Turn Out the Lights, the Party’s Over! - May 1, 2022 Sunday Sermon

The Tabernacle Today

Turn out the lights, the party’s over!

Elias Boudinot responded to Thomas Paine’s anti-Christian The Age of Reason with a book that helped many people believe: The Age of Revelation: Or the Age of Reason shown to be an Age of Infidelity.

Read Revelation 18 Turn out the lights, the party’s over! Let’s Pray!

The Tribulation-Ending Announcement V. 1-3

Even if this Babylon is an actual city, it is also clearly used to represent the entire Anti-Christ world system that will be destroyed at the end of the Tribulation as Jesus Christ returns to earth.

The Timeless Appeal V. 4-8

Iniquity means morally objectionable behavior. You and your friends may not find your behavior objectionable, but if God does and you don’t repent and get His forgiveness, He will remember it on judgment day.

The Traders Tears and ‘Alases’ V. 9-19

The Heavenly Throng’s Anticipation V. 20-24

Why is it important for God to finish the judgment of Satan’s evil world system?

Because everlasting righteousness can’t be brought in until there is an end of sin. And until this fall of Babylon happens and Christ returns and defeats His enemies in Chapter 19’s Battle of Armageddon, sinful exploitation will still happen on earth.

In the Greek, “anymore” is actually the words OU MEI, two words that both mean “No, not.” It could be translated “No, not!”