WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.030 --> 00:00:02.880 Henry: Welcome To Immerse: The Daily Bible Reading Experience. 00:00:02.988 --> 00:00:03.828 Day 78 00:00:04.206 --> 00:00:08.046 then I witnessed in heaven an event of great significance. 00:00:09.156 --> 00:00:13.866 I saw a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon beneath her feet, and 00:00:13.866 --> 00:00:15.816 a crown of 12 stars on her head. 00:00:16.356 --> 00:00:20.136 She was pregnant and she cried out because of her labor pains, 00:00:20.136 --> 00:00:21.816 and the agony of giving birth. 00:00:23.466 --> 00:00:26.136 Then I witnessed in heaven another significant event. 00:00:27.351 --> 00:00:32.061 I saw a large red dragon with seven heads and 10 horns with 00:00:32.061 --> 00:00:33.831 seven crowns on his heads. 00:00:34.731 --> 00:00:38.391 His tails swept away one third of the stars in the sky, and 00:00:38.391 --> 00:00:39.711 he threw them to the earth. 00:00:40.761 --> 00:00:44.661 He stood in front of the woman as she was about to give birth, ready to 00:00:44.666 --> 00:00:47.301 devour her baby as soon as it was born. 00:00:48.531 --> 00:00:53.271 She gave birth to a son who was to rule all nations with an iron rod. 00:00:54.411 --> 00:00:58.581 Her child was snatched away from the dragon and was caught up to God and 00:00:58.581 --> 00:01:04.101 to his throne, and the woman fled into the wilderness where God had prepared 00:01:04.101 --> 00:01:08.271 a place to care for her for 1,260 days. 00:01:09.441 --> 00:01:11.211 Then there was war in Heaven. 00:01:12.471 --> 00:01:17.181 Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and his angels, and the 00:01:17.181 --> 00:01:21.231 dragon lost the battle, and he and his angels were forced out of heaven. 00:01:22.146 --> 00:01:27.906 This great dragon, the ancient serpent called the Devil or Satan, the one 00:01:27.906 --> 00:01:32.406 deceiving the whole world was thrown down to the earth with all his angels. 00:01:33.576 --> 00:01:36.486 Then I heard a loud voice shouting across the heavens. 00:01:37.566 --> 00:01:39.546 It has come at last. 00:01:40.116 --> 00:01:45.876 Salvation and power, and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ. 00:01:46.596 --> 00:01:50.226 For the accuser of our brothers and sisters has been thrown down 00:01:50.226 --> 00:01:54.786 to earth, the one who accuses them before our God day and night. 00:01:55.776 --> 00:02:00.306 And they have defeated him by the blood of the lamb and by their testimony, 00:02:00.936 --> 00:02:04.986 and they did not love their lives so much that they were afraid to die. 00:02:05.316 --> 00:02:10.626 Therefore, rejoice o heavens and you who live in the heavens, rejoice. 00:02:12.006 --> 00:02:15.996 But terror will come on the earth and the sea for the devil has 00:02:15.996 --> 00:02:20.616 come down to you in great anger knowing that he has little time. 00:02:21.966 --> 00:02:26.556 When the dragon realized that he had been thrown down to the earth, he 00:02:26.556 --> 00:02:31.266 pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child, but she was given 00:02:31.266 --> 00:02:35.406 two wings, like those of a great eagle, so she could fly to the place 00:02:35.406 --> 00:02:37.056 prepared for her in the wilderness. 00:02:38.211 --> 00:02:42.081 There she would be cared for and protected from the dragon for 00:02:42.081 --> 00:02:45.381 a time, times, and half a time. 00:02:47.271 --> 00:02:51.171 Then the dragon tried to drown the woman with a flood of water that flowed from his 00:02:51.171 --> 00:02:56.151 mouth, but the earth helped her by opening its mouth and swallowing the river that 00:02:56.151 --> 00:02:58.011 gushed out from the mouth of the dragon. 00:02:59.121 --> 00:03:02.811 And the dragon was angry at the woman and declared war against 00:03:02.811 --> 00:03:04.071 the rest of her children. 00:03:04.746 --> 00:03:09.366 All who keep God's commandments and maintain their testimony for Jesus. 00:03:10.476 --> 00:03:14.136 Then the dragon took his stand on the shore beside the sea. 00:03:15.546 --> 00:03:18.606 Then I saw a beast rising up out of the sea. 00:03:19.626 --> 00:03:23.526 It had seven heads and 10 horns with 10 crowns on its 00:03:23.526 --> 00:03:26.316 horns and written on each head. 00:03:26.316 --> 00:03:28.446 Were names that blasphemed God. 00:03:29.751 --> 00:03:34.311 This beast looked like a leopard, but it had the feet of a bear and the mouth of 00:03:34.311 --> 00:03:40.311 a lion, and the dragon gave the beast his own power and throne and great authority. 00:03:41.691 --> 00:03:45.261 I saw that one of the heads of the beast seemed wounded beyond recovery, 00:03:45.741 --> 00:03:47.361 but the fatal wound was healed. 00:03:48.231 --> 00:03:52.431 The whole world marveled at this miracle and gave allegiance to the beast. 00:03:53.181 --> 00:03:56.631 They worshiped the dragon for giving the beast such power, and 00:03:56.631 --> 00:03:58.341 they also worshiped the beast. 00:03:59.556 --> 00:04:03.696 Who is as great as the beast they exclaimed, who is 00:04:03.696 --> 00:04:05.166 able to fight against him. 00:04:06.186 --> 00:04:11.616 Then the beast was allowed to speak great blasphemies against God, and 00:04:11.616 --> 00:04:17.166 he was given authority to do whatever he wanted for 42 months, and he spoke 00:04:17.171 --> 00:04:22.296 terrible words of blasphemy against God, slandering his name and his dwelling. 00:04:22.656 --> 00:04:24.306 That is those who dwell in heaven. 00:04:25.551 --> 00:04:29.901 The beast was allowed to wage war against God's holy people and to conquer them. 00:04:30.801 --> 00:04:35.301 And he was given authority to rule over every tribe and people and language and 00:04:35.301 --> 00:04:40.221 nation, and all the people who belong to this world worshiped the beast. 00:04:41.031 --> 00:04:44.661 They are the ones whose names were not written in the book of life 00:04:44.661 --> 00:04:48.381 that belongs to the lamb, who was slaughtered before the world was made. 00:04:49.911 --> 00:04:53.571 Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand. 00:04:54.816 --> 00:04:58.686 Anyone who is destined for prison will be taken to prison. 00:04:59.586 --> 00:05:04.026 Anyone destined to die by the sword will die by the sword. 00:05:05.646 --> 00:05:09.546 This means that God's holy people must endure persecution 00:05:09.546 --> 00:05:11.556 patiently and remain faithful. 00:05:12.606 --> 00:05:15.546 Then I saw another beast come up out of the earth. 00:05:16.206 --> 00:05:20.826 He had two horns like those of a lamb, but he spoke with the voice of a dragon. 00:05:21.636 --> 00:05:25.986 He exercised all the authority of the first beast, and he required all the 00:05:25.986 --> 00:05:30.936 Earth and its people to worship the first beast whose fatal wound had been healed. 00:05:31.656 --> 00:05:36.816 He did astounding miracles, even making fire flash down to earth from the sky. 00:05:36.821 --> 00:05:40.926 While everyone was watching and with all the miracles he was allowed to 00:05:40.926 --> 00:05:42.906 perform on behalf of the first beast. 00:05:43.146 --> 00:05:45.816 He deceived all the people who belonged to this world. 00:05:46.866 --> 00:05:51.456 He ordered the people to make a great statue of the first beast who was fatally 00:05:51.456 --> 00:05:53.466 wounded and then came back to life. 00:05:54.696 --> 00:05:58.776 He was then permitted to give life to this statue so that it could speak. 00:05:59.766 --> 00:06:03.306 Then the statue of the Beast commanded that anyone refusing 00:06:03.306 --> 00:06:05.206 to worship it must die. 00:06:05.746 --> 00:06:12.996 He required everyone small and great, rich and poor, free and slave. 00:06:13.521 --> 00:06:18.411 To be given a mark on the right hand or on the forehead, and no one could 00:06:18.411 --> 00:06:23.031 buy or sell anything without that mark, which was either the name of the beast 00:06:23.211 --> 00:06:25.341 or the number representing his name. 00:06:26.181 --> 00:06:27.561 Wisdom is needed here. 00:06:28.611 --> 00:06:32.391 Let the one with understanding solve the meaning of the number of the beast. 00:06:33.051 --> 00:06:34.821 For it is the number of a man. 00:06:35.601 --> 00:06:38.091 His number is 6 66. 00:06:39.801 --> 00:06:47.391 Then I saw the lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him were 144,000 who had 00:06:47.391 --> 00:06:53.271 his name and his father's name written on their foreheads, and I heard a sound 00:06:53.276 --> 00:06:58.131 from heaven, like the roar of mighty ocean waves, or the rolling of loud thunder. 00:06:59.031 --> 00:07:02.211 It was like the sound of many harpists playing together. 00:07:03.426 --> 00:07:07.296 This great choir sang a wonderful new song in front of the throne of God, 00:07:07.296 --> 00:07:12.426 and before the four Living Beings and the 24 elders, no one could learn 00:07:12.426 --> 00:07:17.196 this song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. 00:07:17.886 --> 00:07:21.906 They have kept themselves as pure as virgins following the lamb. 00:07:21.906 --> 00:07:26.916 Wherever he goes, they have been purchased from among the people on the earth as a 00:07:26.916 --> 00:07:29.376 special offering to God and to the lamb. 00:07:30.291 --> 00:07:31.671 They have told no lies. 00:07:32.061 --> 00:07:33.261 They are without blame. 00:07:34.881 --> 00:07:39.621 And I saw another angel flying through the sky, carrying the eternal good 00:07:39.621 --> 00:07:44.481 news to proclaim to the people who belong to this world, to every nation, 00:07:44.541 --> 00:07:49.251 tribe, language, and people fear God. 00:07:49.431 --> 00:07:56.301 He shouted, give glory to him for the time has come when he will sit as judge. 00:07:56.946 --> 00:08:00.816 Worship him who made the heavens, the earth, the sea, 00:08:01.026 --> 00:08:02.736 and all the springs of water. 00:08:03.996 --> 00:08:09.756 Then another angel followed him through the sky shouting, Babylon is fallen. 00:08:10.056 --> 00:08:14.796 That great city is fallen because she made all the nations of the world drink 00:08:14.796 --> 00:08:17.286 the wine of her passionate immorality. 00:08:18.486 --> 00:08:21.426 Then a third angel followed them shouting. 00:08:22.266 --> 00:08:26.856 Anyone who worships the beast and his statue, or who accepts his mark 00:08:26.856 --> 00:08:31.206 on the forehead or on the hand, must drink the wine of God's anger. 00:08:32.466 --> 00:08:36.366 It has been poured full strength into God's cup of wrath. 00:08:37.416 --> 00:08:42.096 They will be tormented with fire and burning sulfur In the presence of the Holy 00:08:42.096 --> 00:08:47.676 Angels and the lamb, the smoke of their torment will rise forever and ever and 00:08:47.676 --> 00:08:49.896 they will have no relief day or night. 00:08:50.136 --> 00:08:53.766 For they have worshiped the beast and his statue and have 00:08:53.771 --> 00:08:55.836 accepted the mark of his name. 00:08:57.006 --> 00:09:00.516 This means that God's holy people must endure persecution 00:09:00.516 --> 00:09:05.406 patiently obeying his commands and maintaining their faith in Jesus. 00:09:06.636 --> 00:09:10.206 I heard a voice from Heaven saying, write this down. 00:09:11.076 --> 00:09:16.866 Blessed are those who die in the Lord from now on, yes says the spirit. 00:09:17.196 --> 00:09:21.216 They are blessed indeed, for they will rest from their hard work, 00:09:21.666 --> 00:09:23.766 for their good deeds, follow them. 00:09:25.246 --> 00:09:31.086 Then I saw a white cloud and seated on the cloud was someone like the son of man. 00:09:31.731 --> 00:09:35.811 He had a gold crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand. 00:09:36.891 --> 00:09:39.711 Then another angel came from the temple and shouted to the 00:09:39.711 --> 00:09:42.261 one sitting on the cloud swing. 00:09:42.261 --> 00:09:42.981 The sickle. 00:09:43.581 --> 00:09:50.031 For the time of harvest has come, the crop on earth is ripe, so the one sitting 00:09:50.061 --> 00:09:55.101 on the cloud swung his sickle over the earth and the whole earth was harvested. 00:09:56.706 --> 00:10:01.026 After that, another angel came from the temple in heaven and 00:10:01.026 --> 00:10:02.556 he also had a sharp sickle. 00:10:03.366 --> 00:10:08.016 Then another angel who had power to destroy with fire came from the altar. 00:10:08.736 --> 00:10:13.746 He shouted to the angel with the sharp sickle swing your sickle now to gather 00:10:13.806 --> 00:10:18.186 the clusters of grapes from the vines of the earth for they are ripe for judgment. 00:10:19.746 --> 00:10:24.156 So the angels swung his sickle over the earth and loaded the grapes into 00:10:24.156 --> 00:10:26.316 the great wine press of God's wrath. 00:10:27.756 --> 00:10:32.946 The grapes were trampled in the wine press outside the city, and blood flowed from 00:10:32.946 --> 00:10:38.676 the wine press in a stream about 180 miles long and as high as a horse's bridle. 00:10:39.606 --> 00:10:44.076 Then I saw in heaven another marvelous event of great significance. 00:10:44.076 --> 00:10:44.136 I. 00:10:44.901 --> 00:10:48.711 Seven angels were holding the seven last plagues, which would 00:10:48.711 --> 00:10:50.511 bring God's wrath to completion. 00:10:51.381 --> 00:10:57.111 I saw before me what seemed to be a glass sea mixed with fire, and on 00:10:57.111 --> 00:11:01.401 it stood all the people who had been victorious over the beast and his statue 00:11:01.671 --> 00:11:03.621 and the number representing his name. 00:11:04.221 --> 00:11:08.061 They were all holding harps that God had given them, and they were 00:11:08.061 --> 00:11:12.831 singing the Song of Moses, the Servant of God, and the Song of the Lamb. 00:11:14.151 --> 00:11:16.731 Great and marvelous are your works. 00:11:16.791 --> 00:11:21.741 Oh Lord God the Almighty, just and true are your ways. 00:11:21.951 --> 00:11:27.621 Oh, king of the nations who will not fear you Lord and glorify 00:11:27.621 --> 00:11:30.771 your name for you alone are holy. 00:11:31.461 --> 00:11:35.781 All nations will come and worship before you for your righteous 00:11:35.781 --> 00:11:37.311 deeds have been revealed. 00:11:38.601 --> 00:11:41.301 Then I looked and saw that the temple in heaven. 00:11:41.661 --> 00:11:44.691 God's Tabernacle was thrown wide open. 00:11:45.801 --> 00:11:49.641 The seven angels who were holding the seven plagues came out of the temple. 00:11:50.421 --> 00:11:55.011 They were clothed in spotless white linen with gold sashes across their chests. 00:11:56.121 --> 00:11:59.631 Then one of the four living beings handed each of the seven angels, a 00:11:59.631 --> 00:12:04.281 gold bowl filled with the wrath of God, who lives forever and ever. 00:12:05.691 --> 00:12:09.231 The temple was filled with smoke from God's glory and power. 00:12:09.561 --> 00:12:13.491 No one could enter the temple until the seven angels had completed 00:12:13.491 --> 00:12:15.381 pouring out the seven plagues. 00:12:16.611 --> 00:12:21.471 Then I heard a mighty voice from the temple say to the seven Angels, go 00:12:21.471 --> 00:12:26.811 your ways and pour out on the earth the seven bowls can containing God's wrath. 00:12:28.476 --> 00:12:32.256 So the first angel left the temple and poured out his bowl on the earth 00:12:32.616 --> 00:12:36.966 and horrible malignant sores broke out on everyone who had the mark of the 00:12:36.966 --> 00:12:39.396 beast and who worshiped his statue. 00:12:40.656 --> 00:12:46.086 Then the second angel poured out his bo on the sea, and it became like the blood of 00:12:46.086 --> 00:12:49.296 a corpse and everything in the sea died. 00:12:50.496 --> 00:12:53.346 Then the third angel poured out his bowl on the rivers and 00:12:53.346 --> 00:12:55.416 springs, and they became blood. 00:12:56.586 --> 00:13:02.406 I heard the angel who had authority over all water saying, you are just, 00:13:02.466 --> 00:13:07.686 oh, holy one, who is and who always was because you have sent these 00:13:07.691 --> 00:13:13.176 judgements since they shed the blood of your holy people and your prophets, 00:13:13.416 --> 00:13:15.756 you have given them blood to drink. 00:13:16.026 --> 00:13:17.916 It is their just reward. 00:13:19.176 --> 00:13:22.926 And I heard a voice from the altar saying, yes. 00:13:23.076 --> 00:13:24.936 Oh Lord God, the almighty. 00:13:25.461 --> 00:13:30.531 Your judgements are true, and just then the fourth angel poured out 00:13:30.536 --> 00:13:35.001 his bowl on the sun, causing it to scorch everyone with its fire. 00:13:35.871 --> 00:13:40.461 Everyone was burned by this blast of heat and they cursed the name of God, 00:13:40.641 --> 00:13:42.771 who had control over all these plagues. 00:13:43.311 --> 00:13:47.181 They did not repent of their sins and turned to God and give him glory. 00:13:48.786 --> 00:13:52.866 Then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and 00:13:52.866 --> 00:13:55.356 his kingdom was plunged into darkness. 00:13:56.256 --> 00:14:00.336 His subjects ground their teeth in anguish and they cursed the 00:14:00.336 --> 00:14:04.176 God of heaven for their pains and sores, but they did not repent of 00:14:04.176 --> 00:14:06.066 their evil deeds and turned to God. 00:14:07.146 --> 00:14:11.286 Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great Euphrates River. 00:14:12.036 --> 00:14:15.576 It dried up so that the kings from the east could march their armies 00:14:15.576 --> 00:14:17.226 toward the west without hindrance. 00:14:18.336 --> 00:14:22.986 And I saw three evil spirits that looked like frogs leap from the mouths of the 00:14:22.991 --> 00:14:25.896 dragon, the beast, and the false prophet. 00:14:27.426 --> 00:14:31.326 They are demonic spirits who work miracles and go out to all the 00:14:31.326 --> 00:14:35.046 rulers of the world to gather them for battle against the Lord. 00:14:35.286 --> 00:14:38.106 On that great judgment day of God, the almighty. 00:14:39.291 --> 00:14:43.311 Look, I will come as unexpectedly as a thief. 00:14:43.641 --> 00:14:48.441 Blessed are all who are watching for me who keep their clothing ready so they will 00:14:48.441 --> 00:14:51.111 not have to walk around naked and ashamed. 00:14:52.311 --> 00:14:56.211 And the demonic spirits gathered all the rulers and their armies to a place 00:14:56.216 --> 00:14:58.491 with the Hebrew name, Armageddon. 00:15:00.261 --> 00:15:03.711 Then the seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air. 00:15:04.476 --> 00:15:09.876 And a mighty shout came from the throne in the temple saying it is finished. 00:15:10.716 --> 00:15:14.436 Then the thunder crashed and rolled and lightning flashed. 00:15:14.646 --> 00:15:19.026 And a great earthquake struck the worst Since people were placed on the earth, 00:15:19.926 --> 00:15:24.576 the great city of Babylon split into three sections, and the cities of many 00:15:24.576 --> 00:15:26.526 nations fell into heaps of rubble. 00:15:27.561 --> 00:15:32.721 So God remembered all of Babylon's sins and he made her drink the cup that 00:15:32.721 --> 00:15:38.091 was filled with the wine of his fierce wrath, and every island disappeared 00:15:38.691 --> 00:15:40.731 and all the mountains were leveled. 00:15:41.781 --> 00:15:47.271 There was a terrible hailstorm and hailstones weighing as much as 75 pounds 00:15:47.271 --> 00:15:50.061 fell from the sky onto the people below. 00:15:51.141 --> 00:15:54.501 They cursed God because of the terrible plague of the hailstorm. 00:15:56.691 --> 00:15:59.571 This concludes today's Immer Reading experience. 00:15:59.691 --> 00:16:00.921 Thank you for joining us.