WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.860 Henry: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:02.978 --> 00:00:03.938 Day 79 00:00:04.333 --> 00:00:08.683 one of the seven angels who had poured out the seven bowls, came over and spoke to 00:00:08.688 --> 00:00:14.953 me, come with me, he said, and I will show you the judgment that is going to come on. 00:00:14.953 --> 00:00:20.293 The great prostitute who rules over many waters, the kings of the world have 00:00:20.293 --> 00:00:24.403 committed adultery with her, and the people who belong to this world have been 00:00:24.403 --> 00:00:26.893 made drunk by the wine of her immorality. 00:00:28.048 --> 00:00:31.198 So the angel took me in the spirit into the wilderness. 00:00:32.368 --> 00:00:36.598 There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that had seven heads 00:00:36.598 --> 00:00:40.948 and 10 horns and blasphemies against God were written all over it. 00:00:41.938 --> 00:00:47.008 The woman wore purple and scarlet clothing and beautiful jewelry made of gold and 00:00:47.008 --> 00:00:50.668 precious gems and pearls in her hand. 00:00:50.968 --> 00:00:55.888 She held a gold goblet full of obscenities and the impurities of her immorality. 00:00:57.388 --> 00:01:01.258 A mysterious name was written on her forehead, Babylon. 00:01:01.258 --> 00:01:05.758 The great mother of all prostitutes and obscenities in the world. 00:01:06.898 --> 00:01:10.618 I could see that she was drunk, drunk with the blood of God's holy 00:01:10.623 --> 00:01:12.808 people who were witnesses for Jesus. 00:01:13.858 --> 00:01:16.138 I stared at her incomplete amazement. 00:01:17.368 --> 00:01:18.718 Why are you so amazed? 00:01:19.168 --> 00:01:20.218 The angel asked. 00:01:20.548 --> 00:01:24.118 I will tell you the mystery of this woman and of the beast with seven 00:01:24.118 --> 00:01:26.548 heads and 10 horns on which she sits. 00:01:27.628 --> 00:01:30.538 The beast you saw was once alive but isn't now. 00:01:31.018 --> 00:01:34.498 And yet he will soon come up out of the bottomless pit and 00:01:34.498 --> 00:01:36.178 go to eternal destruction. 00:01:36.718 --> 00:01:40.408 And the people who belong to this world, whose names were not written 00:01:40.408 --> 00:01:44.308 in the book of life before the world was made, we'll be amazed at the 00:01:44.308 --> 00:01:46.588 reappearance of this beast who had died. 00:01:47.953 --> 00:01:50.683 This calls for a mind with understanding. 00:01:51.523 --> 00:01:55.873 The seven heads of the beast represent the seven hills where the woman rules. 00:01:56.203 --> 00:01:58.483 They also represent seven kings. 00:01:58.873 --> 00:02:00.733 Five kings have already fallen. 00:02:01.003 --> 00:02:05.623 The sixth now reigns and the seventh is yet to come, but his reign will be brief. 00:02:06.613 --> 00:02:10.723 The Scarlet Beast that was but is no longer is the eighth king. 00:02:11.233 --> 00:02:15.163 He is like the other seven, and he too is headed for destruction. 00:02:16.003 --> 00:02:20.233 The 10 horns of the beast are 10 kings who have not yet risen to power. 00:02:21.013 --> 00:02:23.593 They will be appointed to their kingdoms for one brief 00:02:23.593 --> 00:02:25.813 moment to reign with the beast. 00:02:26.143 --> 00:02:30.403 They will all agree to give him their power and authority together. 00:02:30.403 --> 00:02:34.843 They will go to war against the lamb, but the lamb will defeat them because 00:02:34.843 --> 00:02:40.513 he is Lord of all lords and king of all kings, and his called and chosen 00:02:40.518 --> 00:02:42.673 and faithful ones will be with him. 00:02:44.458 --> 00:02:48.568 Then the angel said to me, the waters where the prostitute is 00:02:48.568 --> 00:02:52.618 ruling represent masses of people of every nation and language. 00:02:53.338 --> 00:02:56.848 The Scarlet Beast and his 10 horns all hate the prostitute. 00:02:57.208 --> 00:03:01.978 They will strip her naked, eat her flesh, and burn her remains with fire. 00:03:02.908 --> 00:03:07.378 For God has put a plan into their minds, a plan that will carry out his purposes. 00:03:08.773 --> 00:03:11.953 They will agree to give their authority to the scarlet beast. 00:03:12.283 --> 00:03:14.953 And so the words of God will be fulfilled. 00:03:15.253 --> 00:03:19.873 And this woman you saw in your vision represents the great city that 00:03:19.873 --> 00:03:21.823 rules over the kings of the world. 00:03:23.233 --> 00:03:29.083 After all this, I saw another angel come down from heaven with great authority, and 00:03:29.083 --> 00:03:31.183 the earth grew bright with his splendor. 00:03:32.023 --> 00:03:33.493 He gave a mighty shout. 00:03:34.228 --> 00:03:38.428 Babylon is fallen, that great city is fallen. 00:03:38.758 --> 00:03:41.218 She has become a home for demons. 00:03:41.428 --> 00:03:47.398 She is a hideout for every foul spirit, a hideout for every foul vulture, and 00:03:47.403 --> 00:03:52.768 every foul and dreadful animal for all the nations have fallen because of 00:03:52.768 --> 00:03:55.018 the wine of her passionate immorality. 00:03:55.828 --> 00:03:59.638 The kings of the world have committed adultery with her because of her 00:03:59.638 --> 00:04:01.828 desires for extravagant luxury. 00:04:02.038 --> 00:04:04.288 The merchants of the world have grown rich. 00:04:05.428 --> 00:04:10.138 Then I heard another voice calling from heaven come away from her. 00:04:10.138 --> 00:04:15.418 My people do not take part in her sins or you will be punished with her. 00:04:15.958 --> 00:04:21.598 For her sins are piled as high as heaven, and God remembers her evil deeds. 00:04:22.228 --> 00:04:28.108 Due to her as she has done to others double her penalty for all her evil deeds. 00:04:28.648 --> 00:04:33.328 She brewed a cup of terror for others, so brewed twice as much for her. 00:04:33.898 --> 00:04:40.048 She glorified herself and lived in luxury, so match it now with torment and sorrow. 00:04:40.948 --> 00:04:42.628 She boasted in her heart. 00:04:43.018 --> 00:04:44.938 I am queen on my throne. 00:04:45.178 --> 00:04:49.138 I am no helpless widow, and I have no reason to mourn. 00:04:49.138 --> 00:04:49.198 I. 00:04:50.203 --> 00:04:53.893 Therefore, these plagues will overtake her in a single day, 00:04:54.223 --> 00:04:56.443 death and mourning and famine. 00:04:56.743 --> 00:05:02.383 She will be completely consumed by fire for the Lord God who judges her is mighty. 00:05:04.183 --> 00:05:08.233 And the kings of the world who committed adultery with her and in enjoyed her great 00:05:08.233 --> 00:05:13.003 luxury will mourn for her as they see the smoke rising from her charred remains. 00:05:14.023 --> 00:05:17.923 They will stand at a distance terrified by her great torment. 00:05:18.223 --> 00:05:19.573 They will cry out. 00:05:20.053 --> 00:05:21.343 How terrible. 00:05:21.523 --> 00:05:23.203 How terrible for you? 00:05:23.203 --> 00:05:24.313 Oh, Babylon. 00:05:24.343 --> 00:05:25.513 You great city. 00:05:26.353 --> 00:05:29.443 In a single moment, God's judgment came on you. 00:05:29.743 --> 00:05:35.023 The merchants of the world will weep and mourn for her, for there 00:05:35.023 --> 00:05:36.853 is no one left to buy their goods. 00:05:37.873 --> 00:05:42.223 She bought great quantities of gold, silver, jewels and pearls. 00:05:43.198 --> 00:05:46.978 Fine linen, purple silk and scarlet cloth. 00:05:47.608 --> 00:05:53.278 Things made of fragrant thigh and wood, ivory goods and objects made of expensive 00:05:53.278 --> 00:05:56.668 wood and bronze, iron and marble. 00:05:57.028 --> 00:06:01.769 She also bought cinnamons spice, incense, Merv, frankincense, wine, 00:06:02.388 --> 00:06:09.448 olive oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle, sheep, horses, wagons, and bodies. 00:06:09.928 --> 00:06:11.608 That is human slaves. 00:06:13.468 --> 00:06:16.618 The fancy things you loved so much are gone. 00:06:16.678 --> 00:06:17.428 They cry. 00:06:18.238 --> 00:06:23.458 All your luxuries and splendor are gone forever, never to be yours again. 00:06:24.658 --> 00:06:27.508 The merchants who became wealthy by selling her these things 00:06:27.508 --> 00:06:28.888 will stand at a distance. 00:06:29.128 --> 00:06:33.298 Terrified by her great torment, they will weep and cry out. 00:06:34.093 --> 00:06:35.383 How terrible. 00:06:35.803 --> 00:06:38.143 How terrible for that great city. 00:06:38.443 --> 00:06:42.973 She was closed in finest, purple and scarlet linens decked out with 00:06:42.978 --> 00:06:45.733 gold and precious stones and pearls. 00:06:46.093 --> 00:06:51.853 In a single moment, all the wealth of the city is gone, and all the 00:06:51.853 --> 00:06:56.353 captains of the merchant ships and their passengers and sailors and 00:06:56.353 --> 00:06:58.333 crews will stand at a distance. 00:06:59.218 --> 00:07:05.248 They will cry out as they watch the smoke ascend and they will say, where 00:07:05.248 --> 00:07:08.008 is there another city as great as this? 00:07:08.998 --> 00:07:11.938 And they will weep and throw dust on their heads to show their 00:07:11.938 --> 00:07:13.918 grief and they will cry out. 00:07:15.088 --> 00:07:16.228 How terrible. 00:07:16.678 --> 00:07:19.288 How terrible for that great city. 00:07:19.678 --> 00:07:23.998 The ship owners became wealthy by transporting her great wealth on the seas. 00:07:24.568 --> 00:07:26.848 In a single moment, it is all gone. 00:07:28.198 --> 00:07:32.638 Rejoice over her fate, oh heaven, and people of God and apostles 00:07:32.638 --> 00:07:37.258 and prophets for at last God has judged her for your sakes. 00:07:38.698 --> 00:07:42.418 Then a mighty angel picked up a boulder the size of a huge millstone. 00:07:42.988 --> 00:07:49.498 He threw it into the ocean and shouted just like this, the great city Babylon 00:07:49.768 --> 00:07:53.728 will be thrown down with violence and will never be found again. 00:07:54.553 --> 00:08:00.253 The sound of harps singers, flutes, and trumpets will never be heard in you again. 00:08:00.613 --> 00:08:04.783 No craftsmen and no trades will ever be found in you again. 00:08:05.743 --> 00:08:09.043 The sound of the mill will never be heard in you again. 00:08:09.763 --> 00:08:12.493 The light of a lamp will never shine in you again. 00:08:13.003 --> 00:08:17.503 The happy voices of brides and grooms will never be heard in you again. 00:08:19.003 --> 00:08:23.623 For your merchants were the greatest in the world, and you deceived the nations 00:08:23.623 --> 00:08:28.933 with your sorceries in your streets flowed the blood of the prophets and 00:08:28.938 --> 00:08:33.613 of God's holy people and the blood of people slaughtered all over the world. 00:08:35.113 --> 00:08:39.643 After this, I heard what sounded like a vast crowd in heaven 00:08:39.643 --> 00:08:42.313 shouting, praise the Lord. 00:08:42.913 --> 00:08:46.753 Salvation and glory and power belong to our God. 00:08:46.993 --> 00:08:52.633 His judgments are true, and just he has punished the great prostitute who 00:08:52.633 --> 00:08:54.913 corrupted the earth with her immorality. 00:08:55.243 --> 00:09:00.693 He has veed the murder of his servants, and again, their voices rang out. 00:09:01.473 --> 00:09:02.803 Praise the Lord. 00:09:03.103 --> 00:09:06.703 The smoke from that city ascends forever and ever. 00:09:07.828 --> 00:09:12.568 Then the 24 elders and the four living beings fell down and worshiped 00:09:12.568 --> 00:09:14.968 God who was sitting on the throne. 00:09:15.388 --> 00:09:17.698 They cried out, amen. 00:09:17.968 --> 00:09:19.108 Praise the Lord. 00:09:20.038 --> 00:09:24.868 And from the throne came a voice that said, praise our God. 00:09:24.988 --> 00:09:30.358 All his servants, all who fear him from the least to the greatest. 00:09:31.648 --> 00:09:36.028 Then I heard again what sounded like the shout of a vast crowd or 00:09:36.028 --> 00:09:40.198 the roar of mighty ocean waves, or the crash of loud thunder. 00:09:40.948 --> 00:09:46.558 Praise the Lord for the Lord our God, the Almighty reigns. 00:09:46.948 --> 00:09:51.008 Let us be glad and rejoice and let us give honor to him. 00:09:51.658 --> 00:09:55.498 For the time has come for the wedding feast of the Lamb, and 00:09:55.498 --> 00:09:57.538 his bride has prepared herself. 00:09:58.018 --> 00:10:02.698 She has been given the finest of pure white linen to wear for 00:10:02.698 --> 00:10:05.938 the fine linen, represents the good deeds of God's holy people. 00:10:07.138 --> 00:10:13.048 And the angel said to me, right this blessed are those who are invited 00:10:13.048 --> 00:10:14.878 to the wedding feast of the lamb. 00:10:15.568 --> 00:10:19.468 And he added, these are true words that come from God. 00:10:20.863 --> 00:10:23.803 Then I fell down at his feet to worship him. 00:10:24.193 --> 00:10:26.683 But he said, no, don't worship me. 00:10:27.343 --> 00:10:31.723 I am a servant of God, just like you and your brothers and sisters who testify 00:10:31.723 --> 00:10:33.973 about their faith in Jesus worship. 00:10:33.973 --> 00:10:39.733 Only God for the essence of prophecy is to give a clear witness for Jesus. 00:10:41.803 --> 00:10:44.683 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:10:44.803 --> 00:10:46.033 Thank you for joining us.