I'm going to start reading in verse 6 and
read down to verse 12 what I'm going to deal with this evening
if the Lord would enable me to. And I saw another angel fly in
the midst of heaven having the everlasting gospel to preach
unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred,
and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, fear God,
and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment has come,
and worship him that made heaven and earth, and the sea, and the
fountains of water. And there followed another angel
saying, Babylon is fallen, that great city because she made all
nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.
And the third angel followed with them saying with a loud
voice, if any man worship the beast in his image, and receive
his mark in his forehead or in his hand, the same shall drink
of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture
into the cup of his indignation. And he shall be tormented with
fine brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and the presence
of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment
ascended up forever and ever, and they have no rest day or
night who worship the beast in his image, whosoever receiveth
the mark of his name. Here is the patience of the saints. Here are they that keep the commandments
of God and the faith of Jesus. You know over in Revelations
11 in verse 12, God said, come up hither. And the believers
are described as ascending up into heaven on a cloud. You can
look at that at your own leisure, but that's what it says. He said,
God said, come up hither. And all the saints arose in a
cloud up into heaven. And then, here in verse 12, it takes us
back to what was going on before the judgment day. You know, it
was about the great dragon and his beast, and all the awful
things that the beast did, and all the false prophets, and all
the things that they said had blasphemy on his name, on his
head, and had all them horns, and showing how ferocious, how
mean, how cruel they are. And so the two beasts and the
dragon, But now, we're back where we were in heaven again. We said
heaven started out over there in chapter 11, verse 12. Everything
that was going on between that time, and now we're going back
to heaven. We're going back to where we
was when we was taken up. And look what it says there in
verse 5. They were redeemed, of course,
from among the men on the earth. and in their mouth was found
no guile. They were honest people, God-honoring people. Didn't have
any guile, they didn't have any put on, didn't have any sham
religion. What they said about Christ was
real, what they said about Christ was true. What they believed
about Christ is right, what they believed about Him is true. God
Himself taught them, so they have no guile. No deceit. No deceit. It's awful. It's awful to be deceived. But
it's even worse to be deceived in yourself. I don't want to
be deceived. I don't want to be deceived.
I want to know Christ. I want to be found in Christ.
I want to stand before God. today like I'll stand before
him in eternity in Christ. I want to stand where I before
God right now where I'll stand when I face him in the righteousness
of Christ believe in the gospel of the grace of God given us
in Christ. And that's why there's no guile
in their mouth. No guile in their mouth. And
then not only that but listen to this. And they are without
thought before the throne of God. Now they're in heaven now. And God says they're without
fault before the throne and before God. Before the throne of God. Oh my, I could find fault with
me. I have no problem finding faults
with me. And anything you think about
me, or anything you say about me, You ain't even, you ain't
scratched the surface yet. Anything you say would be true,
because if I haven't done it, I thought it. So you know we
can't take offense at what people say about us or do to us, because
we're without fault before God. Without fault before God. And
now we return to all the things that come before Christ's coming. Now there's three angels. Christ's
gonna come back again, here it tells us in the latter part of
this chapter. But there's three angels here,
and all three of those angels have voices. They speak voices
of warning. I read about three angels. There's
a voice of an angel there. I saw another angel fly with
a voice. In verse 8, they're following
another angel's saying. And in verse 9, and the third
angel. So there's three angels here.
And they've all got something to say. They have one purpose. One purpose, and they're warning
mankind, respecting the judgment to come of God's judgment, and
that men may turn to God himself in true faith and turn away from
themselves and from their sin. And note what the first angel
says, and I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven. He's flying and he's right in
the middle of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach
unto them that dwell on the earth and to every nation and kindred
and tongue and people. Now when he calls it the everlasting
gospel, and he talks about an angel, now we know that angels,
God never used an angel to preach the gospel. Not one time did
he use an angel to preach the gospel. Not one time. Can you find it, God? He used
angels. He used angels. But he never
used one to preach the gospel. And so when he talks here about
the gospel being preached, the eternal gospel, This is symbolic
or a picture of the preachers that God sends, and he sends
them with one gospel. One gospel. And I want to show
you that. You keep this and look over in
Galatians chapter one with me. Galatians chapter one. You know,
I was telling the men back in the service, I was looking at
Scofield's Bible, looked it up on the internet, looked it up
on my phone, really, And he got seven dispensations. And he has
seven gospels. And I don't know which one of
the gospels that he believes, but I know this. And God don't
have seven dispensations in this world. He does everything he
does on purpose. He declared the end from the
beginning and from ancient times and things that are not yet there,
that said all my counsel shall stand. God does things on purpose. Everything that happened from
eternity to the eternity is, everything is purposed. Salvation
is purposed, Christ was purposed, the Word was purposed, Holy Spirit's
purposed, my salvation's purposed. Everything that happened happens
on purpose. There's no accidents. And so
listen, here he comes and he talks about this everlasting
gospel. There's no place in this blessed book where you cannot
find but one gospel. One. And God himself defines
that gospel. He said it concerns his son.
And he said he promised it, from ancient times, he promised it
in the prophets. And our Lord Jesus Christ, when
he preached to himself, he preached to himself, he says, you know,
when you read Moses, he's talking about me. When you read the prophets,
they're talking about me. When you read the Psalms, he's
talking about me. Talk about me. And if we can't
find Christ in the scriptures, we're not looking at it right.
And I tell you, beloved, what I'm trying to say is this. That
the gospel has always been everlasting. God is an eternal God. And everything
he does, he does on the basis of eternity. So if he's got a
gospel, the gospel's gotta be like himself. It's gotta be eternal.
Did God take us a lamb slain from the foundation of the world?
And I talked about that lamb this morning. So if God provided
us a lamb before the foundation of the world, that means he had
a gospel for us before Christ ever come into this world. Ain't that right? And the gospel
means good news. Good news. And all of that good
news that God provided a lamb. What good news that God's come
to seek and to save sinners. What good news that Christ went
to a cross and bore the sins of all of his people in his own
body there. What good news that we are made
the righteousness of God in Christ. What good news that we're justified
by faith that Christ was delivered for our offenses and raised for
our justification. Now what in the world is justification?
That means that God in heaven himself says, I justify them
people, nobody can charge them for nothing. The justification
takes place in heaven, where God says, I justify them people. Why do they say, I justify them?
How come? Because my son bore their offenses. And they believe him, they trust
him. And so I'm going to justify them. Well, I've seen this about
them. They're justified. Then it all says, they're justified. The heart says, they're justified.
This, they said this. Don't you bear to bring the thing,
Gimston. They're justified. Who's that thee condemneth? It's
God that justifies. Huh? When we're talking about
the gospel, we're talking about the everlasting gospel. Now,
I said we was in Galatians. Ain't that where we're supposed
to be? I want you to look here with
me in verse 6. This is an amazing thing. I marvel,
I stand in absolute marvel that you're so soon removed from him
that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel.
So what he's telling you is here you leave Christ, you leave your
only hope. And what he says now, which is
not another, there's not another gospel. But there'll be some that trouble
you, come to you and really, really trouble you, and listen
to this, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. We always hear
about perverts. I'll tell you, whoever perverts
the gospel, I'd rather, listen, I heard Henry say one time, I'd
rather my son be a bartender than be a freewill Baptist preacher. More chance. There's more. It
wouldn't be very the condemnation. And what he's talking about here,
when a man perverts the gospel. What does it take to pervert
the gospel? Add that much, add that harsh breath to Christ and
you perverted the gospel. Take away anything from Christ
and you perverted the gospel. You take away anything from the
righteousness of Christ and you add one thing that you do to
what Christ did and you pervert the gospel. You know what you have to do
to fall from grace? Just add one thing to what Christ
did. That's all it takes. Well, they
fell from grace. Well, the only way you'll ever
fall from grace, if you're really saved by Christ, if your wife's
named Grace and you fall out of bed. You know, I didn't mean to be
funny, but that's the truth. God's people ain't gonna fall
from grace. They're not going to another gospel. When God teaches
you the gospel, I tell you what, there ain't nobody gonna get
you away from it. If that's what old Barnard used
to say, if there's truth in this earth, I'm going to find it and
when that man's telling it, I'm going to sit right down there
and listen to what he's got to say. And look what he goes on
to say. He said they pervert the gospel.
But look what he says here in verse 8 now. And this is what
we're talking about. But though we, or an angel from
heaven, I mean if me or an angel from heaven preach any other
gospel than that we have preached unto you, listen to this now,
let him be cursed. Oh my. As I said before, so say
I now again, if any man preach any other gospel to you than
that you have received, let him be accursed. Oh. I'll tell you the gospel. God
was the first one to preach the gospel in the scriptures. So
I'll tell you the gospel, and I'll tell you this is like, this
is the angels. And then, you know, and here
we're called. We're called, we have a calling from heaven, and
it's a heavenly calling, and we're calling men from sin to
Christ so that they can go to glory and be with Christ. We've
got a heavenly message. A heavenly message. Peter says
this, he says, he said, receiving the end of our faith, even the
salvation of our souls. The goal of our faith, the end
of our faith, when we get to the end of it, you know what's
gonna happen? We're gonna spend eternity with
Christ. There'll be an end to faith one of these days. We won't
need it anymore. But he says, when we receive
the end of our salvation, at the end of our faith, salvation.
He says that we are, we're looking at the angels, and everybody
in the prophets, they inquired, they looked through the scriptures,
inquired diligently, looked in the Bible, reading through the
scriptures, to see when Christ would come, and the glory that
Christ would have, and they preached the gospel, sent by the Holy
Spirit that was sent down from heaven. They're looking for what
we got. They're searching for what God's
taught us. They was looking when Christ
would come. They're looking for how much glory He would have
when He got here. And that's what Isaiah was doing,
they was looking. And then when they heard it and
learned it, they said, we preach the gospel with the Holy Ghost
sent down from heaven. Ain't that right? Oh boy. And then look what it says here.
And they come to preach to them that dwell on the earth. Sit on the earth. And listen
to this now. You know wherever you go, whatever
language you got, whatever nation you live in, whatever your kindred
is or anything else, there's one gospel for them. One gospel. I've been to Mexico
several times. Oh my, you preach the gospel
down there and them Mexicans as they've been interpreted to
them, they'll start crying and they'll start rejoicing, they'll
start saying amen. I'll tell you, I wish I could
speak Chinese, I'd go to China and preach. But wherever I go,
this is the thing, wherever you go, whatever language you got,
God's got somebody there to preach the gospel to. He'll have somebody. If he's got an elect there, if
he's got sheep there, he's gonna send somebody to get them. Ain't
that right? And then, you know the men who
are on the earth now, dwell on the earth, that's why we preach
the gospel to them. Because men on this earth right
now, we're warning them about the judgments to come. It's like
Noah. He was a preacher of righteousness.
And he kept saying, judgments coming. But you know the scriptures
tells us very plainly, that as it was in the days of Noah, so
shall it be in the days of the coming of the Son of Man. What
was it like in the days of Noah? It said over in Matthew 24, it
said they were eating and drinking. We all eat, we all drink. I ate
today, you ate today. We drank coke, we drank water,
we drank something. Eating and drinking, nothing
wrong with that. They were marrying and giving in marriage. And what
they were doing is they were so charmed by the world and so
delighted by the world. And so interested in their fleshly
appetites, so interested in what they were doing. It's like that
fellow said, listen, I can't come. Because I married a wife. And that's, you know, and that's
what people do now. And so they go about and they
knew, and the scripture said, and they knew not until the flood
came. They knew not. And that's what
he's talking about here. You go preach the gospel to these
people. Because they're indifferent, they're unconcerned, they're
listless, they're easy going, they're careless. There ain't nothing wrong with
marrying, nothing wrong with giving in marriage, but when
your life is taken up with nothing but this life, it's going to be awful. Men will
be taken up with this world and its charms and won't know their
danger, don't have a clue what their danger is until it's too
late. And we preach the eternal gospel always in hope that somebody
is going to hear it. Somebody's going to believe it.
Huh? Oh, there's people here that
I preach to all the time. I just keep praying, keep hoping,
keep trusting that one of these days they say, I heard it! I
got it! I see it! My whole family, that's where
they're at. They're just like there was in the days of Noah.
They get up in the morning, drink their coffee, go about their
day. God don't enter their brains. People sitting in front of their
phones or in front of their computers and they just don't think about
God. You go out here and you see all
this traffic running up and down the road, you know, up and down
the road. These people, where are they
going? What are they doing? They certainly ain't coming to
hear the gospel. Oh my. Well, he said, here's what he
said. Verse 7. This angel said with
a loud voice. He said, I want people to hear
what I got to say. Here's the first thing he says, fear God. Fear God, oh my. Give glory to Him. Oh, that's
what the gospel tells us, that's what the gospel teaches us. Fear
God, give Him all the glory. Attribute everything to Him,
to Him be the glory. And look what he says, give glory
to Him. Why? Because it's the right thing
to do. And this is why. Because His
judgment, the hour of His judgment is to come. And I mean it's coming. I mean it's coming fast. And
look what it says. And worship Him. Worship. We
come here. Sweet Shirley and I was talking
about this earlier today. We don't come here to have a
good time. We don't come here to have fun. We don't come here
to be entertained. We don't come here to be made
to feel good. We come here to worship God. To worship God in Christ. To
hear what God has to say to us. And by God speaking to us, we
can leave here and say, I heard from the Lord today. And go home
and be thankful. And we come to worship. We come
to adore. We come to bow down. We come
to enjoy. We come to delight. We come to
enjoy Christ, His gospel, His grace, His mercy, His patience,
His longsuffering. We come to worship Him, to give
Him all the glory. Hey, oh God, you got the glory. Why? Because he's the one that
made the earth. He's the one that made the heavens.
And he's the one that made the sea, and he's the one that made
the fountains of the earth. Oh my, he's got it all. And what
we got, he gave to us. Oh boy, bless his name, bless
his name. Then he says, the hour of his
judgment's come. No one who continues in unbelief
will escape. For the Lord's people, this is
a day that the Lord has made for us. It's the eternal good
tidings. We have eternal good tidings.
It'll mean our final and full salvation. Be plumb saved. Plum saved. Boy, would that be
a day. Well, plum saved. Plum saved. Plum saved. Now look what is that in 2nd
Angel. Look what the 2nd Angel says. They're warning now. The
2nd Angel says this. And there followed another angel,
saying, Babylon is fallen, that great city, because she made
all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. Oh my, he just got one thing
that he says about Babylon is fallen. Babylon is fallen. That great city, that great city,
she's fallen. She's made everybody drunk in
her wine of her fornication, spiritual fornication. Now when
you think about Babylon, go back with me, everybody knows what
Babylon is. Babylon was a great huge city. God sent Israel into captivity
into Babylon. Nebuchadnezzar come down and
got them. Come down and brought them all. Brought them in. And everybody that was, anybody
up there, they just assimilated into the Babylonian culture and
language. But you remember there's four
men that didn't. Four men. that was not impressed
by Babylon, by it's king, by it's glory, by it's power, by
it's great, everything, that was not impressed. Daniel, they
said, you gotta eat what we tell you to eat. Daniel said, I ain't
gonna eat it. Okay. They made a great statue
and said, Daniel, you gotta bow down to that. I ain't gonna do
it. And if anybody prays to anybody but the God we saw over here
said if we catch him praying then we gotta throw him to the
lions. Now Daniel opened up his window
and he prayed every single morning, noon, and night. Finally they
said, well, Daniel it's time to go to the lion's den. He went to the lion's den. Babylon
did not impress him a bit. They put him in the lion's den. King come over and looked, peeked
over in there and said, Daniel, you all right? He said, yes,
my lord, come. Shut them houses in a line. He
used them for pillars. And then there's three other
ones. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. They made that great
statue. Bow down, bow down. Everybody
don't bow down to this statue. We're not going to do it. Oh,
listen, everyone told King, said, them fellas there, said, they're
causing us trouble. They're gonna make trouble for
everybody in town if you don't get them fellas to, we'll have
a house, everybody will rebel against us if you don't deal
with them fellas. And they took old Shadrach, Meshach,
and Abednego, and they got a big furnace. And they heated that
furnace, and heated that furnace, and heated that furnace, and
heated that furnace, and kept on going until it got seven times
hotter. And the fellas that opened that
furnace to throw them in, it killed them. But they threw them
in that furnace, and they looked in there, and they said, whoa,
somebody's walking around in there with them. Who was it? of God. What I'm telling you is Babylon
has fallen. It's always been fallen to us.
But the world, you know, everything now is based on globalism. Globalism. And the world's got to be as
one. Everybody, we got to all mix
and mingle because, you know, we can't live without one nation,
can't live without this part and that part. Everything's got
to be all one. That's Babylon. And I'll tell
you why, she's got her wine, and she's forgot God, and she's
so impressed everybody in the world, and all the billionaires,
and billionaires, and all the people, and she just keep pouring
out that wine, pouring out that wine, and they get drunk on it.
And this world's drunk on the wine of Babylon. I can show you
that, I can show you that. And I think it's Isaiah. 24. Yeah, look in Isaiah 24. I looked
at this before. I'll show you something here.
Look here what it says about the world. 2420, Isaiah 2420. Oh my, that great city. Oh, it seduces
people. This great city seduces people. People say, I got to go, I got
to move from here and go someplace else to do this and do that and
do this thing. I can't find a good job unless
I go out and do this great big city. Look what it says right
now. The earth shall reel to and fro
like a drunkard. and shall be removed like a cottage,
and the transgression there shall be heavy upon it, and it shall
fall and not rise again." Drunk like a drunk man, that's
what the world is like that. And these nations drink of the
passion. And I tell you, men are constantly
warned about these things, constantly warned. And then look what the
third angel says. Oh my. I know folks that's drunk on
the wine of this world and babbling. I mean they're just drunk on
it. Drunk on it. Drunk on it. I'm telling you
they're drunk on how much money they make. Drunk on the kind of cars they
have to drive. Drunk on the clothes they have
to wear. They can't wear clothes like you and I'd wear. They gotta
wear shirts that cost two or three, $400. They gotta wear
suits that cost $10,000. They gotta wear shoes that cost
you $12,000, $15,000. You say there's people like that. Oh yeah, there's lots of people
like that. There's people lives in houses
I couldn't pay the taxes on, couldn't pay the light bill. Oh boy, they drunk on the wine
of this thing. Don't you do that. Don't you
get drunk on this, on this world. Don't get drunk on the world.
Don't do it. It's not worth it. It's already
fallen. It's already fallen. What's got you, you had a car
one time. You used to tell me about it. Firebird or someone firebird
he was out there shining it up and polishing it up Scott walked
by and said you know God's gonna burn that thing up one of these
days You sold it didn't you? And that's the truth He gonna
burn it all up Gonna burn it all up Oh, but
I tell you I want to When he comes, I won't be with him. Yes,
yeah, like the girl saying, I'm going home, I'm going home, I'm
going home. And then look what the third
angel says. In verse nine, the third angel followed them saying
with a loud voice, if any man worship the beast, now the beast,
remember, that first beast was the one that had blasphemy on
his head. Second beast was the false prophet.
And if any man worship the beast, worship that false prophet, worship
that one who blasphemes the name of God and his image and receive
his mark in his mind, that forehead represents the mind, the understanding,
or in his hand, that means with what he does, what he's doing.
Well, he said, this is what's going to happen. And he says
with a loud voice, he says in no uncertain terms, he's using
solemn language here. He's using solemn language. The
same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is
poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation, and
he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence
of the holy angels and the presence of the Lamb. Those that are attached
to this world are going to perish with the world. Our Lord says you can't serve
God and mammon. To serve Satan, you're going
to have to suffer with Satan. If you live without Christ, the
consequences are going to be dying without Christ. Men cannot
sin and get away with it. And He says the same that has
this mark of the beast. The same. The same. We talked a minute ago about
perverting the gospel. The false prophet, that's what
he does. The same, the same ones shall drink. Now there they've
drunk the wine of the fornication of Babylon. Now here God says
they're going to drink the wine of the wrath of God. And he said
it's poured out, there's no mixture to it. Pure wrath, pure anger. Unmixed, unmixed, unmitigated. And these people, they're going
to be tormented, tormented with fire and brimstone. Now look where it says it's going
to happen at. Oh, in the presence of the holy
angels and right in the very presence of the Lamb of God Himself. He said that God says, the Lamb
said, this is all right. God's just to deal with men like
this. Here on this earth, there's kindness,
there's long-suffering. God is good. There's still rain
as far as on the just and the unjust, on the good and the evil,
while you're here. God's patience, God's long-suffering. It's still here, still on this
earth. Still here to call men, manifest itself to men. But boy,
oh boy, when that judgment comes, nothing but wrath and being tormented,
tormented, tormented, continually. Cause it's in their presence,
the angels and the Lamb. You know why they agree with
it? Because the punishment is just. God's punishment is just. Then in verse 11, and this judgment
never ends, look what it says here. And the smoke of their
torment, see fire and brimstone's there now. And the smoke of their
torment ascendeth up forever and ever. It goes up just in
the presence of God forever and ever. And listen to this, and
they have no rest day nor night. who worship the beast in his
image, and whosoever receiveth the mark in his head. You know,
that's vivid language. You consider the things that
people say about God. Consider the things that people
say about his son. Consider the things people say
about his word. and you'll understand why God
does what he does to people. Look in over here in chapter
9, verse 20. You think God's not just to punish
people? Listen to here. You know, whatever he does with
my children, he's gonna be just. Whatever he does with yours,
he's gonna be just. We hope, we hope That God regards our children
like He did Jacob. But He may, He may, He may let you have an Esau. He might. He very well may. He may. I hope He don't. I wouldn't want one of my children
to be an Esau. But if that's what God wills,
that's the way it'll be. And I won't. What am I going
to say about it? What can I say about it? What
can Esau say about it when God said, I love Jacob? And Jesus,
I don't want nothing to do with you. That's what makes him God. And
that's what makes us people that we're absolutely and utterly
dependent on Him. That's what makes Him God. Oh,
you all are so blessed, Elder. You're so blessed, your children
here. You and Steve, you're all so blessed to have your children,
all of them converted. The only thing that you can attribute
that to is God and His grace. That's the only thing you can
attribute it to. Your children's no different than anybody else's,
but God had mercy on them. God did. Ain't that something? And the preacher ain't got a
person in this family that attends the worship of God. Not one. But Scott was that way with his
four boys, wasn't he? But God's gonna do just exactly
what's right. With me, you, our sons, our daughters,
our children, our grandchildren. Look what it said here in verse
20 of Revelations 9. And the rest of the men, which
were not killed by those plagues, yet repented not of the works
of their hands. They didn't even say, I'm sorry,
Lord God, forgive me. And they did not repent that
they worshiped devils, And idols of gold, and silver, and brass,
and stone, and wood, which neither conceived nor hear in their walk,
they didn't repent. Neither repented they of their
murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornications, nor
of their thefts." Don't you think God would be just in punishing
those people? And that's what he is. One thing I am so thankful for,
and this is what the gospel tells us. I've done been judged. I've done
been to God's judgment. Done been judged. And walked out of the courtroom. Nobody say anything against me. Why? Because Christ stood for
the judge. took my place, and I walked out. Oh Lord Jesus, oh our Savior,
our blessed, blessed Master, our Lord, our God. Oh Lord, we get at a loss sometimes
when we think about you, and when we hear what is going to
happen to those who Don't repent, who don't turn to you, and who
don't believe you, and don't trust you. It's a fearful thing,
fearful thing. And Lord, I pray that you'd bless
the gospel to our hearts, to our understandings. Make it alive
and real and vital to us. For Christ indeed is our life.
He is our life. And Lord, bless those who don't
have that life of Christ, don't know that life of Christ. Bless
them, oh Lord, God, to see it, to believe it, to embrace the
Lord Jesus Christ. He'll never put anybody off if
it comes to Him. Oh, I've never been a soul that's
ever come to Him with outstretched hands, with nothing in them,
with a heart sorrowful for the way it is. It comes to you for
a new heart, comes to you for a new mind, comes to you to know
you. Oh Lord, we'll never cast them
away. Father, save your people in this place. Bring your glory
to yourself through the preaching of the gospel and the salvation
of your people. We ask these things in Christ's
name. Amen. Amen. To God be the glory, great things
he hath done, great things he hath taught us.