>> IT'S BEEN 2,000 YEARS SINCE
THE GLORIOUS LIGHT OF THE CROSS
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ILLUMINATED A WORLD VEILED
IN DARKNESS AND CONFUSION ABOUT
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THE CHARACTER OF GOD.
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AND STILL TODAY THE GREATEST
NEED OF MANKIND IS A REVELATION
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OF GOD'S LOVE AS
REVEALED IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST.
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AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS
THE "EVERLASTING GOSPEL" WITH
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PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR,
COMING TO YOU EACH WEEK FROM
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SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
CHURCH IN SUNNY CALIFORNIA.
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DISCOVER HIDDEN
TREASURES IN GOD'S WORD TODAY.
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>> PROPHECY IS BEST
UNDERSTOOD LOOKING BACK.
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THIS IS WHAT JESUS SAID.
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"WHEN THESE THINGS HAPPEN,
THEN YOU WILL KNOW THAT I HAVE
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SPOKEN THEM."
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AND SO--NOW SOME OF WHAT WE'RE
GOING TO SAY NOW IS A LITTLE
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BIT OF A REVIEW.
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WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE
BOOK OF REVELATION AND WE STUDY
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REVELATION, MOST PEOPLE THINK
IT'S A REVELATION OF THE BEAST
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OR THE MARK OF THE BEAST OR 666
OR ARMAGEDDON OR SOME OF THESE
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HOT BUTTON WORDS.
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PRIMARILY REVELATION
IS A REVELATION OF JESUS.
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AND ALL THE DIFFERENT
PICTURES IN THE BIBLE ARE GIVING
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DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES.
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THEY'RE LIKE THE FACETS
OF A PRECIOUS JEWEL THAT ARE
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REFLECTING DIFFERENT
FACETS OF CHRIST IN SOME WAY.
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JESUS APPEARS THROUGH A VARIETY
OF NAMES AND IMAGES ALL THROUGH
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THE BOOK.
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IT'S HELPING US TO
BETTER UNDERSTAND GOD.
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AND PROPHECY AS A WHOLE IS
NOT DESIGNED TO JUST SHOW US
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THE FUTURE.
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PROPHECY IS REALLY TO--
IT'S REDEMPTIVE IN NATURE.
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PROPHECY IS TO REDEEM.
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BECAUSE IF YOU UNDERSTAND
ALL THE DETAILS OF PROPHECY
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AND WHAT ALL THESE DIFFERENT
VISIONS REPRESENT AND YOU'RE
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NOT SAVED, WHAT
GOOD DOES IT DO YOU?
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ULTIMATELY PROPHECY
IS THERE TO REDEEM US.
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MAYBE WE SHOULD REVIEW WHAT
SOME OF THE PRIMARY PURPOSES
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FOR PROPHECY ARE.
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PROPHECY, OF COURSE, GIVES
US EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE
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OF AN OMNIPOTENT GOD.
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SECONDLY, PROPHECY GIVES
EVIDENCE, DEMONSTRATING THAT
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THE BIBLE IS RELIABLE.
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ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS AN
EVANGELIST WILL DO TO INTRODUCE
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A SEMINAR IS HE'LL TAKE
PROPHECY BECAUSE NOTHING WILL
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STRENGTHEN YOUR FAITH IN THE
DEPENDABILITY OF THE WORD LIKE
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DANIEL 2 OR ONE OF THESE
PROPHECIES THAT IS CLEARLY
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WRITTEN BEFORE IT HAPPENED
AND THEN YOU SEE THE FULFILLMENT
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OF IT.
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THIRDLY, PROPHECY PROVIDES
EVIDENCE THAT THERE'S A PURPOSE
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IN LIFE.
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WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, I MEAN,
MOST OF US LIVE ON A VERY RAZOR
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THIN MOMENT OF THE PRESENT.
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EVERYTHING ELSE IS IN
THE PAST OR IN THE FUTURE.
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AND WHEN GOD IN PROPHECY TELLS
US, "I CAN GO BACK IN TIME.
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I CAN GO FORWARD IN TIME.
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I CAN SEE THE FUTURE AS
PERFECTLY AS YOU SEE THE
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PRESENT," THAT TELLS YOU THAT
THINGS ARE NOT JUST HAPHAZARD,
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THAT WE'RE NOT LIVING IN THESE
SERENDIPITY LIVES WHERE THEY'RE
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JUST--THERE'S JUST NO PURPOSE
AND NO DESIGN AND EVERYTHING
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IS FATE.
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AND THERE IS A PLAN AND
THAT GOD IS ON THE THRONE.
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FOURTHLY, PROPHECY UNFOLDS
THE CREATOR'S SECRETS REGARDING
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HOW WE SHOULD LIVE.
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PROPHECY IS INSTRUCTIVE.
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BECAUSE OF HOW GOD RESPONDS
IN THE FUTURE AND EVEN IN THE
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PAST, IT TELLS US SOMETHING
ABOUT HIS NATURE AND HOW HE
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WANTS US TO LIVE.
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NOW, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT
BIBLE PROPHECY AND ESPECIALLY
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PROPHECIES LIKE REVELATION THAT
ARE WHAT WE CALL--KEEP IN MIND
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THE WORD REVELATION
MEANS APOKALYPSIS, APOCALYPSE
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IN GREEK.
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WE THINK OF THE APOCALYPTIC
PROPHECIES, THEY'RE THE ONES
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WHO ARE GIVEN--THE PROPHECIES
THAT ARE GIVEN IN SYMBOLS
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AND SIGNS LIKE ZACHARIAH
AND EZEKIEL AND SOME IN AMOS
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AND, OF COURSE,
DANIEL, REVELATION.
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WHY DOES GOD USE ALL
THESE SIGNS AND SYMBOLS?
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WHY DOESN'T HE SPEAK PLAINLY?
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WELL, THESE SYMBOLS ARE GIVEN,
FOR ONE THING, BECAUSE YOU HAVE
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TO READ THE REST OF THE
BIBLE TO UNLOCK PROPHECY.
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IT'S FILLED WITH SYMBOLS THERE.
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AND KEEP IN MIND, JOHN
WAS A PRISONER OF ROME IN
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THE SALT MINES OF PATMOS THERE.
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ROME WAS GOING TO BE DESTROYED.
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REVELATION TALKS ABOUT
THE DESTRUCTION AND THE EVIL
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OF ROME.
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IT IDENTIFIES IT AS BABYLON.
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AND BECAUSE OF THAT, IN
ORDER TO PRESERVE THAT MESSAGE,
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IF GOD HAD JUST SAID IN
REVELATION, "ROME IS AN EVIL
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EMPIRE THAT'S GOING TO BE
DESTROYED," WHAT WOULD THE
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ROMAN LEADERS THINK OF
THE BOOK OF REVELATION?
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WOULDN'T THEY SEEK
TO DESTROY THE BOOK?
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SO TO PRESERVE THE
MESSAGE, IT'S GIVEN IN CODE.
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IN THE SAME WAY, DANIEL, HE IN
CHAPTER TWO AND CHAPTER SEVEN,
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HE TALKS ABOUT
BABYLON IS GOING TO FALL.
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SO IF HE HAD JUST SAID
BABYLON IS GOING TO FALL AND
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NEBUCHADNEZZAR WANTED IT TO
LAST FOREVER, THEY WOULD HAVE
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DESTROYED THE MANUSCRIPT.
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SO TO PROTECT THE
WRITINGS, IT'S GIVEN IN CODE.
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AND IN THE BIBLE, YOU'LL
FIND THAT THERE ARE SYMBOLS.
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AND IF YOU UNDERSTAND YOUR
BIBLE, YOU'LL UNDERSTAND MOST
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OF THE SYMBOLS.
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NOW SOME OF 'EM ARE VERY
EASY FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND.
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WHEN I SAY TO YOU,
"THERE'S A DRAGON," HOW MANY
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KNOW WHO THAT DRAGON REPRESENTS?
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THIS IS A LITTLE BIT
OF REVIEW FROM LAST WEEK.
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REVELATION 12 SAYS THAT OLD
SERPENT CALLED THE DEVIL AND
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SATAN, HE'S THE DRAGON.
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CAN'T MISUNDERSTAND THAT.
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NOW WHEN IT SAYS IN THE MIDDLE
OF THE THRONE, WE'LL TALK ABOUT
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THAT TODAY.
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THERE'S LAMB AS
IT HAD BEEN SLAIN.
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DO WE HAVE TO GUESS
ABOUT WHO THAT LAMB IS?
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JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD
THAT TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF
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THE WORLD.
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ABRAHAM SAID, "MY SON, GOD
WILL PROVIDE HIMSELF A LAMB."
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AND SO WE KNOW THROUGH
THE BIBLE SYMBOLS WHAT THAT
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REPRESENTS, BUT THEN
YOU GET TO REVELATION 12.
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THERE'S A WOMAN.
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REVELATION 17, ANOTHER WOMAN.
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THESE ARE JUST PROMINENT
WOMEN AND THEY DON'T EVER SPEAK
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AND SAY, "HI, MY NAME IS SALLY
AND THIS IS WHO I REPRESENT."
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YOU SAY, "WELL, WHAT
DOES THAT REPRESENT?"
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GOING THROUGH THE BIBLE, THERE
ARE A LOT OF THESE SYMBOLS THAT
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APPEAR OTHER PLACES IN PROPHECY
THAT HELP YOU UNDERSTAND.
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NOW THIS IS A CHART OF
BIBLE SYMBOLS AND THEIR MEANING
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AND IT GIVES THE
SCRIPTURE TO UNDERSTAND 'EM.
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YOU CAN GET THIS
FROM THAT WEB SITE CALLED
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BIBLE PROPHECY TRUTH.
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AMAZING FACTS DEVELOPED
THIS WEB SITE THIS YEAR.
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I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST AS
FAST FOR ME TO GOOGLE IT.
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I JUST TYPED IN BIBLE PROPHECY.
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ON THE FIRST PAGE OUT OF OVER
700,000 POSSIBLE SITES, THIS
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WAS ON THE FIRST PAGE.
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IT WAS THE THIRD WEB SITE.
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ISN'T THAT EXCITING?
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WOULD YOU LIKE TO
SEE IT GO TO FIRST PLACE?
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THEN YOU TELL ALL YOUR
FRIENDS, YOU LINK TO IT.
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PUT BIBLE PROPHECY
TRUTH AT YOUR WEB SITE.
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IT'LL GO TO FIRST PLACE.
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MATTER OF FACT, WHEN YOU
ALL GO HOME FROM CHURCH, LOG ON.
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THAT'LL BOOST IT IN
THE RATINGS AT GOOGLE.
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IT TALKS ABOUT MILLENNIUM, AND
ARMAGEDDON AND THE MARK OF THE
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BEAST AND ALL THESE DIFFERENT,
REALLY EXCITING SUBJECTS.
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AND IT'S GOT A LOT OF
MATERIAL THERE, BUT YOU CAN ALSO
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GET THE BIBLE
SYMBOLS AND THEIR MEANING.
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YOU CAN PRINT THIS OUT THERE.
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BIBLE NUMBERS.
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REMEMBER WHAT WE TOLD YOU?
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CERTAIN NUMBERS APPEAR
MANY TIMES IN REVELATION.
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THOSE NUMBERS ALSO HAVE
A MEANING AND YOU CAN LOOK
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AT THAT.
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SO THAT'S ONE REASON
THE SYMBOLS WERE GIVEN,
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TO PROTECT THE MESSAGE.
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I REMEMBER DURING WORLD
WAR II I DON'T REMEMBER BECAUSE
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I WASN'T ALIVE, BUT I REMEMBER
READING IN WORLD WAR II.
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MY DAD WAS IN WORLD WAR II.
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AND THEN WE LIVED AMONG THE
NAVAJO INDIANS IN NEW MEXICO
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AND MANY OF THEM WERE CODE
OPERATORS BECAUSE THE JAPANESE
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HAD BROKEN EVERY AMERICAN CODE
AND THEY SAID, "WE GOT TO GET
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SOMETHING ELSE."
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AND SO THERE WAS ACTUALLY
THE SON OF A MISSIONARY WHO HAD
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GROWN UP ON THE RESERVATION
AND HE WAS IN THE MARINES AND HE
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WENT TO THEM AND HE SAID, "I
KNOW THE ANSWER FOR YOUR CODE."
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HE SAYS, "YOU JUST
NEED TO DRAFT SOME NAVAJOS.
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IT IS THE MOST
DIFFICULT LANGUAGE.
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MY FATHER'S BEEN WORKING
FOR YEARS TO TRY AND TRANSLATE
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THE NEW TESTAMENT INTO NAVAJO.
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IT IS THE MOST COMPLICATED
LANGUAGE AND IT DOESN'T FOLLOW
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ANY RULES, SO THE CRYPTOGRAPHERS
CAN'T DECIPHER IT.
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LET THEM TALK TO EACH
OTHER ON THE RADIO AND THEY'LL
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NEVER FIGURE OUT
WHAT THEY'RE SAYING."
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WELL, THEY DID SOME
TESTS AND SAID, "YOU'RE RIGHT.
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WE CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT."
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AND SO WHAT THEY DID IS
THEY HAD NAVAJO RADIO OPERATORS
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SCATTERED THROUGHOUT
THE MARINES THAT WERE
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THE COMMUNICATORS.
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BUT NOT ONLY WOULD THEY
COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER
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IN NAVAJO.
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THEY WERE GIVEN CODED MESSAGES
THEY COMMUNICATE IN NAVAJO.
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AND THEY'D USE THESE PICTURES.
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AND THEY'D SAY, "OH, WE'VE
GOT 15 TORTOISES COMING OVER
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THE HILL," AND THEY KNEW AMONG--
AND THEY'D SAY IT IN NAVAJO.
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THOSE TORTOISES MEANT TANKS.
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AND SO THEY HAD--YOU SAID, "OH,
THEY'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, A BUNCH
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OF CROWS FLYING IN,"
OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
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THAT MEANT PLANES.
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AND SO THEY HAD ALL THESE
DIFFERENT THINGS THAT THEY GIVE
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THE CODE IN THE LANGUAGE
AND THAT FURTHER COMPLICATED IT.
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SO SOMETIMES TO UNDERSTAND
REVELATION, YOU NOT ONLY READ
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WHAT IT SAYS IN REVELATION,
YOU GO TO OTHER PLACES IN
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THE BIBLE, YOU FIND OUT WHAT
THE SYMBOLS MEAN, AND THEN YOU
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LOOK HOW WERE
THEY USED BACK THEN.
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SO WE'RE GONNA DO A LITTLE BIT
OF THAT THIS MORNING SO YOU CAN
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JUST UNDERSTAND WHY
WE'RE STUDYING IT THE WAY WE
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STUDY IT.
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SO THESE
SYMBOLS ALL HAD MEANING.
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JESUS SAID IN LUKE 8:10, "TO
YOU IT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO KNOW
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THE MYSTERIES OF THE KINGDOM OF
GOD; BUT TO THE REST IT'S GIVEN
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IN PARABLES, THAT SEEING THEY
MAY NOT SEE, AND HEARING THEY
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MAY NOT UNDERSTAND."
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SO SOME OF THE
ENEMIES OF CHRIST--
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"SPIRITUAL THINGS ARE
SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED,"
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1 CORINTHIANS 2:14.
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ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO
UNDERSTAND PROPHECY IS THE HOLY
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SPIRIT AND THE WORD OF GOD
WILL GIVE YOU UNDERSTANDING.
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YOU KNOW THE
PEOPLE IN THE WORLD.
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WHEN THEY HEAR SOME OF THESE
EVANGELISTS START EXPLAINING
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PROPHECY ON TV, THEY THINK
THEY'RE ON DRUGS, DON'T THEY?
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AND YOU PROBABLY
HAVE THOUGHT THAT TOO.
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AND MATTER OF FACT, THE WAY
I'VE HEARD SOME INTERPRETATION,
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I THINK THEY'RE ON DRUGS TOO.
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I MEAN, LET'S FACE IT.
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YOU'VE HEARD SOME REALLY
SQUIRRELY IDEAS ABOUT PROPHECY
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AND REVELATION IN PARTICULAR.
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BUT WHEN YOU HAVE THE HOLY
SPIRIT AND YOU'RE COMPARING
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SCRIPTURE WITH SCRIPTURE HERE
A LITTLE, THERE A LITTLE, LINE
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UPON LINE, IT BEGINS TO CLICK.
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THERE'S A CONSISTENCY.
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THERE'S A SCIENCE TO IT.
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BUT YOU STILL MUST HAVE THE
HOLY SPIRIT TO UNDERSTAND IT.
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REVELATION, WE ENDED LAST
WEEK REMINDING YOU IT'S A BOOK
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THAT YOU WILL BE
BLESSED IN STUDYING.
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THAT IS NOT JUST
SOMETHING I'M SAYING.
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THE BOOK ITSELF SAYS IT.
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REVELATION 1:3, "BLESSED IS
HE WHO READS AND THOSE WHO HEAR
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THE WORDS OF THE PROPHECY."
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MATTER OF FACT, HE SAYS,
"THE WORDS OF THIS PROPHECY,
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AND KEEP THE THINGS THAT ARE
WRITTEN THEREIN; FOR THE TIME
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IS AT HAND."
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SO IT'S TELLING YOU IN
THE OPENING CHAPTER THERE'S
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SOMETHING TO DO
ABOUT WHAT YOU HEAR.
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BLESSED ARE THOSE THAT KEEP.
00:11:02.60\00:11:04.53
SO YOU'RE NOT ONLY TO
READ IT AND UNDERSTAND IT.
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YOU'LL BE
BLESSED IF YOU KEEP IT.
00:11:06.80\00:11:08.36
BLESSING AT THE END OF
THE BOOK MAKES IT CLEAR ALSO.
00:11:08.36\00:11:10.76
REVELATION 22:7, JESUS SAID,
"BEHOLD, I'M COMING QUICKLY.
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BLESSED IS HE WHO KEEPS
THE WORDS OF THIS PROPHECY."
00:11:14.96\00:11:19.36
AND SO THERE'S A BLESSING
PRONOUNCED ON THOSE WHO HEAR IT
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AND KEEP IT.
00:11:22.20\00:11:23.13
YOU'LL BE
BLESSED IN STUDYING IT.
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CAN'T KEEP IT
UNTIL YOU READ IT, RIGHT?
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SO THAT'S WHERE
WE'VE GOT TO START.
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AND THESE ARE
THE WORDS OF JESUS.
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NOTICE THE TIME IS AT HAND.
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IT STARTS THE BOOK BY
SAYING THE TIME IS AT HAND.
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IT ENDS THE BOOK BY
JESUS SAYING, "BEHOLD,
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I COME QUICKLY."
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SO REVELATION COVERS A
TIME SPAN FROM THE FIRST COMING
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OF JESUS TO THE
SECOND COMING OF JESUS.
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AND OF COURSE,
BEYOND INTO THE ETERNITY.
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IT TAKES US BEYOND THE
MILLENNIUM INTO THE TIME OF
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ETERNITY AFTER THE 1,000 YEARS.
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NOW WHEN WE LEFT OFF, WE
WERE TALKING ABOUT THE SEVENS
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IN REVELATION AND IN
PARTICULAR THE SEVEN CHURCHES.
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THIS REPRESENTS
SEVEN STAGES AND AGES.
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AND THOSE CHURCHES REPRESENT
CYCLES THAT A CHURCH MAY GO
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THROUGH FROM ITS INCEPTION
UNTIL IT SORT OF ATROPHIES
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IN LAODICEA.
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IT REPRESENTS AN EXPERIENCE
AN INDIVIDUAL MAY GO THROUGH.
00:12:18.80\00:12:22.30
MANY PEOPLE ACCEPT THE
LORD AND THEY'RE LIKE EPHESUS
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AND IT'S ALL ABOUT THEOLOGY.
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THEY MAY EVEN LOSE THE
FIRST LOVE AND PEOPLE CAN BE
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AT ANY STAGE ALONG THE WAY,
BUT MOST OF ALL THIS REPRESENTS
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THE CYCLE OF TIME, SEVEN.
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WHEN YOU THINK OF SEVEN IN THE
BIBLE, WHERE DO YOU FIND SEVEN?
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WHAT DOES THAT NUMBER MEAN?
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WHERE'S IT FIRST APPEAR?
00:12:41.96\00:12:44.50
IN CREATION.
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MATTER OF FACT, FIRST TIME
ANY NUMBER APPEARS THREE TIMES
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IN THE BIBLE,
IT'S THE NUMBER SEVEN.
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IT SAYS, "ON THE
SEVENTH DAY, THE SEVENTH DAY,
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THE SEVENTH DAY."
00:12:51.66\00:12:52.70
IN REVELATION--IN GENESIS 2.
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IT'S A CYCLE OF TIME.
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A CYCLE OF TIME.
00:12:59.70\00:13:01.56
THE SEVEN CHURCHES REPRESENT
THE CYCLE OF THE CHURCH'S
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HISTORY FROM THE FIRST
COMING TO THE SECOND COMING.
00:13:05.23\00:13:08.73
NOW THE BOOK OF REVELATION
HAS A LOT OF SEVENS IN IT, BUT
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THERE ARE THREE
PROMINENT VISIONS OF SEVEN.
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YOU GOT THE SEVEN
CHURCHES, THE SEVEN SEALS.
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WE'LL PROBABLY
GET INTO THAT TODAY.
00:13:19.43\00:13:21.56
AND YOU GOT THE SEVEN TRUMPETS
AND YOU'VE ALSO--THERE'S ALSO
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SEVEN PLAGUES.
00:13:24.93\00:13:26.56
THE SEVEN CHURCHES REPRESENTS
THE SPIRITUAL HISTORY OF THE
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CHURCH FROM THE FIRST
COMING TO THE SECOND COMING.
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THE SEVEN SEALS
REPRESENT A POLITICAL HISTORY OF
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THE CHURCH FROM THE FIRST
COMING TO THE SECOND COMING.
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THE SEVEN TRUMPETS
REPRESENT--DON'T THEY BLOW
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TRUMPETS IN BATTLE?
00:13:45.40\00:13:46.73
DOESN'T PAUL SAY--GIVING
THE TRUMPET A CERTAIN SOUND,
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THEY KNOW HOW TO
PREPARE FOR THE BATTLE.
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MILITARY HISTORY OF THE
CHURCH FROM THE FIRST COMING TO
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THE SECOND COMING.
00:13:56.93\00:13:58.36
BUT THE PROPHECIES
OF GOD ARE NOT FLAT AND
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SINGLE-DIMENSIONAL.
00:14:02.70\00:14:05.80
THE PROPHECIES OF GOD,
AND WHEN YOU STUDY REVELATION,
00:14:05.80\00:14:09.13
YOU NEED TO THINK
IT IS MULTIDIMENSIONAL.
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YOU WILL FIND THAT ONE
PROPHECY, WHILE IT WILL
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PERFECTLY GIVE YOU--FOR
INSTANCE, LIKE I SAID, THE
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CYCLE OF THE CHURCH'S HISTORY,
THERE'S A LOT OF DEPTH TO IT.
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YOU KNOW, I MIGHT SPEAK TO
YOU AND I'M JUST--I'VE GOT ONE
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MEANING IN WHAT I SAY.
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I'M A MORTAL.
00:14:27.80\00:14:28.76
WE'RE KIND OF--WE KIND OF SPEAK
AND THINK ON ONE DIMENSION.
00:14:28.76\00:14:35.16
WE'RE MORE LINEAR
IN WHEN WE COMMUNICATE.
00:14:35.16\00:14:38.56
GOD'S WORD IS NOT CONFINED
OR RESTRICTED THE WAY WE ARE
00:14:38.56\00:14:42.83
IN OUR COMMUNICATION.
00:14:42.83\00:14:44.33
GOD CAN SAY ONE THING THAT
IS SO PROFOUND THAT IT IS TRUTH
00:14:44.33\00:14:50.33
AND IT DOES NOT CONFLICT
WITH THE OTHER MEANINGS, BUT IT
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HAS
MULTIDIMENSIONAL MEANINGS TO IT.
00:14:53.60\00:14:57.66
I ALWAYS LIKE TO GO BACK
AND TAKE JESUS, FOR INSTANCE.
00:14:57.66\00:15:02.26
THE DISCIPLES COME TO JESUS
AND ASK HIM A SIMPLE QUESTION.
00:15:02.26\00:15:06.53
"WHEN WILL THESE THINGS BE?"
00:15:06.53\00:15:07.86
JESUS SAID, "JUST REFER TO
THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE."
00:15:07.86\00:15:12.06
"AND WHAT WILL BE THE
SIGN OF YOUR COMING AND THE END
00:15:12.06\00:15:15.50
OF THE WORLD?"
00:15:15.50\00:15:16.46
MATTHEW 24.
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THEY KIND OF ASKED
HIM THREE QUESTIONS.
00:15:17.30\00:15:19.10
HE THEN GIVES THEM THIS
INCREDIBLY DEEP AND PROFOUND
00:15:19.10\00:15:22.16
ANSWER IN MATTHEW 24.
00:15:22.16\00:15:23.76
YOU'LL ALSO FIND IN
MARK 13, LUKE 17, LUKE 21.
00:15:23.76\00:15:28.03
IT'S WHERE YOU FIND HIS ANSWER
EXPLAINING THE SIGNS ABOUT
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HIS RETURN.
00:15:32.16\00:15:34.66
IN THAT ONE ANSWER,
WITHOUT CARVING IT UP FOR US, HE
00:15:34.66\00:15:38.60
ANSWERED THOSE WHO WERE LIVING
THAT DAY WHAT THEY WERE ASKING,
00:15:38.60\00:15:41.63
WHAT WAS GONNA
HAPPEN TO THE JEWS.
00:15:41.63\00:15:43.93
HE ALSO TOLD THE
CHURCH WHAT THEY COULD EXPECT
00:15:43.93\00:15:46.36
IN THEIR HISTORY.
00:15:46.36\00:15:47.60
SO EVERY CHRISTIAN IN ANY AGE
CAN READ MATTHEW 24 AND IT WAS
00:15:47.60\00:15:50.86
RELEVANT TO THEM THAT DAY.
00:15:50.86\00:15:53.06
HE TALKED ABOUT THE GREAT TIME
OF TROUBLE THE JEWS WOULD GO
00:15:53.06\00:15:56.06
THROUGH JUST BEFORE
JERUSALEM WAS DESTROYED.
00:15:56.06\00:15:59.40
HE TALKED ABOUT A TIME OF
TROUBLE THE CHURCH WOULD GO
00:15:59.40\00:16:01.66
THROUGH DURING THE AGE OF
THYATIRA, A GREAT PERSECUTION.
00:16:01.66\00:16:05.16
AND HE TALKED ABOUT THE
GREAT TIME OF TROUBLE BEFORE THE
00:16:05.16\00:16:07.56
SEVEN LAST PLAGUES AND THE
END OF THE WORLD FOR THOSE OF US
00:16:07.56\00:16:10.40
LIVING IN THIS GENERATION.
00:16:10.40\00:16:11.73
ONE ANSWER, MANY
DIMENSIONS TO THAT ONE ANSWER.
00:16:11.73\00:16:14.80
NOW HOW MANY OF
YOU ALREADY KNEW THAT?
00:16:14.80\00:16:18.06
READ REVELATION REALIZING THAT
GOD'S WORD IS NOT RESTRICTED
00:16:18.06\00:16:24.33
THE WAY WE THINK.
00:16:24.33\00:16:26.23
AND I THINK EVERYONE HERE KNOWS
THERE'S MORE ABOUT REVELATION
00:16:26.23\00:16:32.20
THAT I DON'T
KNOW THAN I DO KNOW.
00:16:32.20\00:16:35.86
IT IS A BOOK OF GOD.
00:16:35.86\00:16:37.80
IT IS SO DEEP AND IT IS SO
PROFOUND THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE
00:16:37.80\00:16:40.33
WHO HAVE--I HEARD
ONE-- LESLIE HARDINGE,
00:16:40.33\00:16:45.00
A THEOLOGY TEACHER AT
ANDREWS, DEAR MAN, HE SAID,
00:16:45.00\00:16:49.76
"YOU CAN'T EVEN BEGIN TO
UNDERSTAND REVELATION TILL
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YOU'VE READ IT 50 TIMES."
00:16:51.83\00:16:54.43
JUST SOME OF THESE GREAT MINDS.
00:16:54.43\00:16:56.73
I REMEMBER JOE MANISCALCO.
00:16:56.73\00:16:58.30
I WAS HIS PASTOR.
00:16:58.30\00:16:59.33
HE WAS AN ART TEACHER.
00:16:59.33\00:17:00.50
TRAVELED AROUND
TEACHING REVELATION.
00:17:00.50\00:17:02.50
THEY HAD HIS
BIBLE AT HIS FUNERAL.
00:17:02.50\00:17:04.30
HE HAD ABSOLUTELY WORN
OUT THE TOP 70%--OR 20%
00:17:04.30\00:17:08.40
OF HIS BIBLE.
00:17:08.40\00:17:09.83
AND REVELATION--JUST
WORN THE PAGES RIGHT OFF.
00:17:09.83\00:17:12.33
HE HAD READ IT
THROUGH SO MANY TIMES.
00:17:12.33\00:17:14.56
AND SO FOR US TO DO
THIS OVERVIEW OF REVELATION,
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I'M JUST TRYING TO
WHET YOUR APPETITE.
00:17:18.43\00:17:20.86
THAT'S ALL I'M DOING.
00:17:20.86\00:17:21.96
I'M NOT GOING TO BE ABLE
TO GIVE YOU ALL THE ANSWERS
00:17:21.96\00:17:24.03
FOR THESE THINGS.
00:17:24.03\00:17:25.00
YOU REALIZE THAT?
00:17:25.00\00:17:25.96
I'M MAKING--I'M TRYING TO
CREATE WITHIN YOU A DESIRE TO
00:17:25.96\00:17:29.00
MAKE YOU WANT TO STUDY IT.
00:17:29.00\00:17:31.60
BECAUSE IF THERE WAS EVER
AN AGE WHEN THESE THINGS ARE
00:17:31.60\00:17:33.90
APPLICABLE, IT'S NOW.
00:17:33.90\00:17:36.73
I MEAN, NOW IS A TIME FOR
US TO UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS.
00:17:36.73\00:17:39.23
A LOT OF IT HAS HAPPENED IN THE
PAST, BUT THERE'S STILL A LOT
00:17:39.23\00:17:42.30
OF IT THAT'S GONNA
CONCENTRATE IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:17:42.30\00:17:46.10
ALL RIGHT, TO
THE SEVEN CHURCHES.
00:17:46.10\00:17:49.20
LET'S PUT THAT MAP UP THERE.
00:17:49.20\00:17:51.40
SO WE'VE GOT THESE
SEVEN CHURCHES AND THEY WERE
00:17:51.40\00:17:53.43
THE CHURCHES OF ASIA.
00:17:53.43\00:17:54.36
JOHN WAS A PRISONER IN
THE ISLE OF PATMOS FROM ROME.
00:17:54.36\00:17:58.63
THIS WAS NOT ALL THE CHURCHES.
00:17:58.63\00:18:00.40
WHY JUST THOSE SEVEN?
00:18:00.40\00:18:02.63
SUPPOSEDLY, JOHN ESPECIALLY
MINISTERED THE CHURCHES
00:18:02.63\00:18:05.23
IN SEVEN.
00:18:05.23\00:18:06.26
HE TOOK MARY WITH HIM,
THE MOTHER OF JESUS, WHEN HE
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MOVED UP TO ASIA MINOR.
00:18:08.83\00:18:11.33
AND OSTENSIBLY,
HER HOUSE IS THERE.
00:18:11.33\00:18:14.46
I BELIEVE IT'S IN EPHESUS.
00:18:14.46\00:18:16.26
AND HE CAN LOOK RIGHT
ACROSS--THE MESSAGE IN THE
00:18:16.26\00:18:19.13
CHURCHES, YOU--THEY GO IN
ORDER AS THOUGH YOU'RE GOING ON
00:18:19.13\00:18:21.83
THE MAIL ROUTE.
00:18:21.83\00:18:23.70
THEY HAD ROADS.
00:18:23.70\00:18:24.80
THE ROMANS, YOU
KNOW, HAD GOOD ROADS.
00:18:24.80\00:18:26.63
AND YOU COULD GO FROM
EPHESUS TO SMYRNA TO PERGAMUM OR
00:18:26.63\00:18:29.43
PERGAMOS, TO THYATIRA,
TO SARDIS, TO PHILADELPHIA,
00:18:29.43\00:18:32.16
TO LAODICEA.
00:18:32.16\00:18:33.20
THAT WOULD BE
THE END OF THE ROUTE.
00:18:33.20\00:18:35.33
AND SO IT'S ALMOST LIKE HE HAS
A BIRD'S EYE VIEW AS HE'S DOING
00:18:35.33\00:18:39.10
THIS CIRCLE.
00:18:39.10\00:18:40.03
THERE'S AN INCREDIBLE
SEQUENCE AND ORDER THAT'S GIVEN.
00:18:40.03\00:18:44.66
NOW THE SEVEN CHURCHES,
AND I'LL NAME THEM FOR YOU,
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EACH WORD HAS MEANING.
00:18:48.83\00:18:51.03
AND EACH CHURCH HAS A
UNIQUE CHARACTERISTIC.
00:18:51.03\00:18:53.86
YOU'VE GOT EPHESUS.
00:18:53.86\00:18:55.33
THAT MEANS DESIRABLE.
00:18:55.33\00:18:57.33
THIS IS THE CHURCH
THAT HAD LOST ITS ARDOR.
00:18:57.33\00:19:00.43
IT HAD LOST ITS
PASSION FOR JESUS.
00:19:00.43\00:19:03.26
THEY LOVE THE TRUTH AND
THEY LOVE THE DOCTRINE, BUT WHEN
00:19:03.26\00:19:06.00
YOU'VE GOT THE DOCTRINE,
YOU DON'T HAVE THE LOVE,
00:19:06.00\00:19:08.30
YOU CAN BECOME LEGALISTIC.
00:19:08.30\00:19:09.96
AND SO THE LORD COMMENDED THEM
FOR THEIR PASSION FOR THE TRUTH
00:19:09.96\00:19:13.63
AND THAT THEY WERE TRYING
TO MAINTAIN THE DISCIPLINE
00:19:13.63\00:19:16.50
AND THE HOLINESS OF THE CHURCH.
00:19:16.50\00:19:18.33
BUT THEY WERE LOSING
THEIR FIRST, THAT INITIAL, LOVE.
00:19:18.33\00:19:21.23
THEN YOU'VE GOT
THE CHURCH OF SMYRNA.
00:19:21.23\00:19:23.56
THIS IS A CHURCH
THAT WAS PERSECUTED.
00:19:23.56\00:19:26.06
AND THE WORD SMYRNA, IT'S
RELAYED TO THE WORD MYRRH,
00:19:26.06\00:19:29.56
WHICH IS AN
INCENSE OR FRAGRANCE.
00:19:29.56\00:19:32.23
AND IT WAS LIKE THEIR
LIVES WERE AN OFFERING.
00:19:32.23\00:19:34.43
THIS WAS A TIME OF GREAT
PERSECUTION THAT THE CHURCH
00:19:34.43\00:19:36.76
WENT THROUGH.
00:19:36.76\00:19:37.86
THEN YOU'VE GOT THE
CHURCH OR PERGAMOS OR PERGAMUM.
00:19:37.86\00:19:40.53
AND THAT WAS
HEIGHTS OR ELEVATION.
00:19:40.53\00:19:43.16
THIS WAS THE TOLERANT CHURCH.
00:19:43.16\00:19:45.26
THYATIRA, IT MEANS PERFUME.
00:19:45.26\00:19:47.46
IT WAS THE AGE OF
COMPROMISE IN THE CHURCH.
00:19:47.46\00:19:50.63
THAT'S SYNONYMOUS WITH
THAT WOMAN IN REVELATION 17.
00:19:50.63\00:19:53.70
MENTIONS JEZEBEL AND THYATIRA.
00:19:53.70\00:19:57.06
BY THE WAY, ALL THE
PROPER NAMES IN REVELATION
00:19:57.06\00:19:59.96
ARE SYMBOLIC.
00:19:59.96\00:20:01.56
THAT'S A PRETTY
SWEEPING STATEMENT, PASTOR DOUG.
00:20:01.56\00:20:04.20
ALL OF THE PROPER NAMES
IN REVELATION ARE SYMBOLIC.
00:20:04.20\00:20:08.13
THE NUMBERS HAVE A
VALUE THAT IS REAL.
00:20:08.13\00:20:12.33
THERE REALLY WERE
SEVEN AGES OF THE CHURCH.
00:20:12.33\00:20:15.26
THERE REALLY ARE 12 FOUNDATIONS
IN THE NEW JERUSALEM.
00:20:15.26\00:20:18.43
THERE REALLY ARE 12
DIFFERENT KINDS OF FRUIT.
00:20:18.43\00:20:21.46
AND SO, SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:20:21.46\00:20:22.63
WHEN IT TELLS ABOUT THE
SIZE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM,
00:20:22.63\00:20:24.66
REAL NUMBERS.
00:20:24.66\00:20:25.73
PROPHETIC AGES THAT ARE GIVEN
IN REVELATION, THERE'S A VALUE.
00:20:25.73\00:20:28.96
THAT VALUE MEANS SOMETHING.
00:20:28.96\00:20:30.23
IT'S JUST NOT A
NEBULOUS, ETHEREAL NUMBER.
00:20:30.23\00:20:33.30
BUT THE NAMES ARE SPIRITUAL.
00:20:33.30\00:20:36.23
WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT BALAAM,
AND AGAIN, I MENTIONED THIS,
00:20:36.23\00:20:39.53
YOU GOT TO GO BACK IN
THE OLD TESTAMENT TO KNOW
00:20:39.53\00:20:41.56
WHAT'S IT TALKING ABOUT.
00:20:41.56\00:20:42.46
OR JEZEBEL.
00:20:42.46\00:20:43.56
OR IT TALKS ABOUT APOLLYON
OR SOME OF THESE OTHER THINGS.
00:20:43.56\00:20:47.53
THEN YOU'VE GOT
SARDIS, PRINCE OF JOY.
00:20:47.53\00:20:50.30
THIS WAS A NOMINAL CHURCH.
00:20:50.30\00:20:51.70
HAD A NAME THAT YOU
LIVE, BUT YOU WERE DEAD.
00:20:51.70\00:20:54.66
THEN YOU GOT PHILADELPHIA,
THE AGE OF BROTHERLY LOVE,
00:20:54.66\00:20:57.53
THE CHURCH THAT WAS DOING
EVANGELISM AND MISSIONARY WORK
00:20:57.53\00:21:00.33
EVERYWHERE.
00:21:00.33\00:21:01.43
AND THE FINAL AGE OF THE
CHURCH, LAODICEA, AND THAT
00:21:01.43\00:21:04.63
MEANS A JUDGED PEOPLE OR
THE JUDGING OF THE PEOPLE.
00:21:04.63\00:21:08.63
WE ARE LIVING IN THAT
FINAL AGE OF THE CHURCH.
00:21:08.63\00:21:12.03
IT WAS THE LUKEWARM CHURCH.
00:21:12.03\00:21:14.70
HAD A--YOU KNOW, FIGURED THEY
WERE RICH AND INCREASED WITH
00:21:14.70\00:21:17.73
GOODS LIKE THAT MAN IN
THE PARABLE IN LUKE, FEASTING
00:21:17.73\00:21:22.20
SUMPTUOUSLY ON THE TRUTH.
00:21:22.20\00:21:23.56
WE'VE GOT THE TRUTH.
00:21:23.56\00:21:25.53
JEWISH NATION, TIME OF CHRIST.
00:21:25.53\00:21:27.30
WE'VE GOT THE TRUTH,
FEASTING ON IT, BEGGARS LAYING
00:21:27.30\00:21:30.66
AT THEIR GATE, FULL OF
SORES, DESIRING THE CRUMBS.
00:21:30.66\00:21:34.03
IF WE'RE NOT SHARING WITH THOSE
THAT ARE LOST, THEN WE'VE GOT
00:21:34.03\00:21:36.63
A PROBLEM.
00:21:36.63\00:21:37.60
ALL RIGHT, SO THAT
REPRESENTED THE MESSAGE
00:21:37.60\00:21:39.73
OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES.
00:21:39.73\00:21:40.80
NOW YOU TRANSITION FROM
GOD TALKING ABOUT THE CONDITION
00:21:40.80\00:21:43.46
OF THE CHURCH BELOW.
00:21:43.46\00:21:45.16
THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN,
AND GO WITH ME IN YOUR BIBLES
00:21:45.16\00:21:47.70
TO REVELATION 4.
00:21:47.70\00:21:49.13
IT'S REAL IMPORTANT THAT
WE READ THIS BECAUSE YOU'RE
00:21:49.13\00:21:51.96
GONNA RUN INTO IT
AND-- IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY.
00:21:51.96\00:21:55.16
VERSE ONE.
00:21:55.16\00:21:56.16
CHAPTER FOUR, VERSE ONE.
00:21:56.16\00:21:59.10
"AFTER THESE THINGS, I LOOKED,
AND, BEHOLD, A DOOR STANDING
00:21:59.10\00:22:03.76
OPEN IN HEAVEN; AND THE FIRST
VOICE THAT I HEARD WAS LIKE
00:22:03.76\00:22:09.10
A TRUMPET, SPEAKING WITH
ME, SAYING, 'COME UP HERE AND I
00:22:09.10\00:22:13.33
WILL SHOW YOU THINGS THAT
MUST TAKE PLACE AFTER THIS.'"
00:22:13.33\00:22:17.53
AND SO HE GOES THROUGH
THE CHURCHES AND HE SAYS,
00:22:17.53\00:22:20.16
"NOW I WANT TO SHOW
YOU IN A SPECIAL WAY THINGS
00:22:20.16\00:22:22.63
THAT MUST TAKE PLACE."
00:22:22.63\00:22:24.30
A LOT OF OUR EVANGELICAL
FRIENDS, NOT ALL OF THEM, BUT
00:22:24.30\00:22:27.86
A LOT OF OUR EVANGELICAL FRIENDS
READ THIS AND WHEN HE SAYS,
00:22:27.86\00:22:30.46
"COME UP HERE," THEY WRITE
DOWN NEXT TO THAT, "RAPTURE."
00:22:30.46\00:22:35.53
SO THEY TAKE EVERYTHING FROM
CHAPTER FOUR ON, AND I TOLD YOU
00:22:35.53\00:22:39.20
LAST WEEK THAT'S WHERE
IT GETS THE NAME FUTURISM.
00:22:39.20\00:22:42.16
THEY SAY, "THIS IS
ALL IN THE FUTURE."
00:22:42.16\00:22:44.30
BECAUSE YOU DON'T HEAR THE WORD
CHURCH MENTIONED MUCH UNTIL YOU
00:22:44.30\00:22:46.70
GET DOWN TOWARDS THE END.
00:22:46.70\00:22:48.43
THAT MEANS THE
CHURCH IS CAUGHT UP.
00:22:48.43\00:22:50.63
IT'S OUT OF THE WORLD.
00:22:50.63\00:22:51.63
AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT'S
HAPPENING IN REVELATION IS
00:22:51.63\00:22:53.70
HAPPENING BEYOND OUR TIME.
00:22:53.70\00:22:55.20
I THINK THE DEVIL LOVES FOR
PEOPLE TO THINK THAT BECAUSE
00:22:55.20\00:22:58.73
JESUS ACTUALLY SAYS
THE TIME IS AT HAND.
00:22:58.73\00:23:01.26
YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO TRACE
CHAPTER FOUR FROM THE TIME
00:23:01.26\00:23:03.60
OF JOHN ON TO THE
TIME OF THE SECOND COMING.
00:23:03.60\00:23:07.30
AND THEY TAKE IT AND THEY TOSS
IT ALL OFF INTO THE FUTURE JUST
00:23:07.30\00:23:10.90
BECAUSE HE SAID, "COME UP."
00:23:10.90\00:23:13.33
'CAUSE IT SAYS THERE'S A--HEAR--
A VOICE LIKE A TRUMPET.
00:23:13.33\00:23:15.53
THEY SAY, "THAT'S
THE TRUMPET OF GABRIEL."
00:23:15.53\00:23:18.03
JUST THE TRUMPET
JUST MEANS LOUD THERE.
00:23:18.03\00:23:20.56
TRUMPETS ANNOUNCE THINGS.
00:23:20.56\00:23:22.26
TRUMPETS NOT ALL
EQUATED WITH THE SECOND COMING.
00:23:22.26\00:23:25.66
THE VOICE OF THE
LORD LIKE A TRUMPET.
00:23:25.66\00:23:27.86
TRUMPETS IN THE BIBLE HAD TO
DO WITH CROSSING OVER THE JORDAN
00:23:27.86\00:23:31.83
RIVER WHEN JERICHO FELL.
00:23:31.83\00:23:33.60
TRUMPETS HAD TO DO
WITH MILITARY DECISIONS.
00:23:33.60\00:23:37.13
SO I THINK IT'S REALLY A
LEAP IN LOGIC TO SAY, "BECAUSE
00:23:37.13\00:23:40.56
HE SAID COME UP AND THEY
HEAR A TRUMPET, THAT MEANS THAT
00:23:40.56\00:23:43.13
THIS IS NOW THE
SECOND COMING OF JESUS.
00:23:43.13\00:23:45.50
EVERYTHING ELSE THAT'S
HAPPENING IN REVELATION IS
00:23:45.50\00:23:47.40
IN THE FUTURE."
00:23:47.40\00:23:48.40
ANOTHER IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE
WHEN YOU STUDY BIBLE PROPHECY.
00:23:48.40\00:23:53.00
BIBLE PROPHECY IS NOT GIVEN
IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIKE YOU
00:23:53.00\00:23:57.33
MIGHT WRITE DOWN
YOUR AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
00:23:57.33\00:24:00.33
I WAS BORN WHILE I WAS VERY
YOUNG, YOU KNOW, AND THEN YOU
00:24:00.33\00:24:04.46
GO FROM THERE.
00:24:04.46\00:24:07.53
IN SEQUENCE.
00:24:07.53\00:24:09.03
THIS HAPPENED THIS YEAR AND
THIS HAPPENED THIS YEAR AND YOU
00:24:09.03\00:24:10.90
DO IT SEQUENTIALLY.
00:24:10.90\00:24:12.93
THE WAY THAT PROPHECY
WORKS, IT GOES LIKE THIS.
00:24:12.93\00:24:16.76
THE BIBLE'S WRITTEN LIKE THIS.
00:24:16.76\00:24:18.73
FIRST, IN THE BEGINNING,
GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS
00:24:18.73\00:24:20.73
AND THE EARTH.
00:24:20.73\00:24:21.66
SO HE TAKES YOU THAT FAR.
00:24:21.66\00:24:22.53
SAYS, "NOW LET ME BACK UP
AND TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED WHEN
00:24:22.53\00:24:24.46
HE CREATED."
00:24:24.46\00:24:25.43
AND HE GOES LIKE THIS AND
HE TAKES IT A LITTLE FURTHER.
00:24:25.43\00:24:27.23
SAYS, "NOW I'M GONNA TELL
YOU ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED ON THE
00:24:27.23\00:24:29.06
SIXTH DAY, WHEN ADAM COULDN'T
FIND A WIFE AND HE STARTED
00:24:29.06\00:24:31.70
LOOKING AROUND.
00:24:31.70\00:24:32.63
THE ANIMALS
WEREN'T GOING TO WORK."
00:24:32.63\00:24:34.43
AND THEN HE GOES BACK.
00:24:34.43\00:24:35.33
HE SAYS, "NOW LET ME GIVE
YOU THE GENEALOGIES OF ADAM."
00:24:35.33\00:24:37.13
AND HE BACKS UP AND IT OVERLAPS.
00:24:37.13\00:24:38.73
IT KEEPS GOING BACK AND
IT KEEPS GOING--OVERLAPPING.
00:24:38.73\00:24:41.43
IT'S NOT WRITTEN SEQUENTIALLY.
00:24:41.43\00:24:44.26
DANIEL 2.
00:24:44.26\00:24:46.13
HOW MANY OF YOU SORT
OF UNDERSTAND THAT COVERS
00:24:46.13\00:24:48.90
THE HISTORY OF THE
KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD?
00:24:48.90\00:24:51.53
AND WHEN YOU GET THE END
OF DANIEL 2, THAT'S THE END
00:24:51.53\00:24:53.93
OF THE BOOK, RIGHT?
00:24:53.93\00:24:55.53
NO.
00:24:55.53\00:24:56.53
HE COVERS THE PANORAMA OF
THE WORLD'S KINGDOMS THROUGH
00:24:56.53\00:24:58.93
THIS ONE VISION.
00:24:58.93\00:25:00.30
SAYS, "NOW I'M GONNA SHOW YOU
THE SAME TIME PERIOD, BUT I'M
00:25:00.30\00:25:03.83
GONNA USE ANOTHER VISION.
00:25:03.83\00:25:05.16
I'M GONNA GO AROUND THIS SIDE
AND NOW WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT
00:25:05.16\00:25:07.73
A GOAT AND A RAM.
00:25:07.73\00:25:08.66
AND THEN WE'RE GONNA GO OVER
HERE, WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT
00:25:08.66\00:25:10.66
A LION AND A
LEOPARD AND A BEAR."
00:25:10.66\00:25:12.66
AND BACKING UP AND COVERING
A LOT OF THE SAME TERRITORY IN
00:25:12.66\00:25:16.03
LAYERS SO THERE'S NO
QUESTION ABOUT WHAT IT'S SAYING.
00:25:16.03\00:25:19.63
AND LET'S FACE IT, SOME OF
US LIKE TO THINK ABOUT IT IN
00:25:19.63\00:25:22.63
THE METALS.
00:25:22.63\00:25:23.63
WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TANGIBLE.
00:25:23.63\00:25:24.60
WE LIKE THE MINERALS.
00:25:24.60\00:25:26.06
WE LIKE DANIEL 2.
00:25:26.06\00:25:28.66
SOME OF US, WE LIKE ANIMALS.
00:25:28.66\00:25:30.36
WE LIKE TO THINK
ABOUT THE LION AND THE BEAR.
00:25:30.36\00:25:33.56
GOD GIVES IT ALL IN DIFFERENT
PICTURES SO THAT IF YOU DON'T
00:25:33.56\00:25:37.50
GET IT ONE TIME AROUND,
YOU MIGHT GET IT ANOTHER
00:25:37.50\00:25:39.56
TIME AROUND.
00:25:39.56\00:25:41.13
AND SO IT APPEALS TO EVERYBODY.
00:25:41.13\00:25:44.03
AND SO WHEN YOU'RE READING
THROUGH REVELATION, IT IS NOT
00:25:44.03\00:25:46.33
WRITTEN SEQUENTIALLY.
00:25:46.33\00:25:47.40
SO MY HEART BREAKS FOR THESE
DEAR PEOPLE THAT GET TO CHAPTER
00:25:47.40\00:25:49.70
FOUR AND SAY,
"THAT'S ALL IN THE FUTURE.
00:25:49.70\00:25:52.33
I DON'T KNOW
WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN."
00:25:52.33\00:25:54.30
AND THEY
CAN'T--THEY'RE MISSING SO MUCH.
00:25:54.30\00:25:57.30
I'D LIKE TO STUDY REVELATION
17 WITH THOSE PEOPLE 'CAUSE YOU
00:25:57.30\00:26:01.00
CAN'T READ THAT
WITHOUT SAYING, "WOW."
00:26:01.00\00:26:03.43
OR REVELATION 12.
00:26:03.43\00:26:04.53
IT FITS PERFECTLY WITH HISTORY.
00:26:04.53\00:26:06.73
HOW CAN THEY MISS IT?
00:26:06.73\00:26:09.10
MUCH OF IT PAST HISTORY.
00:26:09.10\00:26:12.10
AND SO A LOT OF DEAR PEOPLE
SAY COME UP--ALL HE'S DOING,
00:26:12.10\00:26:15.26
HE SAID, "LOOK, I'VE SHOWN
YOU THINGS THAT ARE RELATING
00:26:15.26\00:26:17.53
ON EARTH.
00:26:17.53\00:26:18.60
NOW I'M GONNA TAKE YOU OFF INTO
HEAVEN AND I'M GONNA GIVE YOU
00:26:18.60\00:26:20.80
A VISION OF HOW HEAVEN IS
DEALING WITH WHAT'S HAPPENING
00:26:20.80\00:26:23.66
WITH THE CHURCH ON EARTH."
00:26:23.66\00:26:25.13
AND ALL OF A SUDDEN HE'S
BROUGHT INTO THIS THRONE VIEW
00:26:25.13\00:26:29.50
IN HEAVEN.
00:26:29.50\00:26:30.96
"I LOOKED, AND,
BEHOLD, A DOOR STANDING OPEN."
00:26:30.96\00:26:34.13
HE SAYS, "I'LL SHOW
YOU THINGS THAT MUST COME."
00:26:34.13\00:26:36.36
"AND I WAS IN THE SPIRIT AND
I BEHELD A THRONE SET IN HEAVEN,
00:26:36.36\00:26:40.73
AND ONE SAT ON THE THRONE."
00:26:40.73\00:26:41.96
WHY IS HE IN THE SPIRIT?
00:26:41.96\00:26:43.63
'CAUSE GOD'S A SPIRIT
AND ANGELS ARE MINISTERING
00:26:43.63\00:26:46.56
SPIRITS.
00:26:46.56\00:26:47.53
HE'S SURROUNDED WITH SPIRITUAL
THINGS, SO HE HAS TO BE
00:26:47.53\00:26:49.56
IN THE SPIRIT.
00:26:49.56\00:26:50.60
THAT'S--SO, BEFORE HE'S ON
THE ISLE OF PATMOS AND HE'S KIND
00:26:50.60\00:26:53.06
OF LOOKING ACROSS THE AEGEAN
SEA AND GOD IS SHOWING HIM THIS
00:26:53.06\00:26:56.26
VISION OF JESUS AMONG
HIS CHURCHES ON EARTH.
00:26:56.26\00:26:58.53
NOW HE'S SHOWING HIM
JESUS INTERCEDING IN HEAVEN.
00:26:58.53\00:27:02.00
AND SO THAT'S ALL
THAT'S MEANT THERE.
00:27:02.00\00:27:05.10
AND IT TELLS US, "I SAW
A THRONE, AND ONE SAT ON
00:27:05.10\00:27:10.96
THE THRONE.
00:27:10.96\00:27:11.96
AND HE THAT SAT WAS LIKE JASPER
AND SARDIUS IN APPEARANCE, AND
00:27:11.96\00:27:15.66
A RAINBOW AROUND HIS THRONE."
00:27:15.66\00:27:17.16
HE BEGINS TO DESCRIBE GOD
THE FATHER ON HIS THRONE AND GOD
00:27:17.16\00:27:20.96
THE SON IS
DESCRIBED IN THE SAME CHAPTER.
00:27:20.96\00:27:23.33
YOU GO TO DANIEL.
00:27:23.33\00:27:24.56
THERE'S ONLY A COUPLE PLACES
IN THE BIBLE YOU FIND GOD THE
00:27:24.56\00:27:27.33
FATHER AND THE SON AND
IT TALKS ABOUT TWO THRONES.
00:27:27.33\00:27:31.13
IN DANIEL 7 HAS THAT IN
THAT GREAT JUDGMENT SCENE.
00:27:31.13\00:27:35.13
"I SAW THE ANCIENT OF DAYS
AND ONE LIKE THE SON OF MAN
00:27:35.13\00:27:37.50
WAS BROUGHT BEFORE HIM."
00:27:37.50\00:27:38.83
WHO'S THE SON OF MAN?
00:27:38.83\00:27:40.86
JESUS.
00:27:40.86\00:27:41.93
THEN WHO'S THE ANCIENT OF DAYS?
00:27:41.93\00:27:43.43
MUST BE GOD THE FATHER.
00:27:43.43\00:27:45.23
SO HERE YOU'VE GOT THIS PICTURE
OF THESE THRONES IN HEAVEN.
00:27:45.23\00:27:48.66
AND THEN IT TALKS ABOUT AROUND
THE THRONE OF GOD YOU'VE GOT
00:27:48.66\00:27:51.36
THESE CREATURES.
00:27:51.36\00:27:53.46
YOU'VE GOT THESE FOUR
BEASTS AROUND THE THRONE OF GOD
00:27:53.46\00:27:58.16
IN REVELATION 4.
00:27:58.16\00:28:01.86
REVELATION 4, IT SAYS, "AND
THE FIRST BEAST WAS LIKE A LION.
00:28:01.86\00:28:06.40
THE SECOND
BEAST WAS LIKE A CALF.
00:28:06.40\00:28:08.66
THE THIRD HAD THE FACE OF A MAN.
00:28:08.66\00:28:10.90
THE FOURTH WAS
FLYING LIKE AN EAGLE."
00:28:10.90\00:28:14.06
NOW, YOU KNOW, THAT'S EXACTLY
LIKE WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO FIND
00:28:14.06\00:28:16.26
IN EZEKIEL 1:10.
00:28:16.26\00:28:19.20
TO UNDERSTAND
REVELATION, YOU GOT TO GO BACK.
00:28:19.20\00:28:21.53
EZEKIEL 1:10.
00:28:21.53\00:28:22.93
"THE LIKENESS OF THEIR
FACES, FOR THEY HAD FOUR FACES,
00:28:22.93\00:28:25.56
OF A MAN, THE FACE OF A LION.
00:28:25.56\00:28:28.13
THEY HAD--THE FOUR, THEY
HAD THE FACE OF AN OX, THE FACE
00:28:28.13\00:28:31.43
OF AN EAGLE."
00:28:31.43\00:28:32.83
SO THERE'S A CONSISTENCY HERE.
00:28:32.83\00:28:34.50
EZEKIEL MAKES IT SOUND LIKE
THERE'S FOUR CREATURES AND EACH
00:28:34.50\00:28:36.63
ONE HAS FOUR FACES.
00:28:36.63\00:28:38.03
AND IN JOHN, MAKES IT SOUND
LIKE THERE'S FOUR CREATURES
00:28:38.03\00:28:40.63
AND EACH ONE HAS ONE
FACE, BUT THEY'RE ALL DIFFERENT.
00:28:40.63\00:28:44.10
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
00:28:44.10\00:28:45.90
IS GOD SURROUNDED WITH
ALL THESE STRANGE, ALIEN-LIKE
00:28:45.90\00:28:51.13
CREATURES IN HEAVEN?
00:28:51.13\00:28:53.50
FIRST OF ALL, JESUS APPEARS IN
CHAPTER ONE WITH A SWORD COMING
00:28:53.50\00:28:56.33
OUT OF HIS HEAD.
00:28:56.33\00:28:59.50
IS JESUS GOING TO COME AND
YOU'RE GOING TO SEE HIM, HE'S
00:28:59.50\00:29:03.73
HOLDING A SICKLE AND HE'S GOT
A SWORD COMING OUT OF HIS MOUTH?
00:29:03.73\00:29:06.20
HOLDING A SICKLE MEANS
HE'S HARVESTING THE EARTH.
00:29:06.20\00:29:08.80
WHAT DOES THE SWORD REPRESENT?
00:29:08.80\00:29:10.66
USE THE BIBLE.
00:29:10.66\00:29:11.70
HEBREWS 4, "THE WORD OF GOD IS
QUICK AND POWERFUL AND SHARPER
00:29:11.70\00:29:14.20
THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD."
00:29:14.20\00:29:17.03
EPHESIANS 6, "THE WORD OF
GOD--THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT
00:29:17.03\00:29:20.86
WHICH IS THE WORD OF GOD."
00:29:20.86\00:29:22.16
SO NO QUESTION ABOUT
WHAT THAT SWORD REPRESENTS.
00:29:22.16\00:29:24.30
IN HIS MOUTH, WHAT
WAS IN THE MOUTH OF JESUS?
00:29:24.30\00:29:26.53
THE WORD OF GOD.
00:29:26.53\00:29:28.56
SO WHEN WE GO UP TO SAY HI TO
JESUS IN HEAVEN AND WE TRY AND
00:29:28.56\00:29:32.20
GIVE HIM A HUG, WE'RE GONNA
HAVE TO DODGE A SWORD STICKING
00:29:32.20\00:29:34.73
OUT OF HIS HEAD?
00:29:34.73\00:29:37.13
OR IS THAT A SYMBOL?
00:29:37.13\00:29:38.20
SO, SO MANY OF THESE IMAGES
AND CREATURES YOU'RE SEEING,
00:29:38.20\00:29:41.33
YOU SAY, "WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?"
00:29:41.33\00:29:42.60
ALL RIGHT, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF
WHEN YOU THINK OF A LION IN THE
00:29:42.60\00:29:48.30
BIBLE?
00:29:48.30\00:29:50.66
WELL, LION REPRESENTS--JESUS
IS CALLED THE LION OF THE TRIBE
00:29:50.66\00:29:53.93
OF JUDAH.
00:29:53.93\00:29:55.63
A LION IS A PICTURE
OF STRENGTH IN THE BIBLE.
00:29:55.63\00:29:58.33
IT'S A PICTURE OF
MAJESTY AND OF POWER.
00:29:58.33\00:30:03.40
AND YOU THINK ABOUT AN
EAGLE, IT REPRESENTS SWIFTNESS.
00:30:03.40\00:30:08.03
GOD SAYS, "I BORE YOU ON
MY WINGS AS AN EAGLE DOES HER
00:30:08.03\00:30:10.66
YOUNG."
00:30:10.66\00:30:11.70
EAGLES, THEIR SIGHT.
00:30:11.70\00:30:12.73
THEY CAN SEE.
00:30:12.73\00:30:13.63
THEY'RE LIKE ALL-SEEING.
00:30:13.63\00:30:14.63
NOTHING ESCAPES AN EAGLE.
00:30:14.63\00:30:15.66
IT SEES EVERYTHING HAPPENING.
00:30:15.66\00:30:17.40
AN EAGLE UP ON HIS SPOT, HE
CAN LOOK ALL THE WAY AROUND HIM
00:30:17.40\00:30:20.06
AND SEE.
00:30:20.06\00:30:21.16
THEN YOU'VE GOT A CALF.
00:30:21.16\00:30:22.30
THESE WERE HUMBLE CREATURES.
00:30:22.30\00:30:23.43
THEY WERE ANIMALS OF SACRIFICE.
00:30:23.43\00:30:25.36
THEY WOULD LABOR.
00:30:25.36\00:30:27.33
AND THEN YOU'VE GOT A MAN
AND ALL THE DIGNITY OF MAN MADE
00:30:27.33\00:30:29.36
IN GOD'S IMAGE.
00:30:29.36\00:30:30.90
YOU KNOW, THE BEST EXPLANATION
I'VE HEARD OF THESE FOUR
00:30:30.90\00:30:33.40
CREATURES, THEY REPRESENT
DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF WHO
00:30:33.40\00:30:36.83
GOD IS.
00:30:36.83\00:30:37.73
YOU NOTICE THEY'RE
AROUND THE THRONE OF GOD.
00:30:37.73\00:30:39.80
THEY'RE TELLING US SOMETHING
ABOUT GOD AND HIS CHARACTER.
00:30:39.80\00:30:44.16
THE FOUR GOSPELS I'VE
HEARD IDENTIFIED WITH THESE FOUR
00:30:44.16\00:30:46.90
CREATURES.
00:30:46.90\00:30:48.23
WHY DID GOD GIVE US
FOUR DIFFERENT GOSPELS?
00:30:48.23\00:30:51.80
SAME STORY, ALL A
LITTLE PERSPECTIVE.
00:30:51.80\00:30:55.36
I HAVE HEARD MARK
COMPARED TO THE EAGLE.
00:30:55.36\00:30:58.40
IT IS THE QUICK GOSPEL.
00:30:58.40\00:31:02.26
HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED, YOU READ
THE BOOK OF MARK, HOW OFTEN IT
00:31:02.26\00:31:05.03
WILL SAY, "AND
IMMEDIATELY, AND STRAIGHTAWAY"?
00:31:05.03\00:31:08.10
IT IS YOUR SUMMARY.
00:31:08.10\00:31:09.86
IT IS MOVING BANG, BANG,
BANG, BANG, BANG, VERY FAST.
00:31:09.86\00:31:12.53
BY THE WAY, IT'S
THE SHORTEST GOSPEL.
00:31:12.53\00:31:14.66
GETS RIGHT TO THE POINT.
00:31:14.66\00:31:15.80
IT'S THE EAGLE VIEW.
00:31:15.80\00:31:17.10
THEN YOU GOT THE BOOK OF
MATTHEW, WHICH IS THE LION.
00:31:17.10\00:31:21.70
IN THE BOOK OF MATTHEW, JESUS
IS SHOWN TO BE THE MESSIAH,
00:31:21.70\00:31:25.33
THE KING, THE LION
OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH.
00:31:25.33\00:31:28.63
ALL THROUGH THE BOOK,
IT'S REFERRING BACK TO
00:31:28.63\00:31:30.83
THE PROPHECIES THAT
PROVE JESUS WAS THE KING.
00:31:30.83\00:31:34.20
IN THE BOOK OF LUKE,
WHAT WAS LUKE'S OCCUPATION?
00:31:34.20\00:31:37.96
HE'S A DOCTOR.
00:31:37.96\00:31:39.33
JESUS IS PORTRAYED AS THE SON
OF MAN AND HE OFTEN HAS A MORE
00:31:39.33\00:31:45.03
HUMAN PERSPECTIVE IN LUKE.
00:31:45.03\00:31:47.40
AND THEN IN JOHN, JESUS
IS SHOWN TO BE THE GREAT
00:31:47.40\00:31:49.86
SACRIFICE, THE
LAMB OF GOD OR THE CALF.
00:31:49.86\00:31:52.60
AND SO EACH ONE OF 'EM IS GIVING
THESE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES.
00:31:52.60\00:31:56.36
NOW I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE EVER
HEARD THIS BEFORE, BUT IT GOES
00:31:56.36\00:31:59.90
ALL THE WAY BACK TO ARISTOTLE
THAT PEOPLE ARE DIVIDED UP INTO
00:31:59.90\00:32:03.93
FOUR PRIMARY CHARACTERISTICS.
00:32:03.93\00:32:07.53
AND MOST PSYCHOLOGISTS REALLY
AGREE WITH THIS PRINCIPLE.
00:32:07.53\00:32:13.36
YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD IT BEFORE.
00:32:13.36\00:32:17.56
MELANCHOLY, SANGUINE,
PHLEGMATIC, AND CHOLERIC.
00:32:17.56\00:32:23.50
NOW IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT WORD
YOU USE AND I'M NOT--THERE'S
00:32:23.50\00:32:26.26
NOTHING SACRED
ABOUT THOSE TERMS.
00:32:26.26\00:32:28.60
PEOPLE TYPICALLY ARE DIVIDED
AMONG FOUR MAJOR CATEGORY
00:32:28.60\00:32:33.46
PERSONALITY GROUPS THAT
CAN HAVE DIFFERENT BREAK UP.
00:32:33.46\00:32:38.26
AND SOME ARE KIND OF A MIXING
OF ALL THOSE THINGS, BUT WE'VE
00:32:38.26\00:32:40.90
ALL KNOWN PEOPLE THAT
HAVE THESE DIFFERENT EMPHASIS
00:32:40.90\00:32:43.60
IN THEIR CHARACTER.
00:32:43.60\00:32:44.93
WHO'S GOING TO LIVE
IN THE NEW JERUSALEM?
00:32:44.93\00:32:47.53
CHURCH.
00:32:47.53\00:32:49.03
CHURCH IS COMPOSED OF
HOW MANY APOSTLES WERE THERE?
00:32:49.03\00:32:52.96
TWELVE.
00:32:52.96\00:32:54.13
HOW MANY GATES ON EACH WALL?
00:32:54.13\00:32:57.03
EACH WALL HAS 3
GATES, 12 TOTAL, RIGHT?
00:32:57.03\00:33:00.63
AND IT'S KIND OF
TELLING US THAT WE'RE ALL SORT
00:33:00.63\00:33:02.83
OF A COMPOSITE.
00:33:02.83\00:33:04.20
ON THE BREASTPLATE OF THE
HIGH PRIEST, JESUS APPEARS AS
00:33:04.20\00:33:07.30
THE HIGH PRIEST IN REVELATION
1, THERE WERE 12 STONES.
00:33:07.30\00:33:10.73
AND WERE THEY ALL THE SAME?
00:33:10.73\00:33:12.60
WERE THREE OF 'EM THE SAME?
00:33:12.60\00:33:15.56
YOU WEREN'T SO SURE.
00:33:15.56\00:33:16.70
NO TWO OF THEM ARE THE SAME.
00:33:16.70\00:33:18.90
ARE THEY ALL PRECIOUS?
00:33:18.90\00:33:20.36
THEY ARE.
00:33:20.36\00:33:21.46
THEY'RE ALL DIFFERENT.
00:33:21.46\00:33:23.46
GOD'S CHURCH--HE'S NOT A COOKIE
CUTTER UP IN THE SKY WHERE
00:33:23.46\00:33:26.26
ALL OF YOU HAVE TO
ACT EXACTLY THE SAME.
00:33:26.26\00:33:29.10
WE ALL HAVE A LITTLE DIFFERENT
PERSONALITY AND DIFFERENT GIFTS
00:33:29.10\00:33:31.50
THAT ALL MUST BE
SANCTIFIED BY CHRIST.
00:33:31.50\00:33:36.13
YOU KNOW HOW MANY DIFFERENT
COMBINATIONS YOU CAN GET
00:33:36.13\00:33:38.43
WHEN YOU'VE GOT 12 TIMES 12?
00:33:38.43\00:33:41.30
A HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR.
00:33:41.30\00:33:42.96
WE'RE ALL UNIQUE.
00:33:42.96\00:33:45.33
YOU CAN PROBABLY
GET 144,000 OUT OF THAT.
00:33:45.33\00:33:48.76
ANYWAY, SO YOU GET THESE FOUR
CREATURES AROUND GOD'S THRONE
00:33:48.76\00:33:52.56
AND NOW THEY'RE--IN THE MIDDLE
OF THIS VISION, IT TALKS ABOUT
00:33:52.56\00:33:56.56
THERE'S THIS SCROLL THAT
APPEARS THAT HAS SEVEN SEALS
00:33:56.56\00:34:01.60
ON IT.
00:34:01.60\00:34:02.66
IT'S A MYSTERY
SCROLL WITH SEVEN SEALS.
00:34:02.66\00:34:05.43
AND THEY'RE WONDERING WHO'S
GOING TO BE ABLE TO OPEN IT.
00:34:05.43\00:34:08.36
OH, BY THE WAY, YOU
KNOW WHAT I JUMPED PAST?
00:34:08.36\00:34:11.06
I FORGOT TO TALK ABOUT THE
24 ELDERS AROUND THE THRONE.
00:34:11.06\00:34:13.53
I KNEW THIS WAS GONNA
TAKE LONGER THAN I THOUGHT.
00:34:13.53\00:34:17.03
WHERE'D THEY COME FROM?
00:34:17.03\00:34:18.90
TWENTY-FOUR ELDERS.
00:34:18.90\00:34:21.53
I THOUGHT THAT YOU DON'T
GET TO HEAVEN TILL YOU DIE AND
00:34:21.53\00:34:24.20
YOU'RE--THE RESURRECTION
TAKES PLACE, AND YET YOU GET
00:34:24.20\00:34:26.43
24 ELDERS AND
THEY SEEM TO BE HUMAN.
00:34:26.43\00:34:29.43
WELL, FOR ONE THING, WHEN JESUS
DIED AND ROSE, DOESN'T IT SAY
00:34:29.43\00:34:32.63
THERE IN MATTHEW 28, "AND
MANY OF THE GRAVES OF THEM THAT
00:34:32.63\00:34:35.83
SLEPT WERE OPENED AND
THEY AROSE AND THEY APPEARED
00:34:35.83\00:34:40.66
TO MANY."
00:34:40.66\00:34:41.70
AND SO THIS CAN BE SOME OF THE
FIRST FRUITS OF THE PEOPLE THAT
00:34:41.70\00:34:44.00
CAME WITH CHRIST TO HEAVEN.
00:34:44.00\00:34:45.96
WHY 24?
00:34:45.96\00:34:48.03
HAVE YOU READ IN THE
BIBLE THAT--IT SAYS HERE IN
00:34:48.03\00:34:50.70
REVELATION WE ARE TO BE A
NATION OF KINGS AND PRIESTS.
00:34:50.70\00:34:54.66
BY THE WAY, PLEASE REMEMBER
THIS, TO UNDERSTAND REVELATION,
00:34:54.66\00:34:58.43
A LOT OF IT IS
WRITTEN IN THE CONTEXT
00:34:58.43\00:35:00.76
OF THE GREAT EXODUS.
00:35:00.76\00:35:01.96
THE EXODUS WAS THE
HISTORY OF THE ISRAELITES.
00:35:01.96\00:35:05.13
IT WAS THE BACKDROP FOR
EVERYTHING THEY BELIEVED IN,
00:35:05.13\00:35:08.00
THAT GOD HAD CALLED
THEM HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE.
00:35:08.00\00:35:10.66
THE WHOLE EXODUS EXPERIENCE,
GOD IN THEIR MIDST, THE TEN
00:35:10.66\00:35:13.10
COMMANDMENTS, THE COVENANT,
THE DELIVERANCE FROM SLAVERY,
00:35:13.10\00:35:16.46
IT'S ALL SALVATION, ISN'T IT?
00:35:16.46\00:35:18.80
WELL, GOD SAYS HE CALLED
THEM IN EXODUS TO BE A NATION OF
00:35:18.80\00:35:21.40
KINGS AND PRIESTS.
00:35:21.40\00:35:22.93
AND BY THE WAY, THE TEN PLAGUES
THAT FELL ON THE EGYPTIANS, DO
00:35:22.93\00:35:26.10
YOU FIND SEVEN PLAGUES THAT
ARE VERY SIMILAR IN REVELATION?
00:35:26.10\00:35:29.70
KNOWING EXODUS IS GONNA
HELP YOU UNDERSTAND REVELATION.
00:35:29.70\00:35:33.83
THERE'S A LOT OF SIMILARITY.
00:35:33.83\00:35:35.80
WELL, YOU READ IN 1
CHRONICLES 23, IT TALKS
00:35:35.80\00:35:40.00
ABOUT 24,000 WERE
APPOINTED TO WORK IN THE HOUSE
00:35:40.00\00:35:45.03
OF THE LORD.
00:35:45.03\00:35:46.66
THERE WAS A CIRCUIT OF 24,000
PRIESTS DURING THE TIME OF
00:35:46.66\00:35:49.76
DAVID AND SOLOMON THAT WORKED
IN THE TEMPLE, THE LEVITES,
00:35:49.76\00:35:53.73
THAT ROTATED.
00:35:53.73\00:35:55.03
AND DAVID HAD AN
ARMY, 1 CHRONICLES 27:1.
00:35:55.03\00:36:00.13
"THE DIVISIONS CAME IN AND WENT
OUT MONTH BY MONTH THROUGHOUT,
00:36:00.13\00:36:02.90
EACH DIVISION HAVING 24,000."
00:36:02.90\00:36:06.06
SO YOU'VE GOT 24,000 AMONG
THE PRIESTS AND 24,000 AMONG
00:36:06.06\00:36:09.30
THE OFFICERS AND THE MILITARY.
00:36:09.30\00:36:13.76
PRIESTS AND KINGS.
00:36:13.76\00:36:16.40
BY THE WAY, JESUS
APPEARS IN REVELATION AS A KING
00:36:16.40\00:36:19.36
AND A PRIEST.
00:36:19.36\00:36:20.76
CAN YOU THINK OF ANOTHER
KING-PRIEST IN THE BIBLE?
00:36:20.76\00:36:24.26
MELCHIZEDEK.
00:36:24.26\00:36:25.86
IT SAYS THERE'S THIS
KING AND THIS PRIEST.
00:36:25.86\00:36:28.53
HE APPEARS OUT OF
NOWHERE AND HE DISAPPEARS.
00:36:28.53\00:36:30.56
DOESN'T TELL WHEN HE'S
BORN, WHO HIS PEOPLE ARE.
00:36:30.56\00:36:32.56
DOESN'T TELL WHEN HE DIED
AND WHERE HE WENT OR WHERE
00:36:32.56\00:36:34.50
HE'S BURIED.
00:36:34.50\00:36:35.53
WITHOUT BEGINNING OR END, HE'S
A TYPE OF CHRIST FROM ETERNITY
00:36:35.53\00:36:38.60
TO ETERNITY.
00:36:38.60\00:36:39.90
MELCHIZEDEK, THE KING
AND PRIEST, WHO APPEARS THERE
00:36:39.90\00:36:42.30
IN GENESIS 14:18.
00:36:42.30\00:36:46.03
THE KING OF SALEM.
00:36:46.03\00:36:47.86
SALEM WAS THE
ABBREVIATED FORM OF JERUSALEM.
00:36:47.86\00:36:51.56
SALEM MEANS PEACE.
00:36:51.56\00:36:52.60
JERU-SHALOM.
00:36:52.60\00:36:56.36
THIS KING-PRIEST AND HE'S
THE--MELCHIZEDEK MEANS KING OF.
00:36:56.36\00:37:01.46
MELCHI--MEL MEANS KING.
00:37:01.46\00:37:03.63
DEZEK, RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:37:03.63\00:37:05.13
KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHO
IS THE PRIEST AND THE KING,
00:37:05.13\00:37:10.13
KING-PRIEST OF THE MOST
HIGH GOD, WHOM ABRAHAM EVEN GAVE
00:37:10.13\00:37:13.83
TITHE TO.
00:37:13.83\00:37:15.06
AND IT SAYS HE
BROUGHT OUT BREAD AND WINE.
00:37:15.06\00:37:19.06
WHAT DOES JESUS DO AT THE
LAST SUPPER, OUR KING-PRIEST?
00:37:19.06\00:37:22.56
MAKES A COVENANT WITH US.
00:37:22.56\00:37:23.73
WHAT ARE THE
EMBLEMS OF THE COVENANT.
00:37:23.73\00:37:25.53
BREAD AND WINE.
00:37:25.53\00:37:27.03
HAD GRAPE JUICE AND THAT BREAD.
00:37:27.03\00:37:28.33
THAT'S JUST FANTASTIC.
00:37:28.33\00:37:30.00
AND SO ALL OF
THIS IS ACCOMPANIED.
00:37:30.00\00:37:32.23
THE 24 ELDERS--WELL, THERE'S
2 SETS OF 24 IN THE BIBLE, IN
00:37:32.23\00:37:36.90
THE LEADERS AND IN THE PRIESTS.
00:37:36.90\00:37:41.06
AND SO KINGS AND PRIESTS.
00:37:41.06\00:37:42.53
ALL RIGHT, NOW I CAN
GO TO THE SEVEN SCROLLS.
00:37:42.53\00:37:46.00
NOW YOU'VE GOT THESE--THIS
SCROLL THAT APPEARS HERE
00:37:46.00\00:37:49.10
IN REVELATION 6.
00:37:49.10\00:37:52.80
AND THERE'S A LOT OF CONCERN
BECAUSE IT'S IN THE RIGHT HAND.
00:37:52.80\00:37:57.06
RIGHT HAND IN THE
BIBLE A SYMBOL OF FAVOR.
00:37:57.06\00:38:00.23
BUT NOBODY IS FOUND
WORTHY TO OPEN THE SCROLL.
00:38:00.23\00:38:04.90
AND SO THERE'S A
GREAT CONSTERNATION IN JOHN.
00:38:04.90\00:38:07.96
IT SAYS, "HE WEPT MUCH."
00:38:07.96\00:38:10.46
THIS IS HE--YOU EVER JUST
BEEN DREAMING, ALL OF A SUDDEN
00:38:10.46\00:38:14.03
SOMETHING HAPPENS IN YOUR DREAM.
00:38:14.03\00:38:15.83
YOU CAN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND
WHY, BUT YOU'RE OVERCOME WITH
00:38:15.83\00:38:17.70
A SADNESS, A PROFOUND
SADNESS IN YOUR DREAM.
00:38:17.70\00:38:22.06
AND I'VE WOKE UP BEFORE WHEN
I JUST GET THIS TREMENDOUS SENSE
00:38:22.06\00:38:25.96
OF SADNESS.
00:38:25.96\00:38:26.93
I ALMOST FELT LIKE SOBBING.
00:38:26.93\00:38:28.60
AND JOHN JUST REALIZED, "IF
THIS SCROLL CANNOT BE OPENED,
00:38:28.60\00:38:31.76
THE WORLD IS DOOMED."
00:38:31.76\00:38:35.43
AND THERE'S A GREAT SOBBING
BECAUSE THIS SCROLL NOT ONLY
00:38:35.43\00:38:39.86
UNFOLDS THE FUTURE--BY THE WAY,
DO YOU KNOW HOW YOU AND I LIVE?
00:38:39.86\00:38:45.26
IN THE FUTURE.
00:38:45.26\00:38:46.66
IF I WERE TO TELL YOU YOU'RE
GOING TO DO ALL YOUR LIVING
00:38:46.66\00:38:48.73
RIGHT NOW IN THE PRESENT, THAT
MEANS YOUR LIFE'S OVER AS SOON
00:38:48.73\00:38:51.56
AS THE PRESENT GOES BY.
00:38:51.56\00:38:54.36
IF YOU DON'T HAVE A
FUTURE, YOU DON'T HAVE LIFE.
00:38:54.36\00:38:56.96
DOES THAT--AM I
GOING-- AM I CONFUSING YOU?
00:38:56.96\00:39:01.73
ARE YOU AWARE THAT IN 2 DAYS,
TOMORROW WILL BE YESTERDAY?
00:39:01.73\00:39:09.86
NOW THAT'S
PRETTY DEEP, ISN'T IT?
00:39:09.86\00:39:14.16
YOU WITH ME?
00:39:14.16\00:39:17.36
THIS SCROLL IS A
SCROLL OF PROPHECY.
00:39:17.36\00:39:20.43
PROPHECY IS ABOUT THE FUTURE.
00:39:20.43\00:39:22.33
IT'S ABOUT LIFE.
00:39:22.33\00:39:24.33
IT'S ABOUT ETERNAL LIFE.
00:39:24.33\00:39:26.50
AND IF GOD CAN'T OPEN
THIS, IF NO ONE CAN OPEN THIS,
00:39:26.50\00:39:29.26
WE HAVE NO FUTURE.
00:39:29.26\00:39:31.13
SOME HAVE COMPARED IT WITH
THE BOOK OF LIFE, BUT TO BE
00:39:31.13\00:39:33.46
MORE ACCURATE IT'S
REALLY ABOUT PROPHECY.
00:39:33.46\00:39:36.06
YOU READ IN ISAIAH 29
ABOUT ANOTHER SCROLL THAT
00:39:36.06\00:39:38.43
CAN'T BE OPENED.
00:39:38.43\00:39:40.26
IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND
REVELATION, THE RULES ARE CAN'T
00:39:40.26\00:39:43.36
MAKE UP YOUR INTERPRETATIONS.
00:39:43.36\00:39:44.90
I'VE HEARD SOME PREACHERS,
THEY JUST SAY, "I THINK
00:39:44.90\00:39:46.83
IT MEANS THIS."
00:39:46.83\00:39:47.80
AND YOU THINK,
"WHERE'D HE GET THAT?"
00:39:47.80\00:39:49.66
'CAUSE THAT'S
HOW WE FELT THAT DAY.
00:39:49.66\00:39:51.63
THAT'S NOT FAIR.
00:39:51.63\00:39:52.53
YOU CAN'T DO THAT.
00:39:52.53\00:39:53.46
WE'LL ALL HAVE
DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS.
00:39:53.46\00:39:55.43
THEY'RE CALLED
PRIVATE INTERPRETATIONS.
00:39:55.43\00:39:57.46
THEY'RE DEADLY.
00:39:57.46\00:39:58.50
LET THE BIBLE INTERPRET ITSELF.
00:39:58.50\00:39:59.46
FIND ANOTHER SCROLL IN THE
BIBLE THAT'S SEALED AND YOU'LL
00:39:59.46\00:40:02.90
START TO GET THE CLUES.
00:40:02.90\00:40:03.93
ISAIAH 29:11-12.
00:40:03.93\00:40:06.76
"THE WHOLE VISION HAS BECOME
TO YOU LIKE THE WORDS OF A BOOK
00:40:06.76\00:40:10.40
THAT IS SEALED."
00:40:10.40\00:40:11.73
HE'S TALKING ABOUT
A VISION, A PROPHECY.
00:40:11.73\00:40:15.00
"WHICH MEN DELIVER
TO ONE WHO'S LITERATE."
00:40:15.00\00:40:17.10
THIS PERSON CAN READ.
00:40:17.10\00:40:18.13
"AND THEY SAY,
'READ THIS PLEASE.'
00:40:18.13\00:40:20.10
HE SAYS, 'I CAN'T
BECAUSE IT'S SEALED.'"
00:40:20.10\00:40:22.03
WELL, THERE'S ONE PERSON,
HE SAYS, "I WON'T READ IT
00:40:22.03\00:40:24.00
'CAUSE IT'S SEALED."
00:40:24.00\00:40:24.93
THEN THEY GO TO ANOTHER
GUY WHO'S ILLITERATE AND SAY,
00:40:24.93\00:40:26.83
"PLEASE READ THIS."
00:40:26.83\00:40:27.53
HE SAYS, "WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME?
00:40:27.53\00:40:29.36
I CAN'T EVEN READ."
00:40:29.36\00:40:30.60
SO HERE THEY'RE MAKING
ALL THESE EXCUSES FOR SAYING,
00:40:30.60\00:40:32.73
"WE CAN'T--WE HAVE NO
POWER TO OPEN THIS SEALED BOOK."
00:40:32.73\00:40:36.43
YOU EITHER CAN'T
READ OR IT'S SEALED.
00:40:36.43\00:40:38.36
SO WE NEED
SOMEONE ELSE TO OPEN IT.
00:40:38.36\00:40:40.60
BY THE WAY, YOU READ IN
DANIEL 12:4 IF YOU WANT TO KNOW
00:40:40.60\00:40:42.96
WHAT THIS BOOK IS.
00:40:42.96\00:40:44.30
LET THE BIBLE INTERPRET ITSELF.
00:40:44.30\00:40:46.00
"BUT YOU, DANIEL, SHUT UP
THE WORDS AND SEAL THE BOOK
00:40:46.00\00:40:50.36
UNTIL THE TIME OF THE END."
00:40:50.36\00:40:53.06
NOW WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, SEAL
IT TILL THE TIME OF THE END?
00:40:53.06\00:40:55.50
DOESN'T THAT SAY THAT AT
THE TIME OF THE END IT WON'T
00:40:55.50\00:40:57.56
BE SEALED?
00:40:57.56\00:40:59.16
AT SOME POINT IT'S
GOING TO BE OPEN, WHEN?
00:40:59.16\00:41:01.20
THE TIME OF THE END
IT'S NO LONGER SEALED.
00:41:01.20\00:41:03.00
UNTIL THE TIME OF
THE END, IT IS SEALED.
00:41:03.00\00:41:05.86
AND BY THE WAY, MORE
OF REVELATION HAS COME TO
00:41:05.86\00:41:08.13
UNDERSTANDING DURING THE LAST
AGE OF THE CHURCH OF THE TIME
00:41:08.13\00:41:10.83
OF THE END THAN ANY
OTHER TIME IN HISTORY.
00:41:10.83\00:41:14.23
GREAT KNOWLEDGE.
00:41:14.23\00:41:15.33
PROPHECY'S BEST
UNDERSTOOD LOOKING BACK.
00:41:15.33\00:41:18.10
AND A LOT OF IT'S BEHIND US
AND SO IT'S BEEN UNSEALED TO
00:41:18.10\00:41:21.00
A GREAT EXTENT.
00:41:21.00\00:41:22.10
AND SO THIS IS ALSO
UNSEALING OUR FUTURE.
00:41:22.10\00:41:26.20
REVELATION 22:10.
00:41:26.20\00:41:28.00
HE SAID, "DO NOT SEAL THE WORDS
OF THE PROPHECY OF THIS BOOK."
00:41:28.00\00:41:32.46
SO IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE
BOOK OF REVELATION'S ABOUT
00:41:32.46\00:41:35.00
TO BE OPENED.
00:41:35.00\00:41:35.96
THAT'S WHAT'S SEALED
WITH THOSE SEVEN SEALS.
00:41:35.96\00:41:38.13
THE TRUTH IS ABOUT TO BE
REVEALED ABOUT SALVATION,
00:41:38.13\00:41:40.90
ABOUT GOD, ABOUT THE
BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL.
00:41:40.90\00:41:43.96
AMOS 3:7.
00:41:43.96\00:41:45.63
"SURELY THE LORD GOD
DOES NOTHING UNLESS HE REVEALS
00:41:45.63\00:41:49.06
HIS SECRET TO HIS
SERVANTS THE PROPHETS."
00:41:49.06\00:41:51.93
SO THROUGH JOHN THE PROPHET,
HE'S REVEALING HIS SECRETS
00:41:51.93\00:41:54.20
TO US.
00:41:54.20\00:41:55.36
AND SO THEN THEY SAY, "DO
NOT WEEP, JOHN, FOR THERE'S ONE
00:41:55.36\00:41:58.86
WHO CAN OPEN THE BOOK."
00:41:58.86\00:41:59.90
NOW I WANT YOU TO GO
WITH ME TO REVELATION 6.
00:41:59.90\00:42:04.00
AND HERE IT TELLS
US ABOUT WHAT HE SEES.
00:42:04.00\00:42:10.23
I'M ACTUALLY IN REVELATION 5.
00:42:10.23\00:42:16.40
HE SAID, "DON'T
WEEP," VERSE FIVE.
00:42:16.40\00:42:18.83
"ONE OF THE ELDERS
SAID, 'DO NOT WEEP.
00:42:18.83\00:42:20.73
BEHOLD, THE LION OF
THE TRIBE OF JUDAH.'"
00:42:20.73\00:42:22.73
DO WE KNOW WHAT
THAT LION REPRESENTS?
00:42:22.73\00:42:24.66
"'THE ROOT OF DAVID, HE HAS
PREVAILED TO OPEN THE SCROLL.'
00:42:24.66\00:42:28.66
" PREVAILED.
00:42:28.66\00:42:29.66
WHY PREVAILED?
00:42:29.66\00:42:30.60
MEANS THERE WAS A STRUGGLE.
00:42:30.60\00:42:32.03
HE STRUGGLED WITH THE DEVIL.
00:42:32.03\00:42:34.16
HE HAS THE RIGHT.
00:42:34.16\00:42:35.13
HE LIVED THAT SINLESS LIFE.
00:42:35.13\00:42:36.30
"'TO LOOSE ITS SEVEN SEALS.'
AND I LOOKED AND BEHOLD."
00:42:36.30\00:42:42.60
BY THE WAY, THIS IS WHY
THIS SERMON TAKES SO LONG.
00:42:42.60\00:42:45.23
I KEEP SAYING, "INCIDENTALLY."
00:42:45.23\00:42:47.06
BY THE WAY, DO YOU KNOW THERE
WAS A SEALED SCROLL THAT WAS
00:42:47.06\00:42:52.60
GIVEN TO A MAN THAT HAD
HIS OWN DEATH SENTENCE IN IT?
00:42:52.60\00:42:57.06
URIAH WAS HANDED BY DAVID
A MESSAGE GIVEN TO JOAB THAT
00:42:57.06\00:43:03.56
CONTAINED THE
DEATH SENTENCE OF URIAH.
00:43:03.56\00:43:07.40
EVEN THOUGH HE WAS INNOCENT,
HE HAD TO DIE TO COVER THE SIN
00:43:07.40\00:43:11.40
OF OTHERS.
00:43:11.40\00:43:13.80
AND HE DELIVERED HIS OWN DEATH
SENTENCE IN A SEALED SCROLL.
00:43:13.80\00:43:18.10
JESUS, THAT LAMB THAT WAS
SLAIN, IS THE ONLY ONE THAT HAD
00:43:18.10\00:43:22.20
A RIGHT TO OPEN THAT
SCROLL 'CAUSE FOR YOU AND I TO
00:43:22.20\00:43:25.56
UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS, FOR
US TO HAVE A FUTURE, FOR US TO
00:43:25.56\00:43:28.03
KNOW THE VISION, HE HAD TO
DIE TO GIVE US THIS INFORMATION.
00:43:28.03\00:43:31.53
DOES THAT SORT OF
MAKE SENSE TO YOU?
00:43:31.53\00:43:34.50
SPIRITUAL THINGS ARE
SPIRITUALLY UNDERSTOOD.
00:43:34.50\00:43:36.46
IT MADE SENSE TO ME.
00:43:36.46\00:43:38.40
"I LOOKED, AND BEHOLD, IN
THE MIDST OF THE THRONE AND OF
00:43:38.40\00:43:40.76
THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES,
AND IN THE MIDST OF THE ELDERS,
00:43:40.76\00:43:43.23
STOOD A LAMB AS
THOUGH IT HAD BEEN SLAIN."
00:43:43.23\00:43:45.86
IT STANDS, BUT
IT HAD BEEN SLAIN.
00:43:45.86\00:43:48.60
WHEN JESUS ROSE, DID HE BEAR
SCARS THAT HE HAD BEEN SLAIN?
00:43:48.60\00:43:52.76
YES, BUT HE STOOD.
00:43:52.76\00:43:55.70
"HAVING SEVEN HORNS."
00:43:55.70\00:43:58.00
HORN IN THE BIBLE
IS A SYMBOL OF POWER.
00:43:58.00\00:44:00.53
IF YOU WERE A SHEPHERD, WHEN
THEY ANOINTED A PRIEST, THEY
00:44:00.53\00:44:03.00
POURED THE OIL OUT OF A HORN.
00:44:03.00\00:44:04.43
IT MEANT THE
POWER OF THE SPIRIT.
00:44:04.43\00:44:06.93
THESE NATIONS, THESE KINGDOMS
WERE REPRESENTED AS HORNS
00:44:06.93\00:44:11.10
IN DANIEL 8.
00:44:11.10\00:44:13.56
SO HE'S GOT THE SEVEN HORNS.
00:44:13.56\00:44:14.73
HE GOT SEVEN EYES.
00:44:14.73\00:44:15.86
THAT REPRESENTS
KNOWLEDGE, KNOWING.
00:44:15.86\00:44:18.33
"WHICH ARE THE
SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD."
00:44:18.33\00:44:20.53
IN ISAIAH 11:2, IT TALKS ABOUT
THE SEVEN CHARACTERISTICS OF
00:44:20.53\00:44:23.56
GOD, THE SPIRIT SUCH AS
WISDOM AND POWER AND KNOWLEDGE.
00:44:23.56\00:44:28.20
AND YOU'LL FIND
THAT IN ISAIAH 11:2.
00:44:28.20\00:44:31.63
SO THIS IS JESUS WHO
ENCOMPASSES ALL THAT.
00:44:31.63\00:44:36.43
"THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD
SENT OUT INTO ALL THE EARTH."
00:44:36.43\00:44:39.43
THE GIFTS OF THE
SPIRIT ARE GIVEN TO ALL.
00:44:39.43\00:44:43.23
"AND HE TOOK THE SCROLL OUT OF
THE RIGHT HAND OF HIM THAT SAT
00:44:43.23\00:44:45.80
ON THE THRONE."
00:44:45.80\00:44:46.83
OKAY, NOW YOU'VE GOT JESUS
THE LAMB AND SOMEONE WHO SITS
00:44:46.83\00:44:49.00
ON THE THRONE.
00:44:49.00\00:44:50.23
CAN YOU SEE THE FATHER
AND THE SON IN THIS PICTURE?
00:44:50.23\00:44:53.00
YOU GOT THE LAMB TAKING
THE SCROLL OUT OF THE HAND
00:44:53.00\00:44:55.63
OF ONE WHO SITS ON THE THRONE.
00:44:55.63\00:44:58.86
"AND NOW WHEN HE HAD TAKEN THE
SCROLL, THE 4 LIVING CREATURES
00:44:58.86\00:45:01.16
AND THE 24 ELDERS FELL DOWN
BEFORE THE LAMB, HAVING A HARP
00:45:01.16\00:45:05.23
AND GOLDEN BOWLS FULL OF
INCENSE, WHICH ARE THE PRAYERS
00:45:05.23\00:45:08.06
OF THE SAINTS.
00:45:08.06\00:45:10.16
AND THEY SANG."
00:45:10.16\00:45:11.30
HERE YOU GOT THE INCENSE, SO
WE KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING BY THAT
00:45:11.30\00:45:13.40
ALTAR OF INCENSE IN THE TEMPLE.
00:45:13.40\00:45:14.60
"THEY SANG A NEW SONG, SAYING,
'YOU ARE WORTHY TO TAKE THE
00:45:14.60\00:45:21.06
SCROLL AND TO OPEN ITS SEALS,
FOR YOU WERE SLAIN AND YOU'VE
00:45:21.06\00:45:24.93
REDEEMED US TO GOD BY YOUR
BLOOD OUT OF EVERY TRIBE AND
00:45:24.93\00:45:30.33
TONGUE AND PEOPLE AND NATION.
00:45:30.33\00:45:32.63
AND HAVE MADE US KINGS
AND PRIESTS TO OUR GOD; AND WE
00:45:32.63\00:45:35.96
SHALL REIGN ON THE EARTH."
00:45:35.96\00:45:38.86
THERE YOU HAVE THE
KINGS AND THE PRIESTS AGAIN
00:45:38.86\00:45:41.30
THAT WE FOUND IN CHAPTER ONE.
00:45:41.30\00:45:44.06
WE ARE THE NATION OF KINGS AND
PRIEST, BUT YOU NOTICE IT'S NOT
00:45:44.06\00:45:46.60
JUST ISRAEL.
00:45:46.60\00:45:48.76
OUT OF EVERY NATION AND TONGUE.
00:45:48.76\00:45:51.66
NOW THIS WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO
THOSE THAT WERE READING BECAUSE
00:45:51.66\00:45:54.90
NOW YOU GET TO CHAPTER 7
AND IT SAYS THERE'S 12,000
00:45:54.90\00:45:58.96
OUT OF 12 TRIBES.
00:45:58.96\00:46:00.76
OH, BEFORE I GET THERE, NOW
LET'S START OPENING THE SEALS.
00:46:00.76\00:46:02.93
I'M GONNA TRY AND MAKE
IT TO CHAPTER SEVEN ANYWAY.
00:46:02.93\00:46:07.23
SO THEY FALL DOWN, THEY WORSHIP.
00:46:07.23\00:46:10.13
THEY SAY, "WORTHY IS THE LAMB."
00:46:10.13\00:46:11.16
YOU FIND THAT EXALTATION AND
PRAISE GETS MIGHTIER AND MORE
00:46:11.16\00:46:15.63
EXPANDED SEVERAL
TIMES IN REVELATION.
00:46:15.63\00:46:17.93
THE PRAISE AND THE WORSHIP
SONGS BECOME GREATER CRESCENDOS
00:46:17.93\00:46:23.10
THAN THE ONE BEFORE.
00:46:23.10\00:46:24.76
"FINALLY THEY OPENED THE SEALS.
00:46:24.76\00:46:28.03
NOW I SAW," CHAPTER SIX, VERSE
ONE, "THE LAMB OPENED ONE OF
00:46:28.03\00:46:31.86
THE SEALS, AND I HEARD ONE
OF THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES SAY
00:46:31.86\00:46:35.56
WITH ME, 'COME AND SEE.'"
SO WHEN THE SEALS ARE OPEN,
00:46:35.56\00:46:38.73
HE SEES, HE UNDERSTANDS.
00:46:38.73\00:46:40.23
IT'S A REVELATION IS WHAT'S
BEING GIVEN IN THESE SEALS.
00:46:40.23\00:46:44.53
AND HE SAID, "AND BEHOLD A
WHITE HORSE; AND ONE WHO SAT
00:46:44.53\00:46:48.53
ON IT HAD A BOW, AND A CROWN
WAS GIVEN TO HIM AND HE WENT OUT
00:46:48.53\00:46:52.96
CONQUERING, AND TO CONQUER."
00:46:52.96\00:46:55.30
NOW YOU FIND LATER IN
REVELATION A RIDER ON A WHITE
00:46:55.30\00:46:58.00
HORSE AND IT'S CHRIST,
WHO IS THE WORD OF GOD.
00:46:58.00\00:47:00.53
THIS REPRESENTS HOW THE WORD
OF GOD TRIUMPHED IN THE FIRST
00:47:00.53\00:47:03.20
CENTURIES OF THE CHURCH.
00:47:03.20\00:47:04.60
THERE'S A PARALLEL
BETWEEN THE SEVEN SEALS
00:47:04.60\00:47:07.06
AND THE SEVEN CHURCHES.
00:47:07.06\00:47:08.23
ONE IS GIVING SPIRITUAL HISTORY.
00:47:08.23\00:47:11.10
ONE IS GIVING THE
POLITICAL HISTORY.
00:47:11.10\00:47:13.26
AGAIN, A SUMMARY.
00:47:13.26\00:47:14.36
I WANT YOU TO STUDY.
00:47:14.36\00:47:15.96
THREE, "HE
OPENED THE NEXT SEAL."
00:47:15.96\00:47:18.16
NOW YOU GET THE FOUR
HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE.
00:47:18.16\00:47:20.33
HERE WE GO.
00:47:20.33\00:47:21.36
BY THE WAY, THIS IS A PICTURE
BY JOE MANISCALCO, THAT I WAS
00:47:21.36\00:47:23.43
TELLING YOU ABOUT, WHO'D WORN
OUT REVELATION IN HIS BIBLE.
00:47:23.43\00:47:25.70
AND, YOU KNOW, THIS IS
AN ARTIST'S CONCEPTION.
00:47:25.70\00:47:28.00
I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S
EXACTLY WHAT JOHN SAW.
00:47:28.00\00:47:30.30
PROBABLY NOT, BUT IT
GIVES YOU SOMETHING TO LOOK AT.
00:47:30.30\00:47:33.16
SO THEN THE NEXT ONE
YOU'VE GOT IS THIS RED HORSE.
00:47:33.16\00:47:38.16
"AND HE SAID TO HIM,
'TAKE PEACE FROM THE EARTH, THAT
00:47:38.16\00:47:40.66
THEY SHOULD KILL ONE ANOTHER.'
AND THERE WAS GIVEN HIM
00:47:40.66\00:47:43.13
A SWORD."
00:47:43.13\00:47:44.40
SO THEN YOU'VE GOT THIS AGE
OF GREAT PERSECUTION THAT COMES
00:47:44.40\00:47:46.83
TO THE CHURCH.
00:47:46.83\00:47:47.93
THE THIRD SEAL, HE
OPENS, HE SAYS, "COME AND SEE."
00:47:47.93\00:47:50.80
THIS BLACK HORSE, HE GOT A
PAIR OF SCALES IN HIS HAND.
00:47:50.80\00:47:54.53
HE HEARS HIM SAY, "A QUART OF
WHAT FOR A DENARIUS AND A QUART
00:47:54.53\00:47:57.73
OF BARLEY FOR A PENNY."
00:47:57.73\00:47:59.13
A DENARIUS IS A PENNY.
00:47:59.13\00:48:00.66
"DO NOT HURT THE
OIL AND THE WINE."
00:48:00.66\00:48:02.96
THIS IS A SYMBOL FOR THE
PRECIOUSNESS OF THE WORD OF GOD
00:48:02.96\00:48:05.96
DURING THAT TIME.
00:48:05.96\00:48:07.03
IT HAD BECOME SO
SCARCE AND IT WAS ECLIPSED.
00:48:07.03\00:48:10.13
BARLEY WAS THE
CHEAPEST FORM OF FOOD.
00:48:10.13\00:48:12.96
IT WAS GIVEN TO THE ANIMALS.
00:48:12.96\00:48:14.26
USUALLY THEY GAVE WHEAT TO
PEOPLE, BARLEY TO THE ANIMALS.
00:48:14.26\00:48:18.26
NUMBER SEVEN, "HE
OPENS THE FOURTH SEAL."
00:48:18.26\00:48:20.93
YOU'VE ALL HEARD OF THE
FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE.
00:48:20.93\00:48:23.06
THEY ARE SIMPLY THE
FIRST FOUR OF THE SEVEN SEALS.
00:48:23.06\00:48:27.66
"OPENS THE FOURTH SEAL AND I
HEARD THE FOURTH CREATURE SAY,
00:48:27.66\00:48:30.86
'COME AND SEE.' AND
I LOOKED, AND BEHOLD
00:48:30.86\00:48:32.76
A PALE HORSE."
00:48:32.76\00:48:33.66
THAT WORD PALE THERE,
ANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT A ROOT
00:48:33.66\00:48:35.86
LOOKS LIKE?
00:48:35.86\00:48:36.90
WHEN YOU PUT A POTATO NEAR THE
CUPBOARD AND IT GETS A LITTLE
00:48:36.90\00:48:40.53
BIT OF SUNLIGHT AND IT STARTS
SPROUTING THESE PALE ROOTS
00:48:40.53\00:48:43.13
'CAUSE THEY'RE NOT GETTING ANY
REAL LIGHT, THEY'RE NOT GREEN.
00:48:43.13\00:48:46.36
IT'S LIKE A DEATHLY COLOR.
00:48:46.36\00:48:47.93
THAT'S WHAT IT'S SAYING.
00:48:47.93\00:48:49.16
IT'S LIKE THIS
DEATHLY, PALE COLOR.
00:48:49.16\00:48:51.70
NO CHLOROFORM IN IT.
00:48:51.70\00:48:53.93
THIS PALE HORSE, A TIME OF
GREAT DEATH AND PERSECUTION
00:48:53.93\00:48:57.63
THAT COMES TO THE CHURCH.
00:48:57.63\00:48:59.03
THIS IS SYNONYMOUS WITH
THE PERIOD OF PERSECUTION OF
00:48:59.03\00:49:01.96
THE DARK AGES.
00:49:01.96\00:49:03.66
AND THEN YOU READ THROUGH THE
SEALS AND THEN HE GOES ON AND
00:49:03.66\00:49:08.53
HE OPENS UP THE FIFTH SEAL
AND IT TALKS ABOUT THOSE WHO HAD
00:49:08.53\00:49:11.73
BEEN SLAIN FOR THE WORD OF GOD.
00:49:11.73\00:49:14.26
YOU'VE GOT THESE SIGN
SAINTS THAT ARE UNDER THE ALTAR.
00:49:14.26\00:49:18.20
NOW, HOW MANY OF YOU THINK
THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE
00:49:18.20\00:49:21.00
SAINTS, THAT ARE SAVED, THAT
ARE CRYING RIGHT NOW IN HEAVEN?
00:49:21.00\00:49:24.83
WHO WOULD WANT TO DIE AND
GO BE UNDER AN ALTAR AND CRY?
00:49:24.83\00:49:28.53
HOW MANY OF YOU
KNOW THAT'S A SYMBOL?
00:49:28.53\00:49:31.00
SOME HAVE TRIED TO USE THIS
TO TALK ABOUT THE STATE OF SOULS
00:49:31.00\00:49:34.86
AFTER DEATH IN SOME KIND OF
PURGATORY OR ABRAHAM'S BOSOM
00:49:34.86\00:49:39.63
AND THEY MADE IT LITERAL.
00:49:39.63\00:49:41.26
IT'S NOT LITERAL.
00:49:41.26\00:49:42.46
IT'S A SYMBOL OF HOW
GOD'S SAINTS THAT HAVE SUFFERED
00:49:42.46\00:49:46.36
DURING THIS TIME, THEIR
DAY OF JUSTICE IS COMING.
00:49:46.36\00:49:49.36
BE PATIENT.
00:49:49.36\00:49:50.53
WHEN YOU READ IN THE BIBLE,
WHEN GOD SAYS, "THE BLOOD OF
00:49:50.53\00:49:53.16
ABEL," GOD SAID TO CAIN, "THE
BLOOD OF ABEL YOUR BROTHER IS
00:49:53.16\00:49:56.26
CRYING TO ME FROM THE GROUND."
00:49:56.26\00:49:58.70
WHAT, IS THOSE CELLS,
THE LITTLE BLOOD CELLS GOING,
00:49:58.70\00:50:01.63
"HELP, HELP,
HELP" FROM THE GROUND?
00:50:01.63\00:50:04.16
OR WAS GOD JUST USING A
METAPHOR THERE THAT WE ALL
00:50:04.16\00:50:07.20
UNDERSTAND THAT HIS BLOOD
WAS EVIDENCE THAT JUSTICE NEEDED
00:50:07.20\00:50:10.80
TO BE TAKEN CARE OF?
00:50:10.80\00:50:13.20
AND SO HERE IS A TIME WHERE
THERE IS GREAT PERSECUTION OF
00:50:13.20\00:50:15.83
THE SAINTS AND THAT THERE'S
A CRY THAT IS GOING UP BECAUSE
00:50:15.83\00:50:19.60
OF THE PRAYERS
THAT HAD BEEN RECORDED.
00:50:19.60\00:50:22.73
NOW DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU
CAN PRAY A PRAYER TODAY AND YOU
00:50:22.73\00:50:25.93
MIGHT DIE AND THAT PRAYER
IS RECORDED AND THE ANSWER MAY
00:50:25.93\00:50:29.56
COME AFTER YOU DIE?
00:50:29.56\00:50:32.60
LET'S SAY YOU'RE PRAYING FOR
YOUR CHILDREN AND YOU MIGHT DIE
00:50:32.60\00:50:36.23
BEFORE YOU SEE THEIR
SALVATION OR CONVERSION.
00:50:36.23\00:50:38.46
ARE THOSE PRAYERS
STORED OR DOES GOD SAY, "NOPE,
00:50:38.46\00:50:40.80
YOU'RE DEAD NOW.
00:50:40.80\00:50:41.80
THOSE PRAYERS
ARE ALL WIPED OUT."
00:50:41.80\00:50:43.80
IF YOU DIE IN YOUR
FAITH, HE RECORDS THOSE PRAYERS,
00:50:43.80\00:50:45.70
DOESN'T HE?
00:50:45.70\00:50:46.76
AND SO THESE ARE ALL
THE SAINTS THROUGH THE AGES.
00:50:46.76\00:50:49.30
THEIR PRAYERS--UNDER THE ALTAR.
00:50:49.30\00:50:50.60
WHAT WAS ON THE ALTAR?
00:50:50.60\00:50:51.56
THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS.
00:50:51.56\00:50:52.73
WE JUST READ THAT, DIDN'T WE?
00:50:52.73\00:50:54.23
IT'S TALKING ABOUT
THEIR PRAYERS FOR JUSTICE AND
00:50:54.23\00:50:56.33
VINDICATION AND DELIVERANCE.
00:50:56.33\00:50:58.23
THERE'S NOT A BUNCH OF
SOULS UNDER THE ALTAR, CRYING.
00:50:58.23\00:51:01.40
IT'S--THEY'RE SYMBOLS.
00:51:01.40\00:51:02.43
IS THAT CLEAR?
00:51:02.43\00:51:04.53
OH, LET ME AT LEAST
GET THROUGH THE SIXTH SEAL.
00:51:04.53\00:51:06.60
I'M GONNA HAVE TO
START WITH THE 144,000.
00:51:06.60\00:51:09.46
SO IT TALKS ABOUT THE SIGN
SAINTS AND THEN IT TRANSITIONS
00:51:09.46\00:51:15.73
TO THE WAILING WICKED.
00:51:15.73\00:51:19.10
YOU GO TO THE SIXTH SEAL.
00:51:19.10\00:51:20.80
TWELVE--I'M IN
CHAPTER SIX, VERSE TWELVE.
00:51:20.80\00:51:23.43
"I LOOKED AND HE
OPENED THE SIXTH SEAL.
00:51:23.43\00:51:25.60
AND BEHOLD, THERE'S A GREAT
EARTHQUAKE AND THE SUN BECAME
00:51:25.60\00:51:28.30
BLACK AS SACKCLOTH."
00:51:28.30\00:51:29.66
BY THE WAY, THERE'S A GREAT
EARTHQUAKE IN HISTORY DURING
00:51:29.66\00:51:31.70
THIS TIME.
00:51:31.70\00:51:33.06
"AND THE MOON BECAME LIKE BLOOD.
00:51:33.06\00:51:35.40
AND THE STARS OF HEAVEN FELL TO
EARTH, AS A FIG TREE DROPS ITS
00:51:35.40\00:51:38.46
LATE FIGS WHEN IT'S
SHAKEN BY A MIGHTY WIND.
00:51:38.46\00:51:41.56
AND THE SKY RECEDED AS A SCROLL
WHEN IT IS ROLLED TOGETHER."
00:51:41.56\00:51:45.10
NOW YOU KNOW WHAT
I'D LIKE TO TELL YOU?
00:51:45.10\00:51:47.06
WE'RE LIVING HISTORICALLY
BETWEEN VERSE 13 AND 14.
00:51:47.06\00:51:52.56
A LOT OF THESE THINGS
HAVE HAPPENED HISTORICALLY.
00:51:52.56\00:51:55.20
THE GREAT EARTHQUAKES, A DARK
DAY, MOON LOOKING LIKE BLOOD,
00:51:55.20\00:51:58.60
THE STARS APPEARING
TO FALL FROM HEAVEN.
00:51:58.60\00:52:00.73
ALONG THE CONTINUUM OF HISTORY,
THESE THINGS HAVE HAPPENED
00:52:00.73\00:52:03.23
WHERE GOD'S PEOPLE, HIS CHURCH,
PROMINENTLY COULD SEE THIS.
00:52:03.23\00:52:08.33
BUT ULTIMATELY, WHEN
JESUS COMES, THE SKY WILL RECEDE
00:52:08.33\00:52:11.93
AS A SCROLL.
00:52:11.93\00:52:12.96
THESE THINGS ARE GONNA
HAPPEN AGAIN IN QUICK SUCCESSION
00:52:12.96\00:52:15.33
AT THE SECOND COMING.
00:52:15.33\00:52:17.30
"AND EVERY MOUNTAIN AND ISLAND
IS MOVED OUT OF ITS PLACE."
00:52:17.30\00:52:20.66
THE WAY THINGS ARE HAPPENING
WITH EARTHQUAKES RIGHT NOW,
00:52:20.66\00:52:22.80
YOU WONDER.
00:52:22.80\00:52:24.50
AND HERE'S THE
WAILING OF THE WICKED.
00:52:24.50\00:52:26.80
"AND THE KINGS OF THE EARTH,
AND THE GREAT MEN," BY THE
00:52:26.80\00:52:29.53
WORLD'S STANDARD, "AND THE RICH
MEN, AND THE COMMANDERS, AND
00:52:29.53\00:52:32.76
THE MIGHTY MEN," THE PEOPLE
WHO HAVE THE POWER DOWN HERE,
00:52:32.76\00:52:35.40
IN OTHER WORDS, THAT ARE
PERSECUTING GOD, "AND EVERY
00:52:35.40\00:52:38.33
SLAVE MAN AND EVERY FREE MAN
HID THEMSELVES IN THE CAVES AND
00:52:38.33\00:52:42.06
THE ROCKS OF THE MOUNTAINS."
00:52:42.06\00:52:43.93
ARE THESE THE
SAVED OR THE LOST HIDING?
00:52:43.93\00:52:47.36
'CAUSE THE
SAINTS AREN'T GONNA RUN.
00:52:47.36\00:52:49.30
IT'S THE BLESSED HOPE FOR THEM.
00:52:49.30\00:52:51.33
THIS IS THE WAILING WICKED.
00:52:51.33\00:52:52.76
"AND THEY SAY TO THE MOUNTAINS
AND THE ROCKS, 'FALL ON US AND
00:52:52.76\00:52:56.23
HIDE US FROM THE FACE WHO
SITS ON THE THRONE, AND FROM THE
00:52:56.23\00:52:59.46
WRATH OF THE LAMB.
00:52:59.46\00:53:01.23
FOR THE GREAT DAY OF HIS WRATH
HAS COME, AND WHO WILL BE ABLE
00:53:01.23\00:53:04.63
TO STAND?'" NOW
TYPICALLY, WHEN YOU HAVE
00:53:04.63\00:53:08.10
A NIGHTMARE AND YOU SEE SOME
MONSTER, ARE YOU--I KNOW SOME
00:53:08.10\00:53:14.96
PEOPLE ARE TERRIFIED OF SNAKES.
00:53:14.96\00:53:20.16
AND I REMEMBER YEARS AGO,
AND I DON'T RECOMMEND THIS,
00:53:20.16\00:53:24.23
BUT THIS WAS A LONG TIME AGO.
00:53:24.23\00:53:26.60
I WENT AND SAW
THIS MOVIE, "JAWS."
00:53:26.60\00:53:29.16
I WAS NOT A MEMBER
OF THE CHURCH BACK THEN.
00:53:29.16\00:53:31.93
AND I'M A SCUBA DIVER.
00:53:31.93\00:53:33.70
I WAS AFRAID TO GET IN THE
SWIMMING POOL IN PALM SPRINGS.
00:53:33.70\00:53:40.30
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, AFTER ALL,
YOU KNOW, A GREAT WHITE SHARK
00:53:40.30\00:53:42.73
COULD SPOOK YOU AND I KNOW
SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE TERRIFIED
00:53:42.73\00:53:44.96
OF SPIDERS OR
BEARS OR YOU NAME IT.
00:53:44.96\00:53:49.26
BUT I NEVER HEARD A PERSON SAY,
"I'VE GOT THIS PHOBIA OF LAMBS.
00:53:49.26\00:53:55.53
I'M SO SCARED OF LAMBS."
00:53:55.53\00:53:59.20
I MEAN, DOESN'T IT SOUND LIKE
AN OXYMORON TO SAY THE WRATH
00:53:59.20\00:54:02.66
OF THE LAMB?
00:54:02.66\00:54:05.90
THEY'RE CONSIDERED THE MOST
LOVING AND GENTLE CREATURES AND
00:54:05.90\00:54:10.43
WHO WAS THAT--THEY HAD A
CHILDREN'S PROGRAM FOR KIDS
00:54:10.43\00:54:14.70
AND SHE HAD THE
LITTLE PUPPET LAMB CHOPS.
00:54:14.70\00:54:18.13
THAT WAS BACK IN
THE "HOWDY DOODY" DAYS.
00:54:18.13\00:54:20.33
YEAH.
00:54:20.33\00:54:22.43
AND--BECAUSE IT WAS INNOCENT.
00:54:22.43\00:54:24.83
IT WAS CUDDLY.
00:54:24.83\00:54:25.93
BUT IT TALKS ABOUT
THE WRATH OF THE LAMB.
00:54:25.93\00:54:27.96
WHY DOES JESUS--WHY
IS HE PICTURED THAT WAY?
00:54:27.96\00:54:30.93
BECAUSE WHEN WE SEE THAT
GOD GAVE HIS LAMB, HIS SON, THAT
00:54:30.93\00:54:37.23
EVERYONE COULD BE SAVED, AND
HE POURED OUT HIS BLOOD TO SAVE
00:54:37.23\00:54:40.86
THE WORLD, THAT WHOSOEVER
BELIEVES IN HIM MIGHT BE SAVED,
00:54:40.86\00:54:44.66
AND AFTER WE'VE TRAMPLED ON
THAT SACRIFICE, IF WE REJECT
00:54:44.66\00:54:49.83
THE MERCY OF THE LAMB AND
THE SACRIFICE OF THE LAMB, IF WE
00:54:49.83\00:54:54.06
REJECT EVERYTHING GOOD THE
LAMB HAS LEFT, THE ONLY THING
00:54:54.06\00:54:57.63
THAT IS LEFT IS THE
JUSTICE OF THE LAMB.
00:54:57.63\00:55:01.26
AND DO YOU REALIZE THE PENALTY
FOR SIN IS NOT JUST DEATH?
00:55:01.26\00:55:03.86
IT'S PUNISHMENT,
OR WRATH, AND DEATH.
00:55:03.86\00:55:08.43
AND SO--AND THE WRATH OF
THE LAMB LATER IS SHOWN IN THE
00:55:08.43\00:55:11.00
SEVEN PLAGUES
THAT ARE POURED OUT.
00:55:11.00\00:55:13.36
AND SO HERE IT'S SHOWING THESE
TWO GROUPS, ONE GROUP THAT IS
00:55:13.36\00:55:18.06
GONNA BE SAVED AND GOD SAYS,
"YOU'RE GONNA BE VINDICATED."
00:55:18.06\00:55:21.50
AND THEN HE IMMEDIATELY
GOES TO THE OTHER GROUP.
00:55:21.50\00:55:23.73
THEY'RE PERSECUTORS.
00:55:23.73\00:55:24.66
HE'S GOT THE
PERSECUTED AND THE PERSECUTORS.
00:55:24.66\00:55:26.96
AS WE ENTER THE LAST DAYS,
FRIENDS, YOU REALIZE EVERYBODY
00:55:26.96\00:55:29.73
HERE IS GONNA FALL INTO
ONE OF THOSE TWO GROUPS.
00:55:29.73\00:55:33.06
ONE GROUP IS GONNA HAVE
THE WHOLE WORLD MAD AT THEM
00:55:33.06\00:55:35.60
AND THEY'RE GONNA BE PERSECUTED.
00:55:35.60\00:55:36.80
THEY'LL HAVE THE SEAL OF GOD.
00:55:36.80\00:55:38.23
YOU WILL BE SAVED.
00:55:38.23\00:55:40.10
GOD IS PROMISING YOU, "HANG ON.
00:55:40.10\00:55:42.73
YOUR PRAYERS WILL BE ANSWERED."
00:55:42.73\00:55:44.83
THEN YOU GOT THE OTHER GROUP
THAT'S LIVING FOR THE WORLD NOW
00:55:44.83\00:55:47.10
AND THEY'RE NOT
THINKING ABOUT ETERNITY.
00:55:47.10\00:55:48.96
THEY'RE THE WICKED.
00:55:48.96\00:55:49.86
THEY'RE THE PERSECUTORS.
00:55:49.86\00:55:51.20
THEY'LL GET THE
MARK OF THE BEAST.
00:55:51.20\00:55:53.30
WHEN WE GET INTO THE
NEXT SECTION, IT'S THEN GONNA
00:55:53.30\00:55:56.50
IDENTIFY THOSE THAT ARE
SINGING, THAT ARE STANDING
00:55:56.50\00:55:59.80
ON THE SEA OF GLASS, THAT
ARE REDEEMED, THE VICTORS,
00:55:59.80\00:56:03.80
THE 144,000.
00:56:03.80\00:56:05.50
ARE YOU BEING AT ALL
ENCOURAGED, HOPEFULLY INSPIRED,
00:56:05.50\00:56:11.53
TANTALIZED TO STUDY
THIS BOOK MORE, I HOPE?
00:56:11.53\00:56:15.36
TO GET TO KNOW
WHAT'S IN THE FUTURE?
00:56:15.36\00:56:17.40
HE SAID, "THE TIME IS AT HAND.
00:56:17.40\00:56:18.53
THERE'S A BLESSING FOR
THOSE WHO READ HERE AND KEEP
00:56:18.53\00:56:21.43
THE THINGS THAT
ARE IN THE BOOK."
00:56:21.43\00:56:23.40
I WANT TO BE
FULFILLING ALL THREE CATEGORIES.
00:56:23.40\00:56:25.76
I WANT TO READ IT, I WANT TO
HEAR IT, AND I WANT TO KEEP IT.
00:56:25.76\00:56:27.90
DON'T YOU, FRIENDS?
00:56:27.90\00:56:28.90
THERE'S A BLESSING FOR THOSE.
00:56:28.90\00:56:31.03
LET'S PRAY FOR
THAT BLESSING NOW.
00:56:31.03\00:56:34.70
DEAR LORD, FATHER, YOU ARE
WORTHY, WORTHY IS THE LAMB,
00:56:34.70\00:56:39.86
AND WE ARE SO THANKFUL THAT
WE ARE GIVEN THE PRIVILEGE OF
00:56:39.86\00:56:43.33
WORSHIPING YOU.
00:56:43.33\00:56:44.96
THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS.
00:56:44.96\00:56:46.73
WORTH-SHIP.
00:56:46.73\00:56:48.40
AND LORD, WE PRAY THAT WE
CAN LIVE LIVES THAT WILL BRING
00:56:48.40\00:56:51.50
GLORY TO YOU.
00:56:51.50\00:56:52.70
WE PRAY, LORD, THAT WE
WILL HAVE OUR EYES OPENED, THAT
00:56:52.70\00:56:56.30
WE'LL HAVE THE DISCERNMENT TO
SEE WHAT IS AT HAND RIGHT NOW.
00:56:56.30\00:57:00.50
AND IF EVER THESE THINGS WERE
AT THE THRESHOLD, IF EVER THESE
00:57:00.50\00:57:03.73
THINGS WERE ABOUT TO BE
FULFILLED, WE KNOW RIGHT NOW
00:57:03.73\00:57:06.46
WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF
THE FULFILLMENT OF THE MOST
00:57:06.46\00:57:09.33
CLIMACTIC OF
EVENTS IN THIS BOOK.
00:57:09.33\00:57:12.33
I PRAY, LORD, THAT
YOU'LL AWAKEN US TO THE TIME
00:57:12.33\00:57:14.63
IN WHICH WE LIVE.
00:57:14.63\00:57:16.03
HELP US TO BE AROUSED FROM
OUR LUKEWARM CONDITION AND TO BE
00:57:16.03\00:57:21.60
RECEIVING THAT EYE SALVE THAT
OUR EYES MIGHT BE OPENED, THOSE
00:57:21.60\00:57:24.66
WHITE GARMENTS THAT WE MIGHT BE
CLOTHED, AND THAT GOLD THAT WE
00:57:24.66\00:57:28.00
MIGHT BE RICH.
00:57:28.00\00:57:30.00
BLESS US, LORD, THAT THE THINGS
IN THIS BOOK WILL NOT JUST BE
00:57:30.00\00:57:32.66
SYMBOLS, THAT THEY'LL
BE REALITY IN OUR LIVES.
00:57:32.66\00:57:35.53
BE WITH EVERY PERSON.
00:57:35.53\00:57:36.93
I PRAY THAT YOU'LL
FILL US WITH YOUR SPIRIT.
00:57:36.93\00:57:39.30
BLESS US IN OUR FELLOWSHIP.
00:57:39.30\00:57:40.76
AND AGAIN, WE THANK
YOU FOR YOUR GOODNESS.
00:57:40.76\00:57:43.23
HELP US BE READY
WHEN THE LAMB DOES COME.
00:57:43.23\00:57:46.00
IN JESUS' NAME WE PRAY, AMEN.
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