Turn with me again to Revelation
chapter 8. Revelation chapter 8. This morning we looked. The seventh
seal was opened. No revelation was given for about
a half hour. Seven angels were given seven
trumpets. Another angel, the Lord Jesus
Christ, came up and stood before the altar. He had a golden censer full of
incense, and with that incense he offered the prayers of the
saints before the throne of God. And the smoke of the incense
came with the prayers of the saints, and it ascended up before
God out of the angels' hands, that is, of the Lord Jesus Christ. After, in verse 5, the angel,
Christ Himself, took the censer and filled it with fire of the
altar and cast it into the earth. And there were voices and thunderings
and lightnings and earthquakes. After the Lord Jesus Christ has
said all that is going to be said concerning mercy and grace,
there is one thing that is left. judgment for all found outside
of him. Picking up in verse six, and
the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves
to sound. I'll remind you that these trumpets
that will sound are the trumpets that A. sound forth the judgment
of Almighty God. But also in that trumpet we hear
for the believer the sound of freedom and liberty and jubilee
because the Lord Himself has put away their guilt. There is not a believer that
sits in this congregation this evening or any other place where
the gospel of free grace is preached that will not admit the sound
of the gospel that goes out is a sound of warning to all that
believe not. It's the warning. Bow to Him. Kiss the Son lest He be angry. but in the sound of that same
gospel. To one, it's death unto death. It's death now and it will be
death then. But to the other, it's life unto
life. It's life now and it will be
life then. Same gospel, same trumpet, same
warning, same liberty. So these angels, they have These
seven trumpets, judgment is sure. Freedom is sure. The saints are
sealed. So, they're in the world, but
they're not of the world. John 17, 15 says, the Lord praying,
He said, I pray not that thou shouldest take them, that is,
all that the Father had given Him, I pray not that thou shouldest
take them out of the world, but thou shouldest keep them from
the evil, from the evil of the world's influence, that is, the
evil of the world's religion, and the judgment that shall surely
fall upon the world's religion. As I've said before, this world
was created by God Almighty. It's good. That's what he said.
He saw it. He said, this is good. But the
religion of this world from the fall of Adam, that is absolutely
rebellion against Almighty God and that is what the Lord Jesus
Christ prayed that His people would be kept from. And the sounding
of these trumpets that's getting ready to take place in verse
7, we learn some glorious truths. We must remember that though
specific events that have taken place in this world are absolutely
and definitely included in judgment, it is a dangerous thing to apply
specific historical events to Scripture when that event is
not specifically named. And this is what I'm saying.
We're going to begin reading some things that's happened.
These trumpets are going to sound. We're going to see some things
that are going on and some symbolic things that's going to happen.
And someone might say, well, I know what that is. That had
to be Hitler. That had to be the Third Reich.
That had to be this. How do you know? How do you know
that? I don't doubt for one second
that things that have happened in the past, in the present,
there's Saddam Hussein. That's got to be Iraq right there.
That talks about oil and that's got to be, see, that's an economic
fall. That's the Byzantine era. That's Constantinople right there,
no doubt of it. How do you know? But the truth
of what's being set forth in these judgments, that's what
we know for sure. Now there are some things in
one of these judgments, in the last one, that I can absolutely
say, based on Scripture, that we know exactly what was being
spoken of. But there are some things that
if the Spirit of God doesn't reveal exactly a specific event,
then we need to be very careful what we start naming that. It says in verse 7, The first
angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood. And they were cast upon the earth,
and the third part of the trees was burnt up, and all green grass
was burnt up." Now, we learn from this first trumpet, now
here is judgment. poured out on this earth. There's
no doubt about that. The judgment of God. It was prepared. It was ready. The Lord says,
don't send it until all the servants of God are sealed. Don't do it. Before these trumpets sounded,
the Lord Jesus Christ came up and took incense with the prayers
of the saints That's what the Scripture says, and offered it
unto God. And they were accepted on the
merit of His blood and His righteousness. Now, here they are. They've been
sealed by the Lord Himself. They have the name of God written
on their foreheads, in their foreheads, in their minds. And
their prayers have been offered unto God and have been heard
and accepted based on the merit. of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now,
judgment falls. That first judgment, hail, fire
mingled with blood. Here's the first thing we know,
and here's the first truth that we know. This is why I say it's
hard and dangerous to name an event. Like I say, that exactly
is speaking of blank in history. You don't know that. But let
me tell you what you do know. You know that God's sealed ones
are protected from judgment. This judgment reminds us of the
plagues that we heard and read about in Egypt. I want you to
turn over to Exodus 9. Exodus chapter 9. The Scripture
says that that first judgment fell. Fire, hail mingled with
blood. Exodus chapter 9 verse 22. This is the truth that is being set forth in that
first judgment. In Exodus 9 and verse 22, the
Scripture says, And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch forth
thine hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the
land of Egypt upon man and upon beast, upon every herb of the
field throughout the land of Egypt. And Moses stretched forth
his rod toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and
the fire ran along the ground, and the Lord rained hail upon
the land of Egypt. So there was hail and fire mingled
with the hail, very grievous, such as there was none like it
in all the land of Egypt, since it became a nation. And the hail
smoked throughout all the land of Egypt, all that was in the
field, both man and beast, and the hail smote every herb of
the field, and break every tree of the field." Now hold your
finger right there. Here's the first thing we know.
All that is found out in the open without a covering, not
in the cleft of the rock, no protection, no atonement, every
one found without an atonement, a covering, is smoked under the
judgment of God. They were all out in the open.
When Noah went in the ark and the judgment of God fell on this
earth, only those in the ark were not harmed. Only those. This is the first truth. Hold
your place in Exodus. But this is the truth. When that
first angel sounded, hail and fire mingled with blood, what
that truth is said without a substitute, without a covering. without a
mediator, without Christ, a man is under the judgment of God. But I want you to look at the
next verse, 26 in Exodus 9. Only in the land of Goshen, where
the children of Israel were, was there no hell. Only were
God's people, God's elect, God's sealed, sealed in their foreheads. That's what's pictured here.
So the judgment, the first judgment that's poured out says this,
without a substitute, without being hidden in Christ, holding
your finger there, look back at verse 18 of Exodus 9, 18 to
21. The Scripture says, the Lord
speaking, He says, Behold, tomorrow, about this time, I will cause
it to rain a very grievous hail such as hath not been in Egypt
since the foundation thereof even until now. Send therefore
now, gather thy cattle and all that thou hast in the field.
For upon every man and beast which shall be found in the field,
and shall not be brought home, the hail shall come down upon
them, and they shall die. He that feared the word of the
Lord among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle
flee into the houses." You see what I'm saying? God Almighty
has not left His people to themselves. He has sent this Gospel right
here, and He has warned His people and gave them a heart to believe
it. He's told them, this is what
shall happen. So when this judgment back in
Revelation chapter 8, when that first angel sounded his trumpet,
and the hail and fire fell from heaven." What it's saying is
this, judgment is upon all found without a substitute. But in
Revelation chapter 11, turn over to Revelation 11 and verse 8,
the Scripture sets forth something else that we Find out. It says in verse 8 of chapter
11 of Revelation, "...and their dead bodies..." We'll deal with
this fully as we get to it. "...their dead bodies shall lie
in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom
and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified." Verse 8 in Revelation
11 gives us some insight into what this judgment actually was. Sodom and Egypt represent the
wicked, persecuting, and oppressing world of false religion and rebellion
against God's people. Now, the people of God were in
Egypt. There are two instances that
we read of. fire fell from heaven and rained
upon a place." Sodom and Egypt. Sodom, if you remember, was inhabited
by homosexuals. That vein of thinking, homosexuality,
is this. It's, I love a relationship that
cannot produce life. That's what it is. Two men are
two women, and homosexuality is wrong. It's wrong. I don't
care what anybody says. The Scriptures is clear on it.
I'm not here to preach against homosexuality, but I'm going
to tell you right now, you know it's wrong. It's wrong. It's
against Almighty God. But what is spiritually said
against that? Two men or two women don't produce
life. That is the basis of free willism. That is the belief that a dead
sinner, two men or two women, they don't have the capacity
to have a child. And free willism is absolutely
dead. So Sodom That which God rained
fire and brimstone upon Sodom for was a picture. God Almighty
is against the teaching that a man can produce something that
God said only He can do. But secondly, in Egypt, Egypt
is that which represents bondage to the people of God, that is,
sin. Spiritual bondage. from which
we must be delivered and brought out. The people of God were in
Egypt, a picture of bondage. Man, by nature, is in the bondage
of sin. Only a believer knows what it
is to be delivered from Sodom, from the thinking that he can
produce life apart from what God Almighty says only he can
do. And secondly, from Egypt, the
bondage of the soul, sin. He knows that judgment has already
been spewed out upon His substitute, and now there is no condemnation
to them that be in Christ Jesus. The judgment fell. But in Egypt,
when the judgment of God fell upon Egypt, there was a remnant
that was saved. The Lord kept that judgment from
falling upon His people. No hail fell in Goshen. In verse 8 and verse 9, that's
the first judgment, the first trumpet sounds, and we learn
that God Almighty keeps His people in the midst. It did fall, and
there were those that died. But what we learn is God keeps
them. He seals them. He protected them.
Verse 8 and 9, the second angel sounded. And as it were, a great
mountain, burning with fire, was cast into the sea. And the
third part of the sea became blood. And the third part of
the creatures that were in the sea had life, died. And the third part of the ships
were destroyed. Here we learn, and I won't go
into all of the things that this is not. It doesn't really matter
what it's not. There were many that talked about
all the maritime disasters that have ever happened were from
the judgment of God, ships that went down, this, that, and the
other. The principle. What is being taught in this
judgment? Secondly, we'll learn, and you're
going to find a pattern that is created in every judgment. It has to do with God's judgment
against man's free will, which is the result of sin and rebellion
against God, and it always manifests itself in false religion. Always. There's only two things that
are taught, Pat. Either free grace or free will. One of the two. And you can take
all of the world's religion and name them all and list every
one of them. And when it's all said and done,
they still fall under this one topic right here, free will. That's it. It's either free grace,
sovereign saving grace, God's grace, God's salvation, or it's
salvation by man's merit or by man's doing. That's the bottom
line. I've been in false religion. I know, and many of you have.
There's many of you here that grew up in this church and never
had to sit, by the grace of God, under some untruth that just
absolutely was so heinous. It was horrible. But I've sat
in different religions and I know what they teach. And I'm telling
you, there's only two teachings. But I want you to notice how
consistently the judgment is poured out. In this second sounding,
the second trumpet, it says, John saw this second angel sounded
in Israel as it were a great mountain burning with fire was
cast into the sea. Here we learn that false religion,
though great in number, is still false religion and it's going
to be cast down. This judgment is against, as
it were, a great mountain. That's what it says, great mountain.
Now I want you to turn to Jeremiah 51. This is, as I've said before,
I want to be very careful. When I make a statement by God's
grace, and I mean this sincerely, I want to make a statement based
on, and try to prove that, which I say, based on Scriptures. Because
as I've said before, anybody's got an opinion. But if I can
show in the Scriptures, number one, it'll settle my heart. And
if I'm not settled with it, I know you're not settled with it. Jeremiah
51. Jeremiah, let me get in the right
book here. Jeremiah 51, verse 24 and 25. John saw this great mountain
fall. Jeremiah 51 and verse 24. He says, And I will render unto
Babylon and all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil that
they have done in Zion in your sight, saith the Lord. Behold,
I am against thee, O destroying mountain." Here is a great mountain
that John saw cast into the sea. And the Scripture reveals in
Jeremiah 51, verse 25, that God is against thee, O destroying
mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyest all the earth And
I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down
from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain." John
said, I saw this great mountain. As that trumpet sounded, it was
like a burning with fire. And God said, I'm going to make
you, O great mountain, burn up. Here, Babylon is referred to
as a destroying mountain. That is, a mountain that destroys
all of the earth except those that are sealed, except those
that are kept by the power of God, except those that have the
name of Almighty God written in their foreheads. Now, the
question is this. If Jeremiah 51 reveals that Babylon,
Babylon, the religion of Babylon, the thinking of Babylon, the
way of Babylon is the great mountain, then what is that? What is the
way? Turn with me to Daniel chapter
4. Let's read a passage of Scripture
that we've read often. Daniel chapter 4. There was a
king named Nebuchadnezzar. The king here is going to set
forth the thinking. You know, it's the way the king
thinks. That's the way everybody's going
to think. It's the way the king thinks. Daniel chapter 4, verse
28. And this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. All this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar.
At the end of 12 months, he walked in the palace of the kingdom
of Babylon. The king spake and said, and
whatever he is getting ready to say, that is the heart of
Babylon. That is the heart of what Babylon
represents. The king spake and said, is not
this gray Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom
by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty? And while the word was in the
king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven saying, O King Nebuchadnezzar,
to thee it is spoken, the kingdom is departed from thee." What
is this great mountain that Jeremiah 51 reveals? It's Babylon. What is the very heart of Babylon
that was displayed or revealed by King Nebuchadnezzar? I'll
tell you what it is. Pride. Pride. Pride was the great exhibition
of King Nebuchadnezzar of the seven things that the Lord said
He hates. Number one, a proud look. This is what Nebuchadnezzar did.
He voiced the mountain of Babylon. Look at this great Babylon. that
I build. Look how faithful I've been. I owe all that I am to my might
and my glory. Y'all look at me. Look what I've
done. Look out. John said, I saw when
that second trumpet sounded, he said, I saw as it were a great
mountain burning with fire as it was and cast into the sea. This great mountain is the mountain
of pride that says, I will. Isaiah 14. Let me read this to you. If you
want to turn there, that's fine. It's Isaiah 14, 12. This is the
very heart whenever a man or a woman believes that they have
the ability, to place themselves in a position of right standing,
Bob, with Almighty God by their free will. They are voicing the
very heart of their Father, the Devil. Let me tell you who is
the author of free willism. The Scriptures never teach us
that a man has a free will. Isaiah 14, verse 12. How art thou fallen from heaven,
O Lucifer, son of the morning? How art thou cut down to the
ground which disweakened the nations? For thou hast said in
thine heart, I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne
above the stars of God. I will sit also upon the mount
of the congregation in the sides of the north. I will ascend above
the heights of the clouds. I will be like the Most High."
Someone says, oh, I'm not saying that man's free will is exalting
himself above God. Oh, really? How is that? You're saying that
God wants to save you. You're saying that God cannot
save you unless you make a decision. Therefore, based on that statement,
you have exalted yourself above God. You're saying that you have
the power to do what God can't do. That great mountain that
is cast into the sea, when that judgment blew, that trumpet blew,
that's the second thing that's set forth right here. God is
against. all manner of pride within man. Oh, consider the mercy of God
Almighty that in the midst of judging pride, pride in self,
pride in religion, pride in my will, that He would bring a man
to see himself and to see his need of a Savior. Saul of Tarsus
was on his way to Damascus and had in his hands, letters. It
was going to take all that who were of the way, believers, and
He was going to take them and start to bind them and bring
them and beat them and kill them and do whatever He wanted to.
And the Lord knocked him down from His pride, His high horse
of pride. He knocked him down and He said,
Saul, why are you persecuting Me? Who
are you? He said, I am Jesus whom you
are persecuting. and He broke you. And I'll tell
you this, if Almighty God has had mercy on you, He broke you
and brought you down and me down from our high horse, our pride. Judgment falls, but all that
is not within the field open, they're protected. Judgment falls
on all who's left in their pride and arrogance and see themselves
and look at themselves and say, look what I've done. That's what's
being taught. Thirdly, verse 10 and 11, the
third angel sounded. And there fell a great star from
heaven, burning as it were a lamp. And it fell upon the third part
of the rivers and upon the fountains of water. And the name of the
star is called Wormwood. And the third part of the waters
became wormwood. And many men died of the waters
because they were made bitter." In this third judgment, we learn
that unless God keeps a man faithful, faithful to Christ, he's going
to perish. We learn first that all found
outside of a substitute are going to die. We find, secondly, that
God is going to judge pride. And if He brings a man down from
his pride, God has sealed him, kept him, kept him from that.
Thirdly, we see here that unless God keeps a man faithful, that
man is going to perish. There was a great star, it says,
that fell from heaven. Now, this is not the star. If you look at verse 1 of chapter
9, the next chapter, it says, And the fifth angel sent it,
and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth, and to him was
given the key of the bottomless pit. So I know that whoever that
star is right there, that's a picture of Satan. I mean, you can read
that. It says he'd given him a key. It wasn't his. He was allowed
to have it. for just a while by God's power. But if that star right there
in verse 1 of chapter 9 is Satan, then evidently this third angel
sounded right here, and this can't be the same one. So our
question is, who is this? This star, the Scripture says,
was burning as it were a lamp. The name of this star was called
Wormwood or Bitter. Now, as a star is a symbol of
God's preachers in Revelation 1, there could be in this Scripture
here a reference to a specific one that appeared for a while
to be a faithful preacher of the gospel. It could be. that
it's not. I'm not saying, as I said at
the beginning, I'm not saying that specific events are not
taking place within that. But there's a principle that's
being taught. And that's what you have to understand.
A principle of judgment that's being set forth in these trumpets. But this third trumpet sounds
the judgment of God against all spiritual adultery. This great
star from heaven appeared to be so, from heaven, but the scripture
says it fell from heaven. The scripture sets forth that
only by the power of God are we kept from falling. It burned, the scripture says,
burning as it were. a lamp for a while, at least
as it were. It was a light. It fell from
the heavens and it fell upon a third part of the rivers and
fountains of water and many men died because they drank of this
water that was made bitter. That is what we know. Now the
name that was given to this great star is the secret to its identity. The name of this star, great
star, is called Wormwood. Turn with me to Deuteronomy 29.
Deuteronomy 29, verse 10 to 18. Deuteronomy chapter 29. Verse 10, You stand this day,
all of you, before the Lord your God, your captains of your tribes,
your elders, your officers, with all the men of Israel, your little
ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the
hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water, that thou shouldest
enter into covenant with the Lord thy God and into His oath.
which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day, that he may
establish thee today for a people unto himself, that he may be
unto thee of God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath
sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. Neither
with you only do I make this covenant and this oath, but with
him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our
God, and also with him that is not here with us this day. For
ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we
came through the nations which ye passed by. And ye have seen
their abominations and their idols, wood and stone, silver
and gold, which were among them, lest there should be among you
a man or woman or family or tribe whose heart turneth away this
day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these
nations, lest there should be among you a root that beareth
gall and wormwood. And it come to pass, when he
heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his
heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imaginations
of my heart to add drunkenness to thirst, the Lord will not
spare him. But then the anger of the Lord
and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the
curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and
the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven." Wormwood
bitterness is set forth in Deuteronomy chapter 18 that if one looks
having gone for a while and appeared as though that he was consistent. He appeared for a while that
he was a bright, shining star. He falls from heaven. His name
is Wormwood, and what it is, there is bitterness and sets
forth inconsistencies that will eventually prove itself to be
that man's heart. In Proverbs 5, verses 1 to 5, Proverbs 5, 1
to 5, My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to
mine understanding, that thou mayest regard discretion, and
that thy lips may keep knowledge. For the lips of a strange woman
drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil. But
her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death. Her
steps take hold on hell." This sets forth this woman, this adulterous
woman. I'm telling you, it's false religion. Appears for a while. Oh, surely
you don't think that all of these people, they speak of God. They speak of the Lord Jesus. They use His name. They're going
to fall. Their name is wormwood. Bitterness. And they'll fall on the rivers
and on the fountains and men that drink from those fountains,
they're going to perish because they drank of that wormwood. That bitterness. Wormwood is
descriptive of the nature and the bitter end of all who for
a while appear. to be faithful to Christ, faithful
to the Gospel. They are as the thorny ground
hearers who for a while ran or appeared to run well." You ran
well for a while. What happened? I remember so-and-so. Years I remember. I never thought
he would fall. I never thought. Never in a million
years would you ever have convinced me that he would have left. Many a corpse has laid in a coffin
with a false preacher attempting to give some hope to a grieving
family based on a profession of faith or a so-called profession
of faith made years ago followed only by obvious inconsistencies
for years and years and years. Oh, I remember when this guy
here, I remember he was about 12, 13 years old. I mean, he
made a profession of faith. I know he's backslid. He'd been
out of the church. I know he hadn't, but you know,
once saved, always saved. Let me tell you something. This
third trumpet sounded, and judgment fell. And the Scripture says,
There was a great star from heaven, or it appeared to be burning
as it were a lamp. It burned as it were a light. And it fell upon a third part
of the rivers, and upon the fountains of water. The name of that star
was Wormwood. Bitterness. Third part of the
waters became Wormwood, and many men died of the waters because
they were made bitter. And I'm going to have to stop
here. I wanted to finish this chapter. But I can't go without
leaving you with this last verse. Turn with me to Lamentations.
That's right after Jeremiah. Jeremiah, Lamentations. My question is this. Haven't we all seen inconsistencies? in ourselves. I mean, my goodness,
you don't know my heart. Oh, maybe outwardly I appear
to you, maybe you appear to me to be so consistent. And I look
and I think, oh, I'll tell you what though, he's never been
inconsistent. But you ask him. If he's honest,
he'll tell you. Oh, in my How many times have
I strayed in my heart? So my question is this. I see
where the Scripture says judgment is going to fall on all who are
actually appearing to be. But let me ask you, is there
any hope for me? Lamentations chapter 3, verses
1 to 15. I want to read these 15
verses. Lamentation 3, 1. I am the man. Now let me ask you this as we
read these last few verses. Of whom do these verses speak?
It's the Lord Jesus Himself. I am the man that has seen affliction
by the rod of His wrath. He hath led me and brought me
into darkness, but not into light. Surely against me is he turned. He turneth his hand against me
all the day. My flesh and my skin hath he
made old. He hath broken my bones. He hath
builded against me and compassed me with gall and travail. He
hath set me in dark places as they that be dead of old. He
hath hedged me about that I cannot get out. He hath made my chain
heavy. And also, when I cry and shout,
He shutteth out my prayer. He hath enclosed my ways with
hewn stone. He hath made my paths crooked.
He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret
places. He hath turned aside my ways,
pulled me in pieces. He hath made me desolate. He
has bent His bow and set me as a mark for the arrow. He has
caused the arrows of His quiver to enter into my reins. I was a derision to all my people
and their song all the day. He has filled me with bitterness. He has made me drunken with wormwood."
What is that saying? All that I deserve. All that
I am by nature. Christ said, I'm the man. I am the man that has seen affliction
by the rod of Israel. He cried out, my God, my God,
why have you forsaken me? He says in that 15th verse, He
filled me with bitterness. He made me drunken with wormwood. He was made sin that we might
be made the righteousness of God in Him. God Almighty is going
to judge wormwood, inconsistency, bitterness, unfaithfulness, and
all that I am in Adam. You listen to the words. broke me for them. I was made to be what they deserved. Wrath and judgment. So when John said, verse 10,
that third angel sounded, wormwood. All that is found outside of
the man that has seen the affliction of the quiver of Almighty God.
All that is found outside of Him who has borne the wrath of
God for them, they themselves are wormwood and will suffer
the judgment and wrath of Almighty God. Only those for whom Christ
said, I was made wormwood have any hope, have any peace, have
any comfort. We're going to stop. It's time. There's no sense in going into
the next judgment. What we'll do is we'll pick up
right there, and Lord willing, just go right on into chapter
9. If the Lord tarries and allows us. But that is the truth that's
being set forth. Because I said, I know it. We
could say, well, that was this person. That was
this dynasty. That was this. That was that.
All false religion is found to be rebellion against God. The
truth that we learn in judgment, that's what God's teaching. God
is going to judge sin, but for all those that He sealed and
kept, God Almighty has provided for them a substitute, one that
was made to be sin for them. And God was just, and He paid
their debt. All right, Brother Scott, would
you dismiss us please?