Hello and welcome to
this hour of blessing
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through 3ABN Spring Camp Meeting
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as we present to
you The Second Coming:
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an in-depth look.
And we have been blessed
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by many speakers
already. And we are glad to have
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a multitude of people that
are eager to hear the preaching
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of God's Word. Do
you love Jesus? Say amen.
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Amen! Amen. We welcome
those of you that are joining us
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in different parts of the
world... be it radio, Internet,
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local cable, local television,
or whatever method you are using
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to get 3ABN because now
you can even get 3ABN on those
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Smartphones and tablets.
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And so we're using
every means possible
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to get the gospel
out. And we praise the Lord
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that many people
are being won to Christ
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through every one of those
methods we have mentioned. Amen!
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We are talking
about the second coming.
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The day will come when you
could be driving down the road,
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working in your garden,
going to the grocery store
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or whatever the case may
be and that little cloud that
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appears as a man's hand will
be growing bigger and bigger
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and eventually you will
hear the sound of trumpets
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and the mighty glory
of Jesus and the angels.
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And the sky will be lit
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with the glory of that
majestic second coming.
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And I hope you'll be among
those that their heart rejoices
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and they say:
"Finally the time has come
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for our redemption
from this evil world! "
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There will be a group of
people that will be very sad.
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We hope you will be
in the correct group:
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the group that will be
happy to see Jesus come.
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So as we look at the
prophecies we must understand
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how to interpret
these prophecies.
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And Ty Gibson, the
speaker during this hour,
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he will be leading
us through a Bible study
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to help us understand
the schools of Biblical
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interpretation. And so we
hope you have pens; Bible ready
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and paper to be able to
jot down this information.
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And with this information
you will be able to take a look
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at the prophecies and
understand the correct way
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to interpret these prophecies
and to stand on sure ground.
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Amen? Amen.
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Before Ty Gibson
presents this message
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we are blessed to have Sr.
Celestine and Michael Barry.
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Michael will be at the piano
and Celestine will be singing
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a hymn - very well
known but very powerful -
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The Blood Will
Never Lose Its Power.
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Before she sings
and before the message
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we would like to
invite you to pray.
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And if it is possible for
you we'd like to invite you to
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stand. And let us go to
the Lord in prayer and ask
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for His blessing.
Because without His blessing
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we will be lost.
Let us pray together:
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Our loving heavenly Father,
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we are grateful to
You, Lord, that You care
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so much for us
that even in this hour
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You want to speak to us.
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And we pray that
You will speak to us
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through Your servant Ty Gibson.
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We thank you for his
ministry through Light Bearers
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that is winning
souls for Your kingdom
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through the preaching of
the gospel, through literature.
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And we praise the Lord that
literally millions of pieces of
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literature have been
distributed throughout the world
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through Light Bearers Ministry.
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We thank you for his
leadership as co-founder
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and speaker for
Light Bearers Ministry
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and we pray that You will con-
tinue to bless him and use him.
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That even in this hour Your
Holy Spirit will be upon him
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to use him to lead us through
this understanding of Your Word.
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We pray, Father, that
You will bless his wife Sue
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and his children and that
their ministry could have Your
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protection, Your leadership,
and Your leading in each and
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every aspect. And
Father, bless us also
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with the Holy Spirit that
we may understand the message
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You have brought
to us through him.
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And we ask You for these things
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in the holy and
blessed name of Jesus, Amen.
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Amen. You may be seated. I
leave you with Sr. Celestine
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and Michael Barry.
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The blood that Jesus
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shed for me,
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Way back on Calvary;
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The blood that gives me strength
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from day to day,
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It will never lose its pow'r.
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It reaches to the highest
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mountain,
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And it flows to the lowest
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valley, yes
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the blood that gives me strength
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from day to day,
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It will never lose
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its pow'r.
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It soothes my doubts
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and calms my fears,
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And it dries all my tears;
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Yes, the blood
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that gives me strength
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from day to day,
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It will never lose
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its pow'r.
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It reaches
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to the highest mountain,
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And it flows
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to the lowest valley
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Yes, ooh, the blood
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that gives me strength
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from day to day,
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It will never lose its pow'r.
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It reaches
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to the highest mountain,
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And it flows
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to the lowest valley
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Yes, ooh, the blood
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that gives me strength
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from day to day,
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It will never lose...
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It will never lose...
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It will never
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lose
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its
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pow'r.
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Amen! Amen!
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Celestine, Michael... thank you.
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Good afternoon
everybody. Good afternoon!
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I'm so glad to...
Happy Birthday, Ty!
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OK.
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All the evidence I need
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that James preached
some time before me today.
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But here's the fact of
the matter; here's the fact of
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the matter: I don't need
that circumstantial evidence
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because James thinks he's slick.
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He thinks that he had a
private conversation with you
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forgetting the fact
that this is on the airwaves
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around the world
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and that 3ABN is
available in the very hotel room
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where I was staying.
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And I flipped it on
knowing he was going to preach
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at that particular time,
and I stood there listening
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to him preach because he tends
to have things worth knowing.
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So I knew... As soon
as I walked on campus here
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people were smiling
at me. Sending me texts.
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But listen, listen,
here's what I know about James:
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first of all, he's driving
right now so he won't know
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anything I'm
about to share with you.
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Second of all, I refer to him as
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Elder James... not
by virtue of ordination
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but by virtue of
age. That's right.
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That is as a
synonym for "Old Dude. "
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James is older than
me, but I want to tell you
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something else about James
because this Camp Meeting theme
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is about the second
advent, the second coming.
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James and I began
serving the Lord very early
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and preaching the Word at
a very young age together.
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And James was so convicted
that Jesus was coming soon -
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and rightly so - that he
said: "I'll never get married. "
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I said: "Is that right? "
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But he kept hanging
around my house, and my wife was
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making him
clothes and feeding him
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and just a great
arrangement for James.
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So I began to develop a
conviction - straight from
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the Lord, no doubt - that
James ought to get married.
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But James was sure that
he shouldn't get married
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because time was so short.
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And then we had a Camp Meeting,
and during that Camp Meeting
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James made the
acquaintance of a young lady.
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We were all very young then.
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And after the Camp
Meeting he came to me
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and he said: "Ty, I met this
girl but you know I'm convicted
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not to get married. " I
said: "Yeah, I know you're
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convicted not to get
married but tell me about her. "
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So he proceeded to
tell me about this girl
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that he met at Camp Meeting.
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And I said: "James,
here's what you need to do:
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you need to write her a letter
and you need to say something
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like: 'My name is
James. We met briefly.
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You were at the Camp Meeting.
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I would like to begin
communication with you
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to explore the
possibility of marriage. ' "
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He said: "That's not
how you do it, is it? "
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And I said: "When you believe
that Jesus is coming soon,
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brother, that's how you do it.
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We're running out of time and
we need to get you married up. "
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He was absolutely
determined not to get married;
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I was absolutely determined
that he would and should
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get married just so there
was somebody else to spend time
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with him... although I
enjoy thoroughly spending time
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with him. One little
part that you need to know
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actually preparatory to
our message, and that is this:
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that he almost got hitched
to a girl before the one...
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Well, by the way... that
girl actually wrote back.
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He was so nervous: "She's
not going to go for this. "
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She wrote back and said: "Yes,
let's begin communication. "
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I said: "She will respect
the fact that you got down to
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business. " But there
was a girl before that,
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and he almost married her
and I talked him out of that.
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And you know why?
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Because the only reason
he considered marrying her
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is because she was one of
the very few human beings -
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and the only female - who would
listen to his entire two-day
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explanation of the 7 trumpets.
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And she believed it;
she got it; it registered.
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And he came to me
excited: "She understands
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the 7 trumpets. " I said:
"James, that is a rare find!
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That is a rare find
that you found a girl
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that understands the 7 trumpets.
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But you're going to want
to kiss her at some point
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so you're going
to have to make sure
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that you are
attracted on all levels...
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not just the
prophetic level. " Anyways...
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So don't tell
James I said any of that.
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But it's all true. Well we
need to get into the message.
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You have seen the
title, haven't you?
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The title of this message?
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The Schools of Interpretation.
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How many of you
salivate at the word school?
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Me neither.
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That title is such that
I'm surprised that you're here.
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Some of you could
be napping right now
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because that just does
not sound very fascinating.
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Doesn't sound interesting.
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But I'm here to tell you
that it's vitally important
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that we understand
that the Bible is written
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in particular patterns.
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There's a grid...
there's a language to it.
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God inspired the
prophets to write these things
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and God Himself - when
He inspired these things -
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had the interpretation in mind.
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God knows what it means,
and so just on a literary level
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the prophecies of
Daniel and Revelation
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are an artistic wonder.
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They are an incredibly
beautiful coherent seamless
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explanation of events that would
transpire one after another
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down through the
corridors of time.
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Now what we're about to
discover is that God has
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put in the prophecies themselves
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the method by which the
prophecies may be understood.
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Now you should know at the
outset that there are three
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main ways of
looking at Bible prophecy.
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There is what is called the
Preterist approach to Daniel
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and Revelation. And
that word simply means past.
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Preter means past. So when you
hear of the Preterist approach
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it simply means that
the prophecies of Daniel
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and Revelation are largely
for the most part interpreted
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as having been
fulfilled when do you think?
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In the past... mostly with the
Roman Empire in its pagan phase.
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Are you with me so far?
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Preterist means what? Past.
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But then there's
another interpretive approach
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and it is called Futurism.
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And of course Futurism looks
at the prophecies of Daniel and
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Revelation and for the most
part interprets those prophecies
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to be yet fulfilled in the...
What do you think? The future.
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Now there's another
method of interpretation
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and it's called the
Historicist approach.
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What's it called?
The Historicist approach.
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Now don't be
deceived by this word.
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Historicist is not a
word in this technical sense
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that means to convey
the idea that it was all
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fulfilled in history. That's
the Preterist approach, right?
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The Historicist approach spans
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the entire area
of prophetic history.
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It takes in fulfillment
of events in history.
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It takes in the fact
that we are poised as it were
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on the edge of our
seats right now in the present
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awaiting the
fulfillment of certain events.
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And it takes into account
that there are yet future events
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that have yet to unfold.
So the Historicist approach
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straddles the entire
span of prophetic history.
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It's not all in the past;
it's not all in the future.
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And therefore the
Historicist approach is not only
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relevant to history but
the Historicist approach
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is the only approach
that is inherently calculated
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to give us the proper
kind or quality of urgency.
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Because as we're
about to discover
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according to the Historicist
approach we are... listen very
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carefully... we are on the
tail end of the fulfillment
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of every one of the
great prophetic lines.
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We are teetering on
the edge of eternity
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as we're about to discover.
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Now, the Historicist approach
is embedded in the text.
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The Preterist approach
and the Futurist approach
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need to be imposed on the text.
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Whereas the
Historicist interpretation
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is what is obviously
intended in the text itself.
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Turn to Revelation chapter 1.
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Revelation chapter
1... and here we have
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the first vision
that John received
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for the book of Revelation.
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And it's important to
notice the first vision.
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We tend to run off
into the future visions
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of the seven churches, the
seven seals, the seven trumpets
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etc. and to overlook the fact
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that there is an
introductory vision.
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There is a preliminary
vision that constitutes
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the lens if you will...
the paradigmatic window...
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the grid through which
all the other prophecies
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are to be understood, all right?
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So the first vision is
in chapter 1 of Revelation.
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And for the sake of time I'm
not going to read all the words.
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You're going to have to
be a Bible student with me
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right now because this
is a big picture message.
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We're looking at the forest
right now, not the individual
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trees. I'm going to
turn you to all the texts
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but I'm not going to
read long passages to you
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because I want you to
do kind of a fly-by with me
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of the prophecies of Revelation.
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I want you to get the aerial
view so you get oriented on
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the landscape of
prophecy so that you're equipped
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to go back and read
the book of Revelation
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with clarity of
vision because now you know
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how to read the text, all right?
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So in Revelation chapter
1 we have the first vision.
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It is a vision of
the Lord Jesus Christ
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in verses 13 and onward
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and the description
picks up in verse 13.
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"And in the midst of the
seven lamp stands one like
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the Son of Man. " Notice
the language very carefully.
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In verse 13 it
says: "He was clothed
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with a garment
down to the feet. "
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And then it says in verse
13 that He was "girded about"
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what part of His body?
"His chest, " and it was with a
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"golden band" or another
version says a golden girdle
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around His chest. Try
to visualize Jesus and
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something is going to emerge
to our understanding here.
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Clothed with a garment.
That is a white garment of linen
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down to the feet.
Down to the feet. Girded
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with a golden band.
And then notice verse 14:
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"His hair was white
like wool, as white as snow
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and His eyes were like... "
What everybody? "like fire. "
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This is fascinating. But not
only were His eyes like fire.
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Notice in verse 15 that
John now moves to His feet.
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And he said that "His
feet were like fine brass
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as if burning in a furnace. "
00:20:36.97\00:20:40.52
Brass burning in a furnace.
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"His voice was like
many waters. " Verse 16.
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"And He had in His right
hand... " specifically...
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"His right hand seven stars.
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And out of His mouth went
a sharp two-edged sword. "
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And notice this: "His
countenance... " His face...
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"was like the sun
shining in all its strength. "
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I want you to notice that what
John has ingeniously done here
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is that he has given
us a description of Jesus
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that is filled with
Old Testament codes.
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Language is important.
It's vitally important for you
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and I to have a language
base in order to understand
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the composition of words.
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That's the study of etymology.
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If I say to you for example
00:21:34.77\00:21:36.72
"You're adorkable" you
know that what I've done
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is amalgamate two words
that you are familiar with
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so you can come up
with the definition.
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You know that I've just
employed adorable and dork
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which means you're
adorable in a dorky kind of way.
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So you can decipher the
word based on the etymology.
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You know - right? - that
two words have been combined
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to create this new concept.
00:22:02.69\00:22:04.68
If I say to you that
the meal that I just had was
00:22:05.08\00:22:07.59
"scrumbilicious"
I'm making up a new word
00:22:07.69\00:22:11.91
in order to convey it was
scrumptious and delicious.
00:22:12.11\00:22:16.86
That's right. If I
say: "My daughter Leah
00:22:17.16\00:22:20.20
is a fantabulous human being
00:22:20.40\00:22:23.00
I'm not content with fabulous...
00:22:23.30\00:22:26.30
she's fantastic AND fabulous.
00:22:26.60\00:22:30.64
So because we have language
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we know how to make sense
00:22:33.88\00:22:35.68
out of the new things that
we encounter in language, right?
00:22:35.78\00:22:38.99
Are you with me so far?
So the book of Revelation
00:22:39.19\00:22:43.86
assumes Biblical literacy.
00:22:44.10\00:22:47.06
You can't read the book
of Revelation in a vacuum.
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It is a book that is
composed of Old Testament
00:22:51.45\00:22:56.03
symbols and types.
It's a language all its own.
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So John in a very short space
00:23:01.62\00:23:04.37
is describing things - get
this - that are referring back.
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Notice what he's describing
00:23:10.58\00:23:12.53
as the first
graphic comes on the screen.
00:23:12.73\00:23:15.97
Notice what he's describing.
The Old Testament sanctuary
00:23:16.27\00:23:20.23
was composed of a
high white linen wall
00:23:20.53\00:23:25.22
for the entire enclosure
called the courtyard. Right?
00:23:25.42\00:23:30.69
As you step in through the
first gate into the courtyard
00:23:30.93\00:23:34.08
you encounter an altar
that was made out of brass
00:23:34.28\00:23:38.92
that had a fire
continually burning upon it
00:23:39.12\00:23:42.43
for sacrificial purposes.
00:23:42.63\00:23:44.17
As you step into the
holy place you encounter
00:23:44.47\00:23:48.75
seven luminous lamps...
00:23:49.05\00:23:53.43
the candelabra.
00:23:53.73\00:23:56.01
And as you step
into the Most Holy Place
00:23:56.11\00:23:59.16
you're crossing a
threshold of the third veil.
00:23:59.36\00:24:03.22
The first into the courtyard;
the second into the holy place.
00:24:03.42\00:24:06.92
There's a third veil.
It's unique. It's interwoven
00:24:07.12\00:24:11.74
with gold. It's the only one.
And then in the Most Holy Place
00:24:11.97\00:24:17.89
is the Shekinah glory.
00:24:18.09\00:24:21.39
John says: "I saw Jesus and
He was clothed with a garment
00:24:21.59\00:24:25.88
down to the feet. And
His feet were like fine brass
00:24:26.08\00:24:30.79
as if they were
burning in a furnace.
00:24:30.99\00:24:32.86
And as I looked at Him in
His right hand were 7 stars.
00:24:33.16\00:24:37.79
And He was girded
about His chest with gold
00:24:38.12\00:24:42.39
and His face was like the
sun shining in all its glory. "
00:24:42.80\00:24:48.63
What John has described
is the person of Jesus Christ
00:24:49.70\00:24:53.52
and simultaneously He has
described the Old Testament
00:24:54.02\00:24:58.39
sanctuary with little trigger
points so that the Biblically
00:24:58.59\00:25:02.42
literate person - the person
who is familiar with scripture -
00:25:02.53\00:25:05.15
will say: "Oh, we're
dealing with sanctuary language
00:25:05.35\00:25:10.64
and terminology as these
prophecies unfold before us. "
00:25:10.74\00:25:14.75
It's brilliant, but
there's more to it than that
00:25:15.05\00:25:18.66
because not only has John
described Jesus as the temple
00:25:19.06\00:25:24.10
Himself, which - parenthetical
statement just for a moment
00:25:24.30\00:25:26.89
here - Jesus
Himself did the same thing.
00:25:26.99\00:25:28.90
You remember His conversation
with the disciples where He said
00:25:29.10\00:25:31.40
"Destroy this temple and
in 3 days I'll raise it up. "
00:25:31.80\00:25:34.53
They said: "How can You do
that? They've been building this
00:25:34.94\00:25:37.90
temple for years. How can You? "
And then what did the text say?
00:25:38.00\00:25:41.46
"He spoke of the
temple of His body. "
00:25:41.76\00:25:46.41
Jesus described
Himself as the temple of God.
00:25:46.61\00:25:50.61
If you simply do a body overlay
00:25:50.81\00:25:53.99
and transpose it over
the sanctuary's aerial view,
00:25:54.10\00:25:57.69
the floor plan, the head would
fall in the Most Holy Place
00:25:57.79\00:26:00.85
area and the feet
at the altar of brass.
00:26:01.05\00:26:04.30
And the right hand would fall
at the 7-branched candlestick
00:26:04.60\00:26:08.38
and the golden band of the
veil into the Most Holy Place
00:26:08.58\00:26:13.62
would be at His chest. John
has done something amazing here.
00:26:13.82\00:26:17.01
But it's more amazing...
because the sanctuary, if you
00:26:17.11\00:26:20.21
could go back to that graphic,
the sanctuary is not only
00:26:20.31\00:26:25.10
an illustration of
individual Christian experience.
00:26:25.30\00:26:29.62
The sanctuary is an illustration
of the entire historic span
00:26:30.12\00:26:36.08
of the plan of salvation.
00:26:36.28\00:26:38.15
It's a historic illustration
of the various junctures
00:26:38.55\00:26:44.09
of the plan of salvation.
00:26:44.30\00:26:46.39
Jesus is incarnate.
He comes into the world
00:26:46.70\00:26:50.90
and into the courtyard. And the
cross of Christ is symbolized
00:26:51.20\00:26:56.01
by this altar of brass.
00:26:56.11\00:26:58.08
Jesus is crucified
there. The courtyard represents
00:26:58.48\00:27:02.86
that phase of salvation
history that is encompassed
00:27:03.06\00:27:07.10
by the incarnation, life, death,
00:27:07.30\00:27:10.59
and burial and
resurrection of Jesus.
00:27:10.69\00:27:12.94
But then Jesus rose
again and He ascended on high
00:27:13.24\00:27:17.81
to the right hand of the Father.
00:27:18.01\00:27:19.89
Jesus went into the holy
place of the heavenly sanctuary,
00:27:20.19\00:27:24.29
there to continue...
there to continue the salvation
00:27:24.49\00:27:28.47
work now in the
role of High Priest.
00:27:28.57\00:27:32.13
And then Jesus in 1844...
00:27:33.43\00:27:36.36
we don't have time to
demonstrate or prove that,
00:27:36.46\00:27:38.15
that's in another study
entirely... this is the aerial
00:27:38.35\00:27:40.55
view, this is the
forest - not the trees...
00:27:40.65\00:27:42.87
In 1844 Jesus moved
00:27:43.37\00:27:48.08
into the Most Holy Place
phase of the plan of salvation
00:27:48.18\00:27:52.74
preparatory to what we
sometimes refer to as the
00:27:52.94\00:27:57.31
final atonement - Yom
Kippur - the Day of Atonement,
00:27:57.51\00:28:00.33
the Day of Judgment and involv-
ing the scapegoat transaction
00:28:00.44\00:28:05.02
where the scapegoat is
sent into the wilderness
00:28:05.32\00:28:09.07
to perish for want of
sustenance and support
00:28:09.27\00:28:12.30
representing the
fact that ultimately
00:28:12.51\00:28:15.30
while Jesus by His sacrifice
is the Savior of the world
00:28:15.33\00:28:19.71
Satan will finally
bear the responsibility
00:28:20.01\00:28:24.20
for the sin problem as
the one who is the originator
00:28:24.51\00:28:29.41
of sin. And the devil
will come to the place where he
00:28:29.65\00:28:34.05
is going to perish as it
were for want of the support
00:28:34.25\00:28:39.84
that he has had due to
the lies he has told regarding
00:28:40.04\00:28:43.58
the character of God. Again,
that's a whole "nother" study.
00:28:43.68\00:28:46.47
But simply what has happened
is salvation history has
00:28:46.67\00:28:50.00
unfolded forward so that
great clarity has been brought
00:28:50.10\00:28:54.80
to the issues in the great
controversy, most importantly
00:28:55.00\00:28:58.19
great clarity has been brought
regarding the love of God.
00:28:58.39\00:29:02.24
The character of God.
The glorious beauty of the
00:29:02.44\00:29:06.22
character of God has been
fully exonerated and vindicated
00:29:06.32\00:29:10.70
on the premise of the life,
death, burial, and resurrection
00:29:10.90\00:29:15.54
of Christ: the
vindicator of God's character.
00:29:15.74\00:29:18.51
And that vindication - when
it is preached, when the gospel
00:29:18.81\00:29:22.59
is preached to the
world - shifts the sympathies
00:29:22.69\00:29:27.19
of the world in the
direction of Christ away from
00:29:27.30\00:29:31.02
the edifice of lies
that have been told regarding
00:29:31.12\00:29:33.87
the character of God. And
this is where the loud cry
00:29:33.97\00:29:37.11
of the third angel's message,
illumines the whole world
00:29:37.21\00:29:40.10
with the glory of God.
00:29:40.20\00:29:41.80
People globally, through
the proclamation of the gospel,
00:29:42.00\00:29:45.41
begin to believe a
new doctrinal system
00:29:45.61\00:29:49.38
that makes God out to be the
beautiful God that He really is.
00:29:49.58\00:29:53.59
And the lies that Satan has
propagated through the system
00:29:54.09\00:29:58.25
of Babylon begin to fall
for want of believability
00:29:58.35\00:30:02.44
on the premise of the beautiful
proclamation of the gospel.
00:30:03.61\00:30:06.99
Now, with that brief background
00:30:07.19\00:30:10.65
Revelation chapter 1 has told us
00:30:10.95\00:30:13.25
that what we're about to
encounter in the prophecies of
00:30:13.65\00:30:17.40
Revelation is a series
of prophecies that take in
00:30:17.50\00:30:22.55
a span of time
beginning with Christ
00:30:22.65\00:30:27.45
and His death at the cross:
00:30:27.55\00:30:28.70
His life, death,
burial and resurrection.
00:30:28.80\00:30:30.86
This is the grounded
point of the prophecy.
00:30:31.46\00:30:36.69
This is the starting
point of the prophecy:
00:30:36.79\00:30:39.37
the apostolic period. All
of the prophecies that follow
00:30:39.57\00:30:43.73
are intended to give us a
repeat and enlarge picture
00:30:43.93\00:30:48.87
of events that will transpire
from the time of Christ and the
00:30:49.01\00:30:52.14
apostles straight on
through the courtyard phase,
00:30:52.24\00:30:56.25
the holy place into
the Most Holy Place.
00:30:56.35\00:30:58.56
Final atonement, the
shifting of the weight of
00:30:58.76\00:31:01.45
responsibility onto Satan, the
vindication of God's character,
00:31:01.55\00:31:04.80
the end of the great controversy
and the second advent.
00:31:05.00\00:31:07.42
This is the span
of history covered.
00:31:07.82\00:31:10.08
Now with that in mind,
let's do a brief overview
00:31:10.39\00:31:15.24
of the prophecies
that unfold at this point
00:31:15.44\00:31:18.27
in order to grasp
the Historicist pattern
00:31:18.87\00:31:22.99
that follows the sanctuary out-
line of the vision in chapter 1.
00:31:23.19\00:31:26.49
First of all, in chapters
3 through 5 of Revelation
00:31:26.79\00:31:29.70
we have the first prophecy
that covers the prophetic span.
00:31:29.90\00:31:34.82
Of course, Revelation
1 is the first prophecy
00:31:35.02\00:31:37.08
that's introductory
in setting course for us
00:31:37.28\00:31:40.66
as we've just established.
00:31:40.86\00:31:41.99
But Revelation 3
through 5 is the seven churches
00:31:42.29\00:31:47.22
prophecy. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7...
00:31:47.42\00:31:51.18
they cover a span of history.
00:31:51.38\00:31:53.11
Ephesus, the first
church, is the apostolic age.
00:31:53.51\00:31:57.08
And as church
history unfolds forward
00:31:57.58\00:32:01.80
we come to 2, 3, 4, 5, 6...
00:32:02.00\00:32:05.43
Now watch this carefully:
00:32:05.63\00:32:07.18
When we come to the 6th church
00:32:07.38\00:32:09.12
which is the
church of Philadelphia
00:32:09.22\00:32:11.48
we have very fascinating
language that ought to be
00:32:11.78\00:32:15.12
familiar to us at this point
00:32:15.22\00:32:16.80
that is invoked
for the interpretation.
00:32:17.00\00:32:19.70
In chapter 3 of Revelation
00:32:20.10\00:32:22.75
in the Philadelphia period -
that is, in the 6th church...
00:32:22.85\00:32:26.52
the little hinge period
between churches 6 and 7-
00:32:26.72\00:32:30.17
seven being Laodicea
preparatory to the 2nd coming -
00:32:30.37\00:32:33.57
Watch this: when we
come to the 6th church
00:32:33.77\00:32:36.33
suddenly John is told:
"Behold I have set before you
00:32:36.63\00:32:41.45
an open door and
no man can shut it. "
00:32:41.75\00:32:47.30
What is this language?
00:32:47.80\00:32:49.38
Suddenly we're face to face
with a door... a passageway.
00:32:49.68\00:32:53.39
Now it is an experiential door,
and experiential passageway,
00:32:53.69\00:32:58.69
that we can apply to our
individual Christian experience
00:32:58.99\00:33:02.51
but it's a historic transition.
00:33:02.72\00:33:05.76
During the Philadelphia period,
"Behold I have set before you
00:33:06.26\00:33:09.06
an open door" specifically
refers to the door into the
00:33:09.16\00:33:12.83
Most Holy Place. This
is telling us that at this
00:33:12.93\00:33:16.89
particular juncture
of prophetic history
00:33:17.09\00:33:19.59
a great
transition is going to occur.
00:33:19.80\00:33:22.28
Jesus is going to move
from the holy place phase of His
00:33:22.58\00:33:26.92
High Priestly ministry
into the Most Holy Place phase.
00:33:27.02\00:33:31.81
So... Most Holy
Place language is invoked
00:33:32.25\00:33:37.05
for us to understand
where we are in the span
00:33:37.35\00:33:41.32
of prophetic history.
00:33:41.42\00:33:42.82
Then we come to the
prophecy of the seven seals.
00:33:43.02\00:33:45.64
Seven churches... seven seals.
00:33:45.84\00:33:48.19
As the seven seals prophecy
unfolds in chapters 6 through 8
00:33:48.49\00:33:52.32
please notice with me that again
00:33:52.62\00:33:56.40
we're grounded in history
with the 1st seal referring to
00:33:56.60\00:34:00.16
political events that are
transpiring in the larger world
00:34:00.36\00:34:05.74
whereas the first
vision of the seven churches
00:34:05.95\00:34:09.22
is specifically interested
in what's going on among God's
00:34:09.42\00:34:12.77
people within the church.
00:34:12.87\00:34:15.06
When we come to the seven seals
we've got a repeat and enlarge
00:34:15.36\00:34:19.28
principle that
we're encountering.
00:34:19.38\00:34:21.09
It's as if God is saying:
"OK, I've just moved you from
00:34:21.39\00:34:24.89
the first church down through
time... apostolic period down
00:34:25.09\00:34:28.42
to the 7th church
preparatory to the 2nd coming.
00:34:28.62\00:34:31.35
OK... you got that? "
00:34:31.55\00:34:32.95
We say: "Yes, Lord. "
00:34:33.15\00:34:34.37
He says: "Now back up with Me
00:34:34.57\00:34:36.02
and I'm going to give you
another vision that's going to
00:34:36.32\00:34:39.17
emphasize different events
that are running concurrent...
00:34:39.27\00:34:43.30
simultaneous to the unfolding
of this same span of history. "
00:34:43.51\00:34:47.79
I want to emphasize
same span of history.
00:34:47.99\00:34:52.06
So the seven seals
unfold forward until we come
00:34:52.36\00:34:57.36
to the 6th and 7th
seal. And again we find
00:34:57.66\00:35:02.39
that sanctuary language
is suddenly invoked again.
00:35:02.59\00:35:06.10
When we come to chapter
8 and verses 1 through 4...
00:35:06.41\00:35:10.63
fascinating...
suddenly we have a golden censer
00:35:10.83\00:35:15.31
that is filled with incense
which the prophet tells us
00:35:15.61\00:35:19.72
constitutes the prayers of the
saints mingled with that incense
00:35:20.02\00:35:23.50
which is the righteousness
of Christ which makes our
00:35:23.70\00:35:26.37
prayers acceptable before God.
00:35:26.48\00:35:29.30
So what is the censer?
Just as the door that is invoked
00:35:29.80\00:35:34.95
at the end of the
seven churches prophecy
00:35:35.15\00:35:38.18
brings our minds to
the Most Holy Place -
00:35:38.38\00:35:41.30
to that veil into
the Most Holy Place -
00:35:41.60\00:35:43.62
the censer belongs to
what part of the sanctuary?
00:35:43.92\00:35:47.70
The Most Holy Place.
00:35:48.94\00:35:50.33
The censer belongs
to the Most Holy Place.
00:35:50.73\00:35:53.65
The priest on the
Day of Atonement -
00:35:53.85\00:35:56.25
post 1844 in the anti-type...
00:35:56.45\00:35:58.94
The priest takes some of
the incense off of the altar
00:35:59.44\00:36:02.16
of incense in the
holy place, right?
00:36:02.26\00:36:05.27
Puts it in the censer and then
goes into the Most Holy Place
00:36:05.50\00:36:09.01
on the Day of Atonement,
waving the censer to fill it
00:36:09.21\00:36:11.03
with smoke. There's practical
purpose for this, by the way,
00:36:11.13\00:36:13.97
that Isaiah chapter 6
points out to us, and that is
00:36:14.07\00:36:17.06
that the Shekinah glory is
there, so the priest is filling
00:36:17.16\00:36:19.70
the Most Holy Place with
smoke in order to dim the glory
00:36:19.80\00:36:23.30
of God's presence
so that he can endure
00:36:23.50\00:36:26.90
moving through the
Day of Atonement ceremony
00:36:27.10\00:36:29.58
and not be
destroyed. Josephus tells us -
00:36:29.78\00:36:32.46
and this is extra-Biblical
- Josephus tells us
00:36:32.66\00:36:35.77
that they also tied a rope
around brother high priest's
00:36:36.07\00:36:38.88
ankle and let him
feed his way in there
00:36:39.08\00:36:43.48
and they're listening for the
bells that were at the bottom
00:36:43.78\00:36:46.63
of his garment. As
long as you hear those bells
00:36:46.73\00:36:49.26
you know everything is cool.
00:36:49.46\00:36:51.24
But then all of a
sudden... no bells.
00:36:51.44\00:36:54.88
"Let's wait a little
longer. " Still no bells.
00:36:55.28\00:36:57.76
"Let's wait a little longer.
" No bells. "I say we pull. "
00:36:58.06\00:37:00.73
They pull the rope and
out comes the high priest.
00:37:01.03\00:37:04.41
This was the
holy presence of God
00:37:04.71\00:37:08.02
that required a
certain preparedness
00:37:08.33\00:37:12.18
to endure. So we see that
at the seven seals prophecy
00:37:13.48\00:37:18.31
as we come to the
conclusion of the seven seals
00:37:18.51\00:37:22.66
that hinge point between
number six and number seven.
00:37:22.96\00:37:27.73
Again, Most Holy Place
language is invoked. Why?
00:37:27.93\00:37:31.44
To orient us. Remember we're
dealing with a language here.
00:37:31.84\00:37:36.83
We're dealing with
sanctuary language.
00:37:37.43\00:37:39.65
The first vision prepared
us by teaching us the language.
00:37:39.85\00:37:44.86
The first vision referred
us back to the sanctuary
00:37:45.09\00:37:48.23
and with that language now
continually we are oriented.
00:37:48.33\00:37:52.47
Where are we in the
span of prophetic time?
00:37:52.67\00:37:55.31
We're again between the
sixth and the seventh seal.
00:37:55.51\00:37:58.84
We're at that phase
of salvation history
00:37:59.04\00:38:01.50
represented by
the Most Holy Place.
00:38:01.70\00:38:03.25
Post 1844 just prior to
the second coming of Christ.
00:38:03.45\00:38:07.42
OK... watch the
pattern continue.
00:38:07.72\00:38:10.27
We come then to the
seven trumpets prophecy
00:38:10.57\00:38:14.14
of Revelation in
chapters 8 through 11.
00:38:14.54\00:38:18.78
As the seven trumpets
prophecy unfolds, again
00:38:19.18\00:38:23.11
First, second, third,
fourth, fifth, sixth trumpet.
00:38:23.42\00:38:27.99
And when we come
to the seventh trumpet
00:38:28.19\00:38:31.83
look at the language
in chapter 11 verse 19 of
00:38:32.03\00:38:35.62
Revelation. Chapter 11
and verse 19 of Revelation.
00:38:35.72\00:38:40.32
We're now at the 7th trumpet -
00:38:45.06\00:38:47.68
in the period related
to the seventh trumpet -
00:38:48.85\00:38:52.59
verse 19 of
chapter 11 of Revelation:
00:38:52.82\00:38:55.14
"Then the temple of
God was opened in heaven
00:38:55.54\00:38:59.43
and the ark of His
covenant was seen in His temple.
00:38:59.63\00:39:03.52
And there were
lightnings, noises, thunderings
00:39:04.03\00:39:09.48
an earthquake and great hail. "
00:39:09.68\00:39:12.06
What is this ark?
And where does it belong
00:39:12.26\00:39:15.50
in your Biblical orientation?
00:39:15.70\00:39:18.17
Where does it
belong? The Most Holy Place.
00:39:18.37\00:39:21.80
So the ark that
belongs to the Most Holy Place
00:39:22.30\00:39:25.90
is now brought to our attention
00:39:26.20\00:39:28.94
during that period represented
by the seventh trumpet.
00:39:29.34\00:39:34.46
Fascinating! What we see
here is a pattern of language
00:39:34.66\00:39:38.71
in which the prophet
over and over again is saying
00:39:38.91\00:39:41.71
We begin here - apostolic
age, the time of Christ.
00:39:41.91\00:39:44.49
The Christ event in
it's totality: death, burial,
00:39:44.69\00:39:47.97
resurrection. The entire Christ
event is the launching point,
00:39:48.07\00:39:52.62
the anchor, the
beginning of the prophecy.
00:39:52.72\00:39:55.25
Seven churches unfold. Boom!
00:39:55.45\00:39:57.83
Most Holy Place
language is triggered
00:39:58.03\00:40:00.53
in the sixth church.
00:40:00.83\00:40:04.22
He backs up... seven
seals. Most Holy Place language
00:40:04.52\00:40:08.86
is invoked again at
the end of the sixth seal.
00:40:09.26\00:40:15.17
Seven trumpets? Back up.
Again, repeat and enlarge
00:40:15.47\00:40:19.23
dealing with other events
that are running simultaneous to
00:40:19.63\00:40:23.74
this same period of time.
00:40:23.95\00:40:26.14
And as they back up
and begin to move forward
00:40:26.44\00:40:29.52
what happens again?
00:40:29.72\00:40:30.99
We come to the end of
the seven trumpets prophecy
00:40:31.29\00:40:33.97
and John very consistently
again invokes Most Holy Place
00:40:34.17\00:40:39.16
furniture, Most
Holy Place language.
00:40:39.36\00:40:42.24
Again we're oriented. We
know where we are in time.
00:40:42.54\00:40:46.82
This next vision, and this
is extremely important to grasp
00:40:47.05\00:40:50.34
this next point, is what
we're going to refer to as
00:40:50.44\00:40:53.32
"the cosmic war vision.
" Chapters 12 through 14.
00:40:53.52\00:40:58.86
You remember chapter 12
begins in verse 1 where John
00:41:00.00\00:41:04.12
sees a woman clothed with the
sun with the moon under her feet
00:41:04.32\00:41:08.83
with a garland of 12
stars on her head, right?
00:41:09.03\00:41:13.05
And as the vision unfolds
we realize that this woman
00:41:13.46\00:41:17.23
is about to give
birth to a Man Child.
00:41:17.26\00:41:20.34
And we understand in the
Historicist interpretation
00:41:20.84\00:41:24.92
that this Man Child
to be born to the woman -
00:41:25.22\00:41:27.92
that is, born to
Israel and born to the church
00:41:28.02\00:41:31.71
at that critical
juncture of transition
00:41:31.91\00:41:34.20
between Old Testament
Israel, New Testament Israel -
00:41:34.41\00:41:37.60
at that critical juncture
Israel which is the posterity
00:41:37.81\00:41:42.48
through which
Messiah was to come
00:41:42.68\00:41:44.52
Jesus is born to the world
through an Abrahamic lineage.
00:41:46.15\00:41:51.05
He comes into the world and the
prophecy unfolds and tells us
00:41:51.35\00:41:55.03
there was an
attempt on His life.
00:41:55.23\00:41:56.78
We corroborate the evidence
in the gospels and find out
00:41:57.18\00:42:00.05
that it was Herod that made the
attempt on the baby Jesus' life.
00:42:00.26\00:42:04.12
Right? This is
all in Revelation 12.
00:42:04.42\00:42:06.59
Revelation 12 brings
us right up to the cross
00:42:06.99\00:42:09.60
and tells us in verses 7-9
that there was war in heaven.
00:42:09.80\00:42:13.02
That Michael and His angels
fought and the devil and his
00:42:13.42\00:42:16.16
angels fought and prevailed
not. Neither was a place found
00:42:16.26\00:42:19.27
for them any more in heaven.
00:42:19.38\00:42:20.97
And the devil was cast out.
00:42:21.37\00:42:23.36
And that entire
segment of the prophecy -
00:42:23.66\00:42:26.94
this is remarkable... John
is doing something amazing -
00:42:27.34\00:42:30.30
he is giving us a
picture of the great controversy
00:42:30.70\00:42:34.29
as it began in heaven
with Lucifer's rebellion
00:42:34.49\00:42:38.35
and simultaneously
he's taking us to the cross
00:42:38.65\00:42:41.50
where Jesus conquers
the devil in principle
00:42:41.90\00:42:46.43
by revealing the
unparalleled love of God
00:42:46.63\00:42:50.78
at Calvary so that Jesus
could say in John chapter 12
00:42:50.99\00:42:55.03
"I beheld Satan fall
like lightning from heaven
00:42:55.43\00:43:00.78
and I, when I am lifted
up, will draw all back to Me...
00:43:00.98\00:43:06.08
all peoples to Me. "
00:43:06.28\00:43:08.10
What is Jesus explaining?
00:43:08.31\00:43:09.71
He's saying that "When I
die on the cross there will be
00:43:10.11\00:43:13.10
such a brilliant
and beautiful revelation
00:43:13.20\00:43:17.27
of the character of
God in this unprecedented
00:43:17.47\00:43:21.06
selfless love for you
that everyone who sees it
00:43:21.26\00:43:25.20
two things will happen for them:
00:43:25.40\00:43:27.10
Satan will lose credibility
in their theological paradigm,
00:43:27.40\00:43:31.71
in their emotional experience,
00:43:31.91\00:43:33.82
in their entire life experience
Satan will lose credibility.
00:43:34.02\00:43:37.61
He will fall as it were
from heavenly sympathies
00:43:37.91\00:43:41.62
and from human sympathies
by the revelation of God's love
00:43:41.82\00:43:44.66
at the cross. " But not only
that, not only will Satan fall
00:43:44.76\00:43:48.82
but Jesus said: "And
everybody who sees Me
00:43:49.02\00:43:51.51
dying on the cross
will be drawn back to Me. "
00:43:51.71\00:43:54.78
That's the
vindication principle.
00:43:54.89\00:43:56.53
This is where Jesus is giving
a revelation of the character
00:43:56.93\00:43:59.95
of God that is unprecedented
in all of universal history
00:44:00.05\00:44:03.60
and persuades intelligent,
sentient, free-will creatures
00:44:03.90\00:44:09.35
that God is love in the
most extreme and beautiful sense
00:44:09.55\00:44:12.76
imaginable. This brings the
hearts of free-will creatures
00:44:12.86\00:44:17.06
to a voluntary worship of God.
00:44:17.26\00:44:19.79
Not under
compulsion. No coercion.
00:44:20.00\00:44:22.42
No force; no manipulation.
00:44:22.62\00:44:24.38
We simply see the
beauty of God's character
00:44:24.58\00:44:27.35
and voluntarily we
begin to gravitate toward Him.
00:44:27.66\00:44:30.89
That's the power of Calvary.
00:44:31.29\00:44:33.38
And as the prophecy of
the cosmic war unfolds...
00:44:33.88\00:44:38.18
Watch this... go to
Revelation 12 now...
00:44:38.29\00:44:40.34
Revelation chapter 12.
00:44:40.64\00:44:42.49
The whole history unfolds.
We have the church in the
00:44:43.33\00:44:46.26
wilderness during
the 1,260-year period
00:44:46.36\00:44:48.63
brought to view
from 538 AD to 1798 AD.
00:44:48.93\00:44:52.54
That's all in
chapter 12 of Revelation.
00:44:52.74\00:44:54.38
But then watch this as we
come again following the same
00:44:54.68\00:44:58.69
pattern, the same trajectory,
we come to Revelation chapter 12
00:44:58.89\00:45:02.64
to the last verse. We have
moved from the birth of Jesus
00:45:02.84\00:45:07.23
in the earlier
verses of chapter 12,
00:45:08.39\00:45:10.65
the attempt on His life, the
church going into the wilderness
00:45:10.85\00:45:14.93
during a persecution period,
00:45:15.13\00:45:17.20
and now we have a
people emerging post 1844...
00:45:17.40\00:45:22.39
and here's how
they're described. Verse 17:
00:45:22.59\00:45:25.57
"And the dragon was
enraged... " He was wroth
00:45:25.81\00:45:28.39
the King James says... "with
the woman and went to make war
00:45:28.59\00:45:33.01
with the
remnant of her seed... "
00:45:33.21\00:45:37.06
Now notice this:
"who keep the... " What?
00:45:37.26\00:45:39.83
"the commandments of
God and have the... " What?
00:45:40.03\00:45:41.90
"the testimony of
Jesus. " Again, where are you
00:45:42.20\00:45:44.92
on the landscape of history?
00:45:45.02\00:45:46.73
The law of God, the tables
of stone, the Ten Commandments
00:45:47.23\00:45:50.27
pertain to what
part of the sanctuary?
00:45:50.57\00:45:54.81
Are they out in the courtyard
00:45:55.01\00:45:56.68
tucked under the altar of brass?
00:45:56.89\00:45:58.67
No! They're in the
Most Holy Place in the ark.
00:45:58.97\00:46:02.18
Do you remember where we
were in the seven trumpets
00:46:02.52\00:46:05.77
as we came to the seventh?
00:46:05.87\00:46:07.31
"I saw the heavens opened
00:46:08.00\00:46:10.66
and the ark of His testament
was seen in His temple. "
00:46:11.06\00:46:16.20
So the seven trumpets end
and you're right there in the
00:46:16.51\00:46:18.55
Most Holy
Place... Now watch this:
00:46:18.65\00:46:20.24
when you come to the
end of the cosmic war vision
00:46:20.44\00:46:22.66
the law of God which
has been in the ark -
00:46:22.76\00:46:26.09
right? - is now
invoked as the Most Holy Place
00:46:26.29\00:46:30.33
symbol because John is
following a pattern here.
00:46:30.53\00:46:32.49
A beautiful,
beautiful artistic pattern
00:46:32.69\00:46:35.23
of communication. If you
didn't use this symbolism
00:46:35.43\00:46:38.06
you'd have to have
entire volumes to explain
00:46:38.26\00:46:41.06
what John is
trying to give us here
00:46:41.16\00:46:42.65
in a series of
trigger points of symbols.
00:46:42.95\00:46:44.83
It's brilliant!
00:46:45.03\00:46:46.40
And as we come to the
end of the cosmic war vision,
00:46:46.60\00:46:50.10
wait a minute... Now the
law, the Ten Commandments,
00:46:50.30\00:46:53.33
which are associated with
the ark in the Most Holy Place
00:46:53.63\00:46:57.58
now that law shows
up... watch this...
00:46:57.88\00:47:00.75
in the experience of a people.
00:47:00.95\00:47:05.57
Now you have the new covenant
00:47:05.77\00:47:09.20
of the law of God being written
in the heart and in the mind
00:47:09.40\00:47:13.03
taking place. And
this is perfectly logical.
00:47:13.23\00:47:15.43
in the trajectory that
John has unfolded for us.
00:47:15.73\00:47:18.29
Because earlier in
the cosmic war vision
00:47:19.14\00:47:21.78
what is the
centerpiece of focus?
00:47:21.98\00:47:23.92
Jesus Christ
incarnate and crucified.
00:47:24.22\00:47:27.75
That event
00:47:28.25\00:47:31.09
of the incarnation
and crucifixion of Christ
00:47:31.29\00:47:34.66
constitutes precisely
the revelation of God's love
00:47:34.96\00:47:40.21
that leads and escorts
God's people into a new covenant
00:47:41.20\00:47:44.27
experience where the law of
God is not externally imposed...
00:47:44.37\00:47:48.18
it's internally realized.
00:47:48.39\00:47:50.52
In other words, the law of God
which symbolically is in the ark
00:47:50.72\00:47:54.85
that was all symbolic.
00:47:55.05\00:47:56.79
God's not interested in golden
boxes and tables of stone.
00:47:57.19\00:48:00.56
That's all symbolic. That's
all pointing to something else.
00:48:01.60\00:48:05.13
The Most Holy
Place, the ark, the law
00:48:05.33\00:48:09.74
ultimately is to represent
the human heart and mind
00:48:09.94\00:48:14.56
and the re-establishment
of the Shekinah glory
00:48:14.77\00:48:17.72
in the soul temple, in
the citadel of the human heart
00:48:17.92\00:48:21.34
and mind. Not in a room that is
being carted around the desert
00:48:21.44\00:48:26.25
thousands of years ago.
00:48:26.55\00:48:28.90
That was all... THAT
was pointing to THIS!
00:48:29.20\00:48:32.20
That was pointing to realities
that God wants to achieve
00:48:32.50\00:48:36.67
in your heart and mine.
00:48:36.87\00:48:38.61
Writing His law of
love in the inner fabric...
00:48:39.01\00:48:44.76
the tender inner fabric of
human thoughts and feelings.
00:48:44.96\00:48:48.93
Bringing you and me to the point
where Ellen White describes
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the experience of
this people when she says:
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"When the impulse to
help and bless others
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springs constantly from within
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then God's purpose
for us is accomplished. "
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In other words, the law of
God is not an external code
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to be imposed with
manipulation and pressure
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for outward compliance.
The law of God is to be
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inscribed in our
very thought processes,
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in our emotional make-up.
It's to be written in our hearts
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so that we are pleased to
live in obedience to God's law.
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Not because we have
to but because we want to
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because His law
is in our hearts.
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Now what we've seen here
is the unfolding of a series
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of prophetic
historic periods of time.
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And as this historic
period is unfolded with a
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repeat and enlarge dexterity...
just back and forth,
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back and forth replay.
OK... here we are again.
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OK, and this
happening too and so is this.
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We need to understand
something: that we are living
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at the very end -
the fulcrum point -
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of eternity on all of
these prophetic lines.
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I said to you earlier that
there are 3 prophetic views
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of interpretation.
The Preterist view which
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applies it all to the?
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The Futurist view
which puts it all in the?
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The Historicist view that
encompasses both the past and
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the future... present as well.
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But there's a fourth view that
is totally unique to Adventists.
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We made it up all by ourselves.
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And the way we made it up
is because and rightfully so
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we're urgent for the
time. No disrespect is meant.
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But what we've done is we
have looked at the prophecies
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and we have lost our bearings
on the Historicist plane
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and we have begun to
develop a hunger and a thirst
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for what is being
called "re-applications"
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of these
prophecies to the future.
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And I'll tell you what
the problem with that is
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if it hasn't already dawned on
you. It should just be clicking.
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The Historicist interpretation
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is the official
established Adventist view.
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Up until just not more
than about 120 years ago it was
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the official Protestant view.
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Preterism and Futurism
is a rather new phenomenon
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in church history.
These views were concocted,
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both of them, by Jesuit priests
in order to get the heat off
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of the papacy in the
Historicist interpretation.
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I don't have time
to say more about that.
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But Adventists who are
grounded historically in the
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Historicist view of prophecy
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not content to realize the
urgency of the fact that we're
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living right there between
6 and 7 and the world is about
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to end, we've begun to back up
and say: "Hey, let's take those
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seven seals and
put them in the future.
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Let's take those seven trumpets
and come up with a future
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application. " Even
"Let's take the time prophecies
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of the 1,260-year prophecy of
Daniel, the 1,290-year prophecy,
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the 1,335-day prophecy and
even the 2,300-day prophecy
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and let's just find
literal applications
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that we can have here and now.
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At the end of time we
need new applications;
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we need re-application. "
This view - this fourth view
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that is unique to Adventists -
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is an effort to hold
on to the Historicist view
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'cause we feel like
we need to, we have to
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for a couple of reasons.
One is because it's embedded
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in the text. Number two,
there would be no Adventism
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without the Historicist
view. The church would not have
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emerged on the
scene of human history
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without the
Historicist view of prophecy.
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Number three,
Ellen White very firmly
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adheres to and articulates
the Historicist view.
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So we feel like we have to
maintain the Historicist view.
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So rather than be bold
enough to just reject it
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and say: "that's not
true" which some have.
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But they eventually just
leave the church all together.
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Rather than just
say: "That's not true!
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This is the true application.
Seven seals, seven trumpets...
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all this. It goes
here at the end of time. "
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Rather than have that
boldness, language has been
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devised and
brought to bear upon it
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to say: "We're going to re-
apply. It's a re-application
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of these. "
"Oh, we affirm this -
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the Historicist view. We're just
giving a second application,
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a dual application,
a repeat application. "
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But here's the problem.
Here's the problem in the
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3 minutes and 48
seconds that I have...
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Here's the problem:
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The Historicist
view... listen carefully now...
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already accounts
for the entire span
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of the historical
prophetic timeline.
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In other words,
we're already between
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six and seven on
churches, seals, and trumpets.
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To pick up the
historically-fulfilled parts
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back up and pull
it all into the future
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would give us an
absolute nightmare
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of interpretive logic
that can't be sustained.
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Because now to
affirm Historicism
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and to come up with
new future applications
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is simply to say that
we have to unravel the idea
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that we have a new seven
seals, a new seven trumpets
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that are unfolding
during the Historicist unfolding
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of number six and seven.
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So number six and
seven are being fulfilled
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but now we have an
overlay of the entire seven.
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So in the interpretive logic
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it's very
confusing... it doesn't exist.
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In other words, we
don't need a re-application
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of the seals, the trumpets,
or the time prophecies. Why?
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Why? Is it
logical? Do you see it?
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Why do we not need a
reinterpretation for the future?
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Because the Historicist
interpretation already accounts
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for the future inherent
in its hermeneutic logic.
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There's no reason to
have another application.
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But here's the bottom line:
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it's not all about Preterism,
Futurism, Historicism,
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and re-application. Can't help
but want to end with good news.
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Every single prophecy
invokes the Most Holy Place
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at the end in Revelation.
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Watch this. You come to the
end of the book of Revelation
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and with beautiful language,
unimaginably beautiful language,
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John says: "I saw a
holy city, New Jerusalem,
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and the angel that
attended me told me
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it's measurements. " And as the
angel describes the measurements
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of the Holy City... check
this out... he's described
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a geometric cube.
There's only one other cube
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in the Bible. It's
the Most Holy Place
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of the Old Testament sanctuary.
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You have a small cube
where the Shekinah glory was
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and then you have the big
cube which is the cubed city
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if you will...
the New Jerusalem.
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And the whole story
comes to a beautiful, artistic
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resolving logic with God's
people all finding themselves
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in the New Jerusalem
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and Revelation ends
by telling us: "Now God
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is with His
people. They're with Him.
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There's no need
for a temple any more.
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There's no need for
the light of the sun
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for the Lord God is the light. "
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And we are forever in
intimate Most Holy Place
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communion with the most
beautiful person in all the
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universe: God Almighty Himself.
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And as we take
rest and joy and peace
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in that eternal fellowship
we realize at that point
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that all along it
was about the restoration
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of this communion with God.
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All the details of
the prophetic lines were
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all along pointing
to this ultimate end
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the Shekinah glory and
you and I face to face.
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Please pray with
me. Father in heaven,
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thank you for the
clarity of Your Word.
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May we hold fast to what
this Word has conveyed to us.
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Please, Lord, help us
to re-discover the beauty
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and power of the
Historicist view of prophecy
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and the inherent
logic that it holds
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to tell us where we
are in the stream of time.
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In Jesus' name, Amen.
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