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<div class="SSN_title">"KING OF KINGS"</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THE FINAL WORLD DOMINATING POWER.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. In the book of Daniel he tells of a vision that he had of empires that would rule over the earth.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The first was like a lion, which represented the Babylonian empire.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. It was destroyed by a bear, which represented the Medo-persian empire.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. This was in turn destroyed by the leopard, which represented the Grecian empire.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. This in turn was crushed by an indescribable beast which was dreadful, awesome, and exceedingly strong.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Out of this fourth beast there came ten horns, then there arose an eleventh horn that destroyed three of the ten horns.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. This fifth beast represents the revived Roman empire, made up of a confederacy of ten major nations that were once a part of the Roman Empire, a sort of United States of Europe, or a European community.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The eleventh horn is the leader that shall arise to lead this confederacy into a world dominating force.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. All of the powers of darkness will be given to this man. He will exercise such supernatural powers that the whole world will wonder after him and they will be saying:</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Rev',13,4);">REV 13:4</a> "Who [is] like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. John wrote that the spirit of the anti-christ was already at work in the world. As we see how wise the powers have been, we are prone to ask the question, "Who is able to make war with them?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. We see how the powers of darkness control the music industry.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. We hear the filthy messages that they are feeding our youth, encouraging incest, rape, and suicide and we feel powerless to stop it?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. We realize how horribly twisted the news media is today, not really reporting the news, but just a great propaganda machine for the liberal forces, as they dupe the ignorant masses. Why did we hear so much about Kosovo, and nothing about the Sudan?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">3. We see our liberal legislators as they are promoting the homosexual causes, and we wonder how can we possibly stop them?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">4. We see how the schools are teaching the godless evolutionary theories as scientific fact, and are turning our children into atheists, but who can make war with the National Teachers Association.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">5. We see how the atheistic A.C.L.U. is taking advantage of the liberal courts to destroy the morals of our nation, and promote every immoral cause in the name of liberty, and freedom. How can you overturn the liberal judicial system?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">6. We are so overexposed to sex that we are becoming a nation of perverts. But how can you stop it?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. In this chapter we see how all of these godless forces led by the most blasphemous man the world has ever seen, who however is loved and worshipped by the people.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. We see the leaders of the world giving their powers to him, as he gathers the world to a final assault against Jesus Christ.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. We are told that they gather to make war with the Lamb.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. "THE LAMB SHALL OVERCOME THEM."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. The final victory belongs to the Lamb.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. John wrote: "Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in the world."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Jesus said to His disciples, "Be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. When Ben Hadad the king of Syria had sent his troops to capture the prophet Elisha who was in Dothan, when the servant of the prophet went out in the morning to cut wood and saw the city surrounded by the Syrian army, he rushed in and woke the sleeping prophet who responded, "Fear not, there are more that by with us, than are with them." He then asked the Lord to open the eyes of the servant who then saw the Syrian army surrounded by angels.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. When Peter drew his sword in the garden to defend Jesus from arrest, Jesus commanded him to put his sword away, He said, "Do you not know that I could call twelve legions of angels to deliver Me?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. A Roman legion comprised about 4,000 men.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. 12 legions of angels would comprise maybe about 48,000.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. When you consider that in <a onClick="return mV('2Ki',19,1);">2 Kings 19</a> we are told that in one night the angel of the Lord destroyed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers, I would imagine that 12 legions of angels would have been sufficient to deliver Jesus.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. We are told that the Lamb is the King of kings, and the Lord of lords.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The psalmist said,</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Psa',103,19);">PSA 103:19</a> The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Nebuchadnezzer who was the first truly world ruler and had greater authority than any person since, had an encounter in which he defied God, and after he came to his senses declared:</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Dan',4,34);">DNL 4:34</a> And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I bless the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever whose dominion [is] an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom [is] from generation to generation:</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Dan',4,35);">DNL 4:35</a> And all the inhabitants of the earth [are] reputed as nothing: an he does according to his will in the army of heaven, and [among] the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. How is it do you suppose that the Beast and his followers will be so foolish as to make war with the Lamb?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Maybe some of you here this morning could best answer that question for us today, for some of you are at war with the Lamb.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. You like Nebuchadnezzer are defying God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. You have chosen to side with the world, because it looks like they are winning.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. It just seems easier to go with the flow, than to try to resist it.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Paul wrote to the Ephesian christians and reminded them that at one time they were walking according to the course of this world that was being directed by the devil, as they were living after the flesh and fulfilling the desires of the flesh and were by nature the children of wrath even as others.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. That describes how some of you are living today. You are rebelling against God, you are at war with the Lamb.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. You need to know that though the wrong seems so strong, God is the ruler yet, and the ultimate victory belongs to the Lord for He is the King of kings, and the Lord of lords.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. You have been fighting against the prompting of the Holy Spirit to surrender your life to Jesus Christ. To give up the life of the flesh and to recommit yourself to serve the Lord of lords. Each time the invitation is given, you find yourself in a battle of your flesh against the Spirit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. I am reminded of the story of Napoleon, when his army was fighting a crucial battle in which he lost a great number of his troops. As he was sitting in his tent dejected, a courier came in and said, "Cheer up sire, your forces have just won the battle," to which he replied, "One more such victory will cost me my kingdom."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. It may appear that the world is winning the battle, but the ultimate victory belongs to the Lamb, for He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords.</div>
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