The Book of Joshua more than likely was written Joshua the son of Nun, the successor of Moses as leader over Israel. The latter part of the book was written by at least one other person after the death of Joshua. It is also possible that several sections were compiled following Joshua's death. The Book of Joshua was likely written between 1400 and 1370 B.C.

The fear of mistakes can paralyze you. Hey… the only people that don’t make any more mistakes in this life are lying in the graveyards. Joshua saw Moses and Aaron make mistakes. Joshua was given the huge task of getting God’s people into the land of promise. It was a tough job given to a tough man. But God needed a leader that would not let the fear making mistakes hinder him.

People today are not happy. Even though we pursue it with all of our efforts, not many find it. We are entertaining ourselves to death. As Faith without works is dead so is a human without work is unfulfilled, and unhappy and dead of soul.

Light always dispels darkness. Darkness cannot over come light. As long as there is God there is always going to be light. Jesus is the light of the world in Him is no darkness at all. If He is the light, He is the source of truth, righteousness and holiness. The world we live in may have sunny beaches in parts of the world and deserts set ablaze by the constant sunshine but this world is cloaked in darkness. Darkness of mankind sin and rebellion against God. When was the last time you heard someone say “I wish there was more darkness, I hate the sunshine.” Nobody ever says that. We need THE light in the dark.

People quit on life. People quit things all the time. Now some things you ought to quit. Like smoking or drinking and doing drugs. You should quit rooting for Duke.

You should quit allowing fear to control you.

You should quit trying to please everybody

You should quit hating yourself. You should hate your sin but not you.

You should quit hating, unforgiving and holding grudges against other people

You should quit being a nominal Christian. Jesus said it’s better to be a cold Christian not even pretending to serve God, than a luke warm Christian who is in and out or up and down.

But you shouldn’t quit going to church. You shouldn’t quit reading the Bible. You shouldn’t quit praying. You shouldn’t quit telling others about Jesus. You shouldn’t quit looking for Jesus to return.

People today are quitters. They don’t stick with anything. People quit their moral foundation to become Sodomites. Families break apart when one spouse decides they don’t want to be constrained by the responsibilities of children and a wife or husband.

Some people don’t intend to quit things. Take church attendance for instance. People decide not to come one Sunday and then it becomes the next and then the next and pretty soon they aren’t coming to church at all.

Why should you give your life to Jesus? This was the question that many had after Peter and John had healed the lame man in Acts chapter 3. They had just witnessed this great miracle and these two men gave credit to Jesus Christ for this miracle. And then they turn and accuse all those present of killing Jesus. But……as they described to the people something incredible happened….. Jesus rose again. That changes everything about Jesus! He was not just another Jewish man who got himself crucified. He was not just another preacher of sedition against Rome. He was not just another Rabbi gone too far. He had to be the Son of God as He claimed to be!

The book of Revelation contains Seals, Trumpets and Bowl judgments. This passage contains the last of the Seal judgments. The seventh seal opens up the six Trumpet judgments and the seventh trumpet judgment opens up the seven Bowl judgments. I want to specifically look at this sixth seal which I believe will be the most horrific day in world history. The day Christ died was perhaps the darkest day in history but the most glorious day in history followed three days later. Here are the top five natural disasters in recorded history.

1.The biggest natural disaster in world history was Noah’s flood. It was God’s judgment on the world. It took 40 days for the world to flood. So you really can’t call it a bad day but a bad month. It was not a natural event but a planned event by God. Everyone was killed by drowning. Millions died perhaps billions. 4004 BC

2. Between one and four million died in the July, 1931 flooding in China.

3. The China Yellow River flood killed one million in September 1887.

4. In China in 1556 the Shaanxi Earthquake killed 830 thousand. IN ONE DAY!

5. In 1970 The Bhola Cyclone in 1970 killed around 500,000 in Bangledesh. In ONE DAY!

Only two of these disasters occurred in ONE day the worst DAY in world history will occur.

God announces through Elijah that Ahaziah will surely die for calling upon another god. We are dying as a nation for calling upon the god of Evolution.

We are dying as a family for calling upon the god of pleasure and sexual perversion.

We are dying as churches for calling upon the god of signs and wonders.

We are dying as a culture for calling upon the god of Hollywood.

We are dying as a country for calling upon the god of socialism and immorality.

The devil in the garden tries to contradict this in Genesis 3:3-4 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die. The devil is always telling us that we won’t die if we sin. Don’t worry about that!

Last week we saw the sins and characteristics of people in the last days. Selfish, Godless and Reprobate. Intelligent yet not able to know the truth about God because they surpress it. I hope that we could see everyone come to Christ in these last days but alas we will not be here to see it. We will see evil men become worse and worse until Jesus comes for His church. But until then we have the Apostle Paul telling us what to expect and what characteristics we should develop and manner of life we should live in light of all the increase in godlessness about us

The goal of globalism is to destroy the United States constitution and individual freedoms it protects. They are winning and will continue to win until Jesus comes for His church then they will have their man…the anti-christ, the beast who will give them their new world order that will turn out to be a disaster. The goal for us is to occupy, stand fast, understand the times and be ready to depart. Paul talked about these things in our passage today.