This is the old Trailblazer broadcast. This is Pastor Albert Pendarvis, pastor here at the First Baptist Church of Algiers in New Orleans, where we recently have gone through terrible times with Hurricane Katrina, and now we're relocating our services, our office, our bookstore, our headquarters, our printing press. All of those things are in transit now, in storage. We're moving to Baton Rouge, to an area there where we have a chapel. And we're going to rebuild or build a larger chapel there to handle our folks. And we're broadcasting every Sunday there. First of all on WLNO in New Orleans and then on the internet at Radio Missions. dot o r g and let me give you this information quickly i soon forget it our bookstore is up and running we'd be glad to give you uh handle your bookstore orders through the mail or through the email you can email us there at pastor at radio missions we'll be glad to handle it we'll be glad to take your order over the phone we'll take your credit card All of those things, we're doing those things to keep our folks with good books. We're restocking some of the shelves that were depleted during the move and during our sale that we had on. So we'll be glad to do that and I'll give you more information. A phone number in our next broadcast. I don't have it in front of me now. But this is the old Trailblazer, Pastor Penn Darvish. And I praise the Lord for each one of you who are supporting the ministry here, the radio broadcast of the Trailblazer and also the Voice of Truth. And our folks scattered all over this nation. We do. It's amazing to me how folks responded after the storm, calling, writing, helping us with the finance. The finance dropped off because we lost a lot of our folks due to the storm. They were displaced, moved out of the country, moved out of the city, moved out of the state. But the Lord has supplied all our needs and is supplying them on a daily basis. We're dealing with a contractor now to build a new building here in Baton Rouge. a better building than what we had in New Orleans. It was an old, old building, most of you know, some of you know. Much maintenance required and all those things, many, many termites. And the contractor told me the other day, we was talking, he said, there won't be a wooden piece of wood in this building. It's all going to be steel studs, steel rafters, steel everything. And termites can just turn around and go back to New Orleans. But my friend, this is the old Trailblazer. We're looking at this study in Revelation, and today we're looking at the fall of Babylon. I hope you've been keeping up with us in all of these things. We're looking at the 18th chapter of Revelation. We're coming down now to the end, aren't we? After these things, it says, that refers to the 17th chapter we just got through with, where Mystery Babylon, the great mother of harlots and abominations of the earth, is set forth picturing apostate Christendom After all, born-again believers have been taken out of the world." Dr. Copeland said, you catch that? After all, born-again believers have been taken out of the world. Oh, you aww-millennials, you just have to chop your lips, don't you? In our study of the seventeenth chapter, we saw that all religious bodies would unite under one head, who would be the Antichrist, After all, born again, ones were taken out of this world. We saw that Babylon is the place where all false religions, idolatry, paganism, false philosophy originated. We saw that under the reign of the Antichrist all religions would head up in old Babylon. We saw that Christ would turn the beast, or the Antichrist, against this religious world, or this religious harlot, and burn her with fire, making her desolate. That is, he would utterly destroy root and branch, for it is the thing that God hates. Now we come to the eighteenth chapter. I hope you got your Bible with you. where Babylon the Great is set forth as the great commercial center of the world in the closing days of the tribulation period." That's a gracious thought that came to me recently, that one day that tribulation period will come to an end. But it raises the question, will the city of Babylon be rebuilt? According to God's Word, the city of Babylon on the Euphrates River will have to be rebuilt, according to Isaiah 13 and 14, and then Jeremiah 50 and 51. You go there and read those four chapters. For the city of Babylon has never been destroyed, as prophecy says she will. Listen to Isaiah 13, 19, and Jeremiah 50, 40. And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees, excellently shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and the neighboring cities thereof, saith the Lord. So shall no man abide there, neither shall any son of man dwell therein. Then in Jeremiah 51.6 we find these words, Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul. Be not off Listen, be not cut off in her iniquity, for this is the time of the Lord's vengeance. He will render unto her a recompense. Babylon hath been a golden cup in the Lord's hand that made all the earth drunken. Babylon and the nations have drunken her wine, therefore the nations are mad. Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed. Howl for her! Take balm for her pain! if so be that she may be healed." When you study the history of Babylon from the days of old Nimrod up to this present hour, you will find that nothing like this I have quoted from God's Word has ever happened to the city of Babylon. Now with your Bibles in hand, let us read what John said he saw in this eighteenth chapter. And after these things, after the seventeenth chapter, I saw another angel come down from heaven. having great power, and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the Great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hole of every foul spirit, and the cage of every unclean and hateful bird, for all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. And the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works. in the cup which she has filled to her double. How much she has glorified herself, lived deliciously, so much torment and sorrow give her, for she saith in her heart, I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow. Therefore shall her plague come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine. and she shall be utterly burned with fire, for strong is the Lord God who judges her." Oh, my friend, I speak often of the wrath of God. Folks won't have it. Folks just won't have it, that the God that we know is the God of wrath. Oh, but listen, the Scripture says what a terrible thing to fall into the hands of an angry God. We see here the doom of Babylon. Yes, Babylon will have to be rebuilt, and will be rebuilt according to her prophecy on the old site on the Euphrates River. She will be rebuilt in all her splendor and earthly glory. and will become the capital of the world empire under the reign of the Antichrist. She will also become the center of world commerce and center of world religion. In Zechariah 5, we have such a definite prophecy that Babylon will be rebuilt in the land of Shinar, which will be the seat of universal commercialism, as well as the center of world wickedness. From this center, according to Revelation 18, 3, all nations will be brought definitely under her influence. of wickedness and fornication, when her iniquity will have reached its full. God will destroy her as He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. But before He destroys Babylon, as stated there in verse 4, He calls His people to come out of her. This refers to the Jews in the closing days of the Tribulation period. Just as God could not destroy Sodom and Gomorrah before Lot and his family got out, just so He will not destroy Babylon until His people come out of her. Read that in Genesis 19, if you will. We have a vivid comparison between the fullness of iniquity in the city of Sodom and the fullness of iniquity in the city of Babylon. Listen. Listen to these words in verse 5. for her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities. In the 18th chapter of Genesis, verse 20, we read, 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 altogether according to the cry of which is come unto me." My friend, did you ever stop to think that every sin that you commit cries out unto God against you, is held against you in the record of heaven, and will meet you at the judgment unless that sin has been paid for, pardoned, put away, forgiven by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ? I often tell the story, paraphrasing the Bible, of the judgment day, one day there'll be a throne set in heaven, a judgment throne, and there'll be folks there. They'll come there to be judged. And the recording angel will be there, and the Lord will sit on the throne, and he'll say to the angel, look to see if so-and-so's name is in the book. And the angel will look there, and he'll say, no, he's not there. No, sir. He said, look again. You say, how is that going to be possible? You know anything about a computerized world? My friend, you can pick up a computer now, and you can look up somebody's name and address in Shanghai. You can do all of those things that I don't even know a lot about. But I know one thing. Over this internet that we go out over, over these great radio stations, there's technology there that the human heart cannot conceive. So you think God can't don't have a record the bible says there's a record kept but the book will be open and the angel will say no is that going to be your name and the lord will say depart from me i never knew you depart from me i never knew you and he would cast out into the lake of fire which burneth forever and ever you can say well old trailblazer all that was done away with you show me where it's done away with you write me and tell me call me and tell me I have told you in the recent past, one of our great old so-called evangelists made this statement in his newspaper article that he was not sure that there was a living hell. Well, I tell you, my friend, if I could stand by his side, I'd say, Mr., you can be sure there's a living hell because God's Word says it is. The Bible says that hell from beneath is moved to meet thee at thy coming. My friend, hell is a literal place, not a figment of someone's imagination. No, just as our Lord Jesus Christ is a living reality, just as the blood is a living reality, just as heaven is a living reality, so shall judgment be, and so shall eternity be. Oh, my friend, listen. Listen, my friend. Don't go out into eternity lost. Throw down your rebellion. Throw down your hatefulness. Throw down your hatred for God. Throw down your hatred for God's Word. begin to seek the Lord. The Bible says, seek the Lord while he may be found. Do you know what that means? It means right now. He may be found. It's possible to find the Lord right now. Oh, but he says, the harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved. Oh, that means we, the collective we, that's not saved. But listen, folks, the old trailblazers praying for you. Would you remember to pray for me? And then if you would, write me, and I'll send you a log of all our radio broadcasts, send you a tape catalog. a booklet catalog. You can order these messages. All of these messages are on CDs and cassettes. We'd be glad to send you a list of them. But remember my website, radiomissions.org. You can find much information there. You can say, what is the Old Trailblazer? I don't know who that old fool is. You can go there and you can see what we believe here. And then I'm going to give you a study before long on the Old Trailblazer's background, his life, and where he came from. I'm going to do that one morning, one evening maybe. Maybe you'd enjoy it, maybe you wouldn't. If you don't, turn the radio off, I'm going out. But listen, my friend, my mailing address is the old trailblazer, Post Office Box 6250, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70174. Goodbye, and God bless you.