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

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Hello all and welcome back.

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This is Brother Benji.
This week’s talk will be an

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exhortation given by Brother
Dionne Patch at the Lismore

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Ecclesia in New South Wales,
Australia on the 16th of March

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last year to the Theme Watch.
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This talk comprises A concise,
delightful, informative and

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practical look at Revelation 16.
Brother Dion is someone I happen

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to know personally and can
gratefully say I have learned

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much from him over the years.
Thank you Brother Day.

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This talk contains a bit of
history throughout.

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He’s talking about Revelation
after all.

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But I ensure you it’s all
interesting and relevant.

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I love Brother Day’s passion for
the word.

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Who knew frogs could be so
interesting?

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Listen to find out more.
I hope this talk will help guide

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you and fill you with
encouragement for the week

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ahead.
With that said, I’ll give you

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over to our Brother Day for his
exhort watch.

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Well, good morning, my dear
brothers and sisters and young

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people.
Well, as we’ve been reminded by

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our brother John O and his
prayer and by brother Ruman, we

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come here to remember our Lord
Jesus Christ, the work which he

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has done.
You know, it was the night of

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that supper.
That very night they went out

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and he went down to the garden
of Gethsemane and he took a few

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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

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darkness is, is, is here.
And he went away and he come

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back and he found him, found him
sleeping.

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And he wakes them up.
He says, I really need you to

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watch.
And on the night of that, that

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he shared that meal, the last
words may have been that

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excitation to watch, you know,
with the watchman.

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He had the responsibility,
Ezekiel tells us.

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That’s if he knew and he could
foresee things coming to that

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city and he he never warned
anyone about it, then their

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blood would be upon his head.
And so the importance of that

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watchman was crucial to the
survival of the temple or of the

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city.
We’re told in Edersheim that if

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the watchman of the temple did
not watch an hour found asleep

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on, on on the rounds of the
captain of the guard, that the

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captain of the guard would take
his garments from him and burn

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them.
And that would be to that

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watchman his shame.
Because the importance of

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watching, to staying awake, as
the word means, is of vital

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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,

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we’re going to think about what
are the last words that our Lord

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Jesus Christ has left for you
and I?

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His last words potentially to
the disciples that he took into

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the garden was to watch.
And they’re exactly the same.

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It’s exactly the same excitation
that He leaves you and I in the

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last days.
We’ve had Revelation 16 written,

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read for us this morning.
And the context of Revelation 16

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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

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was poured out, that he gathered
them into a place called in the

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Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
And the warning came.

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Blessed is he that watches and
keeps his garments, lest he walk

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naked and they see his shame,
just like the watchman.

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That’s what he left for you and
I.

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So the context of the 6th vial,
this is our vile brother and

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sisters.
If we think about the whole

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scroll of Revelation being being
unrolled from the time the Lord

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when when John actually received
it in 1896 to the time of

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Armageddon, this is our vial.
We’re not in the trumpets, we’re

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not in the, we’re not in the
seals.

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But our time is right here in
the 6th vial.

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How do we know?
Because it ends with the Battle

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of Armageddon.
So what of all the of all the

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things the Lord could have spoke
to us about, you think about it

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what, What would your last words
be if you knew today was your

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last day?
What would you say to your

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family?
You’d think about it a lot,

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wouldn’t you?
And you think about what is the

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most important thing I can say
to my family with the

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opportunity I’ve got now.
And so the last words, brethren

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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

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out for.
And we’re going to look at that

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in the 6th file because if
there’s ever a warning, if

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there’s ever an excitation that
I can give you in this day and

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age.
And he’s talking to us, brethren

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and sisters, when we read
Revelation 16, it’s like the

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Lord’s actually standing here in
front of us and he’s dictating

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to you.
And I personally, out of all the

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Saints that have come and God,
he’s talking to us and that’s

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his last words to us.
Blessed is he that watches and

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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.

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And what does he want us to look
for?

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Well, the context of, of, of
Revelation 16.

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We know the 1st 5 vials.
We don’t have time to talk about

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this now, but the first five
vials with God’s judgments that

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were poured out upon the papacy,
upon Rome, OK, and upon their

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influence and the, and the first
file actually begins with in

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1789 when the French Revolution
came.

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That was a huge upheaval for the
for the for, for Catholic Rome

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in those days in the time of the
French Revolution, right

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throughout Europe, the church or
the clergy, the aristocrats or

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the the nobles and the merchants
were the ones that were the

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small percentage of society that
were, were, were ripping the

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commoners off of the day.
And the rich got richer, but the

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poor got even poorer.
And it got to the point where

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the commoners said enough is
enough.

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And there was a huge revolution.
And the Bible talks about this

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revolution as a political
earthquake.

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It’s that big.
And it was going to have

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rumifications that would go out
through our Catholic Europe.

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And that revolution began the,
the, the, the, the, the, the

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overthrow of that paper papal
system.

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And, and what happened
simultaneously with that is that

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we had the 1st 5 biles that talk
about the conquest of a

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Frenchman called Napoleon
Bonaparte.

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He’d come to power at this time
and he for a moment brought,

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brought power back to the church
at the time.

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But then he actually he got
proud and he sought to overthrow

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and take the pride of the church
and the power, the empirical

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power of the church on himself.
And he actually went out and he

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dethroned the papacy through the
Papal States.

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It got to the point where the
Pope was actually a prisoner in

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his own palace in the Vatican.
And so God’s judgements were

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carried out in these first five
vials for only about 30 years.

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That’s all.
It took 30 years for the whole

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papacy in Europe to lose its
power.

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And it was that point that the
Angel takes the 6th vile and he

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pours it out.
And this is what it says in in

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chapter chapter 16 and verse 12
it says.

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And the 6th Angel poured out his
vile upon the great river

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Euphrates, and the water thereof
was dried up, that the way of

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the kings of the East might be
prepared.

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And I saw three unclean spirits
like frogs come out of the mouth

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of the dragon, out of the mouth
of the beast, and out of the

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mouth of the false prophet.
For these spirits are the

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spirits of devils, working
miracles, which go forth unto

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the kings of the earth and to
the whole world to gather them

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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

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we are to look out for.
Interesting.

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Well, what was the drying up of
this great river Euphrates?

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If you make a note in Revelation
Chapter 9 and verse 14, we’re

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introduced earlier on in the
scroll of Revelation about this

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great river Euphrates.
And in Chapter 9, verse 14,

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we’re told that 4 angels would
go forth and be loosed from this

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river.
And it gives the picture that

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this river would be that was
confined would actually go out

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and expand its banks and would
flood.

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And the four angels that was
talking about in the context of

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the 5th and 6th trumpet was
God’s judgements that he would

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use to go forth, OK, and to
actually carry out judgement on

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the eastern part of the Roman
Empire over in Constantinople.

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OK, we’re going to have to keep
you, keep you here at the

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moment.
And what happened?

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That river burst its banks and
went out.

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And the four angels that God
used was the Seljuks, the

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Tartars, the Mongols, and
finally the Ottomans.

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And the Ottomans become the
empire that was the one that in

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1453 overthrew the Byzantine
Empire in Constantinople.

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And the flood of the Euphrates
overthrew and and conquered the

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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

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interesting to note that the
Euphrates River actually has its

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origins up in Turkey where where
the Ottomans actually are today

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as we know as a Turkish people.
But for 475 years that river

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stayed flooded until here the
6th vial and we’re told that

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this Euphrates River was to dry
up.

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Well, it was 1918 when the
British Allies came in and they

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fought against the, the, the,
the, the Ottoman Empire with the

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Germans.
And they dried that empire up

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out of the land of Palestine.
And, and in 1918, this great

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Ottoman Empire had been reduced
to what we know as Turkey today.

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But it’s interesting, brethren,
is this is that when we use the

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analogy of something drying up
in the context of Israel, we

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think about the Red Sea.
We think about how God moved

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these these great waters and
they walked along dry ground

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from their deliverance from
Egypt.

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We think about when God brought
Israel from the wilderness into

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the land that He promised them,
and he pushed the waters of

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Jordan back and he dried them up
and they walked over on dry

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land.
Well, brethren and sisters, 1918

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those waters were dried up and
the land was made dry.

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That paved the way for the
nation of Israel to come back to

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their land after nearly 2000
years.

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That’s in our century, brethren
and sisters.

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That’s happened not long ago
when we saw the angels at work

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in that, in that great Ottoman
Empire, that review phrase dried

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up so that it paved the way for
Israel, natural Israel, to be

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back in the land.
And in 1948, they were declared

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a nation once again.
It’s interesting what also

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happened in 1948.
There was a man called Renee

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Kassen who was a French Jew and
he was asked to pen a document

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because of the atrocities that
was brought against the Jewish

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people. 6,000,000 Jews and the
UN General Assembly brought

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together and asked this French
Jew to write this document and

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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

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at that time asked that document
to be written because of the

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atrocities against the Jews.
I want you to just lock that

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away because when we come back
to Revelation, we have a little

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bit more context.
When this drawing up of this

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river Euphrates happens, He says
at this time, he says, I saw

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three unclean spirits like frogs
that come out of the mouth of

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the dragon, out of the mouth of
the beast and out of the mouth

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of the false prophet.
So the Lord’s actually pleading

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to us today.
So I want you to identify these

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three different entities because
what’s important about these

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three entities is what they’re
saying.

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These frog like spirits come out
of their mouths.

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It’s what they were teaching.
It’s what they were actually the

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the ideologies and the
narratives that would come from

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these three identities.
But let’s think, why did God

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choose frogs?
Well, remember our context of of

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Revelation chapter 16 was
started from the beginning of

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the French Revolution.
Now we don’t have time to go

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into it, but the first Christian
king who became a Catholic was

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the man Clovis and his dynasty
emblem.

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The emblem of his dynasty was
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It’s amazing how the Lord uses
these little signposts for us to

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pick up on.
And so the relation of these

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three frogs, Lord telling us,
think of what’s come out of the

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French Revolution because it’s
going to come a point that

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whatever they’re talking about,
whatever these frogs stand for

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and the narratives and the, and
the, and the doctrines of the

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teaching that are saying it’s
going to bring these entities

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together.
The dragon, the beast, the false

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prophet, and not just them.
They’re not just going to be

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talking about it, but it’s going
to go out these ideologies to

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the kings of the earth and to
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So whatever these frog like
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nations together and to where
the battle of the great day of

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God Almighty.
Now we don’t have time, but we

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know in Armageddon chapters
through Joel chapter 3 and

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Zechariah 14 and those those
chapters we’re told that God

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gathers the nations together
where against Jerusalem, against

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his people.
It’s a battle.

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Now it’s interesting, brother
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Declaration of Human Rights was
actually written, it was

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actually penned because of the,
the, the, the feeling of

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compassion towards what’s
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But whatever this narrative is,
it’s going to bring nations

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together to come and destroy the
Jews at the battle of

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Armageddon.
Interesting.

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So what were these frog like
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Well, look, we’ve just got to
see what the characteristics of

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frogs are in the Scripture.
I want you to come back to

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Exodus chapter 8.
Now when God chose to bring them

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out of bondage, out of the House
of Egypt, He set those plagues

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in, remember.
And when we come to the second

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plague of the frogs, let’s just
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characteristics of frogs are.
Verse 2, it says, And if thou

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refuse to let them go, Pharaoh,
behold, I will smite all thy

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borders with frogs, and the
river shall bring forth frogs

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abundantly, which shall go up
and come into thine house, into

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thine innermost fed chamber, the
marriage bed, into thy servants

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unto thy people, into thy ovens,
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The frogs were going to get
everywhere.

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And you’re in Egypt.
Picture what that would be like.

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Frogs inundated everywhere, even
in your innermost, even in the

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marriage bed, the frogs are
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And now it would have been
something that drove people mad.

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They had the inundation of all
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the noise that would have come
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No wonder Revelation tells us
that these frog like spirits are

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like the spirits of devils.
It’ll drive you absolutely mad

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and it’s going to drive the
nations mad to think of, to, to

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actually come up with an idea
that in God’s eyes was like

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madness.
The spirits of madness, they’re

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called.
But the interesting thing about

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these frogs is that they came
with a, a promise by Pharaoh of

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freedom.
Pharaoh said, if you get rid of

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the frogs, then, then, then,
then, then I’ll let the children

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of people, children of Israel
go.

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I’ll give them freedom.
He never gave them.

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He had no intention of giving
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So it was a promise of liberty,
wasn’t it?

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But it wasn’t, it was there to
to to ensnare and to entrap

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them.
And the interesting thing is, is

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when we get to verse 14, when he
finally got rid of the frogs, it

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says that they, they retreated
from their houses and they died.

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They died and the stink of them
was everywhere.

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And it says in verse 14 and they
gathered them together upon

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heaps and the land stank.
Where have we heard that phrase

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before?
And they gathered them together.

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That’s Revelation 16 and verse
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And he will gather them together
to a place called in the Hebrew

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tongue, Armageddon.
And if you want to, it’s

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actually the Septuagint of the
Old Testament uses the exact

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same word that the Greek uses in
Revelation 16 for that it

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gathers them together.
So the idea of these frogs is

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that they get everywhere in
every aspect of life, in our own

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homes, in amongst our own food.
In our eating and drinking, in

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our marrying, given in marriage,
in the cares of our life, that’s

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in our homes.
They get everywhere.

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And that’s the danger of these
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And the Lord says you need to
watch.

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Look at what Psalm 78 says about
these frogs when commenting upon

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the frogs in Egypt.
This is the, this is what he he

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actually describes what they did
and the effect that they had on

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the land of Egypt.
Psalm 78 and verse 45 speaking

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about the the these plagues, he
says he sent divers sorts of

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flies among them which devoured
them and frogs which corrupted

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them.
You see, it’s the word

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destroyed, but it’s the idea to
corrupt.

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So what perfect symbol the Lord
Jesus Christ could use to to

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explain an, an, an ideology and
a narrative that was going to

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come into their houses that
would deceive and that would

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corrupt.
Think about what that might have

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been.
Let’s come back to Revelation

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16.
We’re told that I saw three

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unclean spirits like frogs come
out of the mouth of the dragon,

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out of the mouth of the beast
and out of the mouth of the

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false prophet.
And now we’re going to go to

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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.

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Sorry, the kings and, and, and
the whole world.

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So I just got to get back into
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Not so.
They’re unclean spirits and the

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Lord says that they’re actually
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Now the apostle John talking
about false doctrines and false

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teachings.
OK, he actually explains it like

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this in first of John chapter 4.
He actually says that you must

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try the spirits or test the
spirits.

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Now what was he talking about?
Was he talking about some

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supernatural force the day?
He wasn’t talking about that at

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all.
He was talking about the

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doctrines and the false
teachings that were coming in

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amongst the ecclesia.
And he said, you’ve got to test

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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

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these these these ideologies,
they actually sound right.

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They’re actually they have a
form of godliness, but they’re

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they’re ever learning, but never
able to come to the knowledge of

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the truth.
Paul says elsewhere.

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And he says they’re so deceptive
that you’ve actually got to try

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them and test them because they
look like they’re God, but

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they’re actually not.
And that, brethren, sisters, we

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know has been an ideology of
serpent thinking right from the

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beginning to take truth, to take
error and to commingle it.

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It’s deceptive.
So what were these frog like

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spirits that come out of what
we’d say the French Revolution?

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Because that’s the context.
Remember the catch cry, the

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catch cry of that French
Revolution was liberty, equality

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and fraternity.
And those things in themselves

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are actually a good thing.
In fact, at the time when that

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happened, it actually brought a
lot of good for, for, for most

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human beings because they were
actually, the comments were

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oppressed by the, the
aristocracy and then and the

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clergy and the merchants.
And so it was a good thing for

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that to happen.
But what happened in 1789?

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They also put together a
declaration of human rights of

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both men and citizen that was
penned in 1789 to bring forth

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human rights.
But we know from the French

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Revolution is that these people
that actually chose to do this

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turned on one another.
And So what happens with human

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rights in the French Revolution
is that it was a good idea, but

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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

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put that was put together with
God at the centre.

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And so the spirit of humanism
was something that was brought

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forth and, and, and went, went
forth like, like, like, like

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wildfire.
And they brought, they brought

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this idea of humanism in.
This is what it is.

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Humanism is a philosophical
stance that emphasizes the

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individual and social potential
of human beings.

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In other words, it’s the
elevation of mankind.

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And it’s a progressing theory as
we learn more about things.

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When science proves things, then
we change our our our ideas to

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suit that narrative.
It says it’s a progressive

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philosophy of life that affirms
our ability and responsibility

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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.

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But it is without relying on ISM
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And there lies the problem of
the spirit of humanism.

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And so this, this effect from
the French Revolution had its

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ripple effect that went right
out.

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And the Lord saying it’s even
here in our day and age, I want

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you to look out for it.
What happens when you mix a

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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.

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And we see these these ideas
come out of the mouth of the

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false prophet.
Now, quite simply, that’s the

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papacy, the the Romish papacy.
And do we see that coming out of

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their mouth?
His mouth, Well, he’s the 1

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John, John Paul was the one that
said, you know what with all

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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.

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And because science has proven
to us that evolution is actually

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a fact, well then we’ve got to
somehow try and make that fit

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with God’s word.
So what we can do, we can

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actually, we can actually deal
with that.

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And what Pope, Pope Pius said at
the time is that, you know, we

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can accept that mankind, humans
actually come from pre existent

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matter in some way.
But we must admit that this

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immortal soul is something that
was created by God.

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You see, that’s false.
But the spirit of humanism has

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caused even a religious system
to say that we’ve got to

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commingle it to bring it
together.

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We haven’t got time.
But there’s there’s a few quotes

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here that when we talk about out
of the out mouth of the beast,

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we know the beast is Europe, OK.
And the dragon is the the one

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that stands as the Eastern
Empire, the Byzantine Empire,

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which we know is Russia.
We haven’t got time to prove

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that today.
But there is quotes here that I

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have that tell it that shows
quite clearly that out of the

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mouth of all three of them are
these are these frog like

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spirits that are coming out and
they’re and they’re based around

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that declaration of human
rights.

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So when we come to 1948, I know
this seems like a bit of a

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history lesson, sorry.
And that that that that

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declaration of human rights was
actually written by a French

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Jew.
You know what?

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It wasn’t actually his words.
He actually never wrote a whole

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new document.
He actually penned the words of

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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

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Christ, what are we to be the
watchman of?

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Well, we’ve got to ask
ourselves, brother sisters, how

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does humanism actually affect
our lives?

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How does how does this doctrine
of the frog like spirits

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actually affect our ecclesia?
Can we actually hear the frogs

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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?

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00:28:34,760 –> 00:28:38,360
Do we actually can we actually
see what’s what what the effect

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00:28:38,360 –> 00:28:43,840
it is having on our ecclesia
very important brethren and

435
00:28:43,840 –> 00:28:49,080
sisters to heed the warning of
of of the Lord Jesus Christ.

436
00:28:50,480 –> 00:28:55,040
Now, have we heard of the ideas
amongst the ecclesial world of

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00:28:55,040 –> 00:28:58,880
mixing the idea of revolution
with creation?

438
00:28:59,000 –> 00:29:04,680
Have we heard that that’s the
frogs croaking in our midst?

439
00:29:06,520 –> 00:29:09,960
Have we heard the idea of, of,
of, of saying because of,

440
00:29:10,080 –> 00:29:12,600
because of human rights?
Is the idea of looking after

441
00:29:12,600 –> 00:29:16,160
every person that we hear an
interpretation of the love of

442
00:29:16,160 –> 00:29:17,760
God in Christ?
Is that we should love like

443
00:29:17,760 –> 00:29:22,720
Jesus did unconditionally, which
means he loves you just the way

444
00:29:22,720 –> 00:29:27,200
you are a teaching that allows
ungodly relationships.

445
00:29:27,200 –> 00:29:30,840
You know, we we, you know, of a
young couple, married couple

446
00:29:30,840 –> 00:29:34,000
that were actually telling young
people that were in that were

447
00:29:34,000 –> 00:29:37,640
dating that it’s OK to have sex
before your marriage as long as

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00:29:37,640 –> 00:29:40,920
you’re committed.
Is that the frogs?

449
00:29:40,920 –> 00:29:42,600
Can you hear the frogs croaking
in that?

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00:29:42,600 –> 00:29:47,280
Brethren of sisters?
What about the challenge of the

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00:29:47,280 –> 00:29:52,360
divine design of male and female
with their specific godly design

452
00:29:52,360 –> 00:29:55,840
roles?
Do we hear that being challenged

453
00:29:56,280 –> 00:29:58,640
in our ecclesial world in this
day and age?

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00:30:00,680 –> 00:30:05,080
Can you hear the frogs croaking?
What about the inspiration of

455
00:30:05,080 –> 00:30:09,040
the scriptures is only partial
that maybe even some of Paul’s

456
00:30:09,040 –> 00:30:12,600
writings aren’t aren’t exactly
inspired, but rather his

457
00:30:12,600 –> 00:30:14,360
opinion?
Where do you where do you end

458
00:30:14,360 –> 00:30:17,160
with that?
If you follow that through, have

459
00:30:17,160 –> 00:30:18,840
we heard that amongst our
ecclesial world?

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00:30:20,000 –> 00:30:26,120
Can you hear the frogs croaking?
What about the fact that Israel,

461
00:30:26,120 –> 00:30:31,160
natural Israel, is not a part of
God’s plan at the end that he

462
00:30:31,160 –> 00:30:34,720
cast natural Israel back off him
back in AD 70 and all he’s

463
00:30:34,720 –> 00:30:36,160
interested in is spiritual
Israel?

464
00:30:36,320 –> 00:30:38,440
Have we heard that?
Heard that amongst the ecclesial

465
00:30:38,440 –> 00:30:40,840
world?
I have.

466
00:30:42,240 –> 00:30:49,680
Can you hear the frogs croaking?
What about what about the idea

467
00:30:49,680 –> 00:30:54,720
of ecumenicalism, of putting
aside Christianity, putting

468
00:30:54,720 –> 00:30:58,480
aside all our differences and
finding common ground to come

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00:30:58,480 –> 00:31:02,880
together in fellowship?
Have you heard that in our in

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00:31:02,880 –> 00:31:06,760
our eclisure world?
Can you hear the frogs croaking?

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00:31:08,920 –> 00:31:13,720
What about Christadelphians
seeking to become involved in

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00:31:13,720 –> 00:31:17,680
political matters and
campaigning for for governments

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00:31:18,160 –> 00:31:20,960
and for political parties that
actually don’t hold our values?

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00:31:20,960 –> 00:31:22,360
Have you?
Have we heard that in our

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00:31:22,360 –> 00:31:25,840
eclosure midst?
Can you hear the frogs cracking?

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00:31:27,960 –> 00:31:29,840
What about the cares of this
life?

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00:31:29,840 –> 00:31:35,760
Brethren and sisters, what is in
our houses that takes place of

478
00:31:35,760 –> 00:31:39,600
God?
What do we give our time to

479
00:31:42,520 –> 00:31:45,920
think of the phones that we have
in our hands?

480
00:31:47,720 –> 00:31:52,000
They’ve created an amazing
gateway for the frogs to come

481
00:31:52,000 –> 00:31:53,680
into our houses like they didn’t
need you.

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00:31:55,440 –> 00:31:58,400
Can you hear the frogs croaking,
brethren and sisters?

483
00:32:01,040 –> 00:32:06,600
Well, the Lord says to us,
blessed is he that watcheth and

484
00:32:06,600 –> 00:32:10,920
keeps his garments, lest he walk
naked and they see he shame.

485
00:32:12,480 –> 00:32:14,480
What are we watching out for,
brethren and sisters?

486
00:32:15,680 –> 00:32:20,320
You know, when we come to
partake of these emblems, the

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00:32:20,320 –> 00:32:23,280
Lord actually the apostle Paul
picks up on this and says when

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00:32:23,280 –> 00:32:26,320
you come to take these emblems,
he says this is actually not to

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00:32:26,320 –> 00:32:28,520
keep the Lord’s Supper.
He says that in the Corinthians.

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00:32:29,760 –> 00:32:34,160
He says there’s a problem here
because some are drunk, some are

491
00:32:34,160 –> 00:32:36,720
hungry.
You’re actually not discerning

492
00:32:36,720 –> 00:32:39,760
the Lord’s body.
And the apostle Paul says you

493
00:32:39,760 –> 00:32:44,160
need to examine yourselves.
What is your responsibility to

494
00:32:44,160 –> 00:32:47,120
that body?
And not only do you need to

495
00:32:47,120 –> 00:32:51,080
examine yourselves, you need to
tarry one for another.

496
00:32:52,040 –> 00:32:54,160
So what are we watching for,
brotherly sisters?

497
00:32:54,560 –> 00:32:57,560
What are we watching for in
relation to discerning the

498
00:32:57,560 –> 00:33:00,400
Lord’s body?
Well, we need to examine

499
00:33:00,400 –> 00:33:03,560
ourselves.
Are our garments spotted?

500
00:33:04,480 –> 00:33:07,760
The garment that we have been
given in Christ?

501
00:33:08,720 –> 00:33:10,640
Have we let the world spot that
garment?

502
00:33:11,240 –> 00:33:17,640
Are we falling asleep and not
and not keeping an eye out on on

503
00:33:17,640 –> 00:33:20,040
on the things that our lawyer
has actually warned us about?

504
00:33:21,840 –> 00:33:24,000
Let’s have a look at Revelation
chapter 3.

505
00:33:32,000 –> 00:33:37,280
He says to the Ecclesia of
Sardis in verse 2.

506
00:33:40,280 –> 00:33:45,520
He says be watchful.
So that’s our word.

507
00:33:45,520 –> 00:33:50,200
Be watchful and strengthen the
things that remain.

508
00:33:50,840 –> 00:33:55,240
He appeals to his eclesia, and
he says you need to keep awake

509
00:33:55,240 –> 00:33:57,560
on this because you know what?
You’re a dead eclesia.

510
00:33:58,640 –> 00:34:01,720
You’re dying.
And whatever’s left, whatever

511
00:34:01,840 –> 00:34:05,040
breath is left in this eclesia,
you need to focus on that and

512
00:34:05,040 –> 00:34:06,840
you need to strengthen the
things that remain.

513
00:34:07,000 –> 00:34:09,880
You’ve got to watch for this, he
says verse 3.

514
00:34:09,880 –> 00:34:12,400
Remember therefore how thou hast
received and heard.

515
00:34:12,639 –> 00:34:15,880
Hold fast and repent.
If therefore thou shalt not

516
00:34:15,880 –> 00:34:19,199
watch.
If you don’t watch, I will come

517
00:34:19,199 –> 00:34:27,400
at a time like a thief.
And he says, thou verse 4 has a

518
00:34:27,400 –> 00:34:34,280
few names, even in Sardis, which
have not defiled their garments.

519
00:34:35,639 –> 00:34:40,000
Because I tell you when I come,
I’m going to give him a white

520
00:34:40,000 –> 00:34:43,920
one.
Because the time at the end,

521
00:34:43,920 –> 00:34:47,480
brothers and sisters, is a time
when our Lord says this is what

522
00:34:47,480 –> 00:34:52,080
you need to focus on the most.
What is the state of your

523
00:34:52,080 –> 00:34:54,080
household?
What’s the state of your

524
00:34:54,080 –> 00:34:56,000
governments?
And what is the state of your

525
00:34:56,000 –> 00:35:00,280
ecclesia?
Well, the Lord does it again at

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00:35:00,440 –> 00:35:03,560
in end times, just before 1870,
before his crucifixion.

527
00:35:04,080 –> 00:35:07,280
And it gives this warning to his
disciples.

528
00:35:07,280 –> 00:35:08,880
I want you to come to Matthew
24.

529
00:35:10,920 –> 00:35:15,800
He says, verse 42.
He says, watch.

530
00:35:17,280 –> 00:35:22,000
Watch therefore, for you know
not what hour your Lord doth

531
00:35:22,000 –> 00:35:24,520
come.
But know this, that if the good

532
00:35:24,520 –> 00:35:27,480
man of the house had known him,
what wash the thief would come?

533
00:35:27,720 –> 00:35:30,880
He would have watched and would
have not have suffered his house

534
00:35:30,880 –> 00:35:33,040
to be taken.
He would not have suffered his

535
00:35:33,040 –> 00:35:41,520
house to be taken.
He says, therefore, verse 44, Be

536
00:35:41,520 –> 00:35:46,160
ye ready prepared, for in such
an hour you think not the Son of

537
00:35:46,160 –> 00:35:49,560
Man comes, but look what he goes
on to say.

538
00:35:49,560 –> 00:35:54,640
He says, Well then who is a
faithful and wise servant whom

539
00:35:54,640 –> 00:35:58,840
his Lord hath made ruler over
his household to give him to

540
00:35:58,840 –> 00:36:04,000
give them meat in due season.
In other words, what he’s saying

541
00:36:04,000 –> 00:36:09,160
is a faithful and wise servant
is one that actually looks after

542
00:36:09,160 –> 00:36:11,400
his household.
And the word household there is

543
00:36:11,400 –> 00:36:13,960
the Greek word therapia.
It has the idea of being a

544
00:36:13,960 –> 00:36:17,960
medical household, OK, somewhere
where you can actually be have

545
00:36:17,960 –> 00:36:22,360
medical attention, he says.
And and in that house a faithful

546
00:36:22,360 –> 00:36:25,080
and wise servant actually gives
the people that are there.

547
00:36:25,400 –> 00:36:29,400
Obviously they’re there in need,
the food at the proper time.

548
00:36:30,920 –> 00:36:33,680
He knows what’s needed in his
ecclesia.

549
00:36:34,400 –> 00:36:39,080
He knows that we’re all in need
and that it is exhorted to watch

550
00:36:39,080 –> 00:36:42,600
and to and to do, and to make
sure that the ecclesia’s being

551
00:36:42,600 –> 00:36:47,400
attended to and looked after.
And he says, verse 46.

552
00:36:47,880 –> 00:36:55,120
Blessed is that servant whom his
Lord, when he cometh, shall find

553
00:36:55,120 –> 00:37:00,640
so doing.
Well, you know, brother and

554
00:37:00,640 –> 00:37:05,440
sisters, the UN General Assembly
in 1948, because of the

555
00:37:05,440 –> 00:37:08,560
atrocities against the Jewish
people actually said that we

556
00:37:08,560 –> 00:37:10,240
need to bring these human rights
around.

557
00:37:10,640 –> 00:37:15,360
That same UN General Assembly
today has just stated that

558
00:37:15,360 –> 00:37:20,960
Israel is the biggest violator
of those rights, has just stated

559
00:37:22,000 –> 00:37:27,280
that Israel are the ones that
have violated the human rights.

560
00:37:29,480 –> 00:37:31,800
Now better than sisters.
We know that’s not the case.

561
00:37:33,280 –> 00:37:35,720
But what is the frog like
spirits amongst these nations

562
00:37:35,720 –> 00:37:42,920
actually going to say together?
You know what, when Trump moved

563
00:37:42,920 –> 00:37:46,560
the embassy to Israel and said
to Jerusalem and Jerusalem is

564
00:37:46,560 –> 00:37:52,200
the capital back in 2017, Putin
said this shouldn’t be done.

565
00:37:52,400 –> 00:37:54,520
You need to listen to the UN
resolution.

566
00:37:55,920 –> 00:37:58,480
The Pope said the same thing.
This shouldn’t be done.

567
00:37:58,480 –> 00:38:01,400
You need to listen to the UN.
You need to listen to the UN

568
00:38:01,400 –> 00:38:05,200
resolution that has the that has
the the spirit of the frog like

569
00:38:05,200 –> 00:38:07,200
spirits.
And Putin said that the Pope

570
00:38:07,200 –> 00:38:10,280
said that.
And Macron says that the speaker

571
00:38:10,280 –> 00:38:18,200
of the beast in France, in
Europe, that whole system has

572
00:38:18,200 –> 00:38:23,400
turned against Israel.
And you know, in Ezekiel 38

573
00:38:24,080 –> 00:38:26,640
where it says when God comes
down, when he gathers all these

574
00:38:26,640 –> 00:38:29,320
nations against Israel, you
know, you know what it says that

575
00:38:29,320 –> 00:38:31,680
he will do the go.
He says he shall think an evil

576
00:38:31,680 –> 00:38:36,160
thought.
And if we have a look in Esther

577
00:38:36,160 –> 00:38:39,520
Chapter 9, where the same
phrases used, we’re told about

578
00:38:39,520 –> 00:38:43,160
an evil thought that Haman
thought against the people of

579
00:38:43,160 –> 00:38:46,120
God.
And the evil thought was the

580
00:38:46,120 –> 00:38:50,080
annihilation of those people,
the annihilation of the Jews.

581
00:38:51,640 –> 00:38:53,320
That’s the evil thought that
Goge has.

582
00:38:55,040 –> 00:38:59,080
And where has that come from?
What comes from the frog like

583
00:38:59,080 –> 00:39:02,520
spirits?
And it must have everything to

584
00:39:02,520 –> 00:39:06,040
do with anti-Semitism because
that’s what gathers them

585
00:39:06,040 –> 00:39:09,040
together against Israel to
destroy them.

586
00:39:10,880 –> 00:39:17,600
Brothers and sisters, we are in
the last vile and our Lord’s

587
00:39:17,600 –> 00:39:23,680
last words.
Stay awake.

588
00:39:26,640 –> 00:39:31,640
Know what you’re looking for.
You look after your ecclesia.

589
00:39:32,920 –> 00:39:37,000
You look after the garment
you’ve been given and make sure

590
00:39:37,000 –> 00:39:39,600
that you tend to that ecclesia.
And your Lord will find you

591
00:39:39,600 –> 00:39:43,200
doing when when he comes,
because even if he comes as a

592
00:39:43,200 –> 00:39:46,880
thief, you’re prepared and doing
what He’s asked us to do.

593
00:39:48,160 –> 00:39:52,440
Brother and sisters, that is the
essence of the emblems here

594
00:39:52,440 –> 00:39:59,440
before us today, to tend to his
body, to look out for his

595
00:39:59,440 –> 00:40:04,760
ecclesia, to ensure that this
place here is a refuge from

596
00:40:04,760 –> 00:40:09,920
those frog like spirits.
The beautiful thing about the

597
00:40:09,920 –> 00:40:16,120
Lord’s warning here is this.
He actually, he’s actually

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00:40:16,120 –> 00:40:19,440
talking in the last days to a
remnant that’s still there.

599
00:40:21,960 –> 00:40:26,080
If the remnant wasn’t there
anymore, then there’s no no

600
00:40:26,080 –> 00:40:31,240
reason to warn them.
He’s actually talking to you and

601
00:40:31,240 –> 00:40:35,840
to me.
What is our responsibility to

602
00:40:35,840 –> 00:40:39,280
our Lord’s body?
To remain faithful for Him

603
00:40:40,360 –> 00:40:45,600
blesses he that watches and
keeps his garments, lest he walk

604
00:40:45,600 –> 00:41:03,860
naked, and they see shame.
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