Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: EG
Program Code: EG021032
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00:00 >> IT'S BEEN 2,000 YEARS SINCE THE GLORIOUS LIGHT OF THE CROSS
00:12 ILLUMINATED A WORLD VEILED IN DARKNESS AND CONFUSION ABOUT 00:15 THE CHARACTER OF GOD. 00:17 AND STILL TODAY THE GREATEST NEED OF MANKIND IS A REVELATION 00:20 OF GOD'S LOVE AS REVEALED IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST. 00:23 AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS THE "EVERLASTING GOSPEL" WITH 00:27 PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR, COMING TO YOU EACH WEEK FROM 00:30 SACRAMENTO CENTRAL CHURCH IN SUNNY CALIFORNIA. 00:33 DISCOVER HIDDEN TREASURES IN GOD'S WORD TODAY. 00:38 >> PROPHECY IS BEST UNDERSTOOD LOOKING BACK. 00:43 THIS IS WHAT JESUS SAID. 00:45 "WHEN THESE THINGS HAPPEN, THEN YOU WILL KNOW THAT I HAVE 00:50 SPOKEN THEM." 00:51 AND SO--NOW SOME OF WHAT WE'RE GOING TO SAY NOW IS A LITTLE 00:56 BIT OF A REVIEW. 00:58 WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE BOOK OF REVELATION AND WE STUDY 01:00 REVELATION, MOST PEOPLE THINK IT'S A REVELATION OF THE BEAST 01:05 OR THE MARK OF THE BEAST OR 666 OR ARMAGEDDON OR SOME OF THESE 01:10 HOT BUTTON WORDS. 01:12 PRIMARILY REVELATION IS A REVELATION OF JESUS. 01:17 AND ALL THE DIFFERENT PICTURES IN THE BIBLE ARE GIVING 01:20 DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES. 01:21 THEY'RE LIKE THE FACETS OF A PRECIOUS JEWEL THAT ARE 01:24 REFLECTING DIFFERENT FACETS OF CHRIST IN SOME WAY. 01:29 JESUS APPEARS THROUGH A VARIETY OF NAMES AND IMAGES ALL THROUGH 01:33 THE BOOK. 01:34 IT'S HELPING US TO BETTER UNDERSTAND GOD. 01:37 AND PROPHECY AS A WHOLE IS NOT DESIGNED TO JUST SHOW US 01:43 THE FUTURE. 01:44 PROPHECY IS REALLY TO-- IT'S REDEMPTIVE IN NATURE. 01:47 PROPHECY IS TO REDEEM. 01:49 BECAUSE IF YOU UNDERSTAND ALL THE DETAILS OF PROPHECY 01:52 AND WHAT ALL THESE DIFFERENT VISIONS REPRESENT AND YOU'RE 01:54 NOT SAVED, WHAT GOOD DOES IT DO YOU? 01:57 ULTIMATELY PROPHECY IS THERE TO REDEEM US. 02:01 MAYBE WE SHOULD REVIEW WHAT SOME OF THE PRIMARY PURPOSES 02:04 FOR PROPHECY ARE. 02:07 PROPHECY, OF COURSE, GIVES US EVIDENCE FOR THE EXISTENCE 02:12 OF AN OMNIPOTENT GOD. 02:14 SECONDLY, PROPHECY GIVES EVIDENCE, DEMONSTRATING THAT 02:17 THE BIBLE IS RELIABLE. 02:19 ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS AN EVANGELIST WILL DO TO INTRODUCE 02:24 A SEMINAR IS HE'LL TAKE PROPHECY BECAUSE NOTHING WILL 02:28 STRENGTHEN YOUR FAITH IN THE DEPENDABILITY OF THE WORD LIKE 02:31 DANIEL 2 OR ONE OF THESE PROPHECIES THAT IS CLEARLY 02:35 WRITTEN BEFORE IT HAPPENED AND THEN YOU SEE THE FULFILLMENT 02:37 OF IT. 02:39 THIRDLY, PROPHECY PROVIDES EVIDENCE THAT THERE'S A PURPOSE 02:43 IN LIFE. 02:45 WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT, I MEAN, MOST OF US LIVE ON A VERY RAZOR 02:49 THIN MOMENT OF THE PRESENT. 02:52 EVERYTHING ELSE IS IN THE PAST OR IN THE FUTURE. 02:55 AND WHEN GOD IN PROPHECY TELLS US, "I CAN GO BACK IN TIME. 02:59 I CAN GO FORWARD IN TIME. 03:01 I CAN SEE THE FUTURE AS PERFECTLY AS YOU SEE THE 03:03 PRESENT," THAT TELLS YOU THAT THINGS ARE NOT JUST HAPHAZARD, 03:08 THAT WE'RE NOT LIVING IN THESE SERENDIPITY LIVES WHERE THEY'RE 03:13 JUST--THERE'S JUST NO PURPOSE AND NO DESIGN AND EVERYTHING 03:16 IS FATE. 03:17 AND THERE IS A PLAN AND THAT GOD IS ON THE THRONE. 03:22 FOURTHLY, PROPHECY UNFOLDS THE CREATOR'S SECRETS REGARDING 03:25 HOW WE SHOULD LIVE. 03:27 PROPHECY IS INSTRUCTIVE. 03:29 BECAUSE OF HOW GOD RESPONDS IN THE FUTURE AND EVEN IN THE 03:33 PAST, IT TELLS US SOMETHING ABOUT HIS NATURE AND HOW HE 03:35 WANTS US TO LIVE. 03:37 NOW, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT BIBLE PROPHECY AND ESPECIALLY 03:41 PROPHECIES LIKE REVELATION THAT ARE WHAT WE CALL--KEEP IN MIND 03:44 THE WORD REVELATION MEANS APOKALYPSIS, APOCALYPSE 03:48 IN GREEK. 03:50 WE THINK OF THE APOCALYPTIC PROPHECIES, THEY'RE THE ONES 03:53 WHO ARE GIVEN--THE PROPHECIES THAT ARE GIVEN IN SYMBOLS 03:55 AND SIGNS LIKE ZACHARIAH AND EZEKIEL AND SOME IN AMOS 04:02 AND, OF COURSE, DANIEL, REVELATION. 04:06 WHY DOES GOD USE ALL THESE SIGNS AND SYMBOLS? 04:09 WHY DOESN'T HE SPEAK PLAINLY? 04:11 WELL, THESE SYMBOLS ARE GIVEN, FOR ONE THING, BECAUSE YOU HAVE 04:14 TO READ THE REST OF THE BIBLE TO UNLOCK PROPHECY. 04:17 IT'S FILLED WITH SYMBOLS THERE. 04:21 AND KEEP IN MIND, JOHN WAS A PRISONER OF ROME IN 04:24 THE SALT MINES OF PATMOS THERE. 04:27 ROME WAS GOING TO BE DESTROYED. 04:28 REVELATION TALKS ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION AND THE EVIL 04:31 OF ROME. 04:32 IT IDENTIFIES IT AS BABYLON. 04:34 AND BECAUSE OF THAT, IN ORDER TO PRESERVE THAT MESSAGE, 04:37 IF GOD HAD JUST SAID IN REVELATION, "ROME IS AN EVIL 04:42 EMPIRE THAT'S GOING TO BE DESTROYED," WHAT WOULD THE 04:44 ROMAN LEADERS THINK OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION? 04:47 WOULDN'T THEY SEEK TO DESTROY THE BOOK? 04:49 SO TO PRESERVE THE MESSAGE, IT'S GIVEN IN CODE. 04:53 IN THE SAME WAY, DANIEL, HE IN CHAPTER TWO AND CHAPTER SEVEN, 04:57 HE TALKS ABOUT BABYLON IS GOING TO FALL. 05:01 SO IF HE HAD JUST SAID BABYLON IS GOING TO FALL AND 05:03 NEBUCHADNEZZAR WANTED IT TO LAST FOREVER, THEY WOULD HAVE 05:06 DESTROYED THE MANUSCRIPT. 05:08 SO TO PROTECT THE WRITINGS, IT'S GIVEN IN CODE. 05:12 AND IN THE BIBLE, YOU'LL FIND THAT THERE ARE SYMBOLS. 05:18 AND IF YOU UNDERSTAND YOUR BIBLE, YOU'LL UNDERSTAND MOST 05:20 OF THE SYMBOLS. 05:21 NOW SOME OF 'EM ARE VERY EASY FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND. 05:24 WHEN I SAY TO YOU, "THERE'S A DRAGON," HOW MANY 05:27 KNOW WHO THAT DRAGON REPRESENTS? 05:30 THIS IS A LITTLE BIT OF REVIEW FROM LAST WEEK. 05:32 REVELATION 12 SAYS THAT OLD SERPENT CALLED THE DEVIL AND 05:35 SATAN, HE'S THE DRAGON. 05:36 CAN'T MISUNDERSTAND THAT. 05:38 NOW WHEN IT SAYS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE THRONE, WE'LL TALK ABOUT 05:40 THAT TODAY. 05:41 THERE'S LAMB AS IT HAD BEEN SLAIN. 05:44 DO WE HAVE TO GUESS ABOUT WHO THAT LAMB IS? 05:46 JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD THAT TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF 05:49 THE WORLD. 05:50 ABRAHAM SAID, "MY SON, GOD WILL PROVIDE HIMSELF A LAMB." 05:54 AND SO WE KNOW THROUGH THE BIBLE SYMBOLS WHAT THAT 05:56 REPRESENTS, BUT THEN YOU GET TO REVELATION 12. 05:59 THERE'S A WOMAN. 06:01 REVELATION 17, ANOTHER WOMAN. 06:03 THESE ARE JUST PROMINENT WOMEN AND THEY DON'T EVER SPEAK 06:06 AND SAY, "HI, MY NAME IS SALLY AND THIS IS WHO I REPRESENT." 06:09 YOU SAY, "WELL, WHAT DOES THAT REPRESENT?" 06:12 GOING THROUGH THE BIBLE, THERE ARE A LOT OF THESE SYMBOLS THAT 06:15 APPEAR OTHER PLACES IN PROPHECY THAT HELP YOU UNDERSTAND. 06:19 NOW THIS IS A CHART OF BIBLE SYMBOLS AND THEIR MEANING 06:25 AND IT GIVES THE SCRIPTURE TO UNDERSTAND 'EM. 06:28 YOU CAN GET THIS FROM THAT WEB SITE CALLED 06:30 BIBLE PROPHECY TRUTH. 06:32 AMAZING FACTS DEVELOPED THIS WEB SITE THIS YEAR. 06:35 I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST AS FAST FOR ME TO GOOGLE IT. 06:38 I JUST TYPED IN BIBLE PROPHECY. 06:41 ON THE FIRST PAGE OUT OF OVER 700,000 POSSIBLE SITES, THIS 06:47 WAS ON THE FIRST PAGE. 06:48 IT WAS THE THIRD WEB SITE. 06:51 ISN'T THAT EXCITING? 06:52 WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE IT GO TO FIRST PLACE? 06:54 THEN YOU TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS, YOU LINK TO IT. 06:56 PUT BIBLE PROPHECY TRUTH AT YOUR WEB SITE. 06:58 IT'LL GO TO FIRST PLACE. 07:00 MATTER OF FACT, WHEN YOU ALL GO HOME FROM CHURCH, LOG ON. 07:03 THAT'LL BOOST IT IN THE RATINGS AT GOOGLE. 07:05 IT TALKS ABOUT MILLENNIUM, AND ARMAGEDDON AND THE MARK OF THE 07:08 BEAST AND ALL THESE DIFFERENT, REALLY EXCITING SUBJECTS. 07:12 AND IT'S GOT A LOT OF MATERIAL THERE, BUT YOU CAN ALSO 07:14 GET THE BIBLE SYMBOLS AND THEIR MEANING. 07:16 YOU CAN PRINT THIS OUT THERE. 07:17 BIBLE NUMBERS. 07:18 REMEMBER WHAT WE TOLD YOU? 07:19 CERTAIN NUMBERS APPEAR MANY TIMES IN REVELATION. 07:22 THOSE NUMBERS ALSO HAVE A MEANING AND YOU CAN LOOK 07:24 AT THAT. 07:25 SO THAT'S ONE REASON THE SYMBOLS WERE GIVEN, 07:27 TO PROTECT THE MESSAGE. 07:30 I REMEMBER DURING WORLD WAR II I DON'T REMEMBER BECAUSE 07:32 I WASN'T ALIVE, BUT I REMEMBER READING IN WORLD WAR II. 07:36 MY DAD WAS IN WORLD WAR II. 07:38 AND THEN WE LIVED AMONG THE NAVAJO INDIANS IN NEW MEXICO 07:41 AND MANY OF THEM WERE CODE OPERATORS BECAUSE THE JAPANESE 07:45 HAD BROKEN EVERY AMERICAN CODE AND THEY SAID, "WE GOT TO GET 07:51 SOMETHING ELSE." 07:52 AND SO THERE WAS ACTUALLY THE SON OF A MISSIONARY WHO HAD 07:55 GROWN UP ON THE RESERVATION AND HE WAS IN THE MARINES AND HE 07:58 WENT TO THEM AND HE SAID, "I KNOW THE ANSWER FOR YOUR CODE." 08:01 HE SAYS, "YOU JUST NEED TO DRAFT SOME NAVAJOS. 08:04 IT IS THE MOST DIFFICULT LANGUAGE. 08:06 MY FATHER'S BEEN WORKING FOR YEARS TO TRY AND TRANSLATE 08:08 THE NEW TESTAMENT INTO NAVAJO. 08:10 IT IS THE MOST COMPLICATED LANGUAGE AND IT DOESN'T FOLLOW 08:13 ANY RULES, SO THE CRYPTOGRAPHERS CAN'T DECIPHER IT. 08:18 LET THEM TALK TO EACH OTHER ON THE RADIO AND THEY'LL 08:21 NEVER FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY'RE SAYING." 08:23 WELL, THEY DID SOME TESTS AND SAID, "YOU'RE RIGHT. 08:25 WE CAN'T FIGURE IT OUT." 08:27 AND SO WHAT THEY DID IS THEY HAD NAVAJO RADIO OPERATORS 08:29 SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE MARINES THAT WERE 08:32 THE COMMUNICATORS. 08:33 BUT NOT ONLY WOULD THEY COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER 08:36 IN NAVAJO. 08:37 THEY WERE GIVEN CODED MESSAGES THEY COMMUNICATE IN NAVAJO. 08:41 AND THEY'D USE THESE PICTURES. 08:43 AND THEY'D SAY, "OH, WE'VE GOT 15 TORTOISES COMING OVER 08:47 THE HILL," AND THEY KNEW AMONG-- AND THEY'D SAY IT IN NAVAJO. 08:50 THOSE TORTOISES MEANT TANKS. 08:53 AND SO THEY HAD--YOU SAID, "OH, THEY'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, A BUNCH 08:57 OF CROWS FLYING IN," OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 08:59 THAT MEANT PLANES. 09:00 AND SO THEY HAD ALL THESE DIFFERENT THINGS THAT THEY GIVE 09:02 THE CODE IN THE LANGUAGE AND THAT FURTHER COMPLICATED IT. 09:06 SO SOMETIMES TO UNDERSTAND REVELATION, YOU NOT ONLY READ 09:10 WHAT IT SAYS IN REVELATION, YOU GO TO OTHER PLACES IN 09:13 THE BIBLE, YOU FIND OUT WHAT THE SYMBOLS MEAN, AND THEN YOU 09:15 LOOK HOW WERE THEY USED BACK THEN. 09:19 SO WE'RE GONNA DO A LITTLE BIT OF THAT THIS MORNING SO YOU CAN 09:22 JUST UNDERSTAND WHY WE'RE STUDYING IT THE WAY WE 09:25 STUDY IT. 09:26 SO THESE SYMBOLS ALL HAD MEANING. 09:28 JESUS SAID IN LUKE 8:10, "TO YOU IT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO KNOW 09:32 THE MYSTERIES OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD; BUT TO THE REST IT'S GIVEN 09:36 IN PARABLES, THAT SEEING THEY MAY NOT SEE, AND HEARING THEY 09:41 MAY NOT UNDERSTAND." 09:42 SO SOME OF THE ENEMIES OF CHRIST-- 09:45 "SPIRITUAL THINGS ARE SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED," 09:47 1 CORINTHIANS 2:14. 09:49 ONE OF THE BEST WAYS TO UNDERSTAND PROPHECY IS THE HOLY 09:53 SPIRIT AND THE WORD OF GOD WILL GIVE YOU UNDERSTANDING. 09:57 YOU KNOW THE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. 09:59 WHEN THEY HEAR SOME OF THESE EVANGELISTS START EXPLAINING 10:01 PROPHECY ON TV, THEY THINK THEY'RE ON DRUGS, DON'T THEY? 10:06 AND YOU PROBABLY HAVE THOUGHT THAT TOO. 10:08 AND MATTER OF FACT, THE WAY I'VE HEARD SOME INTERPRETATION, 10:10 I THINK THEY'RE ON DRUGS TOO. 10:12 I MEAN, LET'S FACE IT. 10:13 YOU'VE HEARD SOME REALLY SQUIRRELY IDEAS ABOUT PROPHECY 10:16 AND REVELATION IN PARTICULAR. 10:18 BUT WHEN YOU HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT AND YOU'RE COMPARING 10:20 SCRIPTURE WITH SCRIPTURE HERE A LITTLE, THERE A LITTLE, LINE 10:23 UPON LINE, IT BEGINS TO CLICK. 10:25 THERE'S A CONSISTENCY. 10:27 THERE'S A SCIENCE TO IT. 10:28 BUT YOU STILL MUST HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT TO UNDERSTAND IT. 10:33 REVELATION, WE ENDED LAST WEEK REMINDING YOU IT'S A BOOK 10:36 THAT YOU WILL BE BLESSED IN STUDYING. 10:39 THAT IS NOT JUST SOMETHING I'M SAYING. 10:41 THE BOOK ITSELF SAYS IT. 10:42 REVELATION 1:3, "BLESSED IS HE WHO READS AND THOSE WHO HEAR 10:47 THE WORDS OF THE PROPHECY." 10:49 MATTER OF FACT, HE SAYS, "THE WORDS OF THIS PROPHECY, 10:52 AND KEEP THE THINGS THAT ARE WRITTEN THEREIN; FOR THE TIME 10:55 IS AT HAND." 10:56 SO IT'S TELLING YOU IN THE OPENING CHAPTER THERE'S 10:58 SOMETHING TO DO ABOUT WHAT YOU HEAR. 11:02 BLESSED ARE THOSE THAT KEEP. 11:04 SO YOU'RE NOT ONLY TO READ IT AND UNDERSTAND IT. 11:06 YOU'LL BE BLESSED IF YOU KEEP IT. 11:08 BLESSING AT THE END OF THE BOOK MAKES IT CLEAR ALSO. 11:10 REVELATION 22:7, JESUS SAID, "BEHOLD, I'M COMING QUICKLY. 11:14 BLESSED IS HE WHO KEEPS THE WORDS OF THIS PROPHECY." 11:19 AND SO THERE'S A BLESSING PRONOUNCED ON THOSE WHO HEAR IT 11:22 AND KEEP IT. 11:23 YOU'LL BE BLESSED IN STUDYING IT. 11:25 CAN'T KEEP IT UNTIL YOU READ IT, RIGHT? 11:27 SO THAT'S WHERE WE'VE GOT TO START. 11:29 AND THESE ARE THE WORDS OF JESUS. 11:31 NOTICE THE TIME IS AT HAND. 11:32 IT STARTS THE BOOK BY SAYING THE TIME IS AT HAND. 11:35 IT ENDS THE BOOK BY JESUS SAYING, "BEHOLD, 11:37 I COME QUICKLY." 11:39 SO REVELATION COVERS A TIME SPAN FROM THE FIRST COMING 11:43 OF JESUS TO THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS. 11:46 AND OF COURSE, BEYOND INTO THE ETERNITY. 11:50 IT TAKES US BEYOND THE MILLENNIUM INTO THE TIME OF 11:53 ETERNITY AFTER THE 1,000 YEARS. 11:56 NOW WHEN WE LEFT OFF, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE SEVENS 11:59 IN REVELATION AND IN PARTICULAR THE SEVEN CHURCHES. 12:02 THIS REPRESENTS SEVEN STAGES AND AGES. 12:07 AND THOSE CHURCHES REPRESENT CYCLES THAT A CHURCH MAY GO 12:12 THROUGH FROM ITS INCEPTION UNTIL IT SORT OF ATROPHIES 12:17 IN LAODICEA. 12:18 IT REPRESENTS AN EXPERIENCE AN INDIVIDUAL MAY GO THROUGH. 12:22 MANY PEOPLE ACCEPT THE LORD AND THEY'RE LIKE EPHESUS 12:25 AND IT'S ALL ABOUT THEOLOGY. 12:26 THEY MAY EVEN LOSE THE FIRST LOVE AND PEOPLE CAN BE 12:29 AT ANY STAGE ALONG THE WAY, BUT MOST OF ALL THIS REPRESENTS 12:34 THE CYCLE OF TIME, SEVEN. 12:37 WHEN YOU THINK OF SEVEN IN THE BIBLE, WHERE DO YOU FIND SEVEN? 12:40 WHAT DOES THAT NUMBER MEAN? 12:41 WHERE'S IT FIRST APPEAR? 12:44 IN CREATION. 12:45 MATTER OF FACT, FIRST TIME ANY NUMBER APPEARS THREE TIMES 12:47 IN THE BIBLE, IT'S THE NUMBER SEVEN. 12:49 IT SAYS, "ON THE SEVENTH DAY, THE SEVENTH DAY, 12:51 THE SEVENTH DAY." 12:52 IN REVELATION--IN GENESIS 2. 12:56 IT'S A CYCLE OF TIME. 12:59 A CYCLE OF TIME. 13:01 THE SEVEN CHURCHES REPRESENT THE CYCLE OF THE CHURCH'S 13:05 HISTORY FROM THE FIRST COMING TO THE SECOND COMING. 13:08 NOW THE BOOK OF REVELATION HAS A LOT OF SEVENS IN IT, BUT 13:11 THERE ARE THREE PROMINENT VISIONS OF SEVEN. 13:15 YOU GOT THE SEVEN CHURCHES, THE SEVEN SEALS. 13:19 WE'LL PROBABLY GET INTO THAT TODAY. 13:21 AND YOU GOT THE SEVEN TRUMPETS AND YOU'VE ALSO--THERE'S ALSO 13:24 SEVEN PLAGUES. 13:26 THE SEVEN CHURCHES REPRESENTS THE SPIRITUAL HISTORY OF THE 13:29 CHURCH FROM THE FIRST COMING TO THE SECOND COMING. 13:34 THE SEVEN SEALS REPRESENT A POLITICAL HISTORY OF 13:38 THE CHURCH FROM THE FIRST COMING TO THE SECOND COMING. 13:43 THE SEVEN TRUMPETS REPRESENT--DON'T THEY BLOW 13:45 TRUMPETS IN BATTLE? 13:46 DOESN'T PAUL SAY--GIVING THE TRUMPET A CERTAIN SOUND, 13:49 THEY KNOW HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE BATTLE. 13:52 MILITARY HISTORY OF THE CHURCH FROM THE FIRST COMING TO 13:56 THE SECOND COMING. 13:58 BUT THE PROPHECIES OF GOD ARE NOT FLAT AND 14:02 SINGLE-DIMENSIONAL. 14:05 THE PROPHECIES OF GOD, AND WHEN YOU STUDY REVELATION, 14:09 YOU NEED TO THINK IT IS MULTIDIMENSIONAL. 14:14 YOU WILL FIND THAT ONE PROPHECY, WHILE IT WILL 14:17 PERFECTLY GIVE YOU--FOR INSTANCE, LIKE I SAID, THE 14:20 CYCLE OF THE CHURCH'S HISTORY, THERE'S A LOT OF DEPTH TO IT. 14:23 YOU KNOW, I MIGHT SPEAK TO YOU AND I'M JUST--I'VE GOT ONE 14:26 MEANING IN WHAT I SAY. 14:27 I'M A MORTAL. 14:28 WE'RE KIND OF--WE KIND OF SPEAK AND THINK ON ONE DIMENSION. 14:35 WE'RE MORE LINEAR IN WHEN WE COMMUNICATE. 14:38 GOD'S WORD IS NOT CONFINED OR RESTRICTED THE WAY WE ARE 14:42 IN OUR COMMUNICATION. 14:44 GOD CAN SAY ONE THING THAT IS SO PROFOUND THAT IT IS TRUTH 14:50 AND IT DOES NOT CONFLICT WITH THE OTHER MEANINGS, BUT IT 14:53 HAS MULTIDIMENSIONAL MEANINGS TO IT. 14:57 I ALWAYS LIKE TO GO BACK AND TAKE JESUS, FOR INSTANCE. 15:02 THE DISCIPLES COME TO JESUS AND ASK HIM A SIMPLE QUESTION. 15:06 "WHEN WILL THESE THINGS BE?" 15:07 JESUS SAID, "JUST REFER TO THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPLE." 15:12 "AND WHAT WILL BE THE SIGN OF YOUR COMING AND THE END 15:15 OF THE WORLD?" 15:16 MATTHEW 24. 15:17 THEY KIND OF ASKED HIM THREE QUESTIONS. 15:19 HE THEN GIVES THEM THIS INCREDIBLY DEEP AND PROFOUND 15:22 ANSWER IN MATTHEW 24. 15:23 YOU'LL ALSO FIND IN MARK 13, LUKE 17, LUKE 21. 15:28 IT'S WHERE YOU FIND HIS ANSWER EXPLAINING THE SIGNS ABOUT 15:32 HIS RETURN. 15:34 IN THAT ONE ANSWER, WITHOUT CARVING IT UP FOR US, HE 15:38 ANSWERED THOSE WHO WERE LIVING THAT DAY WHAT THEY WERE ASKING, 15:41 WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN TO THE JEWS. 15:43 HE ALSO TOLD THE CHURCH WHAT THEY COULD EXPECT 15:46 IN THEIR HISTORY. 15:47 SO EVERY CHRISTIAN IN ANY AGE CAN READ MATTHEW 24 AND IT WAS 15:50 RELEVANT TO THEM THAT DAY. 15:53 HE TALKED ABOUT THE GREAT TIME OF TROUBLE THE JEWS WOULD GO 15:56 THROUGH JUST BEFORE JERUSALEM WAS DESTROYED. 15:59 HE TALKED ABOUT A TIME OF TROUBLE THE CHURCH WOULD GO 16:01 THROUGH DURING THE AGE OF THYATIRA, A GREAT PERSECUTION. 16:05 AND HE TALKED ABOUT THE GREAT TIME OF TROUBLE BEFORE THE 16:07 SEVEN LAST PLAGUES AND THE END OF THE WORLD FOR THOSE OF US 16:10 LIVING IN THIS GENERATION. 16:11 ONE ANSWER, MANY DIMENSIONS TO THAT ONE ANSWER. 16:14 NOW HOW MANY OF YOU ALREADY KNEW THAT? 16:18 READ REVELATION REALIZING THAT GOD'S WORD IS NOT RESTRICTED 16:24 THE WAY WE THINK. 16:26 AND I THINK EVERYONE HERE KNOWS THERE'S MORE ABOUT REVELATION 16:32 THAT I DON'T KNOW THAN I DO KNOW. 16:35 IT IS A BOOK OF GOD. 16:37 IT IS SO DEEP AND IT IS SO PROFOUND THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE 16:40 WHO HAVE--I HEARD ONE-- LESLIE HARDINGE, 16:45 A THEOLOGY TEACHER AT ANDREWS, DEAR MAN, HE SAID, 16:49 "YOU CAN'T EVEN BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND REVELATION TILL 16:51 YOU'VE READ IT 50 TIMES." 16:54 JUST SOME OF THESE GREAT MINDS. 16:56 I REMEMBER JOE MANISCALCO. 16:58 I WAS HIS PASTOR. 16:59 HE WAS AN ART TEACHER. 17:00 TRAVELED AROUND TEACHING REVELATION. 17:02 THEY HAD HIS BIBLE AT HIS FUNERAL. 17:04 HE HAD ABSOLUTELY WORN OUT THE TOP 70%--OR 20% 17:08 OF HIS BIBLE. 17:09 AND REVELATION--JUST WORN THE PAGES RIGHT OFF. 17:12 HE HAD READ IT THROUGH SO MANY TIMES. 17:14 AND SO FOR US TO DO THIS OVERVIEW OF REVELATION, 17:18 I'M JUST TRYING TO WHET YOUR APPETITE. 17:20 THAT'S ALL I'M DOING. 17:21 I'M NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO GIVE YOU ALL THE ANSWERS 17:24 FOR THESE THINGS. 17:25 YOU REALIZE THAT? 17:25 I'M MAKING--I'M TRYING TO CREATE WITHIN YOU A DESIRE TO 17:29 MAKE YOU WANT TO STUDY IT. 17:31 BECAUSE IF THERE WAS EVER AN AGE WHEN THESE THINGS ARE 17:33 APPLICABLE, IT'S NOW. 17:36 I MEAN, NOW IS A TIME FOR US TO UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS. 17:39 A LOT OF IT HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST, BUT THERE'S STILL A LOT 17:42 OF IT THAT'S GONNA CONCENTRATE IN THE LAST DAYS. 17:46 ALL RIGHT, TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES. 17:49 LET'S PUT THAT MAP UP THERE. 17:51 SO WE'VE GOT THESE SEVEN CHURCHES AND THEY WERE 17:53 THE CHURCHES OF ASIA. 17:54 JOHN WAS A PRISONER IN THE ISLE OF PATMOS FROM ROME. 17:58 THIS WAS NOT ALL THE CHURCHES. 18:00 WHY JUST THOSE SEVEN? 18:02 SUPPOSEDLY, JOHN ESPECIALLY MINISTERED THE CHURCHES 18:05 IN SEVEN. 18:06 HE TOOK MARY WITH HIM, THE MOTHER OF JESUS, WHEN HE 18:08 MOVED UP TO ASIA MINOR. 18:11 AND OSTENSIBLY, HER HOUSE IS THERE. 18:14 I BELIEVE IT'S IN EPHESUS. 18:16 AND HE CAN LOOK RIGHT ACROSS--THE MESSAGE IN THE 18:19 CHURCHES, YOU--THEY GO IN ORDER AS THOUGH YOU'RE GOING ON 18:21 THE MAIL ROUTE. 18:23 THEY HAD ROADS. 18:24 THE ROMANS, YOU KNOW, HAD GOOD ROADS. 18:26 AND YOU COULD GO FROM EPHESUS TO SMYRNA TO PERGAMUM OR 18:29 PERGAMOS, TO THYATIRA, TO SARDIS, TO PHILADELPHIA, 18:32 TO LAODICEA. 18:33 THAT WOULD BE THE END OF THE ROUTE. 18:35 AND SO IT'S ALMOST LIKE HE HAS A BIRD'S EYE VIEW AS HE'S DOING 18:39 THIS CIRCLE. 18:40 THERE'S AN INCREDIBLE SEQUENCE AND ORDER THAT'S GIVEN. 18:44 NOW THE SEVEN CHURCHES, AND I'LL NAME THEM FOR YOU, 18:48 EACH WORD HAS MEANING. 18:51 AND EACH CHURCH HAS A UNIQUE CHARACTERISTIC. 18:53 YOU'VE GOT EPHESUS. 18:55 THAT MEANS DESIRABLE. 18:57 THIS IS THE CHURCH THAT HAD LOST ITS ARDOR. 19:00 IT HAD LOST ITS PASSION FOR JESUS. 19:03 THEY LOVE THE TRUTH AND THEY LOVE THE DOCTRINE, BUT WHEN 19:06 YOU'VE GOT THE DOCTRINE, YOU DON'T HAVE THE LOVE, 19:08 YOU CAN BECOME LEGALISTIC. 19:09 AND SO THE LORD COMMENDED THEM FOR THEIR PASSION FOR THE TRUTH 19:13 AND THAT THEY WERE TRYING TO MAINTAIN THE DISCIPLINE 19:16 AND THE HOLINESS OF THE CHURCH. 19:18 BUT THEY WERE LOSING THEIR FIRST, THAT INITIAL, LOVE. 19:21 THEN YOU'VE GOT THE CHURCH OF SMYRNA. 19:23 THIS IS A CHURCH THAT WAS PERSECUTED. 19:26 AND THE WORD SMYRNA, IT'S RELAYED TO THE WORD MYRRH, 19:29 WHICH IS AN INCENSE OR FRAGRANCE. 19:32 AND IT WAS LIKE THEIR LIVES WERE AN OFFERING. 19:34 THIS WAS A TIME OF GREAT PERSECUTION THAT THE CHURCH 19:36 WENT THROUGH. 19:37 THEN YOU'VE GOT THE CHURCH OR PERGAMOS OR PERGAMUM. 19:40 AND THAT WAS HEIGHTS OR ELEVATION. 19:43 THIS WAS THE TOLERANT CHURCH. 19:45 THYATIRA, IT MEANS PERFUME. 19:47 IT WAS THE AGE OF COMPROMISE IN THE CHURCH. 19:50 THAT'S SYNONYMOUS WITH THAT WOMAN IN REVELATION 17. 19:53 MENTIONS JEZEBEL AND THYATIRA. 19:57 BY THE WAY, ALL THE PROPER NAMES IN REVELATION 19:59 ARE SYMBOLIC. 20:01 THAT'S A PRETTY SWEEPING STATEMENT, PASTOR DOUG. 20:04 ALL OF THE PROPER NAMES IN REVELATION ARE SYMBOLIC. 20:08 THE NUMBERS HAVE A VALUE THAT IS REAL. 20:12 THERE REALLY WERE SEVEN AGES OF THE CHURCH. 20:15 THERE REALLY ARE 12 FOUNDATIONS IN THE NEW JERUSALEM. 20:18 THERE REALLY ARE 12 DIFFERENT KINDS OF FRUIT. 20:21 AND SO, SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 20:22 WHEN IT TELLS ABOUT THE SIZE OF THE NEW JERUSALEM, 20:24 REAL NUMBERS. 20:25 PROPHETIC AGES THAT ARE GIVEN IN REVELATION, THERE'S A VALUE. 20:28 THAT VALUE MEANS SOMETHING. 20:30 IT'S JUST NOT A NEBULOUS, ETHEREAL NUMBER. 20:33 BUT THE NAMES ARE SPIRITUAL. 20:36 WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT BALAAM, AND AGAIN, I MENTIONED THIS, 20:39 YOU GOT TO GO BACK IN THE OLD TESTAMENT TO KNOW 20:41 WHAT'S IT TALKING ABOUT. 20:42 OR JEZEBEL. 20:43 OR IT TALKS ABOUT APOLLYON OR SOME OF THESE OTHER THINGS. 20:47 THEN YOU'VE GOT SARDIS, PRINCE OF JOY. 20:50 THIS WAS A NOMINAL CHURCH. 20:51 HAD A NAME THAT YOU LIVE, BUT YOU WERE DEAD. 20:54 THEN YOU GOT PHILADELPHIA, THE AGE OF BROTHERLY LOVE, 20:57 THE CHURCH THAT WAS DOING EVANGELISM AND MISSIONARY WORK 21:00 EVERYWHERE. 21:01 AND THE FINAL AGE OF THE CHURCH, LAODICEA, AND THAT 21:04 MEANS A JUDGED PEOPLE OR THE JUDGING OF THE PEOPLE. 21:08 WE ARE LIVING IN THAT FINAL AGE OF THE CHURCH. 21:12 IT WAS THE LUKEWARM CHURCH. 21:14 HAD A--YOU KNOW, FIGURED THEY WERE RICH AND INCREASED WITH 21:17 GOODS LIKE THAT MAN IN THE PARABLE IN LUKE, FEASTING 21:22 SUMPTUOUSLY ON THE TRUTH. 21:23 WE'VE GOT THE TRUTH. 21:25 JEWISH NATION, TIME OF CHRIST. 21:27 WE'VE GOT THE TRUTH, FEASTING ON IT, BEGGARS LAYING 21:30 AT THEIR GATE, FULL OF SORES, DESIRING THE CRUMBS. 21:34 IF WE'RE NOT SHARING WITH THOSE THAT ARE LOST, THEN WE'VE GOT 21:36 A PROBLEM. 21:37 ALL RIGHT, SO THAT REPRESENTED THE MESSAGE 21:39 OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES. 21:40 NOW YOU TRANSITION FROM GOD TALKING ABOUT THE CONDITION 21:43 OF THE CHURCH BELOW. 21:45 THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN, AND GO WITH ME IN YOUR BIBLES 21:47 TO REVELATION 4. 21:49 IT'S REAL IMPORTANT THAT WE READ THIS BECAUSE YOU'RE 21:51 GONNA RUN INTO IT AND-- IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY. 21:55 VERSE ONE. 21:56 CHAPTER FOUR, VERSE ONE. 21:59 "AFTER THESE THINGS, I LOOKED, AND, BEHOLD, A DOOR STANDING 22:03 OPEN IN HEAVEN; AND THE FIRST VOICE THAT I HEARD WAS LIKE 22:09 A TRUMPET, SPEAKING WITH ME, SAYING, 'COME UP HERE AND I 22:13 WILL SHOW YOU THINGS THAT MUST TAKE PLACE AFTER THIS.'" 22:17 AND SO HE GOES THROUGH THE CHURCHES AND HE SAYS, 22:20 "NOW I WANT TO SHOW YOU IN A SPECIAL WAY THINGS 22:22 THAT MUST TAKE PLACE." 22:24 A LOT OF OUR EVANGELICAL FRIENDS, NOT ALL OF THEM, BUT 22:27 A LOT OF OUR EVANGELICAL FRIENDS READ THIS AND WHEN HE SAYS, 22:30 "COME UP HERE," THEY WRITE DOWN NEXT TO THAT, "RAPTURE." 22:35 SO THEY TAKE EVERYTHING FROM CHAPTER FOUR ON, AND I TOLD YOU 22:39 LAST WEEK THAT'S WHERE IT GETS THE NAME FUTURISM. 22:42 THEY SAY, "THIS IS ALL IN THE FUTURE." 22:44 BECAUSE YOU DON'T HEAR THE WORD CHURCH MENTIONED MUCH UNTIL YOU 22:46 GET DOWN TOWARDS THE END. 22:48 THAT MEANS THE CHURCH IS CAUGHT UP. 22:50 IT'S OUT OF THE WORLD. 22:51 AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT'S HAPPENING IN REVELATION IS 22:53 HAPPENING BEYOND OUR TIME. 22:55 I THINK THE DEVIL LOVES FOR PEOPLE TO THINK THAT BECAUSE 22:58 JESUS ACTUALLY SAYS THE TIME IS AT HAND. 23:01 YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO TRACE CHAPTER FOUR FROM THE TIME 23:03 OF JOHN ON TO THE TIME OF THE SECOND COMING. 23:07 AND THEY TAKE IT AND THEY TOSS IT ALL OFF INTO THE FUTURE JUST 23:10 BECAUSE HE SAID, "COME UP." 23:13 'CAUSE IT SAYS THERE'S A--HEAR-- A VOICE LIKE A TRUMPET. 23:15 THEY SAY, "THAT'S THE TRUMPET OF GABRIEL." 23:18 JUST THE TRUMPET JUST MEANS LOUD THERE. 23:20 TRUMPETS ANNOUNCE THINGS. 23:22 TRUMPETS NOT ALL EQUATED WITH THE SECOND COMING. 23:25 THE VOICE OF THE LORD LIKE A TRUMPET. 23:27 TRUMPETS IN THE BIBLE HAD TO DO WITH CROSSING OVER THE JORDAN 23:31 RIVER WHEN JERICHO FELL. 23:33 TRUMPETS HAD TO DO WITH MILITARY DECISIONS. 23:37 SO I THINK IT'S REALLY A LEAP IN LOGIC TO SAY, "BECAUSE 23:40 HE SAID COME UP AND THEY HEAR A TRUMPET, THAT MEANS THAT 23:43 THIS IS NOW THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS. 23:45 EVERYTHING ELSE THAT'S HAPPENING IN REVELATION IS 23:47 IN THE FUTURE." 23:48 ANOTHER IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE WHEN YOU STUDY BIBLE PROPHECY. 23:53 BIBLE PROPHECY IS NOT GIVEN IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER LIKE YOU 23:57 MIGHT WRITE DOWN YOUR AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 24:00 I WAS BORN WHILE I WAS VERY YOUNG, YOU KNOW, AND THEN YOU 24:04 GO FROM THERE. 24:07 IN SEQUENCE. 24:09 THIS HAPPENED THIS YEAR AND THIS HAPPENED THIS YEAR AND YOU 24:10 DO IT SEQUENTIALLY. 24:12 THE WAY THAT PROPHECY WORKS, IT GOES LIKE THIS. 24:16 THE BIBLE'S WRITTEN LIKE THIS. 24:18 FIRST, IN THE BEGINNING, GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS 24:20 AND THE EARTH. 24:21 SO HE TAKES YOU THAT FAR. 24:22 SAYS, "NOW LET ME BACK UP AND TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED WHEN 24:24 HE CREATED." 24:25 AND HE GOES LIKE THIS AND HE TAKES IT A LITTLE FURTHER. 24:27 SAYS, "NOW I'M GONNA TELL YOU ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED ON THE 24:29 SIXTH DAY, WHEN ADAM COULDN'T FIND A WIFE AND HE STARTED 24:31 LOOKING AROUND. 24:32 THE ANIMALS WEREN'T GOING TO WORK." 24:34 AND THEN HE GOES BACK. 24:35 HE SAYS, "NOW LET ME GIVE YOU THE GENEALOGIES OF ADAM." 24:37 AND HE BACKS UP AND IT OVERLAPS. 24:38 IT KEEPS GOING BACK AND IT KEEPS GOING--OVERLAPPING. 24:41 IT'S NOT WRITTEN SEQUENTIALLY. 24:44 DANIEL 2. 24:46 HOW MANY OF YOU SORT OF UNDERSTAND THAT COVERS 24:48 THE HISTORY OF THE KINGDOMS OF THE WORLD? 24:51 AND WHEN YOU GET THE END OF DANIEL 2, THAT'S THE END 24:53 OF THE BOOK, RIGHT? 24:55 NO. 24:56 HE COVERS THE PANORAMA OF THE WORLD'S KINGDOMS THROUGH 24:58 THIS ONE VISION. 25:00 SAYS, "NOW I'M GONNA SHOW YOU THE SAME TIME PERIOD, BUT I'M 25:03 GONNA USE ANOTHER VISION. 25:05 I'M GONNA GO AROUND THIS SIDE AND NOW WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT 25:07 A GOAT AND A RAM. 25:08 AND THEN WE'RE GONNA GO OVER HERE, WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT 25:10 A LION AND A LEOPARD AND A BEAR." 25:12 AND BACKING UP AND COVERING A LOT OF THE SAME TERRITORY IN 25:16 LAYERS SO THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT WHAT IT'S SAYING. 25:19 AND LET'S FACE IT, SOME OF US LIKE TO THINK ABOUT IT IN 25:22 THE METALS. 25:23 WE'RE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TANGIBLE. 25:24 WE LIKE THE MINERALS. 25:26 WE LIKE DANIEL 2. 25:28 SOME OF US, WE LIKE ANIMALS. 25:30 WE LIKE TO THINK ABOUT THE LION AND THE BEAR. 25:33 GOD GIVES IT ALL IN DIFFERENT PICTURES SO THAT IF YOU DON'T 25:37 GET IT ONE TIME AROUND, YOU MIGHT GET IT ANOTHER 25:39 TIME AROUND. 25:41 AND SO IT APPEALS TO EVERYBODY. 25:44 AND SO WHEN YOU'RE READING THROUGH REVELATION, IT IS NOT 25:46 WRITTEN SEQUENTIALLY. 25:47 SO MY HEART BREAKS FOR THESE DEAR PEOPLE THAT GET TO CHAPTER 25:49 FOUR AND SAY, "THAT'S ALL IN THE FUTURE. 25:52 I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN." 25:54 AND THEY CAN'T--THEY'RE MISSING SO MUCH. 25:57 I'D LIKE TO STUDY REVELATION 17 WITH THOSE PEOPLE 'CAUSE YOU 26:01 CAN'T READ THAT WITHOUT SAYING, "WOW." 26:03 OR REVELATION 12. 26:04 IT FITS PERFECTLY WITH HISTORY. 26:06 HOW CAN THEY MISS IT? 26:09 MUCH OF IT PAST HISTORY. 26:12 AND SO A LOT OF DEAR PEOPLE SAY COME UP--ALL HE'S DOING, 26:15 HE SAID, "LOOK, I'VE SHOWN YOU THINGS THAT ARE RELATING 26:17 ON EARTH. 26:18 NOW I'M GONNA TAKE YOU OFF INTO HEAVEN AND I'M GONNA GIVE YOU 26:20 A VISION OF HOW HEAVEN IS DEALING WITH WHAT'S HAPPENING 26:23 WITH THE CHURCH ON EARTH." 26:25 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN HE'S BROUGHT INTO THIS THRONE VIEW 26:29 IN HEAVEN. 26:30 "I LOOKED, AND, BEHOLD, A DOOR STANDING OPEN." 26:34 HE SAYS, "I'LL SHOW YOU THINGS THAT MUST COME." 26:36 "AND I WAS IN THE SPIRIT AND I BEHELD A THRONE SET IN HEAVEN, 26:40 AND ONE SAT ON THE THRONE." 26:41 WHY IS HE IN THE SPIRIT? 26:43 'CAUSE GOD'S A SPIRIT AND ANGELS ARE MINISTERING 26:46 SPIRITS. 26:47 HE'S SURROUNDED WITH SPIRITUAL THINGS, SO HE HAS TO BE 26:49 IN THE SPIRIT. 26:50 THAT'S--SO, BEFORE HE'S ON THE ISLE OF PATMOS AND HE'S KIND 26:53 OF LOOKING ACROSS THE AEGEAN SEA AND GOD IS SHOWING HIM THIS 26:56 VISION OF JESUS AMONG HIS CHURCHES ON EARTH. 26:58 NOW HE'S SHOWING HIM JESUS INTERCEDING IN HEAVEN. 27:02 AND SO THAT'S ALL THAT'S MEANT THERE. 27:05 AND IT TELLS US, "I SAW A THRONE, AND ONE SAT ON 27:10 THE THRONE. 27:11 AND HE THAT SAT WAS LIKE JASPER AND SARDIUS IN APPEARANCE, AND 27:15 A RAINBOW AROUND HIS THRONE." 27:17 HE BEGINS TO DESCRIBE GOD THE FATHER ON HIS THRONE AND GOD 27:20 THE SON IS DESCRIBED IN THE SAME CHAPTER. 27:23 YOU GO TO DANIEL. 27:24 THERE'S ONLY A COUPLE PLACES IN THE BIBLE YOU FIND GOD THE 27:27 FATHER AND THE SON AND IT TALKS ABOUT TWO THRONES. 27:31 IN DANIEL 7 HAS THAT IN THAT GREAT JUDGMENT SCENE. 27:35 "I SAW THE ANCIENT OF DAYS AND ONE LIKE THE SON OF MAN 27:37 WAS BROUGHT BEFORE HIM." 27:38 WHO'S THE SON OF MAN? 27:40 JESUS. 27:41 THEN WHO'S THE ANCIENT OF DAYS? 27:43 MUST BE GOD THE FATHER. 27:45 SO HERE YOU'VE GOT THIS PICTURE OF THESE THRONES IN HEAVEN. 27:48 AND THEN IT TALKS ABOUT AROUND THE THRONE OF GOD YOU'VE GOT 27:51 THESE CREATURES. 27:53 YOU'VE GOT THESE FOUR BEASTS AROUND THE THRONE OF GOD 27:58 IN REVELATION 4. 28:01 REVELATION 4, IT SAYS, "AND THE FIRST BEAST WAS LIKE A LION. 28:06 THE SECOND BEAST WAS LIKE A CALF. 28:08 THE THIRD HAD THE FACE OF A MAN. 28:10 THE FOURTH WAS FLYING LIKE AN EAGLE." 28:14 NOW, YOU KNOW, THAT'S EXACTLY LIKE WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO FIND 28:16 IN EZEKIEL 1:10. 28:19 TO UNDERSTAND REVELATION, YOU GOT TO GO BACK. 28:21 EZEKIEL 1:10. 28:22 "THE LIKENESS OF THEIR FACES, FOR THEY HAD FOUR FACES, 28:25 OF A MAN, THE FACE OF A LION. 28:28 THEY HAD--THE FOUR, THEY HAD THE FACE OF AN OX, THE FACE 28:31 OF AN EAGLE." 28:32 SO THERE'S A CONSISTENCY HERE. 28:34 EZEKIEL MAKES IT SOUND LIKE THERE'S FOUR CREATURES AND EACH 28:36 ONE HAS FOUR FACES. 28:38 AND IN JOHN, MAKES IT SOUND LIKE THERE'S FOUR CREATURES 28:40 AND EACH ONE HAS ONE FACE, BUT THEY'RE ALL DIFFERENT. 28:44 WHAT DOES THIS MEAN? 28:45 IS GOD SURROUNDED WITH ALL THESE STRANGE, ALIEN-LIKE 28:51 CREATURES IN HEAVEN? 28:53 FIRST OF ALL, JESUS APPEARS IN CHAPTER ONE WITH A SWORD COMING 28:56 OUT OF HIS HEAD. 28:59 IS JESUS GOING TO COME AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE HIM, HE'S 29:03 HOLDING A SICKLE AND HE'S GOT A SWORD COMING OUT OF HIS MOUTH? 29:06 HOLDING A SICKLE MEANS HE'S HARVESTING THE EARTH. 29:08 WHAT DOES THE SWORD REPRESENT? 29:10 USE THE BIBLE. 29:11 HEBREWS 4, "THE WORD OF GOD IS QUICK AND POWERFUL AND SHARPER 29:14 THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD." 29:17 EPHESIANS 6, "THE WORD OF GOD--THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT 29:20 WHICH IS THE WORD OF GOD." 29:22 SO NO QUESTION ABOUT WHAT THAT SWORD REPRESENTS. 29:24 IN HIS MOUTH, WHAT WAS IN THE MOUTH OF JESUS? 29:26 THE WORD OF GOD. 29:28 SO WHEN WE GO UP TO SAY HI TO JESUS IN HEAVEN AND WE TRY AND 29:32 GIVE HIM A HUG, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO DODGE A SWORD STICKING 29:34 OUT OF HIS HEAD? 29:37 OR IS THAT A SYMBOL? 29:38 SO, SO MANY OF THESE IMAGES AND CREATURES YOU'RE SEEING, 29:41 YOU SAY, "WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?" 29:42 ALL RIGHT, WHAT DO YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU THINK OF A LION IN THE 29:48 BIBLE? 29:50 WELL, LION REPRESENTS--JESUS IS CALLED THE LION OF THE TRIBE 29:53 OF JUDAH. 29:55 A LION IS A PICTURE OF STRENGTH IN THE BIBLE. 29:58 IT'S A PICTURE OF MAJESTY AND OF POWER. 30:03 AND YOU THINK ABOUT AN EAGLE, IT REPRESENTS SWIFTNESS. 30:08 GOD SAYS, "I BORE YOU ON MY WINGS AS AN EAGLE DOES HER 30:10 YOUNG." 30:11 EAGLES, THEIR SIGHT. 30:12 THEY CAN SEE. 30:13 THEY'RE LIKE ALL-SEEING. 30:14 NOTHING ESCAPES AN EAGLE. 30:15 IT SEES EVERYTHING HAPPENING. 30:17 AN EAGLE UP ON HIS SPOT, HE CAN LOOK ALL THE WAY AROUND HIM 30:20 AND SEE. 30:21 THEN YOU'VE GOT A CALF. 30:22 THESE WERE HUMBLE CREATURES. 30:23 THEY WERE ANIMALS OF SACRIFICE. 30:25 THEY WOULD LABOR. 30:27 AND THEN YOU'VE GOT A MAN AND ALL THE DIGNITY OF MAN MADE 30:29 IN GOD'S IMAGE. 30:30 YOU KNOW, THE BEST EXPLANATION I'VE HEARD OF THESE FOUR 30:33 CREATURES, THEY REPRESENT DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF WHO 30:36 GOD IS. 30:37 YOU NOTICE THEY'RE AROUND THE THRONE OF GOD. 30:39 THEY'RE TELLING US SOMETHING ABOUT GOD AND HIS CHARACTER. 30:44 THE FOUR GOSPELS I'VE HEARD IDENTIFIED WITH THESE FOUR 30:46 CREATURES. 30:48 WHY DID GOD GIVE US FOUR DIFFERENT GOSPELS? 30:51 SAME STORY, ALL A LITTLE PERSPECTIVE. 30:55 I HAVE HEARD MARK COMPARED TO THE EAGLE. 30:58 IT IS THE QUICK GOSPEL. 31:02 HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED, YOU READ THE BOOK OF MARK, HOW OFTEN IT 31:05 WILL SAY, "AND IMMEDIATELY, AND STRAIGHTAWAY"? 31:08 IT IS YOUR SUMMARY. 31:09 IT IS MOVING BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG, VERY FAST. 31:12 BY THE WAY, IT'S THE SHORTEST GOSPEL. 31:14 GETS RIGHT TO THE POINT. 31:15 IT'S THE EAGLE VIEW. 31:17 THEN YOU GOT THE BOOK OF MATTHEW, WHICH IS THE LION. 31:21 IN THE BOOK OF MATTHEW, JESUS IS SHOWN TO BE THE MESSIAH, 31:25 THE KING, THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH. 31:28 ALL THROUGH THE BOOK, IT'S REFERRING BACK TO 31:30 THE PROPHECIES THAT PROVE JESUS WAS THE KING. 31:34 IN THE BOOK OF LUKE, WHAT WAS LUKE'S OCCUPATION? 31:37 HE'S A DOCTOR. 31:39 JESUS IS PORTRAYED AS THE SON OF MAN AND HE OFTEN HAS A MORE 31:45 HUMAN PERSPECTIVE IN LUKE. 31:47 AND THEN IN JOHN, JESUS IS SHOWN TO BE THE GREAT 31:49 SACRIFICE, THE LAMB OF GOD OR THE CALF. 31:52 AND SO EACH ONE OF 'EM IS GIVING THESE DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES. 31:56 NOW I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE EVER HEARD THIS BEFORE, BUT IT GOES 31:59 ALL THE WAY BACK TO ARISTOTLE THAT PEOPLE ARE DIVIDED UP INTO 32:03 FOUR PRIMARY CHARACTERISTICS. 32:07 AND MOST PSYCHOLOGISTS REALLY AGREE WITH THIS PRINCIPLE. 32:13 YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD IT BEFORE. 32:17 MELANCHOLY, SANGUINE, PHLEGMATIC, AND CHOLERIC. 32:23 NOW IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT WORD YOU USE AND I'M NOT--THERE'S 32:26 NOTHING SACRED ABOUT THOSE TERMS. 32:28 PEOPLE TYPICALLY ARE DIVIDED AMONG FOUR MAJOR CATEGORY 32:33 PERSONALITY GROUPS THAT CAN HAVE DIFFERENT BREAK UP. 32:38 AND SOME ARE KIND OF A MIXING OF ALL THOSE THINGS, BUT WE'VE 32:40 ALL KNOWN PEOPLE THAT HAVE THESE DIFFERENT EMPHASIS 32:43 IN THEIR CHARACTER. 32:44 WHO'S GOING TO LIVE IN THE NEW JERUSALEM? 32:47 CHURCH. 32:49 CHURCH IS COMPOSED OF HOW MANY APOSTLES WERE THERE? 32:52 TWELVE. 32:54 HOW MANY GATES ON EACH WALL? 32:57 EACH WALL HAS 3 GATES, 12 TOTAL, RIGHT? 33:00 AND IT'S KIND OF TELLING US THAT WE'RE ALL SORT 33:02 OF A COMPOSITE. 33:04 ON THE BREASTPLATE OF THE HIGH PRIEST, JESUS APPEARS AS 33:07 THE HIGH PRIEST IN REVELATION 1, THERE WERE 12 STONES. 33:10 AND WERE THEY ALL THE SAME? 33:12 WERE THREE OF 'EM THE SAME? 33:15 YOU WEREN'T SO SURE. 33:16 NO TWO OF THEM ARE THE SAME. 33:18 ARE THEY ALL PRECIOUS? 33:20 THEY ARE. 33:21 THEY'RE ALL DIFFERENT. 33:23 GOD'S CHURCH--HE'S NOT A COOKIE CUTTER UP IN THE SKY WHERE 33:26 ALL OF YOU HAVE TO ACT EXACTLY THE SAME. 33:29 WE ALL HAVE A LITTLE DIFFERENT PERSONALITY AND DIFFERENT GIFTS 33:31 THAT ALL MUST BE SANCTIFIED BY CHRIST. 33:36 YOU KNOW HOW MANY DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS YOU CAN GET 33:38 WHEN YOU'VE GOT 12 TIMES 12? 33:41 A HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR. 33:42 WE'RE ALL UNIQUE. 33:45 YOU CAN PROBABLY GET 144,000 OUT OF THAT. 33:48 ANYWAY, SO YOU GET THESE FOUR CREATURES AROUND GOD'S THRONE 33:52 AND NOW THEY'RE--IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS VISION, IT TALKS ABOUT 33:56 THERE'S THIS SCROLL THAT APPEARS THAT HAS SEVEN SEALS 34:01 ON IT. 34:02 IT'S A MYSTERY SCROLL WITH SEVEN SEALS. 34:05 AND THEY'RE WONDERING WHO'S GOING TO BE ABLE TO OPEN IT. 34:08 OH, BY THE WAY, YOU KNOW WHAT I JUMPED PAST? 34:11 I FORGOT TO TALK ABOUT THE 24 ELDERS AROUND THE THRONE. 34:13 I KNEW THIS WAS GONNA TAKE LONGER THAN I THOUGHT. 34:17 WHERE'D THEY COME FROM? 34:18 TWENTY-FOUR ELDERS. 34:21 I THOUGHT THAT YOU DON'T GET TO HEAVEN TILL YOU DIE AND 34:24 YOU'RE--THE RESURRECTION TAKES PLACE, AND YET YOU GET 34:26 24 ELDERS AND THEY SEEM TO BE HUMAN. 34:29 WELL, FOR ONE THING, WHEN JESUS DIED AND ROSE, DOESN'T IT SAY 34:32 THERE IN MATTHEW 28, "AND MANY OF THE GRAVES OF THEM THAT 34:35 SLEPT WERE OPENED AND THEY AROSE AND THEY APPEARED 34:40 TO MANY." 34:41 AND SO THIS CAN BE SOME OF THE FIRST FRUITS OF THE PEOPLE THAT 34:44 CAME WITH CHRIST TO HEAVEN. 34:45 WHY 24? 34:48 HAVE YOU READ IN THE BIBLE THAT--IT SAYS HERE IN 34:50 REVELATION WE ARE TO BE A NATION OF KINGS AND PRIESTS. 34:54 BY THE WAY, PLEASE REMEMBER THIS, TO UNDERSTAND REVELATION, 34:58 A LOT OF IT IS WRITTEN IN THE CONTEXT 35:00 OF THE GREAT EXODUS. 35:01 THE EXODUS WAS THE HISTORY OF THE ISRAELITES. 35:05 IT WAS THE BACKDROP FOR EVERYTHING THEY BELIEVED IN, 35:08 THAT GOD HAD CALLED THEM HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE. 35:10 THE WHOLE EXODUS EXPERIENCE, GOD IN THEIR MIDST, THE TEN 35:13 COMMANDMENTS, THE COVENANT, THE DELIVERANCE FROM SLAVERY, 35:16 IT'S ALL SALVATION, ISN'T IT? 35:18 WELL, GOD SAYS HE CALLED THEM IN EXODUS TO BE A NATION OF 35:21 KINGS AND PRIESTS. 35:22 AND BY THE WAY, THE TEN PLAGUES THAT FELL ON THE EGYPTIANS, DO 35:26 YOU FIND SEVEN PLAGUES THAT ARE VERY SIMILAR IN REVELATION? 35:29 KNOWING EXODUS IS GONNA HELP YOU UNDERSTAND REVELATION. 35:33 THERE'S A LOT OF SIMILARITY. 35:35 WELL, YOU READ IN 1 CHRONICLES 23, IT TALKS 35:40 ABOUT 24,000 WERE APPOINTED TO WORK IN THE HOUSE 35:45 OF THE LORD. 35:46 THERE WAS A CIRCUIT OF 24,000 PRIESTS DURING THE TIME OF 35:49 DAVID AND SOLOMON THAT WORKED IN THE TEMPLE, THE LEVITES, 35:53 THAT ROTATED. 35:55 AND DAVID HAD AN ARMY, 1 CHRONICLES 27:1. 36:00 "THE DIVISIONS CAME IN AND WENT OUT MONTH BY MONTH THROUGHOUT, 36:02 EACH DIVISION HAVING 24,000." 36:06 SO YOU'VE GOT 24,000 AMONG THE PRIESTS AND 24,000 AMONG 36:09 THE OFFICERS AND THE MILITARY. 36:13 PRIESTS AND KINGS. 36:16 BY THE WAY, JESUS APPEARS IN REVELATION AS A KING 36:19 AND A PRIEST. 36:20 CAN YOU THINK OF ANOTHER KING-PRIEST IN THE BIBLE? 36:24 MELCHIZEDEK. 36:25 IT SAYS THERE'S THIS KING AND THIS PRIEST. 36:28 HE APPEARS OUT OF NOWHERE AND HE DISAPPEARS. 36:30 DOESN'T TELL WHEN HE'S BORN, WHO HIS PEOPLE ARE. 36:32 DOESN'T TELL WHEN HE DIED AND WHERE HE WENT OR WHERE 36:34 HE'S BURIED. 36:35 WITHOUT BEGINNING OR END, HE'S A TYPE OF CHRIST FROM ETERNITY 36:38 TO ETERNITY. 36:39 MELCHIZEDEK, THE KING AND PRIEST, WHO APPEARS THERE 36:42 IN GENESIS 14:18. 36:46 THE KING OF SALEM. 36:47 SALEM WAS THE ABBREVIATED FORM OF JERUSALEM. 36:51 SALEM MEANS PEACE. 36:52 JERU-SHALOM. 36:56 THIS KING-PRIEST AND HE'S THE--MELCHIZEDEK MEANS KING OF. 37:01 MELCHI--MEL MEANS KING. 37:03 DEZEK, RIGHTEOUSNESS. 37:05 KING OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHO IS THE PRIEST AND THE KING, 37:10 KING-PRIEST OF THE MOST HIGH GOD, WHOM ABRAHAM EVEN GAVE 37:13 TITHE TO. 37:15 AND IT SAYS HE BROUGHT OUT BREAD AND WINE. 37:19 WHAT DOES JESUS DO AT THE LAST SUPPER, OUR KING-PRIEST? 37:22 MAKES A COVENANT WITH US. 37:23 WHAT ARE THE EMBLEMS OF THE COVENANT. 37:25 BREAD AND WINE. 37:27 HAD GRAPE JUICE AND THAT BREAD. 37:28 THAT'S JUST FANTASTIC. 37:30 AND SO ALL OF THIS IS ACCOMPANIED. 37:32 THE 24 ELDERS--WELL, THERE'S 2 SETS OF 24 IN THE BIBLE, IN 37:36 THE LEADERS AND IN THE PRIESTS. 37:41 AND SO KINGS AND PRIESTS. 37:42 ALL RIGHT, NOW I CAN GO TO THE SEVEN SCROLLS. 37:46 NOW YOU'VE GOT THESE--THIS SCROLL THAT APPEARS HERE 37:49 IN REVELATION 6. 37:52 AND THERE'S A LOT OF CONCERN BECAUSE IT'S IN THE RIGHT HAND. 37:57 RIGHT HAND IN THE BIBLE A SYMBOL OF FAVOR. 38:00 BUT NOBODY IS FOUND WORTHY TO OPEN THE SCROLL. 38:04 AND SO THERE'S A GREAT CONSTERNATION IN JOHN. 38:07 IT SAYS, "HE WEPT MUCH." 38:10 THIS IS HE--YOU EVER JUST BEEN DREAMING, ALL OF A SUDDEN 38:14 SOMETHING HAPPENS IN YOUR DREAM. 38:15 YOU CAN'T EVEN UNDERSTAND WHY, BUT YOU'RE OVERCOME WITH 38:17 A SADNESS, A PROFOUND SADNESS IN YOUR DREAM. 38:22 AND I'VE WOKE UP BEFORE WHEN I JUST GET THIS TREMENDOUS SENSE 38:25 OF SADNESS. 38:26 I ALMOST FELT LIKE SOBBING. 38:28 AND JOHN JUST REALIZED, "IF THIS SCROLL CANNOT BE OPENED, 38:31 THE WORLD IS DOOMED." 38:35 AND THERE'S A GREAT SOBBING BECAUSE THIS SCROLL NOT ONLY 38:39 UNFOLDS THE FUTURE--BY THE WAY, DO YOU KNOW HOW YOU AND I LIVE? 38:45 IN THE FUTURE. 38:46 IF I WERE TO TELL YOU YOU'RE GOING TO DO ALL YOUR LIVING 38:48 RIGHT NOW IN THE PRESENT, THAT MEANS YOUR LIFE'S OVER AS SOON 38:51 AS THE PRESENT GOES BY. 38:54 IF YOU DON'T HAVE A FUTURE, YOU DON'T HAVE LIFE. 38:56 DOES THAT--AM I GOING-- AM I CONFUSING YOU? 39:01 ARE YOU AWARE THAT IN 2 DAYS, TOMORROW WILL BE YESTERDAY? 39:09 NOW THAT'S PRETTY DEEP, ISN'T IT? 39:14 YOU WITH ME? 39:17 THIS SCROLL IS A SCROLL OF PROPHECY. 39:20 PROPHECY IS ABOUT THE FUTURE. 39:22 IT'S ABOUT LIFE. 39:24 IT'S ABOUT ETERNAL LIFE. 39:26 AND IF GOD CAN'T OPEN THIS, IF NO ONE CAN OPEN THIS, 39:29 WE HAVE NO FUTURE. 39:31 SOME HAVE COMPARED IT WITH THE BOOK OF LIFE, BUT TO BE 39:33 MORE ACCURATE IT'S REALLY ABOUT PROPHECY. 39:36 YOU READ IN ISAIAH 29 ABOUT ANOTHER SCROLL THAT 39:38 CAN'T BE OPENED. 39:40 IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND REVELATION, THE RULES ARE CAN'T 39:43 MAKE UP YOUR INTERPRETATIONS. 39:44 I'VE HEARD SOME PREACHERS, THEY JUST SAY, "I THINK 39:46 IT MEANS THIS." 39:47 AND YOU THINK, "WHERE'D HE GET THAT?" 39:49 'CAUSE THAT'S HOW WE FELT THAT DAY. 39:51 THAT'S NOT FAIR. 39:52 YOU CAN'T DO THAT. 39:53 WE'LL ALL HAVE DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS. 39:55 THEY'RE CALLED PRIVATE INTERPRETATIONS. 39:57 THEY'RE DEADLY. 39:58 LET THE BIBLE INTERPRET ITSELF. 39:59 FIND ANOTHER SCROLL IN THE BIBLE THAT'S SEALED AND YOU'LL 40:02 START TO GET THE CLUES. 40:03 ISAIAH 29:11-12. 40:06 "THE WHOLE VISION HAS BECOME TO YOU LIKE THE WORDS OF A BOOK 40:10 THAT IS SEALED." 40:11 HE'S TALKING ABOUT A VISION, A PROPHECY. 40:15 "WHICH MEN DELIVER TO ONE WHO'S LITERATE." 40:17 THIS PERSON CAN READ. 40:18 "AND THEY SAY, 'READ THIS PLEASE.' 40:20 HE SAYS, 'I CAN'T BECAUSE IT'S SEALED.'" 40:22 WELL, THERE'S ONE PERSON, HE SAYS, "I WON'T READ IT 40:24 'CAUSE IT'S SEALED." 40:24 THEN THEY GO TO ANOTHER GUY WHO'S ILLITERATE AND SAY, 40:26 "PLEASE READ THIS." 40:27 HE SAYS, "WHY ARE YOU ASKING ME? 40:29 I CAN'T EVEN READ." 40:30 SO HERE THEY'RE MAKING ALL THESE EXCUSES FOR SAYING, 40:32 "WE CAN'T--WE HAVE NO POWER TO OPEN THIS SEALED BOOK." 40:36 YOU EITHER CAN'T READ OR IT'S SEALED. 40:38 SO WE NEED SOMEONE ELSE TO OPEN IT. 40:40 BY THE WAY, YOU READ IN DANIEL 12:4 IF YOU WANT TO KNOW 40:42 WHAT THIS BOOK IS. 40:44 LET THE BIBLE INTERPRET ITSELF. 40:46 "BUT YOU, DANIEL, SHUT UP THE WORDS AND SEAL THE BOOK 40:50 UNTIL THE TIME OF THE END." 40:53 NOW WHAT DOES THAT MEAN, SEAL IT TILL THE TIME OF THE END? 40:55 DOESN'T THAT SAY THAT AT THE TIME OF THE END IT WON'T 40:57 BE SEALED? 40:59 AT SOME POINT IT'S GOING TO BE OPEN, WHEN? 41:01 THE TIME OF THE END IT'S NO LONGER SEALED. 41:03 UNTIL THE TIME OF THE END, IT IS SEALED. 41:05 AND BY THE WAY, MORE OF REVELATION HAS COME TO 41:08 UNDERSTANDING DURING THE LAST AGE OF THE CHURCH OF THE TIME 41:10 OF THE END THAN ANY OTHER TIME IN HISTORY. 41:14 GREAT KNOWLEDGE. 41:15 PROPHECY'S BEST UNDERSTOOD LOOKING BACK. 41:18 AND A LOT OF IT'S BEHIND US AND SO IT'S BEEN UNSEALED TO 41:21 A GREAT EXTENT. 41:22 AND SO THIS IS ALSO UNSEALING OUR FUTURE. 41:26 REVELATION 22:10. 41:28 HE SAID, "DO NOT SEAL THE WORDS OF THE PROPHECY OF THIS BOOK." 41:32 SO IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE BOOK OF REVELATION'S ABOUT 41:35 TO BE OPENED. 41:35 THAT'S WHAT'S SEALED WITH THOSE SEVEN SEALS. 41:38 THE TRUTH IS ABOUT TO BE REVEALED ABOUT SALVATION, 41:40 ABOUT GOD, ABOUT THE BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. 41:43 AMOS 3:7. 41:45 "SURELY THE LORD GOD DOES NOTHING UNLESS HE REVEALS 41:49 HIS SECRET TO HIS SERVANTS THE PROPHETS." 41:51 SO THROUGH JOHN THE PROPHET, HE'S REVEALING HIS SECRETS 41:54 TO US. 41:55 AND SO THEN THEY SAY, "DO NOT WEEP, JOHN, FOR THERE'S ONE 41:58 WHO CAN OPEN THE BOOK." 41:59 NOW I WANT YOU TO GO WITH ME TO REVELATION 6. 42:04 AND HERE IT TELLS US ABOUT WHAT HE SEES. 42:10 I'M ACTUALLY IN REVELATION 5. 42:16 HE SAID, "DON'T WEEP," VERSE FIVE. 42:18 "ONE OF THE ELDERS SAID, 'DO NOT WEEP. 42:20 BEHOLD, THE LION OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH.'" 42:22 DO WE KNOW WHAT THAT LION REPRESENTS? 42:24 "'THE ROOT OF DAVID, HE HAS PREVAILED TO OPEN THE SCROLL.' 42:28 " PREVAILED. 42:29 WHY PREVAILED? 42:30 MEANS THERE WAS A STRUGGLE. 42:32 HE STRUGGLED WITH THE DEVIL. 42:34 HE HAS THE RIGHT. 42:35 HE LIVED THAT SINLESS LIFE. 42:36 "'TO LOOSE ITS SEVEN SEALS.' AND I LOOKED AND BEHOLD." 42:42 BY THE WAY, THIS IS WHY THIS SERMON TAKES SO LONG. 42:45 I KEEP SAYING, "INCIDENTALLY." 42:47 BY THE WAY, DO YOU KNOW THERE WAS A SEALED SCROLL THAT WAS 42:52 GIVEN TO A MAN THAT HAD HIS OWN DEATH SENTENCE IN IT? 42:57 URIAH WAS HANDED BY DAVID A MESSAGE GIVEN TO JOAB THAT 43:03 CONTAINED THE DEATH SENTENCE OF URIAH. 43:07 EVEN THOUGH HE WAS INNOCENT, HE HAD TO DIE TO COVER THE SIN 43:11 OF OTHERS. 43:13 AND HE DELIVERED HIS OWN DEATH SENTENCE IN A SEALED SCROLL. 43:18 JESUS, THAT LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN, IS THE ONLY ONE THAT HAD 43:22 A RIGHT TO OPEN THAT SCROLL 'CAUSE FOR YOU AND I TO 43:25 UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS, FOR US TO HAVE A FUTURE, FOR US TO 43:28 KNOW THE VISION, HE HAD TO DIE TO GIVE US THIS INFORMATION. 43:31 DOES THAT SORT OF MAKE SENSE TO YOU? 43:34 SPIRITUAL THINGS ARE SPIRITUALLY UNDERSTOOD. 43:36 IT MADE SENSE TO ME. 43:38 "I LOOKED, AND BEHOLD, IN THE MIDST OF THE THRONE AND OF 43:40 THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES, AND IN THE MIDST OF THE ELDERS, 43:43 STOOD A LAMB AS THOUGH IT HAD BEEN SLAIN." 43:45 IT STANDS, BUT IT HAD BEEN SLAIN. 43:48 WHEN JESUS ROSE, DID HE BEAR SCARS THAT HE HAD BEEN SLAIN? 43:52 YES, BUT HE STOOD. 43:55 "HAVING SEVEN HORNS." 43:58 HORN IN THE BIBLE IS A SYMBOL OF POWER. 44:00 IF YOU WERE A SHEPHERD, WHEN THEY ANOINTED A PRIEST, THEY 44:03 POURED THE OIL OUT OF A HORN. 44:04 IT MEANT THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT. 44:06 THESE NATIONS, THESE KINGDOMS WERE REPRESENTED AS HORNS 44:11 IN DANIEL 8. 44:13 SO HE'S GOT THE SEVEN HORNS. 44:14 HE GOT SEVEN EYES. 44:15 THAT REPRESENTS KNOWLEDGE, KNOWING. 44:18 "WHICH ARE THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD." 44:20 IN ISAIAH 11:2, IT TALKS ABOUT THE SEVEN CHARACTERISTICS OF 44:23 GOD, THE SPIRIT SUCH AS WISDOM AND POWER AND KNOWLEDGE. 44:28 AND YOU'LL FIND THAT IN ISAIAH 11:2. 44:31 SO THIS IS JESUS WHO ENCOMPASSES ALL THAT. 44:36 "THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD SENT OUT INTO ALL THE EARTH." 44:39 THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT ARE GIVEN TO ALL. 44:43 "AND HE TOOK THE SCROLL OUT OF THE RIGHT HAND OF HIM THAT SAT 44:45 ON THE THRONE." 44:46 OKAY, NOW YOU'VE GOT JESUS THE LAMB AND SOMEONE WHO SITS 44:49 ON THE THRONE. 44:50 CAN YOU SEE THE FATHER AND THE SON IN THIS PICTURE? 44:53 YOU GOT THE LAMB TAKING THE SCROLL OUT OF THE HAND 44:55 OF ONE WHO SITS ON THE THRONE. 44:58 "AND NOW WHEN HE HAD TAKEN THE SCROLL, THE 4 LIVING CREATURES 45:01 AND THE 24 ELDERS FELL DOWN BEFORE THE LAMB, HAVING A HARP 45:05 AND GOLDEN BOWLS FULL OF INCENSE, WHICH ARE THE PRAYERS 45:08 OF THE SAINTS. 45:10 AND THEY SANG." 45:11 HERE YOU GOT THE INCENSE, SO WE KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING BY THAT 45:13 ALTAR OF INCENSE IN THE TEMPLE. 45:14 "THEY SANG A NEW SONG, SAYING, 'YOU ARE WORTHY TO TAKE THE 45:21 SCROLL AND TO OPEN ITS SEALS, FOR YOU WERE SLAIN AND YOU'VE 45:24 REDEEMED US TO GOD BY YOUR BLOOD OUT OF EVERY TRIBE AND 45:30 TONGUE AND PEOPLE AND NATION. 45:32 AND HAVE MADE US KINGS AND PRIESTS TO OUR GOD; AND WE 45:35 SHALL REIGN ON THE EARTH." 45:38 THERE YOU HAVE THE KINGS AND THE PRIESTS AGAIN 45:41 THAT WE FOUND IN CHAPTER ONE. 45:44 WE ARE THE NATION OF KINGS AND PRIEST, BUT YOU NOTICE IT'S NOT 45:46 JUST ISRAEL. 45:48 OUT OF EVERY NATION AND TONGUE. 45:51 NOW THIS WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO THOSE THAT WERE READING BECAUSE 45:54 NOW YOU GET TO CHAPTER 7 AND IT SAYS THERE'S 12,000 45:58 OUT OF 12 TRIBES. 46:00 OH, BEFORE I GET THERE, NOW LET'S START OPENING THE SEALS. 46:02 I'M GONNA TRY AND MAKE IT TO CHAPTER SEVEN ANYWAY. 46:07 SO THEY FALL DOWN, THEY WORSHIP. 46:10 THEY SAY, "WORTHY IS THE LAMB." 46:11 YOU FIND THAT EXALTATION AND PRAISE GETS MIGHTIER AND MORE 46:15 EXPANDED SEVERAL TIMES IN REVELATION. 46:17 THE PRAISE AND THE WORSHIP SONGS BECOME GREATER CRESCENDOS 46:23 THAN THE ONE BEFORE. 46:24 "FINALLY THEY OPENED THE SEALS. 46:28 NOW I SAW," CHAPTER SIX, VERSE ONE, "THE LAMB OPENED ONE OF 46:31 THE SEALS, AND I HEARD ONE OF THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES SAY 46:35 WITH ME, 'COME AND SEE.'" SO WHEN THE SEALS ARE OPEN, 46:38 HE SEES, HE UNDERSTANDS. 46:40 IT'S A REVELATION IS WHAT'S BEING GIVEN IN THESE SEALS. 46:44 AND HE SAID, "AND BEHOLD A WHITE HORSE; AND ONE WHO SAT 46:48 ON IT HAD A BOW, AND A CROWN WAS GIVEN TO HIM AND HE WENT OUT 46:52 CONQUERING, AND TO CONQUER." 46:55 NOW YOU FIND LATER IN REVELATION A RIDER ON A WHITE 46:58 HORSE AND IT'S CHRIST, WHO IS THE WORD OF GOD. 47:00 THIS REPRESENTS HOW THE WORD OF GOD TRIUMPHED IN THE FIRST 47:03 CENTURIES OF THE CHURCH. 47:04 THERE'S A PARALLEL BETWEEN THE SEVEN SEALS 47:07 AND THE SEVEN CHURCHES. 47:08 ONE IS GIVING SPIRITUAL HISTORY. 47:11 ONE IS GIVING THE POLITICAL HISTORY. 47:13 AGAIN, A SUMMARY. 47:14 I WANT YOU TO STUDY. 47:15 THREE, "HE OPENED THE NEXT SEAL." 47:18 NOW YOU GET THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE. 47:20 HERE WE GO. 47:21 BY THE WAY, THIS IS A PICTURE BY JOE MANISCALCO, THAT I WAS 47:23 TELLING YOU ABOUT, WHO'D WORN OUT REVELATION IN HIS BIBLE. 47:25 AND, YOU KNOW, THIS IS AN ARTIST'S CONCEPTION. 47:28 I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S EXACTLY WHAT JOHN SAW. 47:30 PROBABLY NOT, BUT IT GIVES YOU SOMETHING TO LOOK AT. 47:33 SO THEN THE NEXT ONE YOU'VE GOT IS THIS RED HORSE. 47:38 "AND HE SAID TO HIM, 'TAKE PEACE FROM THE EARTH, THAT 47:40 THEY SHOULD KILL ONE ANOTHER.' AND THERE WAS GIVEN HIM 47:43 A SWORD." 47:44 SO THEN YOU'VE GOT THIS AGE OF GREAT PERSECUTION THAT COMES 47:46 TO THE CHURCH. 47:47 THE THIRD SEAL, HE OPENS, HE SAYS, "COME AND SEE." 47:50 THIS BLACK HORSE, HE GOT A PAIR OF SCALES IN HIS HAND. 47:54 HE HEARS HIM SAY, "A QUART OF WHAT FOR A DENARIUS AND A QUART 47:57 OF BARLEY FOR A PENNY." 47:59 A DENARIUS IS A PENNY. 48:00 "DO NOT HURT THE OIL AND THE WINE." 48:02 THIS IS A SYMBOL FOR THE PRECIOUSNESS OF THE WORD OF GOD 48:05 DURING THAT TIME. 48:07 IT HAD BECOME SO SCARCE AND IT WAS ECLIPSED. 48:10 BARLEY WAS THE CHEAPEST FORM OF FOOD. 48:12 IT WAS GIVEN TO THE ANIMALS. 48:14 USUALLY THEY GAVE WHEAT TO PEOPLE, BARLEY TO THE ANIMALS. 48:18 NUMBER SEVEN, "HE OPENS THE FOURTH SEAL." 48:20 YOU'VE ALL HEARD OF THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE. 48:23 THEY ARE SIMPLY THE FIRST FOUR OF THE SEVEN SEALS. 48:27 "OPENS THE FOURTH SEAL AND I HEARD THE FOURTH CREATURE SAY, 48:30 'COME AND SEE.' AND I LOOKED, AND BEHOLD 48:32 A PALE HORSE." 48:33 THAT WORD PALE THERE, ANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT A ROOT 48:35 LOOKS LIKE? 48:36 WHEN YOU PUT A POTATO NEAR THE CUPBOARD AND IT GETS A LITTLE 48:40 BIT OF SUNLIGHT AND IT STARTS SPROUTING THESE PALE ROOTS 48:43 'CAUSE THEY'RE NOT GETTING ANY REAL LIGHT, THEY'RE NOT GREEN. 48:46 IT'S LIKE A DEATHLY COLOR. 48:47 THAT'S WHAT IT'S SAYING. 48:49 IT'S LIKE THIS DEATHLY, PALE COLOR. 48:51 NO CHLOROFORM IN IT. 48:53 THIS PALE HORSE, A TIME OF GREAT DEATH AND PERSECUTION 48:57 THAT COMES TO THE CHURCH. 48:59 THIS IS SYNONYMOUS WITH THE PERIOD OF PERSECUTION OF 49:01 THE DARK AGES. 49:03 AND THEN YOU READ THROUGH THE SEALS AND THEN HE GOES ON AND 49:08 HE OPENS UP THE FIFTH SEAL AND IT TALKS ABOUT THOSE WHO HAD 49:11 BEEN SLAIN FOR THE WORD OF GOD. 49:14 YOU'VE GOT THESE SIGN SAINTS THAT ARE UNDER THE ALTAR. 49:18 NOW, HOW MANY OF YOU THINK THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE 49:21 SAINTS, THAT ARE SAVED, THAT ARE CRYING RIGHT NOW IN HEAVEN? 49:24 WHO WOULD WANT TO DIE AND GO BE UNDER AN ALTAR AND CRY? 49:28 HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THAT'S A SYMBOL? 49:31 SOME HAVE TRIED TO USE THIS TO TALK ABOUT THE STATE OF SOULS 49:34 AFTER DEATH IN SOME KIND OF PURGATORY OR ABRAHAM'S BOSOM 49:39 AND THEY MADE IT LITERAL. 49:41 IT'S NOT LITERAL. 49:42 IT'S A SYMBOL OF HOW GOD'S SAINTS THAT HAVE SUFFERED 49:46 DURING THIS TIME, THEIR DAY OF JUSTICE IS COMING. 49:49 BE PATIENT. 49:50 WHEN YOU READ IN THE BIBLE, WHEN GOD SAYS, "THE BLOOD OF 49:53 ABEL," GOD SAID TO CAIN, "THE BLOOD OF ABEL YOUR BROTHER IS 49:56 CRYING TO ME FROM THE GROUND." 49:58 WHAT, IS THOSE CELLS, THE LITTLE BLOOD CELLS GOING, 50:01 "HELP, HELP, HELP" FROM THE GROUND? 50:04 OR WAS GOD JUST USING A METAPHOR THERE THAT WE ALL 50:07 UNDERSTAND THAT HIS BLOOD WAS EVIDENCE THAT JUSTICE NEEDED 50:10 TO BE TAKEN CARE OF? 50:13 AND SO HERE IS A TIME WHERE THERE IS GREAT PERSECUTION OF 50:15 THE SAINTS AND THAT THERE'S A CRY THAT IS GOING UP BECAUSE 50:19 OF THE PRAYERS THAT HAD BEEN RECORDED. 50:22 NOW DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU CAN PRAY A PRAYER TODAY AND YOU 50:25 MIGHT DIE AND THAT PRAYER IS RECORDED AND THE ANSWER MAY 50:29 COME AFTER YOU DIE? 50:32 LET'S SAY YOU'RE PRAYING FOR YOUR CHILDREN AND YOU MIGHT DIE 50:36 BEFORE YOU SEE THEIR SALVATION OR CONVERSION. 50:38 ARE THOSE PRAYERS STORED OR DOES GOD SAY, "NOPE, 50:40 YOU'RE DEAD NOW. 50:41 THOSE PRAYERS ARE ALL WIPED OUT." 50:43 IF YOU DIE IN YOUR FAITH, HE RECORDS THOSE PRAYERS, 50:45 DOESN'T HE? 50:46 AND SO THESE ARE ALL THE SAINTS THROUGH THE AGES. 50:49 THEIR PRAYERS--UNDER THE ALTAR. 50:50 WHAT WAS ON THE ALTAR? 50:51 THE PRAYERS OF THE SAINTS. 50:52 WE JUST READ THAT, DIDN'T WE? 50:54 IT'S TALKING ABOUT THEIR PRAYERS FOR JUSTICE AND 50:56 VINDICATION AND DELIVERANCE. 50:58 THERE'S NOT A BUNCH OF SOULS UNDER THE ALTAR, CRYING. 51:01 IT'S--THEY'RE SYMBOLS. 51:02 IS THAT CLEAR? 51:04 OH, LET ME AT LEAST GET THROUGH THE SIXTH SEAL. 51:06 I'M GONNA HAVE TO START WITH THE 144,000. 51:09 SO IT TALKS ABOUT THE SIGN SAINTS AND THEN IT TRANSITIONS 51:15 TO THE WAILING WICKED. 51:19 YOU GO TO THE SIXTH SEAL. 51:20 TWELVE--I'M IN CHAPTER SIX, VERSE TWELVE. 51:23 "I LOOKED AND HE OPENED THE SIXTH SEAL. 51:25 AND BEHOLD, THERE'S A GREAT EARTHQUAKE AND THE SUN BECAME 51:28 BLACK AS SACKCLOTH." 51:29 BY THE WAY, THERE'S A GREAT EARTHQUAKE IN HISTORY DURING 51:31 THIS TIME. 51:33 "AND THE MOON BECAME LIKE BLOOD. 51:35 AND THE STARS OF HEAVEN FELL TO EARTH, AS A FIG TREE DROPS ITS 51:38 LATE FIGS WHEN IT'S SHAKEN BY A MIGHTY WIND. 51:41 AND THE SKY RECEDED AS A SCROLL WHEN IT IS ROLLED TOGETHER." 51:45 NOW YOU KNOW WHAT I'D LIKE TO TELL YOU? 51:47 WE'RE LIVING HISTORICALLY BETWEEN VERSE 13 AND 14. 51:52 A LOT OF THESE THINGS HAVE HAPPENED HISTORICALLY. 51:55 THE GREAT EARTHQUAKES, A DARK DAY, MOON LOOKING LIKE BLOOD, 51:58 THE STARS APPEARING TO FALL FROM HEAVEN. 52:00 ALONG THE CONTINUUM OF HISTORY, THESE THINGS HAVE HAPPENED 52:03 WHERE GOD'S PEOPLE, HIS CHURCH, PROMINENTLY COULD SEE THIS. 52:08 BUT ULTIMATELY, WHEN JESUS COMES, THE SKY WILL RECEDE 52:11 AS A SCROLL. 52:12 THESE THINGS ARE GONNA HAPPEN AGAIN IN QUICK SUCCESSION 52:15 AT THE SECOND COMING. 52:17 "AND EVERY MOUNTAIN AND ISLAND IS MOVED OUT OF ITS PLACE." 52:20 THE WAY THINGS ARE HAPPENING WITH EARTHQUAKES RIGHT NOW, 52:22 YOU WONDER. 52:24 AND HERE'S THE WAILING OF THE WICKED. 52:26 "AND THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, AND THE GREAT MEN," BY THE 52:29 WORLD'S STANDARD, "AND THE RICH MEN, AND THE COMMANDERS, AND 52:32 THE MIGHTY MEN," THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE THE POWER DOWN HERE, 52:35 IN OTHER WORDS, THAT ARE PERSECUTING GOD, "AND EVERY 52:38 SLAVE MAN AND EVERY FREE MAN HID THEMSELVES IN THE CAVES AND 52:42 THE ROCKS OF THE MOUNTAINS." 52:43 ARE THESE THE SAVED OR THE LOST HIDING? 52:47 'CAUSE THE SAINTS AREN'T GONNA RUN. 52:49 IT'S THE BLESSED HOPE FOR THEM. 52:51 THIS IS THE WAILING WICKED. 52:52 "AND THEY SAY TO THE MOUNTAINS AND THE ROCKS, 'FALL ON US AND 52:56 HIDE US FROM THE FACE WHO SITS ON THE THRONE, AND FROM THE 52:59 WRATH OF THE LAMB. 53:01 FOR THE GREAT DAY OF HIS WRATH HAS COME, AND WHO WILL BE ABLE 53:04 TO STAND?'" NOW TYPICALLY, WHEN YOU HAVE 53:08 A NIGHTMARE AND YOU SEE SOME MONSTER, ARE YOU--I KNOW SOME 53:14 PEOPLE ARE TERRIFIED OF SNAKES. 53:20 AND I REMEMBER YEARS AGO, AND I DON'T RECOMMEND THIS, 53:24 BUT THIS WAS A LONG TIME AGO. 53:26 I WENT AND SAW THIS MOVIE, "JAWS." 53:29 I WAS NOT A MEMBER OF THE CHURCH BACK THEN. 53:31 AND I'M A SCUBA DIVER. 53:33 I WAS AFRAID TO GET IN THE SWIMMING POOL IN PALM SPRINGS. 53:40 BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, AFTER ALL, YOU KNOW, A GREAT WHITE SHARK 53:42 COULD SPOOK YOU AND I KNOW SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE TERRIFIED 53:44 OF SPIDERS OR BEARS OR YOU NAME IT. 53:49 BUT I NEVER HEARD A PERSON SAY, "I'VE GOT THIS PHOBIA OF LAMBS. 53:55 I'M SO SCARED OF LAMBS." 53:59 I MEAN, DOESN'T IT SOUND LIKE AN OXYMORON TO SAY THE WRATH 54:02 OF THE LAMB? 54:05 THEY'RE CONSIDERED THE MOST LOVING AND GENTLE CREATURES AND 54:10 WHO WAS THAT--THEY HAD A CHILDREN'S PROGRAM FOR KIDS 54:14 AND SHE HAD THE LITTLE PUPPET LAMB CHOPS. 54:18 THAT WAS BACK IN THE "HOWDY DOODY" DAYS. 54:20 YEAH. 54:22 AND--BECAUSE IT WAS INNOCENT. 54:24 IT WAS CUDDLY. 54:25 BUT IT TALKS ABOUT THE WRATH OF THE LAMB. 54:27 WHY DOES JESUS--WHY IS HE PICTURED THAT WAY? 54:30 BECAUSE WHEN WE SEE THAT GOD GAVE HIS LAMB, HIS SON, THAT 54:37 EVERYONE COULD BE SAVED, AND HE POURED OUT HIS BLOOD TO SAVE 54:40 THE WORLD, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM MIGHT BE SAVED, 54:44 AND AFTER WE'VE TRAMPLED ON THAT SACRIFICE, IF WE REJECT 54:49 THE MERCY OF THE LAMB AND THE SACRIFICE OF THE LAMB, IF WE 54:54 REJECT EVERYTHING GOOD THE LAMB HAS LEFT, THE ONLY THING 54:57 THAT IS LEFT IS THE JUSTICE OF THE LAMB. 55:01 AND DO YOU REALIZE THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS NOT JUST DEATH? 55:03 IT'S PUNISHMENT, OR WRATH, AND DEATH. 55:08 AND SO--AND THE WRATH OF THE LAMB LATER IS SHOWN IN THE 55:11 SEVEN PLAGUES THAT ARE POURED OUT. 55:13 AND SO HERE IT'S SHOWING THESE TWO GROUPS, ONE GROUP THAT IS 55:18 GONNA BE SAVED AND GOD SAYS, "YOU'RE GONNA BE VINDICATED." 55:21 AND THEN HE IMMEDIATELY GOES TO THE OTHER GROUP. 55:23 THEY'RE PERSECUTORS. 55:24 HE'S GOT THE PERSECUTED AND THE PERSECUTORS. 55:26 AS WE ENTER THE LAST DAYS, FRIENDS, YOU REALIZE EVERYBODY 55:29 HERE IS GONNA FALL INTO ONE OF THOSE TWO GROUPS. 55:33 ONE GROUP IS GONNA HAVE THE WHOLE WORLD MAD AT THEM 55:35 AND THEY'RE GONNA BE PERSECUTED. 55:36 THEY'LL HAVE THE SEAL OF GOD. 55:38 YOU WILL BE SAVED. 55:40 GOD IS PROMISING YOU, "HANG ON. 55:42 YOUR PRAYERS WILL BE ANSWERED." 55:44 THEN YOU GOT THE OTHER GROUP THAT'S LIVING FOR THE WORLD NOW 55:47 AND THEY'RE NOT THINKING ABOUT ETERNITY. 55:48 THEY'RE THE WICKED. 55:49 THEY'RE THE PERSECUTORS. 55:51 THEY'LL GET THE MARK OF THE BEAST. 55:53 WHEN WE GET INTO THE NEXT SECTION, IT'S THEN GONNA 55:56 IDENTIFY THOSE THAT ARE SINGING, THAT ARE STANDING 55:59 ON THE SEA OF GLASS, THAT ARE REDEEMED, THE VICTORS, 56:03 THE 144,000. 56:05 ARE YOU BEING AT ALL ENCOURAGED, HOPEFULLY INSPIRED, 56:11 TANTALIZED TO STUDY THIS BOOK MORE, I HOPE? 56:15 TO GET TO KNOW WHAT'S IN THE FUTURE? 56:17 HE SAID, "THE TIME IS AT HAND. 56:18 THERE'S A BLESSING FOR THOSE WHO READ HERE AND KEEP 56:21 THE THINGS THAT ARE IN THE BOOK." 56:23 I WANT TO BE FULFILLING ALL THREE CATEGORIES. 56:25 I WANT TO READ IT, I WANT TO HEAR IT, AND I WANT TO KEEP IT. 56:27 DON'T YOU, FRIENDS? 56:28 THERE'S A BLESSING FOR THOSE. 56:31 LET'S PRAY FOR THAT BLESSING NOW. 56:34 DEAR LORD, FATHER, YOU ARE WORTHY, WORTHY IS THE LAMB, 56:39 AND WE ARE SO THANKFUL THAT WE ARE GIVEN THE PRIVILEGE OF 56:43 WORSHIPING YOU. 56:44 THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS. 56:46 WORTH-SHIP. 56:48 AND LORD, WE PRAY THAT WE CAN LIVE LIVES THAT WILL BRING 56:51 GLORY TO YOU. 56:52 WE PRAY, LORD, THAT WE WILL HAVE OUR EYES OPENED, THAT 56:56 WE'LL HAVE THE DISCERNMENT TO SEE WHAT IS AT HAND RIGHT NOW. 57:00 AND IF EVER THESE THINGS WERE AT THE THRESHOLD, IF EVER THESE 57:03 THINGS WERE ABOUT TO BE FULFILLED, WE KNOW RIGHT NOW 57:06 WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF THE FULFILLMENT OF THE MOST 57:09 CLIMACTIC OF EVENTS IN THIS BOOK. 57:12 I PRAY, LORD, THAT YOU'LL AWAKEN US TO THE TIME 57:14 IN WHICH WE LIVE. 57:16 HELP US TO BE AROUSED FROM OUR LUKEWARM CONDITION AND TO BE 57:21 RECEIVING THAT EYE SALVE THAT OUR EYES MIGHT BE OPENED, THOSE 57:24 WHITE GARMENTS THAT WE MIGHT BE CLOTHED, AND THAT GOLD THAT WE 57:28 MIGHT BE RICH. 57:30 BLESS US, LORD, THAT THE THINGS IN THIS BOOK WILL NOT JUST BE 57:32 SYMBOLS, THAT THEY'LL BE REALITY IN OUR LIVES. 57:35 BE WITH EVERY PERSON. 57:36 I PRAY THAT YOU'LL FILL US WITH YOUR SPIRIT. 57:39 BLESS US IN OUR FELLOWSHIP. 57:40 AND AGAIN, WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR GOODNESS. 57:43 HELP US BE READY WHEN THE LAMB DOES COME. 57:46 IN JESUS' NAME WE PRAY, AMEN. 57:50 >> IF YOU'VE MISSED ANY OF OUR AMAZING FACTS PROGRAMS, 57:52 VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT AMAZINGFACTS.ORG. 57:55 THERE YOU'LL FIND AN ARCHIVE OF ALL OUR TELEVISION AND RADIO 57:57 PROGRAMS, INCLUDING "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 58:00 ONE LOCATION, SO MANY POSSIBILITIES, 58:03 AMAZINGFACTS.ORG. |
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