We've been on the book of Revelation now for a long time and we're only in chapter 6 and we're going to be on the book of Revelation for a long time. I intend to go through the entire Bible as we go through the book of Revelation. Chapter 6, if you will, you'll notice in chapter 5 the Lord Jesus Christ is ready to open the Seventh Sealed Book, which is the scroll. It is really a tidal deed to the planet Earth, and when he opens the Seventh Sealed, the world will go through seven years of cleansing and judgment, and then he will redeem the Earth and begin the thousand-year kingdom. In the meantime, we are living in what is called the Church Age. The Old Testament Prophets did not see this age. It was a mystery. Therefore you will not find anything in the Old testament or anything in the Gospels concerning the age that we're living in. It was a mystery. But anyway, not before I get off on a rampage here, the Lord Jesus Christ has a seven-sealed book. The first six seals are opened during the first half of the seven-year tribulation, three-and-a-half years. You'll notice that we have this drawing by J. You'll notice in chapter six, verse one and two, If you will, and I saw when the land opened, the land opened one of the seals and I heard as it were, the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts sang, come and see. One of the four beasts living creatures sang, come and see. And I saw and behold a white horse, and he that sat on him had a bow and a crown was given unto him and he went forth conquering and to conquer. This is a picture of the Antichrist as he takes control of the world at the beginning of the seven-year tribulation immediately following the rapture of the church. The church will not be here. You and I will never know who the Antichrist is. We will not be subject to the number 666 will be in heaven for three and a half years when that number is instituted and the Antichrist comes riding a white horse which is symbolic of the fact that he comes in peaceably, offering peace to the world. What takes place is the world, or particularly the nation of Israel, who will accept a man who will be the anti-Christ, they will think he is their Messiah. They've been waiting now for their Messiah for all these years. They missed him when he came the first time, had him nailed to the cross, rejected him. but he's coming back. In the meantime Israel will be subject to the seminary tribulation and so will everyone who rejects Jesus Christ. He comes in notice verse two again he has a crown given to him by God and a bow and he went forth conquering. You're going to see maybe not today but maybe next week how important the bow is. But Jay gave us a picture and noticed the white horse the writer with a bow simply symbolic of the fact that the attack Christ comes in promising peace. I have some books in my library, one written by a Jewish rabbi who says their Messiah will be a man who will bring about moral perfection. How stupid. There is not one man who has ever been born that can bring about moral perfection because there is no man that is morally perfect. Only God is morally perfect and His name is Jesus Christ the Lord. We have people say, well, God chose me to be saved. He did not choose you to be saved because you're just a simple, ordinary man. He did not choose you to be saved. That's a lie, right straight out of hell. He died on the cross, so you can be saved, but you got saved the very second you believe it. He didn't choose you. No man is morally perfect. Jesus Christ who came down from heaven as the form of a man was morally perfect. He will offer peace. Hold your place. We're going to come right back here. Go to 1st Thessalonians, chapter 1 if you will. 1st Thessalonians, chapter 1. Chapter 5, rather. Go to chapter 5 and chapter 4 verses 13 through 18. We have a picture of the rapture. And then immediately following the rapture. The Bible says, Paul says through the Holy Spirit, but of the times in verse one, but of the times and the seasons brethren, you have no need that I write unto you. In other words, you'll never know when all these things are going to take place. You'll never know when the rapture's going to take place. You'll never know when any of these things are going to take place because there's no need for you to know. For yourselves, no perfectly, that the day of the Lord, so comeeth as a thief in the night. Verse 3, this is the verse I really want you to pay attention to. For when they shall say, that's day the world, not you and I, the world, when they shall say, peace and safety, then sudden destruction, comeeth up on them as to veil upon a woman with child. When they shall say, peace and safety, then sudden destruction. Pay attention to that and turn back to Revelation if you will. Remember the Antichrist comes in promising peace. The world will accept him as the Jewish Messiah. Even the Arabs will accept him. I believe they'll accept him as their 12th Emon. The whole world will accept him because the whole world has just went through the rapture. The Antichrist comes along, explains the rapture. I don't know why he's going to do it. But he's going to explain the rapture. The world will follow him. They'll love him. He'll promise peace no more peace talks in Israel by the way. Isn't that something? You know every president since 1948 has had peace talks in Israel trying to bring about peace never happened but when the anti-Christ comes along the world will say oh peace and safety and then notice what happens in verse 3 and 4. And when they shall say peace and safety, sudden destruction, verse 3 and when he had Open the second seal, I heard the second be say, come and see. Or if you have a scoffield Bible and say, that living creature say, come. And there one out another horse that was red. And power was given to him that sat on it to take peace from the earth. And that they should kill one another. And there was given unto him a great sword. The anti-Christ gets off his white horse, gets on the red horse, unfortunately the world will not realize what he's up to. They'll kill one another, he'll take feast from the world, and so forth and so forth. Now with all that in mind, I want you to go in your Bibles all the way back to the book of Genesis, if you will. I know it's a lot of hard work, I feel sorry for it, but it has to be done. chapter 10. And we're going to follow up with this because there's a lot of things you need to know, there's a lot of things we need to know. In Genesis chapter 9, God told in verse 1, go over there if you will, Genesis chapter 9, verse 1. Noah and his family had just got off the bay liner that Noah built, nice boat, twin engine. They got off the boat and in verse 1, God said in chapter 9, God bless Noah and his sons and Son unto them be fruitful and multiply and replenish or fill the earth. That means have children scatter and replenish the whole earth. And you got to remember something. Remember this. At this particular time in history, the earth was not divided between water and land and water. The land was all one mass and the water was all one mess. They could all travel anywhere they wanted to travel. It wasn't until many, sometime later, that God divided the earth as you're going to see. Back to the Bible. So they got off the boat and in verse 2 of chapter 10, if you will. The sons of J-Peth, one of the children of Noah, the sons of J-Peth, Gomer, Magog, Madai, J-Man, T-Ball, Meshak, and Tyrus. The sons of Gomer, that's one of the sons of J-Peth, by the way, man is beginning to populate, man is beginning to spread out, have children. My wife and I have a total of six, and one of these days will get them all paid for. And the sons of Gilmore, who was the son of Jaipath, Ashkenes, and Ripeth, and Togharmah. Now remember those names, those are important. These are the people of the sons of Ham, Noah, and Jaipath, and all these, and they begin to populate and spread out throughout the world. Remember what God said though, replenish the earth, be fruitful, multiply. And then in verses, let's see here, verse 8, remember man is populating, spreading out, and Kush begotten him rod. He began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord, should be translated against the Lord. He was a mighty hunter, who was against the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Eric, Akad and Kelna in the land of Sinhaar. Out of that land went forth asher and so forth. Remember those words, out of that land, out of that land. Let me ask you something. What is an ideology? False religion. False religion. False religion. It's a way of thinking, isn't it? an ideology is how you think, how you feel, it's an ideology. And so Nimrod and all these people got together. Now God gives us this and then he goes back to, let's go all the way down to chapter 10 verse 32, if you will, all the way down there. Now hope you're attention. These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations in their nations, and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. Now chapter 11 takes place before another event. So you got to pay attention. Chapter 11, if you will, and the whole earth was of one language and one speech, And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east that they found a plane in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. Shinar, all mankind, pay attention now. All mankind found a plane in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. And they dwelt there. And they said one to another, come or go to, let us make brick and burn them thoroughly and they made Brick for Stone. Verse 4, they said, come, let us, or go to, let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. Look up here for just a minute. What did Chapter 9 verse 1 say? Go on, replenish the earth, replenish the earth, spread out, fill the earth. Remember, the earth was not divided yet. There was one land mass, one water mass. God had provided away for them to scatter and fill the whole earth. And God said, now, verse 32, back to chapter 10, verse 32. Remember, they said, unless we'd be scattered, abroad, upon the face of the earth, what are they doing here? A one-world political and religious system against God. an ideology, isn't it? It's a way of thinking. Now then go back up to chapter 10, verse 10. And so God came down and scattered them and confounded their language. Reminds me of the Pentecostal Church. I shouldn't say that, but it does remind me of the Pentecostal Church. And so God scattered them. Now back up to chapter 10, verse 10, if you will. I hope you're following me. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel and Yerak, A.K. and Kelna in the land of Sinar. Nimrod was the founder of Babelon. He was a mighty hunter against God. And they all followed Nimrod in Babelon. God said, replenish the earth, they said, no, let us stick together, less we'd be scattered upon face of the earth. And then I want you to notice in chapter 10 verse 25. God came down and scattered them. Remember what we said in verse 32. Remember 10 verse 32. These are the families of the sons of Noah after their generations and their nations and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood. So God scattered them all these nations. Now verse 25, if you will. Chapter 10 verse 25. I hope you're trying to follow me. I hope you are following along. And unto Eber were born two sons. The name of one was Pelegg. The attention of this verse underlined it in your Bible. For in his days was the earth divided, and his brother's name was Jotten. What does that mean? It means that in his days, the days of Pelegg, after God's scattered man, after he confounded language. They went out into their nations, into their lands, and God divided the earth between the water and the land. How did they do that? I don't know. I wasn't there, but he did it. And he said, now you think you want to get together now and create a one-world government and a one-world religion against me. I've got you separated between land and water and it was that way until man decided to build a boat. I got a boat. I want a bigger boat. I just don't have a place to keep it. I want a boat. When I go out in the water, all I have to do is sit there in the fish jump in. That's what I want. I don't think I'll get it, but it'd be nice because I can't catch them. See, that's going to well, I'll ever get them. Okay, now with all that in mind, I hope you follow me along. I hope you follow with me, turn in your Bibles to Ezekiel, Chapter 38. All the way back into the Prophet Ezekiel, Chapter 38, and then we'll probably run out of time and take this up next week. But I went to all the trouble of pointing this out for a reason, a good reason. The earth was divided spiritually, physically, and ideologically. Remember the names that we gave you in Genesis, Megalong, Mishek, Tubol, and so forth. Look up here at our chart for just a minute. Remember what we read in Revelation. First of all, the Antichrist comes following promising peace, right? He comes on a white horse. He has a bow given to him. He has a crown given to him. Immediately after peace, he takes away the peace and breaks war. He comes on a red horse. We have a picture of that in Revolent and Ezekiel, chapter 38. And if we don't run out of time, we're going to point out an awful lot of things, I hope. Ezekiel, chapter 38, verse 1, and the Word of the Lord came unto me, saying, "'Son of man, set thy face against Gogh of the land of Meghal, the chief prince of Mishek and two bull and prophesy against him, and say, thus say at the Lord God, the behold, I am against the old Gog, the chief prince of Misek and Dubal. Look up here for just a minute, if you will. Who is this Gog? There's the sons of Jepus and Ham, which are the grand sons of Noah, which formed those nations in that area at that time, which were north of Israel, which are coming to the future date during a seven-year tribulation and attack in Israel. Those countries were named after those children. They were indeed. Those countries turned out to be Russia, Germany, Poland, Turkey, Persia, Kush, but here's what I want you to notice. You see, when the act of Christ gets on his red horse, his goal is to destroy the nation of Israel. That's his goal. he's been wanting to do that read Revelation chapter 12. Why does he want to do that? Because he is influenced literally possessed by Satan. Satan is the prince of this world. Is he not? He is the prince of principalities. Is he not? He is the ruler of this world. Is he not? But he can only rule as far as God allows him to. However, Gog, the Prince of Megog, is none other than Satan. You say, how can you prove that? Well, let me prove that. Notice that it says, Gog, of the land of Megog, the chief prince, the word prince is a noun. It's the word rush. And it's a, it's a, a leader, a ruler. It's Satan. Notice all these companies here. Notice all these. Verse 4. Notice what it says in verse 4. God said, I'm going to bring all these nations. You're going to come up in your mind, Satan, who is actually influences the anti-Christ who will sit in the temple in the middle of three and a half years, claiming to be God. He may be out there today. Might be any hand who knows all these people are going to come against Jerusalem to destroy Jerusalem when after the rapture of the church immediately the antichrist will be revealed he will promise peace to the world no sooner than they accept him and Israel will be back in the land and they attack Israel tried to destroy her called the first battle of Beggog in the Bible there are two battles of Beggog somewhere down the road. I'm going to show you how you know the difference. There is a difference. But this is the first medal of Battle of Meghal. Why does God call it that? Because Meghalg is an ideology. It's a way of thinking. God is their leader, their ruler, his name is Satan. He uses men to establish his goal. men like oh I shouldn't say this should I say this dear try to use it all Hitler hey don't hitner yeah that's good yeah I shouldn't say this men like any political leader I'm not gonna say it it's a terrible thing to do I'm just not gonna say it I'm not gonna say the things like Barack Obama anything like that I'm I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it because that's a political thing. And I'm not going to do it. But Satan uses men to bring about his goal. What is his goal today, by the way? Control the people. And you know how he does it? Through something called socialism. I call it communism. Communism is an anti-Christ ideology. Did you know that? If you don't know it, then find the book by Karl Marx called the Communist Manifesto. And by the way, do you know how many socialists we have in our government today? A lot. Do you know what their goal is to bring about a one-world government and a one-world ideology just like Old Nimrod? That's their goal. When the Antichrist comes along, he will fulfill that goal. We will bring about a one-world government and a one-world religion, even I are lucky. We're lucky. We live in a world and a society that allows us the freedom to believe what we want to believe. And I got to tell you something. I don't care what a person believes. It's entirely up to them. I don't hate him for it. I may not believe in it, but it's their business. If you want to be a Catholic, it's up to you. If you want to be a Jew, that's up to you. If you want to believe in the Muslim religion, that's entirely up to you. But on the other hand, I want to believe in the Bible and you ought to observe my right to believe what I believe, amen? Don't tell me what to believe and how to believe it. But the day's coming and I believe it will come before the rapture when the church will go through a certain period of tribulation. won't be the tribulation, but it won't be fun. It'll be sort of like a test. Back to the Bible here, for we run out of time. We still got another two and a half hours to go. First four and I will turn thee back and put hopes into thy jaws and I will bring thee forth and all thy army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothe with all sorts of armor, Even a great company with butlers and shields, all of them handling swords. Persia, if you have a scoffield Bible, it will say, Kush and Putt. With them, all of them with shield and helmet, Gomer and all its hordes, all its bands, the house of Togarma, of the North, notices now, of the North quarters, and all of its bands than many people with the Russia and all of its hordes. Where do they come from? The North quarters. Pretty self-explanatory. All north of Israel. Now let's go down to verse 8 before we run out of time. Verse 7, Beavis, I'm prepared and prepare thyself, thou and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. After many days, thou shalt I'll be visited in the latter days thou shalt come into the land Israel that is brought back from the sword and is gathered out of many peoples against the mountains of Israel which have been always waste but it is brought forth out of the nations. Notice this now and they shall dwell safely all of them. Pay it. Look up here for just a minute. I think we'll close there. get the picture so far. Today Israel is not safe farther. I mean they're being attacked from everybody. Our governments, all the governments all over the world practically hate Israel. They hate the Jew. They don't even know why. Jesus Christ was Jewish. Abraham was the seed of Abraham as the Lord Jesus Christ. Don't ever hate a Jew. The Antichrist will come on a white horse. When he does they'll think think he's their Messiah, Israel, almost all the people that Jews will, many of them will go back into Jerusalem thinking they're going to be safe. Oh, right, here's the kingdom. Our Messiah is here. Everything is wonderful. And they will dwell safely all of them. Isn't it sad? When they say peace and safety then sudden destruction. We'll touch on this again next week But let's go down to verse 11 and then we'll close with this verse and thou shall say gog the Prince of Meghal Satan Thou shall say I will go up to the land of unwald villages I will go to those who are at rest is real they think they're safe Who dwell safely all of them dwelling without walls and having neither bars and their gates? You know, there are many places you can live now, and leave home and leave your door unlocked. You didn't know what you're going to come home to. You might come home to some preacher. That's terrible, isn't it? Oh, the lousy preacher, then anyway. Here's your old fuel safe. The white horse, promise safety, then then the red horse. We'll touch on this again next week. next week. In the meantime, I didn't bring my burning wallet, so we'll have to live without it. I like my burning wallet, but I didn't bring it. The Bible says, we're all sinners, doesn't it? I'm a sinner. This represents my sin. The Bible says, sin the needs paid for. Does it not? The Bible says you can go to hell and pay for your own sin. You can do that. God will honor that. He's an honorable God. He's a righteous God. but the Bible says Christ died on the cross was buried and rose again for the forgiveness of sin and the Bible says all you have to do is believe it the very second you believe Jesus Christ died on the cross he takes your sin and marks it paid what a deal huh absolutely free there's nothing you can do there's nothing you have to do there's absolutely nothing you can do but just believe he died with buried and rose again, he takes your sin and marks it to his account. And I'm going to tell you something, if you don't believe that and the rapture takes place tomorrow, you're going to miss it and you'll be subject to the antichrist in seven years. The Bible calls it the worst time the world has ever seen. Well, I'm not going. When the rapture takes place, I'm going to be with the Lord. I'm going to hold him accountable because he said, once I believe in him, I have eternal life. Yes, sir, Lord, you can't leave me behind. You can't because you can't lie. What a deal. You see, I don't deserve to be saved. I don't deserve eternal life because I'm a sinner. But I got it because I believe Christ and I don't cross for me. He did it. He paid for my sin. I can't. I think that's a pretty good deal, don't you? Let's have word prayer and we will close. Dear Lord and Heavenly Father, we thank You for the Lord Jesus Christ. He paid for our sin. We can't. And He said once, he paid for our sin, the very second we believe in Him. We have eternal life, not temporary. Not life as long as I remain faithful, that's a lie. Not life as long as I'm a good person, or go to church, or read about, no, as soon as Because I believe he paid for my sin, he gives me eternal life. What's wrong with that word eternal? How come so many people don't get it? If you're here today and you've never trusted Christ, won't you do it now? Just between you and him say, Lord, I believe you died on the cross for me and guess what? Your sins are paid for eternity. You'll miss the Antichrist, you'll miss the tribulation, and you'll be with the Lord forever. What a deal. Dear Lord, we thank You for that, bless each one gathered here this morning, and Christ's name. Oh, okay, let's see here.