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but god teaches to worship you lord when we uh don't feel like it teaches lord to give thanks lord when it seems like there's nothing but troubles on every side and attacks on every side well we just ask you the holy spirit to come and to teach us really teach us how to worship god teach us how to draw near lord we pray this this morning we ask that you give us ears to hear this morning i really pray that lord that you give us ears to hear [Music] your word and that you prepare our hearts prepare us for the things ahead of us prepare us for the days that are ahead of us lord we pray this this morning in jesus name amen and amen praise god [Music] and turn to we're gonna go to matthew i'm sorry luke 17. let's go to luke 17 first as we keep studying this um actually i just tell you this earlier in the week the lord had me get up i don't know if it was monday morning now or tuesday morning i'm losing track of my day he's here but uh early um maybe monday morning i don't know but early the lord woke me up and i went up and prayed and he started giving me this um direction in this that we needed to address this subject and this is just more um we're going to look at some of the things jesus said but if we were going to call this something i guess we would say more of the of the signs of the end of the age but some things that jesus said that um we need to look at more closely in luke 17 and let's just go over let's see we're going to go over to oh gosh let's see we'll just go to luke 17 we'll start in about verse uh i guess verse 20 and we'll start reading from there all right luke 17 verse 20 and when he was demanded of the pharisees when the kingdom of god should come he answered them and said the kingdom of god cometh not with observation neither shall they say no here or no therefore behold the kingdom of god is within you now of course jesus was saying this to them not saying that there would not be a day that the physical kingdom of god comes on the earth because that was taught in the book of isaiah and daniel and other books but jesus was trying to get across to them that that's not my purpose right now my purpose is to build the kingdom of god within you now what is the kingdom of god within you just so you know i mean
romans 14 says the kingdom of god is not meat and drink but it's righteousness peace and joy in the holy ghost and then in first corinthians 4 20 he paul said the kingdom of god is not in word only but in power so what jesus was trying to say is right now what i'm concerned about most with you guys and with my disciples is that you have to understand the kingdom of god being within you righteousness peace joy in the holy spirit the power of the holy spirit so he wasn't saying that the kingdom was not going to come the physical kingdom matter of fact he went on to talk about the signs right after this and he said unto them this is the next verse 22 and he said unto the disciples the days will come when you shall desire to see one of the days of the son of man and you shall not see it and when they say unto you see here see there go not after them nor follow for as the lightning that lighteneth out of one part under heaven shineth unto the other part under heaven so shall also the son of man be in his day now this is similar to what jesus said in matthew 24 it's just another uh another way he said it but that you know don't when if they say christ is over here or christ is over there especially in the latter times don't believe it because everybody's going to see when he comes so he says that's lightning but that he says but then he goes on to tell them and tries to explain to them but first he must suffer many things and be rejected of this generation now look at verse 26 and it was he says and as it was in the days of noah so shall it also be in the days of the son of man they did eat and drink they married wives they were given in marriage until the day that noah entered into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all likewise also as it was in the days of lot they did eat they drank they bought they sold they planted they built it and the same day that lot went out of sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all even thus shall it be in the day when the son of man is revealed then he says in that day he which shall be upon the housetop and his stuff in the house let him not come down to take it away and he that is in the field let him not likewise uh turn back remember lot's wife whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it and it whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it i tell you that in that night that there shall be two men in one bed i think this is very interesting you just got through talking about the days of lot we know that the homosexuals were militant and aggressive in that day and we're going to look at that in a second but he says two men shall be in one bed so he's making it clear you know and he says one shall be taken and the other one left and i'll deal with that later two women shall be grinded together and one shall be taken the other left two men shall be in the field the one shall be taken the other left so jesus said two things here these are
some of the signs he said as it was in the days of noah so shall it be in the time when the son of man is going to return he said as it was in the days of lot so those two things that we need to look at in more depth and see are these things happening in our world so let's go back to genesis chapter 6 real quick we're going to look at this genesis chapter 6 and see what it was happening in the days of noah all right genesis 6. it's always good to go back to genesis the beginning of mankind you know why because mankind really hasn't changed that's why solomon said there is nothing new under the sun he didn't mean that there's no new inventions or no new things that'll come on the earth but mankind's nature will never change there's nothing new about satan there's nothing new about sin there's nothing new about the lust of the flesh there's nothing new about false religion or deception there's nothing new and most of it all you can find originated back in genesis so genesis chapter 6 let's read this for a minute it says verse 1. and it says and it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them that the sons of god now these are angels if you look it up in the hebrew the word here sons of god means angels he says that the sons of god saw the daughters of men that they were fair and they took them lives of all which they chose and this of course began to grieve the lord and these are fallen angels and we're going to talk about this in a minute fallen angels taking human wives and this began to grieve the lord because the human race was now and it's still at a very young age beginning to be polluted by these fallen beings by these fallen angels and it says the lord said because of this he said my spirit shall not always strive with man for that he is also flesh yet his day shall be 120 years and this is before the flood man lived you know we know the oldest man lived in 986 years adam lived in 936 years god created man his physical body to live forever now sin came in and brought death but still god made man to live a very very long time but after he said after the flood he was going to change the entire climate of the earth through the flood and through the judgments he was bringing it was going to change man's lifetime and as you notice no one really lives anymore uh beyond 120 years i mean we just don't hear of it i mean i think the record books are 117 or something like that right now in in this modern time so again god's word proved itself to be true god put a limit on man's lifespan but look what he says in verse four he says there were giants in the earth in those days also after that the sons of god came into the daughters of men and
they bear children to them and the same became mighty men which were of old men of renown and god saw the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that the imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually and it repented the lord or it made him sorry that he had even made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart and the lord said i will destroy man whom i have created from the face of the earth both man and beast and creeping things and fowls of the air for it repenteth me that i have made them but look at verse 8 but noah found grace in the eyes of the lord and it says these and this is an important verse here these are the generations of noah noah was a just man and perfect in his generations and noah walked with god now it's important that we understand that it's interesting god is talking about not just that noah was a righteous man and not just that noah walked with god but that he was perfect in his generations meaning that noah's bloodline had not been tainted and polluted by this mixture going on between these fallen angels and the daughters of men satan was basically trying to destroy the earth now i'll just put up the next one here i want you to see this this is i mean there's some other pictures but fallen angels came and they took the daughters of men and this is pretty much recorded down throughout history um and it says it created a race of giants now the the hebrew word there that's the plural of it but the nephilim or nephilim is what they're called but what this just shows here of course god had to come in and judge and this is where we get the giants you know you you hear about you know david and goliath which was many years later but we're finding out that that this was a bigger problem and that almost every culture in the world has has stories and legends and myths about giants okay well the bible talks about this and and this is actually confirmed also in the book of enoch and the book of jubilees that i believe aren't necessarily they're not scripture but they are i believe they're true historical accounts we'll talk about that in a minute too but um it's important the reason i bring this out is because god said as it was in the days of noah jesus said it will be in the time of the coming of the son of man well when these fallen angels came down and took the daughters of men they were able somehow i don't understand it all but they were able to reproduce and have children these women these human women with these fallen angels and to reproduce and have these these nephilim these these giants and many believe that these uh that these giants uh became rulers became tyrants became powerful people now i want to talk a little bit i guess you can go to the next one i can't remember what's up here but um according to the book of
enoch these fallen angels taught me in things now let me explain real quick the book of enoch okay the book of enoch is a unique book because it is an ancient book that people believe you know enoch the bible says during this time enoch walked with god 300 years and was not that god took him he was so close to god that god took him it is believed by all the jewish scholars and down through the centuries that enoch was a prophet and enoch it's interesting that the book of enoch was found when the dead sea scrolls were found okay and also it is one of the only books that the bible quotes it quotes it in the book of jude and in other places so i mean quotes it specifically they found you know if you look in uh enoch chapter i think it's chapter one two or three is where you know actually uh jude quotes enoch so i've read the entire book of enoch and i find no contradictions of scripture see and this is this is how you look at things it's just like if i wrote a book you know i wrote grace abuse or you read somebody else some other minister or prophet or somebody that wrote a book what you do is you read what they use it's okay you read what they wrote and you know if they say they have a vision from god or a word from god or something like that well what you do is you judge it by the scriptures and as long as it doesn't contradict the scriptures and it's a witness to your heart that it's true then you can witness it you know you just say well this is not scripture this is not the word of god but it is um it is a word from god you get what i'm saying just like the prophets it says in first corinthians 14 let the prophet speak let the others judge once we discern and judge that it is from god then we just say hey yeah that's that's a word from god but we don't put it on the same level as scripture okay so the book of enoch what's interesting about the book of enoch is that it fills in some gaps for us okay what enoch says about these fallen angels is not only did they come down here he confirms the biblical account that they came down here and procreated with the daughters of men and created these giants when he talks about these fallen angels also came down here and taught men things okay and he goes into teaching he said that they taught men about the heavens about astrology about witchcraft they taught men about how to work with metal and create weapons and taught them warfare and all kinds of things we know from history we look at history and up there is a very very ancient sumerian tablet from where sumeria was the beginnings of the of the babylon and here's what's very interesting if you look at this ancient tablet you'll notice right there where you see the sun with the planets around it with those circles around it
they had knowledge of the heavens before anybody really discovered it was believed for centuries and centuries that the earth was the center of our solar system and that not the sun and these ancient sumerians had this knowledge and it's interesting they've got our pla our son with nine planets and then another little one out there well it's interesting we found another one not too long ago right the tenth and so anyway they had this knowledge well the book of enoch tells us that the way men got this knowledge like the mayans with their calendar and the egyptians and their ability to build these things and we look at their their ability their architectural abilities and their mathematical abilities and their knowledge of the stars and the planets and and so mankind right now is looking at all this stuff and we're going there's no way that man came up with this stuff himself there's also stones that have been moved i mean huge stones that were cut out of mountains and things to make to build certain things like this that even to this day we don't have cranes big enough to move them okay some supernatural forces and some supernatural beings did these things okay now the world is believing and has ideas that it was aliens from other planets that came here with with superior technology or superior intelligence and taught the egyptians how to do this i'm sure you've seen this stuff in movies but it's becoming a very a very believed not just some you know theory they're starting to really believe it because they can't explain it but it's interesting that the bible and the people the prophets around the bible like enoch understood what happened the fallen angels knew all about the heavens and god's creation matter of fact the second heaven is where they were cast when they were cast out of god's heaven the third heaven they were cast to the second heaven which is basically space they had full knowledge of the stars and the planets and they came down here and they taught men basically how to rebel against god and how to be evil okay and they taught me and how to do these things and it's interesting there was one um video that that i watched you see the the king there the sumerian king seated on that throne if you stand him up if you measure him out and stand him up he is a giant he's taller than them okay um so it's it's just i mean it's a very interesting study i mean these are not these are not things that are outside of the scriptures really all of the secrets are in there i sit here and go you know we were talking about this to somebody i can't remember
now the other day i was talking about the i guess it was the youth i was talking to the youth group about you know people believing in aliens i said they're aliens all right i mean just the term alien means what stranger from somewhere else foreign right they're just not beings i mean they're just not physical you know beings like from another planet they are beings that god created that rebelled against him now it's interesting that the book of enoch goes on to say and this bible says but god to stop this took these angels these fallen angels and bound them in chains to be reserved into judgment into the great debt okay now i'm gonna freak y'all out this morning okay now this is all in in in the scriptures and and it there it's all bred out but i'm just i don't have time to go through it all but when god just flooded the earth at this time there was a whole race of giants through the world okay and they were part demon they were part fallen angel creature and they were part human so they're very unique to the lord they were both spiritual and physical well what the book of enoch teaches is when god destroyed all them all those giants their spirits could not go to heaven or hell just yet and the spirits were allowed to roam the earth and that the unclean spirits in the world aren't the fallen angels [Music] from heaven that god locked them up because they were so evil in making these giants and that the spirits that this this is why they say that demons want a body so bad because they had one before okay we'll get into that another time but it's very interesting because the bible i i remember studying years ago just reading the scriptures in peter first and second peter and he's talking about they reserved these angels into judgment and chains into judgment to the great day and i thought well if the fallen angels are in chains and held in the bottomless pit and held into the judgment of the final day what are demon spirits and i think god only left a few of these angels to romans we know of course lucifer satan is a fallen angel that's still moves the bible talks about also in the book of revelation certain there's going to be a key given to the bottomless pit and they're going to be angels fallen angels let loose that were down in that bottomless pit one by the name of a badam or apollyon that's just a destroying angel so anyway i just wanted you to i wanted you to see that because what does this all talk about okay when he says as it was in the days of noah what what is one of the signs that we should be looking for in the end well that is the rise of satanism of the occult you go you can put up the next one it's the rise of satanism the rise of the occult world in our world let me ask you something just over the last 20 or 30 years have we
seen a rise of satanism in the occult in the world i mean it is unbelievable the amount of ritualistic murders the amount of satanic cults nearly every rock group almost almost every rock group and every popular music group i mean our culture has been saturated now with satanism and wicca and witchcraft and the occult so if if jesus said as it was in the days of noah so would it be in the in the time of the coming of man what was that thing with those fallen angels intermingling with uh the women of men that just shows what what satan wants to do and that is he continually his goal is to pollute he wants to pollute mankind with a demonic realm and turn him against god and by that prophecy that as it was in the days of noah he said it would be in the in the time of the son of man and then of course i mean look at all the movies go to the i mean this is a new one coming up occult and angelic themes and movie after movie i mean this one legion coming new moon with the werewolves and vampires of course new moon is just another twilight series harry potter series it made a gazillion dollars you know all about witchcraft but it's been going on for some time these are 96 was the craft going back before that i think the witches of eastwood i mean we could go on and on and on about how it's just been bombarded us in our culture um you keep going but the goal and i said this the goal has always been by satan it's always been to pollute mankind with unclean spirits i even think i think that's an album cover or something right there but but they just tell you i mean they understand the world is turning more and more to satan more and more to the occult world more and more to witchcraft they understand that spirits that the goal is to get people possessed oppressed minds controlled by evil spirits and that's what satan was trying to do before the flood he was trying to pollute mankind with the fallen angels with these with this unclean race and so that he could control it and destroy it and god said i've had enough i'm not putting up with this anymore but before god did this that wasn't the only reason what did he say there in genesis 6 he said because the thoughts of man's heart was only evil continually now think about that man right now you can't hardly turn on the tv set or the radio or go to a movie or pick up a magazine on a grocery store rack that is just not full of adultery or lust or nakedness or perversion
you just about can't do it and and and the the addiction now so many people addicted to uh pornography and things it just you begin we're can anybody keep their mind and heart clean and pure because it is everywhere and there's an interesting scripture in peter where it says that lot was a righteous man but but by living in sodom living among wicked and perverse people it says that his righteous soul was vexed day-to-day literally oppressed distressed and pushed to the fact that that god still called him righteous but you look at what happened when he leaves sodom and god he sees god rain fire down on it his wife looks back after being instructed not to is turned into a pillar of salt they found archaeologists have found sodom where the site where it rained fire and brimstone and it's uh and they found artifacts and things under ash and sulfur balls and i mean it's unreal they found the place they know it existed all right i've been doing my research this week i just i just don't have time to put it all up there but they know it all happened but but here's lot he goes out of sodom but what does he end up doing committing incest with his two daughters and i'm sitting here going and treating his daughters it got him drunk and then but what i'm what i'm getting at is see the just by being where he shouldn't be just by being in an atmosphere constantly bombarded by images and by filthy talk and perverse actions and i mean here lot in sodom is begging these militant radical homosexuals to not rape the angels that came into town and i'm sitting here going going wow you know how messed up can it get all right go to the next one yeah let's just go to the next one as it was in the days of love let's look at that look at that they found the cities of the plain there were five cities that god rained fire and brimstone on archaeologists and scientists have discovered that where the place where they found and it's pretty the bible tells exactly where it was i mean there are stupid theologians that don't listen to the bible and went searching all in other different places for the site of sodom and the bible told them where it was and so they go down there and look and sure enough they find this place near the dead sea you know that's turned into ash you know but they found out also that it is on a fault line and that there's a lot of petroleum underneath there and what they believe is that god actually sent an earthquake that cracked open the ground that shot
out sulfur gas and and ignited and the lightning ignited the uh [Music] the gases that came out of the earth and and the and the brimstone so it's just an interesting concept but they say they believe it came up out of the earth and then came down on their houses and they literally have found archaeologists in this area found houses that collapsed the roof but the fire started on the roof okay so just just interesting stuff but he said as it was in the days of lot well we know what happened in the days of oh let me back up real quick though in the days of noah what was one of the things that that that it says in the book of peter we read this a few weeks ago is a sign in the book of first peter he calls noah what and i mean second peter three he calls noah a preacher of righteousness right and he said like it was there only eight souls ended up getting saved in the ark right another sign of that time was people wouldn't listen to preachers of righteousness one listen don't want to hear it and it's interesting they didn't want to hear it right before judgment was about to fall and that's what jesus said as it was in the days of noah people will not want to hear and they don't even deny the flood do you know that that in every culture i even i had it i've copied it over but every culture of the world has a flood story from babylon to china to the mayans to indians over here and you know native americans over here it's unreal um one of the archaeological finds about in in ancient sumeria is the epic of gilgamesh which most believe scholars believe that gilgamesh was nimrod but flood story and it's interesting that all these flood stories around the world you know they say their legends and their myths and all this but it's interesting that all of them talk about a man that the world became wicked that god or some god decided to judge the world and that a man built a boat and saved some people and it interesting and they call it legends and myths what would you do if you had about three or four hundred witnesses to something might be true you know so anyway i just had to say that you know people not listening not listening not just i mean there are people listening to preachers right now just not preachers of righteousness just not preachers warning of the
impending judgment and second coming of jesus christ now they don't listen to those preachers kind of like noah what are you talking about noah it's never rained what is rain it's going to flood what are you talking about what are you doing building a boat you're a crazy man yeah well as the water started covering the tops of the hills and they were climbing up in the trees i guess they didn't think he was crazy anymore right anyway it was in the days let's just look i said in the days of lot what was in the days of law we're not going to read it but genesis you can go back and read it in genesis 18 and 19. the days of lot i'm just going to say it go to the next one public militant homosexuality are we there look at some of these signs here that i found for you here and i of course i want to say that i held back on some of the more terrible ones that were available but look public military homosexuality in genesis we see in the in genesis 18 where god starts talking about he's going to destroy sodom and gomore and i'm going to get into this too a minute he said because the cry had come up to him but he was going to destroy sodom and gomore and then we find out that that the men he said the men of sodom and gomorrah were wicked exceedingly okay and you know it's one thing if if a sinner wants to be a sinner in private you know what i'm saying two sinners want to get together and be sinners and do what they want to do and be wicked i mean of course god's not happy with that and god would rather they repent and do what is right but it's a little bit different when they come out here and making statements like this they are demanding freedom to marry look at this one no more mrs nice gay down here no more mr nice gay you know what part of equal rights does the minister not understand i mean they're demanding that god recognize them they're demanding that churches recognize them and be okay with them they're not just asking they're demanding it they're trying to make a loss and then look where they will stoop to jesus had two dads i mean just pure blasphemy militant homosexuality you know i just heard a terrible story and i won't say but of of gang rape even homosexual gang rape in our military
to other military personnel we are in a weird perverted time but jesus said as it was in the days of lot militant public military homosexuality and boy we've been there for we've been there really since the 1970s that's when that's when by force the homosexual community forced the american psychiatric association to change homosexuality as a mental illness and disorder to an acceptable lifestyle and they've been doing this in the streets ever since and i mean i found stuff not only washington d.c crowded with them but but london and all other places so we see public militant radical homosexuals demanding that they you know can have children and and you know adopt children and i mean it's just unreal where we are so jesus said one of the signs would be another violent radical homosexuality now here's something that in the book i want you to go ahead and turn over to genesis 19. i want to show you something here before we go to the next thing genesis 19. here's another sign and we're going to go to a couple passages here but genesis 19 this is something i think is overlooked and and you know there'll be some people that if they heard me they hear this message out there in the world they're not gonna be very happy about it but i don't care um oh let's see here i'm trying to look down to one particular verse i mean it may be [Music] yeah i believe it's an 18. yeah it's an 18 i'm sorry 18 and this is when we'll just read from verse 16 it says and the men rose up from thence and looked towards sodom and abraham went with them to bring them on their way and the lord said shall i hide from abraham that thing which i do seeing that abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him for i know that he will command his children and his household after him and he shall keep the way of the lord to do justice and judgment that the lord may bring upon abraham that which he has spoken in him and the lord said because the cry of sodom and gomorrah is great and because their sin is very grievous i will go down now and see whether they have done all together according to the cry of it which has come up to me and i will know i want to i want to show you something here it's the cry here the cry came up to him now what cry
not the cry of the homosexuals the homosexuals were going to do what they were going to do they weren't crying to god i'll tell you who the cry was the children the children they were molesting a society with no morals begins to victimize children on a large scale and if you don't think that's true go to the next one and i'm going to show you a verse in the book of joel about this right now we have a growing problem across the world the sex trafficking the sexual slaves the first one is part of an article written by a guy who is at stanford i put the thing up there stanford.edu but he says yet look look at the statistics from six hundred thousand women and children in 2004 this is the us department of state to 1.2 million in 2006 a unicef number nearly half of the people trafficked are children juvenile sex trafficking is not dead at all he says but in fact is on the rise rampantly booming throughout the world's largest cities look at the wikipedia it says here human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world with the total annual revenue for trafficking in persons estimated to be between 5 billion and 9 billion u.s dollars the council of europe states people trafficking has reached epidemic proportions over the past decade with a global annual market of about 42.5 billion dollars the united nations estimates nearly 2.5 million people from 127 different countries are trafficked around the world now most of these unfortunately are children there are even parents renting and selling their children to be sexually abused and god said he heard the cry coming up before him you know i know that a lot of people who end up being homosexual a lot of them won't admit it but a great and i'm not saying all but a vast majority of them have been sexually abused themselves and demons were put into them through that sexual abuse and they never got rid of it and they never got deliverance and they never got freedom and so they perpetrated and it keeps going i mean i don't have this up here but of course everybody's heard that there's an organization in the united states by the
name of namba anybody ever heard of namba that's the north american man boy love association that they want it legal to have sex with children if they want to that is an organization this problem is growing and it is another sign of the end and i'm going to show you turn to joel just in case that you know certain people want to argue about this cry going up from sodom and gomorrah was not the little ones being hurt let's just go to joel chapter 3. now the book of job is a prophetic book it's a prophetic book that deals with israel at that time in chapter one when he talks about in chapter two about the outpouring of the holy spirit in the latter days and he talks about the end about the blood and fire and pillars of smoke but in joel chapter 3 is a chapter where he's actually discusses the judgment of the nations and armageddon is discussed here so i'm saying this because we don't have time to go through the entire book of joel but i'm saying this so you know that this is in context of the last days that joel is speaking here and i may read some of this just so you see it and um verse one he says behold in those days and in that time when i shall bring again the captivity of judah and jerusalem i will also gather all nations and bring them down into the valley of jehoshaphat and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage israel whom they have scattered among the nations imparted my land i mean what are they trying to do right now in israel they're trying to create a palestinian state they're trying to part the land of israel up and look what he says here in verse 3 he says and they have cast lots for my people and they have given a boy for a harlot and sold a girl for wine that they may drink don't tell me you know i think some of the most ridiculous people in the world are these people that believe [Music] that everybody's going to heaven that god loves everybody and everybody's really saved and everybody's really okay with god and god's gonna forgive everything and there is no hell there is no eternal punishment there is no judgment let me tell you something for these wicked wicked people in this world that are raping and abusing children they are not going to heaven when they die or when judgment comes down on the world they are going to burn in a real and literal hell forever and ever and ever and for somebody to say there is no hell and there is no judgment and there is no
justice coming from god doesn't even make sense deep down in the heart of every every real person i remember even when the homosexuals came out and confronted us on the campus and tried to justify their sin and the main one the lesbian professor was trying to say you know that we're all god's children and we're all okay with god and there is no no hell and everybody's going to go to heaven and so i said i said so you guys believe that the guy that's out molesting child after child after child is going to go to heaven boy one homosexual young man stepped up and goes no he's gonna burn in hell forever and i said oh some of you do believe in hell why because deep down you know he was probably molested deep down in them they know i mean think about the ridiculous nature of that hitler and his storm troopers and his his you know his killing torturing and killing of six million jews and not only before they killed some of them they would rape men and women and rape little children you wouldn't tell me that hitler and his storm troopers are going to get forgiveness and and go into heaven this is ridiculous no there is a hell for satan and his fallen angels and for anybody who wants to follow him we all have a sense deep down in us built in by god of justice and what is right and wrong but they sold the boy he says they sold a boy for a harlot and sold a girl for wine and if you have any doubt that this is talking about the last days look what he says in verse nine he says proclaim you this among the gentiles prepare war wake up the mighty men let all the men of war draw near let them come up beat your plowshares and the swords and your pruning hooks into spears let them let the weak say i am strong assemble yourselves come all you can gather yourself together round about cause your mighty ones to come down let the heathen be awakened and come to the valley of jehoshaphat or the valley of armageddon for there will i sit to judge all the heathen he says put you in the sickle for the harvest is right come get you down for the press is full and the vats overflow for their wickedness is great multitudes multitudes in the valley of decision for the day of the lord is near in the valley of decision the sun and the moon shall be darkened and the stars shall withdraw their shining and the lord shall roar out of zion in his voice from jerusalem so this is clearly talking about the end when god draws all the heathen and armies of the world to the valley of jehoshaphat the valley of megiddo for armageddon and god says i'm going to judge them there because of their wickedness is great
we are there the days of noah the days of lot the days joel spoke about [Music] i mean it's interesting second timothy also second timothy chapter three one of the things that paul said too about the end you think about the sexual problems in this world this just the rampant sexual sin that's going on everywhere and this he said that and you can turn to second timothy chapter three just more confirmation of this verse one says this know also that in the last days perilous times shall come he said for men shall be lovers of their own cells covetous boasts proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful unholy look at this word without natural affection but just recently in the opelika auburn area some guy some adult man rapes and kills an infant sodomizes an infant we are sick this is a sick world he says without natural affection truce breakers false accusers in the word here incontinent incontinent means unable to control any sexual desire passion just having no control and it refers to sex and he says here fierce about it despisers of those that are good they hate anybody that tells them these things are wrong you're going to be judged you're going to be damned for these things despisers of those that are good traitors heady high-minded and here it is lovers of pleasures more than lovers of god we are there the rise of the occult the days of knowing the rise of the occult people not wanting to listen to
preachers of righteousness the days of lot the rise of rampant you know public militant homosexuality and the rise of of child sexual abuse the rise of selling women and children and to sexual slaves to be sexual slaves don't tell me where i sit back sometimes and these people that say you know where's the promise of this coming where jesus didn't come people been saying this for years now every sun every sun is pointing there how specific could this be in joel that in the end right before god gathers the children of israel or gathers the armies of the world to israel to judge them at armageddon he says they'll be selling boys and girls is that that's pretty specific who would have thought in the modern era having done away with you know the slavery of blacks in america finally that we would be back to a new kind of slavery who would have thought that [Music] people have gotten cold and hard their consciences are centered so the days of noah the purpose was to fill people with demons to fill them with unclean spirits to fill them with with the polluted fallen angels and it's still the goal now the movies the music the tv shows the sexual pressure it's all the mold everybody it's all the control everybody it's all to try to get everybody i mean satan's whole goal get you away from jesus christ get you away from righteousness get you away from the word of god get you away from believing the truth get you away so he can control you manipulate you use you and then destroy you this has always been satan's goal for the human and he is unleashing a flood of filth upon the world let's let's look at one more thing and we're going to close this morning we'll be out of here early revelation chapter 12. the flood of filth really it's been here for the last few decades but as we enter the end revelation 12. verse 7 and it says and there was war in heaven and michael and his angels fought
against the dragon and the dragon fought and his angels and prevailed not neither was their place found anymore in heaven and the great dragon was cast out that old serpent called the devil and satan which deceives the whole world which deceives what the whole world he's been pretty successful in deceiving the whole world who deceives the whole world he was cast into the earth and his angels were cast out with him and i heard a loud voice saying in heaven now has come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our god and the power of his christ for the accused of our brethren is cast down which accused them before our god day and night now this isn't talking about when they fell when satan fell from heaven in years past this is talking about satan cain into the second heaven and he set up principalities and powers it says he's the prince and power of the air he set up his dominions and thrones over nations over cities over peoples and what is happening god said in the end that that rule is happening michael and his angels are going to fight against the dragon and his angels and they're going to cast them out even out of the second heavens and when this happens we again most of us we don't know when or where we are in that process but whenever that happens one of the things that it may have already happened because this is what it says will happen when he is cast down to the earth look what he says in verse 12. he says therefore rejoice you heavens and you that dwell in them but roe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea for the devil has come down unto you having great wrath because he knows that he has but a short time and when the dragon saw that he was cast into the earth he persecuted the woman which brought forth the man child and the woman of course refers i believe to israel here and he said he persecuted the woman but was there was given to her two wings of a great eagle what's the symbol of our country he came to destroy israel the whole focus is this two listen satan's focus in these last days is two things to destroy israel and to destroy the church the true christians those are the two things he hates the jews and god's grastonian gentiles okay he hates us and he and it's interesting he defines this here he says to the woman we're given two wings of a great eagle that she might fly to the wilderness into her place and be nourished for a time and at times and a half a time and of course the united states has been part of protecting israel for some time but look at verse 15 and it says and the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood listen my contention to you the flood that's trying to take away the woman which the woman we're part of that we're part of israel we're part of that that's our heritage that's our culture our king and our savior was a jew okay
in the flesh but part of that i believe the flood that is trying to carry away the woman and the church is the flood of filth the flood of temptation upon temptation upon the flood of sin is just unreal the world is being flooded with filth from the serpent's mouth and look what it says though and the earth helped the woman and the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of us and the dragon was angry with the woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed which keep the commandments of god and have the testimony of jesus christ we are at war with some fallen angels some unclean spirits a a whole world that's deceived and a flood of filth that is trying to carry us away and i thank god that we don't have to deal with it by ourselves right interesting says the earth opened up right the earth helped the woman when you talk about the earth who has dominion over the earth what did jesus say behold all power is given unto me in heaven and in earth you will not be able to stand against the flood of filth against the powers of darkness against the temptations unless you have the power of jesus in your life where i walk with god noah was a good man in a very evil time lot managed to be called righteous even though he was messed up and there are going to be people who are going to make it and what we just what we have to determine is are we going to make it and i want to back up the verse 11. and this tells us how we make it this tells how we make it in these last days and they overcame him that is satan they overcame satan by the blood of the lamb by the blood of jesus christ by the word of their testimony and because they love not their lives even unto the death well you ought to let those sink in man if you trip or stumble or struggle you can confess your sin and the blood of jesus will wash you clean there is mercy and forgiveness with our god we would not be able to make nobody's good enough are going to be righteous enough you need the blood of jesus on your life
and you need it on your life every day of your life and you need to if you've got a struggle with a sin confess it forsake it it'll be forgiving and watch that's the goodness of god that the blood was shed for us but the blood is also powerful to cover yourselves and to protect you from the powers of darkness and you can literally say jesus cover me in the blood cover me in the blood spirit soul and body i do that all the time but look what he says here we overcome satan not by sitting around being quiet but by the word of our testimony you need to speak the word of god out of your mouth you need to speak the good things that god's done in your life you got to speak it out you got to share the gospel with people you got to fight back this flood of filth by speaking something against it and you speak the word of god and you speak your testimony that's one thing nobody can deny what you've experienced in god nothing you know i mean i was you know on drugs and all kinds of stuff and and basically a teenage alcoholic what what changed my life jesus coming into my life jesus revealing himself to me the blood of jesus washing my sins away they can't say that didn't happen you understand the word of your testimony then this one is going to be more and more in the days ahead loving not your life even unto the death [Music] i mean think about it there will be people who will take the mark of the beast so they can eat and jesus goes you know you might even have to lay down your life this is about more than anything it's about more than being able to go down and buy a refrigerator or something these are things that jesus warned us of here's how you overcome satan the blood the word of your testimony and loving not your life even to the death is that the word of god you guys all right let's pray thank you lord heavenly father we thank you today god for this time together for time in your word lord god there's just terrible terrible wickedness going on in the world and lord granted all of us in the past and all of us have struggled with sin and with the lust of the flesh and with jack that's in this world and there is a flood of filth trying to carry away even true christians trying to carry us away and now we just pray in the name of jesus that you'll give us the strength to discern it to recognize it to fight it that you will help us holy spirit whatever it takes that you will help us to stand strong and stand firm and stand true and holy in these last
days we want to be we wanted to be said like noah that we were righteous that we were with our just so lord i pray in the name of jesus bless your people here today bless those that hear this message lord father we ask you to prepare are people that will be real people that will stand strong in the last days we pray this and we ask it in jesus name amen