Participants: Pr. Jac Colon
Series Code: RN
Program Code: RN000017
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01:04 The great Judgment Day it was the 3rd of October,
01:10 October 1995, a group of us had assembled 01:13 around a little radio set in Dina's office waiting 01:19 for the announcement of the verdict, later on 01:27 we had the opportunity to see it on television, it 01:33 was amazing, in that courtroom there was not 01:34 a sound as a little envelope was opened 01:38 and the verdict was read, everyone holding 01:41 their breath in anticipation, waiting to 01:46 hear the answer and finally we heard it. 01:52 Orenthal J. Simpson not guilty, instantly there 02:00 was a celebration in half of the courtroom, 02:03 but the other half shook their heads in disbelief. 02:08 Half went out believing that justice had been 02:11 served, the other half believing it had not. 02:18 Both leaving equally convinced. What was 02:23 the truth? Did he kill her or not? And the 02:28 truth is that no one knows the answer to 02:31 that question for sure except O. J. Simpson 02:35 and God. How would you like to face 02:42 a written transcript of everything you have 02:45 ever done, every word you've ever spoken in 02:49 your whole life, every thought that you have 02:52 ever thought. You say well I'm glad I don't 02:58 have to do that, you do. Ecclesiastes, chapter 12 03:08 verse 13, now all has been heard and here is 03:12 the conclusion of the matter, fear God and 03:15 keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of 03:18 man, for God will bring every deed into 03:22 judgment including every hidden thing 03:24 whether it's good or evil. The judgment and 03:28 folks there are no blank spaces on God's tapes. 03:34 It's all there, everything you've ever done, every 03:37 word you have ever spoken, every thought 03:39 you've ever thought, it's all there, nothing is 03:41 missing, what would it be like. If you have to 03:46 face a transcript of everything you've ever 03:48 done in your life. Oh! I'm glad I don't have to 03:50 do that, you do, every hidden thought. Oh! 03:57 That isn't for Christians, no that's not 03:59 for believers, that's just for the wicked people. 04:03 Paul said in Second Corinthians, chapter 5, 04:06 verse 10, we, that's us, we must all, that's us, 04:14 we must all appear before the judgment 04:17 seat of Christ, so that each one may receive 04:19 what is due to him for the things done in the 04:21 body whether good or bad. Everyone must 04:26 appear before the judgment seat of Christ, 04:28 well then when is this going to take place, 04:30 when is this judgment, the last Bible book, 04:34 Revelation chapter 22, the last chapter, verse 04:37 12, Behold, Jesus said, I'm coming soon and 04:42 my reward is with me and I will give to 04:45 everyone, can you see it, sometime before 04:48 Jesus comes he has to finish the judgment 04:52 because every decision is made when he comes 04:55 he brings his reward with him. So when is 04:58 the judgment, sometime before Jesus comes. But 05:04 the Bible gets even more specific than that. 05:07 Revelation, chapter 14, in Revelation chapter 05:12 14 verse 6, I saw another angel flying in 05:15 the midair, you know this, this is the first of 05:18 the three angels' messages we have been 05:19 looking at on night after night each night of 05:22 Revelation Now, reviewing again the first angel, 05:25 when do the three angels messages take 05:28 place. Revelation 14 shows us the harvest, Jesus coming 05:31 on the clouds with his sickle to reap for the 05:33 time to reap has come. So just before Jesus 05:37 comes, just before the end time Verse 6, I saw 05:40 another angel flying in the midair, he had the 05:43 eternal Gospel, to proclaim to those who 05:46 live on the earth. Who does he proclaim it to, 05:48 to every nation, tribe, language and people, 05:51 every living being on this earth, every living 05:54 soul is going to have the opportunity to hear the 05:57 Gospel of Jesus Christ before he comes on the 06:01 clouds and he said in a loud voice, fear God 06:04 and give him glory, because the hour of his 06:08 judgment has come. Think about it, 06:17 sometime before Jesus comes, while the gospel 06:23 is being preached to the whole world, while men 06:28 and women still have the opportunity to 06:32 accept Christ as their savior, while the Gospel 06:36 is being preached at the same time the angel 06:39 announces the hour of God's judgment has 06:43 already come. Now in order for anyone to ever 06:49 be able to say that God's judgment has 06:52 come they would have to know when it began. 07:01 When did it begin, first of all, I'm going to 07:05 show you tonight that, that judgment is going 07:12 on right now, at this very moment, while 07:18 you and I are sitting here in this comfortable 07:20 building, the judgment has already begun. How 07:28 can I be so sure? Turn with me to the Book of 07:32 Daniel, in Daniel chapter 7, we are gonna 07:39 to do some review and some new things 07:42 tonight and tonight we are going to go very, 07:44 very deep into the prophecies when we 07:47 look at the great Judgment Day. So 07:50 follow along, shake the cobwebs out, get your 07:53 minds alert, pray for the Holy Spirit to open 07:56 your mind for understanding because 07:58 you are going to see the good news about the 08:03 Judgment Day. So, let's take a look, when is the 08:07 judgment, I want you to notice as we review the 08:11 prophecies that we have already studied, the flow 08:14 of time through history. Daniel, chapter 7 verse 4, 08:18 the first beast came up out of the sea looking 08:21 like a lion that was Babylon in 605 BC and 08:25 then the second beast looked like a bear that 08:27 one symbolized Medo-Persia in 538 BC, notice we're 08:32 moving through time and then the Greek Leopard 08:35 arises out of the water 331 BC, then a terrifying 08:40 frightening beast 169 BC representing the Roman Empire 08:44 notice we are moving along in time now to 08:48 169 BC and then it says that he had 10 horns, 08:54 the division of Rome into the nations of 08:56 Europe we saw that happening by the year 09:00 476 AD, so notice again we're moving along, we 09:05 are flowing in time, this is a historical record 09:09 giving us an anchor in the prophecies, so that 09:12 we can know where we are now and see where 09:16 we're headed that's the importance of the flow 09:20 of history. So we finished the Roman 09:23 beast and the Rome divided into the 10 horns 09:27 formulating the nations of Europe by 476, but 09:31 then notice he saw another horn. In Verse 09:37 8, a little horn that came up among them and 09:41 three of the first horns were uprooted before it. 09:43 We've identified this little horn as a counterfeit 09:46 system of worship, developed in the church 09:50 of the Dark Ages at Rome and it had both political 09:54 and religious authority to enforce its doctrines 09:58 by force and death on those who refuse to 10:02 accept the teachings of the church. We have 10:04 already studied this nothing new here, but 10:07 the little horn reigned from 538, 1260 years 10:11 until 1798 and I promised you that I would show 10:15 you in prophecy that a year is a symbol for 10:18 a day, we're gonna do that tonight. But first of 10:21 all notice the flow in time to 1798 and then 10:26 the very next thing we see happening in verse 9, 10:29 as I look thrones were set in place and the 10:32 ancient of days took his seat on the throne that's 10:37 God, the father, sitting on the throne. Verse 10, 10:41 thousands upon thousands attended him 10:44 10,000 times, 10,000 stood before him, the 10:48 court was seated and the books were opened 10:53 and there is the judgment. When? 10:59 Sometime between 1798 and the return of 11:03 Christ. Notice we're narrowing it down and 11:08 it's getting very, very close to our own time. 11:13 And in verse 13 notice the father is seated on 11:16 the throne Verse 13, in my vision at night 11:19 I looked and there before me was one like a son 11:21 of man coming with the clouds of heaven not to 11:25 this earth, but he approached the ancient 11:28 of days and was led into his presence so here is 11:32 Jesus coming into the presence of the father as 11:36 he sits on the throne, the court is seated, the 11:39 books are opened and Jesus is standing there 11:42 what is he doing there? That's the question we 11:46 need the answer tonight. How long do 11:52 they stand there? What's going on. Verse 21, 11:56 I watched this little horn was waging war 11:58 against the saints and defeating them, how 12:01 long does the little horn persecute God's people 12:04 until the ancient of days came and pronounced 12:08 judgment in favor of the saints. So now we don't 12:14 have to be afraid of the judgment if you are one 12:17 of the saints, but here's the point that's 12:22 important for us to recognize that if he 12:26 pronounced judgment in favor of the saints 12:33 then the saints were being judged. You 12:40 don't pronounce judgment in favor of 12:42 someone who is not being judged, I mean 12:47 that would be like you sitting in on the 12:49 O. J. Simpson trial and someone says you are 12:53 not guilty. Oh! Hey, I'm not even on trial. 12:58 So the fact that he pronounces judgment in 13:01 favor of the saints means the saints are 13:02 being judged, don't let anyone tell you that 13:05 believers are never judged, but why? Well, 13:10 we'll have to answer that question in a moment 13:13 one of the things the little horn does in 13:15 chapter 5 verse 20, in chapter 7 verse 25, 13:18 remembers to try to change the set times 13:21 and the laws, and we've already seen that he 13:23 would try to change the law of God. Verse 26, 13:25 but the court will sit and his power will be taken 13:29 away and completely destroyed forever. That 13:34 hasn't happened yet, hasn't been completely 13:37 destroyed forever, but it will come when the 13:41 court sits in judgment. Verse 27 and then the 13:45 sovereignty, power, and greatness of the 13:46 kingdoms under the, under the whole 13:48 heavens will be handed over to the saints, to the 13:51 people of the most high God and his kingdom 13:55 will be an ever lasting kingdom and the rulers 13:58 will worship and obey him. Good news about 14:02 the judgment! Amen. "Amen." 14:06 We don't have to be afraid of the judgment. 14:12 Why are the saints judged? What is Jesus 14:16 doing standing there? When is this judgment? 14:21 Anyway, these are the questions that we need 14:26 to answer tonight. And this is an exciting 14:34 message, so hold on, in fact you may as well 14:35 practice right now saying Amen, because 14:37 you're gonna want to say it over and over 14:38 tonight, right. So, it's the good news, it's the 14:41 good news about the judgment for us to hear 14:43 tonight, can you say Amen. "Amen." 14:45 A little better, Amen. "Amen." 14:47 Oh, good, even if you sitting at home, 14:48 watching on the broadcast, give a big 14:50 loud Amen. I can almost hear you from 14:52 here. Okay, chapter 8, when is the judgment 14:59 going to take place. This time Daniel sees 15:03 another vision, a Ram and the Goat, and the 15:06 Goat comes and tramples the Ram 15:08 underfoot. Now remember our principle of outline 15:14 prophecies that repeat, they're parallel prophecies 15:17 the instant replay principle. Remember, 15:20 we've been talking about that, he shows us 15:22 the big picture in a vision and then he 15:24 comes back and he shows us again and then 15:26 he comes back and we see it again each time 15:29 from a little different point of view getting 15:31 a clearer and clearer picture of what takes 15:35 place in the end time. So, now the cameras go 15:37 back and now we're looking at the same 15:39 thing again, this time the Ram and the Goat, 15:41 the Goat tramples the Ram, who is the Ram 15:43 and who is the Goat. Verse 20, the two 15:45 horned Ram you saw represents the Kings of 15:47 Media and Persia and the Goat is the King of 15:49 Greece. There you go, now he is showing us, 15:53 where we are once again in the flow, 15:55 historical flow of time. And then he shows after 16:00 the Goat is defeated, after the Goat, after the 16:04 Ram tramples on the Goat, I'm sorry, after 16:08 the Goat tramples on the Ram, the big horn, 16:11 the Goat has a big horn between his eyes, 16:13 the big horn he says is the first King of Greece 16:15 that is the Alexander the great, horns broken 16:18 off remember he died at the peak of his power, 16:20 drunk at the age of 32 in despair because he 16:23 had no more nations to conquer. And then 16:26 a little horn comes up and the Bible describes 16:29 that little horn, look at it with me in verse 9, out 16:33 of one of them came another horn a little 16:34 one, which thought it's small, but grew in 16:37 power. Verse 10, it grew until it reached the 16:39 host of the heavens and it threw the starry hosts 16:42 down to the earth and it trampled on them, and 16:45 he set himself up to be as great as the prince of 16:48 the host. Here we see the little horn starts off 16:51 little, but he magnifies himself to be as great as 16:54 the prince of those, who is the prince of the 16:56 hosts, that's Jesus, that's God and Jesus 17:00 and here, the little horn is putting himself in 17:02 God's place, remember making himself as great 17:05 as the prince of the hosts. So we are just 17:08 reviewing what we saw in Daniel 7, but then he 17:11 adds a new piece watch, he set himself up in 17:16 verse 11 to be as great as the prince of the 17:18 hosts and he took away the daily sacrifice from 17:22 him. Remember we learned the other night 17:25 when we are identifying the little horn how that 17:27 he take away the daily sacrifice, because in the 17:30 mass they claim that they are sacrificing 17:33 Christ for sins over and over and over again, 17:37 which would mean that one time on the cross 17:39 was not enough, but you and I know that one 17:42 time was enough! Amen. "Amen." 17:46 And so, he would take away the effectiveness 17:49 of that sacrifice by insisting that it had to 17:51 be done over and over again on the alter of the 17:55 mass. And then the place of his sanctuary 18:00 was brought low, so the little horn even tramples 18:05 God's sanctuary and brings it low, we'll look 18:09 at that again in a moment and because 18:12 of the rebellion, the host of the saints and the 18:14 daily sacrifice were given over to it, it 18:18 prospered in everything that it did and truth was 18:21 cast down to the ground. So what does the little 18:26 horn do, the little horn takes away the daily 18:28 sacrifice, the little horn tramples God's sanctuary 18:32 underfoot and the little horn cast the truth about 18:35 God down to the ground. And then in 18:41 verse 13, I heard a Holy One speaking and 18:44 another Holy One said to him, 'how long, Oh! 18:49 Here's the question folks, how long, how 18:53 long will it take for the vision to be fulfilled 18:58 and he said to me in verse 14 after 2300 19:02 days then shall the sanctuary be cleansed 19:08 or as the new international version 19:10 puts it then shall the sanctuary be 19:12 reconsecrated or restored. How long will 19:16 this go on, 2300 days the sanctuary will be 19:23 cleansed? Now I want you to notice carefully 19:26 in Daniel chapter 7, we had Babylon and then 19:31 Medo-Persia and then Greece and then Rome, 19:34 Rome divided into the 10 horns, the little horn 19:37 came and then the next thing that happened was 19:40 the judgment. In Daniel 8, Babylon's almost history, 19:46 we start with Medo-Persia and then Greece and 19:49 then the Roman beast, Rome both Pagan and 19:52 Papal symbolized by that little horn, he is not 19:54 so interested in the early stuff, he wants us 19:57 to focus on the end time, the things that 20:00 happened at the end, the little horn magnifies 20:02 himself to God trampling and persecuting the 20:05 saints and then the next thing is the cleansing of 20:08 the sanctuary. So, what does it tell us, if the 20:11 cleansing of, if in Daniel 7 the judgment 20:15 comes after the little horn is persecuting 20:17 God's people and in chapter 8th, 20:19 the judgment, the cleansing of the 20:21 sanctuary takes place after the little horn is 20:23 persecuting God's people. Then can't you 20:25 see the parallel prophecy shows us that 20:29 the cleansing of the sanctuary is just another 20:32 way of looking at the judgment and the 20:36 judgment is just another way of looking at the 20:38 cleansing of the sanctuary both of these 20:40 together give us a clear picture of what really 20:43 happens at the end time just before Jesus comes. 20:48 And now it gets exciting, because he 20:52 says after 2300 days the sanctuary will be 20:56 cleansed. Now remember a day is a symbol for a year, 21:00 so after 2300 years the sanctuary would be 21:03 cleansed. We are going to prove that to you in 21:06 just a few moments, but before we can do that 21:09 we have to ask ourselves another 21:11 question. What is the cleansing of the 21:16 sanctuary, now we have already seen that the 21:19 cleansing of the sanctuary and the 21:21 judgment both are two ways of looking at the 21:24 same event, so we can identify the cleansing of 21:26 the sanctuary with the judgment, but why does 21:29 God say that after 2300 days he would restore 21:33 or cleanse his sanctuary, because you have to 21:36 understand what that means and then the 21:38 second thing you need to know is when do the 21:46 something happens at the end of the 2300 days 21:48 or 2300 years is meaningless, unless you 21:51 know when the 2300 years begin. So two questions 21:56 that we need to answer and we are gonna 21:57 answer tonight. First of all what is the cleansing 22:00 or the restoring of the sanctuary maybe we 22:02 should start with another question, a third 22:04 question, what is the sanctuary? When Moses went 22:09 on the mountain, as we are gonna see in a moment 22:11 he received not only the 10 commandments on 22:14 the tables of stones, but God also gave him 22:17 a pattern, a blue print of a sanctuary and they 22:24 built the sanctuary, they made it out of, made it 22:27 into a big tent just exactly the way God 22:30 said and that sanctuary was the focal point of 22:34 Israel's worship. The sanctuary was the place 22:37 where God said he would meet with his 22:40 people. And they carried that sanctuary 22:47 around every place that they went and they set it 22:50 up wherever they stopped, but when God 22:53 said he would cleanse the sanctuary after 2300 days, 22:57 he wasn't talking about the one Moses built. 23:01 Later on David established plans, King David and 23:05 his son Solomon executed the plans and 23:08 they built a permanent building, a magnificent 23:11 temple, a sanctuary. It's a place where God 23:16 would meet with his people, the focus of 23:18 Israel's worship. But he is not talking about 23:25 cleansing that sanctuary either. In fact, in Daniel 23:30 8:14, when he says after 2300 days the sanctuary 23:33 would be cleansed, he is not talking about any 23:35 sanctuary on this earth at all. He is talking 23:39 about a sanctuary in heaven. Now, how do 23:46 I know this, watch. After Daniel saw the 23:51 vision in verse 17, he was terrified and fell to 23:55 the ground, an angel came and said son of 23:58 man understand that the vision concerns the time 24:02 of the end. He goes on to say in verse 19, the 24:08 vision concerns the appointed time of the 24:12 end. In other words, God has appointed a time 24:16 at the end and that's what this vision is all 24:19 about and then we go again down to verse 26, 24:23 seal up the vision Daniel because it 24:26 concerns the distant future, it does not apply 24:29 to you Daniel, it doesn't even apply to your 24:32 people Daniel, it applies to the distant future, so 24:36 seal it up. Only book in the Bible that's ever 24:39 been sealed up. So, if the vision of the 24:45 sanctuary applies to the time of the end then 24:49 when is the time of the end and what is the 24:53 sanctuary? We've already answered that 24:55 first question, the time of the end is the last 24:57 days, the time since Jesus has come, we are 25:01 living in the time of the end now, but what is 25:05 the sanctuary? Is there really a sanctuary in 25:10 heaven and if so what could possibly be up 25:13 there that would need to be cleansed. See these 25:16 are all good questions so turn to verse, to 25:20 Hebrews chapter 8, now we are in the New Testament 25:23 in Hebrews chapter 8 verse 1, the point of 25:27 what we're saying is this, we do have a high 25:31 priest who sat down at the right hand of the 25:33 throne of the majesty in heaven the Bible says, 25:38 and he serves in the sanctuary, the true 25:42 tabernacle set up by the Lord and not by man. 25:47 So, if Jesus is our high priest and he serves in 25:50 the sanctuary in heaven set up by God and not 25:53 man then there must be a sanctuary in heaven! 25:56 Amen. "Amen." And he is our priest and 26:01 he is our high priest and you do not have to go to 26:04 any man to confess your sins, you and I can 26:08 go directly to Christ in the sanctuary in heaven 26:11 to confess our sins and he forgives us directly 26:14 by grace through faith in him! Amen. 26:18 You do not need a man to intercede between 26:21 God and you. That's what Jesus is 26:25 doing in the sanctuary in heaven, he is there 26:28 for you. So, there is a sanctuary in heaven 26:34 and he is up there as our high priest. Verse 5, 26:45 talking about the priests who served in the 26:48 sanctuary on earth, in Moses tent, in David 26:52 and in Solomon's permanent structure, 26:54 those priests who served in the sanctuary 26:56 on earth. Verse 5 of Hebrews 8, they serve 27:01 at a sanctuary that is a copy and a shadow of 27:04 what is in heaven, you see they built a sanctuary 27:08 on earth, that was a copy and a shadow of the one 27:10 in heaven. So there must be something in 27:11 heaven that he copied and then he says this is 27:16 why Moses was warned when he was about to 27:19 built the tabernacle. See to it that you make 27:21 everything according to the pattern shown you 27:24 on the mountain. So, Moses saw a pattern 27:28 and he reproduced that pattern in the sanctuary 27:31 on earth. It was a reflection of what he 27:35 saw in heaven, now it's there for reason and for 27:39 a purpose, but watch this in Verse 6, the 27:42 ministry that Jesus has received is as superior 27:46 to those earthly priests as the covenant of 27:49 which he is a mediator is superior to the old 27:52 one. The ministry of Jesus as our high priest 27:56 is far superior to the ministry of those priests 27:59 in the earthly sanctuary. In fact, as superior as 28:06 the new covenant is to the old covenant, now 28:10 what's the new covenant, he tells us right here 28:14 in verse 10. This is the covenant I'll make with 28:17 the house of Israel after that time declares the 28:19 Lord, I'll put my laws in their minds, I'll write 28:22 them on their hearts and I will be their God and 28:25 they will be my people. In other words the same 28:29 laws that were written on the tables of stone 28:32 when Moses received the Ten Commandments 28:35 and the blue print for the sanctuary, the same 28:38 laws that God wrote with his finger on stone 28:40 now in the new covenant he writes in 28:43 our minds and in our hearts. 28:46 Don't let anybody tell you that the Ten Commandments 28:50 for the old covenant and the new covenant, we 28:52 can break the Ten Commandments. 28:54 I've had people going doing all kinds of 28:57 mental gymnastics trying to explain to me 28:59 why we don't have to keep the Ten Commandments 29:01 anymore. But the same law that was written on 29:06 stone is now written in our hearts, the new 29:08 covenant does not do away with the law in 29:11 fact Jesus showed us that the spirit of the law 29:15 is much more intense even then the letter of 29:18 the law. Amen. That's why even every 29:23 thought is brought into judgment. And now it 29:28 all begins to make sense, back to our 29:31 opening text Ecclesiastes 12:13 now all has been heard 29:35 and here is the conclusion of the matter. 29:37 Fear God and keep his commandments, for this 29:40 is the whole duty of man. But what about 29:45 love, oh! don't miss it. We've done it over and 29:50 over again, what is love? Love is keeping 29:55 God's commandments. This is the whole duty 30:01 of man. Therefore God will bring every deed 30:05 into judgment and it is not an insignificant fact 30:09 that James said in chapter 2 verse 12 to 30:12 the church, speak and act as those who are 30:14 going to be judged by the law. So Jesus is our 30:23 high priest in the heavenly sanctuary, but 30:26 how does the little horn trample God's sanctuary 30:31 underfoot. Now we can understand in Roman 30:38 and Hebrews, chapter 10 verse 26, if we 30:42 deliberately keep on sinning after we have 30:45 received the knowledge of the truth, there is no 30:48 sacrifice left for sin. No sacrifice for deliberate 30:55 willful sin. What is sin? Transgressing and 31:00 breaking the law of God. To willfully break 31:03 the law of God. No sacrifice for sin, now 31:06 watch this, only a fearful expectation of 31:11 judgment and raging fire that will consume 31:14 the enemies of God. Anyone who rejected 31:18 the law of Moses died without mercy on the 31:21 testimony of two or three witnesses. How 31:24 much more severely do you think a man 31:27 deserves to be punished who has trampled the 31:30 son of God underfoot and treated as an unholy 31:34 thing, the blood of the covenant that sanctified 31:37 him and who has insulted the Spirit of 31:39 grace. Willful, deliberate sin is trampling the Son 31:47 of God and his sanctuary underfoot and 31:51 insulting the Spirit of grace. Don't let 31:54 anybody tell you, you can break one of God's 31:57 commandments, because sin is transgression of the law 32:02 and willful deliberate sin is trampling Jesus Christ 32:06 and he is our high priest in the sanctuary, it is 32:09 trampling God's sanctuary underfoot and 32:12 there is no sacrifice for willful sin. So Jesus is 32:18 our high priest in the sanctuary, the little horn 32:21 trampling the sanctuary how, by thinking to 32:24 change the set times in the law saying that it's 32:27 okay to break God's commandments especially 32:31 the Sabbath. Because we changed it from the 32:34 seventh day to the first and that is trampling 32:38 Jesus Christ underfoot. You know what, what is 32:44 the purpose of the sanctuary. In chapter 9, 32:51 Paul tells us about the Old Testament 32:53 sanctuary and he talks about how the furniture 32:55 was arranged and how they had two 32:57 apartments, the holy place and the most holy 32:59 place, and how whenever a person sinned they 33:01 would bring their, their offering a perfect lamb 33:04 without spot or blemish, what did the lamb point 33:06 forward to, I should say who did the lamb point 33:09 forward to, pointed to Jesus. So he confessed 33:12 sin on the lamb's slaughter, the lamb shed 33:14 his blood and then the priest would sprinkled 33:16 that blood in the holy place just before the 33:18 veil that separate the most holy place in the 33:20 advanced seminar. Tomorrow I'm gonna 33:21 have charts to show you how will this work, but 33:23 just imagine there was a inner apartment, the 33:26 holy place, a veil separating from the 33:27 most holy place and there was the Ark of the 33:29 Covenant, the Ten Commandments and 33:31 on the top was a mercy seat, the presence of 33:33 God and in the Ark was the law, so there was 33:35 the law, and God, and grace always together. 33:38 Even in the Old Testament sanctuary, so the blood 33:41 was sprinkled before the veil thus transferring 33:43 the guilt of those sins into the most holy place 33:46 of the sanctuary. But once a year on the day 33:48 of atonement, it was the time to cleanse the 33:50 sanctuary. And why did he do all of this. 33:55 Because in verse 8, the way the Holy Spirit was 33:59 showing that the way into the Most Holy 34:01 Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the 34:05 first tabernacle was still standing, it is an 34:08 illustration for the present time, as long as 34:11 they were in the sanctuary on earth, as 34:13 long as they were offering sacrifices, as 34:15 long as they were shedding the blood, 34:16 then the way into the most holy place of the 34:19 heavenly sanctuary had not yet been revealed, 34:21 because Jesus hadn't died yet. But when 34:25 Jesus died that veil was torn from top to bottom 34:28 and that put an end to those sacrificial 34:30 offerings and now he is our high priest in the 34:33 sanctuary in heaven, the Bible says. Well then 34:35 what is the purpose, this is an illustration for the 34:38 present time. The things that happened on the 34:41 earthly sanctuary is like a sandbox illustration to 34:45 show us what Jesus is doing in the heavenly 34:47 sanctuary now when we can't see him, so we 34:51 learned from the pattern what's happening in the 34:54 reality. What is he doing up there. Verse 34:59 11, when Christ came as high priest of the 35:02 good things that are already here, he went 35:04 through the greater, more perfect tabernacle 35:06 that is not made man, man made. Verse 12, he 35:09 did not enter by means of blood of goats and 35:11 calves, but he entered the Most Holy Place 35:13 once for all with his own blood having 35:15 obtained eternal redemption. So Jesus 35:19 didn't bring the blood of goats and calves, he 35:21 went with his own blood. Just as the priest 35:24 every year sprinkle that blood before the veil, 35:27 transferring those sins into the Most Holy 35:29 Place. Jesus uses his own blood and he 35:32 ascends to heaven with his own blood for our 35:35 sins. Verse 23, now watch this, what could 35:40 possibly be in heaven that needs to be 35:42 cleansed, here it is. In verse 23, Hebrews 35:46 chapter 9, it was necessary then for the 35:50 copies of the heavenly things, that's the earthly 35:53 sanctuary, it was necessary for them to 35:55 be purified with these sacrifices that is the 35:57 blood of goats and calves, but the heavenly 36:00 things themselves with better sacrifices than 36:03 these. If the earthly sanctuary was cleansed 36:06 with the blood of goats and calves then the 36:08 heavenly needed to be cleansed with something 36:10 better, the blood of Jesus. But it needed to 36:15 be cleansed, it needed to be cleansed. It was 36:22 necessary for the heavenly to be cleansed 36:25 with better sacrifices then these. For Christ, 36:29 did not enter a man-made sanctuary, it was only 36:31 a copy of the true one, he entered heaven itself 36:33 now to appear for us in God's presence. So how 36:44 does the cleansing of the sanctuary and the 36:47 judgment day fit together. How does 36:50 God cleanse the sanctuary through the 36:52 judgment. How does the sanctuary get 36:55 trampled underfoot by the little horn. Willful 37:01 transgression of the law of God is trampling the 37:05 sanctuary underfoot. The little horn is 37:10 persecuting the saints, remember, but never 37:16 forget that he is doing it in the name of God 37:19 claiming to be the true followers, the true 37:22 saints of the true God. And so before Jesus 37:28 comes, God has to show to all of those thousands 37:33 up on thousands 37:35 times, 10,000 that when he saves the saints and 37:40 condemns the little horn that he is doing the right 37:43 thing, it's like that old and I shouldn't even 37:48 started to say this because I never can 37:50 remember the name of the game, but some of 37:52 you can help me. That old game quiz show 37:54 that used to be on television, when they 37:56 would have three people all claiming to 37:58 be the same person and you know the panel 38:01 would ask them different questions and 38:03 finally he would say will the real John Smith 38:07 stand up. Remember that game. 38:09 "NO." No, sure, what is it. To tell the truth. 38:14 To tell the truth. That's it. Wow! Very good, to 38:16 tell the truth, that's even better than I remembered 38:18 To tell the truth. So, here are two people 38:20 pretending to be John Smith and the other one 38:22 really is John Smith. Who's telling the truth 38:24 and here we see in God's judgment, a whole 38:27 bunch claiming to be the saints of God and 38:29 others who are really the saints of God, who 38:31 is telling the truth. It's the judgment, what's the 38:35 standard of the judgment, law of God. 38:38 You see the little horn stands before the 38:40 judgment and I stand before the judgment. 38:44 We all will. Colon, my turn comes up, thou 38:53 shall not take the name of the Lord thy God in 38:55 vain, thou shalt not lie, thou shalt not kill, oh! 39:02 Vietnam, bombs, oh! It just doesn't look very 39:07 good, down the list, no hope for me, I'm about 39:12 to just give up and walk away. But remember 39:14 there is somebody else standing there, who was 39:17 it? Jesus. It was Jesus. He stands 39:20 up and he says my blood, my blood, sure 39:24 he's sinned, he's done a lot of bad things, but 39:27 he confessed, look it's in the books. He confessed, 39:30 he asked for forgiveness and he has strived to 39:33 live his life to honor and please me and 39:35 glorify the Father. My blood has cleansed him. 39:40 "Amen." The judge says good 39:44 enough, Colon not guilty. Little horn comes up, 39:54 not lie. Oh! I never told a lie in my life, good, 40:00 not take God's name in vain, never have done that, 40:02 not committed adultery. Oh! I've been so good 40:06 and faithful. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. 40:09 Oh! I've done that too, but God says wait a minute, 40:15 have you kept the seventh day. No, no, no we kept the 40:17 first day. Why did you keep the first day? Well we 40:20 changed it from the seventh to the first. But what does 40:24 the Bible say. The Bible says the seventh day. But my 40:30 Pastor said it didn't matter 'cause I'm under grace, 40:33 but what does the Bible say. No confession, 40:38 no forgiveness, willful sin. But I didn't think it made 40:44 any difference because everybody else keeps Sunday. 40:50 But what does the Bible say. I guess I just didn't 40:53 understand it. Didn't I send you to Revelation Now. 41:08 It's not as though the saints never sin, we do, but the 41:12 good news about the judgment is that Jesus never did. 41:16 "Amen." And he stands in our place. 41:19 We don't have to be afraid of what God thinks of us. 41:23 All we need to concern, be concerned about us what 41:25 God thinks of him. But we need to surrender to him, we 41:29 need to follow him, we need to obey him and keep his 41:32 commands. Well then when is the judgment, when does 41:36 the judgment begin. Back to Daniel chapter 8 verse 14, 41:42 after 2300 days, wow! We can't, that doesn't mean 41:46 a thing, unless we know when the 2300 days begin. So let's 41:51 turn now to Daniel chapter 9 in verse 24, Daniel didn't 41:56 understand it either folks. He was just weeping and pray, 41:59 even got physically sick because he couldn't 42:02 understand it. So the Angel Gabriel appears and he said 42:04 that he's come to give him understanding therefore in 42:07 verse 23, understand, consider the message, 42:10 understand the vision. Verse 24, 70 weeks are 42:13 decreed on your people, your Holy City to finish 42:16 transgression, put an end to sin, atone for wickedness, 42:20 bring in everlasting righteousness, seal up the 42:24 vision and the prophecy and anoint the Most Holy. 42:27 Who alone can do that? Who? Only Jesus. Who can 42:34 put an end to sin? Who can bring an everlasting 42:36 righteousness? Only Jesus. So what is he saying 42:40 70 weeks are decreed upon the people of Israel to get 42:44 ready for the Messiah? Because he is coming 42:50 within 70 weeks, kind of a period of probation, 42:54 the time of probation for Israel, but he still doesn't 42:57 say when do the 70 weeks begin. Well he 43:01 does in the next verse 25, know and understand this, 43:05 from the issuing of the decree to restore and to 43:07 rebuild Jerusalem until the anointed one, that means 43:13 Messiah, the ruler comes, that will be 7 weeks and 43:17 62 weeks. So now we have a starting point, what is it, 43:21 the decree to restore and build Jerusalem. Because 43:23 remember Daniel was in Babylon, Jerusalem was in 43:26 ruins, so the angel was saying when you here the 43:28 decree to restore and to build Jerusalem. Then you'll 43:31 know when the 70 weeks begin. That decree was given. 43:36 In the year 457 BC by the King Artaxerxes and that is 43:42 one of the clearest most firmly established dates in 43:45 the Old Testament times. God wants us to be sure, 43:49 so that we can know when the starting point for this 43:51 prophesy is 457 BC, why was that so important to God 43:56 to make sure we had that date firmly established. 43:59 Because after 69 weeks then the anointed one, 44:05 the Messiah would come. The Messiah is Jesus. 44:12 Here's a prophesy predicting when Jesus would come 44:15 and it would be exactly 69 weeks from the decree 44:20 to restore and rebuild Jerusalem, because that decree 44:22 was given in the year 457 BC, 69 weeks, let's see that 44:27 would be 7 days in a week times 69 is 483, 44:33 my calculator tells me. So that's 483 days until the 44:38 Messiah comes, but remember a day is a symbol for a year. 44:42 So it will be 483 years, if it started at 457 BC 44:46 than that comes to an end in the 27 AD. 44:54 What happened in 27 AD. Jesus Christ was baptized 45:01 in the Jordan River. And when he was baptized remember, 45:05 the Holy Spirit descended on him like a dove anointing 45:09 him to begin his ministry as the Messiah, 69 weeks until 45:15 the Messiah comes. Now you have it, we know 45:20 that a day is a symbol for a year. Who do we know? 45:22 Because Jesus was baptized exactly on time according 45:27 to the prophesy, but he even gives us another proof. 45:34 Look at the next verse 26, after the 62 weeks 45:40 the anointed one, that's actually 69, because there 45:43 was 7 weeks and 62 weeks. So at the end of that period 45:48 it says after that he would be cut off, have nothing for 45:53 himself. Verse 27, he will confirm a covenant with 45:58 many for one week, that's one week left, remember 46:01 70 weeks of decree to your people, 69 weeks the 46:04 Messiah comes. One week left that seven years, 46:06 he will confirm a covenant. He will confirm a covenant 46:10 with many for seven years one week, in the middle of 46:13 that week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. 46:16 So that's three-and-half years pass the time he 46:18 began his ministry, three-and-half years from 46:21 27 AD is the year 31 AD, what would have happened 46:25 in 31 AD. He would put an end to sacrifice and offering. 46:29 What happened in 31 AD? In 31 AD, Jesus Christ 46:33 died on the cross. And when he died, the veil in 46:36 the temple was torn from the top to the bottom 46:38 by unseen hands of angels and he put an end to the 46:42 sacrifices and the offerings. What a prophecy pinpointing 46:47 precisely when Jesus would appear as the Messiah 46:51 and precisely when he would die on the cross. You can 46:54 be sure that a day is in fact the symbol for a year 46:57 in Bible prophecy. Now we have the starting point. 47:03 Because if he came on time and died on time than a 47:06 starring point has to be correct also. So now we know 47:10 that 457 BC is the starting point for the prophecies 47:13 and if you add 2300 years to that. It comes out to the 47:17 year 1844 remember sometime between 1798 and return of 47:22 Christ the judgment would begin, when after the 47:25 2300 years. The 2300 years ended in 1844, so that's 47:32 when the judgment began. How do you know Pastor? 47:36 Because the prophesy said. After 2300 years, 47:40 the starting point is right. Jesus came on time. 47:43 Jesus died on time and he will come again on time. 47:48 What else happened in 1844. A number of things happened. 47:55 First of all, Daniel is the only prophesy that was ever 47:58 sealed up, we read the verse, he said seal it up till the 48:01 time of the end. An amazing thing, shortly 48:05 before 1844 all around the world in different locations 48:08 scholars each independent of the other not knowing 48:11 what the others were doing came to the understating 48:14 that this prophesy was pointing to the year 1844. 48:19 The only problem was they thought that the cleansing 48:22 of the sanctuary, the sanctuary being the earth, 48:26 they thought that that sanctuary was the earth and 48:28 the cleansing of the sanctuary would be the cleansing 48:30 of the earth. Therefore, that would mean that Jesus would 48:33 be coming in 1844 to this earth. And there was a 48:38 global revival of people wanting to be ready for 48:43 Jesus to come, a revival of Godliness. In this country, 48:48 it was started by a young Baptist lay minister 48:52 his name was William Miller. And this young Baptist 48:56 Pastor began to preach in the Baptist churches 48:59 that Jesus was coming in 1844. And it began to spread like 49:04 wildfire and he was invited to preach in other churches 49:08 and so he was going to the Methodist, the Presbyterian, 49:13 the Episcopal, all the different churches preaching 49:15 that Jesus is coming in 1844 and those who believed him 49:20 were called Adventists. Why? Because Adventist is one 49:27 who is waiting for Jesus to come. They were 49:30 Methodist Adventists, Baptist Adventists, 49:32 Presbyterian Adventists; every Christian ought to be 49:35 an Adventist because we are all waiting for Jesus to come. 49:39 Amen. "Amen." And that's what it meant. 49:44 Can you imagine what it would have been like to 49:45 been alive in those days and really believe that Jesus 49:48 was coming, they even figured out a date October 22, 1844. 49:55 We took a trip to New England and went 49:59 to some of the place, I saw William Miller's little 50:01 Baptist Chapel and we saw some of the different places 50:05 where this revival really took route, but the site that 50:09 really impressed me the most were two. One was 50:12 William Miller's tombstone it said 2300 days then 50:17 shall the sanctuary be cleansed for all. Wow, 50:20 you know, how neat it would be to be known for your 50:24 love and your desire for Jesus to come. Then the 50:27 other thing behind that little chapel was a huge 50:30 flat rock about the size of this building. May be a 50:34 little smaller and they call it today, they call it 50:37 ascension rock because that's where the story goes 50:41 that all of those people on October 22 that were 50:44 listening to William Miller, this young Baptist pastor 50:47 they were all standing on ascension rock waiting for 50:50 Jesus to come. It was awesome to stand there and realize 50:55 that just a few years ago they were people expecting 50:58 at any moment the skies were gonna open and Jesus 51:01 was gonna come. But we know the end of that story 51:05 don't we. We're still here today and he hasn't come yet, 51:10 what a bitter, bitter disappointment. And many of 51:13 those people were so disappointed they even 51:15 gave up their faith in God and the Bible completely. 51:19 But they were a few, they were a few who said we 51:23 know the word of God is true. And we know the prophecy 51:28 is true. We just made a mistake somewhere. So they 51:32 went back in the scripture, they prayed and they wept 51:35 and they prayed and they said God show us the truth. 51:39 God will answer a prayer like that and they found it. 51:43 Have you ever opened the Bible when you desperately 51:45 needed help from God, if you have opened the Bible and 51:47 there it was just exactly what you needed to hear, 51:50 has that ever happened to you? That's what happened 51:52 to them. They prayed God show us, where did we make 51:56 our mistake, what do we need to know and God opened 51:59 the text for them, you want to know what it was. Yeah. 52:04 I'll tell you anyway. Revelation chapter 10, 52:08 in Revelation of 10th chapter, I saw another mighty angel 52:12 coming down from heaven. Verse 2, he was holding 52:15 a little book, which lay open in their hand. Now think 52:18 through the minds of the men who had just been so 52:20 disappointed thinking Jesus was gonna come, they had 52:23 unsealed, they had open the Book of Daniel and it showed 52:27 them that in 1844 Jesus would be coming. So here 52:31 it is the book is opened and in their mind there was no 52:34 doubt that was the Book of Daniel and then verse 8 the 52:37 loud voice that I had heard from heaven spoke once again. 52:39 Go and take the book that lies open in the hand of the 52:43 angel who is standing on the sea and the land. 52:46 So I went to the angel and I asked him to give me the 52:49 little book and he said to me take it and eat it, it will 52:53 turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will be as 52:57 sweet as honey. So I took the little book from the 52:59 angel's hand and I ate it. And it tasted as sweet 53:03 as honey in my mouth, but in my stomach it turned sour. 53:10 Oh! That's exactly what they felt, that exactly what 53:13 they went through. little book had to be Daniel, 53:16 now it was opened it had been sealed and how sweet it was 53:20 in their mouth because Jesus is coming, 53:22 October 22, 1844, how sour it turned the stomach 53:27 when he didn't come. Oh! They're really pumped up now, 53:30 so saying God you are speaking to us what else 53:33 do we need to know you, you must prophesy again 53:35 about many peoples, nations, languages and kings. Oh! 53:38 God how can we do it, we were so wrong and we still don't 53:42 know what we did wrong. And then he told them, 53:45 they read the next verse. God speaks through 53:47 the word, Amen. "Amen". He told them I was given 53:51 a read like a measuring ride and I was told, go and 53:54 measure the temple of God and the alter and the 53:58 worshipers there. The temple of God is the sanctuary 54:06 and they thought wait a minute that's it, the sanctuary. 54:12 So they began to study the sanctuary. And they realized 54:17 that the sanctuary is not the earth at all. The sanctuary 54:21 is the sanctuary in heaven. And that Jesus did come 54:25 on October 22, 1844, not to this earth, but in the clouds 54:29 of glory to the ancient of days seated on the throne 54:33 in the sanctuary in heaven, so now what else. What's he 54:40 doing there? What else does God have for us. In verse 18, 54:44 the nations were angry and the time for wrath has come. 54:47 The time for judging the dead, rewarding your servants 54:50 the prophets has come. The judgment, so they 54:55 understood now, the cleansing of the sanctuary wasn't 54:58 Jesus coming to this earth. It was the Judgment Day. 55:03 The judgment had begun, but what is the standard 55:05 of that judgment. And they went on to verse 19, 55:09 then God's temple in heaven was opened and 55:11 within the temple was seen the Ark of his Covenant, 55:15 the Ten Commandments. Of course the law, 55:18 James had said speak and act as those who are going 55:22 to be judged by the law, so now it was beginning 55:25 to fall into place that the judgment began in 1844 and 55:29 that the standard of the judgment is the law and 55:32 the fourth commandment remember the Sabbath day and 55:35 they thought wait a minute. We are not keeping the 55:38 law of God. We have gone along with the traditions 55:41 of man. We have accepted Sunday, but the law says 55:44 the seventh day, so that little group of disillusioned, 55:49 disappointed Adventists from all denominations 55:53 began to keep the Sabbath and became Seventh Day 55:58 Adventists. Just in time for God to raise up a people 56:08 who would go to the whole world preaching the 56:11 everlasting Gospel of Jesus Christ. To every tribe, 56:15 every nation, every language, every people and saying 56:18 in a loud voice fear God and give him glory because 56:23 the hour of his judgment has come. And if there was 56:28 ever a time that we, you and I need the Gospel 56:32 message that time is during the judgment hour. 56:38 And so God has a people on this earth, that were not 56:41 afraid to announce the judgment, not afraid to 56:45 proclaim the Gospel, not afraid to warn the world 56:48 of the errors of Babylon, not afraid to warn the world 56:51 against the mark of the beast and the traditions 56:54 of man, he raised up a movement at just 56:57 the right time. To announce the hour of God's judgment 57:03 has come. You see the Book of Revelation is not 57:08 about the distant future. The future is here. 57:16 The prophesy is now, Revelation is now. 57:25 You are hearing the three angels messages now. 57:31 If there was ever a time to follow the lamb, it is now. |
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