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“Just because the whole world, the whole kit and caboodle except eight of them, had gone to seed--just because there’s a lot of them, because there are masses of the ungodly, doesn’t mean God spares them.
“Sodom and Gomorrah were cities of the plain, but the greatness of their achievements doesn’t cause God to spare them. The things that men look at—might, capacity, numbers, excellency of attainment and achievement—none of these are things that cause the judgment of God to be held back,” says Richard Jordan in a study on II Peter 2.
“Jesus says in Luke 16:15: [15] And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
“There’s a verse you ought to lay to heart. What were they doing? ‘They were they that justified themselves before men.’ They find what’s highly esteemed among men and say, ‘See, we’re right!’
“Success at gathering people and permeating society and developing a sophisticated, well-oiled world that is politically correct, socially acceptable and economically prosperous and religiously united as the old world of Noah’s day was. And God says, ‘That which is highly esteemed among men is an abomination.'
“You know why that is? You know where men go for their wisdom? Paul says in I Corinthians 2, [14] But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
“That verse is so fantastic when it comes to defining the nature of man and sin. Isaiah 53:6: [6] All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
“You know where man by nature goes to get answers to his questions? 'To his own way.' They don’t go to God. ‘No, way! Eww! I don’t want THAT!’ They love darkness because their deeds are evil.
“What men’s wisdom goes after is an abomination to God. It leaves God out.
“II Peter 2: [4] For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
[5] And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;
[6] And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;
“If God didn’t spare them, don’t worry, He ain’t going to spare you! See, that’s the idea. When he talks about the angels that sinned and the old world in Noah’s day and Sodom and Gomorrah—those three events, in whatever details they are, are events that are going to be like the events that take place in the tribulation.
“For example, in Revelation 11:1: [1] And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.
[2] But the court which is without the temple leave out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.
“You’re in the middle of the 70th Week. Three and a half years into it and three and a half to go. [3] And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.
[4] These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.
[5] And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies: and if any man will hurt them, he must in this manner be killed.
[6] These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood, and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will.
“Now, you’ve got the two witnesses come in. Moses and Elijah begin to testify. Verse 7: [7] And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
“That’s the Antichrist. “[8] And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
[9] And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half, and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves.
“Where was Jesus crucified? Jerusalem. Jerusalem in that day is going to be, spiritually, Sodom and Egypt. The same systems that ran Egypt and Sodom and Gomorrah is going to run Jerusalem on to the reign of the Antichrist.
“That’s why when you find that those heads of the Antichrist go all the way back to Egypt--it’s the same system that runs them. In the tribulation, the things that were true in Sodom are going to be true in Jerusalem, and you can go back to Sodom and Gomorrah to get your details of what will be.
“The same’s true of the old world destroyed in Noah’s day. Luke 17:26. [26] And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.
[27] They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
[28] Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;
[29] But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
“There’s a correlation between those two things. The same thing is true in II Peter 2:4, and this is the heart of what to really accept and understand. There’s going to be angels sinning in the tribulation. I told you that was weird.”
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