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Armageddon

Revelation 16
Paul Mahan September, 22 1999 Audio
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As I said, I did not pretend
for a minute to understand all the histories of one book in
this book, or one chapter of one book, or one verse of it. One verse of God's Word we have
in what we imagine to be an ocean of His Word. We'll pretend for
a minute that the heavens are higher than the earth, so it
does thoughts, so on and thus forth. How do you know that? Perhaps it may be
so. Okay? It may well be so. Now, it's like we read. God has
given us the mind of Christ. If we have revealed to our hearts
and minds that Christ is all and in all, then the Spirit could say, yes,
we're spiritual. That's what means to be spiritual.
We're going to be evolving. People like to throw that word
around today, too, you know, spiritual. He's a spiritual person.
He's a spiritual person. Hallelujah. If they don't know
Christ, if they don't see Christ in anything, they don't have a spirit. 1 Corinthians
2, verse 7 says, We speak the wisdom of God in history, in
the beginning. In that word, not before the
beginning. Verse 8 through 10, God says
that we've got to deal with these things, and we're up to our results
with it. And it's deep, the passage of
God. It's deep. See what you like. Verse 15 says, even the Spirit
can judge us all things. Verse 16 says that we have the
mind of God. The things that we've got to
see. The things that we enjoy, all
things, are the things of Christ, the Holy Spirit, which I say
will take the things of man, and furthermore. All right, now,
Revelation 16. All right, now, Revelation 16. If you read it in character,
you will see, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no And the best part of it, I think, is very mysterious.
And it is a mystery. The subject is on a bed, and
this is a word or a name that is well-known there, because
I'm powerful enough to say all of it. All of it. But this is done by prayer. There are women that are spiritual
in the center of Palo Verde. What women? They demand a crown. Palo Verdeans need a lot of crowns.
It's 3 verses 13 through 16. I saw three young clean spirits,
like frogs, come out of the mouth of the dragon, which are the
same dragon as Satan. Now, the mouth of the beast,
the beast being his false religion. Now, the mouth of the prophet,
his, his, uh, his pagan religion, because the pagan there is a
false religion. All right? Three unfeigned spirit-like problems. Verse 14, let us fear us. What
these are, these are us, sir. Spirits of faith, doctors of
faith, working miracles, those signs of miracles. And so as
these things go forth unto the kings of the earth and the whole
world, it gathers them to the fact of that great day that shall
arise. So, I couldn't speak unless you
see the prophet, I think that he's very much, unless you've
all met him, unless you've been there. And so he gathered them
together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue, Armageddon. It's a holy time for it. All right, now these things,
as we've seen, are symbolic. Certainly, I'm not talking about
three giant columns. Easy. We saw the first plague, with
the first plague, and I'm leaving with these couple of verses here. Verse 12, remember, the great
river Euphrates was dried up. Remember, look at that circle.
It's the Word of God. The water was dried up. That's
the way the kings of the east might be prepared. All right?
Look at your map. Don't look. You see, you say
that Euphrates is a river to the east of Israel. In the east tongue, you'd refer
to these as Persians, Babylonians, and all that, all right? You'd
refer to these guys as kings of the east tongue. This is serious.
You'd refer to these with the same word, God-driver, and make
them ready for the influx of earthly fame and honor. Now listen,
all the prophets, all the prophets in the Old Testament, save number
two, for an intractivity, that is, the time of Babylonian tractivity. You see that? It's simple. And the tractivity,
the reason tractivity came, is originally there was a certain
technique about the word tractate. It's very much a romance about
how it's all processed. And from the book of, the last
book of the Old Testament, not a half to Matthew, over a hundred
years went by that God was not persistent. There was no conflict. There was no conflict. Now the
Baptist was the last prophet of four hundred years. God wouldn't
speak. The Word of God drowned out. As mentioned in Amos, a famine
of the spirit of not-believing. Got it? And so we can make money,
because if you look at the first piece, that great river coming
from the garden of God, got it? And so we can make money with
all manner of stuff coming out of it. This is what he's talking
about. These problems. Now, I'm not going to call a
dog down the road, unless they represent these silent virtues.
I don't know why we talk about it, but anyway, unless we're
in the past, I don't think about it. But you see what that's saying
there? It's spiritual. It's spiritual.
It's certainly not very big downfall. And the river, that's the river
you pray for this year. All right? You can go down the
road and pray for anything you want to pray. All right, and I'm Jonathan. 5 verse 13 says that unclean
spirits can't even have a map of Satan, religion, and the world.
Well, this has been going on since, uh, since Adam. What came out of Satan's mouth?
The ruin of man to begin with. And this has been coming out
of his mouth, and his thoughts will begin, and his thought process
will begin. This is not a man's mind thing,
this is all man's mind thing. And this hunger of idols? This
has been going on from the beginning. All of this died. You understand? All right. He
says, "...in which these things, these spirits, these lying spirits
of the devil, Satan, his menace, his indoctrination of the devil,
shall go forth to the kings of the earth, of the whole earth,
to gather them together for the battle of that great day in long-gone
America." All right? Then, verse 15. This is kind
of how I prepared a virgin paradise, just to be honest with you. A
transformation right in the middle of this. He did that at any time. He did talk to those Pharisees
and he turned and said that he wished to help his people. And
that's just the start of these things now. Blessed is he that watcheth,
and keepeth his mind. Who's that? A believer who is
watching for the Christ, a believer who is watching for the Old Testament,
who is watching for the first time. Right. Blessed is he that watcheth.
So how come he's a thief? How come he's a shopaholic? How
come he's a thief? Where's the second thing? He came the first time as a kid,
that is, unexpectedly. And he'll come again, same way,
unexpected way, the time he came on. He came the first time, blessed
are those who watch. Who was watching? Well, there
was an old man in the temple. And he said to him, watching,
God told him, you don't see the crowd, you don't know God, you
don't see the crowd. And he was watching, and he looked at him,
and he heard this amazing sound. And he sat in front of his temple,
he knew the word of God, he knew his heart, and he was sitting
there, he was watching. That means he was looking at the clock.
And one day, he did not check the door, but he walked up, and
there was a bird, and there was a girl, and a baby, and a baby girl,
and a chicken, and a chicken. And her eyes were seeing God's creation. He was watching. Oh, bless the
Lord. He laid his hope on that baby right in front of his eyes.
Yeah, he laid on the pillow with her until that time. And really,
he didn't lay no more on her. The baby was covered with it
when he packed Cindy in the box. The baby didn't eat her. Well, where
did it begin? He did not just teach his sons,
his sons, his sons, Christ's sons, that rose with his eyes,
and let it go along like that moment when he said, I just touched
the hand of his son. I don't know what happened, but
I'm ashamed of that man, and he closed with his eyes. Let's
just put a side message to Christ's people. Remember, who were looking
for Him? Somebody else was taking up the
long way. A lot of people were taking up for the
second time in Christ who had no interest in the Christ of
Christ. They don't know. Nobody has a person who is really
interested in the Christ who's coming the second time, who he's
not totally exacted up with, and in that group, he's starting
something. All right. All right. All right. Now, he
comes for us, whether it's in death or in life, like in the church,
I think. I think that would best our profession. All right, verse fourteen says
that the spirits of the kings of the earth and the whole world
are gathered together to the back of that great day of Galilee. That great day, the place of
battle, and verse sixteen tells us, Armageddon. The word Armageddon
means hill or meadow. It means hill, it means mountain. It is imperative. The word Armageddon
does not imply a valley, it means a mountain, a valley. a mouse,
a caterpillar. All right? Megidda, that's where
I'm getting to, isn't it? Megidda, there's some valley
up there, it's south of, uh, uh, uh, Delaware. There's some hills over there,
some peat moss. But, uh, what is this, for instance? What is
it? Where is it? When is it? What do you think? Kāraṇam prasāda. Kāraṇam prasāda. Here's an important thing to
remember. Christ never mentioned the final matter. You understand? The apostle Paul
wrote fourteen epistles in the New Testament. He never mentioned,
one time, the time of baptism. Look at John 18. This is a very
revealing picture. You want a revelation? John 18. Our parable is already told.
It's already told. John 18. Now, let me tell you
what the universal... I am talking the universal belief
of God-given history. It's very concise. And here Russia believed concerning
Armageddon, it's the great final battle that's to be fought, and
that's the battle of Mosul over there, it's south of Geril. It's
a battle to be fought between the armies of all the world,
you know, the great big red bears coming down the line, and all
these armies from, you know, Iraq and Russia and all of them
going to get together in this battle. And what they're fighting
over is the shore. That's what's happening. And this is
what they're fighting over. They're fighting against history.
They're all at war with one another against history, that little
nation, that little peaceful nation of Israel, right? There's
going to be one final battle, I don't care, the end of that
little battle, and that's when Christ will come, and he's going
to fight for Israel. He's going to fight for Israel,
and he's going to destroy all the armies, and he's going to
sit, and this is what he's going to do, he's going to sit on a
throne. In the temple that they're going to rebuild, he will share
on the throne in that original building, temple, in the middle
of Jerusalem, he will share on the throne, the original throne
that was made to build that temple in history. And there is no mention
of that for a thousand years, and then it goes on and on and
on. That's the universal belief. I'm telling you the truth. That's
what I want to do. And I took a journey from verse
thirty-six to verse thirty-seven. Jesus said, if my kingdom is
not of this world, if my kingdom were of this world, then would
my servant's power be borrowed from me? Not even borrowed from me. Neither is Israel. Israel. And a Jew is not going to get
out of it. Why would Christ go out of it? My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were, I certainly
wouldn't be afraid. Now that's how revealing
my kingdom is at night. So this battle, this place, is
most certainly not a literal battle. Or at least, it doesn't
make sense. Now if we're to understand this,
as with anything, if we're to understand this, we must compare
spiritual things with spiritual. Now I tell you, if the gospel
is given to this world, now that's the great mystery. Is it not? Is not the gospel a great mystery? That's the revelation of God.
That's the book of the revelation of God, the gospel, the revelation
of Jesus Christ, the faithful sons of Christ, the children
of faith, the gospel, that great mystery of mystery, which has
been kept here from the foundation of the world, which is here for
a while and included, and will be a long time to come, but it
will be of these people. If they don't know what the gospel
is, then surely the world don't know what I'm getting at. Huh? Or 616? Or any stamp? Our whole
book is closed! You understand that? If you don't understand the gospel,
the whole book is bloody closed! You understand that? And any political stamp that
tries to tell us what's obvious, he doesn't, he isn't political.
That's not God, that's foolish. We just read in 1 Corinthians
1 that God is about the things that honor and help, that counsel. It's a universal... God said,
I thought tonight you'd come. I went, whatever man thinks is
wrong. You know what? The universal
belief, I'm telling you, universal belief about this thing is wrong. They all believe the same thing.
This has got to be wrong. This has got to be wrong. Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where
is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? Where is it? See, if you said
something there to people, the kings of the earth and the whole
world were gathered together that great day of God Almighty. But I'm reading in Psalm 2, verse
2, "...the kings of the earth sat and fell, and the rulers
they counseled together against the law." Well, this is wrong. He turned to Acts chapter 4,
Acts chapter 4, look over here. See, this is not the later language.
I've heard all this before. This is not some New Revelation.
This is the old New Revelation. Acts chapter 4, it says, Revelation
16, it says the kings and the earth and the whole world were
gathered together. Acts chapter four, verse twenty-six,
"...in the air, stood up and grew together together against
the Lord, and against his price of the truth, against the Holy
Child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed three times." And the whole world,
look at it, the Gentiles and the people of Israel, that's
the whole world, like you said in verse 14, 3rd verse of 16. Kings, Herod, Tybalt, Sabaoth,
and the whole world. I'll tell you this, in return
I'll pay a trip to your living room and thank you for accepting
me. Well, I'm not in the greatest state, but I'm very pleased with
that. When is this birthright, this
day of the Lord? You got it with you? I'll tell you what it is. Look at verse 1, it says, "...there
shall come forth a rod out of the skin of Jesse, and bring
him up to a bank." It says, "...there shall come forth a rod out of
the skin of Jesse, and bring him up to a bank." Spirit of
wisdom in understanding, spirit of counseling in mind, spirit
of knowledge of the pure Lord. Verse 5, righteousness has been
the bread of his life. Verse 10, in that day there shall
be a little gesture to stand for innocent. That means a flag
to fly, and a cap to close it. A flag to fly, and the innocent
of the people, it shall be Gentiles who will give rest, In that day,
thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee. Thou that hast hungered
with me, thy anger is turned away, and thy comfort is made. Behold, God is my salvation." And that day shall he say, Praise
the Lord, call upon his name, declare his doings among the people, making mention that
his name is exalted." Verse 6, "'Thy shalt thou have from God. Praise the Lord, Israel and Israel and
Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel
and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel
and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel
and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel
and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel
and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel
and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel
and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel
and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel
and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and Israel and How
beautiful the day of the Lord is at hand. It shall come as
a destruction in your own life. The day of God Almighty. Destruction.
It's how you want to be if you're destructed in your life. Verse 19. Devote the day of the
Lord to come. True hope with wrath and fierce
anger, but lay the land desolate. He shall destroy all the sinners
thereof out of it, for the stars of heaven and the constellations
thereof do not give their light. The sons of Ithaca named his
throne for him, and no one should want to call their daughter's
name. Chapter 13, there you got it,
that's what it says. Zechariah, turn to Zechariah
in the next-class book of the Old Testament. Please turn. This
is one of them. And this is the mission. It's
about to be revealed to you. And look at Zechariah, chapter
12. Right? That's right, that's the truth.
If you make a face, don't you have to face the truth in that
whole thing? I'll tell you that. If they establish it, then you
have to face it. Establish it, you don't have
to face it. That's the truth. That's the only way. Right? And somebody
comes and stops you, says, that's the truth. with the chapter 12
of Zechariah, chapter 12, verses 1 through 3, the burden of the
Word of the Lord is forgiven. He will say, The Lord has stretched
forth the heavens. Verse 2, I will make Jerusalem
a cup of trembling to all the people round about, when they
shall be in a siege, both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
And that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone. Verse 8,
In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
and be deceitful among them, that day shall be a day, that
day shall be a day, that day shall be a day, that day shall
be a day, that day shall be a day, that day shall be a day, that
day shall be a day, that day shall be a day, that day shall
be a day, that day shall be a day, that day shall be a day, that
day shall be a day. Here, it says, "...they shall mourn for
him who hath mourned for his eldest son, and they shall be
ambitious for him who is ambitious for his firstborn." Verse 11,
this is 4, "...and that day shall there be a great mourning in
Jerusalem at the mourning of Cain and Abram in the valley
of Mount Sinai." Chapter 13, verses 1 and 2. He's going to leave no doubt
what a badge, what a great badge he is. In fact, there's a thousand
badges. Over. You understand me? to the house of David, the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, for sin and uncleanness." Verse 2, "...the issue of compassion
and faith." He said, "...for I will cut off the names of idols
out of the land, so no one will be remembered." Verse 6 and 7,
"...wants to say unto him, Look at these wounds in my hand."
And he just answered, "...those which I have wounded in the house
of my friends." Verse 7, a weightful story, and
this is my shepherd. He smites the shepherd's sheep
for his sowing. Verse 8, it shall come to pass
an old man said, Bill, two parts therein shall be cut off and
die, but the third shall be left therein, and the third shall
be separated from the top by his back. So verse 19, I bring the third
part to the fire, and the family was filled with the fire, and
the family was filled with the fire. They called my name, I'll hear
them, I'll say it's my people, I'll say it's my people, I'll say it's my people,
I'll say it's my people, I'll say it's my people, I'll say it's my people, I'll
say it's my people, I'll say it's my people, I'll say it's
my people, I'll say it's my people, I'll say it's my people, I'll
say it's my people, I'll say it's my people, I'll say it's
my people, I'll say it's my people, I'll say it's my people, I'll say
it's my people, I'll say it's my people, I'll say it's my people,
I'll say it's my people, I'll say it's my people, I'll say
it's my people, I'll say it's my people Verse 13, "...shall the Lord
go forth in time against those nations which will be when he
calls the day of battle." Verse 14, "...his feet shall stand
at back's valley on the mountain." Verse 16, 17, "...shall come
passing back day, life shall not be cleared or died. It shall
be one day that shall be known to the Lord." One day. One day. We're going to see over chapter
17, it mentions a war, and it says that there's a war over land. It says in Romans chapter one,
Romans chapter one. I don't even know what Romans
is. It's a book. I believe in it.
I wish I knew it. And I say to God, it's Romans.
I say, God, here's Romans. I mean, why not? Here's Romans. In fact, why not? Why would you
miss Romans? All right. Now, we've already
mentioned, who is Israel? Who is Israel? Who's Israel? God. God's people. Who's His
people? God's people. All right. What about Jerusalem?
Let me ask you this. Where is Jerusalem at some time
called Zion? Where is that? Right here. All right? You get that? You're
talking spiritual things here. We're comparing spiritual to
spiritual. All right? The Lord is going to tell you what we should be
talking about. History. The battle of the war was fought
and finished. I tried to tell you it's already
past. I don't think I'm ever getting this out of your thoughts. Just before Calvary, John 12,
verse 31, Christ said this, just before Calvary, He says, "...now
is the judgment of this world. Now shall the preachers of this
world be tested." He's already done it. Where'd the little larry go? Just like
they went looking for him in his tent, he's not here. I think
he's sitting in the living room on the bed. And the living Christ,
that will come to save a dead kingdom, a dead nation, a dead
country. All these will be saved from
death, saved. And the battle calls for their
salvation. They don't know how. Who shall
fight with them? What's Joshua powerful? A captain. He's a captain in our salvation.
Who's he going to hire? He says, I've got to get some
money and go back. That's when he goes to the money.
A captain in our salvation? Oh,
of course, he's a heavy loader. He can't go back to Calvary,
can he? Well, he certainly can. He's
a great guy. He can pass forward. Psalm 2, we ought to read that tonight.
Matthew, Luke, and Luke. It's been a second. We ought
to read that together. Calvin, the servant, and his seed came
to make room for Christ's heel. He bought it, but Christ crushed
his heel. He's a head for sale. He can't
buy more than that. He's on a chain. He said, we're
about to check the point. He didn't have the money. Sentence
of a citizen, a thousand years, or a three-minute sled race.
That's where all the matter, all the argument, all of it,
all of it would have to take place. Now, you listen to me. You listen to me. I put a little
time into this. Now, you listen to me? It's right. Christ defeated the enemy in John. Anything in his way? He
led that movement. You know what I'm saying? Uh-huh. This is the armies of Israel,
the armies of Egypt. Listen to this. Here's another
tie-in picture. As the armies of Israel and the
armies of Egypt were gathered together where? At the Red Sea.
Remember that? At the Red Sea. Now, Israel seemed
hopeless. In captivity. Less than doomed,
let's say, by the enemy who were chasing them. And at the Red
Sea, there came the armies of Egypt. There were young men.
There were white men. But part of that, through his
mediator, he parted that Red Sea. It's not called Red Sea
for that, for no reason. He parted that Red Sea, and the
parting of that Red Sea was the means of salvation for those
people. But right behind them, the Egyptians
and their army were consumed by that Red Sea. All the enemies
of Israel died that day. Didn't they? How? It was the means of our
salvation. God separated us from Him. It
was the means of our salvation. I'm not ready to see the big
plan, because the name's in my salvation, my interest at the
end of my days. What do you want with my name? Well, I've got to share it. And if I don't share it, then
I've got to drop it. I'll share it, and second, uh,
1 Corinthians 4, it says, He who is destroying all, the darkness
is coming. He said, when He comes, 2 Thessalonians
2, when He comes, who's going to rise to meet Him in the world?
Who's going to meet Him? I don't matter. It's when He comes, the
moment, when He arrives, when He changes, when He arrives, when He's in
the land, He says He's going to destroy the world about what
He's talking about. He's going to do something about it. He's
going to do something about it. He's going to do something about it.
He's going to do something about it. He's going to do something about it. And it's
not just because I've stopped enjoying it, but it's crushed
by him, shut up. Now, look at this. Now, if the
Word ain't in this yet, this one will. Here's the final word
on that, verse 17. You got it? Here's the last vowel,
all right? Seven things were poured out
of this vial into the air, all right? Here's something He poured
out of the air. This went everywhere. And there
came a great voice. Here's the vial out of this vial,
the last vial, right after this unrepentant, a voice came out
of the temple from the throne saying, It's done! That sounds
familiar to me. And it's you! And Christ heard it. Oh my gosh,
that great man, he said, it's you. So, look at this. Verse 18, there were voices and
thunder and lightning and great earthquakes and it was not since
me were upon the earth so mighty an earthquake so great. Has he met Him? He said, when
he bowed his head and gave up the ghost, he said, the earth
is quaked. He didn't say there was an earthquake.
He said, the whole earth shook. The rocks were wet, the field
was wet. Imagine what would have been
the sound of that coming. It was like he was ready to go
up there and put it to sleep. He'd probably be asleep by now. He said that fire, that the whole
fire should set the sun back on. At noon, the sun went back. We already know that. Set the graves open, so that
everybody, like this, here, the graves open, let people walk
in and sit down. What a day. I wonder what day
it is that the church is going to be. That's the last vow. The last
vow is what means the last thing God has done. He said the last, no sign that
He gives. He never said I'm going to give it. He never said I'm going to sign it. He never
said I'm going to give it. He never said I'm going to give
it. He never said I'm going to give it. He never said I'm going to give it. He
never said I'm going to give it. He never said I'm going to give
it. He never said I'm going to give it. He never said I'm going to give it. He never said
I'm going to give it. He never said I'm going to give it. He never said I'm going to give
it. He never said I'm going to give it. He never said I'm going to give it. He never said
I'm going to give it. He never said I'm going to give it. He never said I'm going to
give it. He never said I'm going to give
it. He never said I What signs do we give them? But the sign of the cross, you know. The cross was there. Others say, they've never seen
it, but they're buying it. They see Christ. They see all
things over there in Christ. What does it say, Peter? It says
in Christ, Everything I say is about the Christmas of the New
Year. This has to represent that greatest event. Now, if there is, if there is,
if there is, you know, we're not going to go around about
that. Besides, I want to tell you that Christ, the Scripture
says, is on the shore of the Bible since time immemorial. And it's not all about the Scripture
and its relation to the Christian. It's not also about Christ. He's
always at the bottom of the Bible. That throne over there is about
the size of, about the size of Babylon. He can't get on it.
He sits on the circle of the earth, the scripture says. He's
sitting on the earth right now. It's just what's true. His throne's
in the heavens. The heavens cannot be moved. Well, I want you to turn to, in quotes, 2
Chronicles. But if you're not convinced yet, if you're not convinced yet,
by God's Word, I'm not trying to convince you. And this is God's history and the earth's history, really. Well, in 2nd Chronicles, now
we read, we read over there in Zechariah, let me just reread
it to you, okay, so you can get pressure on your mind a bit.
We read this, let me read it to you again. It's not in that
verse, but it is in that verse. Shall there be a great morning
in Israel as the morning of Tel Aviv? The matter is, there shall
be a great morning in Israel as the morning of hate and death,
wouldn't there? And the valley of forgiveness.
And the valley of forgiveness, a great morning for the law,
for the Son of God. 2 Corinthians 3, this morning,
and we read in that particular passage, look on him whom they
have pierced, and mourn for him. All right, if you ain't got no
one to hear you go like this, you're going to burn. 2 Corinthians 3, this morning, and we read
in that particular passage, look on him whom they have pierced,
and mourn for him. All right, if you ain't got no one to hear
you go like this, you're going to burn. 2 Corinthians 3, this
morning, and we read in that particular passage, look on him whom they have pierced,
and mourn for him. His name, do you know what his
name is? Just as I was going out on the planet, I even looked
at it, but I never really just centered right in on him or me,
seeing him as absolutely one of the greatest prophets I've
ever seen. His name, you ready for it? His
name means foundation. His name means the foundation
of Jehovah. Alright? Let's go to 2 Chronicles
35 verse 20. We're going to read that through
verse 27. Now, you know what's a good reason? Just go back to 2nd chapter and
read about Josiah. You want something to read? Mark
5. Go back and read about Josiah. Every time you see him, you're
going to think, Christ. Everything he did. All right, it says, in that day,
or after all this, when Josiah had prepared himself, he had
prepared himself, Nico, king of Egypt, came up to fight against
him. Now, he's a difficult man. Carthage, by his practice, I
remember, and Josiah went out against him. And he sent Melissa King, sending
a message to the police, saying, what did I ever do to you without
him? And so forth. Verse 22. Melissa
King said, I will not turn his face. He said his face, said
the pastor, toward the street. He turned his face. He scoffed
and said, but he might pipe with him and harp him out on the words
of Nebo from the mouth of God. He came to pipe him out, and
he let him go. An archer's shot, that is, they
pierced this king just high up, and the king said to his servants, And that night, in the valley
of Edea, in the middle of the morning, the supper was back
in. And they came and they shunned
all the sacrifice. And they went back there and
they saw that this morning Josiah, which is a tithe, which is a
picture, a property, a picture of Christ, the mount of gathering,
Paul does speak about gathering. In 1 Peter 1, he does speak about
gathering. Now, I'm going to tell you about the gathering
of Israel. Paul does mention the gathering. He comes to the
gathering of all things in 1 Peter 1, verse 9, he says, He made
known unto us the mystery of Israel. What he did this way was he purposed
himself. That is, in the distant space
of the purpose of time, he mapped out his success. In what? All things. In consciousness.
But for what he had done, he was on earth. He was in himself. So, understand all these things
in the mind program. What do you think? with a mind
full of God. The battle to end all battles
was fought by Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He's mindfully
strong like others. He is. He's going to do it. He
laid captain to captain. Now there's some small services
going on, but it's kind of like the Civil War. When Lady Brant signed with the
priest over at Cove, I didn't know it was real. It
just came to me. When they signed that thing, I didn't know it was real. I don't know
where he hung it. He told me he got sick. I don't know where he hung it. He told me he got
sick. I don't know where he hung it. He told me he got sick. I
don't know where he hung it. He told me he got sick. I don't know where he hung it. He told me
he got sick. I don't know where he hung it. He told me he got sick. I don't know where he hung it. He told
me he got sick. I don't know where he hung it.
He told me he got sick. I don't know where he hung it. He told me he got sick. I don't know where
he hung it. He told me he got sick. I don't know where he hung
it. He told me he got sick. I don't know where he hung it. He told me he got sick. I don't
know The battle can go on, and here's what I'm told to tell
you. All right? I don't want to write and devise
a word of proof now, because the greater judgment is on my
shoulders, and I'm telling you all. Here's what I'm told. Here's
the final words I'm going to have to tell you tonight, okay?
Speak to me comfortably, and you'll understand. I am a miracle. Say I'm a miracle. You are a miracle. I don't give a damn. I don't give a damn. I don't give a damn. I don't give a damn. The world was looking for something
to do about it, but they didn't concern themselves with it. God
said, I'm determined to know nothing about men, nothing, nothing. And so he didn't mention that,
but all he did was confirm it. And so, I don't want to be taking
that for anything. I've got a testimony of the gospel
of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Spirit of God. So, all right, I hope you
got a lesson out of that. Now, stay with me. You just take me at your word,
and you say it, and you say it, and you say it, and you say it, and you say it,
and you say it, and you say it, and you say it, and you say it,
and you say it, and you say it, and you say it, and you say it, and you say it, and you say it,
and you say it, and you say it, and you say it, and you say it,
and you say it, and you say it, and you say it, and you say it,
and you say it, and you say it, and you say it, and you say it, and you say it,
and you say it, and you say it, and you say it, and you say it, and you say it, and you say
it, and you say it, and you say it, and you say it, and you say it, and
you say it, and you say it, and you say it, and you say it, and you say it, and And with that, the Myrtle came
to me. The Myrtle made me tie it underfoot
and load it together, and it was all easy to make tension. You say, this is that day, that
great day when Christ was exalted, when he was lifted up, and drew
all men unto himself, and brought iron in his forearms, and defeated
them. Yes, he defeated them. And we look back to Calvin. Yes, we do. And then we look
forward to your coming. And you'll make all things known. We'll know even as we have known
nothing. And what we'll go on to know,
we'll go on from glory to glory, to grace to more grace, and we'll
grow in grace and knowledge of Christ. This is what we long
to know. It is what we long to know, and
we take that with us. So while the world is chasing
Looking after other things, but telling and hearing of some new
thing. Oh, how does she make that up with her holy, holy soul? Vāsudeva. Right? She was rolling
out of the tunnel and hearing. Vāsudeva. Oh. I don't know. I don't know. I
don't know. you
Paul Mahan
About Paul Mahan
Paul Mahan has been pastor of Central Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, Virginia since 1989; preaching the Gospel of God's Sovereign Grace.
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