Revelation chapter 17, the title
of our lesson this morning is the mystery of false religion. Now, you recall that in last
week's lesson, we saw the seventh of the vials being poured out
upon the earth, and that seventh vial was the end of human time
on earth. It was God's final judgment and
the harshest of God's judgment that came upon the earth. And
that vial being poured out was upon false religion. and the
destruction and the fury that God poured out upon them was
absolutely shocking. Just how he crushed and just
completely annihilated those who were in false religion. Now
that judgment was severe, but it was not too harsh. That's
exactly what false religion deserves. And that's what the angel is
going to show us in Revelation chapter 17. He's going to show
us why it is that this judgment of God that came upon false religion
was so shocking to me. It's because of the nature of
false religion. That's what he's going to show
us at the beginning of this chapter. And when we see the nature of
false religion, we'll see that this severe judgment that God
poured out upon them was warranted. Now, Babylon, he talks about
here in verse five, the mystery of Babylon, Babylon and scripture
represents false religion. It's the, best ideas that men
can come up with. It's the wisdom of men. And the
name given to false religion here in our text in verse five
is mystery Babylon. Now, nobody can understand a
mystery. You remember this? We looked at Romans chapter 11
about the mystery. Nobody can understand a mystery
until somebody else gives them the answer. Somebody else has
got to reveal what's going on to them. Just like in Romans
11, Paul talks about the mystery of the gospel. The gospel cannot
be understood by the natural man. It must be revealed to us.
God's got to reveal that to us. Well, false religion is the same,
is the same way. It's a mystery to the natural
man. The natural man thinks this religion
is good. They think works religion that
trying to get people to act more, have a higher moral standard
and do good works and all these things. The natural man thinks
that's good. But the mystery of false religion
is that it's wicked. And that's what is going to be
revealed to us here in our text this morning. It's the nature
of false religion, that it's wicked. And that's a mystery
to the natural man. It's got to be revealed to us. So that's
what the angel, the preacher does in chapter 17, verse 1. And there came one of the seven
angels, which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto
me, Come hither. I will show thee the judgment
of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters. Now, I hate to give false religion
a whole lot of press, but it's necessary that we're taught about
it from God's Word for this purpose. Not so we can mock them and look
down upon them, you know, have a holier-than-thou attitude about
it, but it's so that we recognize a lie when we hear it. False
religion is revealed through preaching. Remember, these angels
represent God's preachers, and the mystery of false religion
what it is, its wickedness is revealed through preaching. But
now we're not just going to preach against false religion. The best
way to show and to see the wicked nature of false religion is to
see the holy nature of the gospel, to see the holy nature of true
religion. And that's what I want us to
see this morning by God's grace. Now, the first thing I want us
to see is this, the nature of false religion, is the nature
of a whore. I mean, that's strong language,
but that's the language that scripture uses here. The angel
said, I'm going to show unto thee the judgment of the great
whore. Now, a whore does wicked things
for money. That's what she does. She sells
her body for money. False religion is nothing more
than a common street whore. I know that's harsh language,
but that's the language of scripture. False religion defiles itself
for money. It tells people what they want
to hear, even when they know it's a lie. Even when they're
being hypocritical about it, they tell them that because false
religions are interested in the truth at all costs. They're interested
in gaining for themselves at all costs. Even if it's the cost
of the souls of men and women who listen to them. They don't
care about that. They're not, they just are not interested
in the souls of men and women who hear them. They're interested
in their own gain in this life. Solomon described false religion
as a harlot who deceives the simple-minded. Solomon said,
I watched it happen. The harlot comes out with all
of her jewelry and her perfume and her fancy words, and she
deceives the simple. Now, the simple man thought,
oh, this is great. This whole adventure with this
woman ended up being he got run through with the dart and killed.
It wasn't good for him at all, but he was deceived by this harlot
with her fancy words and her jewelry and her perfume. That's
what false religion is. It's deceptive. And the wife
hates a whore more than anything. It's the worst thing that she
can think of to say is this woman is a whore. I'll give you an
example. Many years ago, I was at Sam's. I was there for work,
getting things for work, and I saw this fellow, middle-aged,
I thought he was old at that time. He was probably middle-aged.
He is with this girl. She's 20, 21. I mean, young enough
to be his daughter, but the way they were walking around, that
wasn't his daughter. She was in a fur coat. She had this real
nice dress, high heels, just dressed to the nines going to
Sam's. And I thought, huh, but I know what's going on there.
Well, a little while later, I see another woman. This woman, she's
middle-aged. She's in jeans and an army coat,
like, you know, just how you go to the store. A minute, that
woman started yelling, whore! Whore! Anybody want to see a
whore? That was her husband. That young girl with her husband.
Oh, it made her so mad. The worst thing she could think
of to say was to call her a whore. Brethren, that's false religion. It's not something to be tolerated.
It's not something to think it's cute or they're spiritual whore,
spiritual fornicators. And the bride of Christ hates
a whore more than anything else because their message lies on
our husband, lies on our Savior for their own gain and destroys
the souls of men and women in the process. That's the nature
of flesh that we're all born with. The nature of our flesh,
you have to admit it, even though you know better, the nature of
our flesh is still impressed with the morality and the, you
know, striving to be good of false religion, don't we? We're
still impressed by that. Look at 2 Corinthians chapter
11. Our flesh is still impressed with that, but by God's grace,
God's given his people a new nature. A new nature that's the
opposite of that flesh. And it loves the things that
are opposite of the flesh. It hates the things that the
flesh loves. Look here at 2 Corinthians 11, verse 2. Paul says, For I am jealous over
you with godly jealousy. For I have espoused you to one
husband that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
That's the nature of a believer. The new nature of a believer
is they've been made a chaste virgin in Christ. And when God
does that for you by his grace, you see, because of the nature
of false religion, it's so vile, it should be damned. It should
be destroyed in this awful, shocking way we saw last week at the end
of chapter 16. So the nature of false religion, first of all,
is the nature of a whore. Second, the nature of false religion
is the religion of the whole world. It dominates the whole
world. At the end of verse one in our text, it says this woman
that sitteth upon many waters. Now those waters are the waters
of all the world. It just represents the nature
of all men in the world. And he tells us exactly in verse
15 what those waters represent. He saith unto me, the waters
which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples and
multitudes and nations and tongues. It's just the people of all the
world and false religion sits upon it. And it has such a control
over all people of the world, no matter where they come from,
because it's the nature of the flesh. No matter what color it
is, or what shape it is, or what language it speaks, it's the
nature of the flesh to love that false religion, to think that
we can earn something by being better than somebody else. And
this is the message of false religion. just appeals to the
flesh because it all deals with making the flesh better, making
the flesh more comfortable. They talk about how to have a
better life here. And really all it is, is how
to win friends and influence people. All you got to do is
read a motivational book and you got their message. It's how
to win friends and influence people. It's how to get more
of this world's goods, more of this world's popularity, instead
of how to be rich in grace. They talk about things that you
can do if your faith is strong enough, you'll have a more healthy
body. And then they never deal with the health of the soul.
I mean, it'd be great to have a more healthy body. But when
we tell you no matter how healthy your body is right now, when
we tell you how it's going to end, it's going to end in death. It's
going to end going back to the dust from which it was made,
no matter how much faith you have. That's the end of this
flesh. So we ought to be a whole lot more interested in the health
of the soul, shouldn't we? But now the nature of the flesh
of a believer loves those things too. You know, we'd all like
to be more rich. We'd like to be more healthy.
We'd like to have more friends. Look at John chapter 15. That's the
nature of our flesh, but God's given his people a new nature.
He's called his people out of the world. He's called his people
out of the way of the world. He's called his people out of
the thoughts of the world, out of being primarily interested
with the things of this world and the religion of this world.
He's called us out of the world. John 15, verse 18, he's given
us a nature that's the opposite of the nature that's in the world.
Verse 18, if the world hates you, you know that it hated me
before it hated you. If you were of the world, if
you still had the nature that was of the world, the world would
love his own. But because you're not of the
world, because you've got a nature that's not of the world, but
I've chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hated you. Remember the words I said unto
you, the servant's not greater than his Lord. If they persecuted
me, they will also persecute you. And if they've kept my saying,
they'll keep yours also. See, a believer is still in the
world. In our Lord's great high priestly
prayer, he said, Father, I don't ask that you take him out of
the world. No, we're in the world. But we're not of the world. We've
got a nature that's not of the world, that's not primarily interested
in the perishing things of this world. So while those things
still appeal to the flesh, this is what the believer craves.
It's the gospel, the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ that tells
us how to have riches in heaven, how to have real health, eternal
life, how to have union with Christ. The nature of the new
man is interested in those things. And when you see that, when God's
given you that, then you see the worldly fleshly nature of
false religion. All right. Thirdly, The nature
of false religion is spiritual drunkenness. Verse two, with
whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication and the
inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine
of her fornication. Now first, see how the whole
world just clocks to false religion. The whole world, they love this
whore. They love the spiritual adultery,
the spiritual fornication. They so desire to be joined to
anything other than Christ alone. Everybody does it. From the kings
of the earth, the richest, the smartest, the best educated,
to the smallest inhabitants of the earth, that's the nature
of flesh that just flocks to this false religion. And when
they get there, this is what the scripture says, they're drunk
on the wine of her fornication. And it's not a good drink, is
it? It's not good. Trying to get people to be more
moral and do all these good works. It's not good, is it? God calls
it fornication. And it's the wine of our fornication.
Naturally speaking, somebody who drinks too much wine is drunk. When they have too much wine,
they don't make good decisions. They can't walk a straight line.
They don't see things right. And that's what the message of
false religion does to people spiritually. It makes them spiritually
drunk. So they don't think right. think
about what's being told them. It's the way of salvation, it's
the way of happiness, it's the way of eternal life. They just
don't think because they can't think right. And they can't get
enough of the drink. It's just like an alcoholic.
They just can't stop drinking. I mean, as long as it's there,
they cannot stop drinking it. You wonder why people stay in
false religion? Just because the flesh is addicted
to it. So it makes them make bad decisions.
They trust themselves rather than trust Christ alone. They
make bad decisions. They want the law, not grace.
Now, they'll admit I don't keep the law perfectly, but they still
want the law and not free grace, don't they? They can't walk a
straight line. They can't go on the straight,
narrow path. So they go through the wide gate
that leads to destruction. They don't see things right.
They've got a Bible, but they can't see Christ in it. They're
blind. They can't see Christ, the way
of life. They can't see Christ, the way of eternal life. They
can't see Christ, the way of forgiveness and peace. They can't
see it. All they think is the scriptures
tell them all the scriptures. Give me the law. Tell me how
to live. They can't see they're blinded. They're just on this,
just intoxicated with this spiritual drink of fornication. And their
religion is wicked because it appeals to the flesh. I know
it looks good. It looks holy to the flesh. but
it is the worst sin upon the face of this earth. God calls
it fornication, spiritual fornication. Their message, their nature,
it's not loving. No, it's not loving toward God,
is it? No, it's hateful of God. It's hateful of His Son. And
it's not loving towards God's people. It's not loving towards
any people. I've seen this a little bit from
little bit of experience I've had with people and hearing people
talk about it. This religion that wants you to be moral, keep
the law, you know that's not loving. It's not loving to other
people. You want to know where it always
ends up, always where it ends up. I'm not even talking about
an eternity. I'm talking about on this earth. You want me to
tell you where it ends up? It ends up setting up councils to
judge one another. It ends up, well, we better have
a council. the elders together, we're going to have surprise
inspections in your home, you know, see, you know, his wife,
don't she's supposed to be doing the children and you're doing
there. That's where always ends up judging one another. Always. It's not loving towards people.
They don't have compassion for them. What if he did find a brother
fallen? They don't have compassion towards
them, do they? The apostle told us, you see a brother falling,
you have compassion for him. Consider yourself, lest you also
be tempted. That's the nature of grace. That's not the nature
of the law. This this thing's not loving. It's hateful. Look
at verse six. And I saw the woman drunken with
the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.
And when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration, she scared
me to death is what that that means. See, false religion does
not love Christ. No, they don't. Who put the Lord
to death? Religious people. I know the
Romans joined in to give us a picture of the whole world doing it.
But who is behind it? Religious people. They don't
love Christ and they don't love God's people either. The world
does not love a believer. Don't ever deceive yourself into
thinking that they do. They're drunk on the blood of
martyrs. That's why there's so many martyrs throughout history,
because this is not a loving message. It's hateful. And the
flesh of a believer It's drawn to those things too, because
our flesh is no different. Even after we're born again,
the flesh hasn't changed, has it? But by God's grace, he's
given his people a new nature. He's given his people a nature
that has a taste, a desire for something better. Sincere milk
of the Lord. Look at 1 Peter chapter 1. God's people drink up the gospel.
They drink up Christ, the water of life. You know, God's people,
they don't just follow Christ because they're drunk, that this
thing has deceived them. They don't know any better. No,
the gospel makes a person sober. The gospel puts a person in his
right mind so that he follows Christ because he believes, because
God's given him faith. You remember that demoniac in
the Gadarenes? You know, the law couldn't control
him. Oh, they went out there many times to try to control
him with chains and he just broke them asunder. They finally gave
up. This man is out of control. There's nothing they could do
with him. One day the Lord appeared on the scene. And oh, the people
came back out. And there they saw that demoniac.
They couldn't control him. There he sat, fully clothed,
in his right mind. God gave him a new nature. He
gave him the right mind. He's sober now. And so he follows
the Lord, not because he's drunk and doesn't know any better,
but because he does know better. He knows who he's following.
He knows whom he has believed. He's following him because God's
given him faith and love for Christ. 1 Peter 1 verse 13. Wherefore, gird up the loins
of your mind, be sober and hope to the end for the grace that
is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ
as obedient children. not fashioning yourselves according
to the former lust in your ignorance. Don't don't conduct yourself
in the former lust and your ignorance when you're controlled on this
drunken on this spiritual adultery. But as he which has called you
as holy, so be holy in all manner of conversation, because it's
written, Be holy for I am holy. And when God gives that nature
to a person, then you see the wickedness of this spiritual
drunkenness. this drunkenness, being drunk on the wine of fornication.
Then you finally see how wicked this message of the world really
is. All right. Fourthly, the nature of false
religion. It's a sinful nature. It's not holy. It doesn't come
from a holy place and it does. It never, ever leads a person
to holiness. It's a sinful nature. Verse three,
Revelation 17. So he carried me away in the
spirit into the wilderness, and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet-colored
beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
Now this woman is the whore, and she sits upon the red beast,
and that red beast is Satan. We saw that back in chapter 13.
There's no doubt about it, this is Satan. She's sitting upon
Satan. That tells us false religion
is satanic. I mean, it's not just that they've
got some good things and they're wrong on other things. No, it's
satanic. They get their power. What they
ride upon is the power that comes straight from Satan himself,
who makes himself appear as an angel of light. Satan does not
work out in the bars and honky tonks. That's what Burr Henry
always used to say. He works in religion. He works
in religion. His greatest evil is cloaked
in works religion. Now this beast is the red beast.
Red is the color of man, the color of Adam. False religion
appeals to man. And here's how you can always
tell false religion. It goes from man to God, not
from God to man. It's our works being offered
up to God. That's false religion. True religion, true gospel is
God's grace coming down to man, doing for us what we cannot do
for ourselves. It's the religion that appeals
to man. And red is also the color of
sin. The Lord describes sin as scarlet.
Though your sins be scarlet, they should be white as snow.
But false religion doesn't talk about being made white as snow
in the blood of Christ, do they? No, they talk about cleaning
up yourself, making yourself a little less scarlet through
your own works. But all that does is just dime
in more and more and more in the scarlet of their sin. Because
man's religion still yet has never answered the problem of
sin. They never have. They never have
answered Job's question, how can sin be taken away? How can
a sinful man be made righteous? How can you bring a clean thing
out of an unclean? They still haven't come up with an answer
to that. They don't even bother to address it. They just say,
do your best, and Jesus will clean up the rest, and he'll
make up. That's what they say. Now, I know that appeals to the
flesh, but there's no salvation in it. It's a nature of sin.
And they tell you, just do your best. You know what they're telling
you? Just keep sin upon sin upon sin. Because the best that we
can do is nothing but sin. Now that's self-righteous. It's
not the righteousness of Christ. It's not the righteousness that
the gospel claims. It's the righteousness that's
earned by self. And the worst sin that there is, is self-righteousness. It really is. It's self-righteousness.
It's trying to please God by being the best person you can
be. That's the worst sin on the face of the earth. Want to tell
you why that is? Because self-righteousness says
this. I don't need Christ. I know God sent him to be the
savior of sinners, but I don't need him. Self-righteousness
says God's a liar. Self-righteousness says when
God said that I'm a sinner, he lied. I'm not a sinner. I mean,
I sin. I do commit some sin, but I'm
not dead in sin. I know I'm not perfect. But I
can improve myself and make myself good enough for God to accept.
That's calling God a liar. What do you think God should
do with that in judgment? What would you do if somebody
called you a liar? What do you reckon God's going
to do? Now that's all false religion. I don't care what name you put
on the outside of the building. I don't care what name you put
on the doctrine. I don't care all the different denominations
you can think of. Not one of them is a good name,
not one. I was out at Joe Terrell's in
Iowa one time. We were driving around town.
I said, Joe, don't people around here know anything about where
their religion has come from? Except for the Catholic Church,
every building, I don't recall seeing one building with the
name on it free will. There might be, but I don't remember seeing
it. Every building. had the name Luther or Calvin
on it, every one of them. And he said, no, no, they got
no idea. Because he said, yeah, they got
Luther's name on there. Yeah, they got Calvin's name
on there, but it is 100% worse. I don't care what denomination
you put on it, what color you try to put on the outside of
the coloring book, none of them have a good name. Scripture says,
and that's just my idea, we just read it, they're full of the
names of blasphemers. They don't have some good ideas
that you can take and add to your religion. What they say
is blasphemy. Just one drop, one drop of man's
good works added to Christ makes the entire message blasphemy. And God should destroy that with
a fury that's shocking to the natural man. He really should.
Because you know, false religion knows There's a problem, and
that's why there's religion in the first place. Man knows there's
a problem. False religion knows we're still
naked, just like Adam and Eve knew it in the garden after Adam
sinned. False religion still knows we're naked. Our conscience
tells us that. We're naked before God. We've
got to do something to make up between us and God. Something's
got to be done. But they don't know how to cover
their nakedness anymore than Adam did, because the flesh,
this is a mystery to the flesh. The gospel is a mystery. Adam
tried to cover his nakedness with fig leaves, didn't he? It
didn't work. Well, man thinks, well, we've
come a long way from Adam. We've come a long way from those
cavemen that put drawings, you know, on the walls of caves.
We've come a long way from them. Now we know how to cover our
nakedness. We've got something better. But what they're trying
to do, still yet today, is try to cover their nakedness with
their best works, the same way as Adam and Eve did, And their
works today are nothing better than fig leaves that Adam and
Eve found. Look here at verse 4. And a woman
was arrayed in purple and scarlet color and decked with gold and
precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full
of abominations and filthiness of her fornication. Now the purple
and the scarlet, those are the colors that represent the king.
They're trying to make themselves look like they're dressed in
the king's apparel. They try to produce works that
make them look like sons and daughters of the king, but it
doesn't work because God says their garments, their scarlet
and their purple and all their decorations are nothing more
than filthy rags because they're not the righteousness of Christ.
And the different gems, those are the different precious things
that they try to accumulate to have an atonement for their sins.
Surely God will accept this. They won't work. Peter told us
that point blank. We're not redeemed with corruptible
things, such as silver and gold. And here's something that's an
issue. They try to serve their message up on golden platters
and golden cups to make you drink their poison, to make you think,
oh, it's offered up in this golden cup, so it must be good. They
package their message to try to impress the flesh. They have
ceremonies. psychology, they have wisdom.
But all those things are only appealing to the flesh, aren't
they? They're trying to make themselves good enough so God
will accept them. They take their hands and they
lift them up to God saying, look, God, look at everything I've
done for you. Look, look here what I've got.
You'll accept this, won't you? But when they lift up their hands,
what they don't know is they're lifting up their works to God.
Their hands are full of abomination and filthiness, and God will
never accept And he shouldn't accept them, should he? But God's
given his people a new nature, a nature that has new desires.
God's people don't ride upon the beast. We don't get our power
of our message from the beast. We've got some a whole lot better.
We ride upon the shoulders of the good shepherd. We're carried
in his bosom tenderly. Believers are not filled with
the names of blasphemy. They're filled with the name
of Christ. So filled with it, that his name is our name. As
Jeremiah said, this is the name wherewith she shall be called.
Jehovah Sidkenu, the Lord our righteousness. We bear his name. Believers aren't scrambling around
trying to cover up our nakedness before God. We don't need anything
else. We don't need another covering.
We've been covered in the best robe, the righteousness of Christ. Believers, they lift up their
hands to God. They'll lift up hands full of what they got.
Say, look, God, they lift up an empty, empty hand of a beggar. And God always, always fills
the empty hand of a beggar. That's what David said. He fills them with the riches
of his grace. And we preach the gospel in a
different way. I mean, not only is the content
of our message different, our method is different. The gospel
is not packaged up in a way that appeals to the flesh. We preach
the gospel in such a way that it's always offensive to the
flesh. Always. The gospel must always
kill the flesh. The gospel has got to always
show us the wickedness of our flesh. And you think once we
got that, we got it, but we don't. We've got to be reminded of it
constantly, don't we? For this purpose. So we're constantly
reminded to look away. from ourselves and look to Christ.
We don't preach the gospel in such a way that the flesh will
accept it. We don't package the gospel so it'll appeal to the
flesh. We don't hold something back.
So I don't want to tell you this because that'll run you off.
So I'm not going to tell you the whole truth, which means I'm
going to tell you a lie. I'm going to draw again. Once
I got you drawn in, then I'll tell you the truth later. No,
sir. No, we don't package the gospel that way. The gospel is
just preached in truth. Thus saith the Lord. No varnish,
no stain, no marshmallows and cotton candy.
I don't know what else to say. To package it up to make it look
good to the flesh. Thus saith the Lord. And that's
the message that God uses to give His people life. That's
the only message God will use to feed His sheep and to comfort
His sheep. And that's all the believer wants.
See, you've got a new nature that doesn't need ceremony, that
doesn't need psychology, that doesn't need man's logic. Just
give me Christ, preached in a plain and simple way so I cannot misunderstand
it. That's what the believer needs.
Alright, and here's the last thing. The nature of false religion. No matter what name you put on
it, it's all come from one place. Verse 5. And upon her forehead
was a name written, Mystery Babylon, the great, Mystery Babylon, the
great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.
Now there are basically only two religions in all the world,
grace and works. If you boil them down, you always
come down to one of these two things. Grace or works, it's
man or God, one or the other. First, there's a message of works.
But you know, there's nothing good about it. We can talk about
our good works all you want. There's nothing good about it. You know
where it was born from? is born from the mother of harlots.
All man's works can produce is selling ourselves under the law,
just like a common street whore. And that's the best that man's
works can ever be because of where it was born from, who the
mother is. And on her forehead is written Mystery Babylon the
Great, the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth.
That's what's written on her forehead. That's what false religion
is. That's their name, the mother
of harlots and abomination. That's works religion. But the
second religion is a religion of grace. God's free grace always
produces salvation. Free grace makes people righteous,
makes them holy, unblameable and unapprovable in God's sight.
And that's not pretend. That's not just a positional
righteousness, even though you're not really righteous. No, that
means right now, at this very moment, You who believe Christ
are holy, unblameable, and unapprovable on God's side. God can't find
anything wrong with you because Christ took it all away. And
that's what's written in the foreheads of the believer. We
saw that back in Revelation 14. We won't turn back to it, but
written on the forehead of those believers is the name of the
Father. They know the Father. His name
is written in their forehead. They're identified under the
Father. They know God and they know how God saves sinners. Now
those two religions have always been in the world. And works
religion is a tough nut to crack. It's so tough, we're not going
to get rid of it. Not until Christ returns, we
won't get rid of it. But don't worry about it too much. Hate
it, hate it, but don't worry. Run from it, but don't worry
about it too much. Works religion is not going to prevail. That's
what we'll see in our next lesson. It's not going to prevail. It'll
never cause one of God's elect to perish. The message of grace
is going to win out because remember the theme of the book of Revelation,
God wins. His message, the message of grace
is going to win. That's how this thing's going
to end. And that's the nature, the mystery of false religion
and why God destroyed it was such a shocking theory. All right.
Lord bless you.