(MUSIC)
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>>OUR MESSAGE TODAY IS ON
THE SUBJECT OF THE 144,000 -
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SHEPHERDS THAT FOLLOW A LAMB .
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NOW, YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD, YOU
KNOW, DIFFERENT PRESENTATIONS ON
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THIS SUBJECT AND THE NUMBER
- KIND OF LIKE THERE'S CERTAIN
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NUMBERS, LIKE 666 - YOU GO INTO
PUBLIC PLACES, YOU TALK ABOUT
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666, AND PEOPLE GO 'OOH' AND
'AHH' - THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT IT
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MEANS BUT THEY KNOW
IT'S A UNIQUE NUMBER.
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AND THAT'S ALSO THE CASE
WITH THAT NUMBER - THE 144,000
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APPEARS IN THE SAME
BOOK - IN REVELATION.
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THIS GROUP IS SPOKEN
OF A COUPLE OF TIMES.
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IN OUR SCRIPTURE READING THIS
MORNING WE BEGAN BY READING ONE
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OF THOSE PASSAGES IN REVELATION
7. NOW, I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS
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LOOKING AT HISTORY
ABOUT ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
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ONE REASON HE WAS ABLE TO
CONQUER SO MUCH OF THE WORLD
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BACK THEN, FROM GREECE AND THE
BALKAN MOUNTAINS ALL THE WAY TO
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THE HIMALAYAS, HE MARCHED HIS
SOLDIERS - SOMEONE TOLD ME ONCE,
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IF YOU ADD IT ALL UP IT WAS LIKE
21,000 MILES IN TEN OR ELEVEN
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YEARS AND - BUT THEY WERE
WILLING TO FOLLOW HIM ANYWHERE
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BECAUSE HE WOULD GO INTO BATTLE
WITH THEM AND WAS WILLING TO LAY
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DOWN HIS LIFE IN THE
BATTLE, SO THEY LOVED HIM.
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SO THERE WAS
GREAT DEDICATION THERE.
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THE BIBLE SPEAKS OF A GREAT
DEDICATED FORCE IN THE LAST DAYS
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AND THEY'RE
KNOWN AS THE 144,000.
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SO LET'S TURN BACK TO THAT
VERSE AGAIN IN REVELATION 7.
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WE'RE GOING TO FIRST FIND OUT
ABOUT THESE FOUR ANGELS THAT ARE
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DOING SOMETHING JUST BEFORE
THE END OF THE WORLD COMES.
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IF YOU TAKE YOUR BIBLE - TWO
PRINCIPAL PASSAGES WE'RE GOING
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TO LOOK - WE'RE GOING TO
LOOK AT IS REVELATION 7 AND THEN
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REVELATION 14.
THAT'S EASY - TWO TIMES
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SEVEN IS FOURTEEN. SO
YOU REMEMBER: REVELATION 7 -
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144,000;
REVELATION 14 - 144,000.
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AND HE SAYS, "AFTER THESE
THINGS" - HE'S TALKING ABOUT
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THESE PLAGUES AND THE THINGS HE
SEES IN REVELATION CHAPTER 6 -
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"I SAW FOUR ANGELS STANDING AT
THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH,
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HOLDING THE FOUR WINDS OF
THE EARTH," - FOUR, FOUR, FOUR -
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FOUR ANGELS, FOUR
CORNERS, HOLDING THE FOUR WINDS.
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NOW THE REASON IT TALKS ABOUT
FOUR CORNERS IS THEY'RE THINKING
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ABOUT THE
DIRECTIONS OF THE COMPASS.
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THEY, LIKE WE, DIVIDED IT INTO
NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, AND WEST,
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AND THEY'RE HOLDING THESE WINDS
- WINDS OFTEN STIR UP STORMS -
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TROUBLE - STRIFE - "THAT
THE WIND SHOULD NOT BLOW ON THE
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EARTH, ON THE
SEA, OR ON ANY TREE."
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- YOU KNOW, IN REVELATION
IT TALKS ABOUT THE TREES, THE
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EARTH, AND THE SEA AND IT'S
TALKING ABOUT THE NATIONS AND
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THE PEOPLE AND THE
AREAS OF THE WORLD.
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AND THEN I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL
ASCEND FROM THE EAST, COMING AS
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THE SON OF RIGHTEOUSNESS ARISES.
IT TALKS ABOUT A LITTLE CLOUD
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THAT WILL COME FROM
THE EAST - "HAVING THE SEAL
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OF THE LIVING GOD. AND
HE CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD
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VOICE TO THE FOUR ANGELS"
- DON'T MISS THAT WORD 'LOUD
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VOICE' - THAT PHRASE - "TO
WHOM IT WAS GRANTED TO HARM THE
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EARTH" - ALRIGHT YOU TELL WHAT
THE WINDS ARE GOING TO DO NOW?
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THE WINDS ARE GOING TO HARM
- GREAT TIME OF TROUBLE - THIS
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MESSENGER WITH THE LOUD VOICE
SAYS, TO THE ANGELS THAT ARE
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GOING - THEY'RE HOLDING BACK
THESE WINDS OF STRIFE - "DO NOT
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HARM THE EARTH, THE SEA, OR THE
TREES TILL WE HAVE SEALED THE
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SERVANTS OF OUR GOD
ON THEIR FOREHEADS."
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- AND THE ANGELS SPEAK OF GOD AS
THEIR GOD AND IN THE FOREHEAD -
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"AND I HEARD THE NUMBER
OF THOSE WHO WERE SEALED.
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ALRIGHT, LET'S READ
THIS AND WE'RE GOING TO -
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THEN WE'LL GO BACK AND REVIEW
IT - "ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR
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THOUSAND OF ALL THE
TRIBES OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
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WERE SEALED:" - VERSE
5 - REVELATION 7 SAYS:
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"OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH
TWELVE THOUSAND WERE SEALED; OF
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THE TRIBE OF REUBEN TWELVE
THOUSAND WERE SEALED; OF THE
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TRIBE OF GAD TWELVE THOUSAND
WERE SEALED; OF THE TRIBE OF
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ASHER TWELVE THOUSAND WERE
SEALED; OF THE TRIBE OF NAPHTALI
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TWELVE THOUSAND WERE SEALED;"
- SOUNDS LIKE THE BOOK OF
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CHRONICLES NOW, DOESN'T IT?
YOU EVER READ THE CHRONICLES?
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IT USES THE NUMBER EVERY TIME -
"OF THE TRIBE OF MANASSEH TWELVE
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THOUSAND WERE SEALED; OF THE
TRIBE OF SIMEON TWELVE THOUSAND
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WERE SEALED; OF THE TRIBE
OF LEVI TWELVE THOUSAND WERE
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SEALED;" - AND THEN IT GOES ON
- ISSACHAR, ZEBULUN, JOSEPH, AND
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BENJAMIN - TWELVE THOUSAND FROM
THESE TWELVE TRIBES - "AFTER
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THESE THINGS I LOOKED, AND
BEHOLD, A GREAT MULTITUDE WHICH
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NO ONE COULD NUMBER, OF ALL
NATIONS, TRIBES, PEOPLES, AND
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TONGUES, STANDING BEFORE
THE THRONE AND BEFORE THE LAMB,
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CLOTHED WITH WHITE ROBES, WITH
PALM BRANCHES IN THEIR HANDS,
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AND CRYING OUT WITH A
LOUD VOICE, SAYING, 'SALVATION
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BELONGS TO OUR GOD WHO SITS
ON THE THRONE, AND TO THE LAMB!'
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ALL THE ANGELS STOOD AROUND THE
THRONE AND THE ELDERS AND THE
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FOUR LIVING CREATURES, AND FELL
ON THEIR FACES BEFORE THE THRONE
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AND WORSHIPED
GOD, SAYING: 'AMEN!
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BLESSING AND GLORY AND WISDOM,
THANKSGIVING AND HONOR AND POWER
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AND MIGHT, BE TO OUR
GOD FOREVER AND EVER.
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AMEN.' THEN ONE OF THE ELDERS
ANSWERED, SAYING TO ME, 'WHO ARE
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THESE ARRAYED IN WHITE ROBES,
AND WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?'
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AND I SAID TO HIM, 'SIR, YOU
KNOW.'" - YOU LIVE HERE - "SO HE
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SAID TO ME, 'THESE ARE THE
ONES WHO COME OUT OF [THE] GREAT
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TRIBULATION, AND WASHED THEIR
ROBES AND MADE THEM WHITE IN THE
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BLOOD OF THE LAMB.'" - NOW,
ACTUALLY, I LEFT A WORD OUT.
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I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SPOTTED
IT. IT SAYS, 'THESE ARE THE ONES
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WHO CAME OUT OF
THE GREAT TRIBULATION.
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IS THERE A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
'GREAT TRIBULATION' AND 'THE
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GREAT TRIBULATION'? >>YES.
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>>IF I SAY, 'HAND ME A PENCIL.'
THAT WOULD BE ANY PENCIL IN THE
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ROOM. IF I SAY,
'HAND ME THE PENCIL.'
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THAT MEANS THERE IS
A DEFINITIVE PENCIL.
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SO THERE IS A GREAT TRIBULATION
AT THE END OF TIME - IT'S
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SPEAKING OF THIS GREAT
MULTITUDE HAS COME OUT OF THAT.
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"THEREFORE THEY ARE BEFORE THE
THRONE OF GOD, AND SERVE HIM DAY
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AND NIGHT IN HIS TEMPLE.
AND HE WHO SITS ON THE THRONE
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WILL DWELL AMONG THEM.
THEY SHALL NEITHER HUNGER
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ANYMORE NOR THIRST ANYMORE; THE
SUN SHALL NOT STRIKE THEM, NOR
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ANY HEAT; FOR THE LAMB WHO IS
IN THE MIDST OF THE THRONE WILL
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SHEPHERD THEM" - THAT'S WHERE
I GET THE TITLE. DOESN'T THAT
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SOUND LIKE A PARADOX? A
LAMB WILL SHEPHERD THEM?
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SHEPHERDS USUALLY
TAKE CARE OF LAMBS.
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LAMBS DON'T
USUALLY SHEPHERD LAMBS.
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BUT JESUS IS, OF COURSE, THE
LAMB - THE LAMB WHO IS IN THE
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MIDST OF THE THRONE - THAT YOU
SAW IN CHAPTER 5 - WILL SHEPHERD
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THEM - "AND LEAD THEM TO
LIVING FOUNTAINS OF WATERS."
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LIKE DAVID SAYS IN PSALM 23,
"AND GOD WILL WIPE AWAY EVERY
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TEAR FROM THEIR EYES" -
AS IT SAYS IN REVELATION 21.
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SO HERE YOU'VE GOT A SPECIAL
GROUP THAT'S DESCRIBED IN THE
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LAST DAYS - AND THERE'S BEEN
A LOT OF DISCUSSION AND MYSTERY
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ABOUT 'WHO ARE THE 144,000?'
SO WE'VE TALKED A LITTLE BIT
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ABOUT THESE FOUR ANGELS - WE'RE
LIVING IN A TIME RIGHT NOW - AND
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I THINK YOU CAN SENSE IT - WHEN
IT SEEMS LIKE SOMETHING IS JUST
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HOLDING BACK THE WINDS OF STRIFE
- THAT, ALMOST THE SNEEZE OF
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A BUTTERFLY COULD SET A CHAIN
REACTION LOOSE THAT WOULD JUST
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HAVE THE WHOLE WORLD UNRAVEL
RIGHT NOW. THERE IS AN OUTSIDE
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SUPERNATURAL FORCE THAT
IS PROTECTING THE WORLD FROM
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CALAMITY. WE ALREADY SEE A LOT
OF PROBLEMS AND CALAMITIES, BUT
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THESE ANGELS HAVE BEEN GIVEN
INSTRUCTION THAT THEY ARE TO
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HOLD BACK THESE WINDS UNTIL
SOMETHING'S ACCOMPLISHED, AND
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THAT'S UNTIL THESE ANGELS SEAL
THE SERVANTS OF GOD IN THEIR
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FOREHEADS. AND SO, THEY HAVE
A SPECIAL SEAL. NOW, THE SEAL OF
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GOD, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
WELL, MAYBE I SHOULD TALK FIRST
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ABOUT WHAT DOES IT MEAN 'A SIGN
IN THE HAND OR THE FOREHEAD'?
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THERE'S SO MUCH MISUNDERSTANDING
ABOUT WHO THE 144,000 ARE.
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN, IN THE BIBLE,
WHEN IT SAYS THE PEOPLE ARE
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GOING TO GET A MARK IN
THE HAND OR IN THE FOREHEAD?
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DOES THAT MEAN THE BEAST POWER
IN THE LAST DAYS IS GOING TO
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COME ALONG AND GRAB
EVERYBODY AND TATTOO THEM?
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IS IT MY IMAGINATION OR DO
PEOPLE HAVE MORE TATTOOS NOW
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THAN ANY OTHER TIME
IN HISTORY? (LAUGHTER)
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>>IT'S TRUE. >>JUST
- I FORGET WHERE I WAS
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YESTERDAY - YEAH - PEOPLE
THAT - YEAH, I WAS IN CHICAGO
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YESTERDAY; I WAS IN TENNESSEE
BUT I SAW SOMEBODY THERE THAT
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THEY LOOKED A LITTLE ANCIENT TO
ME AND THEY HAD A TATTOO AND I
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THOUGHT, 'MAN, I THINK
YOU WOULD BE TOO OLD FOR THAT.
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BUT, REALLY,
EVERYBODY SHOULD BE.
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ANYWAY - SO SOME PEOPLE THINK
THE BEAST POWER IS GOING TO BE
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TATTOOING EVERYBODY WITH THIS,
YOU KNOW, INFAMOUS MARKER - 666
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OR SOMETHING. THAT'S
NOT AT ALL WHAT IT MEANS.
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IN REVELATION, EVERYBODY
GETS SOMETHING IN THE FOREHEAD.
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YOU EVEN READ IN REVELATION 17,
THERE'S A WOMAN WITH A PARAGRAPH
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IN HER FOREHEAD.
OBVIOUSLY, IT'S A SYMBOL.
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN, 'IN THE
HAND' OR 'IN THE FOREHEAD'?
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DEUTERONOMY 6:8, "YOU SHALL
BIND THEM" - TALKING ABOUT THE
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LAW OF GOD - "AS A SIGN ON
YOUR HAND, AND THEY SHALL BE AS
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FRONTLETS BETWEEN YOUR EYES."
SOME OF YOU, MAYBE, HAVE BEEN TO
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ISRAEL OR YOU'VE SEEN PICTURES
OF THE ORTHODOX JEWS THAT
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HAVE THE PHYLACTERIES.
THEY WILL HAVE A LITTLE STRAP
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AROUND THEIR HEAD AND
A BOX ON THEIR FOREHEAD.
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THEY'LL HAVE RIBBONS OF LEATHER
AROUND - WRAPPED AROUND THEIR
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WRISTS AND THERE'S A LITTLE
SCRIPTURE - AND THEY HAVE PUT
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THE LAW OF GOD, OR PIECES OF THE
LAW, IN THESE LITTLE BOXES ON
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THEIR FOREHEADS BECAUSE OF
THIS VERSE THAT MOSES WROTE.
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MOSES DID NOT MEAN FOR THEM
- AND THERE'S NO EXAMPLE AFTER
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MOSES SAID IT, OF ANYBODY,
UP UNTIL THE PHARISEES, THAT
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LITERALLY WAS STICKING THE WORD
OF GOD ON THEIR FOREHEAD AND ON
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THEIR HAND. MOSES, IN THAT SAME
PASSAGE, SAID, 'IT SHALL BE IN
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YOUR HEART AND ON
YOUR HAND AND ON YOUR HEAD.
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OBVIOUSLY, HOW DO
YOU PUT IT IN YOUR HEART?
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IT'S TALKING ABOUT HAVING THE
WORD OF GOD IN YOUR MIND AND IN
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YOUR ACTIONS. >>AMEN.
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>>TO BE SURROUNDING
YOU. THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
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SO IF - IN THE HAND AND IN
THE FOREHEAD IS SYMBOLIC FOR THE
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MARK OF THE BEAST, THEN WHEN
IT TALKS ABOUT 'IN THE FOREHEAD'
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COULD IT BE
SYMBOLIC FOR THE SEAL OF GOD?
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IT TELLS US WHAT WAS TO BE
IN THEIR FOREHEAD; IT SAID THEY
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WERE TO HAVE THE LAW OF GOD.
GO TO EXODUS 13:9, "IT SHALL BE
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A SIGN FOR YOU ON YOUR HAND
AND AS A MEMORIAL BETWEEN YOUR
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EYES," - AND, IN THE BIBLE,
BETWEEN YOUR EYES DIDN'T MEAN
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LIKE WHERE MY GLASSES ARE, IT
MEANT UP HERE IN THE FOREHEAD.
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IN THE FOREHEAD MEANT IT WAS
THE CENTER - WHERE DID THE STONE
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SINK IN WHEN
DAVID TOOK DOWN GOLIATH?
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>>FOREHEAD. >>IN HIS FOREHEAD.
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AND SO, IT'S - THAT'S A SYMBOL
FOR THE MARK OF THE BEAST IN THE
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FOREHEAD THERE. WHAT IS THAT
SEAL? ISAIAH 8:16, "BIND UP THE
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TESTIMONY, SEAL THE
LAW AMONG MY DISCIPLES."
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THE LAW OF GOD CONTAINS THE SEAL
OF GOD AND IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
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LAW OF GOD YOU FIND THE NAME OF
GOD - IT SAYS THE 144,000 HAVE
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THEIR FATHER'S
NAME IN THEIR FOREHEADS.
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IN THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT IS THE
ONLY COMMANDMENT WHERE YOU FIND
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THE WORD 'HOLY' AND A
BIBLE SEAL HAS SEVERAL ELEMENTS.
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IT'S GOT THE TITLE OF THE RULING
POWER, IT'S GOT THE NAME, AND
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IT'S GOT THEIR TERRITORY - AND
ALL OF THESE COMPONENTS CAN BE
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FOUND IN THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT.
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YOU'VE GOT THE NAME OF GOD
- 'FOR IN SIX DAYS THE LORD,
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JEHOVAH'; HIS TITLE - THE LORD
- THE CREATOR - HE CREATED; HIS
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TERRITORY - THE
HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.
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SO YOU'VE GOT ALL OF THE
COMPONENTS OF A SEAL IN THE
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FOURTH COMMANDMENT - THE LONGEST
COMMANDMENT, THE MIDDLE OF GOD'S
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LAW, THE ONLY PLACE
WHERE YOU FIND THE WORD 'HOLY'.
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AND SO, HERE THESE PEOPLE
HAVE THE HOLY LAW OF GOD AND THE
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HOLY SPIRIT, OF COURSE, IS THE
SEAL. 'DO NOT GRIEVE THE SPIRIT
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OF GOD WHEREWITH YOU ARE SEALED
FOR THE DAY OF REDEMPTION'
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EPHESIANS 2 TELLS US.
NOW, TURN WITH ME - DON'T LOSE
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THIS SPOT HERE, BUT GO WITH ME
TO EZEKIEL CHAPTER 9 AND I WANT
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TO READ SOMETHING TO YOU
I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO FIND
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INTERESTING. IF YOU GO TO
EZEKIEL 9, HERE THE PROPHET IS
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TALKING ABOUT A SPECIAL JUDGMENT
AND A SEAL THAT COMES ON PEOPLE
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IN THE LAST DAYS AND I WANT
YOU TO NOTICE THIS - THIS HAS
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TROUBLED FOLKS,
BUT IT'S RELATED.
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"THEN HE CALLED OUT IN MY
HEARING WITH A LOUD VOICE,
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SAYING, 'LET THOSE WHO HAVE
CHARGE OVER THE CITY DRAW NEAR,
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EACH WITH A DEADLY'" - OR A
DESTROYING - "'WEAPON IN HIS
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HAND.' AND SUDDENLY SIX MEN
CAME FROM THE DIRECTION OF THE
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UPPER GATE, WHICH FACES NORTH,
EACH WITH A BATTLE-AX" - SOME
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DESTROYING
WEAPON - "IN HIS HAND.
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ONE MAN AMONG THEM WAS CLOTHED
WITH LINEN" - NOW, THAT'S
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TALKING ABOUT A SEVENTH MAN.
THAT MEANS, AMONG THE SIX, THERE
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WAS AN ADDITIONAL MAN
WHO WAS CLOTHED IN LINEN.
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THIS IS WHAT THE
PRIESTS WORE FOR INTERCESSION.
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IT'S LIKE THESE - THESE
SIX MEN HAVE GOT A WEAPON FOR
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DESTRUCTION - JUDGMENT - BUT
ONE AMONG THEM, HE IS CLAD WITH
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MERCY. HE HAS A WRITER'S
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INKHORN AT HIS SIDE. IN
ANCIENT TIMES THE ATTORNEYS
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AND SCRIBES USED TO
CARRY A PORTABLE WRITING KIT.
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AND "THEY WENT IN AND THEY
STOOD BESIDE THE BRONZE ALTAR."
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- IT'S HAPPENING IN THE PLACE OF
INTERCESSION - "NOW THE GLORY OF
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THE GOD OF ISRAEL HAD GONE
UP FROM THE CHERUB, WHERE IT HAD
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BEEN, TO THE
THRESHOLD OF THE TEMPLE.
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AND HE CALLED TO THE MAN
[CLOTHED] WITH LINEN, WHO HAD
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THE WRITER'S INKHORN AT HIS
SIDE; AND THE LORD SAID [TO HIM]
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'GO THROUGH THE MIDST OF
THE CITY, THROUGH THE MIDST OF
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JERUSALEM, AND PUT A MARK ON THE
FOREHEADS" - WHERE'S THE MARK?
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>>ON THE FOREHEAD.
>>"PUT A MARK ON THE FOREHEADS
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OF THE MEN WHO SIGH AND CRY OVER
ALL THE ABOMINATIONS THAT ARE
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DONE IN THE CITY [WITHIN IT].'"
- THAT MEANS GOD HAS HIS PEOPLE
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THAT ARE SORRY ABOUT SIN.
THEY'RE GRIEVED ABOUT SIN.
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THEY WANT TO SEE REVIVAL IN
THE CHURCH. YOU REMEMBER WHAT IT
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SAID ABOUT LOT - LOT WAS VEXED
WITH THE WICKEDNESS OF SODOM.
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AND, I THINK, MATTHEW
HENRY, HE'S GOT AN INTERESTING
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STATEMENT ON THIS
IN HIS COMMENTARY.
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IT SAYS, "FOR THOSE WHO
KEEP THEMSELVES PURE IN TIMES OF
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COMMON INIQUITY, GOD WILL KEEP
THEM SAFE IN TIMES OF COMMON
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CALAMITY." HE
PUTS A MARK ON THOSE -
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JUDGMENT IS GETTING READY
TO HAPPEN, AND IF YOU WANT TO
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SURVIVE THE
JUDGMENT, YOU NEEDED THE MARK.
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IS THERE GOING TO BE GREAT
JUDGMENT AND PLAGUE AND A TIME
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OF TROUBLE IN
THE LAST DAYS? >>YES.
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>>THEN WE NEED
TO HAVE THAT SEAL.
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HOW DO WE GET THAT SEAL?
BY YEARNING FOR HOLINESS.
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BY BEING GRIEVED BY SIN.
WAS JESUS SORRY ABOUT SIN?
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WAS HE? IT HURT HIM. IT BROKE
HIS HEART. AND IT SAYS THERE'S
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SIGHING AND CRYING FOR THE
ABOMINATIONS THAT ARE DONE.
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"TO THE OTHERS" - THE ONES WITH
THE BATTLE WEAPONS - THOSE OTHER
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SIX - "HE SAID IN MY HEARING,
'GO AFTER HIM" - GO AFTER THE
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ONE WHO IS MARKING THE ONES
WHO ARE TO BE SPARED, AND DO NOT
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SPARE THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE
THE MARK - "UTTERLY SLAY OLD AND
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YOUNG MEN, MAIDENS AND LITTLE
CHILDREN AND WOMEN; BUT DO NOT
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COME NEAR ANYONE ON WHOM IS THE
MARK;" - NOW, WHEN YOU SAY 'THE
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MARK' IN THE BIBLE, AND IF
YOU SAY, 'HEY, DO YOU WANT THE
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MARK?' 'I DON'T WANT THE MARK.
NOBODY WANTS THE MARK.' BUT THEY
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DON'T KNOW THEIR
BIBLES VERY WELL.
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THERE IS A MARK YOU DO WANT,
BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE
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RIGHT MARK, YOU'RE IN TROUBLE.
AND YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE THAT
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OR YOU'RE GOING TO BE THESE
DESTROYING WEAPONS. YOU REMEMBER
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WHEN THE ANGELS WERE PLACED
BY THE ENTRANCE TO THE GARDEN OF
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EDEN TO GUARD THE WAY TO
THE TREE OF LIFE AND THEY HAD A
00:15:41.84\00:15:44.21
FLAMING SWORD. WE DON'T
KNOW WHAT THE WEAPON IS.
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SOME OF YOU SAW OUR VIDEO THAT
WE DID CALLED COSMIC CONFLICT
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AND THE PRODUCERS WERE
STRUGGLING, 'WHAT EXACTLY DO WE
00:15:51.18\00:15:54.32
GIVE THE ANGELS TO FIGHT WITH?'
IT ENDED UP LOOKING LIKE STAR
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WARS SWORDS OR
SOMETHING. WHAT DO ANGELS USE?
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IT'S SO HARD TO DEPICT THAT.
BUT THEN THEY GO AFTER - AND HE
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SAID, 'DEFILE THE TEMPLE, AND
FILL THE COURTS WITH THE SLAIN.
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GO OUT!' AND THEY WENT
OUT AND KILLED IN THE CITY."
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AND THERE'S THIS GREAT JUDGMENT.
HAVE YOU READ IN THE BIBLE,
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'JUDGMENT MUST BEGIN
AT THE HOUSE OF GOD.'?
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IT SAID 'BEGIN' - NOTICE WHAT IT
SAYS HERE: "SO THEY BEGAN WITH
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THE ELDERS WHO
WERE BEFORE THE TEMPLE."
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ANY OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN THIS
WOMAN, SOME BELIEVE WAS MARY
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MAGDALENE, CAUGHT IN THE ACT
OF ADULTERY WAS BROUGHT INTO THE
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TEMPLE AND THEY STOOD AROUND
GETTING READY TO THROW STONES AT
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HER AND JESUS STOOD UP AND
HE SAID, 'HE THAT IS WITHOUT SIN
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AMONG YOU, LET HIM CAST THE
FIRST STONE.' THEN HE STOOPED
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DOWN AND BEGAN TO WRITE AGAIN ON
THE DUST IN THE TEMPLE FLOOR AND
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IT SAYS, 'BEGINNING AT THE
ELDEST, EVEN UNTO THE LEAST, ONE
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BY ONE THEY DROPPED THEIR STONES
AND THEY WENT OUT.' BUT IT BEGAN
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AT THE ELDEST.
THERE'S A JUDGMENT THAT BEGINS
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AT THE HOUSE OF GOD. THIS IS
WHAT HAPPENED IN JOHN CHAPTER 8.
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A JUDGMENT AT THE HOUSE OF GOD
HAPPENS IN EZEKIEL 9 AND THERE'S
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A JUDGMENT FOR THE HOUSE OF GOD
THAT HAPPENS IN THE END OF TIME.
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JUDGMENT BEGINS - WELL, LET ME
PUT IT THIS WAY: YOU EVER HEARD
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OF THE PRE-ADVENT JUDGMENT?
THAT MEANS A JUDGMENT THAT
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HAPPENS BEFORE JESUS COMES.
THAT MAKES SENSE - YOU MAYBE
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NEVER EVEN REALIZED
HOW MUCH IT MAKES SENSE.
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HOW MANY KNOW THAT JESUS IS
GOING TO KNOW WHO IS SAVED WHEN
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HE COMES? THAT HE WILL
REWARD PEOPLE WHEN HE COMES?
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THE LORD KNOWS
EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW, OKAY?
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IF THE LORD IS DISTRIBUTING
REWARDS WHEN HE COMES - THE DEAD
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IN CHRIST RISE - THOSE WHO ARE
ALIVE AND REMAIN THAT ARE SAVED
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ARE CAUGHT UP - THE WICKED ARE
DESTROYED BY THE BRIGHTNESS OF
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HIS COMING. IF SOME
KIND OF EXECUTION IS
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TAKING PLACE WHEN HE COMES,
IF SOME KIND OF REWARD IS TAKING
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PLACE WHEN HE COMES, DOES
IT MAKE SENSE THERE'S SOME KIND
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OF JUDGMENT
BEFORE HE COMES? >>AMEN.
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>>THAT'S WHAT
IT'S TALKING ABOUT.
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SO THERE'S THIS JUDGMENT, AND
ONLY THOSE THAT HAVE THE SAVING
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MARK ARE SPARED
DURING THAT TIME.
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SO, WE FOUND OUT THAT IT IS A
SPIRITUAL MARK IN THE HAND, IN
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THE FOREHEAD - IT DOESN'T MEAN A
TATTOO OR A COMPUTER CHIP - HOW
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MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD
THAT ONE? - UNDER THE SKIN.
00:18:05.35\00:18:08.22
IF YOU ADOPT A DOG TODAY,
THEY'LL PUT A CHIP UNDER HIS
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COLLAR. AND I HEAR
THAT THERE ARE SOME
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PEOPLE GETTING THESE CHIPS
FOR MEDICAL PURPOSES SO THEY CAN
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BE SCANNED AND FIND OUT
WHAT THEIR ONGOING PROBLEM
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IS VERY QUICKLY. THAT IS
NOT THE MARK OF THE BEAST.
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THE MARK OF THE BEAST IS OBEYING
THE LAWS OF THE BEAST INSTEAD OF
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THE LAWS OF GOD. OBEY
THE LAWS OF GOD IN YOUR
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HEART, YOU HAVE THE SEAL OF
GOD. IT'S NOT THAT COMPLICATED.
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BY THE WAY, THAT VERSE - 1 PETER
4:17, "JUDGMENT WILL BEGIN AT
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THE HOUSE OF GOD." IF JUDGMENT
BEGINS FIRST WITH US, WHAT WILL
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BE THE END OF THOSE
WHO DO NOT OBEY THE GOSPEL?
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NOW IT SAYS THERE'S A
SPECIAL NUMBER, AND THIS IS VERY
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INTERESTING TO ME,
144,000 - WHY 144,000?
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FIRST OF ALL, LET'S GET THIS OUT
OF THE WAY, PEOPLE WORRY ABOUT
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THE SUBJECT OF THE 144,000
BECAUSE THEY THINK 'ARE THERE
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ONLY 144,000 THAT WILL
BE SAVED WHEN JESUS COMES?
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AND I DID SOME MATH - I'M
NOT REAL GOOD, BUT I HAVE A
00:19:03.57\00:19:05.74
CALCULATOR AND I DO KNOW THERE'S
ABOUT 7.4 TO 5 BILLION PEOPLE IN
00:19:05.74\00:19:12.21
THE WORLD NOW, AND IT MUST BE
GROWING FAST BECAUSE I LOOKED AT
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MY OLD NOTES AND I SAID,
'THERE'S 6 BILLION PEOPLE IN THE
00:19:15.35\00:19:17.62
WORLD' - WOW, IT'S GROWN 1.5
BILLION SINCE I DID THIS SERMON.
00:19:17.62\00:19:22.66
6 - 7.5 BILLION - IF ONLY
144,000 ARE SAVED, THAT MEANS
00:19:22.66\00:19:27.96
YOUR CHANCES ARE
ABOUT ONE IN 52,000.
00:19:27.96\00:19:31.73
THAT WOULD MEAN IT'S A LITTLE
BETTER THAN WINNING THE LOTTERY,
00:19:31.73\00:19:35.87
BUT NOT A LOT, SO IF ONLY
ONE OUT OF - I KNOW THE GATE IS
00:19:35.87\00:19:40.34
STRAIGHT AND FEW THERE BE THAT
FIND IT, BUT ONLY ONE OUT OF
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52,000? I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THE
144,000 ARE THE ONLY ONES THAT
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ARE SAVED. >>AMEN.
00:19:48.78\00:19:50.39
>>I BELIEVE THE KEY TO
UNDERSTANDING WHO ARE THE
00:19:50.39\00:19:53.99
144,000 IS IN THE
NUMBER. HOW MANY DISCIPLES
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DID JESUS HAVE? >>TWELVE.
00:19:58.46\00:20:00.46
>>TWELVE. HOW MANY PATRIARCHS
WERE THERE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?
00:20:00.46\00:20:04.03
>>TWELVE. >>TWELVE, THE TWELVE
00:20:04.03\00:20:05.53
SONS OF JACOB, RIGHT?
MOSES APPOINTED TWELVE PRINCES
00:20:05.53\00:20:09.30
OF ISRAEL AFTER THE
EXODUS. AND SO THE NUMBER TWELVE
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REPRESENTS
LEADERSHIP IN THE BIBLE.
00:20:13.64\00:20:17.11
AND DID YOU KNOW THAT IF
YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN 1
00:20:17.11\00:20:20.82
CHRONICLES 25 - YOU MIGHT WANT
TO LOOK THIS UP - 1 CHRONICLES
00:20:20.82\00:20:24.09
25 - THAT'S A BOOK YOU OFTEN
SKIP OVER BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT
00:20:24.09\00:20:26.62
OF NUMBERS IN IT, BUT THIS IS
WHERE IT COMES IN HANDY KNOWING
00:20:26.62\00:20:29.92
THOSE NUMBERS. IT
SAYS, "SO THE NUMBER OF THEM,
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WITH THEIR BRETHREN WHO WERE
INSTRUCTED IN THE SONGS OF THE
00:20:33.96\00:20:36.30
LORD, ALL WHO WERE SKILLFUL, WAS
TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-EIGHT."
00:20:36.30\00:20:40.77
IN THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD THEY
HAD PRIESTS THAT WOULD SING AND
00:20:40.77\00:20:46.04
THEY WERE DIVIDED IN TWO GROUPS
- TOTAL NUMBER TWO EIGHTY-EIGHT.
00:20:46.04\00:20:49.21
WHAT IS HALF OF
TWO EIGHTY-EIGHT?
00:20:49.21\00:20:50.81
>>ONE FORTY-FOUR.
>>ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR.
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THEIR JOB WAS TO PRAISE THE
LORD, AND SOME SAID THEY HAD
00:20:52.98\00:20:55.95
SOME THAT PRAISED DURING
THE NIGHT HOURS AND SOME PRAISED
00:20:55.95\00:20:59.15
DURING THE DAY.
OTHERS SAID, 'NO, THERE WERE
00:20:59.15\00:21:00.76
SOME THEY HAD - THE JEWISH
CALENDAR WAS DIVIDED INTO THE
00:21:00.76\00:21:03.76
SPRING FEASTS AND THE FALL
FEASTS AND SOME WERE RESPONSIBLE
00:21:03.76\00:21:07.23
DURING THE TIME OF SPRING
AND OTHERS SAID THEY ALTERNATED
00:21:07.23\00:21:10.17
MONTHLY - I'M NOT SURE - IN
THE NEW TESTAMENT, WHEN JOHN THE
00:21:10.17\00:21:14.37
BAPTIST'S FATHER IS IN
THE TEMPLE, IT SAYS HE WAS
00:21:14.37\00:21:16.60
MINISTERING IN HIS COURSE -
HE WAS FULFILLING HIS SCHEDULE.
00:21:16.60\00:21:20.44
THEY HAD THE PRIESTS AND THEY
HAD THE MUSICIANS BROKEN UP TO
00:21:20.44\00:21:23.01
PRAISE GOD IN NUMBERS. BUT DAVID
- VERY INTERESTING - TWO HUNDRED
00:21:23.01\00:21:27.62
AND EIGHTY-EIGHT - TWO GROUPS OF
ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR - NOT
00:21:27.62\00:21:31.02
ONLY FOR THE ONES WHO WERE
PRAISING GOD IN THE TEMPLE, BUT
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IF YOU LOOK IN 1 CHRONICLES
27:15 - YOU'VE GOT TO READ THE
00:21:34.22\00:21:38.66
WHOLE CHAPTER AND IT'S KIND OF
LIKE REVELATION 7, IT ITEMIZES
00:21:38.66\00:21:43.33
"THE TWELFTH CAPTAIN FOR
THE TWELFTH MONTH WAS HELDAI THE
00:21:43.33\00:21:47.64
NETOPHATHITE, OF OTHNIEL; IN
HIS DIVISION WERE TWENTY-FOUR
00:21:47.64\00:21:51.04
THOUSAND." NOW YOU ADD THAT ALL
FOR EVERY MONTH - I JUST READ
00:21:51.04\00:21:54.94
ONE VERSE TO YOU - THEY HAD
TWELVE CAPTAINS WITH 24,000 -
00:21:54.94\00:22:00.38
THAT COMES TO 288,000 - THESE
WERE THE FULL-TIME SOLDIERS OF
00:22:00.38\00:22:06.02
DAVID. AND SOLDIERS HAVE
FAMILIES, THEY COULDN'T BE ON
00:22:06.02\00:22:09.62
THE JOB ALL THE TIME
AND SO HE DIVIDED THEM UP
00:22:09.62\00:22:11.73
INTO TWO GROUPS OF -
YOU GOT IT - 144,000.
00:22:11.73\00:22:15.96
SO IN THE TEMPLE PRAISING GOD
AND IN THE MILITARY - NOW THAT
00:22:15.96\00:22:21.94
WOULD BE PATHETIC IF ISRAEL
ONLY HAD 288,000 SOLDIERS.
00:22:21.94\00:22:25.54
THESE WERE THE
FULL-TIME SOLDIERS.
00:22:25.54\00:22:28.34
WHEN THERE WAS A BATTLE THEY
WOULD BLOW A TRUMPET AND EVERY
00:22:28.34\00:22:30.48
FARM PERSON WOULD GET HIS SLING,
THEY WOULD GET THEIR BOWS -
00:22:30.48\00:22:34.72
SOMETIMES THEY WOULD GET THEIR
FARM IMPLEMENTS AND LOOK LIKE A
00:22:34.72\00:22:36.82
MOB - AND THEY WOULD JOIN THE
MILITARY AND THEY WOULD GO OUT
00:22:36.82\00:22:39.65
EN MASSE AGAINST THE ENEMY,
BUT THERE WERE LEADERS THAT WERE
00:22:39.65\00:22:43.12
FULL TIME. YOU
SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:22:43.12\00:22:46.09
DID THE APOSTLES FOLLOW JESUS
PART TIME OR DID THEY LEAVE
00:22:46.09\00:22:48.93
THEIR NETS AND FOLLOW HIM?
BUT THERE WERE OTHER DISCIPLES
00:22:48.93\00:22:53.20
THAT FOLLOWED AS THEY COULD.
THEY WOULD GO - WHENEVER THERE
00:22:53.20\00:22:56.71
WAS A PROGRAM
THEY WOULD GO TO IT.
00:22:56.71\00:22:58.21
THEY WERE SPREADING
THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS.
00:22:58.21\00:23:00.18
HE HAD SEVENTY THAT HE SENT OUT
ONE TIME, BUT HE SENT THE TWELVE
00:23:00.18\00:23:03.61
OUT A DIFFERENT TIME. AND
SO, THE KEY TO THE NUMBER IS
00:23:03.61\00:23:07.88
THE HUNDRED - LET ME JUST SUM
UP THE WHOLE STUDY FOR YOU - BUT
00:23:07.88\00:23:11.19
I'M NOT DONE. THE KEY TO
UNDERSTAND THE 144,000 IS THEY
00:23:11.19\00:23:17.46
ARE, IN THE LAST DAYS, WHAT
THE APOSTLES WERE AT THE FIRST
00:23:17.46\00:23:21.33
COMING. THEY FOLLOW AND THEY
FULFILL THE CHARACTERISTICS OF
00:23:21.33\00:23:26.17
THE APOSTLES. THEY ARE LEADERS.
THEY ARE NOT THE ONLY ONES SAVED
00:23:26.17\00:23:30.41
ANY MORE THAN THE APOSTLES WERE
THE ONLY ONES THAT WERE FILLED
00:23:30.41\00:23:34.11
WITH THE HOLY
SPIRIT AT PENTECOST.
00:23:34.11\00:23:36.28
THERE WERE TWELVE APOSTLES IN
THE UPPER ROOM - MATTER OF FACT,
00:23:36.28\00:23:39.25
WHY DON'T WE
JUMP THERE REAL QUICK?
00:23:39.25\00:23:40.62
I THINK THIS IS INTERESTING
- AN INTERESTING FACT.
00:23:40.62\00:23:43.89
IF YOU GO TO ACTS CHAPTER 13
- ACTS CHAPTER 1, SORRY - VERSE
00:23:43.89\00:23:48.66
13, "AND WHEN THEY HAD ENTERED,
THEY WENT UP INTO THE UPPER ROOM
00:23:48.66\00:23:52.13
WHERE THEY WERE STAYING: PETER,
JAMES, JOHN, AND ANDREW; PHILIP
00:23:52.13\00:23:55.93
AND THOMAS; BARTHOLOMEW
AND MATTHEW; JAMES THE SON OF
00:23:55.93\00:23:58.03
ALLPHAEUS AND SIMON THE ZEALOT;
AND JUDAS THE SON OF JAMES."
00:23:58.03\00:24:01.00
THEY JUST NAMED ELEVEN APOSTLES.
WHY DID THEY NAME ELEVEN?
00:24:01.00\00:24:04.97
(INAUDIBLE) BECAUSE ONE
OF THEM HUNG HIMSELF - JUDAS.
00:24:04.97\00:24:10.21
SO BEFORE THE HOLY SPIRIT'S
POURED OUT, ONE THING HAPPENS IN
00:24:10.21\00:24:13.35
THE BOOK OF ACTS.
HE TOLD THEM TO WAIT IN
00:24:13.35\00:24:15.15
JERUSALEM UNTIL YOU
RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:24:15.15\00:24:16.82
THE LAST THING THAT HAPPENS IN
THE BOOK OF ACTS, IT SAYS THEY
00:24:16.82\00:24:20.22
WANTED TO PICK ONE OF THE NUMBER
- YOU LOOK AT VERSE 17 - LET'S
00:24:20.22\00:24:25.13
PICK ONE AMONG US WHO WAS - WHO
HAD GONE IN AND OUT, THAT HEARD
00:24:25.13\00:24:29.40
JESUS, THAT SAW HIM AT THE
RESURRECTION, THAT HAS BEEN
00:24:29.40\00:24:32.33
EXPOSED TO ALL OF HIS TEACHINGS
AND "HE WAS NUMBERED WITH US AND
00:24:32.33\00:24:39.11
OBTAINED A PART
IN THIS MINISTRY."
00:24:39.11\00:24:41.01
SEE, THERE WAS A NUMBER, JESUS
- OR PETER SAYS IN ACTS 1:17.
00:24:41.01\00:24:44.88
SO FINALLY THEY CAST LOTS AND
THEY PICKED MATTHIAS, AND THAT
00:24:44.88\00:24:48.85
MEANS 'GIFT OF JEHOVAH.' AND YOU
KNOW WHAT IT SAYS IN THE NEXT
00:24:48.85\00:24:51.39
VERSE? IT SAYS HE WAS NUMBERED
WITH THE ELEVEN. SO WHEN YOU ADD
00:24:51.39\00:24:55.99
ONE TO ELEVEN, WHAT
DO YOU HAVE? >>TWELVE.
00:24:55.99\00:24:57.99
>>AS SOON AS THEY GET TO THE
NUMBER TWELVE, THE NEXT VERSE
00:24:57.99\00:25:01.73
SAYS 'AND THEY WERE ALL
ASSEMBLED IN ONE PLACE AND IT
00:25:01.73\00:25:05.90
WAS SHAKEN AND THERE WAS THE
SOUND OF A MIGHTY RUSHING WIND
00:25:05.90\00:25:08.14
AND TONGUES OF FIRE CAME
AND APPEARED ON EACH OF THEM AND
00:25:08.14\00:25:10.34
THEY BEGAN PREACHING. >>AMEN.
00:25:10.34\00:25:12.27
>>SO WHEN THEY GOT THE NUMBER
TWELVE. THEY WEREN'T THE ONLY
00:25:12.27\00:25:14.64
ONES FILLED WITH THE HOLY
SPIRIT. THE APOSTLES WERE IN THE
00:25:14.64\00:25:17.18
UPPER ROOM, BUT HOW
MANY OTHERS WERE THERE?
00:25:17.18\00:25:19.58
IT'S A HUNDRED AND TWENTY, SO
THERE WERE TEN TIMES MORE THAN
00:25:19.58\00:25:23.02
JUST THE APOSTLES.
YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:25:23.02\00:25:25.99
WHO WROTE THE
BOOK OF REVELATION?
00:25:25.99\00:25:27.62
>>JOHN. >>AN APOSTLE.
00:25:27.62\00:25:29.89
AND WHAT DID JESUS
SAY TO THE APOSTLES?
00:25:29.89\00:25:31.96
MATTHEW 19:28, "ASSUREDLY
I SAY TO YOU, THAT IN THE
00:25:31.96\00:25:38.33
REGENERATION," - IN THE
RESURRECTION - "WHEN THE SON OF
00:25:38.33\00:25:40.47
MAN SITS ON THE THRONE OF HIS
GLORY, YOU WHO HAVE FOLLOWED ME
00:25:40.47\00:25:43.57
WILL ALSO SIN
ON TWELVE THRONES."
00:25:43.57\00:25:46.37
NOW, WAS THAT JUDAS? DID
HE GET ONE OF THOSE THRONES?
00:25:46.37\00:25:50.18
SO WHO'S GOING TO GET THAT
THRONE? WILL IT BE MATTHIAS?
00:25:50.18\00:25:53.21
SOME HAVE SAID, 'WELL, THEY KIND
OF RAN AHEAD OF THE LORD THERE,
00:25:53.21\00:25:55.62
YOU KNOW, THEY CAST LOTS AND'
- THEY SAID, - 'WE NEED TO PICK
00:25:55.62\00:25:57.55
SOMEONE' - AND YOU NEVER HEAR
FROM MATTHIAS AGAIN BUT YOU SURE
00:25:57.55\00:26:01.09
DO HEAR A LOT ABOUT A GUY NAMED
SAUL, LATER CHANGED TO PAUL,
00:26:01.09\00:26:04.79
LATER ON, WHO IS THEN
NUMBERED ONE OF THE APOSTLES.
00:26:04.79\00:26:08.00
PAUL CALLS HIMSELF -
PAUL MAY HAVE FILLED IN.
00:26:08.00\00:26:10.57
I STILL THINK THAT WHEN THEY
REPLACED JUDAS GOD WAS IN IT,
00:26:10.57\00:26:14.10
BECAUSE THEY GET TO THE NUMBER
TWELVE - THE HOLY SPIRIT - THE
00:26:14.10\00:26:17.74
WHOLE THING CHANGES. THE
CHURCH BASICALLY FIRES OUT
00:26:17.74\00:26:20.01
OF A CANNON RIGHT AFTER
THAT. EVERYTHING CHANGES
00:26:20.01\00:26:23.48
RIGHT AFTER THAT.
ISN'T THAT INTERESTING?
00:26:23.48\00:26:25.95
AND SO, THE 144,000 ARE
LIKE YOUR LAST DAY APOSTLES.
00:26:25.95\00:26:29.78
THE LORD IS GOING TO FILL WITH
HIS SPIRIT THIS GROUP, IN THE
00:26:29.78\00:26:34.22
LAST DAYS, THAT
DOES A SPECIAL WORK.
00:26:34.22\00:26:36.83
ALRIGHT, NOW, THIS IS ANOTHER
POINT, AND ONE REASON I'M DOING
00:26:36.83\00:26:40.93
THIS SERMON IS NOT JUST FOR YOU,
BUT I'M TRUSTING PEOPLE WILL
00:26:40.93\00:26:44.47
WATCH. AND I MAY
TELL YOU MORE ABOUT IT
00:26:44.47\00:26:48.04
SOMETIME, BUT THIS - THIS LAST
WEEK I WAS AT AN UNUSUAL MEETING
00:26:48.04\00:26:51.54
WITH CHRISTIAN LEADERS FROM
ALL OVER NORTH AMERICA AND EVEN,
00:26:51.54\00:26:55.38
ACTUALLY, SOME FLEW IN FROM
OVERSEAS AND - LOVELY PEOPLE,
00:26:55.38\00:27:01.02
BUT THEY HAVE
SOME DIFFERENT BELIEFS.
00:27:01.02\00:27:03.69
AND THEY BELIEVE THAT, YOU KNOW,
JESUS ISN'T GOING TO COME BACK
00:27:03.69\00:27:09.79
AGAIN UNTIL 144,000
LITERAL JEWS ARE RAISED UP.
00:27:09.79\00:27:16.50
AND THEY BELIEVE, BECAUSE IT
DOES SAY THERE IN REVELATION -
00:27:16.50\00:27:19.23
YOU GO BACK TO CHAPTER 7 - THESE
TWELVE TRIBES - IT'S A SPECIAL
00:27:19.23\00:27:23.20
NATION FROM THE
TRIBES OF ISRAEL.
00:27:23.20\00:27:26.24
NOW, IF YOU KNOW YOUR BIBLE,
HOW MANY TRIBES ARE THERE?
00:27:26.24\00:27:30.85
>>TWELVE. >>TWELVE.
00:27:30.85\00:27:33.65
WAS EPHRAIM ONE
OF THE TRIBES? >>YES.
00:27:33.65\00:27:35.88
>>YEAH. WAS
MANASSEH ONE OF THE TRIBES?
00:27:35.88\00:27:39.62
>>YES. >>YOU DO
THE MATH AND YOU'RE
00:27:39.62\00:27:42.16
GOING TO END UP
WITH THIRTEEN. >>YEAH.
00:27:42.16\00:27:44.29
>>NOW LET ME TELL YOU HOW THAT
HAPPENED. JOSEPH WAS SOLD BY HIS
00:27:44.29\00:27:47.86
BROTHERS. YOU ALL
REMEMBER THE STORY?
00:27:47.86\00:27:49.43
>>YES. >>HE WAS SEPARATED FROM
00:27:49.43\00:27:50.80
HIS FATHER FOR MANY
YEARS. JOSEPH THEN HAD TWO BOYS
00:27:50.80\00:27:54.07
- EPHRAIM AND MANASSEH.
JACOB, BEFORE HE DIED, HE SAID,
00:27:54.07\00:27:57.04
'JOSEPH, BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN
SEPARATED FROM YOUR BROTHERS,
00:27:57.04\00:27:59.64
I AM GOING TO SPLIT YOUR
INHERITANCE AND NUMBER YOUR TWO
00:27:59.64\00:28:03.58
SONS AS ONE OF MY SONS SO YOU'LL
END UP WITH A DOUBLE PORTION.
00:28:03.58\00:28:08.55
NOT ONLY THAT, JOSEPH, YOU'RE'
- THE FIRST-BORN WAS SUPPOSED TO
00:28:08.55\00:28:10.72
GET A DOUBLE PORTION - AND
JOSEPH WAS THE FIRST-BORN OF
00:28:10.72\00:28:14.26
JACOB THROUGH RACHEL -
RACHEL'S FIRST-BORN, RIGHT?
00:28:14.26\00:28:18.83
THE ONLY WIFE HE
EVER WANTED WAS RACHEL.
00:28:18.83\00:28:20.46
HE ENDED UP GETTING THIS WHOLE
OTHER STRING OF WIVES, BUT HE
00:28:20.46\00:28:22.43
JUST WANTED
RACHEL. HE GOT TRICKED.
00:28:22.43\00:28:25.97
HE GOT TRICKED SEVERAL
TIMES - HE WAS NOT VERY SMART.
00:28:25.97\00:28:27.74
(LAUGHTER) WHEN IT CAME TO THAT,
BUT - SO, HOW DO YOU GET THE
00:28:27.74\00:28:35.44
NUMBER TWELVE THEN?
WELL, WHEN THE EXODUS HAPPENED,
00:28:35.44\00:28:37.85
MOSES SAID LEVI IS GOING TO BE
THE PRICE - WILL BE THE NATION
00:28:37.85\00:28:41.92
OF PRIESTS FOR THE REST
OF THE OTHER TWELVE TRIBES.
00:28:41.92\00:28:45.29
YOU HAD THE TWELVE TRIBES AND
THE TRIBE OF LEVI, WHO WERE THE
00:28:45.29\00:28:47.92
PRIESTS. WHEN YOU
READ THE LIST OF THE
00:28:47.92\00:28:50.13
TWELVE TRIBES IN REVELATION
7, THERE IS NO OTHER LIST WHERE
00:28:50.13\00:28:56.00
THEY'RE LISTED THIS
WAY ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE.
00:28:56.00\00:28:58.60
IT'S A LIST THAT
DOESN'T MAKE SENSE.
00:28:58.60\00:29:01.07
WELL, IT DOES BUT I'M NOT
GOING TO TELL YOU WHY JUST YET.
00:29:01.07\00:29:04.97
FIRST OF ALL, THE
FIRST-BORN WAS RUEBEN.
00:29:04.97\00:29:06.81
JUDAH IS LISTED AS THE
FIRST-BORN, REUBEN IS THE
00:29:06.81\00:29:08.81
SECOND-BORN. DAN IS LEFT OUT.
00:29:08.81\00:29:12.15
EPHRAIM IS LEFT
OUT. MANASSEH'S INCLUDED.
00:29:12.15\00:29:14.68
EPHRAIM IS NOT CALLED
EPHRAIM, HE'S CALLED JOSEPH.
00:29:14.68\00:29:17.09
IT IS AN UNUSUAL LIST IN THE WAY
THAT IT'S GIVEN, AND IT IS TRUE
00:29:17.09\00:29:21.86
IT STARTS WITH JUDAH, BUT
BENJAMIN, WHO IS A FIRST-BORN,
00:29:21.86\00:29:24.73
HE'S SECOND - RATHER REUBEN,
WHO'S A FIRST-BORN, IS SECOND.
00:29:24.73\00:29:28.76
BENJAMIN, WHO'S THE LAST, HE'S
AT THE END. AND WHY IS THAT?
00:29:28.76\00:29:33.97
FIRST OF ALL, THESE ARE
NOT GOING TO BE TWELVE THOUSAND
00:29:33.97\00:29:38.31
LITERAL JEWS FROM
THESE TWELVE TRIBES.
00:29:38.31\00:29:41.61
WHY DO I KNOW THAT?
THE NAMES IN THE BIBLE ARE
00:29:41.61\00:29:45.55
ALL SYMBOLIC - IN
REVELATION. LET ME RE-SAY THAT.
00:29:45.55\00:29:49.72
THE NAMES IN
REVELATION ARE ALWAYS SYMBOLIC.
00:29:49.72\00:29:52.35
WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT BALAAM AND
JEZEBEL AND APOLLYON AND MICHAEL
00:29:52.35\00:29:58.43
AND THE DRAGON,
THEY REPRESENT THINGS.
00:29:58.43\00:30:01.96
AND SO, THESE TWELVE TRIBES,
THEIR NAMES MEAN SOMETHING, BUT
00:30:01.96\00:30:05.60
IS IT TALKING ABOUT
TWELVE THOUSAND LITERAL JEWS?
00:30:05.60\00:30:08.67
IT CAN'T BE. WHY? YOU
LOOK IN THE BIBLE AND YOU'LL
00:30:08.67\00:30:13.07
FIND OUT THAT HUNDREDS OF YEARS
BEFORE JESUS WAS BORN - I'M
00:30:13.07\00:30:15.81
GOING TO GIVE IT TO YOU - 2
KINGS 17 - IT'S LIKE DURING THE
00:30:15.81\00:30:18.88
TIME OF KING HEZEKIAH, 500 YEARS
BEFORE CHRIST WAS BORN - IT
00:30:18.88\00:30:24.82
SAYS, "IN THE NINTH YEAR
OF HOSHEA," - HE WAS A KING OF
00:30:24.82\00:30:26.92
ISRAEL - NO, I
THINK I'M CONFUSING YOU.
00:30:26.92\00:30:30.79
THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL ENDED
UP HAVING A CIVIL WAR AND THEY
00:30:30.79\00:30:35.36
SPLIT INTO TWO GROUPS
FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS.
00:30:35.36\00:30:37.77
DAVID AND HIS DESCENDENTS
RULED THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM THAT
00:30:37.77\00:30:41.20
COMPRISED OF JUDAH, BENJAMIN,
AND THE PRIESTS - THE LEVITES -
00:30:41.20\00:30:45.11
THEY STAYED IN
THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM.
00:30:45.11\00:30:46.74
THE NORTHERN KINGDOM WENT
TOWARDS IDOLATRY IN THE DAYS OF
00:30:46.74\00:30:49.58
JEROBOAM. THE OTHER
TEN TRIBES WERE UP THERE.
00:30:49.58\00:30:53.55
THREE AND TEN IS
THIRTEEN, YOU WITH ME?
00:30:53.55\00:30:56.82
THEY CALLED THE
NORTHERN KINGDOM ISRAEL.
00:30:56.82\00:30:59.59
THE SOUTHERN
KINGDOM THEY CALLED JUDAH.
00:30:59.59\00:31:02.22
THAT'S WHERE WE GET
THE WORD 'JEW' TODAY.
00:31:02.22\00:31:04.19
THERE WAS NO TRIBE CALLED
'JEW' - THAT'S A DERIVATIVE OF A
00:31:04.19\00:31:07.30
SHORTENED FORM OF
THE TRIBE OF JUDAH.
00:31:07.30\00:31:09.56
THEY - JUDAH WAS THE BIGGEST
TRIBE, BY FAR, AND SO YOU - THEY
00:31:09.56\00:31:13.03
CALLED IT THE LAND OF JUDAH.
DAVID WAS FROM THE TRIBE OF
00:31:13.03\00:31:15.10
JUDAH. JESUS WAS FROM THE TRIBE
OF JUDAH. THE NORTHERN KINGDOM,
00:31:15.10\00:31:19.81
BECAUSE THEY WENT TO IDOLATRY,
GOD WITHDREW HIS PROTECTION -
00:31:19.81\00:31:23.04
THEY HAD A WHOLE
DIFFERENT BUNCH OF KINGS.
00:31:23.04\00:31:24.15
THEY WERE ALL FROM DIFFERENT
MONARCHIES AND DYNASTIES.
00:31:24.15\00:31:25.98
THEY WERE ALL KILLING EACH OTHER
OFF. IN THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM IT
00:31:25.98\00:31:28.62
WAS ALWAYS A DESCENDENT OF
DAVID. ALWAYS A DESCENDENT OF
00:31:28.62\00:31:32.65
DAVID. SO, FINALLY, GOD WITHDREW
00:31:32.65\00:31:36.89
HIS PROTECTION AND, DURING THE
TIME WHEN HEZEKIAH, A DESCENDENT
00:31:36.89\00:31:40.53
OF DAVID, WAS IN JUDAH, THE
ASSYRIANS CAME FROM THE NORTH TO
00:31:40.53\00:31:44.60
TEN TRIBES, CONQUERED THEM,
CARRIED THEM OFF WHERE THEY
00:31:44.60\00:31:49.74
LARGELY INTERMARRIED AND
WERE DILUTED AND DISPERSED.
00:31:49.74\00:31:55.48
SOME OF THEM CAME BACK AND
THEY WERE, SORT OF, HALF-BREED
00:31:55.48\00:31:58.55
SAMARITANS - THAT WAS A
COMBINATION OF ASSYRIAN AND A
00:31:58.55\00:32:02.18
LITTLE BIT OF, YOU KNOW, SORT
OF LIKE MONGOLS OF EVERYBODY,
00:32:02.18\00:32:07.39
BUT THEY WERE NOT
PURE-BRED JEWS ANYMORE.
00:32:07.39\00:32:10.83
SO HERE WE ARE NOW, TWO THOUSAND
FIVE HUNDRED YEARS LATER AND,
00:32:10.83\00:32:14.10
WHEN YOU READ IN REVELATION
TWELVE THOUSAND FROM THE TRIBE
00:32:14.10\00:32:16.77
OF ISSACHAR, TWELVE THOUSAND
FROM THE TRIBE OF ZEBULON,
00:32:16.77\00:32:19.20
TWELVE THOUSAND FROM THE TRIBE
OF MANASSEH, WHERE'S HE GOING TO
00:32:19.20\00:32:24.67
GET TWELVE THOUSAND? YOU
SITTING THERE, YOU MAY HAVE
00:32:24.67\00:32:28.44
A LITTLE BIT OF
THOSE TRIBES IN YOUR BLOOD.
00:32:28.44\00:32:30.85
EVERYBODY'S GETTING INTO DNA
ANCESTRY NOW, WANTING TO TRACE
00:32:30.85\00:32:35.65
THEIR ANCESTRY, AND I'VE SEEN
A FEW COMMERCIALS WHERE PEOPLE
00:32:35.65\00:32:38.49
SAY, 'WOW, HERE ALL MY
LIFE I THOUGHT I WAS GERMAN.
00:32:38.49\00:32:41.62
I HAD A TEST
AND NOW I'M ITALIAN.
00:32:41.62\00:32:43.49
WHAT IN THE WORLD
AM I GOING TO DO?'
00:32:43.49\00:32:45.13
BIG DEAL. WHO CARES?
(LAUGHTER) WHAT DOES IT CHANGE?
00:32:45.13\00:32:48.83
'WELL, NOW I'M GOING TO HAVE
TO LEARN ABOUT MY ITALIAN ROOTS
00:32:48.83\00:32:51.37
INSTEAD OF MY GERMAN ROOTS.
AND WHAT A WASTE LEARNING ABOUT
00:32:51.37\00:32:53.80
MY GERMAN ROOTS AND' - YOU
KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT?
00:32:53.80\00:32:57.34
I GUESS IT'S INTERESTING.
IT'S NOT THAT INTERESTING TO
00:32:57.34\00:32:59.04
ME, BUT IT'S KIND OF
TRIVIA. YOU ARE WHAT YOU ARE.
00:32:59.04\00:33:02.48
BUT PEOPLE ARE FINDING
OUT YOU CAN DO A DNA TEST.
00:33:02.48\00:33:05.85
I WAS IN NEW YORK - HAD DINNER
WITH MY COUSIN AND SHE SAID, 'WE
00:33:05.85\00:33:08.85
DID A DNA TEST' AND SHE WAS
REALLY SURPRISED TO LEARN ABOUT,
00:33:08.85\00:33:12.55
YOU KNOW, SOME OF HER ANCESTRY
AND, YOU KNOW, IF YOU DID A DNA
00:33:12.55\00:33:17.63
TEST, YOU WOULD BE SHOCKED HOW
MANY OF YOU HAVE HEBREW IN YOUR
00:33:17.63\00:33:22.40
DNA, BECAUSE THE JEWS HAVE BEEN
SCATTERED AROUND THE CIVILIZED
00:33:22.40\00:33:26.87
WORLD FOR TWO THOUSAND
YEARS AND THEY HAVE COMMUNITIES
00:33:26.87\00:33:30.04
EVERYWHERE. HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW
THAT? YOU SAY, 'OH, BUT I'M FROM
00:33:30.04\00:33:32.87
GERMANY.' YOU DON'T THINK
THERE'S JEWS THERE? 'OH, BUT I'M
00:33:32.87\00:33:36.14
FROM SOUTH AMERICA.' A LOT
OF JEWS THERE. THE CARIBBEAN -
00:33:36.14\00:33:39.75
YOU'LL FIND SYNAGOGUES THERE.
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU GO.
00:33:39.75\00:33:43.08
AND SO, WHEN PEOPLE ARGUE THAT
THERE HAVE TO BE TWELVE THOUSAND
00:33:43.08\00:33:46.35
LITERAL JEWS, I THINK, 'OH, IT
DOESN'T MEAN THAT.' FURTHERMORE,
00:33:46.35\00:33:51.16
THE BIBLE'S PRETTY
CLEAR. LOOK IN GALATIANS 3:29.
00:33:51.16\00:33:54.10
IF YOU ARE CHRIST'S
THEN YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED.
00:33:54.10\00:33:58.30
IF YOU'RE A BELIEVER,
YOU'RE PART OF SPIRITUAL ISRAEL.
00:33:58.30\00:34:01.57
ROMANS 2:28, 29, "FOR HE IS NOT
A JEW WHO IS ONE OUTWARDLY, NOR
00:34:01.57\00:34:07.08
IS CIRCUMCISION THAT WHICH IS
OUTWARD IN THE FLESH; BUT HE IS
00:34:07.08\00:34:10.15
A JEW WHO IS ONE INWARDLY;"
ROMANS 9:6, "BUT IT IS NOT THAT
00:34:10.15\00:34:15.95
THE WORD OF GOD
HAS TAKEN NO EFFECT.
00:34:15.95\00:34:17.75
FOR THEY ARE NOT ALL
ISRAEL WHO ARE OF ISRAEL."
00:34:17.75\00:34:22.09
MATTHEW 3:9 - JOHN THE BAPTIST
SAID, "AND DO NOT THINK TO SAY
00:34:22.09\00:34:25.06
TO YOURSELVES, 'WE HAVE ABRAHAM
AS OUR FATHER.' FOR I SAY...GOD
00:34:25.06\00:34:27.96
IS ABLE TO RAISE UP CHILDREN
TO ABRAHAM FROM THESE STONES."
00:34:27.96\00:34:31.53
AND I COULD GO ON AND READ YOU
ABOUT TWENTY OTHER VERSES THAT
00:34:31.53\00:34:34.07
MAKE IT VERY CLEAR THAT FROM THE
TIME OF CHRIST ANY GENTILE COULD
00:34:34.07\00:34:38.11
BE GRAFTED INTO
THE STOCK OF ISRAEL.
00:34:38.11\00:34:41.51
NOW I'VE GOT SOME FOLKS WATCHING
NOW AND THEY'RE GOING TO THINK,
00:34:41.51\00:34:43.58
'PASTOR DOUG, YOU DON'T
THINK GOD HAS A SPECIAL WORK?
00:34:43.58\00:34:45.61
YOU THINK HE'S FORSAKEN ISRAEL?
YOU DON'T THINK HE HAS SOMETHING
00:34:45.61\00:34:48.18
SPECIAL FOR THE JEWS?'
ABSOLUTELY NOT - THERE'S A
00:34:48.18\00:34:50.72
TEACHING OUT THERE CALLED
'REPLACEMENT THEOLOGY' THAT GOD
00:34:50.72\00:34:53.79
HAS NO PLAN FOR THE JEWS NOW
AND IT'S ECLIPSED AND REPLACED
00:34:53.79\00:34:57.06
BY SPIRITUAL JEWS.
I DON'T BELIEVE THAT.
00:34:57.06\00:34:59.59
WHAT I READ IN THE
BIBLE IS QUITE THE OPPOSITE.
00:34:59.59\00:35:02.53
WHEN YOU BECOME A CHRISTIAN, YOU
ARE GRAFTED INTO ISRAEL AND YOU,
00:35:02.53\00:35:09.10
BASICALLY,
BECOME A SPIRITUAL JEW.
00:35:09.10\00:35:11.84
THERE ARE A LOT OF JEWS
THAT BECOME SPIRITUAL JEWS BY
00:35:11.84\00:35:17.11
ACCEPTING JESUS - AND PAUL MAKES
IT VERY CLEAR - BUT YOU ARE NOT
00:35:17.11\00:35:20.98
SAVED - GOD
DOESN'T DISCRIMINATE.
00:35:20.98\00:35:22.65
GOD IS NOT SAVING PEOPLE BECAUSE
HE LOOKS AT YOUR BLOOD AND SAYS,
00:35:22.65\00:35:25.59
'YOU'VE GOT HEBREW
BLOOD. I'VE GOT TO SAVE YOU.
00:35:25.59\00:35:27.19
YOU'RE CHOSEN.' WHAT DID JESUS
SAY TO THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS?
00:35:27.19\00:35:30.49
THEY THOUGHT,
'WE'RE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM.
00:35:30.49\00:35:31.79
WE'RE GOING TO BE SAVED.' HE
SAYS, 'YOU'RE NOT CHILDREN OF
00:35:31.79\00:35:34.20
ABRAHAM, YOU'RE CHILDREN OF THE
DEVIL BECAUSE YOU'RE TRYING TO
00:35:34.20\00:35:36.97
KILL ME, THE MESSIAH.
ABRAHAM WOULDN'T HAVE DONE
00:35:36.97\00:35:39.27
THAT.' BUT IT'S AMAZING TO
ME HOW MIXED UP PEOPLE GET.
00:35:39.27\00:35:42.90
AND THEY'RE WAITING FOR 144,000
LITERAL JEWS FROM THESE TRIBES
00:35:42.90\00:35:47.41
THAT ARE DISPERSED AND EXTINCT.
NOW, AMONG THE TWELVE APOSTLES,
00:35:47.41\00:35:51.81
WERE THEY FROM THE
TWELVE DIFFERENT TRIBES?
00:35:51.81\00:35:53.35
>>NO. >>NO.
00:35:53.35\00:35:56.48
MATTHEW HAD SOME LEVITE -
HE WAS CALLED MATTHEW LEVI.
00:35:56.48\00:35:59.92
PAUL SAYS HE'S FROM
THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN.
00:35:59.92\00:36:01.96
THE MAJORITY WERE PROBABLY
FROM THE TRIBE OF JUDAH.
00:36:01.96\00:36:05.33
AND SO YOU HAD THOSE THREE
TRIBES OF THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM
00:36:05.33\00:36:08.30
THAT WERE REPRESENTED AMONG
THE TWELVE TRIBES - THE TWELVE
00:36:08.30\00:36:11.30
APOSTLES, RATHER. AND
SO, THEY STILL PRESERVED THE
00:36:11.30\00:36:15.14
NUMBER TWELVE, BUT TEN OF
THE TRIBES SORT OF EVAPORATED
00:36:15.14\00:36:18.04
BECAUSE THEY ABANDONED GOD.
YOU MAY BE RAISED IN THE CHURCH.
00:36:18.04\00:36:23.21
YOU MAY HAVE GENERATIONS OF
CHURCH HISTORY AND HERITAGE.
00:36:23.21\00:36:26.82
DO YOU THINK GOD'S
IMPRESSED WITH THAT?
00:36:26.82\00:36:29.18
'HEY LORD, LOOK AT THIS, I'VE
GOT FOURTH GENERATION - MY GREAT
00:36:29.18\00:36:34.32
GRANDFATHER WAS A
PASTOR, DO I GET EXTRA POINTS?
00:36:34.32\00:36:37.16
WHERE DO I GET TO SIT IN HEAVEN?
WE'VE GOT GENERATIONS OF CHURCH
00:36:37.16\00:36:39.76
HISTORY.' IT DOESN'T DO YOU
ANY GOOD IN THE JUDGMENT DAY.
00:36:39.76\00:36:45.23
YOU NEED A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP
WITH JESUS, THAT'S WHAT MATTERS.
00:36:45.23\00:36:48.87
GOD HAS NO GRANDCHILDREN.
YOU EVER HEARD THAT?
00:36:48.87\00:36:54.24
YOU DON'T CONNECT WITH GOD
BECAUSE OF A SECOND GENERATION.
00:36:54.24\00:36:58.35
YOU DON'T DO IT THROUGH MARRIAGE
- 'I'M MARRIED TO A CHRISTIAN.
00:36:58.35\00:37:00.38
THAT MAKES ME ONE.' YOU MIGHT
PRAY FOR YOUR SPOUSE AND THERE
00:37:00.38\00:37:04.59
IS A SANCTIFYING INFLUENCE - 1
CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 7 SAYS THAT
00:37:04.59\00:37:09.39
THE BELIEVING WIFE OR BELIEVING
HUSBAND CAN HAVE A SANCTIFYING
00:37:09.39\00:37:12.19
INFLUENCE ON THE SPOUSE OR THE
FAMILY, BUT THEY'RE NOT SAVED BY
00:37:12.19\00:37:15.23
IT. THEY MIGHT BE CONVERTED
BY THE PRAYER. I WON'T ASK SUZIE
00:37:15.23\00:37:21.04
HOW LONG SHE'S
BEEN PRAYING FOR JOHN.
00:37:21.04\00:37:22.87
>>AMEN. >>GOD
ANSWERS THOSE PRAYERS,
00:37:22.87\00:37:26.98
RIGHT? THERE'S A SANCTIFYING
INFLUENCE THROUGH THAT.
00:37:26.98\00:37:31.01
I'M SORRY, I HOPE I
DIDN'T EMBARRASS YOU.
00:37:31.01\00:37:35.45
THEY HAVE A SPECIAL WORK
TO DO. SO IS IT CLEAR THAT
00:37:35.45\00:37:38.92
IT'S NOT LITERAL JEWS? >>YES.
00:37:38.92\00:37:40.82
>>ALRIGHT, I'LL MOVE
ON TO THE NEXT POINT.
00:37:40.82\00:37:42.16
THEY HAVE A SPECIAL WORK.
00:37:42.16\00:37:45.29
WHAT WAS THE WORK
OF JOHN THE BAPTIST?
00:37:45.29\00:37:48.36
HE WENT TO PREPARE
PEOPLE FOR JESUS' FIRST COMING.
00:37:48.36\00:37:51.43
HE SAID, 'I AM THE VOICE OF
ONE CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS.
00:37:51.43\00:37:53.67
PREPARE THE WAY OF THE LORD.'
NOW, WHEN IT CAME TO JOHN THE
00:37:53.67\00:37:55.97
BAPTIST, PEOPLE SAID TO
JESUS, 'NOW, WAS THIS ELIJAH?'
00:37:55.97\00:38:00.71
AND JESUS SAID, 'ELIJAH HAS
COME. AND ELIJAH WILL COME.'
00:38:00.71\00:38:07.02
MEANING ELIJAH CAME IN THE
PERSON OF JOHN THE BAPTIST.
00:38:07.02\00:38:10.25
JOHN THE BAPTIST CAME IN THE
SPIRIT AND THE POWER OF ELIJAH
00:38:10.25\00:38:13.12
TO PREPARE THE WORLD
FOR JESUS' FIRST COMING.
00:38:13.12\00:38:16.46
BUT JESUS SAID, 'SOME OTHERS ARE
GOING TO COME IN THE SPIRIT AND
00:38:16.46\00:38:20.26
POWER OF ELIJAH TO PREPARE THE
WORLD FOR JESUS' SECOND COMING.
00:38:20.26\00:38:24.50
THIS IS THE WORK OF THE 144,000
AND THEY'VE GOT A SPECIAL WORK
00:38:24.50\00:38:28.90
TO DO. THEY'VE
GOT SPECIAL NAMES.
00:38:28.90\00:38:31.31
NOW, WHY DID IT USE THE NAMES
IN THE LIST THAT YOU'VE SEEN?
00:38:31.31\00:38:36.28
WHEN YOU - IN THE BIBLE, WHEN
YOU NAME YOUR KID, THEY DIDN'T
00:38:36.28\00:38:40.08
GET A BIBLE NAME BOOK. YOU
KNOW, I'VE NOTICED NAMES GO
00:38:40.08\00:38:43.55
THROUGH TRENDS AND I FORGET WHAT
THE MODERN TRENDS ARE NOW BUT
00:38:43.55\00:38:48.09
THERE ARE CERTAIN NAMES
- IF I NAME THEM I WON'T
00:38:48.09\00:38:50.56
EMBARRASS ANYBODY
HERE. NOBODY - I HAVEN'T MET
00:38:50.56\00:38:52.79
TOO MANY MATHILDAS LATELY.
BUT THAT USED TO BE THE NAME.
00:38:52.79\00:38:58.30
AND THERE'S ALL THESE DIFFERENT
NAMES - SOMETIMES IT DEPENDS ON
00:38:58.30\00:39:00.40
WHO'S THE KING
AT THE CERTAIN TIME.
00:39:00.40\00:39:02.14
EVERYONE WAS NAMED GEORGE
WHEN KING GEORGE WAS THERE AND -
00:39:02.14\00:39:05.97
DIFFERENT THINGS,
DIFFERENT TRENDS, NAMES CHANGE.
00:39:05.97\00:39:08.44
'WHY DO YOU
EVEN PICK THAT NAME?'
00:39:08.44\00:39:10.01
'I LIKE THE SOUND.' BUT IN THE
BIBLE THEY NAMED THEIR CHILDREN
00:39:10.01\00:39:13.82
WITH A MEANING.
THE NAME HAD A MEANING.
00:39:13.82\00:39:16.62
IT OFTEN TALKED
ABOUT THEM IN SOME WAY.
00:39:16.62\00:39:19.45
SO, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE NAMES
OF THE TWELVE APOSTLES THAT ARE
00:39:19.45\00:39:23.59
LISTED IN THE LIST OF 144,000 -
AND I SUPPOSE I COULD PUT THESE
00:39:23.59\00:39:27.50
NOTES ONLINE, IF
ANYBODY'S INTERESTED.
00:39:27.50\00:39:30.40
LET ME JUST TELL
YOU WHAT THE NAMES MEAN.
00:39:30.40\00:39:32.33
THIS IS THE LIST IN REVELATION.
JUDAH MEANS 'I WILL PRAISE THE
00:39:32.33\00:39:36.17
LORD.' REUBEN MEANS 'HE HAS
LOOKED ON ME.' GAD - 'GIVEN GOOD
00:39:36.17\00:39:40.94
FORTUNE.' ASHER MEANS
'HAPPY AM I.' NAPHTALI MEANS 'MY
00:39:40.94\00:39:46.21
WRESTLING.' MANASSEH - 'MAKING
ME FORGET.' SIMEON - 'GOD HEARS
00:39:46.21\00:39:51.45
ME.' LEVI -
ATTACHED OR JOINED TO ME.
00:39:51.45\00:39:54.39
ISSACHAR - 'PURCHASED ME.'
ZEBULON - 'DWELLING.' JOSEPH -
00:39:54.39\00:39:59.66
'GOD WILL ADD.' - YOU SEE, WHEN
RACHEL HAD JOSEPH SHE SAID, 'GOD
00:39:59.66\00:40:03.67
WILL ADD TO ME ANOTHER SON.' SHE
NAMED HIM JOSEPH AND SHE - GOD
00:40:03.67\00:40:06.63
DID. IT WAS A PROPHECY
- BENJAMIN WAS HIS NAME.
00:40:06.63\00:40:08.90
BENJAMIN MEANS
'SON OF HIS RIGHT HAND.'
00:40:08.90\00:40:11.31
THERE'S YOUR LIST.
THAT'S WHAT THE NAMES ARE.
00:40:11.31\00:40:13.14
YOU CAN LOOK THIS UP
FOR YOURSELF IN YOUR BIBLE.
00:40:13.14\00:40:15.38
WHEN RACHEL AND LEAH AND THEIR
HAND MAIDS WERE HAVING THEIR
00:40:15.38\00:40:18.31
BABIES, THEY MADE A STATEMENT
WITH THE BIRTH OF EVERY BOY.
00:40:18.31\00:40:21.28
NOW, WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU TAKE
THESE NAMES AND YOU PUT THEM IN
00:40:21.28\00:40:26.92
THE ORDER THEY'RE GIVEN IN
REVELATION AND PATCHED TOGETHER
00:40:26.92\00:40:30.69
A PARAGRAPH? THIS
IS WHAT IT SAYS: I WILL
00:40:30.69\00:40:35.76
PRAISE THE LORD FOR
HE HAS LOOKED ON ME AND
00:40:35.76\00:40:39.03
GRANTED GOOD FORTUNE. I
AM HAPPY BECAUSE MY WRESTLING
00:40:39.03\00:40:42.70
GOD IS MAKING ME
FORGET. GOD HEARS ME AND
00:40:42.70\00:40:46.47
IS JOINED TO ME. HE
HAS PURCHASED ME A DWELLING
00:40:46.47\00:40:49.94
AND WILL ADD TO ME
THE SON OF HIS RIGHT HAND.
00:40:49.94\00:40:53.28
IT IS THE STORY OF SALVATION
THAT IS HIDDEN IN THE NAMES OF
00:40:53.28\00:40:59.19
THE 144,000 BECAUSE THEY HAVE
EXPERIENCED THIS WRESTLING AND
00:40:59.19\00:41:04.96
BEING JOINED TO THE
LORD. NOW, I'VE SEEN DIFFERENT
00:41:04.96\00:41:07.96
SCHOLARS WILL TAKE THE PARAGRAPH
AND YOU ADD THE WORD 'FOR' AND
00:41:07.96\00:41:11.47
'THE' AND 'AND' - WE'VE
TAKEN THE LIBERTY TO DO THAT TO
00:41:11.47\00:41:13.64
MAKE - TO TIE IT ALL TOGETHER.
AND SOME HAVE COME UP WITH
00:41:13.64\00:41:16.54
SLIGHT VARIATIONS OF IT,
BUT BASICALLY, IT IS TELLING
00:41:16.54\00:41:19.61
THE STORY OF
SALVATION. ISN'T THAT NEAT?
00:41:19.61\00:41:22.34
I THINK THAT - IT JUST TELLS
ME ABOUT THE INSPIRATION OF THE
00:41:22.34\00:41:25.25
BIBLE AND WHY GOD USED
THESE NAMES THAT HE USED.
00:41:25.25\00:41:31.15
THEY HAVE SPECIAL
WHITE ROBES THAT THEY WEAR.
00:41:31.15\00:41:34.42
THERE'S SOMETHING
UNIQUE ABOUT THEIR CLOTHING.
00:41:34.42\00:41:36.56
WHO WEARS THE WHITE ROBES?
00:41:36.56\00:41:38.83
REVELATION 3:5, "HE WHO
OVERCOMES" - JESUS SAID - THE
00:41:38.83\00:41:41.73
SAME "SHALL BE CLOTHED IN WHITE
RAIMENT [GARMENTS], AND I WILL
00:41:41.73\00:41:44.20
NOT BLOT HIS NAME FROM THE BOOK
OF LIFE; BUT I WILL CONFESS HIS
00:41:44.20\00:41:47.80
NAME BEFORE MY FATHER
AND BEFORE HIS ANGELS."
00:41:47.80\00:41:51.24
YOU CAN READ IN REVELATION 19:8,
"AND TO HER IT WAS GRANTED TO BE
00:41:51.24\00:41:54.81
ARRAYED IN FINE LINEN, CLEAN AND
BRIGHT, FOR THE FINE LINEN IS
00:41:54.81\00:41:59.61
THE RIGHTEOUS ACTS OF THE
SAINTS." THOSE WHITE ROBES ARE A
00:41:59.61\00:42:03.12
SYMBOL OF GOD'S RIGHTEOUSNESS.
AND THEN IT MAKES AN INTERESTING
00:42:03.12\00:42:07.49
STATEMENT - IF YOU READ IN
REVELATION 14 - MATTER OF FACT,
00:42:07.49\00:42:10.63
TURN WITH ME TO REVELATION 14.
I DIDN'T REALLY READ THIS TO YOU
00:42:10.63\00:42:13.76
YET, "THEN I LOOKED, AND BEHOLD,
A LAMB STANDING ON MOUNT ZION,
00:42:13.76\00:42:23.74
AND WITH HIM ONE HUNDRED AND
FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND, HAVING HIS
00:42:23.74\00:42:27.21
FATHER'S NAME
WRITTEN ON THEIR FOREHEADS."
00:42:27.21\00:42:30.41
- IT'S CLEAR EVERYBODY'S GOT
SOMETHING IN THE FOREHEAD - "AND
00:42:30.41\00:42:32.38
I HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN,
LIKE THE VOICE OF MANY WATERS,
00:42:32.38\00:42:35.68
AND LIKE THE
VOICE OF LOUD THUNDER.
00:42:35.68\00:42:37.99
AND I HEARD THE SOUND OF
HARPISTS PLAYING THEIR HARPS.
00:42:37.99\00:42:40.59
THEY SANG AS IT WERE A NEW SONG
BEFORE THE THRONE, BEFORE THE
00:42:40.59\00:42:44.69
FOUR LIVING CREATURES, AND THE
ELDERS; AND NO ONE COULD LEARN
00:42:44.69\00:42:47.50
THAT SONG EXCEPT THE HUNDRED
AND FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND WHO WERE
00:42:47.50\00:42:50.57
REDEEMED FROM THE EARTH.
THESE ARE THE ONES WHO WERE NOT
00:42:50.57\00:42:53.67
DEFILED WITH WOMEN,
FOR THEY ARE VIRGINS."
00:42:53.67\00:42:56.27
ALRIGHT, I'VE GOT TO PAUSE.
THE TERM THERE, 'VIRGINS', IS A
00:42:56.27\00:42:59.81
FEMININE TERM. DOES THAT
MEAN THE 144,000 ARE ALL WOMEN?
00:42:59.81\00:43:04.31
>>NO. >>NO.
00:43:04.31\00:43:08.58
IN REVELATION YOU'VE
GOT TWO PRINCIPAL WOMEN.
00:43:08.58\00:43:11.35
YOU HAVE THE WOMAN IN REVELATION
12, WHO IS PURE - LIGHT - SUN,
00:43:11.35\00:43:18.99
MOON, STARS - SHE
IS THE CHURCH OF GOD.
00:43:18.99\00:43:20.83
YOU'VE GOT, THEN, THE OPPOSITE
WOMAN IN REVELATION 17 WHO IS
00:43:20.83\00:43:24.57
CALLED A HARLOT AND SHE IS
CLOTHED WITH EARTHLY ADORNMENT -
00:43:24.57\00:43:28.47
GOLD AND PEARLS AND
PURPLE AND SCARLET AND SO FORTH.
00:43:28.47\00:43:30.94
IT IS CONTRASTING THE TWO
RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD - GOD'S
00:43:30.94\00:43:34.94
CHURCH - HIS BRIDE CLOTHED WITH
LIGHT. AND, OF COURSE, A LOT OF
00:43:34.94\00:43:39.65
MEN ARE PART OF THE BRIDE OF
CHRIST. IT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT
00:43:39.65\00:43:42.08
GENDER HERE, IT'S
TALKING ABOUT HIS BRIDE.
00:43:42.08\00:43:44.99
THE 144,000 ARE VIRGINS -
THEY ARE PURE SPIRITUALLY.
00:43:44.99\00:43:50.06
THEY ARE NOT DEFILED WITH THE
FALSE TEACHINGS OF BABYLON, THE
00:43:50.06\00:43:56.03
MOTHER OF
HARLOTS. IS THAT CLEAR?
00:43:56.03\00:43:58.83
IN THE PARABLE OF THE TEN
VIRGINS THAT JESUS SHARES, DOES
00:43:58.83\00:44:02.47
THAT MEAN EVERYBODY'S
SAVED IN THE LAST DAYS A VIRGIN?
00:44:02.47\00:44:05.01
OR IS IT CALLING THAT THE
VIRGINS ARE A SYMBOL FOR HIS
00:44:05.01\00:44:06.78
CHURCH? SAME THING HAPPENING
00:44:06.78\00:44:08.74
HERE IN THIS VERSE. SO
IT SAYS THAT THEY'RE VIRGINS
00:44:08.74\00:44:14.68
- THEY "FOLLOW THE
LAMB WHEREVER HE GOES.
00:44:14.68\00:44:17.15
THEY WERE REDEEMED FROM
AMONG MEN, BEING FIRSTFRUITS" -
00:44:17.15\00:44:21.26
THEY'RE NOT THE ONLY ONES SAVED,
THEY ARE THE "FIRSTFRUITS TO GOD
00:44:21.26\00:44:24.39
AND TO THE LAMB. AND IN
THEIR MOUTH WAS FOUND NO
00:44:24.39\00:44:27.86
DECEIT, FOR THEY ARE WITHOUT
FAULT BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD."
00:44:27.86\00:44:32.20
AND NOW, RIGHT AFTER IT
DESCRIBES THIS GROUP AGAIN, IT
00:44:32.20\00:44:36.10
DESCRIBES THE FINAL
EVENTS AND THEIR MESSAGE.
00:44:36.10\00:44:39.04
YOU'VE HEARD OF THE
THREE ANGELS' MESSAGE?
00:44:39.04\00:44:40.98
WHAT IS IT EXACTLY THAT
THE 144,000 IS TALKING ABOUT?
00:44:40.98\00:44:47.25
THERE - ANGEL GOING THROUGH
HEAVEN WITH A LOUD VOICE - BY
00:44:47.25\00:44:51.12
THE WAY, I DIDN'T BRING IT OUT,
BUT WHEN I READ EZEKIEL 9 TO
00:44:51.12\00:44:53.99
YOU, IT ALSO SAYS, 'A LOUD
VOICE' THERE, JUST LIKE YOU'RE
00:44:53.99\00:44:58.56
FINDING IN REVELATION.
AND THESE ANGELS HAVE A LOUD
00:44:58.56\00:45:01.60
VOICE, IT SAYS, "FEAR GOD AND
GIVE GLORY TO HIM...BABYLON IS
00:45:01.60\00:45:05.83
FALLEN...DO NOT WORSHIP
THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE."
00:45:05.83\00:45:08.47
YOU'VE HEARD OF THE THREE
ANGELS' MESSAGES, THIS IS THE
00:45:08.47\00:45:11.11
MESSAGE THAT'S
GIVEN BY THE 144,000.
00:45:11.11\00:45:13.94
WHY ARE THEY GIVING THE MESSAGE?
00:45:13.94\00:45:16.01
BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT
THE ONLY ONES SAVED.
00:45:16.01\00:45:18.08
THERE IS A GREAT MULTITUDE
THAT IS CONVERTED AS A RESULT OF
00:45:18.08\00:45:21.75
THEIR PREACHING.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
00:45:21.75\00:45:24.02
BECAUSE HE SAYS TO THE ANGEL
- OR THE ANGEL SAYS TO JOHN,
00:45:24.02\00:45:29.96
'WHO ARE THESE
ARRAYED IN WHITE ROBES?'
00:45:29.96\00:45:32.66
HE SAID, 'THESE ARE THE
ONES WHO HAVE COME OUT OF GREAT
00:45:32.66\00:45:34.00
TRIBULATION. IT
IS A GREAT MULTITUDE
00:45:34.00\00:45:35.96
THAT NO MAN CAN
NUMBER. SO, IS THE 144,000
00:45:35.96\00:45:40.04
A LITERAL NUMBER? WELL,
THE JURY IS OUT ON THAT.
00:45:40.04\00:45:44.67
I HAVE BEEN INCLINED TO
THINK YES, BECAUSE THE NAMES IN
00:45:44.67\00:45:50.21
REVELATION ARE TYPICALLY
SYMBOLIC; THE NUMBERS HAVE REAL
00:45:50.21\00:45:53.28
VALUE. CASE IN POINT: HOW
MANY FOUNDATIONS IN THE NEW
00:45:53.28\00:45:57.29
JERUSALEM? >>TWELVE.
00:45:57.29\00:45:58.85
>>TWELVE. AND DOES IT TELL US
00:45:58.85\00:46:00.32
WHAT THE STONES ARE? >>YES.
00:46:00.32\00:46:02.39
>>IS THAT REAL OR
IS THAT JUST IMAGINARY?
00:46:02.39\00:46:04.66
>>IT'S REAL. >>HOW MANY GATES?
00:46:04.66\00:46:06.56
>>TWELVE. >>ARE
THERE REALLY TWELVE GATES?
00:46:06.56\00:46:08.60
AND THE TREE OF LIFE
HAS HOW MANY KINDS OF FRUIT?
00:46:08.60\00:46:11.17
>>TWELVE. >>HOW
MANY TIMES A YEAR?
00:46:11.17\00:46:13.17
>>TWELVE. >>TWELVE.
00:46:13.17\00:46:14.70
IT'S BETTER THAN BASKIN ROBBINS
- ALL THOSE VARIETIES THAT
00:46:14.70\00:46:17.37
THEY'VE GOT. IS
THAT LITERAL? >>YES.
00:46:17.37\00:46:21.28
>>SO THE NUMBERS IN
REVELATION HAVE REAL VALUE.
00:46:21.28\00:46:23.98
THE NAMES ARE
SYMBOLIC. I'M INCLINED TO THINK
00:46:23.98\00:46:27.48
THAT IT'S A REAL NUMBER.
DID JESUS LITERALLY PICK TWELVE?
00:46:27.48\00:46:31.19
AND WHEN JUDAS WAS KILLED DID
THEY FEEL SOME DESIRE TO REPLACE
00:46:31.19\00:46:34.49
THAT ONE - THAT ONE NUMBER?
THE NUMBERS MEANT SOMETHING.
00:46:34.49\00:46:38.99
NOW, I COULD BE WRONG, AND LIKE
I SAID, I'M NOT GOING TO DIE ON
00:46:38.99\00:46:41.96
THAT MOUNTAIN, BUT FOR
THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE SEVENTH-DAY
00:46:41.96\00:46:47.30
ADVENTISTS, IF YOU WANT TO
KNOW WHAT THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY
00:46:47.30\00:46:49.54
SAYS, YOU'LL LOOK IN EARLY
WRITINGS PAGE 16, "THE LIVING
00:46:49.54\00:46:53.64
SAINTS, 144,000 IN NUMBER,
KNEW AND UNDERSTOOD THE VOICE" -
00:46:53.64\00:46:59.08
SPEAKING OF THE SECOND COMING.
YOU CAN GO TO EARLY WRITINGS
00:46:59.08\00:47:01.92
PAGE 19, "OH THAT I COULD SPEAK
IN THE LANGUAGE OF CANAAN, I
00:47:01.92\00:47:05.29
WOULD TELL A LITTLE OF
THE GLORY OF A BETTER WORLD.
00:47:05.29\00:47:08.29
I SAW THERE THE TABLES OF
STONE IN WHICH THE NAMES OF THE
00:47:08.29\00:47:11.49
144,000 WERE ENGRAVED IN LETTERS
OF GOLD." IT'S ACTUALLY GOT
00:47:11.49\00:47:15.83
SPECIFIC NAMES SOUNDING
LIKE IT'S A LITERAL GROUP.
00:47:15.83\00:47:21.67
AND THEN IN THE BIBLE
COMMENTARY, TO KEEP US ON THE
00:47:21.67\00:47:25.41
STRAIGHT AND NARROW, SHE ADDS
THIS, "IT IS NOT HIS WILL THAT
00:47:25.41\00:47:28.91
WE SHOULD GET INTO CONTROVERSY
OVER QUESTIONS THAT WILL NOT
00:47:28.91\00:47:32.25
HELP SPIRITUALLY, SUCH AS
'WHO IS TO COMPOSE THE 144,000?'
00:47:32.25\00:47:37.19
AND SO, YOU KNOW, EVEN SHE SAID
DON'T ARGUE ABOUT THAT - WHETHER
00:47:37.19\00:47:41.76
THE NUMBER IS
SPIRITUAL OR LITERAL.
00:47:41.76\00:47:43.26
WHAT I DO KNOW IS THE
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE 144,000
00:47:43.26\00:47:48.03
WERE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF
THE APOSTLES - THE APOSTLES WHO
00:47:48.03\00:47:52.13
LEARNED FROM JESUS AND THEN
TAUGHT THE OTHER DISCIPLES - ARE
00:47:52.13\00:47:55.17
THE
CHARACTERISTICS WE ARE TO HAVE.
00:47:55.17\00:47:57.64
SO WHAT WE'RE READING ABOUT THE
144,000 IS WHAT WE NEED TO BE.
00:47:57.64\00:48:01.84
IT SAYS THEY FOLLOW THE LAMB
WHEREVER HE GOES, FOR ONE THING.
00:48:01.84\00:48:05.55
WE NEED TO BE DOING
THAT. THEY HAVE A PURITY - IT
00:48:05.55\00:48:09.82
USES THE WORD 'VIRGINS'.
IT'S AMAZING HOW GOD COULD TAKE
00:48:09.82\00:48:12.39
MARY MAGDALENE AND
PURIFY HER. HE CAST OUT THE
00:48:12.39\00:48:15.86
SEVEN DEVILS, RIGHT?
THEY SING A SPECIAL SONG.
00:48:15.86\00:48:20.53
REVELATION 14:3, "THEY SANG
AS IT WERE A NEW SONG BEFORE THE
00:48:20.53\00:48:24.63
THRONE, BEFORE THE BEASTS
[FOUR LIVING CREATURES], AND THE
00:48:24.63\00:48:26.47
ELDERS; AND NO ONE COULD LEARN
THAT SONG EXCEPT THE HUNDRED AND
00:48:26.47\00:48:29.74
FORTY-FOUR THOUSAND WHO
WERE REDEEMED FROM THE EARTH."
00:48:29.74\00:48:32.57
IN DEUTERONOMY 31:22
MOSES WRITES A SONG - THE WHOLE
00:48:32.57\00:48:36.81
CHAPTER IS A SONG. IT'S
A SONG OF GOD'S LEADING AND
00:48:36.81\00:48:39.88
DELIVERANCE AND
WARNING THAT'S IN THERE.
00:48:39.88\00:48:42.88
AND I TOLD YOU ABOUT DAVID HAD A
CHOIR WITH 288 AND - TWO GROUPS
00:48:42.88\00:48:48.96
OF 144 - AND THEY HAD A SPECIAL
TRAINING AND THEY WOULD ACTUALLY
00:48:48.96\00:48:52.63
PLAY ON INSTRUMENTS THAT DAVID
HAD MADE. DID WE JUST READ ABOUT
00:48:52.63\00:48:56.43
THE HARPS - HARPERS HARPING
THERE IN REVELATION CHAPTER 14?
00:48:56.43\00:49:00.47
YOU STILL WITH ME? >>YES.
00:49:00.47\00:49:01.90
>>AM I JUMPING
AROUND TOO QUICKLY?
00:49:01.90\00:49:04.34
YOU KNOW, THERE'S ONLY ONE TIME
IT SAYS JESUS SANG IN THE BIBLE?
00:49:04.34\00:49:07.54
AT THE LAST SUPPER WITH THE
TWELVE - I GUESS AT THAT POINT
00:49:07.54\00:49:12.11
THERE MAY HAVE BEEN
ELEVEN. IT SAYS THEY SANG A
00:49:12.11\00:49:14.48
HYMN AND WENT OUT. I'M
SURE JESUS SANG OTHER TIMES,
00:49:14.48\00:49:18.09
BUT IT WAS ONLY
RECORDED ONE TIME.
00:49:18.09\00:49:19.75
IT WAS WITH THE
TWELVE THAT HE SANG.
00:49:19.75\00:49:22.66
AND IT ALSO SAYS THAT THEY'RE
HONEST - THEY HAVE NO GUILE.
00:49:22.66\00:49:26.90
THERE - YOU EVER HEARD
THE WORD 'GUILE' BEFORE?
00:49:26.90\00:49:28.76
IT'S AN OLD ENGLISH
WORD; IT MEANS DECEIT.
00:49:28.76\00:49:31.63
"AND IN THEIR MOUTH WAS FOUND NO
DECEIT," - THEY'RE HONEST - THEY
00:49:31.63\00:49:34.60
ARE WITHOUT FAULT BEFORE GOD.
THEY'RE HOLY. WELL, YOU MIGHT
00:49:34.60\00:49:38.31
THINK THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE.
'HOW COULD I BE THAT" - JESUS
00:49:38.31\00:49:40.84
SAID THAT OF ONE OF THE
APOSTLES. WHEN HE FIRST MET
00:49:40.84\00:49:44.18
NATHANIEL AND NATHANIEL WAS
COMING TOWARDS HIM, JESUS SAID -
00:49:44.18\00:49:47.82
THIS IS IN JOHN 1:47, "BEHOLD,
AN ISRAELITE INDEED, IN WHOM IS
00:49:47.82\00:49:52.85
NO GUILE!" - NO DECEIT. SO
THE TERMS THAT ARE BEING USED -
00:49:52.85\00:49:57.49
BY THE WAY, JOHN, WHO WROTE
REVELATION, WROTE THAT VERSE.
00:49:57.49\00:50:00.13
THE TERMS THAT ARE BEING USED TO
DESCRIBE THE 144,000 IS THE SAME
00:50:00.13\00:50:04.50
LANGUAGE THAT'S USED REGARDING
THE APOSTLES AND WHAT THE
00:50:04.50\00:50:09.40
APOSTLES WERE IS WHAT THEY
TAUGHT THE DISCIPLES TO BE.
00:50:09.40\00:50:15.48
SO THEY'RE MODELS
FOR ALL OF US, RIGHT?
00:50:15.48\00:50:18.25
BECAUSE ONCE THEY DIED OFF, THE
NEXT GENERATION WAS TO DO THE
00:50:18.25\00:50:21.18
WORK OF THE APOSTLES AND
THE DISCIPLES - IN HOLINESS AND
00:50:21.18\00:50:24.09
HONESTY AND PURITY - IN
FOLLOWING THE LAMB WHEREVER HE
00:50:24.09\00:50:26.99
WENT. AND THAT'S OUR LAST POINT.
00:50:26.99\00:50:29.36
IT SAYS THEY HAVE A
SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP.
00:50:29.36\00:50:32.09
THESE ARE THE ONES WHO FOLLOW
THE LAMB WHEREVER HE GOES.
00:50:32.09\00:50:36.23
YOU KNOW, WHEN JOHN WROTE THAT,
HE HAD A RIGHT TO WRITE THAT,
00:50:36.23\00:50:43.44
BECAUSE WHEN JESUS WAS BETRAYED
AND THE MOB CAME TO ARREST HIM,
00:50:43.44\00:50:48.51
ALL OF THE DISCIPLES FORSOOK
JESUS AND FLED. AFTER HE WAS
00:50:48.51\00:50:53.01
INITIALLY ARRESTED, TWO OF
THE DISCIPLES BEGAN TO FOLLOW.
00:50:53.01\00:50:57.42
THE BIBLE SAYS PETER FOLLOWED AT
A DISTANCE, BUT JOHN CAUGHT UP
00:50:57.42\00:51:01.32
AND HE WENT RIGHT WITH
JESUS INTO THE JUDGMENT HALL.
00:51:01.32\00:51:04.93
JOHN FOLLOWED
HIM ALL THE WAY IN.
00:51:04.93\00:51:07.03
PETER, HE STAYED KIND
OF OUT WITH THE SERVANTS.
00:51:07.03\00:51:09.23
BECAUSE HE FOLLOWED AT A
DISTANCE, HE ENDED UP DENYING
00:51:09.23\00:51:12.07
JESUS. THE 144,000
WILL NOT DENY CHRIST
00:51:12.07\00:51:15.97
WHEN THEY'RE BEING
MOCKED IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:51:15.97\00:51:19.01
WE FOLLOW THE
LAMB WHEREVER HE GOES.
00:51:19.01\00:51:21.84
JESUS SAID, 'WHOEVER WOULD COME
AFTER ME LET HIM TAKE UP HIS
00:51:21.84\00:51:25.05
CROSS AND FOLLOW ME.' AND
WHERE DID JESUS TAKE HIS CROSS?
00:51:25.05\00:51:29.05
>>CALVARY. >>TO HIS CRUCIFIXION.
00:51:29.05\00:51:31.89
'I AM CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST YET
I LIVE.' THESE ARE THE ONES WHO
00:51:31.89\00:51:35.09
FOLLOW THE LAMB WHEREVER HE
GOES. AND IF WE WANT TO FOLLOW
00:51:35.09\00:51:38.03
HIM THERE, WE MUST
FIRST FOLLOW HIM HERE.
00:51:38.03\00:51:42.36
>>AMEN. >>ON A DAY-TO-DAY BASIS.
00:51:42.36\00:51:44.00
SO THE MESSAGE OF THE 144,000 IS
A MESSAGE OF A HIGH CALLING FOR
00:51:44.00\00:51:48.07
GOD'S PEOPLE. HE
IS JOINED TO US - HE'S
00:51:48.07\00:51:50.31
TALKING ABOUT - IT'S
LIKE A MARRIAGE RELATIONSHIP.
00:51:50.31\00:51:52.77
WE LOVE THE LORD AND
ARE CONNECTED WITH HIM.
00:51:52.77\00:51:56.78
AND HE'S OUR SHEPHERD, WE ARE
HIS SHEEP AND WE FOLLOW WHEREVER
00:51:56.78\00:51:59.71
OUR SHEPHERD LEADS. (MUSIC)
00:51:59.71\00:52:04.89
>>AMAZING FACTS. CHANGED LIVES.
00:52:04.89\00:52:12.83
>>I GREW UP HERE
IN NEW YORK CITY.
00:52:12.83\00:52:15.33
I GUESS DEALING WITH ALL THE
TEMPTATIONS THAT YOU WOULD HAVE
00:52:15.33\00:52:18.33
IN A BIG CITY - EVERYTHING THAT
YOU COULD IMAGINE THAT YOU COULD
00:52:18.33\00:52:21.84
RUN INTO - DRUGS, CRIME -
WAS ALWAYS HERE. WHEN I WAS AT A
00:52:21.84\00:52:27.68
YOUNG AGE I ACTUALLY GOT INTO
TROUBLE WITH THE LAW AND MY ONLY
00:52:27.68\00:52:32.25
OUT WAS TO JOIN THE MILITARY
AT THE TIME, IN ORDER NOT TO DO
00:52:32.25\00:52:36.18
TIME. SO I LEFT NEW YORK AND
TRAVELED THE WORLD A LITTLE BIT
00:52:36.18\00:52:41.02
WHILE I WAS IN THE MILITARY.
EVENTUALLY I CAME BACK.
00:52:41.02\00:52:45.86
HAVING GROWN UP AS A HIP-HOP
KID, I EVENTUALLY FOUND MYSELF
00:52:45.86\00:52:48.90
WORKING IN THE
MUSIC BUSINESS, ACTUALLY.
00:52:48.90\00:52:51.77
I WORKED AT A COUPLE OF MAJOR
RADIO STATIONS - HIP-HOP, REGGAE
00:52:51.77\00:52:55.20
- I WAS AT ALL THE BIG REGGAE
SHOWS WORKING THEM. NO MATTER
00:52:55.20\00:52:57.84
WHAT I DID TO TRY AND SATISFY
MYSELF, NOTHING REALLY WORKED.
00:52:57.84\00:53:03.65
I REMEMBER I USED TO PLAY
AT THIS ONE CLUB IN MANHATTAN.
00:53:03.65\00:53:06.98
WE USED TO PLAY
THERE EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT.
00:53:06.98\00:53:09.05
SO I CAME HOME ONE SATURDAY
MORNING AFTER LEAVING THE CLUB
00:53:09.05\00:53:13.49
AND I TURNED ON THE VIDEO
CHANNEL LIKE I USUALLY DO.
00:53:13.49\00:53:16.93
THERE WAS THIS GUY ON THE
VIDEO CHANNEL TALKING AND HE WAS
00:53:16.93\00:53:19.19
DEFINITELY OUT OF PLACE, BUT THE
THINGS HE WERE - HE WAS SAYING
00:53:19.19\00:53:23.70
JUST TOTALLY AMAZED ME. I
HAD NEVER HEARD ANYONE SPEAK
00:53:23.70\00:53:27.34
ABOUT THE BIBLE LIKE THIS BEFORE
SO I STARTED COMING HOME EARLY
00:53:27.34\00:53:30.91
ON SATURDAY MORNINGS
JUST TO CATCH THIS SHOW.
00:53:30.91\00:53:34.34
I FOUND THE THINGS THAT HE WAS
SAYING ABSOLUTELY AMAZING, TO
00:53:34.34\00:53:37.58
THE POINT WHERE IT LITERALLY
MADE ME STOP AND START TO THINK
00:53:37.58\00:53:42.68
ABOUT HOW I WAS LIVING MY LIFE.
00:53:42.68\00:53:45.12
SO I FOUND THAT ALL OF THESE
THINGS THAT I HAD BEEN DOING TO
00:53:45.12\00:53:47.62
TRY AND FIND HAPPINESS WERE
ACTUALLY NOT MAKING ME HAPPY AT
00:53:47.62\00:53:51.59
ALL BUT WERE REALLY
JUST LEAVING ME EMPTY INSIDE.
00:53:51.59\00:53:55.20
WHEN I STARTED READING THE BIBLE
AND IT STARTED TO MAKE SENSE, I
00:53:55.20\00:53:58.87
STARTED TO MAKE CHANGES.
I EVEN TRIED TO KEEP THE
00:53:58.87\00:54:02.37
SABBATH, WHICH I
FAILED AT MISERABLY.
00:54:02.37\00:54:06.04
SO I WAS ACTUALLY INVITED
BY AMAZING FACTS TO GO TO SEE A
00:54:06.04\00:54:09.44
LIVE SERIES AT ONE OF THE LOCAL
CHURCHES, BUT AFTER GOING THE
00:54:09.44\00:54:13.85
FIRST NIGHT, I ENDED UP GOING
ANOTHER NIGHT AND ANOTHER NIGHT.
00:54:13.85\00:54:17.69
I STAYED FOR THE ENTIRE SERIES.
THAT WAS THE DAY I MADE A
00:54:17.69\00:54:20.29
DECISION TO CHANGE THE
REST OF MY LIFE FOREVER.
00:54:20.29\00:54:23.22
I GAVE MY LIFE TO CHRIST AND
EVERYTHING WAS DIFFERENT AFTER
00:54:23.22\00:54:26.26
THAT. I MADE THE
DECISION TO GIVE UP
00:54:26.26\00:54:28.53
THE MUSIC BUSINESS - STOPPED
HANGING OUT AT ALL OF THE CLUBS.
00:54:28.53\00:54:31.47
I MADE A DECISION THAT
WAS ETERNAL FOR ME AND FOR MY
00:54:31.47\00:54:34.40
FAMILY. I
STARTED GOING TO CHURCH.
00:54:34.40\00:54:38.91
I GOT A POSITION IN CHURCH WHERE
I WAS ACTUALLY IN CHARGE OF THE
00:54:38.91\00:54:42.34
PERSONAL MINISTRIES DEPARTMENT.
AND THE SAME AMAZING FACTS
00:54:42.34\00:54:46.65
STUDIES THAT CHANGED MY LIFE, I
ACTUALLY GOT TO SHARE THEM WITH
00:54:46.65\00:54:50.39
PEOPLE AND SIT DOWN WITH
THEM AND TELL THEM ABOUT JESUS.
00:54:50.39\00:54:55.62
(MUSIC)
00:54:55.62\00:55:13.71
>>FRIENDS, IF YOU'RE
SCARED OF SNAKES, THIS MAY NOT
00:55:13.71\00:55:16.41
BE FOR YOU. I'M
HERE AT A REPTILE PARK
00:55:16.41\00:55:19.61
OUTSIDE OF DURBAN, SOUTH
AFRICA AND I'M HOLDING MY FRIEND
00:55:19.61\00:55:22.52
HERE WHO'S A RED-TAIL BOA.
SNAKES ARE FOUND ALL OVER THE
00:55:22.52\00:55:26.55
WORLD AND THEY
COME IN ALL SIZES.
00:55:26.55\00:55:28.66
SNAKES CAN BE FOUND THROUGH THE
TREES, THEY CRAWL ON THE GROUND,
00:55:28.66\00:55:31.79
THEY LIVE UNDER THE GROUND, AND
THEY SWIM IN THE WATER - VERY
00:55:31.79\00:55:34.93
INTERESTING CREATURES.
SOME SNAKES ARE VENOMOUS - NOT
00:55:34.93\00:55:38.87
MY FRIEND HERE, BUT THE
BLACK MAMBA - VERY POISONOUS.
00:55:38.87\00:55:42.87
MATTER OF FACT, THEIR BITE IS
OFTEN REFERRED TO AS THE KISS OF
00:55:42.87\00:55:45.91
DEATH. THEY CAN
GROW 15 FEET LONG AND
00:55:45.91\00:55:48.58
TRAVEL UP TO
SEVEN MILES AN HOUR.
00:55:48.58\00:55:50.71
THEY DON'T CALL THEM BLACK
MAMBAS BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF
00:55:50.71\00:55:52.75
THEIR SKIN, BUT THE INTERIOR
OF THEIR MOUTH IS BLACK.
00:55:52.75\00:55:56.45
SNAKES ALSO COME IN
ALL SIZES - LIKE THIS BOA -
00:55:56.45\00:55:59.49
OR A PYTHON - THEY
CAN GROW TO GREAT SIZES.
00:55:59.49\00:56:01.69
MATTER OF FACT, IN SOUTH
AMERICA, THEY FOUND SOME FOSSILS
00:56:01.69\00:56:04.86
OF A SNAKE THAT
THEY CALL TITANIBOA.
00:56:04.86\00:56:08.03
THEY BELIEVE IT WAS AS BIG AS
50-FEET LONG AND WEIGHED AS MUCH
00:56:08.03\00:56:11.60
AS A CAR. SAY
CHEESE. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE
00:56:11.60\00:56:15.44
SCARED OF SNAKES. I
USED TO LIVE ON A MOUNTAIN IN
00:56:15.44\00:56:17.71
A CAVE AND I RAN
INTO SNAKES FREQUENTLY.
00:56:17.71\00:56:19.57
THEY NEVER BOTHERED ME
UNLESS I WAS BOTHERING THEM.
00:56:19.57\00:56:22.84
IN THE BIBLE, A SNAKE IS
OFTEN A SYMBOL OF THE DEVIL.
00:56:22.84\00:56:25.61
IN REALITY, IT'S JUST A SYMBOL.
00:56:25.61\00:56:27.45
THEY'RE ANIMALS, JUST LIKE
ANY OTHER ANIMALS, BUT IT SAYS
00:56:27.45\00:56:29.78
THEY WERE CURSED TO GO UPON
THEIR BELLY BECAUSE THEY WERE
00:56:29.78\00:56:31.75
THE FIRST MEDIUM THAT THE DEVIL
USED TO TEMPT ADAM AND EVE.
00:56:31.75\00:56:35.66
IN THE BOOK OF NUMBERS, CHAPTER
21, IT TELLS THE STORY OF HOW,
00:56:35.66\00:56:38.93
WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE
GOING THROUGH THE WILDERNESS,
00:56:38.93\00:56:41.30
THEY BEGAN TO COMPLAIN ABOUT
GOD'S MANNA, AND IT SAYS THE
00:56:41.30\00:56:44.70
LORD ALLOWED THESE FIERY
SERPENTS TO GO AMONG THE PEOPLE
00:56:44.70\00:56:47.84
AND MANY WERE BITTEN
AND THE VENOM WAS DEADLY.
00:56:47.84\00:56:50.97
I SHOULD PROBABLY MENTION AT
THIS POINT, THAT BREAD THEY WERE
00:56:50.97\00:56:53.54
COMPLAINING ABOUT IS A
SYMBOL FOR THE WORD OF GOD.
00:56:53.54\00:56:56.18
AS MANY OF THE PEOPLE WERE DYING
FROM THIS PLAGUE OF SERPENTS,
00:56:56.18\00:56:59.08
THEY WENT UNTO MOSES AND
THEY SAID, 'WHAT SHALL WE DO?'
00:56:59.08\00:57:01.82
GOD TOLD MOSES TO MAKE A BRONZE
SERPENT AND PUT IT ON A POLE AND
00:57:01.82\00:57:05.69
LIFT IT UP THAT WHOEVER LOOKED
UPON THE SERPENT, THEY WOULD BE
00:57:05.69\00:57:09.09
HEALED OF THEIR VENOM.
THIS IS WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT,
00:57:09.09\00:57:12.46
BECAUSE JESUS SAYS, IN
THE GOSPEL OF JOHN, CHAPTER 3,
00:57:12.46\00:57:15.33
VERSES 14 AND 15, "AND AS MOSES
LIFTED UP THE SERPENT IN THE
00:57:15.33\00:57:19.40
WILDERNESS, EVEN SO MUST THE
SON OF MAN BE LIFTED UP, THAT
00:57:19.40\00:57:23.27
WHOEVER BELIEVES IN
HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH BUT
00:57:23.27\00:57:25.91
HAVE ETERNAL LIFE." THEY
NEEDED TO LOOK AND TO LIVE.
00:57:25.91\00:57:30.35
YOU SEE, THOSE ANCIENT
SHEPHERDS, WHEN THEY WOULD KILL
00:57:30.35\00:57:32.38
A VENOMOUS SNAKE, THEY WOULD
CARRY IT OFF ON THEIR STAFF AND
00:57:32.38\00:57:35.42
BURY IT. SO A SERPENT ON A POLE
REPRESENTED A DEFEATED SNAKE.
00:57:35.42\00:57:40.19
IT'S TALKING ABOUT
DEFEATING THE DEVIL, FRIENDS.
00:57:40.19\00:57:42.99
HAVE YOU BEEN BITTEN BY
THE SERPENT? WE ALL HAVE.
00:57:42.99\00:57:45.59
THE ONLY CURE FOR THE VENOM
OF SATAN IS TO LOOK IN FAITH AT
00:57:45.59\00:57:49.36
JESUS. HE THEN DEFEATED THE
DEVIL. HE TOOK THE VENOM OF SIN
00:57:49.36\00:57:53.23
IN HIS BODY TO PROVIDE
THE ANTIDOTE IN HIS BLOOD.
00:57:53.23\00:57:57.24
SO FRIENDS, I ENCOURAGE
YOU TO LOOK TODAY AND LIVE.
00:57:57.24\00:58:00.61
(MUSIC)
00:58:00.61\00:58:01.61