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Three Cosmic Messages: Earth's Final Conflict

Mark Finley

01 Jesus vs Satan

02 The Decision that Decides Your Destiny

03 Only One Church Preaches this Message

04 Will You Pass God’s Judgment?

05 Mathematical Proof We are Living in the Last Days

06 The Obedience Dilemma

07 Revelation’s Creation Connection

08 This is Why Satan Hates the Sabbath So Much

09 Avoid this False Church System

10 Satan’s Final Deception Infecting the Church

11 Mark of the Beast | Everything You Need to Know Part 1

12 Mark Of the Beast 2 | Everything You Need to Know Part 2

13 End Time Events Before the Second Coming of Christ

I'm Godger Beck, and if this is your first time joining us for 3 Cosmic Messages, a series on Bible prophecy specifically focusing on the book of Revelation, thank you for joining us.

During this series, we have been taking a journey, a journey through 3 messages in the book of Revelation that are urgent and vital for this generation.

We've pointed out that these messages are carried symbolically by 3 angels in the middle of heaven.

We've studied and explored the first of these angels messages and in this presentation we're going to study the second angels message.

Father in heaven, thank you so much that you have not left this world without a message to prepare it for your return.

And we sense that as we study these vital messages, that your spirit has been with us.

We ask that the Holy Spirit would come, illuminate our minds, open our hearts, and help us make eternal decisions.

My title in this presentation is A City Called Confusion.

The book of Revelation is a book of contrasts.

There's the dragon and the beast, 2 leaders.

There are 2 signs, the seal of God and the mark of the beast.

There are 2 harvests, the harvest of golden grain, the saved, and the harvest of glory grapes, the lost.

There are 2 cities, Jerusalem from above and Babylon from beneath.

There are 2 spirits, the Holy Spirit inspiring God's people and spirits of demons.

There are 2 types of miracles, genuine, authentic miracles that come from God and false miracles that come from Satan.

There are 2 times of trouble in the book of Revelation.

There is the little, small time of trouble before the close of human probation when the 7 last plagues come, and then there's that great time of trouble.

So throughout the book of Revelation there are multiple contrasts.

1 of those major contrasts in the book of Revelation is the description of 2 women.

We find that in Revelation 12 and Revelation 17.

In Revelation 12, verse 1, this woman in white is described.

A woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a garland of 12 stars.

Verse 2, then being with child she cried out in labor in pain to give birth.

Now notice, this woman in white is standing on the moon.

The moon reflects the light of the sun, representing the Old Testament.

You remember what Jesus said in John 5, verse 39?

He's speaking about the Old Testament prophecies.

He said, these are they that testify of me.

So the entire Old Testament was a lesser light, like the moon shining to testify of Christ.

Now the other thing you notice about this woman is that she has a garland of 12 stars on her head.

That is to say that she's going to be guided by the 12 apostles.

The other thing you notice is that she's pregnant, she's with child.

Christ is to be born, the Messiah of the New Testament church.

But 1 of the predominant symbols here is that she's dressed in white.

And what does a woman represent in Bible prophecy?

When you look at the Bible, going back as far as to the Old Testament, Jeremiah chapter 6, verse 2, he says, I've likened the daughter of Zion.

The people of God in the Old Testament to a lovely and delicate woman.

So God likens his church, he likens his people to a beautiful woman, adorned in white, having pure, true doctrine.

So do you get the picture in Revelation 12.1?

A woman is emerging from the Old Testament era.

The New Testament church is to come forth, Christ the child, the Messiah of that church.

The woman in white in Revelation 12 is described as faithful to Jesus.

She is clothed with the righteousness of Christ.

The Bible describes the faithful followers of Jesus, the offspring of this woman that would appear at end time in Revelation 12, verse 17.

You know, in the New Testament, Ephesians 5, the Bible talks about the woman as the bride of Christ.

He, Satan, goes to make war with the rest of her offspring.

That is the offspring, the children, the remnant of the seed of this woman, who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.

So down through the generations, God has always had a faithful group who followed Him.

Committed to Christ, they have obeyed Christ.

So in Revelation chapter 12, you have the royal line of believers.

Faithful believers committed to Christ, saved by grace, obeying Christ because they have been in love with their Savior.

The New Testament church is radiant with the Son of Righteousness, Jesus Christ.

And although God has always had a people faithful to him, the devil has always been working.

The devil's been working to bring in deception.

The devil's been working to bring in false doctrine.

The devil has been working to distort the truth of God.

The woman of Revelation 12, dressed in white.

These 3 angels describe this conflict between these 2 women, this crisis between these 2 women.

This has to do with the fountain of truth and the fountain of error.

The woman dressed in white representing the pure true church in Revelation 12.

The woman in scarlet in Revelation 17 representing the fountain of error.

Revelation chapter 14 verse 8, that second angel's message describes this second woman dressed in scarlet as Babylon.

And it says, and another angel followed saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen.

That great city, because she has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

The first angel's message, I saw another angel flying in the middle of heaven, having the everlasting gospel, the woman dressed in white, the pure, true church preaching the gospel, to go to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, the woman dressed in white, the angel's message, saying with a loud voice to the entire world, fear God, that's obey God, Give glory to Him in your lifestyle.

Because we're living in a unique time of Earth's history, the hour of His judgment has come and worship the Creator.

So the first angel's message calls us to true worship, to be followers of the woman in white in Revelation chapter 12, and be part of those who have faith in Christ and the faith of Christ living in their hearts, and keep the commandments of God.

The message of the second angel is to flee from the woman in scarlet titled as the false Babylon, a religion of confusion and humanism.

Babylon is fallen, is fallen, is the second angel's message.

Now Revelation 17 picks up on that second angel's message.

Now when you look at this term Babylon in the Bible and when Revelation 14 verse 8 says Babylon is fallen.

Is that possibly speaking of ancient Babylon?

Ancient Babylon ruled the world from 605 BC to 539 BC.

The Babylonians were overtaken and overthrown by the Medes and the Persians there in 539.

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