Time Is Running Out

We need to be mature my beloveds. We need to know where we heading, what are we doing, and what are we trying to achieve? Life is not just having fun. Life is not just going downtown clubbing and dancing and going holidays and having fun in this world.

Drinking the way you wish, dressing the way you wish, acting the way you wish. It cannot continue. God is angry.

God is angry. God is angry. Believe me.

I don't want to scare you. They will come times, very soon, to this world. Have your fish burger I think for now.

We need to be close to the Lord. Because I cannot guarantee if I'm gonna be here tomorrow. I beg you.

Don't take things so lightly and so easily. Somebody calls you, you run. Don't.

Somebody offers you something, you just take it without thinking. Don't. Somebody says do this and you do it without thinking about the consequences.

Don't. Think very deeply and widely before you take a step and before you say something. Think my beloved.

Life is not a joke. Don't play with it. It's not a joke.

Don't play with it. Now, when that fallen star which is Satan, and by the way, let me tell you one thing from experience. Yeah, this is a living proof.

If anybody says Satan doesn't exist, that's a joke. I know he exists. I don't believe he exists.

I know. Do you want me to tell you? I've been on the other side my beloved. I've been on the other side.

I've been on the other side. Both sides. Heaven and hell.

I don't know. I'm feeling today the Lord is talking because people are not listening. People are not listening.

I pray the Lord wakes us up all. By his Holy Spirit, he awakens all these sleepy souls and sleepy hearts. I pray.

When this fallen star opened the bottomless pit, a smoke came out. It was a smoke that is coming out of a humongous furnace. So when there is a very very like an inferno, which is a concentrated fire, you can imagine the magnitude of that smoke coming of a concentrated fire.

So when the smoke comes to a place, what does it do? It turns it into pitch black and it suffocates you. That's why we read last week when this smoke came out of this great inferno, it actually darkened the sun and the air. It affected the sun and the air.

Now the sun where the light comes from. Now the sun is the light. The light here is knowledge.

The knowledge of God was darkened by the smoke and the air is the source of life. Now knowledge and life go hand in hand. Sun and air go hand in hand.

Why? Because knowledge is the decisive moment between life and death. You see I can gain life through knowledge and I can gain death through knowledge. It is the knowledge that decides whether I live or I die.

If you choose the knowledge of God you live, you choose the knowledge of your own affairs, you will die. Because the choice that you make for yourself, by yourself, will lead you to one place. That knowledge will lead you to one place, to the one who was fallen from heaven and had the key to the bottomless pit.

It will lead you to Satan's knowledge, not yours. And when Satan controls, what kind of a knowledge is he going to give you? Smoke. He will suffocate you and he will shut the light of heaven to reach you.

Sun is heaven. Christ is the sun of righteousness. He is the light of the world.

So when he cuts you off Christ, there is no more air, there is no more oxygen. We will die without Jesus. We will die.

So when this smoke came out, because of this fallen star, Satan, by opening the bottomless pit, our intellect, the smoke came out. Out of the smoke locusts came out. Grasshoppers, you know, those little things that fly and cause a lot of damage.

When you see a cloud of locusts landing on a wheat field, that wheat field is decimated. Now wheat is the source of life. So locusts came out of the smoke to destroy life.

Satan gave people knowledge that destroyed life given by God to them. Now and then verse 4, which was last week, we finished on, it says that when these locusts came out of the smoke they were told not to harm the grass of the earth, any green thing, or any tree, but those men who did not have the seal of God on their forehead. So these locusts that came out of the smoke, which came out of the bottomless pit by Satan, the fallen star, they were told not to harm the grass of the earth, any green thing, or any trees, but to go and harm any human being that does not have the seal of God on their forehead.

Now we continue verse 5. And they were not given authority to kill them. To kill who? They were not given. So the locusts were not given authority by God to kill those people who do not have the seal of God on their forehead.

Not to kill them, but to do what? But to torment them for 5 months. To torment them for 5 months. So God still is merciful even in his judgment.

He said don't kill them. Those who rejected me, those who refused to be sealed by the seal of God, I don't want you locusts to go and kill them, I want you to torment them for 5 months. Now this bottomless pit, which is the intellect, is what the Lord Jesus referred to as the den of thieves.

He said my house is a house of prayer, but you have turned it into a den of thieves. Matthew 21.13 My house is a house of prayer, but you have turned it into a den of thieves. What is the Lord saying here? What is the den of thieves? The den of thieves is the bottomless pit, is your head, your intellect.

This den of thieves has 7 entries to it. 7 entries. 2 the eyes, 2 the ears, 2 the nostrils, 1 the mouth.

2, 4, 6, 7. These are the 7 entries to this bottomless pit, to this den of thieves. Now the word den is referred to a cave where lions live. A den is a cave where lions live.

When we read in the book of Daniel, when Nebuchadnezzar threw Daniel, where did he throw him? Into the den of lions, a place where lions live. And lions, what are they? They devour the prayer, they destroy whatever comes in its path. So the den of thieves is your head, my beloved, and there are 7 entries.

What are you watching? What are you listening to? What are you smelling? And what are you talking about? You need to watch. What you see will influence your way of thinking. What you hear will influence your way of thinking.

What you smell will influence your way of thinking. And what you say will influence the way you are living. And this world is full of fragrances.

So many fragrances we can smell and enjoy it, my darling. One of the fragrances is Star City Casino. The other fragrance is going out naked, dressed up indecently.

The other smell is drugs, alcohol, gambling, women, men, you name it. These are all fragrances of Jericho, the world and its temptations. What are you smelling, my dear, my dear friend, my dear child? Stop smelling the fragrance of God, the incense, the sacrificial lamb of God being slain on the altar of the cross for your salvation and redemption.

Stop smelling what Satan is trying to loop you in and destroy you once and for all. Stop doing that. It's not worth it.

Don't ever gamble your eternity with a moment of lust and pleasure. Don't ever gamble your eternity for a moment in a room in a hotel overlooking the Darling Harbour. Do not.

Stop going to those dark alleys. Stop dressing up indecently. Stop acting indecently.

Stop talking indecently. Speak pure language. Stop using foul words.

Drugs are only one thing, poison. Alcoholism, poison. Gambling, poison.

Having fun out there in the street, poison. Poison. This is the smoke of Satan.

Please be awake and alert. Do not be deceived. Do not.

I beg you, do not. They were told to torment those who did not wish to be sealed by the seal of God on their foreheads for five months. Why? You see, what the Lord is saying to those people who will reject Him in the end.

He's saying, Since you rejected My knowledge, which is life for you. You see, John 17, 3. The Lord Jesus is saying, And this is the eternal life, that they may know you. You are God alone and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

How do we gain eternal life? By knowing God and Jesus Christ. So knowledge is extremely foundational. So there is the knowledge of God and there is the knowledge of Me.

And the knowledge of Me, The one who controls this, Is Satan. The moment you reject the knowledge of God, Satan will feed you his knowledge, Which is smoke, poison. Poison, my beloved.