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SERIES: THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST, WEEK 41

TITLE: THE RESPONSE TO THE SIXTH TRUMPET: MANKIND STILL UNREPENTANT

TEXT: REVELATION 9:20-21

INTRODUCTION: (1) C. H. SPURGEON ONCE MADE THIS STATEMENT: “BRETHREN, WE SHALL NOT ADJUST OUR BIBLE TO THE AGE, BUT THE AGE TO THE BIBLE.” (END QUOTE)

* WE ARE LIVING IN A DAY AND AGE WHERE IT IS NOT FASHIONABLE OR POPULAR TO PREACH A GOSPEL THAT DEMANDS REPENTANCE.

** BUT HOW CAN THAT BE WHEN JESUS PREACHED REPENTANCE, THE 10 APOSTLES PREACHED REPENTANCE AND PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE GENTILES PREACHED REPENTANCE?

*** WELL, THE ANSWER IS SOME TODAY TRY TO PACKAGE THE GOSPEL INTO A MESSAGE THAT IS NOT OFFENSIVE AND REPENTANCE IS NEGATIVE AND CERTAINLY THERE IS NO PLACE FOR NEGATIVITY TODAY IN PREACHING.

**** AND IN FACT THE GOSPEL HAS BEEN WATERED DOWN TO MAKE IT EASY TO BELIEVE, TO MAKE IT MORE PALATABLE, PREACHING A DESIGNER GOSPEL, PACKAGED TO FIT THE SINNER’S DESIRE AND CAREFULLY ADJUSTED TO OVERCOME CONSUMER RESISTANCE.

(2) YET THAT KIND OF GOSPEL IS NOT THE GOSPEL AT ALL, AND LET ME CLEARLY SAY, THAT THE GOSPEL OF THE N.T. WHEN PROCLAIMED IN IT’S ENTIRETY IS OFFENSIVE AND BRINGS RESENTMENT AND RIDICULE.

* JOHN MACARTHUR SAID IN HIS BOOK, “HARD TO BELIEVE” AND I QUOTE: “IF YOU HAVE NEVER FELT SHAME IN PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL, IT’S PROBABLY BECAUSE YOU HAVEN’T PROCLAIMED THE GOSPEL CLEARLY, IN IT’S ENTIRETY, THE WAY JESUS PROCLAIMED IT.” (END QUOTE)

** AND BELOVED, I REMIND YOU, THERE WAS NOT A POSITIVE REACTION ON THE WHOLE TO CHRIST’S PREACHING, IN FACT, JESUS SAID IN LUKE 5:32 AND LUKE 13:3 (READ THEM).

*** AND FOLKS THAT MESSAGE NAILED CHRIST TO A TREE. WHAT DO YOU MEAN I’M NOT A GOOD PERSON OR GOING TO HEAVEN AND I MUST REPENT?

**** NOW YES, ALMOST EVERYBODY KNOWS THEY ARE NOT PERFECT, BUT FOR MOST PEOPLE THAT IS A CONSOLATION, NOT A CONDEMNATION. SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS IS A SCOURGE.

(3) SO IF YOU TELL EVERYBODY HOW GOOD THEY ARE, AND TO LOVE THEMSELVES AND THAT THERE IS A SPARK OF GOODNESS IN ALL OF US, YOU WILL NOT OFFEND.

* BUT IF YOU TELL THEM TO REPENT AND THAT THEY ARE LOST SINNERS, SOME WILL BE OFFENDED.

** AND WE NEED TO LOVE PEOPLE, BUT BY LOVING THEM WE WILL TELL THEM THE TRUTH AND PROCLAIM REPENTANCE, READ ACTS 2:38, ACTS 17:30, ACTS 20:21, II CORINTHIANS 7:10, II TIMOTHY 2:24&25 AND II PETER 3:9.

*** NOW I’M NOT GOING TO GIVE YOU EVERY VERSE IN THE N.T. THAT TEACHES REPENTANCE, BUT I’M JUST CALLING ALL OF US NOT TO DILUTE THE MESSAGE OF THE GOSPEL OF REPENTANCE, DON’T GO DOWN THE SLIPPERY SLOPE OF ADJUSTING THE MESSAGE.

**** AND ADJUSTING THE MESSAGE IS NOT A NEW PHENOMENA EVEN IN MOST EVANGELICAL CHRISTIANITY IN THE LAST 70 YEARS.

(4) DR. H. A. IRONSIDE AS EARLY AS 1937 NOTED THAT THE BIBLICAL DOCTRINE OF REPENTANCE WAS BEING DILUTED BY THOSE WHO WISHED TO EXCLUDE IT FROM THE GOSPEL MESSAGE.

* IN HIS BOOK “EXCEPT YE REPENT” HE WROTE AND I QUOTE: “THE DOCTRINE OF REPENTANCE IS THE MISSING NOTE IN MANY OTHERWISE ORTHODOX AND FUNDAMENTALLY SOUND CIRCLES TODAY.”

** HE SPOKE OF “PROFESSED PREACHERS OF GRACE WHO, LIKE THE ANTINOMIANS OF OLD, DECRY THE NECESSITY OF REPENTANCE LEST IT SEEMS TO INVALIDATE THE FREEDOM OF GRACE.”

*** HE SAID, “SHALLOW PREACHING THAT DOES NOT GRAPPLE WITH THE TERRIBLE FACT OF MAN’S SINFULNESS AND GUILT, CALLING ON ALL MEN EVERYWHERE TO REPENT, RESULTS IN SHALLOW CONVERSIONS; AND SO WE HAVE MYRIADS OF GLIB TONGUED PROFESSORS TODAY WHO GIVE NO EVIDENCE OF REGENERATION WHATEVER.”

**** “PRATING OF SALVATION BY GRACE, THEY MANIFEST NO GRACE IN THEIR LIVES LOUDLY DECLARING THEY ARE JUSTIFIED BY FAITH ALONE, THEY FAIL TO REMEMBER THAT FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD; AND THAT JUSTIFICATION BY WORKS BEFORE MEN IS NOT TO BE IGNORED AS THOUGH IT WERE IN CONTRACTION TO JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH BEFORE GOD.” (END QUOTE)

(5) THE REFORMERS WERE FOND OF SAYING, FAITH ALONE BRINGS SALVATION, BUT THE FAITH THAT BRINGS SALVATION IS NEVER ALONE. BELOVED: REPENTANT FAITH IN CHRIST MANIFESTS ITSELF IN OBEDIENCE.

* AND FAITH WITHOUT REPENTANCE IS NOT GENUINE SAVING FAITH, AND IF THERE IS NOT A WILLINGNESS TO TURN FROM SIN TO FOLLOW THE SAVIOR, THEN THERE WILL BE NO SALVATION, EVEN THOUGH THE PERSON SAYS I BELIEVE. (THAT IS DEMON FAITH, READ JAMES 2:19).

** NOW AS WE COME TO OUR TEXT TODAY, THE UNSAVED PEOPLE WHO SURVIVED THE JUDGMENT OF THE 6TH TRUMPET, 2/3 OF THE WORLD POPULATION WOULD NOT REPENT AND TURN TO GOD.

*** IN FACT, REVELATION 9:20A SAYS: “THE REST OF MANKIND, WHO WERE NOT KILLED BY THESE PLAGUES, DID NOT REPENT…”

**** REVELATION 9:21A SAYS: “AND THEY DID NOT REPENT.”

(6) NOW ONE WOULD THINK THE LOSS OF A THIRD OF THE EARTH’S POPULATION AND THE SUFFERING OF MANY MORE HOPEFULLY WOULD CAUSE THE SURVIVORS TO BE MORE RESPONSIVE TO GOD. BUT IT DOES NOT!

* I MEAN IT WOULD BE REASONABLE TO THINK WITH POSSIBLY 1.75 BILLION PEOPLE DEAD, THERE WOULD BE A TURNING TO GOD – RIGHT?

** SURELY MANY OF THE SURVIVORS OR EVEN A FEW WOULD REPENT. NOT SO.

*** AND IT’S TRAGIC, BUT THE TWO CLOSING VERSES OF REVELATION CHAPTER 9 REVEAL AN ASTOUNDING PICTURE OF DEPRAVITY!

**** THERE IS AN AMAZING DISPLAY OF HARDNESS. THESE PEOPLE WILL NOT TURN FROM THEIR SIN TO GOD BUT HOLD ON TO THEIR SIN!

(7) BECAUSE OF THAT I’VE TITLED THE MESSAGE TODAY: “THE RESPONSE OF THE SIXTH TRUMPET: MANKIND STILL UNREPENTANT.”

* AND THIS IS AMAZING, BUT ILLUSTRATES TO US THE DOCTRINE OF TOTAL DEPRAVITY OR TOTAL INABILITY THAT I PREACHED ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO.

** THE RESPONSE TO JUDGMENT IS TO REMAIN IN THEIR SINS, THEY WILL NOT REPENT.

*** AND UNDER THAT THEME WE’LL LOOK AT TWO POINTS AS WE STUDY REVELATION 9:20&21. NO. 1 THE REACTION OF THE SURVIVORS, V. 20; AND NO. 2 THE REPETITION OF NO REPENTANCE IN V. 21 AND USING THAT WORD.

**** AND WITH THAT SHORT OUTLINE AS OUR GUIDE FOR STUDY TODAY, LOOK AT V. 20 PLEASE WHERE WE’LL SEE OUR FIRST POINT, THE REACTION.

I. THE REACTION, (READ V. 20)

A. NOW IT WOULD BE REASONABLE TO THINK THAT WITH ONE THIRD OF MANKIND DYING, AND THE TERRIFYING JUDGMENTS THAT PRECEDED THIS JUDGMENT, SPEAKING OF THE SEALS AND THE FIRST FIVE TRUMPET JUDGMENTS, THAT THERE WOULD BE A MASSIVE TURNING TO GOD BY THE REST OF MANKIND.

* AND THE PHRASE, “THE REST OF MANKIND” REFERS TO THE SURVIVORS OF THE 6TH TRUMPET JUDGMENT.

** AND SOMETIMES WHEN PEOPLE GO THROUGH TRAGIC EVENTS, THEY START THINKING ABOUT GOD.

*** AND EVEN NATIONALLY, AFTER SEPTEMBER 11TH, THERE WAS AT LEAST SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT THE LORD.

**** BUT HERE DURING THIS POINT OF THE TRIBULATION, RATHER THAN REPENTING AND TURNING TO CHRIST THEY TURN AND CONTINUE TO BE INVOLVED IN THEIR IDOLATRY.

1. IN FACT, THE IDOLATRY IN V. 20 AND THE IMMORALITY OF V. 21, TWO SINS THAT GO HAND IN HAND, THAT ARE CLOSELY ASSOCIATED TOGETHER, WAS TOO MUCH A PART OF THEIR LIVES TO SEE THEIR SIN FROM GOD’S VIEWPOINT THAT THEY MIGHT TURN TO THE LAMB.

* WHICH REMINDS US, SIN IS ENSLAVING, WE ARE THE SLAVES OF SIN UNTIL THE LORD QUICKENS OR CALLS US TO HIMSELF.

** I MEAN WHY WOULDN’T AT LEAST A FEW PEOPLE REPENT AFTER THESE CATASTROPHIC, CATACLYSMIC DISASTROUS EVENTS?

*** THE ONLY ANSWER IS DEPRAVITY, MEN LOVED DARKNESS RATHER THAN LIGHT BECAUSE THEIR DEEDS ARE EVIL, JOHN 3:19.

**** AND BELOVED, LIKE THOSE WHO REJECTED CHRIST DESPITE HEARING HIS PREACHING AND SEEING HIS TREMENDOUS MIRACLES, THEY WILL ACCORDING TO JOHN 12:38-40, “FULFILL THE WORD OF ISAIAH WHICH HE SPOKE: ‘LORD WHO HAS BELIEVED OUR REPORT? AND TO WHOM HAS THE ARM OF THE LORD BEEN REVEALED?’ FOR THIS REASON THEY COULD NOT BELIEVE FOR ISAIAH SAID AGAIN ‘HE HAS BLINDED THEIR EYES AND HE HARDENED THEIR HEART, SO THAT THEY WOULD NOT SEE WITH THEIR EYES AND PERCEIVE WITH THEIR HEART AND BE CONVERTED AND I HEAL THEM.”

(2) AND BROTHERS AND SISTERS, THOSE TRUTHS REMIND US THAT TOTAL DEPRAVITY MEANS TOTAL INABILITY.

* FOR MANKIND LEFT TO THEMSELVES LOVE THEIR SIN AND FREELY CHOOSE THEIR SIN OVER CHRIST.

** AND GOD GIVES US OVER TO OUR SIN AND WE ARE BLINDED AND HARDENED IN OUR HEARTS.

*** AS ROMANS 1:28-32 SAYS:

V. 28 – AND JUST AS THEY DID NOT SEE FIT TO ACKNOWLEDGE GOD ANY LONGER, GOD GAVE THEM OVER TO A DEPRAVED MIND, TO DO THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT PROPER,

V. 29 – BEING FILLED WITH ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS, WICKEDNESS, GREED, EVIL; FULL OF ENVY, MURDER, STRIFE, DECEIT, MALICE; THEY ARE GOSSIPS,

V. 30 – SLANDERERS, HATERS OF GOD, INSOLENT, ARROGANT, BOASTFUL, INVENTORS OF EVIL, DISOBEDIENT TO PARENTS,

V. 31 – WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING, UNTRUSTWORTHY, UNLOVING, UNMERCIFUL;

V. 32 – AND ALTHOUGH THEY KNOW THE ORDINANCE OF GOD, THAT THOSE WHO PRACTICE SUCH THINGS ARE WORTHY OF DEATH, THEY NOT ONLY DO THE SAME, BUT ALSO GIVE HEARTY APPROVAL TO THOSE WHO PRACTICE THEM.

**** AND THIS PHRASE “GOD GAVE THEM OVER” IN ROMANS 1:24-32 IS USED 3 TIMES AND HAS TO DO WITH HANDING OVER A PRISONER TO HIS SENTENCE.

(3) AND THE TRUTH OF THIS PHRASE COMMUNICATES WHEN PEOPLE CONSISTENTLY AND REPEATEDLY ABANDON GOD, HE WILL ABANDON THEM.

* AND HE ACCOMPLISHED INDIRECTLY AND DIRECTLY.

** INDIRECTLY BY REMOVING HIS RESTRAINT AND ALLOWING PEOPLE’S SINS TO RUN IT’S INEVITABLE COURSE DOWNWARD.

*** AND DIRECTLY BY SPECIFIC ACTS OF DIVINE JUDGMENT AND PUNISHMENT AS WE JUST READ ABOUT IN JOHN 12:38-40.

**** AND QUITE FRANKLY AS WE GO BACK TO REVELATION 9:20 GOD GAVE THESE PEOPLE OVER TO WHAT THEY WANTED.

(4) AND SPECIFICALLY IN V. 20, “TO THE WORK OF THEIR HANDS.”

* AND THAT PHRASE IS USED THROUGHOUT THE BIBLE TO REFERS TO IDOLS, IT STANDS FOR IDOLATRY.

** AND AT THIS POINT OF THE TRIBULATION, THE LIFESTYLE OF PEOPLE IS SO CONNECTED AND INTERTWINED WITH IDOLATRY THAT THEY FOUND IT IMPOSSIBLE TO REPENT AND GIVE IT UP.

*** IN FACT, THE PREPOSITION “OF”, “THEY DID NOT REPENT OF” IS EK IN THE GREEK MEANING “OUT OF”, “FROM”, “BY” AND “AWAY FROM.”

**** MEANING: THEY REPENTED NOT OUT OF THE WORKS OF THEIR HANDS. THEY REFUSED TO ABANDON THEIR LIFESTYLES.

(5) AND INTERESTING TO ME, THE SAME PREPOSITION WITH THE SAME FORCE IS REPEATED IN V. 21 BEFORE EACH OF “MURDERS”, “SORCERIES”, “IMMORALITY” AND “THEFTS.”

* FOR YOU SEE THE CONNECTION IS FORSAKING OF IDOLATRY IN V. 20 WOULD HAVE DEALT WITH THE WHOLE PROBLEM OF MORALITY IN V. 21.

** AND BY THE WAY, WHO IS BEHIND IDOLATRY?

*** WELL, THE ANSWER IS DEMONS. FOR TO WORSHIP ANY IDOL OR FALSE DEITY IS IN FACT TO WORSHIP DEMONS!

**** AND THE SCRIPTURAL SUPPORT FOR THIS IS GIVEN IN THE O.T. AND THE N.T.

(6) FOR EXAMPLE, IN I CORINTHIANS 10:20, PAUL DECLARES THAT: “THE THINGS WHICH THE GENTILES SACRIFICE, THEY SACRIFICE TO DEMONS.”

* I TIMOTHY 4:1 SAYS: (READ IT)

** AND DOCTRINE OF DEMONS IS NOT TEACHING ABOUT DEMONS, BUT FALSE TEACHING THAT ORIGINATES FROM THEM, WHICH CAN TAKE FORM IN IDOLATRY.

*** NOW IN THE O.T., DEUTERONOMY 32:17 SAYS: “THEY SACRIFICED TO DEMONS WHO WERE NOT GOD, TO GODS WHOM THEY HAVE NOT KNOWN, NEW GODS WHO CAME LATELY, WHOM YOUR FATHERS DID NOT DREAD.”

**** THEN IN PSALM 106:37 & 38 IT SAYS:

V. 37 – THEY EVEN SACRIFICED THEIR SONS AND THEIR DAUGHTERS TO THE DEMONS,

V. 38 – AND SHED INNOCENT BLOOD, THE BLOOD OF THEIR SONS AND THEIR DAUGHTERS, WHOM THEY SACRIFICED TO THE IDOLS OF CANAAN; AND THE LAND WAS POLLUTED WITH THE BLOOD.

(7) BEYOND THAT ONE SCHOLAR I WAS STUDYING COMMUNICATED THAT IN THE SEPTUAGINT (THE GREEK TRANSLATION OF THE O.T.) RENDERING OF PSALM 96:5 SAYS: “ALL THE GODS OF THE PEOPLE ARE DEMONS.”

* SO DEMONS AND SATAN ARE BEHIND ALL FORMS OF IDOLATRY INCLUDING IN REVELATION 9:20 “IDOLS OF GOLD AND OF SILVER AND OF BRASS AND OF STONE AND OF WOOD, WHICH CAN NEITHER SEE NOR HEAR NOR WALK.”

** AND THE LAST PHRASE, “WHICH CAN NEITHER SEE NOR HEAR NOR WALK” EXPRESSES THE FOLLY OF IDOLATRY, THE SENSELESSNESS OF IDOLATRY, IT IS STUPID, THEY ARE NOT ALIVE, THEY ARE NOT REAL IN THAT SENSE.

*** AND YOU MIGHT BE THINKING, RAY, I DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW EDUCATED SOPHISTICATED PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE WILL BE INVOLVED IN THIS KIND OF IDOLATRY, IN NON-CIVILIZED COUNTRY, YES, BUT IN CIVILIZED PLACES?

**** WELL, BEYOND WORSHIP, THE IDOL OF MONEY-GOLD AND SILVER AND MATERIAL THINGS, STONE AND WOOD, PEOPLE TODAY IN FALSE RELIGIONS WORSHIP IDOLS FROM BUDDHAS TO IMAGES AND ICONS IN CHURCHES TO COWS.

(8) AND AT A FUTURE TIME IN WORLD HISTORY, IDOLATRY, MYSTICISM, SPIRITISM AND SATANISM, AND ALL OTHER FORMS OF FALSE MAN-MADE IDOLATRY AND RELIGION WILL BECOME MORE PANDEMIC AS DEMONS HAVE MORE FREEDOM TO LEAD PEOPLE INTO FALSE RELIGION.

* AND WHETHER IT BE BUDDHISM, TAOSIM, SHINTOISM, HINDUISM, OR THE ORTHODOX CHURCH TODAY WITH ITS ICONS OF GOLD, SILVER AND BRASS OR THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WITH ITS STATUES AND IMAGES, AND WORSHIP AND VENERATION OF MARY, IDOLATRY WILL CONTINUE TO INCREASE.

** AND AT THIS POINT OF THE TRIBULATION IN REVELATION 9:20 IT WILL BE PANDEMIC.

*** AND BELOVED THE REACTION OF THE SURVIVORS HERE IS THEY DO NOT REPENT, AND THESE SURVIVORS WILL NOT WIN A MILLION DOLLARS AS THEY DO ON THE SURVIVOR T.V. SHOW, WHICH I DO NOT WATCH, BUT THESE SURVIVORS WILL EVENTUALLY DIE AND BE CONDEMNED TO HELL.

**** WHY? FOR THEY DO NOT REPENT.

(9) AND THIS REPETITIOUS TRUTH IS FOUND IN V. 21 IN ANOTHER FORM, WHICH LEADS US TO OUR 2’D POINT TODAY, THE REPETITION. LOOK AT V. 21 PLEASE.

II. THE REPETITION, (READ V. 21)

A. NOW THE REPETITION IS “THEY DID NOT REPENT OF.”

* STUBBORNLY THE SURVIVORS OF THE SIXTH TRUMPET DID NOT REPENT. AND THE WORD REPENT IS THE GREEK VERB MET-A-NO-EL WHICH YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN.

** IT’S THE EXACT SAME GREEK WORD USED IN V. 20 AND YOU CAN SEE IT’S MEANING AND IT IS USED 34 TIMES IN THE N.T.

*** SO TO TRULY REPENT, TO TURN, TO CHANGE YOUR MIND WHICH CHANGE’S ONE’S BEHAVIOR, IT IS A GODLY SORROW OVER SIN THAT IS COMMITTED ULTIMATELY AGAINST A HOLY GOD.

**** AND ALL SIN IS ULTIMATELY AGAINST GOD, BUT IN A SENSE THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF SINS – THOSE DIRECTED AGAINST GOD SUMMARIZED IN THE FIRST FOUR OF THE 10 COMMANDMENTS.

1. AND SINS AGAINST OTHER HUMAN BEINGS SUMMARIZED IN THE LAST SIX OF THE 10 COMMANDMENTS.

* AND IN V. 20 WE HAVE THE SURVIVORS BREAKING THE 2’D COMMANDMENT IN THEIR IDOLATRY.

** AND HERE IN V. 21 MURDER VIOLATES THE SIXTH COMMANDMENT, SEXUAL IMMORALITY VIOLATES THE SEVENTH COMMANDMENT AND THEFTS VIOLATE THE EIGHTH COMMANDMENT.

*** AND AGAIN ALL SIN IS AN ACT OF REBELLION AGAINST GOD, THE SIN IN V. 20, IDOLATRY IS A SIN DIRECTED AGAINST GOD, WHEREAS THE SINS IN V. 21 ARE DIRECTED AGAINST OTHERS, AGAINST OUR NEIGHBORS, OTHER HUMAN BEINGS.

**** AND IDOLATRY LEADS TO IMMORALITY AND THE OTHER SOCIAL SINS THAT FOLLOW.

2. AND THE FIRST SIN IN V. 21 AGAINST MANKIND IS MURDER. AND WHENEVER THE INFLUENCE OF THE GOSPEL IS NOT APPLIED, HUMAN LIFE IS CHEAP.

* FOR THE INFLUENCE OF THE GOSPEL ENABLES US TO SEE THE SANCTITY OF LIFE, TO VALUE HUMAN LIFE WHETHER IN THE WORLD OR OUT OF THE WORLD.

** AND OBVIOUSLY MURDER WILL BE RAMPANT AT THIS TIME. THE DEVALUATION OF HUMAN LIFE WILL PERMEATE SOCIETY.

*** NO. 2 THE SIN OF SORCERY IS THE NEXT SIN TALKED ABOUT HERE, AND THE GREEK WORD USED HERE IS FARM-A-KAY-A WHICH YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN, A GREEK WORD FROM WHICH OUR ENGLISH WORD PHARMACY AND PHARMACEUTICALS DERIVE.

**** AND THIS WORD IS CONNECTED WITH THE DECEPTIONS AND SEDUCTIONS OF IDOLATRY. AND DRUGS WERE AND STILL ARE USED TO INDUCE A PERVERTED HIGHER RELIGIOUS STATE OF COMMUNION WITH DEITIES LINKED TO THE OCCULT AND FALSE RELIGIONS.

3. AND PEOPLE WILL DIVE DEEPER INTO THE SATANIC TRAPPINGS OF FALSE RELIGION USING DRUGS TO GET A RELIGIOUS HIGH. THERE WILL BE A WIDESPREAD USE OF DRUGS FOR EVIL PURPOSES.

* MOVING ON, NO. 3, THE THIRD SIN TALKED ABOUT HERE IS IMMORALITY OR FORNICATION, THE GREEK WORD POR-NI-AH, WHICH YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN.

** AND THIS GREEK WORD IS THE ROOT WORD OF THE ENGLISH WORD PORNOGRAPHY.

*** AND IT LIT. IS A GENERAL TERM DESCRIBING SEXUAL SIN OF EVERY VANITY. AND WE KNOW HOW BAD THINGS ARE NOW IN THIS AREA, BUT IT WILL GET WORSE AS THE IDOL OF SEX IS WORSHIPPED AND SEXUAL PERVERSIONS WILL BE RUNNING RAMPANT IN THAT DAY.

**** AND THEN FINALLY THESE SURVIVORS WILL REFUSE TO REPENT OF THE SIN OF THEFT.

4. AND LIKE MORALITY, HONESTY AND INTEGRITY WILL BE RARE, AND AS PEOPLE HAVE TO DEAL WITH FOOD AND WATER THAT WILL BE SCARCE AS A RESULT OF THE JUDGMENTS THAT PRECEDE THE 6TH TRUMPET.

* CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT SHORTAGES WILL DO IN AMERICA ALONE? PEOPLE WILL STEAL AND KILL EACH OTHER OVER A BOTTLE OF WATER OR A GALLON OF MILK.

IN WRAP UP: (1) AT THIS FUTURE TIME OF GREAT TRIBULATION, UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE MASSIVE FORCES OF DEMONS, OUR WORLD WILL DESCEND INTO A PIT AND THE SCOURGE OF FALSE RELIGION, MURDER, SEXUAL PERVERSION AND CRIME UNPARALLELED IN HUMAN HISTORY.

* I CONTINUE TO SAY IT, BUT IT WILL BE A TERRIBLE TIME.

** AND THE MOST FRIGHTENING THING ABOUT REVELATION 9 IS NOT THE JUDGMENTS THAT GOD SENDS BUT THE SINS THAT PEOPLE PERSIST IN COMMITTING EVEN WHILE GOD IS JUDGING THEM.

*** DEAD SINNERS WILL PERSIST IN WORSHIPPING DEAD DEITIES, GOLD, SILVER, BRASS, WOOD AND STONE AND THEY WILL NOT REPENT.

**** AND TWO THINGS IN APPLICATION. NO. 1 JUDGMENT IS COMING IN TIME AND FOREVER WITHOUT CHRIST AND WE MUST FAITHFULLY PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL.

***** AND IN DOING THAT WE MUST CALL PEOPLE TO REPENT, TO TURN FROM SIN.

(2) WE CANNOT BE INVOLVED IN GOSPEL PRESENTATIONS THAT LEAVE OUT REPENTANCE. WE MUST CALL PEOPLE TO REPENTANCE WHICH IS THE NEGATIVE ASPECT OF FAITH AND THE POSITIVE IS TURNING TO CHRIST (TURNING FROM SIN TO CHRIST.)

* AND IN TRUE BIBLICAL REPENTANCE THERE WILL BE 3 THINGS THAT OCCUR, AS GOD DOES A WORK OF GRACE UPON THE SINNER’S HEART.

** NO. 1 CONVICTION – WHERE SIN IS ADMITTED.

*** NO. 2 CONTRITION – WHERE SIN IS ABHORRED OR HATED.

**** AND NO. 3 CONVERSION – WHERE SIN IS ABANDONED, FOR GENUINE REPENTANT FAITH INVOLVES THE FORSAKING OF SIN.

(3) AND REPENTANCE IS A GIFT OF GOD’S GRACE. REPENTANCE IS A SAVING GRACE WROUGHT IN THE HEART OF A SINNER BY THE WORD OF GOD AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD.

* AND IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO CALL PEOPLE TO REPENTANCE, MAY WE NOT BE ASHAMED OF THE GOSPEL, BUT PROCLAIM IT THE WAY IT IS COMMUNICATED BIBLICALLY.

** NO. 2, YOU MAY BE THINKING TODAY, I DON’T LIKE THIS GOD OF WRATH, I DON’T LIKE THAT HE GIVES PEOPLE OVER TO THEIR SINS AND JUDICIALLY HARDENS HEARTS.

*** AND THE REASON FOR A RESPONSE LIKE THIS IS NOT KNOWING THE GOD OF SCRIPTURE AND UNDERSTANDING HIS HOLY CHARACTER, WHICH COMES FROM A LACK OF READING AND STUDYING THE WORD OF GOD.

**** BELOVED, AS LUTHER SAID TO ERASMUS IN ONE OF HIS LETTERS TO HIM, “YOUR THOUGHTS OF GOD ARE TOO HUMAN.”

(4) AND BECAUSE OF A FAMINE OF THE WORD IN OUR LAND TODAY, THE GOD THAT IS BEING PRESENTED IS TOO SMALL!

* AS A. W. PINK SAID: “THE GOD OF THIS 20TH CENTURY NO MORE RESEMBLES THE SUPREME SOVEREIGN OF HOLY WRIT THAN DOES THE DIM FLICKERING OF A CANDLE THE GLORY OF THE MIDDAY SUN.”

** AND BROTHERS, MAY WE BE DRIVEN TO THE WORD OF GOD, FOR THE STUDY OF GOD, SO THAT WE WILL HAVE THE MIND OF GOD.

*** MAY WE STUDY HIS HOLINESS, HIS LOVE, HIS MERCY, HIS JUSTICE, HIS GRACE AND HIS WRATH.

**** AND MAY WE HAVE GREAT THOUGHTS OF HIM, WHICH WILL LEAD TO SMALL THOUGHTS OF OURSELVES.

(5) MAY OUR GREAT GOD BE MAGNIFIED IN THE WORD AND IN OUR LIVES.