenda, when StreamYard is done, I have to go to YouTube Live. However, through Rumble Studio, I think I can bring in YouTube. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna try that out, you know, privately on my own. Um, hey, Libby. Um, but anyway, so I'm gonna try it out on my own. If something happens, Glenda, and it does not work, I'm gonna be solely here streaming screen sharing because I can do that. I wanted to make sure I could definitely do that on YouTube. Um here on YouTube. I'm pretty certain though that I can use the Rumble Studio. I do believe it's free, which is weird, but um, and then I can also sync in YouTube on that. So there's a lot of changes going on, but again, guys, I'm dishing out way, way too much money. And um, it's just it's just too. I've been doing it now for seven years, and I'm I'm a little tired of it. So um I wanted some, I want a little bit of money back in my paycheck, okay? I'm getting older and I need to put money aside and all that good stuff. So anyway, um now with that being said, I'm gonna be very, very honest. Uh, I know there's three people who are faithful givers here, um, and you guys know who you are. And between me, you, and everybody here in the chat and on post, uh, you do not have to do that. Um, I mean, if you feel led, I'm not gonna tell you not to. However, you know, I would feel very uncomfortable taking um only because, you know, I'm I'm not doing as much, I guess. I don't know. Uh yeah, I'm still preparing, but I'm not doing slides. Uh, you know, I don't have all the overhead anymore. So, you know, I'm not again, I'm not here for money, guys. I'm I never have been and I never will be. But again, if you feel led and this is something you still want to do, I'm not gonna tell you no. Let's be honest. But it's something that I, you know, you really don't have to do, you know, give to uh, you know, uh another uh person that you feel led to give. Um, because I'm not, you know, I'm not spending hours, you know, doing Canva anymore. And yes, I am reading, yes, I'm here, whatever, you know, spending time on the RLEs. But uh, yeah, I just I wouldn't feel right and and saying, yeah, sure, continue to give, right? Anyway, so remember, we've got a couple of more weeks here, first two weeks of July. I will not be here, and I will go ahead and put it on the post there a couple of times. I'll just remind everyone. And anyway, with that being said, I want to fix my typo there on Canva before that membership goes away. And uh, with that being said, guys, um love each and every one of you. Thank you guys for your faithfulness, um, for your dedication to God's word. That's the utmost importance uh to rightly divide and let us remember that Babylon is a Babylon. Okay, with that being said, I will see everyone. You know who has not said hello in a while? You know who we have not said hello to? You know, George has been kind of left out in the loop. So you have a blessed weekend too, Marie. Everybody, until I see you here, there or in the air, keep plugging away. Jesus is coming soon. All right, bye guys. Thank you for listening to this week's podcast. If you haven't already, we would love for you to be a part of it. So make sure you hit that subscribe button. If you have questions, comments, or concerns, shoot us an email at questions at lifeclipspodcast.com. And as I always end it, I will see you here there at all. Titus chapter two, verse thirteen. Looking for the blessed hope and the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Christ Jesus.