Welcome again to our program
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that we have titled as
"Revelation of the Coming King."
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I just want to tell
you, I'm excited from now on
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because we're now
moving into the so called
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eschatological section
of the Book of Revelation.
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So far thus prophesy
of the Book of Revelation
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really concerned our past.
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They have fulfilled the history.
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And they really have a
significant message telling us
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that as those prophecies
were fulfilled in the past,
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so they will be
fulfilled also in the future.
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So now we're
coming to another section
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of the Book of Revelation.
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And I'm so excited to
have you again here with me.
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I'm Ranko Stefanovic, Professor
at the Seventh-day Adventist
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Theological
Seminary, Andrews University.
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And I'm so glad to
be here, dear viewers.
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And would you
open the word of God?
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I know it's
sometimes frustrating,
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when we try to take
such a complex language
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and the visuals
of Book of Revelation
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and put a
certain period of time.
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But the purpose of
these presentations
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is not to give us answers
to all those difficult texts
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of the Book of Revelation,
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but simply to
stimulate our appetite.
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So once this program is over
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that you can take
all those good tools
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and study the Book of
Revelation for yourself.
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So now you'll ask a question,
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what should I have to
study the Book of Revelation?
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First, you must
have a good text book.
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And I want to introduce to you
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the best text book on
the Book of Revelation.
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I'm holding in it my hands.
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It's the Bible.
This is the best tool.
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If you follow, follow
the instructions of this book
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you cannot be far away.
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So I'd like to encourage you,
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don't try to
use your imagination
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and your own ideas you
try to read in the text.
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We saw it when we
go to the Old Testament
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and also to the New Testament,
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how those perplexing
and sometimes confusing
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text of the Book of Revelation
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really become very, very
and much, much clear to us.
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But once this program is over,
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I'd like to suggest to
you I hope that most of you
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have provided for
yourself this commentary
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titled
"Revelation of Jesus Christ."
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Every time I point to the pages
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that we try to cover
during this presentations
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but just a part of that.
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So once this
presentation is over
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please turn to the pages 385.
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So pages 385
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and all up to the page 407.
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Okay, you'll find
many more information.
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You can find many more
scriptural references there.
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So please, let us go and study
the word of God for ourselves.
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But please above all,
whenever you take the Bible,
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we have to do it with a prayer.
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We are just humans.
We are our doing best.
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The Holy Spirit
is speaking to us.
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But we need to
depend on God every time
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when we open the Bible.
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And this is exactly
what we will do today
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as we are going
into the word of God.
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Our Heavenly
Father, thank you so much,
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for Your care and Your guidance.
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Thank you for the
Book of Revelation
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in which You are teaching us,
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how much You
care for human beings
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and how much You want to see
them one day in Your kingdom.
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Please give us Your Holy Spirit
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as we are going
now to understand,
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chapter 12 of this book.
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And please speak
to us in the same way
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You spoke to John,
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when You inspired
him that he write--
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to write these messages
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of the Book of
Revelation in the scroll.
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Thank you, Father for Your help.
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We pray all of this
in the precious name
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of our Savior
Jesus Christ. Amen.
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Friends, we are now going
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to the last major division
of the Book of Revelation
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that we call the
eschatological section
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of the Book of Revelation.
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But there is something
else I want to remind you.
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With chapter 12, we
are now trying to see
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what was inscribed in that
little scroll that John saw
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in the hand of the angel
in Revelation Chapter 10.
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All those things
God has revealed to us
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for one simple purpose
that we're not surprised
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to tell us about what will
happen at the time of the end.
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So that we can rely on God
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and to know that Jesus
Christ will be with us always.
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How long always? Until
the very end of the age.
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I'd like to
remind you one more time
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that we should not hold strictly
to the chapter divisions
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because this
eschatological section
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of the Book of
Revelation does not begin
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with Revelation 12:1.
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It begins actually
with chapter 11, verse 19.
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That's why we did not
deal with that text before.
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What do we have
in Revelation 11:19?
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We read there John says,
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"And the temple of God
which is in heaven was opened,
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and the Ark of his
covenant appeared in his temple.
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And there were flashes
and lightening and sounds
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and thunder and earthquake
and the great hailstorm."
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What is the
significance of this?
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Do you remember
already in chapter 11
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that John
introduces the heavenly temple
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and the altar
and the worshipers?
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But what we have here is
now that the temple was open
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and John saw clearly
the Ark of the Covenant
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that appeared, that
was seen there in heaven
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accompanied with lightning
and sounds and thunder,
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earthquake and the great hail.
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All of these are
actually the expression
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in the Old Testament,
signifying the theophany
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or God's presence and
God's coming in the judgment.
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You see the fact that John
saw the Ark of the Covenant,
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it's
significant for two reasons.
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Number one, do you
remember the Revelation 5?
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We talked about
the sealed scroll
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that was symbol
of God's covenant.
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Do you know that that scroll
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at the coronation
of this last king,
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a copy was stored
there at the Ark of Covenant?
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When the king wanted to consult,
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he had to go there to
get it from the priest
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and to find out about his rule.
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So it points to us the fact
that the Ark of the Covenant
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was seen now that we have
the revelation of that scroll
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at least that little
scroll or part of the scroll
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that John saw in
Revelation Chapter 10.
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So, boy, this is very exciting.
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This is the section of the Book
of Revelation that concerns us.
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It is through this section
that God is actually telling us,
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this is what will
happen in the future.
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So that you can rely on me.
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You should not be surprised.
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But there is actually
another very important reason.
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The fact, please
can you be with me?
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The fact that the
temple was seen open,
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so open that the Ark
of the Covenant was seen.
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Are you with me?
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I should really point
that John was able to see
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into the most Holy Place
there of the heavenly sanctuary.
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By the way, it telling us
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that what we have
now from Revelation 12: 1
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all up to the end of the book.
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All those final events are given
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in the context
of Christ ministry
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not any longer
in the Holy Place.
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Now in the context of
what's going on there,
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Christ's ministry
in the most holy place
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of the heavenly sanctuary.
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So the first 11 chapters
are related to Jesus ministry
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in the Holy Place as our priest.
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Are you still with me?
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But now we are
entering into the description
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of the final events
of the Book of Revelation
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and those final events are given
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in the context
of Christ ministry
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there in the most Holy Place.
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Okay, that is in
the Book of Revelation
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defined as we mentioned already
in our last presentation,
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as the pre-advent judgment.
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That's why at the beginning
of Revelation Chapter 11
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that prophesying that is given
to the church through John,
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you remember that?
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Is actually it's given in
the context of the measuring
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of the heavenly temple and
the altar and the worshippers
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which is actually a reference
to the pre-advent judgment.
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Oh, friends, this
is a great news for us
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because if you go
to the Old Testament,
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the Ark of the Covenant always
signified the presence of God.
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Do you remember on one occasion
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when the Ark of
the Covenant was stolen
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from the people of Israel?
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How great mourning and
lamentation was among people
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because they lost
the presence of God.
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Actually even a son of
the high priest fell down--
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no, actually his wife
died there as delivering baby
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they named the baby the
glory departed from Israel.
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Actually, the appearance
of that Ark of the Covenant
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is very significant to
telling us now our Savior
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and the high priest is
there in the Holy Place--
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in the most holy place.
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He is
interceding on behalf of us.
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The final events are scary.
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They are bizarre.
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Sometimes, they're frightening.
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But His promise
is "Don't be afraid,
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I will be with
you to sustain you.
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I'll be with you always
until the very end of the age."
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Friends, if you
take Revelation 11:19,
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out of the Book of Revelation
and you will see also.
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If you take
Revelation Chapter 12,
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out of the book,
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the Book of
Revelation becomes nothing else,
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but another Nostradamus
book, a fortune telling book.
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Telling us about
something that will happen
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with the future without
providing any hope for us.
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But it's actually
Revelation 11:19 and chapter 12.
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That makes the
Book of Revelation
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not just revelation
of the final events--
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it makes this book to be
the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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Well, I'm excited now so please
I'd like now to invite you
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that you go with me
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and let's go now to
Revelation Chapter 12.
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But keep chapter
11 verses 19 in mind.
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Can you do it
for me? Okay, okay.
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Now I have surprise to you.
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As I stated to you that we will
go to Revelation Chapter 12,
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what did you
expect that I will read?
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Verse 1, unfortunately,
I've disappointed you
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because if you really want
to start reading Revelation 12.
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You begin with verse 17
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because this is the
key text of this chapter.
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Are you with me?
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Let's go to Revelation 12:17.
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Now on the page
that I introduced to you,
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what are the pages?
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Okay, let me go
back its page 385, 385.
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Yeah, this is the
beginning of the chapter 12.
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You'll find
there verse 17, okay.
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How does the text begin?
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No, you missed the
most important word.
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It says actually the
Greek word Kai simply means end.
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But you know the same word
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sometimes can have
different concepts.
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It really means 'then' or
'so' as I have in my Bible.
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"The dragon was
enraged with the woman,
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and he went off to make war
with the rest of her children,
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who keep the commandments of God
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and hold to the
testimony of Jesus."
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Please let's look
clear in this text.
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You have to help me.
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What are the
elements and the entities
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that are found in this text?
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Number one, what do you have?
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The dragon.
Then we have a woman.
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Then we have the war.
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Then we have the remnants
of the woman's children.
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And then those who
keep the commandments of God
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and they hold to
the testimony of Jesus.
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What do you have
here in this text?
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Sister, can I
ask you one question.
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I can be angry with you
or you can be angry with me.
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And we will not talk.
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But if I do this
and try to beat you,
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would you agree with me
that I'm really angry? Yes.
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You see here in verse 17,
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there is one
entity that is introduced
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by the name of the dragon.
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That becomes so
enraged, with whom?
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With the woman, so much enraged
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that he this entity
by name of dragon, okay,
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decides to wage the
war to beat the woman,
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to kill them, to persecute
them that hatred is so much.
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Now there is a question,
why is the dragon so much angry?
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I just want to tell you verse 17
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actually it's so
called spring text.
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It's the
conclusion of chapter 12.
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That's why the word 'so' or
'then' is so much important.
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But at the same time,
introduces what comes after.
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Telling us in chapter 17,
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how actually the
dragon is preparing himself
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from that final war.
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So now let's go to chapter
12, I just want to tell you.
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If you ask me, what
is my favorite sermon
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that I like to preach?
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Revelation 12 from
the Book of Revelation
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is actually Revelation 12.
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It's a great encouragement.
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Actually, it changed my
relationship with Christ
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after understanding of this,
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made me to have a right
perspective of the final events.
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So I'd like now to invite you,
to go with me for a journey.
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Please I'll not even hold
my Bible in front of myself
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because I know this
chapter from my heart.
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Actually, how does
the chapter begins?
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"And a great sign
appeared there in heaven."
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Do you remember the
word sign that we encountered
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at the beginning of
the Book of Revelation?
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Do you remember the
word the samino, sama?
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By the way, here it's not sama.
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It's samino which is new term.
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It's simply means a sign.
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It means something marvelous.
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It's a symbol that John
sees there in the heaven.
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What is the symbol
about? It is a woman.
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And this woman is beautiful.
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"It's clothed with the sun,
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and the moon under her feet,
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and on her head a
crown of twelve stars."
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But there is something
else with regard to this woman.
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She said she was a
pregnant with a child,
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but there is one
step further there.
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Not only that she is
pregnant she is a labor.
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She cried out being in
labor in pain to give a birth.
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What is this vision all about?
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Keep in mind we're
looking into the content
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of that little scroll
of Revelation Chapter 10.
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God wants something to tell us.
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So whenever in
the Book of Revelation
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you have the word 'samion.'
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It's another way of saying
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watch out something
important is going to happen.
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So who is this
woman, who is this woman?
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So many times I hear preachers,
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when they preach on
the Book of Revelation,
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and they make statement,
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pure and faithful
woman in the Bible
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always stands as a
symbol for God's people.
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We need corrections.
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I hope we'll stay
friends after this.
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The woman in the Bible
whether faithful or unfaithful
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it's always a
symbol for God's people.
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Those who are not God's people,
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they are never in the
Bible referred to as a woman.
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They're always as beasts.
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The water trying
to flood Palestine.
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There are
mountains, but never a woman.
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In the Old Testament,
when Israel is faithful to God,
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she is a pure
and faithful woman.
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When Israel is in
apostasy serving idols,
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keep in mind
they're still God's people.
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They're always referred
to in terms of a prostitute.
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Probably, the best
allegorical and symbolical
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Book of the Old
Testament, talking about that,
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is the Book of Hosea.
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Telling us that even if
that woman was a prostitute,
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she was still a
subject of God's love.
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So the woman is always a regular
symbol for the Old Testament.
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And I want to
introduce one topic.
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We have here a pure
woman faithful to God.
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You'll notice she
is rest in the Son,
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which is in the
Book of Revelation,
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a regular symbol
for Jesus Christ.
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But she is standing on the moon.
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You see, moon does
not have its own light.
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It reflects the sun.
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It's a best description what
Old Testament was all about.
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And the sacrificial system is.
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That woman does not
reject the Old Testament.
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I'm speaking to many
Christians who believe
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that only the New
Testament should be read.
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That Jesus did away
with the Old Testament.
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No, this woman God's people
they stand firmly on the moon.
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Are you still with me? Yes.
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But they have the crown.
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Stephanos crown made of
twelve stars, number 12.
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In the Bible regularly,
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it's actually the
symbol of the church
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especially in the
Book of Revelation.
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Twelve tribes of Israel,
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we saw that in the
Revelation Chapter 7
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and twelve apostles,
symbol of the Old Testament
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and the symbol of
the New Testament, okay.
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Keep in mind when you go
to Revelation Chapter 17,
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we have another woman there
introduced, who is that woman?
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Well, I don't want to
stimulate your appetite.
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I'd like to suggest to you
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that the woman of
Revelation Chapter 12
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and woman of
Revelation Chapter 17,
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its one and the same woman.
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That woman that was
originally faithful to Christ,
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at the time of the end, will
turn into the prostitute woman.
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It become a tool
in the hands of Satan.
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To pull the whole world
into that final deception.
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That's why the time of
the end, Satan is not angry,
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Satan is not going to
fight the war with a woman.
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He is going to fight the war
with the remnant of the woman,
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those who
remain faithful to God.
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Why, because that
woman that Christian church
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will side with
Satan in the final events.
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This is very
important to keep in mind
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as we are studying
the Book of Revelation.
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But more about that we will see
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when we come to
Revelation Chapter 17.
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So what we're
talking here about?
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Evidently in the Revelation 12,
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this woman stands a
symbol for God's people,
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both of the Old
and New Testament.
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But in the first few verses
of the Book of Revelation,
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she is the symbol of God's
Old Testament people of Israel.
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It is out of Israel
that Messiah was to come.
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You see, the symbol of a woman
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that was a
pregnant to deliver a son,
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it's a clearer
reference to Genesis 3:15.
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The promise that God
made that out of the woman,
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the promised Savior will come,
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who will trample off
the head of the serpent
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and finally He will provide
salvation for the lost humanity.
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So we're talking
about God's people
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of the Old Testament
times-- that is labor.
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Because it is out of
God's Old Testament people
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that the Messiah
was supposed to come.
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By the way, if
you really want to go
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to the Book of Revelation 19:7-8
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really portrays God's
people as a beautiful woman
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that is ready
for that long awaited
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reunion with Christ
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which is portrayed in terms of
the wedding supper of the lamb.
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Now the text moves on.
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It's in verse 3, we read.
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But there is another samayon.
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Another sign that
appeared there in heaven.
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Did you see that?
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In the first
sign, we have a beauty,
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but in the second
we have the beast.
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So really Revelation 12
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can be can be titled
as the beauty and beast.
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Okay, you like it.
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Okay, it's says,
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"Behold a great dragon
having seven heads and ten horns
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and on his heads
were seven diadems
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and his tail swept away a
third of the stars of heaven
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and threw them to the earth.
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And the dragons
stood before the woman.
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Who was about to give a birth
so that when she gave birth.
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He might devour her child."
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Who is now the next
entity that is introduced?
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It's entity that is seen by John
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in the symbol of the dragon.
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Okay, by the way, if
you go to the Old Testament
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and you go ancient
near Eastern literature.
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You will see the
seven headed monster
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was a well known
symbol among them.
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When you go to
the Old Testament,
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the seven headed
monster its frequent image
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presented by the prophets,
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representing the
enemies of God's people.
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You see its mythological figure.
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But it is used
actually for Satan,
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who stood behind of all those
enemy nations and kingdoms,
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who were trying to destroy God's
people of the Old Testament.
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Okay, if you go to the
same chapter Revelation 12,
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okay, verse 9.
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We don't need really
to wonder too much around.
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We have a clear, clear
denotification of the dragon.
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It's telling us
in verse 9 that this
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"Great dragon that was
actually the serpent of all."
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Hey, when you use the
expression serpent of all,
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what does it comes to your mind?
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John is telling to tell
us go to the Garden of Eden.
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If you want to
understand who is this dragon?
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Who is called
the devil as Satan,
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who deceives the whole world.
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So we don't need
really to wonder too much.
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We know who this
dragon is. It's Satan himself.
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But there is a question,
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why is Satan here
represented as the dragon.
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We know that he is a
cherub. He's the angel.
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He's not friends with
two horns and half goat,
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as people represent him.
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Believe me, he's much more
beautiful than we can imagine.
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But why is John presenting
him here as the dragon?
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If you put here an angel,
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oh, boy, you'll run
there to give him a hug.
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But you have a
dragon, what would you do?
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You'd run away.
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You see the fact that Satan
is here presented as the dragon,
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the purpose of
the Book of Revelation
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to tell us is that we have
to take this heavenly being,
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we have to take him seriously.
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Because he will be all
the cause of the preclusion
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and all those
evil and wickedness
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and persecution
of the final events
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that he will cause
down to this earth.
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He will use all kind of
wickedness and deception
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as we will see later.
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So the Book of Revelation is
telling us take Satan seriously.
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Friends, in the
Book of Revelation,
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Satan is the real enemy.
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According to the
Book of Revelation
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in Isaiah Chapter 14 and
Book of Ezekiel Chapter 8,
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he was a beautiful angel
who was cast out from heaven.
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He is now confined to the earth,
we will talk more about that.
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But he is a real person.
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He is the arch enemy
of the God and His people.
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He is not a kind
of imaginative figure.
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In the Book of
Revelation, he is a real enemy
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and his existence
is taken for granted.
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He stands behind all the
evil that transpires the earth.
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In Revelation, here
in the Book of Revelation
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he is waiting for
the Messiah to be born.
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So when Messiah is born
he wants to destroy Him.
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I want now to do
something very interesting.
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I know, usually we do not do it,
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when we study the
Book of Revelation.
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Have you ever thought
how long Satan was waiting
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for the Messiah to be born?
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Just to be safe.
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At least from
Genesis 3:15-- Yes.
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With every male
child that was born
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Satan saw possibility
that it was the Messiah.
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Have you ever waited for
something for a long time?
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Have you ever waited
for something? I did.
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Counting every possibility
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finally, my
patience would go up.
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How long has Satan been
waiting for Messiah to come?
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We have to understand.
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What is the purpose
of Revelation Chapter 12?
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And now the Messiah is
born, what happens the next?
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The next text, what does it say?
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It says verse 5,
the Messiah was born,
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but the child was caught
up to God and to His throne.
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You see it's not the
purpose of Revelation 12
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to describe the life of Jesus.
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It's simply telling
us Satan had been waiting
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for a long time for
thousand, thousand years
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for the Messiah to be born.
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Messiah is born.
Why is he waiting?
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To destroy him and the Messiah
is born, what happens next?
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When Satan saw the
opportunity to destroy Him,
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the Messiah is
taken there to heaven.
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How does Satan
feel at that moment?
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There is one nice English word
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that really perfect to
describe him, 'frustrated.'
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There is another word a loser.
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Filled with frustration,
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can you imagine
waiting for so long time?
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We have to keep in mind,
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what the purpose of
Revelation 12 is all about?
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Okay, let's move
to the next section.
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There is a next
scene in the vision.
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It says "And
there was war in heaven,
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Michael and his angels
waging war with the dragon.
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The dragon and
his angels waged war,
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and they were not strong enough,
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and there was no longer a
place found for them in heaven.
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And the great
dragon was thrown down,
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the serpent of old who is
called the devil and Satan,
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who deceives the whole world.
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He was thrown down to the earth.
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And his angels were
thrown down with him."
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Please let's keep on
reading, the next 3 verses.
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Then, what does it mean 'then.'
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After Satan was
cast out from heaven.
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Please can you keep
this detail in mind?
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I heard a loud
voice in heaven saying.
00:30:04.49\00:30:07.77
"Now the salvation and the
power and the kingdom of our God
00:30:07.80\00:30:11.42
and the authority of
his Christ have come.
00:30:11.45\00:30:14.26
For the accuser of our
brethren has been thrown down.
00:30:14.29\00:30:19.88
He, who accuses them
before our God day and night.
00:30:19.91\00:30:24.77
And they overcame him because
of the blood of the lamb.
00:30:24.80\00:30:29.63
And because of the
word of the testimony
00:30:29.66\00:30:32.68
and they did
not love their life.
00:30:32.71\00:30:34.69
Even when faced with death.
00:30:34.72\00:30:37.33
For this reason rejoice,
00:30:37.36\00:30:38.93
oh, heavens and
you who dwell in them.
00:30:38.96\00:30:41.69
Woe to the earth and the sea
00:30:41.72\00:30:43.90
because the devil has come
down to you having great wrath,
00:30:43.93\00:30:48.68
knowing that he
has only a short time."
00:30:48.71\00:30:51.15
Let's take few minutes
to look here into this text.
00:30:51.18\00:30:55.92
You'll notice that Jesus,
00:30:55.95\00:30:59.95
the child was
taken there to heaven.
00:30:59.98\00:31:02.48
Satan is frustrated and angry
00:31:02.51\00:31:05.18
and the next scene is that
there is a war there in heaven.
00:31:05.21\00:31:09.14
There are two sides.
00:31:09.17\00:31:10.54
They are introduced,
the dragon and his angels
00:31:10.57\00:31:14.23
and Michael and his angels.
00:31:14.26\00:31:17.50
By the way, in my
commentary you can find
00:31:17.53\00:31:19.45
many more references
to study for yourself.
00:31:19.48\00:31:21.98
I have all
those references there
00:31:22.01\00:31:24.48
because in the
Bible the name Michael
00:31:24.51\00:31:27.22
which actually
it's Hebrew it means
00:31:27.25\00:31:29.76
Michal simply
means who like God.
00:31:29.79\00:31:34.90
Actually, it's most likely.
00:31:34.93\00:31:36.67
One of the
titles of Jesus Christ,
00:31:36.70\00:31:39.38
both in the Old
and the New Testament.
00:31:39.41\00:31:42.07
In Daniel 10:13, Michael
is called the chief, a prince.
00:31:42.10\00:31:49.22
It's the same Michael
even though he is not mentioned
00:31:49.25\00:31:52.81
by name in Joshua 5: 13, 15
00:31:52.84\00:31:55.58
when he appeared to Joshua there
at the destruction of Jericho.
00:31:55.61\00:32:00.05
So we have here Jesus Christ,
okay, under the name Michael.
00:32:00.08\00:32:05.01
Actually, He is engaged in a
war with Satan and his angels.
00:32:05.04\00:32:11.22
As a result, Satan loses the war
00:32:11.25\00:32:14.30
and he's cast out from heaven.
00:32:14.33\00:32:16.49
But we have one
question here to address.
00:32:16.52\00:32:21.67
I hope, I would say,
friend, with my viewers.
00:32:21.70\00:32:25.86
The question is when
did this war take place?
00:32:25.89\00:32:29.78
There are two possibilities.
00:32:33.77\00:32:37.38
When we read the Bible,
00:32:37.41\00:32:39.95
Ezekiel Chapter 28
and Isaiah Chapter 14,
00:32:39.98\00:32:44.68
when Lucifer in the
beginning rebelled against God,
00:32:44.71\00:32:46.99
there was war there in heaven.
00:32:47.02\00:32:49.55
Okay, as a result of that
00:32:49.58\00:32:52.47
Lucifer was
cast out from heaven,
00:32:52.50\00:32:55.46
with reference to
his dwelling place.
00:32:55.49\00:32:58.57
What is another possibility?
00:32:58.60\00:33:00.90
By the way, if we
open, okay, John 12: 31.
00:33:00.93\00:33:07.85
Before His death on the cross,
Jesus made a statement now,
00:33:07.88\00:33:13.52
"Judgment is upon this world.
00:33:13.55\00:33:15.26
Now the ruler of this
world he will be cast out."
00:33:15.29\00:33:17.71
Jesus announced that Satan
will be cast out from heaven.
00:33:17.74\00:33:21.23
So another possibility is that
00:33:21.26\00:33:25.20
this event could take
place little bit later.
00:33:25.23\00:33:28.73
It means after the
death of Jesus on the cross.
00:33:28.76\00:33:31.18
I'd like you to
consider several things here.
00:33:31.21\00:33:34.33
Okay, and then you can
make your own conclusions.
00:33:34.36\00:33:38.52
What happened after
Satan was cast out from heaven?
00:33:38.55\00:33:42.00
Let's read in verse 10.
00:33:42.03\00:33:43.40
We read in verse 10
00:33:43.43\00:33:45.05
that there was a kind of
singing anthems there in heaven.
00:33:45.08\00:33:48.72
It says chapter 12 verse 10.
00:33:48.75\00:33:51.55
"Now the salvation and the
power and the kingdom of our God
00:33:51.58\00:33:55.23
and the authority of
his Christ have come."
00:33:55.26\00:33:57.63
Please would you tell me?
00:33:57.66\00:34:00.16
When Lucifer originally
was cast out from heaven,
00:34:00.19\00:34:02.99
did the heavens start singing?
00:34:03.02\00:34:05.22
Now the kingdom of God has come.
00:34:05.25\00:34:07.19
And the kingdom of Jesus Christ.
00:34:07.22\00:34:10.94
Oh, friends, the all heaven
was taken in gloomy lamentation
00:34:10.97\00:34:14.56
because what happened there.
00:34:14.59\00:34:16.04
Second thing is we are
reading the same verse 10.
00:34:16.07\00:34:19.76
They said, "The
accuser of our brothers
00:34:19.79\00:34:22.98
has been cast down,
the one who accuses them
00:34:23.01\00:34:26.08
before our God day and night."
00:34:26.11\00:34:29.76
Lucifer could not accuse
human beings at the beginning.
00:34:29.79\00:34:32.62
Because the human
beings were not created yet.
00:34:32.65\00:34:37.89
By the way, if you
go to the Old Testament,
00:34:37.92\00:34:39.96
the Book of Zachariah,
00:34:39.99\00:34:41.38
we see Satan
accusing Joshua before God.
00:34:41.41\00:34:46.47
In the Book of Job,
accusing Job there before God.
00:34:46.50\00:34:50.55
But there is something more.
00:34:50.58\00:34:52.69
We read in verse 12 that
having been expelled from heaven
00:34:52.72\00:34:56.78
Satan realizes that
he has a short time.
00:34:56.81\00:34:59.40
Did Lucifer realize
that he got short time
00:34:59.43\00:35:01.64
when he was
originally cast out from heaven?
00:35:01.67\00:35:04.28
No, actually Satan
realized that he had short time
00:35:04.31\00:35:07.05
after the death of
Jesus, on the cross.
00:35:07.08\00:35:10.02
He knew that his
days are counted.
00:35:10.05\00:35:12.35
But not only that,
if you read in verse 13,
00:35:12.38\00:35:17.32
you will notice
something very interesting is.
00:35:17.35\00:35:19.77
It says "When the dragon saw
00:35:19.80\00:35:22.60
that he was
thrown down to the earth.
00:35:22.63\00:35:26.11
He persecuted the woman
00:35:26.14\00:35:28.01
who gave birth
to the male child."
00:35:28.04\00:35:33.42
Are you with me?
00:35:33.45\00:35:35.34
How long did Satan
persecute the woman?
00:35:35.37\00:35:39.32
After for 1260 days.
00:35:39.35\00:35:42.78
Did it happened at the beginning
00:35:42.81\00:35:44.26
when Lucifer
rebelled against God?
00:35:44.29\00:35:47.38
No, it happened after the cross.
00:35:47.41\00:35:50.07
It says clearly when he
was cast out from heaven.
00:35:50.10\00:35:53.55
He started persecuting the woman
who gave birth to the child.
00:35:53.58\00:35:58.69
It couldn't happen
before it would happen earlier.
00:35:58.72\00:36:02.31
Are you now confused?
Okay, let's explain it.
00:36:02.34\00:36:08.22
Let's put it in clear way.
00:36:08.25\00:36:11.32
At the beginning, when Lucifer
according to Isaiah Chapter 14,
00:36:11.35\00:36:18.53
Ezekiel Chapter 28
rebelled against God.
00:36:18.56\00:36:22.74
Satan could not stand there in
the heavenly places any longer.
00:36:22.77\00:36:25.70
According to the Bible,
he was cast out from heaven
00:36:25.73\00:36:28.84
with regard to
his dwelling place.
00:36:28.87\00:36:31.86
According to the
Bible, he came, he deceived,
00:36:31.89\00:36:34.98
the first human
pair Adam and Eve
00:36:35.01\00:36:38.94
and this earth
became his kingdom.
00:36:38.97\00:36:44.07
You see Adam
was supposed to have
00:36:44.10\00:36:45.49
the dominion over the earth.
00:36:45.52\00:36:47.80
Satan by deceiving Adam,
00:36:47.83\00:36:49.89
he stole it from
him as a supreme.
00:36:49.92\00:36:53.07
He made the human beings,
the subjects of his kingdom.
00:36:53.10\00:36:56.72
By the way, it's
very interesting is
00:36:56.75\00:36:59.75
when you open the Bible
there are number of texts,
00:36:59.78\00:37:02.12
now are very clear to us.
00:37:02.15\00:37:05.28
In Luke 4:6, if you
remember those temptations,
00:37:05.31\00:37:11.80
three temptations of Jesus
00:37:11.83\00:37:13.20
at the
beginning of His ministry,
00:37:13.23\00:37:14.96
when the devil tempted Jesus.
00:37:14.99\00:37:18.02
According to Luke 4: 6,
the devil said to Jesus.
00:37:18.05\00:37:22.25
Luke 4:6, "I will
give you all this dominion
00:37:22.28\00:37:27.28
and its glory for it
has been handed over to me
00:37:27.31\00:37:31.80
and I give it to
whomever I wish."
00:37:31.83\00:37:35.08
What did Jesus say to him?
00:37:35.11\00:37:36.48
Oh, you liar it has
never been given to him, no.
00:37:36.51\00:37:39.95
Sometimes the Father of
lies sometimes says the truth.
00:37:39.98\00:37:44.16
Really this
world was his kingdom.
00:37:44.19\00:37:46.01
By the way, John 12:31,
00:37:46.04\00:37:51.28
the same gospel,
chapter 14 verse 30
00:37:51.31\00:37:55.69
and chapter 16, verse 11,
00:37:55.72\00:37:57.72
three times Jesus calls Satan,
the ruler Greek word Arhavas
00:37:57.75\00:38:03.13
which means ruler of this world.
00:38:03.16\00:38:05.92
This earth was his kingdom.
00:38:05.95\00:38:07.95
But keep in mind even though,
00:38:07.98\00:38:10.15
Lucifer was
cast out from heaven.
00:38:10.18\00:38:13.56
He still headed the access
there to the heavenly places.
00:38:13.59\00:38:17.67
You see he could not dwell there
00:38:17.70\00:38:19.38
in the heavenly
places any longer,
00:38:19.41\00:38:21.54
but he had access there, why?
00:38:21.57\00:38:24.05
Probably, the Book of
Job is instructing to us.
00:38:24.08\00:38:29.03
We don't know how.
00:38:29.06\00:38:30.43
Please we will learn it one day,
00:38:30.46\00:38:31.96
when we get there
before the throne of God.
00:38:31.99\00:38:35.79
But evidently at certain point
of time, sort of integrity,
00:38:35.82\00:38:39.37
the representatives of
the worlds in the universe,
00:38:39.40\00:38:44.30
they show themselves there
00:38:44.33\00:38:46.77
at the heavenly
parliament there.
00:38:46.80\00:38:48.49
It's the best way
how I can explain it.
00:38:48.52\00:38:51.09
Evidently, they are there
to provide the report to God,
00:38:51.12\00:38:54.06
about the situation
on different planets.
00:38:54.09\00:38:58.36
So you have the representer.
00:38:58.39\00:38:59.85
Who was supposed to represent
the planet earth before God?
00:38:59.88\00:39:03.32
Adam, but now
who is representing
00:39:03.35\00:39:05.94
the planet earth,
according to the book.
00:39:05.97\00:39:07.34
It's Satan because he
is coming from his kingdom.
00:39:07.37\00:39:11.35
You remember that.
And God asks Satan.
00:39:11.38\00:39:14.04
Where are you coming
from? What did he say?
00:39:14.07\00:39:16.87
I'm coming from my territory
00:39:16.90\00:39:19.52
and you
remember the conversation
00:39:19.55\00:39:22.38
that God had with
Lucifer about Job.
00:39:22.41\00:39:25.86
Yeah, the Book of
Zachariah is telling us
00:39:25.89\00:39:28.22
that he had regular access
there to the heavenly places.
00:39:28.25\00:39:32.40
He represented the planet earth.
00:39:32.43\00:39:34.84
But, friends, now allow me
00:39:34.87\00:39:37.22
because they keep in
mind the time that is here.
00:39:37.25\00:39:40.66
In my commentary on
number of pages there,
00:39:40.69\00:39:44.24
four or five pages you
have everything details.
00:39:44.27\00:39:46.51
You have all
scriptural references.
00:39:46.54\00:39:49.54
I want somehow by using
a story to represent to you
00:39:49.57\00:39:53.39
what on the
base of all evidences
00:39:53.42\00:39:55.52
that we have in the Bible,
what actually happened there?
00:39:55.55\00:40:00.41
Do you remember when we're
00:40:00.44\00:40:02.91
in chapter 5 of
the Book of Revelation.
00:40:02.94\00:40:06.68
We understood that
after Jesus ascension
00:40:06.71\00:40:11.53
there to the heavenly places.
00:40:11.56\00:40:14.43
There in the throne
room of the heavenly temple.
00:40:14.46\00:40:17.72
There was an
enthronement ceremony.
00:40:17.75\00:40:21.32
What happened there at
the enthronement ceremony?
00:40:21.35\00:40:24.25
You remember it was
on the cross of Calvary
00:40:24.28\00:40:27.16
that Jesus defeated Satan.
00:40:27.19\00:40:31.04
Actually, He crushed
the head of the serpent
00:40:31.07\00:40:34.48
according to the promise
00:40:34.51\00:40:35.88
that God made to
Adam in Genesis 3:15.
00:40:35.91\00:40:40.01
Satan was defeated
there on the cross.
00:40:40.04\00:40:42.91
Now there in the
heavenly throne room,
00:40:42.94\00:40:47.48
do you remember that?
00:40:47.51\00:40:48.88
When you read chapter 12,
00:40:48.91\00:40:51.44
there is accountable
number of the heavenly beings
00:40:51.47\00:40:54.94
there in the
heavenly throne room.
00:40:54.97\00:40:57.42
They are there, you
remember, we talked.
00:40:57.45\00:40:58.88
They are there in
the great expectations.
00:40:58.91\00:41:02.03
They were there to
attend one very important event.
00:41:02.06\00:41:04.57
What was that event?
00:41:04.60\00:41:06.04
When the father there
had to make transference
00:41:06.07\00:41:10.51
of rulership
over the planet earth
00:41:10.54\00:41:12.64
from Satan upon to His son.
00:41:12.67\00:41:16.11
We talk about that as
enthronement of Jesus Christ.
00:41:16.14\00:41:20.49
Now I would like, now
that you use your imagination
00:41:20.52\00:41:23.91
sometimes we have to use
00:41:23.94\00:41:25.31
in order to describe
something from the Bible is.
00:41:25.34\00:41:28.17
Satan is present there.
00:41:28.20\00:41:30.30
He represents the
planet earth there.
00:41:30.33\00:41:33.26
And now he is watching
00:41:33.29\00:41:35.52
as the father makes
a public declaration
00:41:35.55\00:41:38.59
that from now
on, there is only one
00:41:38.62\00:41:41.44
a sole ruler
over the planet earth.
00:41:41.47\00:41:44.67
And it is His son.
00:41:44.70\00:41:46.36
It is at that moment,
according to Revelation 3:21
00:41:46.39\00:41:49.35
that Jesus Christ sat at
the right hand of the Father
00:41:49.38\00:41:53.61
there on the heavenly throne.
00:41:53.64\00:41:55.35
Now may I ask you one question?
00:41:55.38\00:41:57.86
As Satan is standing
there and watching this,
00:41:57.89\00:42:00.95
how did he react?
00:42:00.98\00:42:02.35
I tell always my
audience please forgive me.
00:42:05.53\00:42:08.45
He was sitting there
and says that's okay.
00:42:08.48\00:42:12.65
I'm not the ruler any longer.
00:42:12.68\00:42:14.87
No, friends, he stood
up into an open revolt
00:42:14.90\00:42:20.59
there in the
heavenly throne room.
00:42:20.62\00:42:22.68
Shouting with an angry voice
you do not have right to do it.
00:42:22.71\00:42:27.10
The human beings voluntarily
surrendered themselves to me.
00:42:27.13\00:42:32.84
I'm chosen by
them to be their ruler.
00:42:32.87\00:42:35.75
You do not have right to do it.
00:42:35.78\00:42:37.45
This is the kind of
war that Satan was doing.
00:42:37.48\00:42:39.96
When talking about the
swords and guns and pistols.
00:42:39.99\00:42:43.15
We're not talking about that.
00:42:43.18\00:42:44.55
We're talking
about the verbal war.
00:42:44.58\00:42:47.03
At that moment, the father
had to stand up and to say,
00:42:47.06\00:42:51.19
Satan get out from
the heavenly places.
00:42:51.22\00:42:57.14
You don't have nobody to
represent here any longer.
00:42:57.17\00:43:01.76
From now on my son will
represent the planet earth.
00:43:01.79\00:43:05.98
This is the gospel message.
00:43:06.01\00:43:07.38
Friends, Revelation 5
is not only about Jesus
00:43:07.41\00:43:11.48
who became our king.
00:43:11.51\00:43:12.88
He became also our priest
00:43:12.91\00:43:14.28
because from the cross
Jesus is representing us
00:43:14.31\00:43:18.68
there in the heavenly sanctuary.
00:43:18.71\00:43:21.17
He is our advocate.
00:43:21.20\00:43:22.60
He is the one representing us.
00:43:22.63\00:43:25.18
It is, friends, at that moment
00:43:25.21\00:43:27.60
that Satan was
cast out from heaven.
00:43:27.63\00:43:31.51
This time not with the reference
to his dwelling position
00:43:31.54\00:43:37.51
from the cross on Satan
does not have any access
00:43:39.25\00:43:43.12
to the heavenly
places any longer.
00:43:43.15\00:43:45.99
By the way, now you understand
00:43:46.02\00:43:48.32
as we're talking about
the fifth and sixth trumpet,
00:43:48.35\00:43:51.42
why always and
regularly in the New Testament,
00:43:51.45\00:43:54.00
Satan and the demons
are cast out into the abyss.
00:43:54.03\00:44:00.83
The abyss actually
becomes we talked about that
00:44:00.86\00:44:03.84
as a prison for Satan demons.
00:44:03.87\00:44:07.33
It means that Satan cannot,
00:44:07.36\00:44:09.43
you see, you
cannot leave the prison.
00:44:09.46\00:44:10.84
You have to stay there.
00:44:10.87\00:44:12.24
So it means that
from the cross on,
00:44:12.27\00:44:13.64
Satan and the
demons they cannot leave
00:44:13.67\00:44:15.49
the planet earth any longer.
00:44:15.52\00:44:17.30
They have nobody to represent
there in heavenly places.
00:44:17.33\00:44:19.99
So Satan is
here. What a message?
00:44:20.02\00:44:27.07
Now let me ask you something.
00:44:27.10\00:44:29.15
Sister, Shelley can
I put you on the spot.
00:44:29.18\00:44:31.71
We have here friendly
relationships etcetera.
00:44:31.74\00:44:33.58
Can you I tell you
please, Sister Shelley,
00:44:33.61\00:44:35.92
get up and go out of this room?
00:44:35.95\00:44:39.90
I don't want you to sit here.
00:44:39.93\00:44:41.30
I can't stand your presence
how would you feel? Angry.
00:44:41.33\00:44:45.24
Can you imagine humiliated
in front of everybody?
00:44:45.27\00:44:48.16
Can you imagine Satan?
00:44:48.19\00:44:50.23
Keep in mind, for
how many million years
00:44:50.26\00:44:52.74
Satan had been there in
the heavenly places there?
00:44:52.77\00:44:56.14
Adored by the heavenly beings.
00:44:56.17\00:44:57.93
Now he humiliated had to
leave the heavenly places there.
00:44:58.55\00:45:03.57
How does he feel?
00:45:03.60\00:45:06.22
Frustrated, loser.
00:45:06.25\00:45:09.96
Are you still with me?
00:45:12.51\00:45:14.07
Now you have to understand in
the light what we just stated.
00:45:14.10\00:45:17.85
You have to read verse 13
00:45:17.88\00:45:21.08
and when the dragon saw
00:45:21.11\00:45:23.04
that he was
thrown down to the earth.
00:45:23.07\00:45:26.49
Can you see that?
00:45:26.52\00:45:28.21
He persecuted the woman
00:45:28.24\00:45:30.60
who gave birth
to the male child.
00:45:30.63\00:45:34.25
What happens to the person?
00:45:34.28\00:45:36.15
When the person
is at work there,
00:45:36.18\00:45:40.25
he doesn't like his boss.
00:45:40.28\00:45:42.27
He doesn't like
his coworkers there.
00:45:42.30\00:45:45.52
They go against his nerves.
00:45:45.55\00:45:47.42
But he has to
always smile to be nice
00:45:47.45\00:45:51.84
because he has to keep his job.
00:45:51.87\00:45:54.52
He is always
friendly always smiling.
00:45:54.55\00:45:57.10
Who pays for that smile?
00:45:57.13\00:46:00.94
Later, when he comes home
the dog comes to greet him.
00:46:00.97\00:46:08.20
His wife comes to
him to give him kiss.
00:46:08.23\00:46:10.92
He's tired-- leave me in peace.
00:46:10.95\00:46:12.39
Children come to
give him hug. Why that?
00:46:12.42\00:46:15.10
Who is paying for
all his nice smile
00:46:15.13\00:46:19.43
and positive
attitude there to work,
00:46:19.46\00:46:21.27
those who are weaker from him?
00:46:21.30\00:46:23.84
See this is what you have here.
00:46:23.87\00:46:25.67
Satan cannot harm
Christ any longer.
00:46:25.70\00:46:29.86
But there is
somebody on this earth.
00:46:29.89\00:46:33.09
Who is the most
precious object of Jesus love?
00:46:33.12\00:46:36.71
He's representing the church
there in the heavenly places.
00:46:36.74\00:46:41.19
His people there, they
are down to this earth.
00:46:41.22\00:46:45.42
Satan knows that he
cannot do any more harm
00:46:45.45\00:46:50.46
to the prince of heaven.
00:46:50.49\00:46:53.76
But that those
who belong to him,
00:46:53.79\00:46:55.65
they are in this world
00:46:55.68\00:46:57.24
and that's why now
he wants to insult them,
00:46:57.27\00:47:00.73
to harm them, to persecute them.
00:47:00.76\00:47:04.41
In the most possible way
because what he does to them,
00:47:04.44\00:47:08.46
he does to him. Amen.
00:47:08.49\00:47:10.90
And I would like to invite
the viewers to think seriously,
00:47:10.93\00:47:15.54
I believe that I
belong to the special group
00:47:15.57\00:47:19.60
of that faithful people of God.
00:47:19.63\00:47:22.17
Those faithful people
of God are not perfect.
00:47:22.20\00:47:26.63
We're reminded that the group,
you can call them the church.
00:47:26.66\00:47:31.49
You can call them
the community believers.
00:47:31.52\00:47:33.63
You can call them the
followers of Jesus Christ.
00:47:33.66\00:47:36.18
Unperfect and
00:47:36.21\00:47:37.58
filled with wickedness
of the character etcetera,
00:47:37.61\00:47:42.27
but we are reminded.
00:47:42.30\00:47:44.72
That still that group
00:47:44.75\00:47:47.89
is the precious
object of Jesus love.
00:47:47.92\00:47:51.18
He loves them.
00:47:51.21\00:47:53.95
And any effort
to harm that group
00:47:53.98\00:47:59.07
whatever way
you're trying to do.
00:47:59.10\00:48:02.52
It means to have a
business with him. Amen.
00:48:02.55\00:48:05.29
Because that
group belongs to him.
00:48:05.32\00:48:07.34
It means to side with
the Satan and dear viewer,
00:48:07.37\00:48:11.16
this is a very
serious call to us.
00:48:11.19\00:48:15.79
To know how to relate to those
00:48:15.82\00:48:17.45
whom Jesus loves
so much, to perfect.
00:48:17.48\00:48:21.08
There are so many
things to improve in our lives,
00:48:21.11\00:48:23.97
but we belong to Jesus Christ.
00:48:24.00\00:48:27.95
This is actually
what Satan is doing.
00:48:27.98\00:48:30.34
And he's there persecuting
the woman for how much time.
00:48:30.37\00:48:35.35
For how much time?
00:48:35.38\00:48:36.75
You'll over and over
again, we have now a time,
00:48:36.78\00:48:43.28
two times and half a time.
00:48:43.31\00:48:45.85
By the way, we'll
talk more about this period
00:48:45.88\00:48:48.68
in our next presentation.
00:48:48.71\00:48:50.58
Again we're coming to the same
period of the two witnesses.
00:48:50.61\00:48:52.93
Do you remember that?
00:48:52.96\00:48:54.77
The period of the
trembling of the holy city.
00:48:54.80\00:48:57.38
It's a dark
middle ages during which
00:48:57.41\00:48:59.87
Satan try to destroy the church
by means of persecution, okay.
00:48:59.90\00:49:06.32
It's a long period.
00:49:06.35\00:49:09.30
When this church is the
object of Satan's hatred
00:49:09.33\00:49:13.88
and what he is trying
to do to harm God's people.
00:49:13.91\00:49:18.32
However, he does not succeed.
00:49:18.35\00:49:21.91
Friends, we're
talking about the period,
00:49:21.94\00:49:23.74
according to the
historical records,
00:49:23.77\00:49:25.86
about fifty million
Christians were killed
00:49:25.89\00:49:33.83
and suffered
martyrdom during this period.
00:49:33.86\00:49:36.83
It was the period of
severe persecution by Satan,
00:49:36.86\00:49:39.38
but Satan could not destroy.
00:49:39.41\00:49:40.79
As one writer said
00:49:40.82\00:49:44.01
that the blood of
the martyrs was to seed,
00:49:44.04\00:49:47.39
where many more people became
the followers of Jesus Christ.
00:49:47.42\00:49:52.19
But now at the end of
this prophetic period,
00:49:52.22\00:49:54.62
there is something else
that happens and what is that.
00:49:54.65\00:49:57.16
It says in verse 15
00:49:57.19\00:49:58.84
"That the serpent poured water
like a river out of his mouth,
00:49:58.87\00:50:05.89
after the woman so
that he might cause her
00:50:05.92\00:50:09.14
to be swept
away with the flood."
00:50:09.17\00:50:12.08
At the end of
this prophetic period
00:50:12.11\00:50:15.78
water in the Bible
can mean two things.
00:50:15.81\00:50:18.44
False teachings or can mean
00:50:18.47\00:50:21.53
the enemy people were
coming against God's people.
00:50:21.56\00:50:24.98
Which one of the
two is present here?
00:50:25.01\00:50:27.54
I believe both.
00:50:27.57\00:50:29.79
Satan sent a
flood of persecution
00:50:29.82\00:50:33.26
and flood of distorted doctrinal
teachings against church,
00:50:33.29\00:50:36.65
trying to destroy the church
00:50:36.68\00:50:38.05
at the end of
this prophetic period.
00:50:38.08\00:50:39.99
But praise God, friends,
revelation is not about Satan.
00:50:40.02\00:50:43.68
It's about God listen
to what we have here is.
00:50:43.71\00:50:48.34
Verse 16, there is another word
00:50:48.37\00:50:51.19
"But the earth helped the woman,
00:50:51.22\00:50:56.27
and the earth opened its mouth
00:50:56.30\00:50:58.64
and drank up the river
00:50:58.67\00:51:00.90
which the dragon
poured out of his mouth."
00:51:00.93\00:51:04.81
This is very, very
important here friends.
00:51:04.84\00:51:08.69
What happened at the end
of this prophetic period?
00:51:08.72\00:51:14.25
As Satan made that great push
to finally destroy the church,
00:51:14.28\00:51:22.04
a new entity is
introduced here in this scene.
00:51:22.07\00:51:24.70
How is that entity called here?
00:51:24.73\00:51:26.19
Greek agaay from which
the word geology comes.
00:51:26.22\00:51:31.12
Friendly earth or land,
00:51:31.15\00:51:32.73
keep in mind that in
Greek they have just one word.
00:51:32.76\00:51:35.67
Gay, that we translate either
as earth or the land, okay.
00:51:35.70\00:51:41.42
A friendly territory appears.
00:51:41.45\00:51:44.44
And this territory swallows that
water and protects the woman.
00:51:44.47\00:51:51.37
So please how would
you describe this earth?
00:51:51.40\00:51:55.10
How would you
describe this earth?
00:51:55.13\00:51:56.87
As very friendly to the church.
00:51:56.90\00:52:00.74
Friends, it fits
nicely historically,
00:52:00.77\00:52:03.42
at the end of
this prophetic period
00:52:03.45\00:52:06.23
when Christianity was
almost destroyed in Europe.
00:52:06.26\00:52:10.50
A new territory was discovered
in which faithful Christians
00:52:10.53\00:52:16.61
ran to save their lives
00:52:16.64\00:52:19.29
and to establish a
state without the king
00:52:19.32\00:52:22.69
and without the Pope.
00:52:22.72\00:52:24.90
To stick to faithfully to
the teachings of the Bible
00:52:24.93\00:52:28.75
and the
territory fits historically
00:52:28.78\00:52:31.24
to the United States of America.
00:52:31.27\00:52:34.61
For this territory that
God saved the Christian church,
00:52:34.64\00:52:38.63
after the medieval period.
00:52:38.66\00:52:40.86
And I like just to
stop here for a while.
00:52:40.89\00:52:44.37
We're talking
about the territory
00:52:44.40\00:52:46.74
through which God
saved the Christian church.
00:52:46.77\00:52:48.79
Are you with me?
00:52:48.82\00:52:51.06
But please just wait.
00:52:51.09\00:52:53.22
Very soon, we'll come
back to this territory
00:52:53.25\00:52:56.50
because according to
Revelation Chapter 13,
00:52:56.53\00:53:00.63
it is out of that territory,
a new political power will come,
00:53:00.66\00:53:05.71
as the second beast with
two little horn of a lamb.
00:53:05.74\00:53:10.79
Lamb is the
symbol of Jesus Christ.
00:53:10.82\00:53:13.51
Very friendly to the church,
00:53:13.54\00:53:15.93
but actually this territory
will at the time of the end,
00:53:15.96\00:53:20.64
become the final battle field
00:53:20.67\00:53:23.46
between Christ and Satan,
00:53:23.49\00:53:26.03
leading to the events of
the second coming of Christ.
00:53:26.06\00:53:29.31
So here we have a new
entity that's introduced.
00:53:29.34\00:53:31.85
That's very important
for the later development
00:53:31.88\00:53:34.63
of the final events, there
in the Book of Revelation. Okay?
00:53:34.66\00:53:39.43
So now I would like
to ask you one question.
00:53:39.46\00:53:43.03
Satan is loser again.
00:53:43.06\00:53:47.28
It adds to the new frustration.
00:53:47.31\00:53:49.87
By the way, dear viewers,
00:53:49.90\00:53:52.07
if you ever decide
to preach a sermon,
00:53:52.10\00:53:54.35
on Revelation
Chapter 12 as usually I do.
00:53:54.38\00:53:56.99
I have only one
title for Revelation 12,
00:53:57.02\00:54:00.11
Satan is a defeated enemy. Amen.
00:54:00.14\00:54:05.17
You see, in the
light of everything
00:54:05.20\00:54:07.15
that we have been talking so far
00:54:07.18\00:54:09.17
now what follows. It's verse 17.
00:54:09.20\00:54:14.13
It says "So that dragon
was enraged with the woman,
00:54:14.16\00:54:18.73
and he went off to make war
with the rest of her children,
00:54:18.76\00:54:22.88
those who keep the
commandments of God
00:54:22.91\00:54:25.09
and hold to the
testimony of Jesus."
00:54:25.12\00:54:26.65
Now I ask you the
question, at the very beginning,
00:54:26.68\00:54:29.25
you remember that?
00:54:29.28\00:54:30.65
Why is Satan so angry
00:54:30.68\00:54:34.21
that he decides to
go to wage the war?
00:54:34.24\00:54:36.40
He has only one chance
00:54:36.43\00:54:37.94
and that chance is
called the battle of Armageddon.
00:54:37.97\00:54:40.75
Why is he so angry?
00:54:40.78\00:54:43.49
You see, you have to go through
00:54:43.52\00:54:45.10
Revelation Chapter
12 to understand it
00:54:45.13\00:54:47.57
because he is a constant loser.
00:54:47.60\00:54:50.20
Christ is a constant victor.
00:54:50.23\00:54:52.50
Satan has been
constantly defeated
00:54:55.62\00:54:57.72
and he knows that
he has only one chance,
00:54:57.75\00:55:00.46
that's the battle of Armageddon.
00:55:00.49\00:55:02.02
This is what we
would like to understand
00:55:02.05\00:55:03.70
in the rest of the
Book of Revelation.
00:55:03.73\00:55:05.69
Please let me bring out
discussion to the conclusion,
00:55:05.72\00:55:09.58
so many times my
faithful, brothers, sisters
00:55:09.61\00:55:11.96
they ask me about casting
out Satan from heaven. They ask.
00:55:11.99\00:55:15.44
Does Ellen White talk
00:55:15.47\00:55:17.27
about Satan being cast out
from heaven after the cross?
00:55:17.30\00:55:21.30
Yes, she talks.
00:55:21.33\00:55:23.12
She talks about his original
casting out from heaven,
00:55:23.15\00:55:26.08
but in the Seventh-day
Adventist Bible commentary
00:55:26.11\00:55:29.10
volume 7 pages 973 to 974,
00:55:29.13\00:55:33.99
she makes the
following statement.
00:55:34.02\00:55:35.91
Please can you be
with me, she said,
00:55:35.94\00:55:37.92
"The casting down of Satan
as an accuser of the brethren."
00:55:37.95\00:55:42.59
Revelation 12 "was accomplished
by the great work of Christ
00:55:42.62\00:55:48.56
in giving up his life."
00:55:48.59\00:55:51.27
She makes very clear
00:55:51.30\00:55:52.69
when the event of Revelation
Chapter 12 took place.
00:55:52.72\00:55:57.31
Please in bringing this
discussion to the conclusion is
00:55:57.34\00:56:01.04
we'll talk more about the
conclusion of this chapter.
00:56:01.07\00:56:05.84
We know that we're
waiting for those final events.
00:56:05.87\00:56:08.94
As we already stated so
many times they're bizarre,
00:56:08.97\00:56:11.65
they're frightened, they
are not pleasant to think about.
00:56:11.68\00:56:16.41
Unfortunately, the Christians
who are so much obsessed
00:56:16.44\00:56:19.86
about the work of
Satan and the final events.
00:56:19.89\00:56:23.08
And please allow me
00:56:23.11\00:56:24.48
I would like to read
another quote from Ellen White.
00:56:24.51\00:56:27.80
And it's found in
the book "Desire of Ages"
00:56:27.83\00:56:30.94
page 493 and she
said, the following,
00:56:30.97\00:56:35.90
"The Christians who think
and speak altogether too much
00:56:35.93\00:56:39.13
about the power of Satan.
00:56:39.16\00:56:41.39
They think of the adversary.
00:56:41.42\00:56:43.81
They pray about him.
00:56:43.84\00:56:46.13
They talk about him
00:56:46.16\00:56:48.05
and he looms up greater and
greater in their imagination.
00:56:48.08\00:56:52.40
It is true that
Satan is a powerful being.
00:56:52.43\00:56:55.31
But thank God we
have a mighty savior,
00:56:55.34\00:56:58.28
who cast out the
evil one from heaven.
00:56:58.31\00:57:01.74
Satan is pleased
when we magnify his power.
00:57:01.77\00:57:05.84
Why not talk about Jesus?
00:57:05.87\00:57:07.96
Why not magnify His
power and His love?"
00:57:07.99\00:57:10.83
I see people who
specialize themselves
00:57:10.86\00:57:12.57
in the activity of Satan.
00:57:12.60\00:57:14.39
Friends, I would
like to invite you
00:57:14.42\00:57:16.07
as the readers to be specialist
in the love of Jesus Christ,
00:57:16.10\00:57:20.41
to experience about that love.
00:57:20.44\00:57:22.21
To search about
that love for ourselves.
00:57:22.24\00:57:25.29
Talk about Jesus Christ
00:57:25.32\00:57:27.22
because He is the one
who will be with us always
00:57:27.25\00:57:31.44
until the very end of the age.
00:57:31.47\00:57:34.95