This is the Old Trailblazer broadcast. This is Pastor Alvin Finn-Dorvis, the Old Trailblazer, riding out again at this time, blazing the path to the hearts of sinners, cutting away the briars and the brambles and the bushes and all of those things that clutter up, the error that clutters up the heart. to keep them from hearing the gospel, to keep them from hearing the truth. And this is the old trailblazer, Pastor Albert Penn-Darvis, pastor here at Radio Mission, where the old Voice of Truth broadcast has gone out for many, many years under the leadership of Pastor Shelton, before he passed on to glory. And I just praise the Lord for you who listen, you who write, you who support this work, getting out the gospel. We're just an old sinner saved by grace. And the Lord has picked us up, raised us up, set us up, saved us and give us grace to go forth without compromise. Do you know if God's messenger compromises with the Bible, compromising with his audience, they'll never get saved? No, sir. That's one of the problems we're facing today is we have a spineless generation of individuals who stand behind the pulpit and have no spine whatsoever to tell it like it is. And I tell my young preacher friend, put a broomstick up your backbone and stand up for what's true and what's error. Call out error. But we're bringing you this series of studies. I don't want to get started off bringing, preaching off something else. We're preaching, preaching, bringing the message on the revelation And we're looking there at the Battle of Armageddon. I hope that you are just as interested in this as I am. And it's been a gracious study so far. All of these studies are on tape, on CDs, and also in print. In print, they're free. I'll be glad to send them to you. The CDs are $5 each. We have five 15-minute messages on a CD for $5 each. Now, we're looking at the Battle of Armageddon. Let's look back there. We're in the 19th chapter of Revelation. in the 17th verse. Now let's look at the forces which oppose the King of kings and the armies from heaven as the Lord comes back from heaven with His armies. John said in the 19th verse, I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gather together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. We see here the armies of the west and of the east led by their kings gather together in the land of Palestine with one purpose, if possible, and it's not possible, but if it were possible, to keep Christ from coming back to earth, setting up His kingdom. Oh, what blinded humanity, what ignorant fools to think that they can win against the Almighty God. We mentioned that in our last study. Those of you who won't have God's Word, won't have God to rule over, you can't win fighting God. Let me tell you a way, Consider. You can't win in your battle against the Almighty God. Just stop. Listen. A little finite being pitting his will up against the will of the omnipotent, you are defeated before you ever start. I often liken it to when you're walking down the sidewalk there in the city of New Orleans and you look down and you see a little black ain't on the sidewalk. right there, just a little old bitty black ink, and you put your toe up close to him and he'll rear up on his hind leg, just like he was going to jump on you. Well, that's about how a man is against God. You're defeated before you ever start. Now listen, we see here the millions on the earth are gathered together to make war against the Christ. The issue is decided before it ever begins. Yes, before one shot is ever fired, that one bomb is ever dropped, or one missile is ever fired. Let's notice how this battle is being fought. Like David of old, when he marched forth against Goliath, the giant of the Philistines, he conquers by taking the leader. Oh, yes. So David rides forth from the open heaven. King David. Go back there and read that story of David and Goliath. Maybe you haven't read it in a long, long time. The Philistines were encamped against Saul in the armies of the Israelites, and little old King David Little old David, the shepherd boy, told Saul, he said, I'll fight against this, I'll conquer this uncircumcised Philistine, and they made fun of him, even his brothers made fun of him. But he, they finally, Saul allowed him to do it, and he said he went down, and picked up five smooth stones and put them in his little bag on his shoulder, and had his sling in his hand. And he went out to meet the old giant Goliath. And the giant laughed at him and asked, Who am I, a dog, to come out here and meet me, like with a lad, with a slingshot? And listen, but listen, old David sling one shot. one of those smooth stones." Oh, what a message there is in those smooth stones! Do you know why he picked up five stones? Has it ever crossed your mind why he picked up five stones? It is said, I'm not sure, but it is said that old Goliath had four brothers, just as vicious, just as hardened as he was. So David was prepared. Are you prepared to meet the Lord? Are you? I ask you that in kindness. But here we see David conquered old Goliath. One stone hit him right between the eyes, sunk deep into his skull, and David ran over there, pulled his sword out of his scabbard, and cut off old Goliath's head. Oh, but listen now. Here's the battle. Here's the battle. We see our King David rides forth from the open heaven, the first thing he does, there in verse 20, is to march forth and take the beast, and the Antichrist, and his companion, the false prophet. How does he take him? He does not say. But he rides forth, and in view of the whole army he lays hold upon those two leaders who have deceived the whole world, and without any trouble leads them captive. It says here they were both cast alive, into the lake of fire, burning with brimstone. Now I know that maybe many of my hearers, I know that many whom I speak to on a regular basis, do not believe in an everlasting hell. They do not believe that the Lord will send anyone to hell. I wish they'd go there and read where it says a rich man lift up his eyes in hell. Then I tell you oftentimes If you don't believe God's Word, you might as well go on to hell for your trouble. Did you know you can't get saved if you don't believe God's Word? No. The Bible says, Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. But here we see the Lord had no problem casting these two into the lake of fire, these two who had been raised from the dead, those two resurrected beings who had come up from the pit, Satan incarnated, Christ arrests them, takes them alive, and in the presence of all of their followers casts them alive into the lake of fire which burning with fire and brimstone. These supernatural beings, men resurrected from the dead by the devil's power, are not slain. No sword smites them, but they do not die. They are taken alive and cast into the lake of fire. Their worshippers had helped them to be invincible. They had said, Who is like unto the beast? Who can make war against him? But without striking a blow, with all his worshippers in arms around him, he is taken captive, dragged from the field of battle, a helpless prisoner with all his power. all his greatness gone, with all his resistance broken, his armies cannot help him, and he goes down to the pit alive. Now what happens to the vast armies gathered there in the land of Palestine under their leadership, under his leadership, under the leadership of the Antichrist? It says here in verse 21, They were slain with the sword of him that set on the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth. Those who follow the Lord Jesus Christ do not have to say a word. They do not have to lift the sword. But with one stroke of the sword of judgment, which comes from the mouth of the Son of God, the armies are smitten as one man until blood flows two hundred miles to the depths of the horse's bridle. Oh, what a valley of slain men! What a carnage, what slaughter! The Lord Jesus Christ walks victorious over the battlefield. Do you see why the angel had to call the birds of prey out of the fields, out of the sky, to come there? Then the vultures of the air came forth for the supper of the great God, and as set forth in the eighteenth verse--" Now listen, listen to this eighteenth verse. of the nineteenth chapter, they ate the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sat on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great. And it says in the twenty-first verse, all the fowls were filled with their flesh. What a supper! The vultures of the air make a clean sweep of the entire battlefield. Let me call your attention to the word flesh. It is mentioned five times in verse 18 and once in verse 21. The world to-day is calling for flesh, flesh, flesh, pleasures of the flesh, You cannot turn on the television. You cannot read the newspaper. You cannot open a magazine. You cannot stand in the checkout line of the supermarket without seeing nakedness. Nakedness on every hand is flesh, my friend, flesh. So God one day will give this world what she wants, flesh. But what an end it comes to! The Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord God of heaven, does not take pleasure in such destruction. But He is forced to clear the world of every rebel, every enemy, that His saints may enjoy His presence, and that He might be glorified. in his saints, and admired in all them that believed. What a blessing and a joy to know Christ as Savior and Lord. So I ask you at this time, as we come to the close of that particular study on the battle of Armageddon, do you know the Lord? Do you know the Lord, my friend? I ask folks, I say, where are you going to spend eternity? They say, in hell with my friends. They have some kind of notion that hell, that there'll be pleasure in hell. They have some kind of notion that there'll be, like these billboards you see up on the highway, two or three young men sitting around a campfire, and they said, can't get no better than this. Well, my friend, it won't be like that in hell. Oh, no, it won't be any good times in hell. It'll only be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. no matter how great nor how small. You saw here how the greatest archenemy of the Lord Jesus Christ was cast. alive for the end of the fire and the brimstone which burneth forever and ever. So how are you going to stand, my friend? What is the basis of your hope? You say, well, Trailblazer, what's the basis of your hope? I tell you, Christ died, Christ buried, Christ rose, Christ seated at the right hand of God as my intercessor, as my redeemer. Well, what do you mean by all that, Trailblazer? I mean that one day the Lord showed me that I was a wicked sinner. wicked as hell, wicked as it come, and yet he showed me that, gave me a cry against it, let me see that I was headed for the pit, I was headed for the devil's hell, I was headed for right where these two individuals were sent. And then the Lord gave me a cry, O Lord, Lord, would you save me? He showed me that Christ died for me. Did he die for you? Are you resting on Christ? Can you sing that song, On Christ a solid rock I stand, All of the ground is sinking sand. Can you sing that? On Christ's solid rock I stand, all of the ground is sinking sand. And then can you sing that song, like old John Newton, Amazing Grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me? I once was lost, but now am found, was blind, but now I see. When we've been there ten thousand years, bright shining as the sun, we've no less days to sing God's praise than when we first begun. Did you know what heaven will be singing praises unto the Lord? You say, well, we get tired. No. How can you get tired? How can you get tired of praising the one who died for you? Christ shed his blood there on Calvary's cross, my friend. He was nailed to that old way rugged cross. Yes, sir. He was nailed there. and for me, and for you, if you'd come to him. Oh, I ask you, is there any desire in your heart to know the Lord? Don't stop. Don't look around, see what Uncle Joe's doing. No, sir. Come on to the Lord. Forget everything else, and come on to know the Lord. If you do that, the Lord will save you. This is the Old Trailblazer. Remember my mailing address? The Old Trailblazer, post office box 6250, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70174. Goodbye, and God bless you.