393: Deon Patch - Exhortation: Watch (Rev.16)

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   This is Brother Benji. This week’s talk will be an exhortation given by Brother Dionne Patch at the Lismore Ecclesia in New South Wales, Australia on the 16th of March last year to the Theme Watch. This talk was a suggestion sent in from one of our listeners, so please continue to send in your talk suggestions. We love listening to them.

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   This talk comprises A concise, delightful, informative and practical look at Revelation 16. Brother Dion is someone I happen to know personally and can gratefully say I have learned much from him over the years. Thank you Brother Day.

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   This talk contains a bit of history throughout. He’s talking about Revelation after all. But I ensure you it’s all interesting and relevant. I love Brother Day’s passion for the word.

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   Who knew frogs could be so interesting? Listen to find out more. I hope this talk will help guide you and fill you with encouragement for the week ahead. With that said, I’ll give you over to our Brother Day for his exhort watch. Well, good morning, my dear brothers and sisters and young people. Well, as we’ve been reminded by our brother John O and his prayer and by brother Ruman, we come here to remember our Lord Jesus Christ, the work which he has done. You know, it was the night of that supper. That very night they went out and he went down to the garden of Gethsemane and he took a few of his disciples a little further in that garden.

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   He said unto them, I really need you to watch because the hour of darkness is, is, is here. And he went away and he come back and he found him, found him sleeping. And he wakes them up. He says, I really need you to watch. And on the night of that, that he shared that meal, the last words may have been that excitation to watch, you know, with the watchman.

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   He had the responsibility, Ezekiel tells us. That’s if he knew and he could foresee things coming to that city and he he never warned anyone about it, then their blood would be upon his head. And so the importance of that watchman was crucial to the survival of the temple or of the city. We’re told in Edersheim that if the watchman of the temple did not watch an hour found asleep on, on on the rounds of the captain of the guard, that the captain of the guard would take his garments from him and burn them. And that would be to that watchman his shame. Because the importance of watching, to staying awake, as the word means, is of vital importance to our own lives and to our clesure.

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   And what we’re going to do this morning, brother and sisters, we’re going to think about what are the last words that our Lord Jesus Christ has left for you and I? His last words potentially to the disciples that he took into the garden was to watch. And they’re exactly the same. It’s exactly the same excitation that He leaves you and I in the last days. We’ve had Revelation 16 written, read for us this morning. And the context of Revelation 16 is our day, particularly the 6th vial.

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   We saw in the 6th vial that at the end of that vial, once it was poured out, that he gathered them into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. And the warning came. Blessed is he that watches and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see his shame, just like the watchman.

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    That’s what he left for you and I. So the context of the 6th vial, this is our vile brother and sisters. If we think about the whole scroll of Revelation being being unrolled from the time the Lord when when John actually received it in 1896 to the time of Armageddon, this is our vial. We’re not in the trumpets, we’re not in the, we’re not in the seals.

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    But our time is right here in the 6th vial. How do we know? Because it ends with the Battle of Armageddon. So what of all the of all the things the Lord could have spoke to us about, you think about it what, What would your last words be if you knew today was your last day? What would you say to your family? You’d think about it a lot, wouldn’t you? And you think about what is the most important thing I can say to my family with the opportunity I’ve got now. And so the last words, brethren and sisters, are very carefully chosen for you and I.

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    And he says, there’s a couple of things that I need you to watch out for. And we’re going to look at that in the 6th file because if there’s ever a warning, if there’s ever an excitation that I can give you in this day and age. And he’s talking to us, brethren and sisters, when we read Revelation 16, it’s like the Lord’s actually standing here in front of us and he’s dictating to you. And I personally, out of all the Saints that have come and God, he’s talking to us and that’s his last words to us. Blessed is he that watches and keeps his garments lest he walk naked and they see he’s shying.

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    Well, let’s have a look at Revelation 16. And what does he want us to look for? Well, the context of, of, of Revelation 16. We know the 1st 5 vials. We don’t have time to talk about this now, but the first five vials with God’s judgments that were poured out upon the papacy, upon Rome, OK, and upon their influence and the, and the first file actually begins with in 1789 when the French Revolution came.

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    That was a huge upheaval for the for the for, for Catholic Rome in those days in the time of the French Revolution, right throughout Europe, the church or the clergy, the aristocrats or the the nobles and the merchants were the ones that were the small percentage of society that were, were, were ripping the commoners off of the day. And the rich got richer, but the poor got even poorer. And it got to the point where the commoners said enough is enough.

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    And there was a huge revolution. And the Bible talks about this revolution as a political earthquake. It’s that big. And it was going to have rumifications that would go out through our Catholic Europe. And that revolution began the, the, the, the, the, the, the overthrow of that paper papal system. And, and what happened simultaneously with that is that we had the 1st 5 biles that talk about the conquest of a Frenchman called Napoleon Bonaparte.

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    He’d come to power at this time and he for a moment brought, brought power back to the church at the time. But then he actually he got proud and he sought to overthrow and take the pride of the church and the power, the empirical power of the church on himself. And he actually went out and he dethroned the papacy through the Papal States.

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    It got to the point where the Pope was actually a prisoner in his own palace in the Vatican. And so God’s judgements were carried out in these first five vials for only about 30 years. That’s all. It took 30 years for the whole papacy in Europe to lose its power. And it was that point that the Angel takes the 6th vile and he pours it out. And this is what it says in in chapter chapter 16 and verse 12 it says.

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    And the 6th Angel poured out his vile upon the great river Euphrates, and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the East might be prepared. And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. For these spirits are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and to the whole world to gather them together to the battle of the great day of God Almighty.

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    That’s what the Lord left you and I as milestones to know what we are to look out for. Interesting. Well, what was the drying up of this great river Euphrates? If you make a note in Revelation Chapter 9 and verse 14, we’re introduced earlier on in the scroll of Revelation about this great river Euphrates. And in Chapter 9, verse 14, we’re told that 4 angels would go forth and be loosed from this river. And it gives the picture that this river would be that was confined would actually go out and expand its banks and would flood.

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    And the four angels that was talking about in the context of the 5th and 6th trumpet was God’s judgements that he would use to go forth, OK, and to actually carry out judgement on the eastern part of the Roman Empire over in Constantinople. OK, we’re going to have to keep you, keep you here at the moment. And what happened?

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    That river burst its banks and went out. And the four angels that God used was the Seljuks, the Tartars, the Mongols, and finally the Ottomans. And the Ottomans become the empire that was the one that in 1453 overthrew the Byzantine Empire in Constantinople. And the flood of the Euphrates overthrew and and conquered the Roman Empire in the east is what we know Istanbul today.

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    Well, for 475 years that Ottoman Empire remained flooded and it’s interesting to note that the Euphrates River actually has its origins up in Turkey where where the Ottomans actually are today as we know as a Turkish people. But for 475 years that river stayed flooded until here the 6th vial and we’re told that this Euphrates River was to dry up.

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    Well, it was 1918 when the British Allies came in and they fought against the, the, the, the, the Ottoman Empire with the Germans. And they dried that empire up out of the land of Palestine. And, and in 1918, this great Ottoman Empire had been reduced to what we know as Turkey today. But it’s interesting, brethren, is this is that when we use the analogy of something drying up in the context of Israel, we think about the Red Sea. We think about how God moved these these great waters and they walked along dry ground from their deliverance from Egypt.

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    We think about when God brought Israel from the wilderness into the land that He promised them, and he pushed the waters of Jordan back and he dried them up and they walked over on dry land. Well, brethren and sisters, 1918 those waters were dried up and the land was made dry. That paved the way for the nation of Israel to come back to their land after nearly 2000 years.

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    That’s in our century, brethren and sisters. That’s happened not long ago when we saw the angels at work in that, in that great Ottoman Empire, that review phrase dried up so that it paved the way for Israel, natural Israel, to be back in the land. And in 1948, they were declared a nation once again. It’s interesting what also happened in 1948. There was a man called Renee Kassen who was a French Jew and he was asked to pen a document because of the atrocities that was brought against the Jewish people. 6,000,000 Jews and the UN General Assembly brought together and asked this French Jew to write this document and it was called the Declaration of Human Rights of Man and Citizen.

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    I want you to lock that away because the UN General Assembly at that time asked that document to be written because of the atrocities against the Jews. I want you to just lock that away because when we come back to Revelation, we have a little bit more context. When this drawing up of this river Euphrates happens, He says at this time, he says, I saw three unclean spirits like frogs that come out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. So the Lord’s actually pleading to us today. So I want you to identify these three different entities because what’s important about these three entities is what they’re saying.

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    These frog like spirits come out of their mouths. It’s what they were teaching. It’s what they were actually the the ideologies and the narratives that would come from these three identities. But let’s think, why did God choose frogs? Well, remember our context of of Revelation chapter 16 was started from the beginning of the French Revolution. Now we don’t have time to go into it, but the first Christian king who became a Catholic was the man Clovis and his dynasty emblem.

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    The emblem of his dynasty was actually three frogs. It’s amazing how the Lord uses these little signposts for us to pick up on. And so the relation of these three frogs, Lord telling us, think of what’s come out of the French Revolution because it’s going to come a point that whatever they’re talking about, whatever these frogs stand for and the narratives and the, and the, and the doctrines of the teaching that are saying it’s going to bring these entities together. The dragon, the beast, the false prophet, and not just them. They’re not just going to be talking about it, but it’s going to go out these ideologies to the kings of the earth and to the whole world.

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    So whatever these frog like spirits are, it brings the nations together and to where the battle of the great day of God Almighty. Now we don’t have time, but we know in Armageddon chapters through Joel chapter 3 and Zechariah 14 and those those chapters we’re told that God gathers the nations together where against Jerusalem, against his people. It’s a battle.

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    Now it’s interesting, brother and sisters, that when the Declaration of Human Rights was actually written, it was actually penned because of the, the, the, the feeling of compassion towards what’s happened to the Jews. But whatever this narrative is, it’s going to bring nations together to come and destroy the Jews at the battle of Armageddon. Interesting.

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    So what were these frog like spirits? Well, look, we’ve just got to see what the characteristics of frogs are in the Scripture. I want you to come back to Exodus chapter 8. Now when God chose to bring them out of bondage, out of the House of Egypt, He set those plagues in, remember. And when we come to the second plague of the frogs, let’s just have a look what the characteristics of frogs are. Verse 2, it says, And if thou refuse to let them go, Pharaoh, behold, I will smite all thy borders with frogs, and the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into thine house, into thine innermost fed chamber, the marriage bed, into thy servants unto thy people, into thy ovens, and into thy kneading troughs.

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    The frogs were going to get everywhere. And you’re in Egypt. Picture what that would be like. Frogs inundated everywhere, even in your innermost, even in the marriage bed, the frogs are there and they’re croaking. And now it would have been something that drove people mad. They had the inundation of all these slimy little creatures and the noise that would have come from them.

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    No wonder Revelation tells us that these frog like spirits are like the spirits of devils. It’ll drive you absolutely mad and it’s going to drive the nations mad to think of, to, to actually come up with an idea that in God’s eyes was like

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    madness. The spirits of madness, they’re called. But the interesting thing about these frogs is that they came with a, a promise by Pharaoh of freedom. Pharaoh said, if you get rid of the frogs, then, then, then, then, then I’ll let the children of people, children of Israel go. I’ll give them freedom. He never gave them.

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    He had no intention of giving them freedom. So it was a promise of liberty, wasn’t it? But it wasn’t, it was there to to to ensnare and to entrap them. And the interesting thing is, is when we get to verse 14, when he finally got rid of the frogs, it says that they, they retreated from their houses and they died.

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    They died and the stink of them was everywhere. And it says in verse 14 and they gathered them together upon heaps and the land stank. Where have we heard that phrase before? And they gathered them together. That’s Revelation 16 and verse 16. And he will gather them together to a place called in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon. And if you want to, it’s actually the Septuagint of the Old Testament uses the exact same word that the Greek uses in Revelation 16 for that it gathers them together. So the idea of these frogs is that they get everywhere in every aspect of life, in our own homes, in amongst our own food. In our eating and drinking, in our marrying, given in marriage, in the cares of our life, that’s in our homes. They get everywhere.

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    And that’s the danger of these frog like spirits. And the Lord says you need to watch. Look at what Psalm 78 says about these frogs when commenting upon the frogs in Egypt. This is the, this is what he he actually describes what they did and the effect that they had on the land of Egypt. Psalm 78 and verse 45 speaking about the the these plagues, he says he sent divers sorts of flies among them which devoured them and frogs which corrupted them. You see, it’s the word destroyed, but it’s the idea to corrupt.

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    So what perfect symbol the Lord Jesus Christ could use to to explain an, an, an ideology and a narrative that was going to come into their houses that would deceive and that would corrupt. Think about what that might have been. Let’s come back to Revelation 16. We’re told that I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet. And now we’re going to go to from there unto the kings of the earth and the whole world.

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    You see that we’re going to go unto the kings of the yeast. Sorry, the kings and, and, and the whole world. So I just got to get back into my computer here. Not so. They’re unclean spirits and the Lord says that they’re actually quite potent. Now the apostle John talking about false doctrines and false teachings. OK, he actually explains it like this in first of John chapter 4. He actually says that you must try the spirits or test the spirits.

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    Now what was he talking about? Was he talking about some supernatural force the day? He wasn’t talking about that at all. He was talking about the doctrines and the false teachings that were coming in amongst the ecclesia. And he said, you’ve got to test those to see whether they are of God or not.

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    And what he’s telling us and what he’s there is, is that these these these ideologies, they actually sound right. They’re actually they have a form of godliness, but they’re they’re ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Paul says elsewhere. And he says they’re so deceptive that you’ve actually got to try them and test them because they look like they’re God, but they’re actually not. And that, brethren, sisters, we know has been an ideology of serpent thinking right from the beginning to take truth, to take error and to commingle it.

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    It’s deceptive. So what were these frog like spirits that come out of what we’d say the French Revolution? Because that’s the context. Remember the catch cry, the catch cry of that French Revolution was liberty, equality and fraternity. And those things in themselves are actually a good thing. In fact, at the time when that happened, it actually brought a lot of good for, for, for most human beings because they were actually, the comments were oppressed by the, the aristocracy and then and the clergy and the merchants. And so it was a good thing for that to happen. But what happened in 1789?

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    They also put together a declaration of human rights of both men and citizen that was penned in 1789 to bring forth human rights. But we know from the French Revolution is that these people that actually chose to do this turned on one another. And So what happens with human rights in the French Revolution is that it was a good idea, but unfortunately it was man that was put at the centre.

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    It was all about human beings. It wasn’t a document that was put that was put together with God at the centre. And so the spirit of humanism was something that was brought forth and, and, and went, went forth like, like, like, like wildfire. And they brought, they brought this idea of humanism in. This is what it is.

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    Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the individual and social potential of human beings. In other words, it’s the elevation of mankind. And it’s a progressing theory as we learn more about things. When science proves things, then we change our our our ideas to suit that narrative. It says it’s a progressive philosophy of life that affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical lives for the greater good of humanity.

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    That sounds good, doesn’t it, To try and make mankind better. But it is without relying on ISM or a supernatural entity. And there lies the problem of the spirit of humanism. And so this, this effect from the French Revolution had its ripple effect that went right out. And the Lord saying it’s even here in our day and age, I want you to look out for it. What happens when you mix a philosophy like that? It’s void of God with religion?

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    Well, unfortunately, you’ve got to try and make the two coexist. And we see these these ideas come out of the mouth of the false prophet. Now, quite simply, that’s the papacy, the the Romish papacy. And do we see that coming out of their mouth? His mouth, Well, he’s the 1 John, John Paul was the one that said, you know what with all these findings of science, we can’t ignore truth.

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    So we’ve got to make sure that truth doesn’t contradict truth. And because science has proven to us that evolution is actually a fact, well then we’ve got to somehow try and make that fit with God’s word. So what we can do, we can actually, we can actually deal with that. And what Pope, Pope Pius said at the time is that, you know, we can accept that mankind, humans actually come from pre existent matter in some way. But we must admit that this immortal soul is something that was created by God.

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    You see, that’s false. But the spirit of humanism has caused even a religious system to say that we’ve got to commingle it to bring it together.

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    We haven’t got time. But there’s there’s a few quotes here that when we talk about out of the out mouth of the beast, we know the beast is Europe, OK. And the dragon is the the one that stands as the Eastern Empire, the Byzantine Empire, which we know is Russia. We haven’t got time to prove that today. But there is quotes here that I have that tell it that shows quite clearly that out of the mouth of all three of them are these are these frog like spirits that are coming out and they’re and they’re based around that declaration of human rights.

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    So when we come to 1948, I know this seems like a bit of a history lesson, sorry. And that that that that declaration of human rights was actually written by a French Jew. You know what? It wasn’t actually his words. He actually never wrote a whole new document. He actually penned the words of the document that was written from the French Revolution.

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    And so when we come now, so the warning of our Lord Jesus Christ, what are we to be the watchman of? Well, we’ve got to ask ourselves, brother sisters, how does humanism actually affect our lives? How does how does this doctrine of the frog like spirits actually affect our ecclesia? Can we actually hear the frogs croaking in our own households like they were in Egypt?

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    Can we hear the the the frogs croaking in our ecclesia? Do we actually can we actually see what’s what what the effect it is having on our ecclesia very important brethren and sisters to heed the warning of of of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, have we heard of the ideas amongst the ecclesial world of mixing the idea of revolution with creation?

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    Have we heard that that’s the frogs croaking in our midst? Have we heard the idea of, of, of, of saying because of, because of human rights? Is the idea of looking after every person that we hear an interpretation of the love of God in Christ? Is that we should love like Jesus did unconditionally, which means he loves you just the way you are a teaching that allows ungodly relationships.

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    You know, we we, you know, of a young couple, married couple that were actually telling young people that were in that were dating that it’s OK to have sex before your marriage as long as you’re committed. Is that the frogs? Can you hear the frogs croaking in that? Brethren of sisters? What about the challenge of the divine design of male and female with their specific godly design roles? Do we hear that being challenged in our ecclesial world in this day and age?

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    Can you hear the frogs croaking? What about the inspiration of the scriptures is only partial that maybe even some of Paul’s writings aren’t aren’t exactly inspired, but rather his opinion? Where do you where do you end with that? If you follow that through, have we heard that amongst our ecclesial world? Can you hear the frogs croaking? What about the fact that Israel, natural Israel, is not a part of God’s plan at the end that he cast natural Israel back off him back in AD 70 and all he’s interested in is spiritual Israel?

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    Have we heard that? Heard that amongst the ecclesial world? I have. Can you hear the frogs croaking? What about what about the idea of ecumenicalism, of putting aside Christianity, putting aside all our differences and finding common ground to come together in fellowship? Have you heard that in our in our eclisure world? Can you hear the frogs croaking?

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    What about Christadelphians seeking to become involved in political matters and campaigning for for governments and for political parties that actually don’t hold our values? Have you? Have we heard that in our eclosure midst? Can you hear the frogs cracking?

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    What about the cares of this life? Brethren and sisters, what is in our houses that takes place of God? What do we give our time to

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    think of the phones that we have in our hands? They’ve created an amazing gateway for the frogs to come into our houses like they didn’t need you. Can you hear the frogs croaking, brethren and sisters?

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    Well, the Lord says to us, blessed is he that watcheth and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked and they see he shame. What are we watching out for, brethren and sisters? You know, when we come to partake of these emblems, the Lord actually the apostle Paul picks up on this and says when you come to take these emblems, he says this is actually not to keep the Lord’s Supper. He says that in the Corinthians.

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    He says there’s a problem here because some are drunk, some are hungry. You’re actually not discerning the Lord’s body. And the apostle Paul says you need to examine yourselves. What is your responsibility to that body? And not only do you need to examine yourselves, you need to tarry one for another. So what are we watching for, brotherly sisters?

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    What are we watching for in relation to discerning the Lord’s body? Well, we need to examine ourselves. Are our garments spotted? The garment that we have been given in Christ? Have we let the world spot that garment? Are we falling asleep and not and not keeping an eye out on on on the things that our lawyer has actually warned us about?

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    Let’s have a look at Revelation chapter 3. He says to the Ecclesia of Sardis in verse 2. He says be watchful. So that’s our word. Be watchful and strengthen the things that remain. He appeals to his eclesia, and he says you need to keep awake on this because you know what? You’re a dead eclesia.

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    You’re dying. And whatever’s left, whatever breath is left in this eclesia, you need to focus on that and you need to strengthen the things that remain. You’ve got to watch for this, he says verse 3. Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard. Hold fast and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch. If you don’t watch, I will come at a time like a thief. And he says, thou verse 4 has a few names, even in Sardis, which have not defiled their garments.

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    Because I tell you when I come, I’m going to give him a white one. Because the time at the end, brothers and sisters, is a time when our Lord says this is what you need to focus on the most. What is the state of your household? What’s the state of your governments? And what is the state of your ecclesia? Well, the Lord does it again at in end times, just before 1870, before his crucifixion.

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    And it gives this warning to his disciples. I want you to come to Matthew 24. He says, verse 42. He says, watch. Watch therefore, for you know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the good man of the house had known him, what wash the thief would come?

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    He would have watched and would have not have suffered his house to be taken. He would not have suffered his house to be taken. He says, therefore, verse 44, Be ye ready prepared, for in such an hour you think not the Son of Man comes, but look what he goes on to say.

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    He says, Well then who is a faithful and wise servant whom his Lord hath made ruler over his household to give him to give them meat in due season. In other words, what he’s saying is a faithful and wise servant is one that actually looks after his household. And the word household there is the Greek word therapia. It has the idea of being a medical household, OK, somewhere where you can actually be have medical attention, he says. And and in that house a faithful and wise servant actually gives the people that are there.

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    Obviously they’re there in need, the food at the proper time. He knows what’s needed in his ecclesia. He knows that we’re all in need and that it is exhorted to watch and to and to do, and to make sure that the ecclesia’s being attended to and looked after. And he says, verse 46.

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    Blessed is that servant whom his Lord, when he cometh, shall find so doing. Well, you know, brother and sisters, the UN General Assembly in 1948, because of the atrocities against the Jewish people actually said that we need to bring these human rights around. That same UN General Assembly today has just stated that Israel is the biggest violator of those rights, has just stated that Israel are the ones that have violated the human rights.

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    Now better than sisters. We know that’s not the case. But what is the frog like spirits amongst these nations actually going to say together? You know what, when Trump moved the embassy to Israel and said to Jerusalem and Jerusalem is the capital back in 2017, Putin said this shouldn’t be done. You need to listen to the UN resolution.

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    The Pope said the same thing. This shouldn’t be done. You need to listen to the UN. You need to listen to the UN resolution that has the that has the the spirit of the frog like spirits. And Putin said that the Pope said that. And Macron says that the speaker of the beast in France, in Europe, that whole system has turned against Israel. And you know, in Ezekiel 38 where it says when God comes down, when he gathers all these nations against Israel, you know, you know what it says that he will do the go. He says he shall think an evil thought. And if we have a look in Esther Chapter 9, where the same phrases used, we’re told about an evil thought that Haman thought against the people of God. And the evil thought was the annihilation of those people, the annihilation of the Jews.

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    That’s the evil thought that Goge has. And where has that come from? What comes from the frog like spirits? And it must have everything to do with anti-Semitism because that’s what gathers them together against Israel to destroy them. Brothers and sisters, we are in the last vile and our Lord’s last words. Stay awake.

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    Know what you’re looking for. You look after your ecclesia. You look after the garment you’ve been given and make sure that you tend to that ecclesia. And your Lord will find you doing when when he comes, because even if he comes as a thief, you’re prepared and doing what He’s asked us to do.

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    Brother and sisters, that is the essence of the emblems here before us today, to tend to his body, to look out for his ecclesia, to ensure that this place here is a refuge from those frog like spirits. The beautiful thing about the Lord’s warning here is this. He actually, he’s actually talking in the last days to a remnant that’s still there.

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    If the remnant wasn’t there anymore, then there’s no no reason to warn them. He’s actually talking to you and to me. What is our responsibility to our Lord’s body? To remain faithful for Him blesses he that watches and keeps his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see shame. Thank you for listening to the Good Christadelphian Talks podcast.

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    God bless and talk to you next week.