Indescribable, uncontainable 00:00:29.20\00:00:32.84 You placed the stars in the sky 00:00:32.87\00:00:35.21 And you know them by name 00:00:35.24\00:00:38.75 You are amazing God 00:00:38.78\00:00:43.60 All power. 00:00:43.63\00:00:45.27 All powerful, untamable 00:00:45.30\00:00:48.69 Awestruck we fall to our knees 00:00:48.72\00:00:51.07 As we humbly proclaim 00:00:51.10\00:00:54.71 You are amazing God 00:00:54.74\00:00:57.81 You sound beautiful. 00:00:57.84\00:00:58.93 Let's sing it once more, "Indescribable." 00:00:58.96\00:01:01.10 Indescribable, uncontainable 00:01:01.13\00:01:04.64 You placed the stars in the sky 00:01:04.67\00:01:07.04 And you know them by name 00:01:07.07\00:01:10.60 You are amazing God 00:01:10.63\00:01:17.12 All powerful, untamable 00:01:17.15\00:01:20.75 Awestruck we fall to our knees 00:01:20.78\00:01:23.16 As we humbly proclaim 00:01:23.19\00:01:26.65 You are amazing God 00:01:26.68\00:01:32.33 You are amazing. 00:01:32.36\00:01:34.52 You are amazing God 00:01:34.55\00:01:40.10 One last time, "You are amazing." 00:01:40.13\00:01:42.99 You are amazing God 00:01:43.02\00:01:47.91 Our God is an awesome God, he reigns 00:01:58.26\00:02:05.46 Form heaven above 00:02:05.49\00:02:08.09 With wisdom, power and love 00:02:08.12\00:02:13.24 Our God is an awesome God 00:02:13.27\00:02:18.39 Our God is an awesome God, he reigns 00:02:18.42\00:02:26.27 Form heaven above 00:02:26.30\00:02:29.02 With wisdom, power and love 00:02:29.05\00:02:34.16 Our God is an awesome God 00:02:34.19\00:02:40.10 Splendor. 00:02:53.71\00:02:55.36 "The splendor of a King 00:02:55.39\00:03:02.46 Clothed in majesty 00:03:02.49\00:03:07.47 Let all the earth rejoice 00:03:07.50\00:03:11.25 All the earth rejoice 00:03:11.28\00:03:13.99 Wraps. 00:03:14.02\00:03:15.47 He wraps Himself in light 00:03:15.50\00:03:22.77 And darkness tries to hide 00:03:22.80\00:03:28.11 And trembles at His voice 00:03:28.14\00:03:31.52 And trembles at His voice 00:03:31.55\00:03:34.68 How great. 00:03:34.71\00:03:35.94 How great is our God, sing with me 00:03:35.97\00:03:43.33 How great is our God, and all will see 00:03:43.36\00:03:49.53 How great, 00:03:49.56\00:03:52.99 How great is our God 00:03:53.02\00:03:58.76 Every voice, age to age. 00:04:00.85\00:04:03.80 Age to age he stands 00:04:03.83\00:04:10.19 And time is in His hands 00:04:10.22\00:04:14.80 Beginning and the End Beginning and the End 00:04:14.99\00:04:21.54 Godhead, Three in one. 00:04:21.57\00:04:23.47 The Godhead, Three in one 00:04:23.50\00:04:28.16 Father, Spirit, Son. 00:04:28.19\00:04:29.87 Father, Spirit, Son 00:04:29.90\00:04:34.52 The Lion and the Lamb The Lion and the Lamb 00:04:34.55\00:04:40.19 How great. 00:04:40.22\00:04:41.38 How great is our God, sing with me 00:04:41.41\00:04:49.26 How great is our God, and all will see 00:04:49.29\00:04:55.44 How great, 00:04:55.47\00:04:58.34 How great is our God 00:04:58.37\00:05:04.97 Name above all names 00:05:05.67\00:05:08.76 Name above all names 00:05:08.79\00:05:13.85 Worthy. 00:05:14.04\00:05:15.08 You are Worthy of all praise 00:05:15.11\00:05:19.44 My heart. 00:05:19.47\00:05:21.53 And my heart will sing 00:05:21.56\00:05:24.38 How great is our God 00:05:24.41\00:05:29.77 Let's praise our God today, name above all names. 00:05:31.38\00:05:34.54 Name above all names 00:05:34.57\00:05:38.44 You are worthy. 00:05:38.47\00:05:40.10 You are Worthy of all praise 00:05:40.13\00:05:44.69 My heart. 00:05:44.72\00:05:46.59 And my heart will sing 00:05:46.62\00:05:49.50 How great is our God 00:05:49.78\00:05:55.57 Then sings my soul. 00:05:55.77\00:05:57.84 Then sings my soul 00:05:57.87\00:06:02.59 My Savior God, to Thee 00:06:02.62\00:06:08.20 How great Thou art 00:06:10.57\00:06:15.22 How great Thou art 00:06:16.85\00:06:21.74 Then sings my soul. 00:06:21.77\00:06:23.45 Then sings my soul 00:06:23.48\00:06:28.07 My Savior God, to Thee 00:06:28.10\00:06:34.58 How great. 00:06:34.61\00:06:36.23 How great Thou art 00:06:36.26\00:06:40.35 How great Thou art!" 00:06:42.46\00:06:49.67 Jesus, the very thought of thee 00:07:10.50\00:07:18.50 With sweetness fills my breast 00:07:19.76\00:07:26.29 But sweeter 00:07:28.84\00:07:31.33 Far thy face to see 00:07:31.36\00:07:38.10 And in thy presence rest 00:07:38.13\00:07:45.10 No voice can sing 00:07:53.58\00:07:57.57 No heart can frame 00:07:57.60\00:08:01.86 Nor can the memory find 00:08:01.89\00:08:08.41 A sweeter sound 00:08:10.88\00:08:15.15 Than Jesus name 00:08:15.18\00:08:19.57 The Savior of mankind 00:08:19.60\00:08:26.26 O hope of every contrite heart 00:08:47.98\00:08:55.02 O joy of all the meek 00:08:55.05\00:09:01.26 To those who fall 00:09:03.45\00:09:07.55 How kind thou art 00:09:07.58\00:09:11.92 How good to those who seek 00:09:11.95\00:09:18.77 But what to those who find? 00:09:41.13\00:09:47.32 Ah, this nor tongue 00:09:47.35\00:09:51.85 Nor pen can show 00:09:51.88\00:09:56.95 The love of Jesus 00:09:58.86\00:10:03.93 What it is 00:10:03.96\00:10:07.90 None but who love him know 00:10:07.93\00:10:15.38 Jesus, Jesus 00:10:43.65\00:10:49.74 Jesus, Jesus 00:10:52.47\00:10:59.58 Jesus, our only joy be thou 00:10:59.61\00:11:06.58 As thou our prize wilt be 00:11:08.37\00:11:13.74 In thee be all our glory now 00:11:16.76\00:11:23.76 And through eternity 00:11:25.31\00:11:29.90 Eternity 00:11:33.82\00:11:38.55 In thee be all our glory now 00:11:38.58\00:11:45.34 And through eternity 00:11:46.89\00:11:51.43 And through eternity 00:11:51.46\00:11:56.82 Amen 00:11:56.85\00:12:01.94 Amen 00:12:01.97\00:12:06.94 We commence the journey together right now. 00:12:20.17\00:12:24.43 I wanna began that journey with prayer. 00:12:24.46\00:12:28.11 Holy Father, we're here in this place. 00:12:28.14\00:12:32.49 Jesus front and center as it must be. 00:12:32.52\00:12:38.47 We can only imagine that moment one day. 00:12:38.50\00:12:42.58 Not faith to faith, 00:12:42.61\00:12:44.29 but face to face with the same Lord Jesus. 00:12:44.32\00:12:50.26 The spirit is here we sense him. 00:12:50.29\00:12:53.12 As we commence this journey, 00:12:53.15\00:12:55.90 oh, God, do something deep within us 00:12:55.93\00:12:59.37 and that Holy Scripture engage not only our minds 00:12:59.40\00:13:03.26 but address our hearts and guide our lives 00:13:03.29\00:13:07.67 after Jesus we pray in His name, amen. 00:13:07.70\00:13:14.94 "Then God's temple in heaven was opened, 00:13:14.97\00:13:19.15 and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. 00:13:19.18\00:13:26.50 And there came flashes of lightning, 00:13:26.53\00:13:28.34 rumblings, peals of thunder, 00:13:28.37\00:13:31.45 an earthquake and a great hailstorm." 00:13:31.48\00:13:37.36 The temple. 00:13:37.39\00:13:41.20 Why bother with the temple in the 21st century? 00:13:41.23\00:13:47.26 Because of an illustration 00:13:47.29\00:13:49.74 about Fenway Park in Boston, that's why. 00:13:49.77\00:13:55.90 This summer a physician friend of mine 00:13:55.93\00:13:57.66 from California named Fred Bishop. 00:13:57.69\00:14:00.52 Put me in touch with the research and studies 00:14:00.55\00:14:04.29 of a trends analyst named Chris Martenson. 00:14:04.32\00:14:09.50 And as I began to move 00:14:09.53\00:14:11.62 through his astounding conclusions, 00:14:11.65\00:14:16.76 I came across an illustration he used 00:14:16.79\00:14:18.62 that was so startling for me 00:14:18.65\00:14:20.97 that I have shared this illustration with everyone 00:14:21.00\00:14:24.18 I summered with this year. 00:14:24.21\00:14:26.53 And now I want to share with you. 00:14:26.56\00:14:29.18 It's about Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. 00:14:29.21\00:14:33.28 Now if you are not an aficionado 00:14:33.31\00:14:35.02 of the sport of baseball, 00:14:35.05\00:14:36.70 you have no idea what Fenway Park is, 00:14:36.73\00:14:39.08 but it's where the Boston Red Sox play. 00:14:39.11\00:14:41.14 I put a picture of Fenway Park on the screen. 00:14:41.17\00:14:42.97 It's a great painting by the way. 00:14:43.00\00:14:45.40 For the sake of illustration, right now 00:14:45.43\00:14:47.39 let's assume that Fenway Park is watertight. 00:14:47.42\00:14:51.67 You can fill it to the top with water. 00:14:51.70\00:14:53.77 And let's also assume that I handcuff you 00:14:53.80\00:14:57.05 to the top seat in the highest bleacher, 00:14:57.08\00:14:59.60 you see up there in the right hand corner. 00:14:59.63\00:15:02.46 After handcuffing you to that seat, 00:15:02.49\00:15:05.79 I carrying a magic eyedropper 00:15:05.82\00:15:09.78 walk all the way down to the pitcher's mound. 00:15:09.81\00:15:12.03 You see the pitcher's mound down there 00:15:12.06\00:15:13.54 in the middle of that green grass. 00:15:13.57\00:15:16.85 I step on to that pitcher's mound 00:15:16.88\00:15:18.54 and I left the magic eyedropper up 00:15:18.57\00:15:21.13 and I released a single drop of water. 00:15:21.16\00:15:25.35 Now the reason the eyedropper is magic 00:15:25.38\00:15:27.10 is because that water every 60 seconds will double. 00:15:27.13\00:15:33.58 So in 1 minute it will be 2 water drops. 00:15:33.61\00:15:36.35 In 2 minutes it will be 4 water drops. 00:15:36.38\00:15:38.53 In 3 minutes you get the picture, 00:15:38.56\00:15:39.76 it will be 8 and so on and so on. 00:15:39.79\00:15:41.83 Here's the question for you? 00:15:41.86\00:15:44.14 You're handcuffed up there. 00:15:44.17\00:15:46.85 How much time do you have to get out of Fenway Park 00:15:46.88\00:15:51.82 before it's filled with water? 00:15:51.85\00:15:56.70 How much time would you like? 00:15:56.73\00:16:00.59 At 12:44, because I dropped the drop of water, 00:16:00.62\00:16:04.37 let's say at noon. 00:16:04.40\00:16:05.82 At 12:44, you're still handcuffed. 00:16:05.85\00:16:09.68 Down on the floor of Fenway 00:16:09.71\00:16:11.36 there is now 5 feet of water, all right? 00:16:11.39\00:16:15.27 93% of Fenway is still empty. That's 12:44. 00:16:15.30\00:16:21.05 How much time do you have to extricate yourself 00:16:21.08\00:16:23.61 now if you're gonna get out alive? 00:16:23.64\00:16:26.88 By 12:49 the entire park is filled 00:16:26.91\00:16:31.54 to the top with water. 00:16:31.57\00:16:35.03 In 5 minutes 93% got down in 5 minutes. 00:16:35.06\00:16:42.61 Now Chris Martenson's illustrating the point 00:16:42.64\00:16:44.88 and he is not a Christian as far as I can tell, 00:16:44.91\00:16:47.11 but that wouldn't matter, would it? 00:16:47.14\00:16:49.16 He is illustrating the point of the power of compounding 00:16:49.19\00:16:54.26 and he quotes a gentleman named Albert Bartlett. 00:16:54.29\00:16:57.30 Now I'll put Bartlett's words on the screen for you. 00:16:57.33\00:16:59.87 "The greatest short coming of the human race 00:16:59.90\00:17:03.67 is our inability to understand the exponential function." 00:17:03.70\00:17:10.15 And then this trends analyst Martenson 00:17:10.18\00:17:13.90 begins to put up graph after graph after graph. 00:17:13.93\00:17:17.03 Let me just run a few by, just a few. 00:17:17.06\00:17:18.54 All right here we go. 00:17:18.57\00:17:19.70 These are called hockey stick graphs 00:17:19.73\00:17:21.62 and you'll see why in just one second. 00:17:21.65\00:17:23.66 Let's take the human population. 00:17:23.69\00:17:26.33 We'll start right here, 00:17:26.36\00:17:27.40 the beginning, whenever the population began. 00:17:27.43\00:17:29.25 Here is the graph of the human population over the centuries. 00:17:29.28\00:17:34.18 Until you comedown, you come into the 2000, 00:17:34.21\00:17:36.72 you come to 2007, 8, 9 and then the graph shoots up. 00:17:36.75\00:17:40.69 In the next 30 years 3 billion more human beings 00:17:40.72\00:17:44.25 will be on this planet. 00:17:44.28\00:17:45.46 Where they're gonna live if the present rate continues? 00:17:45.49\00:17:48.65 Here is another graph. 00:17:48.68\00:17:50.61 This is the human consumption of energy, all right? 00:17:50.64\00:17:53.62 Starts right here whenever we started consuming energy, 00:17:53.65\00:17:56.49 it goes like this, goes like this, goes like this, 00:17:56.52\00:17:58.95 but then you get down to 2000, 2005, 2006, and it skyrockets. 00:17:58.98\00:18:06.36 India and China are onboard. 00:18:06.39\00:18:09.26 There is another graph 00:18:09.29\00:18:10.36 watch this one, US indebtedness. 00:18:10.39\00:18:15.78 1776 government debt right here, 00:18:15.81\00:18:19.42 American's debt, 1776 it just keeps going, 00:18:19.45\00:18:22.91 nothing happening, this is great, 00:18:22.94\00:18:24.77 this is wonderful, until you get down 2000, 00:18:24.80\00:18:27.67 2007, 8, 9 and this thing goes out sight. 00:18:27.70\00:18:31.38 The power of compounding so that when the sweep comes 00:18:31.41\00:18:36.73 it happens in a very just like Fenway Park 00:18:36.76\00:18:40.18 short period of time. 00:18:40.21\00:18:42.87 After studying Chris Martenson's research, 00:18:42.90\00:18:46.65 I go to that apocalyptic classic 00:18:46.68\00:18:48.13 called Great Controversy, 00:18:48.16\00:18:49.51 I've never seen this sense before, 00:18:49.54\00:18:50.93 I'm gonna put it on the screen for you right now. 00:18:50.96\00:18:53.22 "The end will come more quickly 00:18:53.25\00:18:56.36 than men and women expect." 00:18:56.39\00:19:02.83 Amazing. 00:19:02.86\00:19:04.72 Now, "Then God's temple in heaven was opened, 00:19:04.75\00:19:08.41 and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. 00:19:08.44\00:19:12.44 And there came flashes of lightning, 00:19:12.47\00:19:13.81 rumblings, peals of thunder, 00:19:13.84\00:19:15.08 an earthquake and a great hailstorm. 00:19:15.11\00:19:17.59 Could it be ladies and gentlemen, 00:19:17.62\00:19:20.18 that what is transpiring right now 00:19:20.21\00:19:22.91 in the temple above even as we are speaking? 00:19:22.94\00:19:28.15 Could it be? 00:19:28.18\00:19:30.45 That because of this phenomenal acceleration 00:19:30.48\00:19:32.88 called exponential growth could it be? 00:19:32.91\00:19:37.39 That what's taking place up there is critically important 00:19:37.42\00:19:42.07 and significant, to your life and mine on this planet? 00:19:42.10\00:19:46.48 Because I believe the answer is yes. 00:19:46.51\00:19:47.96 We begin a new series today it's called "The Temple." 00:19:47.99\00:19:50.31 I'm ready to go. Pull your study guide out. 00:19:50.34\00:19:51.81 Let's fly. 00:19:51.84\00:19:52.87 Pull you study guide out right now, 00:19:52.90\00:19:54.03 please in your worship bulletin, 00:19:54.06\00:19:55.38 brand new study guide for a new series called "The Temple." 00:19:55.41\00:19:58.22 You didn't get a study guide? 00:19:58.25\00:19:59.28 We've got friendly ushers here and here they come. 00:19:59.31\00:20:01.63 Hold your hand up, I wana make sure 00:20:01.66\00:20:03.21 everybody here sees these four realities 00:20:03.24\00:20:07.58 of the temple and heaven. 00:20:07.61\00:20:08.82 Four realities 00:20:08.85\00:20:09.89 and when the fourth one is over, I am out of here. 00:20:09.92\00:20:11.91 Okay, four of these. 00:20:11.94\00:20:13.53 If you didn't get a study guide, 00:20:13.56\00:20:14.62 hold your hand up all the way 00:20:14.65\00:20:15.68 to the back of the balcony in the overflow, 00:20:15.71\00:20:17.56 choir you got the study guides? 00:20:17.59\00:20:19.15 All right, good. Keep your hand up. 00:20:19.18\00:20:21.24 I want to say to those of you who are watching us right now. 00:20:21.27\00:20:23.80 We're delighted to have you. 00:20:23.83\00:20:25.04 We're beginning a brand new series newly, 00:20:25.07\00:20:26.98 you will be able to get the same study guide. 00:20:27.01\00:20:28.45 Let me put our website on the screen for you. 00:20:28.48\00:20:30.66 Put it on the screen, you see it right there 00:20:30.69\00:20:32.27 PMCHURCH.TV. WWW.PMCHURCH.TV. 00:20:32.30\00:20:37.39 You're looking for a brand new series entitled "The Temple." 00:20:37.42\00:20:40.77 And the title of part one which is right now 00:20:40.80\00:20:44.61 "Through a Crack in the Door". 00:20:44.64\00:20:47.83 All right, "Through a Crack in the Door." 00:20:47.86\00:20:50.50 So, you hit study guide where it says 00:20:50.53\00:20:52.17 "Through a Crack in the Door," you'll have this study guide. 00:20:52.20\00:20:54.55 Keeps your hand up. 00:20:54.58\00:20:55.74 Our friendly ushers are coming your way, 00:20:55.77\00:20:57.16 but we need to go. 00:20:57.19\00:20:58.23 So, looking through a crack in the door right now. 00:20:58.26\00:21:00.57 What can we know about the temple in heaven? 00:21:00.60\00:21:03.21 There are four realities, jot this down. 00:21:03.24\00:21:05.50 Reality number one, we can know that there is one. 00:21:05.53\00:21:09.67 Would you jot that down please? 00:21:09.70\00:21:10.84 We can know reality number one, that there is one. 00:21:10.87\00:21:14.83 There is a temple. 00:21:14.86\00:21:17.08 Let's go to our theme text for this series. 00:21:17.11\00:21:20.23 I read it just a moment ago, but now we read it together. 00:21:20.26\00:21:22.21 Go to the Bible's last book the Apocalypse. 00:21:22.24\00:21:24.22 Go to the Book of Revelation please, Chapter 11. 00:21:24.25\00:21:29.41 Let's read that line one-- 00:21:29.44\00:21:31.20 Let's read that line one more time. 00:21:31.23\00:21:34.24 Revelation 11:19. 00:21:34.27\00:21:36.47 By the way if you didn't bring a pew Bible, grab-- 00:21:36.50\00:21:38.47 I'm sorry, if you didn't bring your own Bible, 00:21:38.50\00:21:40.20 grab a pew Bible. 00:21:40.23\00:21:41.42 Don't take it home please. 00:21:41.45\00:21:42.95 But grab our pew Bible, 00:21:42.98\00:21:44.45 and turn to the last book of the Bible. 00:21:44.48\00:21:47.07 I got the page number here, it will be page 829. 00:21:47.10\00:21:51.33 I'm in the NIV for this series. 00:21:51.36\00:21:52.95 Most university students are with NIV, 00:21:52.98\00:21:55.04 so we kind of be connected 00:21:55.07\00:21:57.47 with the same translation as far. 00:21:57.50\00:21:59.62 Chapter 11 Revelation 11:19. 00:21:59.65\00:22:03.01 Let me read it again and you are hearing. 00:22:03.04\00:22:04.70 Then, this is at end of time. 00:22:04.73\00:22:07.29 Every scholar I know says we know, 00:22:07.32\00:22:10.06 this is at the end, all right. 00:22:10.09\00:22:12.42 In the flow of the Apocalypse. 00:22:12.45\00:22:14.85 "Then God's temple in heaven was opened, 00:22:14.88\00:22:18.12 and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. 00:22:18.15\00:22:22.12 And there came flashes of lightning, 00:22:22.15\00:22:24.00 rumblings, peals of thunder, 00:22:24.03\00:22:25.61 an earthquake and a great hailstorm." 00:22:25.64\00:22:29.00 Would you write that down please? 00:22:29.03\00:22:30.20 Revelation 11:19 fill it in, 00:22:30.23\00:22:32.44 "Then God's temple in heaven was opened, 00:22:32.47\00:22:35.11 and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant." 00:22:35.14\00:22:39.93 Two temples there. 00:22:39.96\00:22:41.45 One temple but two words temple. 00:22:41.48\00:22:43.68 The Bible presupposes the existence 00:22:43.71\00:22:45.79 of a loving creator God. 00:22:45.82\00:22:47.90 He has a place some-- He has a place somewhere 00:22:47.93\00:22:50.24 in this universe where He resides, 00:22:50.27\00:22:51.81 it is a palace and the Bible calls His palace 00:22:51.84\00:22:54.86 "The Temple," that's it, okay. 00:22:54.89\00:22:57.73 Okay, let me put another text up on the screen for you, 00:22:57.76\00:23:00.40 Habakkuk 2:20- The Lord is in his holy-- 00:23:00.43\00:23:04.68 Once in a while you hear choir sing that as a response. 00:23:04.71\00:23:06.77 "The Lord is in his holy temple, 00:23:06.80\00:23:09.63 let all the earth keep silence before him." 00:23:09.66\00:23:16.38 Keep silent, Habakkuk 2:20. Let me give you one more. 00:23:16.41\00:23:19.63 By the way you can take your concords 00:23:19.66\00:23:20.79 just look under temple, there are scores of these. 00:23:20.82\00:23:24.32 Let me give you one more though, 00:23:24.35\00:23:25.43 Psalm 102:19, Psalm 102:19, we put it on the screen. 00:23:25.46\00:23:30.77 "The Lord looked down from his sanctuary-- 00:23:30.80\00:23:34.31 He looked down from his sanctuary on high, 00:23:34.34\00:23:36.89 from heaven He viewed the earth." 00:23:36.92\00:23:39.89 You notice in the scriptures that the word temple 00:23:39.92\00:23:41.83 and the word sanctuary are interchanged 00:23:41.86\00:23:44.09 in describing God's dwelling place. 00:23:44.12\00:23:45.49 The Bible is very clear. God's sanctuary is in heaven. 00:23:45.52\00:23:48.89 It's His temple. 00:23:48.92\00:23:50.41 So what we can know about the temple? 00:23:50.44\00:23:51.74 What realities? 00:23:51.77\00:23:52.96 Reality number one, there is one. 00:23:52.99\00:23:55.07 Reality number two, jot it down please. 00:23:55.10\00:23:57.24 We can know that God is seated there on his throne. 00:23:57.27\00:24:02.86 It's little longer line, 00:24:02.89\00:24:04.09 I'll give you a moment to fill that in, 00:24:04.12\00:24:05.39 that God is seated there on his throne. 00:24:05.42\00:24:12.24 God's temple is His pass. 00:24:12.27\00:24:15.12 And from His throne He rules the universe. 00:24:15.15\00:24:18.14 Now I got to tell you, the Bible offers precious 00:24:18.17\00:24:20.48 little detail regarding this temple. 00:24:20.51\00:24:26.06 But the Bible is replete 00:24:26.09\00:24:29.10 with dramatic details about the throne. 00:24:29.13\00:24:33.29 I want to take you to three, 00:24:33.32\00:24:34.38 the three great throne passages in scripture. 00:24:34.41\00:24:37.66 And rather than just putting this on the screen 00:24:37.69\00:24:39.10 and letting you follow that way, 00:24:39.13\00:24:40.18 I want you to follow along please in your Bible. 00:24:40.21\00:24:41.89 And we'll take them in order as they appear in the Bible. 00:24:41.92\00:24:44.04 Let's go back to the Book of Ezekiel. 00:24:44.07\00:24:46.26 We are hardly ever in that book. 00:24:46.29\00:24:48.40 He was a very young prophet by the way just barely married, 00:24:48.43\00:24:51.46 young man Ezekiel All right. 00:24:51.49\00:24:53.16 Ezekiel Chapter 1. He is in a vision. 00:24:53.19\00:24:56.12 By the way all three of these are visions 00:24:56.15\00:24:57.80 because there ain't nobody that's been to the temple 00:24:57.83\00:25:01.24 and come back to tell of it, all right. 00:25:01.27\00:25:04.17 You can't get there physically, unless God takes you. 00:25:04.20\00:25:08.77 But in vision these three, three descriptors. 00:25:08.80\00:25:11.75 All right, so we'll go to Ezekiel Chapter 1. 00:25:11.78\00:25:14.84 In the pew Bible that would be page 557. 00:25:14.87\00:25:20.31 Ezekiel Chapter 1, 00:25:20.34\00:25:21.45 and by the way we got art majors here, we got-- 00:25:21.48\00:25:24.10 this generation you are so visual. 00:25:24.13\00:25:26.53 Every thing is visual for you. 00:25:26.56\00:25:28.42 so you're not gonna have any problem. 00:25:28.45\00:25:29.73 We thought about, we said, 00:25:29.76\00:25:30.79 "Shall we put some colors up there, 00:25:30.82\00:25:31.90 shall we do some..." 00:25:31.93\00:25:32.96 No, no, no, no, 00:25:32.99\00:25:34.30 your imagination is much more powerful 00:25:34.33\00:25:36.42 than anything we can put on the screen, 00:25:36.45\00:25:37.98 so you just let your vision, 00:25:38.01\00:25:39.15 let your imagination go wild as it were. 00:25:39.18\00:25:42.74 Okay, we are gonna here Ezekiel Chapter 1, 00:25:42.77\00:25:45.00 pick it up in verse 25. 00:25:45.03\00:25:48.19 "Then there came a voice 00:25:48.22\00:25:51.31 from above the expanse over their heads..." 00:25:51.34\00:25:54.02 And by the way the expanse 00:25:54.05\00:25:55.13 has just been described as sparkling like ice. 00:25:55.16\00:25:59.07 You got this-- you got this 00:25:59.10\00:26:00.13 almost like a diamond sky, sparkling like ice. 00:26:00.16\00:26:04.31 "Then there came a voice from above the expanse 00:26:04.34\00:26:05.98 over their heads as they stood with lowered wings." 00:26:06.01\00:26:08.24 All right, talking about some angelic creatures. 00:26:08.27\00:26:10.25 Verse 26, "Above the expanse over their heads 00:26:10.28\00:26:14.15 was what looked like a..." 00:26:14.18\00:26:15.30 You are trying to imagine this in your mind 00:26:15.33\00:26:17.01 what looked like a throne of sapphire. 00:26:17.04\00:26:20.77 Now, I need to tell you sapphire is resplendent blue. 00:26:20.80\00:26:24.14 Such as throne it's blue, glass throne, it look like. 00:26:24.17\00:26:27.81 So, there appeared 00:26:27.84\00:26:30.75 "what look like a throne of sapphire 00:26:30.78\00:26:33.76 and high above on the throne 00:26:33.79\00:26:36.63 was a figure like that of a man." 00:26:36.66\00:26:38.90 You know, I was looking very closely Ezekiel said, 00:26:38.93\00:26:41.45 I couldn't quite tell, there was so much light there, 00:26:41.48\00:26:43.89 but it looked like a human being sitting 00:26:43.92\00:26:47.78 on that resplendent blue throne. 00:26:47.81\00:26:51.17 What can Ezekiel do? 00:26:51.20\00:26:52.35 He has to use a language he has. 00:26:52.38\00:26:55.40 He gone on, verse 27. 00:26:55.43\00:26:57.89 Oh, and by the way, "I saw 00:26:57.92\00:27:00.30 that from what appeared to be his waist up..." 00:27:00.33\00:27:03.63 So he looking at that being on the throne. 00:27:03.66\00:27:05.45 "What appeared to be this waist up 00:27:05.48\00:27:06.61 he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, 00:27:06.64\00:27:09.88 and that from there down from his waist down, 00:27:09.91\00:27:12.52 he looks like fire, 00:27:12.55\00:27:14.02 and brilliant lights surrounded Him." 00:27:14.05\00:27:16.99 He just have this yellow, gold, oranges, 00:27:17.02\00:27:19.10 just you put your hand up, 00:27:19.13\00:27:21.05 it's so bright, brilliant light. 00:27:21.08\00:27:23.06 Verse 28, "Like the appearance 00:27:23.09\00:27:25.08 of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day..." 00:27:25.11\00:27:28.79 Ever seen a rainbow? 00:27:28.82\00:27:30.46 Ah, that shimmeringness. 00:27:30.49\00:27:32.91 "Like the appearance of a rainbow 00:27:32.94\00:27:34.11 in the clouds on a rainy day, 00:27:34.14\00:27:35.33 so was the radiance around this being. 00:27:35.36\00:27:37.98 This was the appearance 00:27:38.01\00:27:39.68 of the likeness of the glory of the Lord." 00:27:39.71\00:27:43.07 And "When I saw it, I fell facedown, 00:27:43.10\00:27:47.96 as you and I would 00:27:47.99\00:27:49.47 and I heard the voice of one speaking." 00:27:49.50\00:27:52.93 Mercy! 00:27:52.96\00:27:56.50 Notice how the descriptors built as we go. 00:27:56.53\00:27:59.52 Very next book is Daniel, 00:27:59.55\00:28:00.58 so just keep going towards the end of your Bible. 00:28:00.61\00:28:03.02 Daniel, there are only three 00:28:03.05\00:28:05.60 depicters passages at depict the throne. 00:28:05.63\00:28:09.46 And this is number two Daniel 7, 00:28:09.49\00:28:13.88 so you are holding those pictures now, 00:28:13.91\00:28:15.82 holding the colors. 00:28:15.85\00:28:17.45 You gonna see some more colors added along the way. 00:28:17.48\00:28:20.09 Let's go Daniel 7, Daniel 7 just two verses Daniel 7, 00:28:20.12\00:28:26.49 he also is envisioned, verse 9, 00:28:26.52\00:28:27.88 "As I looked, thrones were set in place, 00:28:27.91\00:28:31.18 and the Ancient of Days..." 00:28:31.21\00:28:33.37 Does yours have capital A, capital D 00:28:33.40\00:28:35.99 Ancient of Days it's a title. 00:28:36.02\00:28:37.38 "And Ancient of Days took his seat." 00:28:37.41\00:28:39.68 Now you need to understand 00:28:39.71\00:28:40.74 that in the near eastern culture 00:28:40.77\00:28:42.05 from which Daniel writes. 00:28:42.08\00:28:43.96 The older you get, the wiser you are. 00:28:43.99\00:28:47.54 The wider your hair, the wiser your mind. 00:28:47.57\00:28:51.53 Hallelujah. 00:28:51.56\00:28:53.17 So that's why when God wants to picture himself 00:28:53.20\00:28:57.81 to near Easterners who are the readers. 00:28:57.84\00:29:00.05 He says "I'll show up as an old man. 00:29:00.08\00:29:02.14 They will know I'm the wisest of the wise." 00:29:02.17\00:29:05.79 So that's why He shows up as an old man. 00:29:05.82\00:29:06.94 Look at throne are set in place, 00:29:06.97\00:29:09.36 and by the way pearl throne you noted that. 00:29:09.39\00:29:11.59 And the "Ancient of Days took His seat. 00:29:11.62\00:29:13.46 His clothing was as white as snow, 00:29:13.49\00:29:15.72 and the hair of his head was white like wool." 00:29:15.75\00:29:19.24 Keep reading, "His throne was flaming with fire." 00:29:19.27\00:29:22.99 We got fire again here, 00:29:23.02\00:29:24.29 "His throne was flaming with fire, 00:29:24.32\00:29:25.60 and its wheels were all ablaze." 00:29:25.63\00:29:28.08 Apparently God's throne can be moved around, 00:29:28.11\00:29:31.36 it has wheels on it. 00:29:31.39\00:29:33.26 Interesting thought. 00:29:33.29\00:29:34.63 Verse 10 and "A river of fire was flowing, 00:29:34.66\00:29:37.43 coming out from before him. 00:29:37.46\00:29:39.20 Thousands upon thousands attended him, 00:29:39.23\00:29:40.91 ten thousand times ten thousand stood before Him. 00:29:40.94\00:29:43.24 The court was seated, and the books were opened." 00:29:43.27\00:29:45.06 And you know what? 00:29:45.09\00:29:46.26 When I read, and the river of fire was flowing, 00:29:46.29\00:29:49.64 I'm thinking Hawaii, Mount Kilauea. 00:29:49.67\00:29:52.46 Have you ever seen pictures of Mount Kilauea at night? 00:29:52.49\00:29:55.16 That's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking this lava flow. 00:29:55.19\00:30:00.59 Just watery fire flowing out from underneath God's throne, 00:30:00.62\00:30:05.95 isn't that amazing? 00:30:05.98\00:30:07.38 Wow, so you got all these pictures now. 00:30:07.41\00:30:08.79 We got rainbows, we got fire, gold and orange. 00:30:08.82\00:30:14.79 One more picture. 00:30:14.82\00:30:16.24 The last Book of the Bible, also envision. 00:30:16.27\00:30:20.60 Here comes and Greg read from these word 00:30:20.63\00:30:23.62 just a moment ago. 00:30:23.65\00:30:25.73 Here comes Revelation 4, 00:30:25.76\00:30:30.05 Revelation 4, let's pick up in verse 1 00:30:30.08\00:30:34.35 "After this I looked, and there before me 00:30:34.38\00:30:38.36 was a door standing open in heaven..." 00:30:38.39\00:30:40.78 Through a crack in the door now, 00:30:40.81\00:30:43.21 we gonna take a look ourselves. 00:30:43.24\00:30:45.56 There is a crack in the door. 00:30:45.59\00:30:48.71 "There is a door standing open in the heaven 00:30:48.74\00:30:49.96 and the voice I had first heard 00:30:49.99\00:30:51.64 speaking to me like a trumpet said, 00:30:51.67\00:30:53.65 "'Come up here, and I will show you 00:30:53.68\00:30:56.29 what must take place after this.' 00:30:56.32\00:30:57.71 and at once, boom verse 2, "I was in the sprit, 00:30:57.74\00:31:00.25 and there before me was a throne..." 00:31:00.28\00:31:02.10 Here we go again. 00:31:02.13\00:31:03.17 "Throne in heaven withs someone 00:31:03.20\00:31:06.09 someone sitting on it." 00:31:06.12\00:31:08.32 Verse 3, "And the one who sat there 00:31:12.30\00:31:14.67 had the appearance of jasper..." 00:31:14.70\00:31:19.74 Pliny, the Younger, the ancient naturalist 00:31:19.77\00:31:22.98 around the time John, 00:31:23.01\00:31:25.70 describes jasper much different in the way it is today. 00:31:25.73\00:31:28.78 It was a translucent stone, 00:31:28.81\00:31:30.80 light could penetrate though it, 00:31:30.83\00:31:32.42 so I'm looking and this beam it's like light, 00:31:32.45\00:31:34.69 it's coming straight through him. 00:31:34.72\00:31:36.71 It's like jasper, and more over carnelian. 00:31:36.74\00:31:42.68 Carnelian? 00:31:42.71\00:31:43.95 You know that is? Brilliant red. 00:31:43.98\00:31:46.64 So light pouring through brilliant red 00:31:46.67\00:31:49.76 and there's another color, watch this. 00:31:49.79\00:31:51.18 "And a rainbow resembling an emerald." 00:31:51.21\00:31:55.55 We are all those mystic colors but now John says, no, 00:31:55.58\00:31:58.46 it's just the shining green. 00:31:58.49\00:32:02.71 "A rainbow resembling an emerald encircled the throne. 00:32:02.74\00:32:05.38 And surrounding the throne were twenty-four other thrones, 00:32:05.41\00:32:07.73 see multiple thrones 00:32:07.76\00:32:08.84 and seated on them were twenty-four elders. 00:32:08.87\00:32:10.23 And they were dressed in white 00:32:10.26\00:32:11.37 and had crowns of gold on their heads." 00:32:11.40\00:32:13.30 From Verse 5, "The throne came flashes of lightning... " 00:32:13.33\00:32:15.97 We read that a moment ago. 00:32:16.00\00:32:17.17 "Rumblings and peals of thunder. 00:32:17.20\00:32:18.74 Before the throne, seven lamps were blazing. 00:32:18.77\00:32:20.84 These are the seven spirits of God." 00:32:20.87\00:32:22.55 And finally verse 6. 00:32:22.58\00:32:23.78 "And also before the throne there was what 00:32:23.81\00:32:25.45 looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal." 00:32:25.48\00:32:29.38 Just shining water. 00:32:29.41\00:32:33.21 Wow, do you understand? 00:32:33.24\00:32:37.36 Every time you and I come 00:32:37.39\00:32:38.54 into this building and we worship God. 00:32:38.57\00:32:42.27 That's what's -- that's what's there. 00:32:42.30\00:32:45.05 What you got in your mind now? 00:32:45.08\00:32:46.31 That's what's there. Something like it. 00:32:46.34\00:32:52.15 Four realities that we can know about the throne of God. 00:32:52.18\00:32:54.37 Reality number one there is one. 00:32:54.40\00:32:56.42 Reality number two, God is in the temple 00:32:56.45\00:32:58.78 seated upon His throne. 00:32:58.81\00:33:00.37 Write it down please reality number three that God, 00:33:00.40\00:33:03.52 what can we know that God is surrounded 00:33:03.55\00:33:05.55 there by myriads of intelligent beings. 00:33:05.58\00:33:10.56 I'll give you a little extra moment to write all of that, 00:33:10.59\00:33:15.83 that God is surrounded there 00:33:15.86\00:33:18.54 by myriads of intelligent beings. 00:33:18.57\00:33:22.22 You wana call them angels, it's fine. 00:33:22.25\00:33:23.98 Want to call living creatures, that's fine. 00:33:24.01\00:33:26.44 They are obviously, here's what we know, 00:33:26.47\00:33:27.77 they are obviously created junior partners with God 00:33:27.80\00:33:33.19 in the administration of His entire universe. 00:33:33.22\00:33:37.40 They work like this with God. 00:33:37.43\00:33:41.73 Whatever, whoever they are. 00:33:41.76\00:33:42.79 And by the way John does the arithmetic 00:33:42.82\00:33:44.28 and comes up with the same number that Daniel. 00:33:44.31\00:33:46.20 We read Daniel's number a moment ago. 00:33:46.23\00:33:47.34 Look at John. 00:33:47.37\00:33:48.47 He must be a fast counter because he comes up 00:33:48.50\00:33:49.97 with the same number Chapter 5, 00:33:50.00\00:33:51.77 just drop, go over to Chapter 5:11. 00:33:51.80\00:33:54.15 "Then I looked and I heard the voice of many angels..." 00:33:54.18\00:33:56.37 Here comes the number. 00:33:56.40\00:33:57.45 "Numbering thousands upon thousands, 00:33:57.48\00:33:59.35 and that would be millions because thousands times 00:33:59.38\00:34:00.82 thousands are million 00:34:00.85\00:34:02.12 and ten thousand times ten thousand, 00:34:02.15\00:34:03.76 that would be 100 million at least. 00:34:03.79\00:34:05.45 So, millions, numbering millions 00:34:05.48\00:34:09.60 and they, now get this, the Bible hasn't said 00:34:09.63\00:34:12.02 a word yet about the temple. 00:34:12.05\00:34:13.28 I wish I could tell you. I have no idea. 00:34:13.31\00:34:15.49 All I know is that these millions, 00:34:15.52\00:34:17.69 hundreds of millions encircled the throne. 00:34:17.72\00:34:21.56 They're right around that sapphire throne. 00:34:21.59\00:34:26.28 They encircle the throne and the living creatures 00:34:26.31\00:34:29.69 and the elders. 00:34:29.72\00:34:33.75 How big do you suppose God's temple is? 00:34:33.78\00:34:35.22 I mean try to imagine this. 00:34:35.25\00:34:36.59 How big do you suppose God's temple is? 00:34:36.62\00:34:39.73 Any clue? 00:34:39.76\00:34:41.94 You know, you come to Solomon 00:34:41.97\00:34:43.08 when he is dedicating this little temple here on earth. 00:34:43.11\00:34:45.75 Put this on the screen for you. He cries out 1 Kings 8:27. 00:34:45.78\00:34:49.47 He said, oh, God "The heavens, 00:34:49.50\00:34:51.39 even the highest heaven, cannot contain you." 00:34:51.42\00:34:56.16 There is no way we could build a temple for you. 00:34:56.19\00:34:59.75 So how big is God's? How big is God's temple? 00:34:59.78\00:35:02.43 I have no idea. Let me ask you this. 00:35:02.46\00:35:04.30 Let me ask you this. 00:35:04.33\00:35:05.95 What is the largest temple on this planet right now? 00:35:05.98\00:35:12.18 The largest structure on planet earth today 00:35:12.21\00:35:15.30 that is a structure for worship. 00:35:15.33\00:35:17.43 Think of the largest temple, 00:35:17.46\00:35:18.85 what is it we know today? 00:35:18.88\00:35:20.73 Buddhist temple you thinking over the Far East? 00:35:20.76\00:35:22.93 Maybe a Hindu temple 00:35:22.96\00:35:24.49 somewhere in that mighty sub-continent? 00:35:24.52\00:35:26.91 The largest temple on earth today 00:35:26.94\00:35:29.62 is that picture right there, 00:35:29.65\00:35:31.85 St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. 00:35:31.88\00:35:34.28 Our tour guy told us, get this. 00:35:34.31\00:35:36.26 Our tour guy told us 00:35:36.29\00:35:37.99 that you can crowd 100,000 worshippers 00:35:38.02\00:35:42.15 into that temple right there. 00:35:42.18\00:35:45.27 Isn't that amazing? 00:35:45.30\00:35:46.84 And here, ladies and gentlemen, 100,000 00:35:46.87\00:35:48.22 what is that to the hundreds of millions 00:35:48.25\00:35:51.80 that are in the temple above. 00:35:51.83\00:35:53.10 Obliviously our puny finite broken 00:35:53.13\00:35:55.44 human comprehension cannot fathom 00:35:55.47\00:35:59.22 anything big enough to how is God. 00:35:59.25\00:36:03.46 And yet the Bible says, no, no, 00:36:03.49\00:36:05.11 He has a temple, His throne is in it. 00:36:05.14\00:36:08.80 There are these myriads that circle Him. 00:36:08.83\00:36:14.15 What we know about God's temple in heaven? 00:36:14.18\00:36:15.40 Number one, there is one. 00:36:15.43\00:36:16.98 Number two, God is seated on His throne in that temple. 00:36:17.01\00:36:19.29 Reality Number 3, myriads of angels 00:36:19.32\00:36:21.49 surround God upon His throne there. 00:36:21.52\00:36:22.75 And finally here it is. 00:36:22.78\00:36:24.04 Reality Number 4, jot it down please. 00:36:24.07\00:36:26.34 We know that God's temple is His Mission Control 00:36:26.37\00:36:30.94 for his universe and for this earth. 00:36:30.97\00:36:34.82 Just two words and capitalize them would you please, 00:36:34.85\00:36:36.99 do me a favor capitalize the M and C. Mission Control. 00:36:37.02\00:36:43.30 God's temple is His Mission Control 00:36:43.33\00:36:44.75 for his universe and for this earth. 00:36:44.78\00:36:46.70 I tell you what? I would love this. 00:36:46.73\00:36:48.08 I don't know how they would have found my phone number. 00:36:48.11\00:36:50.39 But I would love this, 00:36:50.42\00:36:53.27 if I would get a call one day from NASA 00:36:53.30\00:36:55.45 and the voice on the other end say, 00:36:55.48\00:36:57.60 hey, Dwight, we hear that you would 00:36:57.63\00:36:59.39 really like to get up close 00:36:59.42\00:37:01.10 and watch the launch of a space shuttle in our control room. 00:37:01.13\00:37:07.31 We got a ticket, come on down 00:37:07.34\00:37:08.49 and boom to stand-- to stand in the corner 00:37:08.52\00:37:12.07 out of the way and watch 00:37:12.10\00:37:14.07 as the ground just shakes and this takes place. 00:37:14.10\00:37:19.32 I mean can you imagine? 00:37:19.35\00:37:22.02 The thrill of being in mission control, huh, mercy. 00:37:22.05\00:37:28.22 Although you know this, don't you? 00:37:28.25\00:37:29.31 You do know this. 00:37:29.34\00:37:31.28 Mission control doesn't feel a single rumble. 00:37:31.31\00:37:37.06 You know why? 00:37:37.09\00:37:38.18 Because it's not in Florida. 00:37:38.21\00:37:39.61 Do you know where our mission control is? 00:37:39.64\00:37:41.68 Call out to me. Where is mission control? 00:37:41.71\00:37:43.94 Houston, Texas. 00:37:43.97\00:37:45.82 Let's put a picture of the actual control room 00:37:45.85\00:37:48.93 there in Houston, Texas. 00:37:48.96\00:37:51.20 That's where it is. But you know what? 00:37:51.23\00:37:53.43 Big deal, when your telemetry communication is wireless, 00:37:53.46\00:37:56.66 the distance between mission control 00:37:56.69\00:37:58.78 and the actual mission is immaterial. 00:37:58.81\00:38:00.97 You can be billions of miles away theoretically 00:38:01.00\00:38:03.88 and boom you're in touch. 00:38:03.91\00:38:08.74 And that's why David, you got to see this prayer. 00:38:08.77\00:38:11.57 That's why he is praying the sanctuary prayer. 00:38:11.60\00:38:13.32 Go back, I want to see in your own Bible, Psalm 18, 00:38:13.35\00:38:16.52 David knows, he doesn't know anything about telemetry 00:38:16.55\00:38:19.09 and wireless communication. 00:38:19.12\00:38:20.68 All David knows is God. 00:38:20.71\00:38:22.96 I'm in big trouble and you are in mission control. 00:38:22.99\00:38:26.32 Watch this Psalm 18. 00:38:26.35\00:38:28.04 Find Psalm 18, we'll look at just verse 6. 00:38:28.07\00:38:33.14 It's good news for you and me by the way, 00:38:33.17\00:38:34.53 the year is just commencing. 00:38:34.56\00:38:36.70 You need to know David is on to something right here. 00:38:36.73\00:38:40.46 Psalm 18:6 "In my distress I called to the Lord, 00:38:40.49\00:38:45.36 I cried to my God for help. 00:38:45.39\00:38:47.90 From his temple he heard my voice; 00:38:47.93\00:38:52.39 my cry came before Him, into his ears." 00:38:52.42\00:38:57.97 Can you believe that? 00:38:58.00\00:38:59.37 Telemetry, wireless, who cares? 00:38:59.40\00:39:02.59 When you are in trouble you say, 00:39:02.62\00:39:04.43 "God, I'm in trouble, help." 00:39:04.46\00:39:07.32 Mission control hears it. 00:39:07.35\00:39:11.28 Even in my ear. 00:39:11.31\00:39:13.28 It's not quite as clear in my ear, 00:39:16.10\00:39:17.16 it takes longer for signals to get out of my ear 00:39:17.19\00:39:18.88 but once it gets out, it's okay. 00:39:18.91\00:39:24.49 Michiana, anywhere on earth, 00:39:24.52\00:39:27.34 God, I am in trouble, help. 00:39:27.37\00:39:31.57 He heard me with His ear 00:39:31.60\00:39:32.75 and notice His response, verse 9 00:39:32.78\00:39:34.92 and God mounted the chariot beam and flew. 00:39:34.95\00:39:38.35 Verse 9, "He parted the heavens and came down, 00:39:38.38\00:39:42.24 I called to Him and boom, He came down. 00:39:42.27\00:39:46.55 Isn't that amazing? 00:39:46.58\00:39:48.43 Oh my. 00:39:48.46\00:39:51.57 If it happens to David, 00:39:51.60\00:39:53.38 surely it would happen to you and me. 00:39:53.41\00:39:54.83 You know what? 00:39:54.86\00:39:55.92 When we are talking about the temple, 00:39:55.95\00:39:57.10 here is the point ladies and gentlemen. 00:39:57.13\00:39:58.38 We are not talking about some little tiny 00:39:58.41\00:40:00.30 bit of architecture somewhere in the universe 00:40:00.33\00:40:02.09 it looks nice on a postcard. 00:40:02.12\00:40:03.43 This isn't about postcards. 00:40:03.46\00:40:04.97 This is about mission control of the universe. 00:40:05.00\00:40:10.68 Mission control, apparently this divine mission control 00:40:10.71\00:40:14.16 of the universe is so intricately connected 00:40:14.19\00:40:16.59 with every creature in this cosmos 00:40:16.62\00:40:19.18 that even a tiny little sparrow cannot tumble in death 00:40:19.21\00:40:22.47 from its tree top perch without God 00:40:22.50\00:40:24.42 noting that reality and marking that moment. 00:40:24.45\00:40:27.47 Jesus said that your father knows 00:40:27.50\00:40:29.09 a sparrow is down. 00:40:29.12\00:40:31.94 And then as I wrote in my blog today, 00:40:31.97\00:40:34.07 if it says it for sparrow, 00:40:34.10\00:40:36.65 how much more value are you to Him 00:40:36.68\00:40:41.05 when you cry out mission control help. 00:40:41.08\00:40:47.62 Wow, just one little click away, one click. 00:40:47.65\00:40:54.95 Which by the way is our theme for the new season 00:40:54.98\00:41:01.19 in house of prayer? 00:41:01.22\00:41:04.84 You gonna see this... you gonna see on campus 00:41:04.87\00:41:08.44 of next few days Praying Through the Sanctuary. 00:41:08.47\00:41:13.71 Came across the method of praying 00:41:13.74\00:41:14.90 I never experienced it, I heard about it. 00:41:14.93\00:41:20.75 Got hold of a little book and starting Wednesday night, 00:41:20.78\00:41:23.41 we gonna take the schema blueprint, 00:41:23.44\00:41:27.18 God's temple? 00:41:27.21\00:41:28.35 We gonna move through it and find a new way 00:41:28.38\00:41:30.51 to energies our praying. 00:41:30.54\00:41:31.76 If your praying is kind of hit a plateau, 00:41:31.79\00:41:33.10 and you're just not feeling like it-- 00:41:33.13\00:41:34.20 You know, it's just not 00:41:34.23\00:41:35.27 a big deal to me praying at all. 00:41:35.30\00:41:36.94 I want to invite you to come Wednesday night 00:41:36.97\00:41:38.05 7 o'clock right over there in the youth chapel, 00:41:38.08\00:41:39.57 come and join us. 00:41:39.60\00:41:41.48 Let's pray our way through the sanctuary. 00:41:41.51\00:41:43.31 Just one click away, 00:41:43.34\00:41:45.16 that's how far mission control is. 00:41:45.19\00:41:47.03 As the world found out that day 00:41:47.06\00:41:48.79 and I have learned that one billon people 00:41:48.82\00:41:50.61 were listening that day, when the click went down 00:41:50.64\00:41:53.28 from Apollo 13 to mission control. 00:41:53.31\00:41:58.05 Huston as it go? 00:41:58.08\00:42:01.03 Huston, we had a problem. 00:42:01.06\00:42:05.02 Now popular Lovell says Huston we have a problem. 00:42:05.05\00:42:08.75 But we've got the recording right here. 00:42:08.78\00:42:10.39 First I want to put a picture of that moment in Apollo 13. 00:42:10.42\00:42:13.53 That's the actual control room, all right? 00:42:13.56\00:42:15.62 That's Houston. 00:42:15.65\00:42:17.06 Now this recording is a little scratchy. 00:42:17.09\00:42:19.36 This is the actual recording of that transmission 00:42:19.39\00:42:22.99 when they announced. 00:42:23.02\00:42:24.08 We've-- the actual wording is, 00:42:24.11\00:42:26.28 we've had a problem. 00:42:26.31\00:42:28.37 Listen up. 00:42:28.40\00:42:31.29 Okay, here we've had a problem here. 00:42:31.32\00:42:34.08 This is Houston saying in please. 00:42:34.11\00:42:36.33 Oh, Houston, we've had a problem. 00:42:36.36\00:42:39.05 We've had main B undervolt. 00:42:39.08\00:42:42.02 Roger main B undervolt. 00:42:42.05\00:42:45.34 Okay, standby 13 we're looking at it. 00:42:45.37\00:42:50.35 Matter of fact Commander Lovell, 00:42:50.38\00:42:52.35 Houston, we've had a problem. 00:42:52.38\00:42:54.32 They are on a target for a catastrophe. 00:42:54.35\00:43:00.60 Mission control, averse the catastrophe. 00:43:00.63\00:43:03.91 Now here's a deal. Can you imagine? 00:43:03.94\00:43:06.06 Try to imagine with me. 00:43:06.09\00:43:07.64 The stun silence in the temple 00:43:07.67\00:43:10.58 when mission control received that faithful transmission 00:43:10.61\00:43:14.55 from this newly created planet, heaven. 00:43:14.58\00:43:18.43 Do you read me? Heaven. 00:43:18.46\00:43:22.03 We've had a problem, we got a problem. 00:43:22.06\00:43:27.67 The new human race, two members big 00:43:27.70\00:43:30.58 has just voted to join Lucifer in his rebellion, 00:43:30.61\00:43:34.83 send help, start now. 00:43:34.86\00:43:38.95 Heaven. 00:43:38.98\00:43:40.61 We have a problem. 00:43:40.64\00:43:44.46 And because heaven had a problem, 00:43:44.49\00:43:46.33 a huge problem, get this. 00:43:46.36\00:43:50.05 God says all right. 00:43:50.08\00:43:53.74 I'm gonna build another temple on earth. 00:43:53.77\00:43:57.98 I'm gonna set up another mission control on earth 00:43:58.01\00:44:03.27 and I'll be there in the midst of the meltdown. 00:44:03.30\00:44:07.91 Exodus and I'll put these words 00:44:07.94\00:44:09.80 on the screen for you. 00:44:09.83\00:44:11.37 Exodus 25, some of you 00:44:11.40\00:44:12.65 as kids had to learn this as a memory verse. 00:44:12.68\00:44:14.73 This is a great line. 00:44:14.76\00:44:16.35 Exodus 25, I'll read it off the screen with you. 00:44:16.38\00:44:18.45 Exodus 25. 00:44:18.48\00:44:19.79 God is talking to Moses all right. 00:44:23.00\00:44:24.32 They are on top of Mount Sinai together. 00:44:24.35\00:44:26.87 Then Moses, God is saying, 00:44:26.90\00:44:28.43 "Then have them make a sanctuary for me" 00:44:28.46\00:44:32.91 a mission control for me down there. 00:44:32.94\00:44:35.80 "Have them make a sanctuary for me, 00:44:35.83\00:44:37.79 and I will dwell among them. 00:44:37.82\00:44:41.03 Make this tabernacle and all its furnishings 00:44:41.06\00:44:44.94 exactly like the pattern I will show you." 00:44:44.97\00:44:48.41 Would you write that down in your study guide please? 00:44:48.44\00:44:50.33 "Let them make me a sanctuary." 00:44:50.36\00:44:52.40 Down there where you are Moses. 00:44:52.43\00:44:55.78 Let them make a mission control 00:44:55.81\00:44:58.95 that I may dwell among them. 00:44:58.98\00:45:00.29 By the way this is not a replica 00:45:00.32\00:45:01.63 of heaven's architecture. 00:45:01.66\00:45:03.70 Let them make me a sanctuary it doesn't mean, 00:45:03.73\00:45:05.49 I'll send the blueprints and we'll scale this-- 00:45:05.52\00:45:08.54 pardon me, we'll scale this way down. 00:45:08.57\00:45:10.82 We're not talking about exact scale of anything. 00:45:10.85\00:45:14.23 You just make me a sanctuary. 00:45:14.26\00:45:17.59 How can a human temple possibly contain 00:45:17.62\00:45:20.09 an infinite God, you can't do it. 00:45:20.12\00:45:21.44 In fact I like my friend Roy Adams. 00:45:21.47\00:45:23.21 In his book The Sanctuary, he's absolutely right. 00:45:23.24\00:45:26.02 I think I put the words in your study guide too. 00:45:26.05\00:45:27.56 I put it on the screen for you. 00:45:27.59\00:45:28.67 "We should not conceive of the earthly sanctuary 00:45:28.70\00:45:31.61 as a scale reproduction or replica 00:45:31.64\00:45:35.36 of the heavenly reality. 00:45:35.39\00:45:37.25 Rather the relationship ought to be seen primarily 00:45:37.28\00:45:39.76 in terms of 'functional correspondence,' 00:45:39.79\00:45:41.88 providing us with conceptual tools 00:45:41.91\00:45:43.55 and vocabulary allowing us to speak about the unspeakable, 00:45:43.58\00:45:47.48 to comprehend the incomprehensible." 00:45:47.51\00:45:49.70 However dimly just build me a place there. 00:45:49.73\00:45:54.49 Would you jolt it down, please keep writing. 00:45:54.52\00:45:55.95 "The sanctuary on earth was not a replica 00:45:55.98\00:45:58.88 of heaven's architecture, but rather a detailed 00:45:58.91\00:46:01.96 and dramatic portrayal of heaven's strategic mission." 00:46:01.99\00:46:07.24 It's about mission 00:46:07.27\00:46:08.87 "to save the fallen human race." 00:46:08.90\00:46:09.98 In fact jot it down. 00:46:10.01\00:46:11.38 This would be a new secondary divine 00:46:11.41\00:46:14.16 Mission Control Room for earth. 00:46:14.19\00:46:17.29 Which is why I keep the pen moving just a little further. 00:46:17.32\00:46:19.43 In Exodus 25 God says to Moses, 00:46:19.46\00:46:21.41 fill it in here. 00:46:21.44\00:46:22.79 "There" he's talking about this little box, its golden. 00:46:22.82\00:46:26.32 This little box called the ark. 00:46:26.35\00:46:27.75 "Their, above the cover between the two cherubim" 00:46:27.78\00:46:30.83 two angels as wings touch 00:46:30.86\00:46:32.59 "that are over the ark of the Testimony, 00:46:32.62\00:46:34.09 I will meet with you and give you all my commands." 00:46:34.12\00:46:38.89 A new command center. 00:46:38.92\00:46:40.65 Ladies and gentlemen, a new command center. 00:46:40.68\00:46:43.49 Something is critical 00:46:43.52\00:46:46.31 in that command center long ago. 00:46:46.34\00:46:53.11 Now we got to discover. 00:46:53.14\00:46:56.38 In fact let me put it. 00:46:56.41\00:46:57.57 Here's a one time I was showing artist's rendition. 00:46:57.60\00:46:59.64 Take a look at this. Isn't that something? 00:46:59.67\00:47:02.23 It's just a-- it was a small box, 00:47:02.26\00:47:03.98 hardly 3 feet long. 00:47:04.01\00:47:07.68 The ark and earth command center for his people. 00:47:07.71\00:47:10.83 Will you say, hey, Dwight, come on, please, please. 00:47:10.86\00:47:13.03 This is the 21st century A.D. 00:47:13.06\00:47:16.60 What in the world does any of that have to do with us? 00:47:16.63\00:47:18.64 And I want to say to you, 00:47:18.67\00:47:19.70 it has everything to do with you and me. 00:47:19.73\00:47:21.81 I want to end with a text we began with. 00:47:21.84\00:47:24.41 Go back to Revelation 11:19, all right? 00:47:24.44\00:47:26.36 We read it one more time, end with this. 00:47:26.39\00:47:30.12 Revelation 11:19. 00:47:30.15\00:47:32.90 "Then God's temple in heaven was opened, 00:47:32.93\00:47:36.78 and within his temple was seen the ark of his covenant. 00:47:36.81\00:47:42.12 And there came flashes of lightning, 00:47:42.15\00:47:44.15 rumblings, peals of thunder, 00:47:44.18\00:47:46.05 an earthquake and a great hailstorm." 00:47:46.08\00:47:51.36 Ladies and gentlemen, through a crack in the door, 00:47:51.39\00:47:55.84 John is telling us 00:47:55.87\00:47:58.05 that just before the return of Christ to this earth, 00:47:58.08\00:48:03.17 there's an open temple in heaven 00:48:03.20\00:48:04.71 and inside the temple is the Ark of the Covenant 00:48:04.74\00:48:08.59 which is code language linking us 00:48:08.62\00:48:10.84 to the liturgical services of the earthly sanctuary. 00:48:10.87\00:48:14.58 As it turns out, we'll unpack this together 00:48:14.61\00:48:16.25 over the next few weeks. 00:48:16.28\00:48:17.31 As it turns out that single 00:48:17.34\00:48:19.72 sanctuary piece of furniture called the Ark of the Covenant 00:48:19.75\00:48:22.60 played a critical and central role. 00:48:22.63\00:48:25.93 One day a year in the very solemn 00:48:25.96\00:48:29.51 observance called the Day of Atonement. 00:48:29.54\00:48:32.64 The Jews still call it today Yom Kippur, the ark. 00:48:32.67\00:48:39.46 It was to be a divine-- 00:48:39.49\00:48:40.87 It was a divinely intended enactment 00:48:40.90\00:48:43.84 of God's final judgment of the human race 00:48:43.87\00:48:47.27 before the return of Christ. 00:48:47.30\00:48:51.85 Which means, that by introducing 00:48:51.88\00:48:53.46 the golden ark in heaven's temple at the time, 00:48:53.49\00:48:56.39 the apocalypse is Teletyping every reader 00:48:56.42\00:48:59.30 to the reminder that a cosmic day 00:48:59.33\00:49:00.93 of judgment in God's temple 00:49:00.96\00:49:02.00 will take place before the return of Christ 00:49:02.03\00:49:03.92 and while they will look, remember the hockey graph? 00:49:03.95\00:49:06.82 The hockey stick graph? 00:49:06.85\00:49:08.05 While they will look like life is going on as usual, 00:49:08.08\00:49:10.70 as usual, as usual, people get married, 00:49:10.73\00:49:13.40 people planting gardens, boom, the human race 00:49:13.43\00:49:18.03 including the living pass through that judgment. 00:49:18.06\00:49:21.33 Which means our friend Chris Martenson, 00:49:25.15\00:49:27.82 if he's right, that through the power 00:49:27.85\00:49:31.13 of compounding Fenway Park of earth can appear to be 00:49:31.16\00:49:34.19 filling in a predictable slow uniformity. 00:49:34.22\00:49:37.03 I mean, look at, I'm still-- I'm still handcuffed to this. 00:49:37.06\00:49:39.53 I'm not worried about my handcuff. 00:49:39.56\00:49:41.34 Everything is going on as it's always been going on, 00:49:41.37\00:49:43.24 nothing has changed, nothing has changed. 00:49:43.27\00:49:45.92 If Christ Martenson is right 00:49:45.95\00:49:47.79 than in a very hort span of time suddenly 00:49:47.82\00:49:51.61 everything can change and Fenway can be flooded. 00:49:51.64\00:49:55.07 If Martenson is right. 00:49:55.10\00:49:57.36 And he isn't right about this, 00:49:57.39\00:49:59.59 but if he's right then what's going on 00:49:59.62\00:50:01.79 right now up there 00:50:01.82\00:50:04.03 is of critical importance to us down here. 00:50:04.06\00:50:07.07 Oh, shall I be afraid? 00:50:07.10\00:50:08.53 Forget it. 00:50:08.56\00:50:09.98 Afraid? Never. 00:50:10.01\00:50:12.34 I want to end with this quotation from Desire of Ages. 00:50:12.37\00:50:14.60 It's in your study guide. Oh, this is beautiful. 00:50:14.63\00:50:17.39 "The Bible shows us God in His high and holy place, 00:50:17.42\00:50:21.11 not in a state of inactivity..." 00:50:21.14\00:50:24.15 It's not Buddhist. 00:50:31.15\00:50:33.77 "The Bible shows us God in His high and holy place, 00:50:33.80\00:50:35.89 not in a state of inactivity, not in silence and solitude, 00:50:35.92\00:50:39.26 but surrounded by ten thousand times 00:50:39.29\00:50:41.53 ten thousand and thousands of thousands 00:50:41.56\00:50:43.25 of holy intelligences, all waiting to do His will. 00:50:43.28\00:50:46.41 Through channels which we cannot discern. 00:50:46.44\00:50:49.10 God is in active communication 00:50:49.13\00:50:50.61 with every part of His dominion. 00:50:50.64\00:50:52.64 But it is in this speck of a world, 00:50:52.67\00:50:55.68 in the souls that He gave His only-begotten Son to save, 00:50:55.71\00:50:58.54 that His interest and the interest 00:50:58.57\00:51:00.22 of all heaven is centered." 00:51:00.25\00:51:03.11 Right here, right now. 00:51:03.14\00:51:06.01 God is bending... I love this. 00:51:06.04\00:51:08.13 "God is bending from His throne 00:51:08.16\00:51:10.60 to hear the cry of the oppressed. 00:51:10.63\00:51:12.74 To every sincere prayer He answers, 00:51:12.77\00:51:19.46 'Here am I."' 00:51:19.49\00:51:22.12 I'm here. 00:51:22.15\00:51:25.83 Heaven, we got a problem. 00:51:25.86\00:51:29.69 Where are you? 00:51:29.72\00:51:30.80 I'll have help in a nanosecond to you. 00:51:36.34\00:51:42.34 The truth of the temple, ladies and gentlemen. 00:51:42.37\00:51:44.89 It's the truth that God is still on His throne 00:51:44.92\00:51:46.60 which means, mission control is still in control, that's it. 00:51:46.63\00:51:52.81 Mission control is still in control. 00:51:52.84\00:51:56.21 And you know, what that means? 00:51:56.24\00:51:58.45 That means if you will trust your life to Him 00:51:58.48\00:52:01.64 this New Year just like Apollo 13, 00:52:01.67\00:52:07.77 he will bring you safely home at last. 00:52:07.80\00:52:12.86 So I say, I say let's tell Him right now 00:52:16.66\00:52:23.44 that we're trusting our lives to Him this New Year. 00:52:23.47\00:52:26.07 What do you say? You want to? 00:52:26.10\00:52:28.26 Stand on your feet and by standing on your feet 00:52:28.29\00:52:29.86 you says, God I trust my life to you this New Year. 00:52:29.89\00:52:32.70 I trust my life to you this New Year. 00:52:32.73\00:52:38.09 I trust You. 00:52:38.12\00:52:39.71 I have no idea what's coming. 00:52:39.74\00:52:42.20 I have-- I cannot fathom what lies ahead 00:52:42.23\00:52:46.92 but at this beginning moment, you can know 00:52:46.95\00:52:51.36 I'm trusting You mission control 00:52:51.39\00:52:55.24 to get me through. 00:52:55.27\00:52:57.38 There's a beautiful prayer of confident trust 00:52:57.41\00:53:02.90 that I want to end with today. 00:53:02.93\00:53:04.38 In fact it's our tradition here. 00:53:04.41\00:53:05.80 On the first Sabbath of a new school year, 00:53:05.83\00:53:07.98 you know, what we do? 00:53:08.01\00:53:09.28 We sing the Lord's prayer together. 00:53:09.31\00:53:11.39 To the Father on the throne in mission control. 00:53:11.42\00:53:15.57 It is a prayer of confidence. 00:53:15.60\00:53:17.95 Let's sing it as a prayer to Him right now. 00:53:17.98\00:53:20.67 Our Father 00:53:28.93\00:53:34.02 Which art in heaven 00:53:37.30\00:53:43.15 Hallowed be 00:53:47.36\00:53:53.54 Thy name 00:53:56.01\00:54:02.40 Thy kingdom come 00:54:04.13\00:54:11.30 Thy will be done 00:54:11.33\00:54:17.67 On earth 00:54:17.70\00:54:21.77 As it is in heaven 00:54:21.80\00:54:28.71 Give us this day 00:54:47.64\00:54:52.27 Our daily bread 00:54:52.30\00:54:57.89 And forgive us our debts 00:54:57.92\00:55:03.74 As we forgive our debtors 00:55:03.77\00:55:09.32 And lead us not 00:55:16.32\00:55:19.91 Into temptation 00:55:19.94\00:55:22.71 But deliver us from evil 00:55:22.74\00:55:29.58 For Thine is the kingdom 00:55:29.61\00:55:36.45 And the power 00:55:37.12\00:55:40.95 And the glory, forever 00:55:40.98\00:55:48.63 Amen 00:55:56.11\00:56:01.71 I like to take a moment here at the end of the service 00:56:23.65\00:56:25.49 to tell you about one of the most important groups of people 00:56:25.52\00:56:28.05 that make this ministry possible. 00:56:28.08\00:56:31.04 There are team of people, they are afraid to get down 00:56:31.07\00:56:33.53 into the thick life itself, 00:56:33.56\00:56:36.15 which is why you're gonna find them, 00:56:36.18\00:56:37.35 you will find them, moving forward on their knees. 00:56:37.38\00:56:40.74 They are prayer partners. 00:56:40.77\00:56:42.48 A group of men and women and young adults 00:56:42.51\00:56:45.60 who believe that this humble television ministry 00:56:45.63\00:56:48.32 has been raised up by God for such a time as this 00:56:48.35\00:56:50.90 and so they prey honestly that God will use the preacher, 00:56:50.93\00:56:54.14 that God will use me, that God will use the countless 00:56:54.17\00:56:56.31 other volunteers to spread the everlasting gospel 00:56:56.34\00:57:00.07 and the word of God and ways we could 00:57:00.10\00:57:01.66 never have imagined before. 00:57:01.69\00:57:03.32 They are the ones who are praying 00:57:03.35\00:57:04.89 that God is gonna open up the hearts of people, 00:57:04.92\00:57:08.06 open up the hearts of viewers around the world 00:57:08.09\00:57:10.76 for the message, the critical message 00:57:10.79\00:57:13.15 for this end time generation. 00:57:13.18\00:57:15.82 And what I like to do is ask you, 00:57:15.85\00:57:18.00 would you be willing to be a prayer partner with us? 00:57:18.03\00:57:20.65 A prayer partner with new perceptions. 00:57:20.68\00:57:22.33 You don't have to call the toll free number. 00:57:22.36\00:57:24.02 You don't have to go online to register. 00:57:24.05\00:57:26.15 All I need to know is that you would be willing 00:57:26.18\00:57:28.87 to lift this little ministry up day after day after day? 00:57:28.90\00:57:34.56 Pray that somehow through Radio and television in the web, 00:57:34.59\00:57:38.38 God will open up new doors, 00:57:38.41\00:57:40.26 new regions on earth 00:57:40.29\00:57:42.95 where the everlasting gospel can be proclaimed. 00:57:42.98\00:57:45.44 There is no question that power of prayer 00:57:45.47\00:57:48.09 has the potential to take this ministry to places 00:57:48.12\00:57:50.29 we could never have imagined before. 00:57:50.32\00:57:53.10 So that's it. 00:57:53.13\00:57:54.17 Would you please be willing to partner with me in prayer? 00:57:54.20\00:57:57.85 The times are urgent. 00:57:57.88\00:57:59.60 The need is critical and I hope you will say yes. 00:57:59.63\00:58:03.40 Till we're together in next time 00:58:03.43\00:58:05.58 may the prayer answering God. 00:58:05.61\00:58:07.68 accompany you every step of the way. 00:58:07.71\00:58:11.02