The bad things you see happening today are not because God is causing them to happen.

They're there as the consequences of the sinfulness of men.

But Dr. Tony Evans says that won't always be the case.

In the tribulation the last seven years, you will see God unleashed.

The side of Him you've never seen will be fully expressed.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the

archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Weeping may endure for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

That powerful truth from Psalm 30 verse 5 unfolds in the book of Revelation, where the intensity of

God's judgment is building. Today, Dr. Evans looks at Armageddon and Babylon the Great, revealing

how God's final judgments are paving the way for his perfect kingdom. Let's listen.

In chapter 14, we've got the 144,000.

These are godly people who are not defiled, verse four, for they have not been defiled with

women.

They have kept themselves chase.

They are the ones who follow the lamb wherever he goes. These have been purchased from among men as first fruits to God and to the lamb.

The first fruits refers to something that goes ahead of something else that is to come.

So in crops, it would be the first fruit to grow up out of the ground,

meaning there's a lot of

other fruit coming later. So these 144,000 evangelists are going to take the gospel and be preaching

during the time of the tribulation. Beginning in verse 9, we have those who are now going to

worship the beast. Another angel, a third one, follow them saying with a loud voice,

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