Revelation chapter six tonight. Revelation chapter six tonight. So my wife and Anna and Megan, they're all in South Carolina this week on their annual Christmas shopping trip. Spending all of our money. And then they're coming home on Saturday. My wife is staying up there and she's staying up there for another week because her mom is having a shoulder surgery next week. So she's going to stay up there. So she'll be gone two weeks and then she'll be back the following Saturday and then just in time to go to Costa Rica. So we'll be missing each other for a little bit. So it's just me and Parker and he cannot cook. Nothing. Nothing. Totally useless. In that department. In that department. But it's a good thing he's got me. So last week we began in Revelation chapter six, it begins the six seals of judgment. This is the opening description of the tribulation period. And as the seals are opened and the trumpets blown and the vows poured out, more and more details are revealed that the future of this world is horrendous. I mean, it is going to be bad. And God is gonna let the world run its course. And when sin has reached its apex, God is going to judge it. And never since the Genesis flood has there been a worldwide judgment. Well, that's exactly what is coming. Jeremiah 30, verse seven, alas, for that day is great so that none is like it. Isaiah 34, the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations and his fury upon all their armies. He has utterly destroyed them. He had delivered them to the slaughter. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of a living God. And that's exactly what's going to happen. So Revelation chapter six, we have the six seals of judgment, the first four, the four horsemen of the apocalypse. Then in chapter seven is going to be a parenthesis, then in chapter eight we have the seventh seal. So the first seal, we looked at it last week, is the seal of deception. Look with me if you would in verse number one. I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder, One of the four beasts saying, come and see and I saw and behold a white horse. He that sat on him had a bow and a crown was given unto him. And he went forth conquering and to conquer. So the first seal is opened and it looks promising because peace is depicted. The rider on the white horse comes with a bow, no arrows, a crown is given unto him. It's a very fragile piece because immediately after it is followed by war and famine and death and pestilence. There's no mystery, at least to me, who the rider of the white horse, I believe that it is Antichrist rising to power. And the world will hand him control of global government. He is the solution to their problems and they will hail him as their political savior. Revelation chapter 13 says that the world will worship him not knowing that they're worshiping Satan through him and Satan is the one that gives him his power. He is for all of his power, he is a puppet is what he is. He's a puppet to Satan. I thought about, I believe that the presidency of Joe Biden was actually the third term of Barack Obama. Basically, Obama was pulling the strings and Biden never was in charge. Been Obama's third term. Been pretty much a puppet president. Well, that's pretty much how the Antichrist is gonna be. He is gonna be Satan's puppet dictator. Now, I'm not gonna spend much time here, but I'll just show you a couple of passages about it. Go to Daniel chapter eight. And just to wrap this up, I've gotta get through all six. seals tonight, so we're gonna move pretty quick. But here's just a couple of passages about the kind of personality he's going to be. Deuteronomy 8 in verse 23, and in the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, what did I say? Daniel 8, when the transgressors are come to the full, a king of fierce countenance and understanding, dark sentences shall stand up, His power shall be mighty, but not by his own power. He shall destroy wonderfully and shall prosper in practice, and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand, and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many. He shall also stand up against the prince of princes, but he shall be broken without hand. Look at Daniel chapter 11. and you're chapter 11 in verse 36. And the king shall do according to his will. He will exalt himself and magnify himself above every God and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods and shall prosper to the indignation be accomplished for that that is determined shall be done. Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers nor the desire of women. Some people take that to say that he'll be homosexual. I don't know. nor regard any god, for he shall magnify himself above all." This is the utopia that the world thinks that it wants. One government that rules all of the world, one economy across all of the nations, one currency, no boundaries, no nationalism. The world Economic Forum has the world divided into regions, not nations, and they want to do with national borders, do away with open borders. One religion headed by the Antichrist, that's exactly what the world is looking for. You know, I thought about it this morning, and I'm not saying much about politics, but I thought about it this morning. This morning, half of America woke up ecstatic that their man had won the presidency and we have entered into the golden age. And the other half of America woke up depressed that the sky is falling on their head. Well, when the church is raptured out and it's just lost people left on this earth and Antichrist comes on the scene with all of the answers and all those solutions, the world is going to give him the keys to the kingdom and he can do anything that he wants to. And it'll be glorious for a little while, but the storm is coming. So there's a seal of deception, he deceives them. We'll come back to Revelation chapter six, there is the seal of destruction. Look at verse number three. When he opened the second seal, I heard the second beast saying, come and see. There went out another horse that was red, And power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth. That didn't last long. And that they should kill one another and there was given unto him a great sword. So now we have a red horse. The rider on the red horse is pretty much unanimously recognized as a personification of war. Verse three and four is talking about war. Nation should rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom. That's what Jesus said in Mark chapter 13. Now, I don't, believe or know that this rider represents any particular war, but it could be that it's just talking about the series of wars and conflicts that's gonna happen throughout the tribulation. Two, the rider is not one individual, but he represents war. In fact, some commentators say that the rider On the white horse, the white horse is not actually the person of the Antichrist, but is the piece of the Antichrist represents. I say that it's the Antichrist, and you can differ with me if you want to. I don't wanna get too deep into the woods on that. But war is coming. Now, look at the world around you right now. Instability of the nations, the nuclear weaponry technology of the 21st century, The dual threat of communism and Islam definitely sets the stage for wars and rumors of war. You have the conflict in the Middle East, it's as violent as it's ever been before. You have the war going on with Ukraine, which really is a proxy war between the West and the United States. We're just using them as a proxy war is what it is. You have superpowers like China. You have nations with nuclear weapons that are pointed at each other. I mean, war threatens war. And 1 Thessalonians 5, 3 said, thou shalt say, peace and safety Then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape." The world cannot have peace as long as evil, godless men are the heads of nations. We have forces in our government right now. Now, I think that President Trump will keep us out of wars, but there's a whole lot of money to be made in war. The military-industrial complex, I know you've heard of that. That's a powerful lobby in our government. So war, war is coming. And then thirdly, there is the seal of deprivation. Look at verse five. We need open the third seal. I heard the third beast saying, come and see. I beheld and lo, a black horse. He that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hands, and I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, a measure of wheat for a penny, three measures of barley for a penny, and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine." So now we have a rider on a black horse, he has a pair of scales on his hands, and he has something to do with the food supply of the world. And a voice makes an announcement, which is basically his announcement, it's an economic forecast of a worldwide famine. That's what's going to happen. A penny in Roman economy was called a denarius. It represented a day's wages is what it did, all right? And a measure of wheat or barley was approximately what one person would eat in one day. So the statement is that it's going to require a day's wages to purchase one day's of supply or day's supply of barley. Now barley is cheaper than wheat, so you could buy three measures for a penny, whereas only you get one measure of wheat for a penny. That's what that's saying. And the only food that would not be affected is see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. In New Testament times, that was food for the rich. So I believe that what it's saying is that only the wealthy will have enough to eat. There is a famine coming. And it could be the result of all the wars that's going on, or it could just be brought on by the Lord. Now we've all seen the effects of inflation on our food prices, right? Groceries are expensive, but I've never been in a famine. I've never been in a time when there was not enough food. But it's alarming to me how much of our food supply is controlled by global corporations. Now, it's alarming to me. In fact, it's alarming to me how there are powerful men who believe that the world is overpopulated. We could stand to lose a few billion people on the planet to save the planet. Of course, all those men that believe that don't think they should be one of the billion that needs to go. Right? Bill Gates. Bill Gates has bought up, I think, 120 million acres of farmland in the United States. He's the biggest proponent of pushing genetically modified seeds and bioengineered food sources to try to solve the food shortage, to get rid of famine. He's pushed it hard in Africa, because there's a lot of famines there. And there's a lot of critics that are crying out, saying this is bad for the small farmer, trying to destroy the small farmer, so it all can be controlled by corporations. By the way, I don't think it's a good idea to have all the food supply in the hands of corporations like the Rockefeller Foundation, who have all kinds of pesticides and fertilizers and genetically modified food. And it could very well be that this push, now this is just flurology, this push to get rid of the small farmer and have all of this food supply under a couple of global organizations blows up and creates a worldwide famine. But famines are coming. Then there is the seal of death. Look at verse number seven. When he opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast saying, come and see. I looked and behold a pale horse, His name that sat on him was death and hell followed with him. Power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth to kill with sword and with hunger and with death and with the beasts of the earth. So now here's the fourth horseman of the apocalypse and death and hell and they are released to destroy one fourth of the world's population. One fourth of the world's population. That's an amazing thing. There's eight billion people on the face of the earth right now. What's one fourth of that? Two billion, two billion. That's more than the population of China and the United States combined. And during this tribulation, that's gonna happen. Now there's a distinction between this rider on this one and the other because this one is given a name. His name that sat on him was Death with a capital D. See that? And so it indicates that this rider is a person. It is death personified, personified. Hold your finger right there. Go one page over to Revelation 9 and look at verse number 11. They had a king over them, which is the angel at the bottom of this pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyos. So here's a creature given two names. One in Hebrew, one in Greek, by the way, both names means destroyer. You know, it's funny how they depict the death angel in cartoons as an old man with a sickle in his hand and is riding a pale horse. I wonder where they get that from. In Revelation chapter nine, when we get there, you're gonna find out that he's leading an army of locust-shaped demons coming out of hell, and they come out of hell and they torment the people on earth for five months. You've got two billion people gonna die. Now look quickly how they're gonna die. He says in verse number eight, to kill with sword, war, violence, nuclear war, with hunger, hunger, famine, with death and with, with hunger, with death and with the beasts of the earth, the beasts of the earth. And so death is, death is coming and, Gonna be horrible, gonna be horrible. Then look at verse number nine. You have the seal of danger, seal of danger. By the way, let me come back to verse eight real quick. With the beasts of the earth. So he's telling you what they're gonna use to kill two billion people. And one of them is the beasts of the earth. And I thought about that, Brother Jason. What is that? What is the beast of the earth? Do you know what the deadliest creature is? Any idea? It's the mosquito. And more people die from mosquito-borne diseases, malaria, yellow fever, northwest nile. And more people die in the world from mosquito-borne diseases than any other creature. You know who's close second? It's the rat. They say, they say estimate that there's a, that there's a billion dollars of food loss in the United States alone from rats, just from rats. In the 14th century, bubonic plague, one third of the world's population died or Europe died during the bubonic plague. And that disease was born by rats. I just think that's interesting is what I think. The seal of danger, look at verse number nine. When it opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held. They cried with a loud voice, saying, how long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? White robes were given unto every one of them, and it was said unto them that they should rest yet for a little season until their fellow servants also and their brethren that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled. So when this fifth seal is opened, it reveals the souls of martyrs that have been killed under the altar. Now John doesn't actually witness the killing of these saints, but he says that those will be killed during this time, and they're killed for believing the testimony of God. And their souls are under an altar somewhere, they're clothed in white robes, and they're crying unto God for vengeance upon their persecutors. So that raises all kinds of questions. So the first question is, who are these martyrs? One of the most common misunderstandings I think in the entire realm of prophetic study is whether people can get saved during the tribulation or not. And it's good preaching to say that after the rapture there is no chance to be saved, that's not what the Bible teaches. Because by the time that the seals are open, the rapture of the church has already taken place. I mean, the church is gone. When God begins to pour out his wrath upon this earth, he won't do that until every believer has been called away. So when the antichrist comes to power, there is not one single believer on the earth at that time. But then John speaks of those who have been martyred for believing the word of God, and they seem to have been martyred during the sealed judgments, evidently. So evidently, somebody is getting saved after the tribulation and getting killed shortly thereafter. Look at Revelation chapter 7. Revelation chapter 7 speaks of two great multitudes who would be saved during the tribulation. Look at verse number 4, I heard the number of them which were sealed, and there were sealed 144,000 of all the tribes of the children of Israel. Here's 144,000 Jews that get saved. Look at verse number 9, After this I beheld, and, Lord, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and hundreds in people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands." So here's a great multitude which no man could number during the tribulation. So I believe there is a great number of people that will be saved during the tribulation period. Now, I have to say this, it does certainly seem that those who have had the opportunity to hear the gospel and have rejected the gospel will fall under great delusion and will not believe the gospel and will not be saved. 2 Thessalonians talks about those who receive not the love of truth that they might be saved, says that when the antichrist is revealed, God will send them strong delusion so that they would believe a lie. And the end result of all of this is that they might be damned to believe not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness. So you reject Jesus Christ on this side, you're not gonna accept him on the other side. But here's a multitude that never heard the gospel. I believe a multitude will get saved. Now here's the next question. How do they get saved in the tribulation? And this is the question that's most often asked. How do people get saved during the tribulation? For one thing, if all the believers are taken off from the earth, who's gonna preach the gospel to the multitude? And if the restrainer of sin, 2 Thessalonians 2, Holy Spirit, if he is taken off the earth before the antichrist is revealed, then how are they gonna believe without the ministry of the Holy Spirit? And will those that get saved in the tribulation be saved the same way that we are saved in this dispensation? That's the question that's always asked. How do they become believers? So who witnesses to these people that get saved? Well, the 144,000 Jewish evangelists that God is gonna save and he's gonna appoint them as his special witnesses during the tribulation. And there's an interesting little statement. Look back at chapter six and look at verse number nine. Interesting statement. When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the Word of God. When millions of people disappear from this earth and judgment begins to fall, I think there's gonna be a lot of people that'll turn to the Bible for answers. They dismiss the Bible now, but a few million people disappear, that'll wake you up. And I believe there's a lot of people that's going to turn to the Bible. They're going to believe the truth and be saved. But how will they be saved? Are you still with me? How are they going to be saved? So the debate over dispensational and tribulation of salvation has been going on for a long time. And it falls into two schools of thought. And we're not going to get deep into the weeds, but basically here's what it is. The first school of thought is that the plan of salvation is different in the dispensations. Men were saved differently under the law than they are under grace. So men in the Old Testament, there was a different plan of salvation for them as there is for you and I. Dispensational salvation or tribulational salvation will be different than what it is right now. Now, if you hold that position, then the position is most likely that in the Old Testament, men were saved by faith and works, and in the New Testament, you're saved by faith alone. During the tribulation, salvation reverts back to the Old Testament way of faith and works. Men will once again be required for faith and works in order to be saved. All right, that's one position. The second position is no, every man has always been saved by faith, faith alone in every dispensation. Faith in Christ and repentance of sin, doesn't matter what the dispensation is, all right? Now that's the big debate. Many years ago, many, many years ago, I would have told you that I believe in dispensational salvation. I read several authors and some of you guys, you know exactly who I read, different guys, but I would have told you and I, years and years ago, I would have taught that men are saved differently in the Old Testament than they are in the New Testament. And it is clear to me that men in the Old Testament were required to do things that we are not required to do in the New Testament. Would you give me that? Sacrifices. We ain't offered no sacrifices lately, right? So they were required to do something in the Old Testament that we're not required to do in the New Testament. It is also clear to me from the book of Hebrews that the blood of bulls and goats can never take away sin. It didn't save them, it ain't gonna save you, right? On the other hand, on the other hand, you cannot say that men in the Old Testament were saved by placing their faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ on the cross, because they didn't know about it, right? Somebody get up and say, well, you know, men in the Old Testament looked forward to the cross, just like men in the New Testament looked backward to the cross. No, they weren't looking forward to the cross. All right, they didn't, they didn't see that. Now every once in a while, a prophet would write Isaiah 53 or Psalm 22 to give a prophecy of it. He didn't fully understand it. Most of their prophecies were associated with the second coming. So what did God require of the Old Testament believer? I believe that he required faith and obedience. His faith was represented in his obedience in offering sacrifices of which sacrifices pointed to the sacrifice of Jesus Christ. Watch this, it was not enough for him to just believe in the symbolism, it had to be carried out, right? He had to offer that sacrifice. But it wasn't enough for him to just go through the ritual without any faith. He had to have faith and obedience. What does God require of a man today? Faith. and obedience. Obey what? Obey the gospel. 2 Thessalonians 1, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that know not God, that obey not the gospel of the Lord Jesus. 1 Peter 4, time has come, judgment must begin at the house of God. It first began at us, what shall be the end of them that obey not the gospel of God. There are no works to do but to obey the gospel in repenting of your sin and placing your faith in Jesus Christ. That's the obedience that God requires of you. God requires men to do different things and different dispensations, but salvation has always been by faith in the revealed Word of God. Now He's revealed a whole lot more to you and I than He did to those in the Old Testament. Those at the end of the Old Testament had a whole lot more revelation than those at the beginning of the Old Testament. So I do not believe in work salvation in any dispensation. I believe in salvation through faith. That's what I believe. Now, I know we don't have the issue here. It's amazing to me the things that men will break fellowship over. That's amazing to me. In fact, I'm gonna show you one. I'm gonna show you one, all right? Hold your finger right here, go to 1 John chapter five. A couple of us guys have been memorizing 1 John five, okay? Now let me show you one, okay? You understand when we say that our King James Bible is perfect, doesn't mean that it couldn't be printed with an error, right? There could be a printing error slip through, is that right? Let me show you something, and I'm gonna tell you what happened, just to illustrate something to you. 1 John 5 verse 7, there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost. These three are one. That's Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Verse eight, there are three that bear witness in earth, the Spirit, the water, and the blood, and these three agree in one. How many of you, in verse number eight, Spirit is capitalized in your Bible? Raise your hand. Okay, you put your hand down. Is anybody in verse eight where spirit is not capitalized? Oh, a couple people, yeah, okay. So there's the controversy. It's the same word, the same word. But should spirit be capitalized or should it not in verse number eight? Everyone of you got a King James Bible. Everyone of you got a King James Bible, okay? But we got a purpose. Now, here's the reason, I'm not, I can explain it to you, but I can't tonight, because I'm in the tribulation. But I'm gonna tell you, let me help you with something. So today, Sean Dunn calls me. He says, preacher, I got a question for you. He's calling, got ahold of a pastor, trying to book a meeting. Now, usually they ask questions. I ask questions. This was his question. Brother, 1 John 5, 8, do you believe spirits should be capitalized or not capitalized? That was the question, that was the question, that was the question. Are you? I'm King James and I see you're King James and I'm gonna up you one. This was the question. I know you're printing Bibles, sending them to missionaries around the world, absolutely free of charge, Does your Bible have a capitalized or not capitalized? And he had a position that he took, and I actually agree with his position. But Brother Dunn didn't get in the meeting. Here's what I'm trying to say to you tonight. I used to be, I used to be, and I'm going off the rails now. I used to be, when I was a young preacher, I had to prove everything. And I mean, if I studied pre-trib, I knew the post-trib, and the pre-trib, and the mid-trib, and the halfway trib, I knew it all of it, and all of the arguments for every one of them, and I can nail it down, and it really didn't matter. I'm just pre-trib, if you're not, I'm sorry. That's how I am now. I just, okay. I spent much brain cells trying to figure out tribulational summation. I just believe it's by faith. So come back, come back to the, that was a chasing a rabbit there. Here's why I say that. Those who say that it is a work salvation in the Old Testament would probably also say that it all reverts back to Old Testament ways in the tribulation. Basically, if you look at the church age as a parenthesis, you have the Old Testament, the dispensation law. If you look at the age of the church, or the church age, or the age of grace, whatever you want to call it, as a parenthesis, then the dispensation law picks right back when the church is raptured out. And some would say that during the tribulation, they're going back to the Levitical sacrifices. We'll talk about that when we get to the temple, all right? And Revelation says of both the Jewish remnant and the Gentile multitude, it says that they've overcome and been washed by the blood of the Lamb. The blood of the lamb. And I think about what Hebrews said in Hebrews 10, that we're sanctified to the offering of the blood of Jesus Christ once for all. Once for all. The Levitical sacrifice is reinstituted, but they never did save anybody. In every dispensation, man is saved by faith. Now there's another question, and I'm hurrying here, and that's concerning the role of the Holy Spirit. Because 2 Thessalonians 2 says that the restrainer is taken out. That is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is taken away when the Antichrist is revealed. If that is so, and the Holy Spirit is taken out, the Holy Spirit is gone, then how do men get under conviction for their sin? How is that going to happen? And here's what I say. I don't believe that the Holy Spirit is removed from the earth because if he is removed from the earth, he is no longer omnipresent. I believe he is removed from the earth as the restrainer of sin when the church is raptured out. But the Holy Spirit is still active, still active. And then somebody said, what are the circumstances of their martyrdom? And I don't have time to get into all of that. But one question, I've got to get to the sixth seal because I can't be here forever. Come back to verse number nine real quick. Chapter six and verse nine. When he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, for the testimony which they held. The souls, the souls of the martyrs So where are the bodies? Where's the bodies? Are souls just in place of persons, or is that deliberate? When you and I are raptured, we receive a glorified body, right? A glorified body. So when do these tribulation saints receive their glorified body? They're not raptured yet. It's gonna take place later. I do believe in a mid-trib rapture. Not for you, but for them. So when do they get a glorified body? And the easy answer is that they're resurrected and glorified at the second coming. The problem is that they have already been given white robes to wear right here, already. And it seems they've been given robes of white to wear, then it would seem to indicate that they've got some kind of body. Does that follow that? But if they're not been yet resurrected, then when do they get their glorified body? Am I confusing you with the question? Is this too deep? Okay. If they've been martyred, if they've been martyred, if they've been martyred, and the souls of those are under the altar in the temple, how could they have been given another body? They're wearing white robes. Are they given a temporary body? until the resurrection? And that's a great question, and I hope you find the answer to it. Look at, I've got five minutes to give you the sixth seal. Just so much I gotta get through. Look at verse number 12. Here's the sixth seal, the seal of disaster. How the hell when he opened the sixth seal, oh, there was a great earthquake. The sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood. Stars of heaven fell onto the earth, even as a fig tree cast her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind, and the heaven departed, the scrolls rolled together, every mountain and island were moved out of their places. So now we have global natural disasters that are absolutely unthinkable. We have earthquakes, the sun becomes black, the moon is as blood, stars fell to the earth, probably some kind of asteroid. Every mountain and island has moved out of the, can you imagine the disaster in Western North Carolina worldwide? Can you imagine that? Now it's a scene that we cannot describe, but when God begins to pour his wrath out, there is no description of what it's gonna be like. Here's the most astounding thing to all of it. That's their response. Look at verse 15. The kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men, the chief captains and the mighty men, every bondman and every free man hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains and said to the mountains and rocks, fall on us and hide us from the face of him that sit on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb. Well, the great day of his wrath is coming, who shall be able to stand? Panic set over the earth, from the rich to the poor, and surely now these men are gonna turn to God and repent of their sins. Surely. Look at chapter nine. Look at chapter nine, verse 20. The rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands. that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood, which you can never see nor hear nor walk. Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornications, nor of their thefts. Look at chapter 16, chapter 16, verse 11. They blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their, nobody repents. Nobody cries out to God. They hide in caves, but find out they cannot hide from God. This is astounding to me. This is how deep-seated their deception is. They know that it's God doing this. That's what they say in verse 16 and 17. fallen us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne. And from the wrath of the Lamb, they know that it is God. They know that it is the Lamb that is unleashing His wrath. And instead of talking to Him, they talk to the rocks. They pray to the mountains and they pray to the rocks. That's where you end up at. If you don't acknowledge God and the Lamb is unleashing His wrath. How could that be? I'll tell you how, because false prophets have been out, peace, peace, when there is no peace, everything's fine. And they'll have such strong delusion that they will believe a lie. And verse 17 says, the great day of his wrath has come and who shall be able to stand? It is the insanity of ultimate rejection that you know who is punishing you, but instead of going to him, you talk to the rocks. They know the great day of wrath is come. And you can be sure of this, that whoever is converted in the tribulation surely will warn those that are not. Surely they would go to their neighbors and their family and say, look, you gotta know this is God. First seal, you gotta know that's God. Second seal, third seal, you gotta know, you can't survive this. But first Thessalonians says, they shall not escape. Horrible time, horrible time is coming. Six seals, six seals, a rush through them, a whole lot of questions we didn't try to answer. Six seals of judgment, this is the beginning of the tribulation. And it's getting worse from here, it's getting worse from here. Well, let's stand together.