This is the old Trailblazer broadcast. This is Pastor Albert Pitt-Darvis, the old Trailblazer, riding out on old Dan. Come on, Dan, let's get a-getting. Old Trailblazer, Pastor L.R. Shelton, the founder of this ministry, used to ride the old faithful horse, old Dan, out. He'd say, come on, Dan, let's get a-getting. Got to get down there where they're gathering together at the sawmill. Going to have a time of praise and prayer there at the sawmill this morning before they go to work. Or at the old country church. And then he would have a Go through the woods there, and he'd dash. Had his old faithful pistol with him. He'd shoot an old snake every now and then. And I had folks who rode with me to work. We listened to that broadcast, and they'd make fun of the old trailblazer. But, my friend, this is the old trailblazer. I'm just bringing you God's message day after day. I'm not attempting to make a name for myself. I'm just a poor old ignoramus the Lord picked up. picked up off the dunghill. Did you know that scripture says he'll raise the beggar off the dunghill? Have you ever been a beggar? Oh, my friend, I have. I'm a beggar now. I beg for mercy day by day. Lord, don't Don't give me justice, give me mercy. Now, we're looking like in this study, those things we started in our last study, thinking about the wrath of God, we want to see those things in the 15th chapter of Revelation. So let's notice this fact. In the fifteenth chapter of Revelation, rebellion must and will be crushed from off the earth before Christ comes to set up His kingdom. These seven bowls of God's wrath mete out God's anger on men, and this poured out before Christ comes to the earth to set up His kingdom. These are hardening judgments, just like those God visited upon Pharaoh. Those judgments never softened Pharaoh's heart. No, they hardened him. But God must and will crush all rebellion. Then third, these seven voles of the wrath of God upon the earth are literal, just as the ten plagues of Egypt were literal. So the seven last plagues of Revelation will be literal. It's God's wrath upon rebellious man and what man calls civilization and human progress. We need to understand this one fact. eternal fact that God hates what man calls civilization, or man's system of human progress. There is man's philosophy, the basis on which a man's self-wisdom, and God says in His Word, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. And he asked where he is, and he asked, listen now, Let me go back and read that again. For after that, in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God. Then there is what man calls science, which discovers nature and the laws of nature, but which denies God as Creator. And God said, This thing I hate. Then there is what man calls art, which demands the beautiful in form, but on the other hand man abhors holiness and purity of heart. Also there are man's inventions designed to make the earth a better place in which to live, and that without God. Man wants all the comforts of life, but leave God out. I'll rule it myself," he says, in essence. Then there's man's religion, which denies God's righteousness and hates God's Christ and blood redemption. Man wants his own religion, but will not have the Lord Jesus Christ to rule over him. Man says, come now, let us kill the Christ, and we will take over the vineyard ourselves, Matthew 21.38. God hates such religion regardless of the stamp it bears. Then there is man's government, which has the right to rule. Man wants a world at peace, but he does not want a prince of peace. Man wants a world of brotherhood, of love, but rejects God's love. All of this God hates, and says, I will destroy it. Then there are those pleasures which men delight in, which are enmity against God. Man wants to enjoy life, all the comforts of life, but apart from God. But let me tell you something, friend. The Lord will shortly strike with a lightning blow, and He will crush and destroy, wipe out and remove this hateful, abhorrent, abominable thing that man calls living independent of God. God's will shall be done on earth as it is in heaven. Oh, I listen to some of these folks. And they say, well, I'm not a Christian, but I believe there is a God. I believe there is a higher power. I believe this, and I believe that. And they're just making a fool out of themselves, my friend. And then we have this little group today who calls themselves atheists. They say there is no God. You know what the scripture says? The fool has said in his heart, no God. That classifies you as a fool, my atheist friend, if you happen to be listening. For God's will to be done on earth as it is in heaven, it involves crushing out and destroying and completely stamping out this earth's satanic system which we have today. This He will do when He pours out upon this earth, as recorded in the 16th chapter of Revelation, the seven bowls of the wrath of Almighty God. Let's notice one other thing, that God is righteous and just in His judgment, and all Heaven says, Amen, to the judgments of God. The average preacher today, as well as a Bible teacher, Bible scholar, has taken the sword of justice and the sword of wrath out of the hands of a sovereign, eternal, omnipotent God in their preaching and in their teaching. Oh, but listen! What a day that will be when those individuals stand before the great white throne, and they'll stand there with their congregation, and they'll say, Pastor, Mr. Minister, Teacher, why didn't you tell us the truth? Why didn't you tell us the truth? Oh, listen, my friend, I tell you, I can't hardly stand it. I can't hardly grasp it. I can't hardly stand to meditate upon individuals being cast out saying, haven't we did this? Haven't we done that? Weren't we the first church of so and so? Weren't we this? Weren't we that? And the Lord will say, depart from me. I never knew you. Now, my friend, that's a literal, literal statement if there ever was one made. There's coming a reckoning day when men and women will stand before the great throne of God, and the books will be opened, and another book will be opened, which is the book of life. And I've told this a few times, that I believe the Lord sitting on the throne will say to the recording angel, Mr. Angel, look in there and see if old Joe's name is in there. And he'll go there and look, maybe on a computer. I don't know how those things will be. And he'll come back and he'll say, no, Lord. No, my Lord, his name's not there. I believe he'll say, go back and look again. I want to make sure. He comes back, he says, no, no sir. He says, depart from me, I never knew you. Will that be you, my friend? Will that be you, my young daughter, my granddaughter, my grandson? Will that be you, my friends? Will that be you, members of the First Baptist Church of Algiers? First Baptist Church of Hillcrest, Grace Chapel in Hattiesburg, Hope Chapel in Picayune. Will that be you, you folks there in San Benito? Will that be you? Depart from me, I never knew you. Will that be you folks up there in Orlean? Oh, my friend, will that be you? Depart from me, I never knew you. Scripture says there'll be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth. Oh, my friend, that's a living reality. Hell is a living reality, whether you believe it. I know folks don't want to hear about it. I know folks reject it. I know all of those things. But the Bible commands his pastor, his messenger, his ambassador, to be instant in season and out of season. What do you think the Lord left us the Holy Bible here for if we were not to preach it, if we were not to take it and hammer it home to the hearts and souls of men and women in this day of grace, in this day of mercy, so that they might come to the Lord? You say, well, you're just trying to frighten folks. I wish I could. I wish I could frighten you. Oh, my friend, I read a story where a man went over one of the great tall bridges of our country, went in the water, and said they rescued him out of the water alive, and when they got him out, he was a young man, his hair was white as snow. In those few seconds from falling off of that bridge into that murky water, everything that he ever had done came before his eyes like a panorama, and his hair turned white as snow. Now, my friend, that's a true story. That's not just made up. I've heard others tell similar experiences, but I know one thing. Judgment never opens a heart. Judgment never softens a heart. You know what softens a heart? Mercy. Mercy. Mercy Lord and you know what you can ask for mercy. You can cry for mercy Lord don't grant me judgment grant me mercy Lord. Oh But listen my friend listen now Let's notice another thing that God is righteous and just in all his judgment all Heaven says amen to the judgments of God. You know what that word. Amen means it says so be it it means so be it and So be it." He puts this stamp of approval on that word. The average preacher today has taken the sword of justice and the sword of wrath out of the hands of a sovereign, eternal, omnipotent God. I have no trouble believing God's word, and I know that the judgments of God are righteous altogether, because our God judges in righteousness, and my sympathy is with the Lord. Now I have folks who don't particularly care for their old trailblazer. They criticize me through the mail, through the word of mouth. But my sympathy is with the Lord, my friend. And I make this statement often. Don't touch God's anointed. If you can't have fellowship with me, I don't believe you're saved. I don't believe you're saved. Surely we won't agree on everything. But if you can run off somewhere and criticize and ridicule the old trailblazer and spread lies about him, you're not saved. You're no more saved than a hog has a sidesaddle, my friend. You just need to wake up and ask the Lord to awaken you. Wake up. What good do you do to criticize me, my friend? I don't criticize you. I don't criticize you. No, I pray for you. I pray for those who criticize me. Now let's turn to the 16th chapter. We've got just a minute. And begin the reading. And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, go your ways. Pour out the vows upon the wrath of God. upon the earth. Now that's the 16th chapter and we're going to stop there for this time. Take it up there in our next study and I'll show you what is poured out. Those vials, there's seven of them, bowls, they're just nothing but a bowl, a vial is nothing but a bowl, a container that holds the wrath of God. Now my friend, could I plead with you at this time, whether it be night, morning, noon, or night, Would you think about your soul? Your soul is eternal. It's going to live on either in heaven with the Lord or in judgment, in hell. where they'll be weepin' and wailin' and gnashin' their teeth. You say, Treblaise, you're out of step with the whole world. I know that. I know that. I know that I'm out of step with the religious world. They'll tell you to just come on. Trust Jesus. That's not salvation, my friend. That won't even, that don't even smell like salvation. Salvation is a deliverance from sin. The very word salvation means deliverance. Have you ever been delivered from your old sinful life? Have you? Have you ever, do you have a new heart? The Lord says in Ezekiel 36, 26, I will give you a new heart. Have you got a new heart? When you come in the front door, does the cats and the dogs run out the back door and the kids scramble for cover and the wife runs out to the shed somewhere because you're an irate husband? Do you do that? You're not saved. Do you rail on your wife and children? You're not saved. No, no, that's not the spirit of God, my friend. That's not a new spirit. Oh, I know we're not perfect. I know we have to cry unto the Lord for grace day by day to live by, but I'm talking about as a rule, as a whole. Are you like an old, old, old, sore-tailed cat? Everything somebody says, you've got to answer for it. You're critical of everything. If you are, you're not saved. Don't, don't go off and make a mistake saying you're saved. No, you're not saved. You need to turn, turn to the Lord, and ask the Lord to forgive you, and ask the Lord to break that spirit within you. And He will, I guarantee you, He'll do it. I'll give you that, my word of testimony, He'll do it, because He broke it in my heart. Remember, this is the Old Trailblazer, Pastor Penn Darvis, saying it's good to have been with you. Remember my mailing address. It's the Old Trailblazer, Post Office Box 6250, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70174. Good-bye, and God bless you.