Seven Last Plagues Part 2: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:02 Romans 8:38: “I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers shall separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” So is there spiritual powers? Are they trying to separate us? Can they? No. When you’re born again and you’re really committed to Christ, you’re not going to backslide. You might fall and you might fail and goof up and go through a cold season or a dumb time, but that Spirit that you’ve been born with is going to pick you back up. It’s going to convict you, it’s going to agitate you until you get back to being a son of the living God. See, that’s the difference between religion and reality. Some people are just thinking in their head they’re Christians, when it’s got to be a birthing of the heart.

▶ 1:05 Acts 8:10: “To whom they gave heed” (this is Simon the sorcerer) and they respected him, they regarded this man, saying, “This man is the great power of God,” for he bewitched them with his what? Sorceries. See, we have a guy there that had the kingdom of darkness power upon him, and he tricked the people, bewitched the people, put them under his spell to think that he was what? God. Doesn’t it say that Satan disguises himself as an angel of light and his ministers disguise themselves as ministers of righteousness? And so these people think he’s God. He’s not God; he’s on the side of the enemy. Amen. So we have an illustration of it right in the Bible, how the principalities and powers can influence a human being with their doctrine, with their supernatural limited power. It is what? Limited. Are you with me?

▶ 2:16 Luke 10:19: “I give you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy.” This word power is not the same as that power. This word power is authority; this word power is supernatural. And we have what? Authority over the power, the supernatural power of Satan and the kingdom of darkness. Us believers have authority over them. So can a real believer be possessed with a demon? No way. That’s not in the Bible. Why? Jesus lives in us. Who’s the top power in the whole universe? Jesus Christ. How is the demon going to overpower him? Wake up, church! You are much more powerful than you know you are, because who lives within you? Hallelujah.

▶ 3:21 Now let’s take a look at Egypt’s plagues here. Seven of the 10 plagues used in Egypt, when God went down to plague Egypt and get his people out, are used in Revelation: the water to blood, the locusts, the boils, the hail, the darkness, the death of the firstborn, the frogs. And the people of God were still where? On earth, weren’t they? They didn’t get raptured; they were still on earth. Most of them would not what? Repent. Isn’t that true, including Pharaoh? Just wouldn’t repent, after all these signs and all this. The sorcerers did signs. Remember, they weren’t doing anything till Moses came along, and then Moses came along changing a rod to a snake, and then they changed their rod to a snake. Never did that before. Why? Because God gave them limited power to do it at that time. They can only do what God limits them to do.

▶ 4:40 So they turn water to blood. Did they need more snakes? No, they needed to get rid of Moses’s snake. Did they need more blood? No, they needed to turn the water back to clear water, but they couldn’t. Why? ‘Cause God wouldn’t allow it. But he allowed them to change more water to blood; that isn’t what they needed. Are you there? And then they brought frogs up. Moses brought frogs up, and so the sorcerers, they brought frogs up. Did they need more frogs? No, they wanted to get rid of the frogs. Moses, I mean Pharaoh, asked them, “Get rid of the frogs,” Moses. So the sorcerers are getting more of what they want to get rid of, and even though they had limited supernatural powers, it was working what? Against them, and it was obvious that they had no power at all.

▶ 5:46 Now, they had two witnesses. Who were their two witnesses? Moses and Aaron. We got two witnesses in Revelation. We don’t know who they are. Some people say it’s, you know, Elijah and Enoch or whatever; you’re just dreaming. We don’t know who those two witnesses are, and neither did Egypt know who the two witnesses, I mean Israel, going to be when God brought them out of Egypt. They didn’t know until they came along. Now, over in Egypt, the land creatures died, and in Revelation the sea creatures are dying. Plants are destroyed by hail and locusts versus hail and fire in Revelation. Now, the seal on God’s people was the blood on the door in Egypt. Isn’t that right? If you had the blood on the door, you were sealed; the death angel couldn’t touch you. Now, what was the mark of the Egyptians? No seal, no blood on the door. The death angel came right in. See, the mark of the beast got punished back there just like in Revelation. Are you with me? Does that help clear things up? Yes. Hallelujah.

▶ 7:17 Now, Revelation 4, Revelation 8, Revelation 11 and Revelation 16 says the same statement, and the statement is this: “Out of the throne proceeded lightning, thunderings and voices.” Remember, when we look this up in the Bible, when in the Old Testament God brought thunderings and lightning and voices and smoke kind of out his nose, he was what? Rising to avenge, protect his people. Hallelujah! Aren’t you glad you got a God that isn’t sitting up there asleep? Folks, we got a lot more promises from God than we really understand, because preachers for years have gotten us away from this stuff. Now, the first voice is after the churches and before the seals. The second time it’s used is after the seals and before the trumpets. The next time it’s used is after the trumpets and before the bowls, and then it’s used after the bowls, and it’s the same statement. See, God is what? Avenging his people. He’s moving in the earth, in his church, in the seals, in the trumpets, not necessarily chronological order; just he’s there for you every, what? Generation. You lived in my dad, my grandpa, my great-great-grandpa, whatever generation it was, all the way back to the beginning, God is there ready to rise up for you who put your trust in him. Hallelujah. And he’s going to be there at the end. Ain’t that powerful?

▶ 9:17 Now, okay, here we got the rapture. You notice the curve goes halfway down and back up. Can’t have Jesus coming and everybody seeing him, because there’s too many scriptures that says that’s not it. So we have this little... I call it the Jehovah Witness thing: after the Jehovah Witness missed so much, they said, “Well, God, it just happened in the heavenlies.” Okay, so us fundamentalists and Spirit-filled people and all that, that goes for this rapture doctrine; we have a little short, a little shortcoming here. All right, then they got the seals, and then they got the trumpets, and then they got the temple being rebuilt. That is the most dumbest thing I ever heard of. If you really read your Bible, there is temples have been done with since Jesus came. It plainly says he doesn’t dwell in temples made with hands; he doesn’t care about temples made with hands. He was always after a people. Amen. He’s not interested in Crystal Cathedral and all their, you know, glorified things that are pleasing to the flesh, or any kind of [unclear] building like that. He’s interested in you being elaborately adorned in righteousness, putting on the image of Jesus.

▶ 10:40 Hallelujah. And then the great tribulation. My, my, my. And then they got the bowls separated here. Here’s a real problem: they got the bowls separated from this trumpet. The bowls are part of the seventh trumpet, just like the seven trumpets are part of the seventh seal. It’s all one big thing. But see, when we come up with ideas, we got to stretch things to make it work. And then they have the second coming here, and of course the Jews are going to be persecuted. Does God favor the Jews over the smallest nation and culture in the earth? No, folks. We are his sheep, and the people of what? His pasture, all of us. You know, why do we want to take industrial nations and make them something in prophecies, when God is interested in all nations? He’s interested in the people on the islands of the seas. No one is insignificant to him. Can that be an amen?

▶ 11:57 Amen. And no culture or race or whatever is above another in God’s eyes. He loves and cares for them all, and he’s speaking to them all. So he’s not going to penalize Russians because they’re Russian, and these theory people want Russia to come down and attack Jerusalem. Are you with me? Now, this is how God got my attention as a young minister. He said, “David, you’re going to judge and condemn all Russians because they’re Russians, trying to fit it into your little feebleminded idea of what’s going to happen?” And right quick I got the message: you’re not condemned because you’re a Russian. Amen. God’s talking about spiritual things. I mean, I know there’s people in Russia that still believe; they laid down their life. Millions of people lost their life in Russia because they were Christian, especially the Christian Ukrainians. Stalin just went in and slaughtered them, took their churches and everything.

▶ 13:19 Now, here is a basic and true illustration called the traditional view. You notice how the seals wind up over the trumpets, and the trumpet is over the bowls? That’s exactly how it’s written, folks. This is one thing. Hallelujah. When you get the seven years of tribulation out and all this nonsense, this is the picture you have. Hallelujah.

▶ 13:53 Now, deception. There’s three sources of deception. Okay, how many? First one, Revelation 18:23. We hit her last week. I went forward and drove a lesson back so I could preach this on Mother’s Day, and now we’re going back to the lesson before it. “She deceived the nations by her sorceries.” What was Simon doing in the book of Acts, deceiving the people by his what? Sorceries. He had limited supernatural power to make people think he’s God. He’s the real deal. Now, Revelation 19:20: “The beast and the false prophet doing signs deceive them that received the mark and worshiped his image.” The Christians don’t get deceived here; they’re not fooled. It doesn’t say all people here. Hallelujah. And then you got Satan, the devil, that deceived all nations, cast into the lake of fire where the beast and false prophet are being tormented forever.

▶ 15:28 Okay, these are the three areas of deception. Satan comes to tempt you, to test you, to try to get you to do something that you know you shouldn’t be doing, like Jesus, you know, “Make these stones bread.” Well, Jesus didn’t have to make them bread. See, you know, “Jump off this pinnacle, and boy, if you land safely, then we know you’re God.” You know, us Christians don’t have to prove anything. And “I’ll give you all the nations and all the wealth of the nations if you just worship me.” See, so he comes and tests us with possessions, with position; he comes and tests us with, you know, extremeness in religion. I heard a preacher once say that, “Hey God, you got to prove to me yourself: you move that statue on my mantle over,” and that statue moved. I go, “Man, you’re full of baloney.” That’s testing, tempting God, and the Bible tells us not to do that. We know he’s God because of the Spirit that dwells within us. Isn’t that what it says? That’s the witness.

▶ 16:44 And if he never does nothing, like Job said, “Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.” If everything goes bad for us, it doesn’t matter; we know in ourself that Jesus is God and we love him and we’re going to serve him no matter what. But if you don’t have that, you’re going to fall for his tricks. The Bible says we are not ignorant of his devices. Now, how does this woman deceive the whole world? It’s simple: it’s this faith and grace doctrine for eternal life without any accountability to a restrained lifestyle. “Man, I can go to heaven and live any way I want.” “Okay, sign me up, sign me up.” And do you know how many sinners believe they’re going to heaven because of grace and faith and no lifestyle? “Well, that sounds good. I can just do what I want, I’m going to heaven.” That’s how she deceives them.

▶ 17:45 And she’s with the other religions. You know, in the Muslim religion, if you’re a good woman and you obey your husband to every detail, you get to go to heaven. Well, that’s great for the husband; how does the husband go to heaven? Does he have to obey his wife in every detail? It’s ridiculous. And so you got these women over there as slaves; they’re just merchandise, trying to earn their way to heaven. Are you there? See, religion does that: they offer you eternal life, something after death that is false. No requirement, no accountability. You can treat your neighbor any way you want, you can divorce your wife, you can step on her, and, you know, you just live what you want, you’ll still go to heaven. Folks, that’s the big lie, and it’s big in America. Hallelujah.

▶ 18:47 How does the beast and the false prophet deceive people? Well, you remember the beast here came out of the sea. This woman came out of where? The bottomless pit, Satan’s kingdom. See, Satan is king of the bottomless pit, but this beast is what? Came out of the nations; came out of the earth, came out of the people. Now, they’re always talking about Christians prophesying and false prophets. Let me tell you, science is one of the biggest sources of false prophecies there is: secular reasoning. Secular means non-spiritual, without God. All right, science in modern days have done miraculous things. They put a man on the moon, who, rockets going into the universe, atomic power, atomic weapons, heart transplants, medicines that gives us a much longer life and a healthier life through science. The word science means the study of physical things; it’s knowledge. It’s not some super-duper word that makes them a guru; it’s just knowledge. Knowledge has made the airplane, the computer, the internet. Knowledge exposed superstition. You know, 100 years ago there was ridiculous superstitions. Then science exposed all that.

▶ 20:32 So we see a supernatural power there. See, and God said in Daniel that in the last days knowledge will what? Increase. And we see it. So we know we’re in the last days because of the increase of what? Knowledge, not because of wars and rumors of wars; those things will always be. Now, but science also has false prophets. Evolution is a false teaching. They don’t have any evidence for it; they cannot back it up. And yet they propagate it on the people because they want to undermine the Bible and they want to get out from under the moral standards of the Bible. You read the history when these things were discovered: and remember, black people, when Darwin come up with this thing, were going to be eradicated from the earth. They came, you know, they were the link between the monkey and the white man. Are you guys aware of this? See, that was a what? False prophecy. It’s right in his book; I’m not making it up. Women had the brain of a child; that’s what he said. They could rise no higher than the brain of a child, with their silly giddy. And now we got women ruling nations. See, that’s false prophecy. Are you there? I mean, you know, the Bible says that God made from one blood all nations. Absolutely. We didn’t come from no monkey.

▶ 22:35 Hallelujah. Yeah, that’s good stuff. And you people in college and all that, you need to be reading that Bible, because they’re going to distort your thinking. Creation, the Big Bang theory is exactly what it is: it’s a theory. They weren’t there to observe it. They just keep lying and they keep changing the lie. The more they investigate, the older the earth’s got to be so they can fit it into, you know, their plan. So the earth started with just a few million years old, now it’s billions of years old since I was introduced to evolution as a teenager, ‘cause they got to fit this stuff in, so they just spread it out longer. False prophecy, and people are gullible and they’re following it, but not the people of the book. You notice the people of the book aren’t affected. Why? They got the truth. They not only got the truth in the Bible, they possess the truth: Jesus is the truth in their life, and they reject these things.

▶ 23:44 Their end-of-the-world theories have all missed. “Homosexuals born that way” is a big lie. “The embryo is not a human being,” another big false prophecy. The Ice Age that was supposed to come in the 1970s never appeared. Now they turned us into a hothouse age, which will not appear. See, they forget that God, we, with secular reasoning, forgets that God’s in control of things. Hallelujah. And I can tell you there’s not going to be a melting of the ice caps, because it would flood the world, and the Bible says that Jesus would never flood the world again. Didn’t it? And see, God’s people, people of the book, don’t fall for the secular reasoning. They stand on truth, and in the end they win, because the secular reasoning people come up at the short end, and so they got to rethink and they got to come up with a new idea, and then they called it, “Well, that’s just the mistake we made, now we’ve got the real truth.” Then a few years later this real truth is another mistake. “Well, now we got the real truth.” And that’s the way they work. Are you out there? That’s the sources of deception: it is religion, it is secular reasoning, and then it is Satan himself coming to tempt you.