Announcer:
Revelation. The time of the end.
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Mysterious signs.
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Strange happenings.
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Confusing numbers.
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Are we facing a new world
order and the mark of the beast?
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Are we living on a
planet in upheaval?
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Are we on the
verge of Armageddon?
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Revelation, what do all the
signs in this mysterious book
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mean? Discover real answers.
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Revelation Speaks
Peace, with Shawn Boonstra.
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Good evening, everybody. What is
the best way to study the Bible?
Well, my answer would be, read
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the whole thing. That's my first
piece of advice. Read the whole
thing. Now, if you've never
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really given Bible study any
serious thought before, here's
what I would recommend. First
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of all, always pray before you
study the Word of God. Why?
Well, the Bible tells us it was
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inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Holy men of God wrote as they
were inspired by the Holy
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Spirit. God authored the Book.
He's the one Who knows the
content best, and He knows His
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intent best. And I always start
with prayer. "Lord, this is Your
Book and I need my mind to be
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clear and I need You to guide
me." So always pray before you
study the Bible. Now, if you're
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just getting started, I would
recommend, start with one of the
four gospels. That would be my
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recommendation for getting
started. My personal favourite
is Matthew because you've got
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the Sermon on the Mount and a
whole bunch of parables and that
kind of thing. Matthew or John,
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perhaps. And pay attention to
Jesus and things He says and the
things He teaches, and
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particularly, what He does for
you at the cross of Calvary. Get
there because that is the focal
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point of the whole Bible, and
then the rest of it kind of
falls into place, the prophecies
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and so on. But get to know Jesus
and the gospels first. Find a
good reading plan. You can just
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look for a Bible reading plan
online and you'll find one. But
I think I have one that shows
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how you can read from the four
major sections of the Bible, you
know, the history sections, the
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poetry and wisdom, the gospels,
the letters in the New
Testament, and read a little
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from each of those sections
every day. And what you find is
that it connects you on similar
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topics in all four sections, and
that's a good one. The other one
that you want to do is read the
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Bible subject by subject. You
want to read through it
chronologically and read the
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whole thing, but the other thing
you might want to do is avail
yourself of a good concordance.
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There are four major ones:
Strong's Concordance; Young's
Concordance; Walker's
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Concordance; and Cruden's
Concordance. And the founder of
the Voice of Prophecy, H. M. S.
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Richards, had a priority on
those. He said, "Strong's for
the strong; Young's for the
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young; Cruden's for the crude;
and walk with Walker." That's
the way he sort of recommended
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it. But nowadays, you can go to,
like, bibleinfo.com or any of
those places, and you can really
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look up every - you know, for
example, you want to study the
temple, so you look up every
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verse that deals with the temple
and you go through the whole
Bible and read them all. And
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when you do that, you suddenly
get the big picture. So those
are some of the things, but
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always, always pray, because
it's not just information;
you're looking to where, "God,
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can this apply to my heart and
my walk with Jesus today?"
Alright. Our topic tonight,
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"The time of the end, part two."
We'll be studying God's Word,
and we're going to take a moment
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to prepare our hearts for that
and let's bow our heads for
prayer. Father in heaven, I know
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who I am and where I've come
from. To imagine that any sinful
human being could open the Bible
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and be faithful with it, it
takes a miracle. And I'm asking
that You would take a call from
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heaven's altar tonight and touch
my lips with it, so that what I
speak is truth from Your Word,
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and that I'm faithful to what is
in this Book, that I represent
Christ faithfully, and that our
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attention would be on Him, not
merely on prophetic symbols, but
on Jesus. May our hearts be
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changed by Him again tonight.
May we feel that we are drawn
closer to Him. May our
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characters become more like His
because we have spent time in
the Bible. Forgive my sin. Make
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me fit to speak. And tonight,
Lord, I ask that Your angels
would be walking through this
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auditorium, that the evil one
would not be permitted anywhere
here, there would be no
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distraction, but that we could
focus on Christ and hear Him
speak. And when He does, Lord,
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we will follow. And we ask it in
Jesus' name, amen. Tonight, I
want to pick up where I left off
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last night, and if you were here
last night, you know that we
covered a lot of material. And
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if you found it to be quite a
bit to chew on, take heart;
we're going to review some of it
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tonight as we keep going. And
then when we come to the end,
I'm going to present something
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that I think you're going to
find fascinating. But before we
get into the very heart of what
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we're going to study tonight, I
want to set the table with a
couple of important principles
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for understanding Bible
prophecy, or for interpreting
Bible prophecy. And the first
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one is a math lesson. This,
let's say, it is a number line.
Remember number lines from,
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like, the second or third grade?
And you remember telling your
teacher you would never, ever
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use this in real life? And here
you are, forty-some years later,
at "Revelation Speaks Peace" and
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you need a number line. Here.
Let's pretend that this is a
number line and that all the
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numbers on the left are negative
numbers. Now, there's no zero in
my number line; do you see that?
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So the blue line will be zero.
What does the blue line
represent? It's zero. All the
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numbers on the right will be
positive numbers. Now, let's
give you a math problem. Not a
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hard one. What is negative two
plus three? It is one. The
answer would be one. You start
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at negative two, and you add
three: one; the blue line is
zero, so two; three. You end up
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in one. It's really, really
simple math. The number line
helps. Now, let's pretend this
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is no longer a number line.
Let's pretend that this is
actually a date line, and
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everything on the left
represents all the dates B.C.,
and all the numbers on the right
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of the blue line represent A.D.
And let's do the same problem.
Let's say it's two B.C., and you
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add three years. What year will
it be? How many say it's one?
That is not the correct answer.
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Why? Why? It is two. And here's
the reason why. I have
absolutely played you tonight.
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There is no year zero. There
never was. One A.D. came right
after one B.C. There never was a
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year zero. That's why I don't
have a zero in there, just the
blue line. One B.C. was followed
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by one A.D. So if you start in
two B.C. and add three years,
one, two, three. The answer is
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two. It's the one time - you
wish you'd known that in second
grade. "Teacher, I can prove
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that minus two plus three is
two." I even got that wrong. Did
I get that wrong? No, I got that
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right. It is two. Here's the
reason. There just is no year
zero, and so anytime you're
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calculating something - say
somebody is born in twenty B.C.,
and they live to be eighty years
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old, what year did they die?
Well, you'd automatically say,
"Oh, they died in sixty A.D."
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No, they didn't. They died in
sixty-one A.D. The rule is,
every time you cross this line -
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you're going to see why we need
this - just add one to the total
and it corrects for you. So what
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do you add every time you cross
the line between B.C. and A.D.?
You add one and it solves the
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problem. Now, here's the second
principle. The second principle
that we're going to use tonight
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is that in Bible prophecy, a day
represents a year. But only in
Bible prophecy. Everywhere else,
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if it says it's a day, you know,
that was the end of the day, it
means a day. But in Bible
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prophecy, a day represents a
year. How do I know that? Well,
the other night, we talked about
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the persecution that happened
under Diocletian, right?
Diocletian issued an edict - he
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was under duress to do it - he
issued an edict against the
Christians in 303 A.D. In the
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prophecy, the letter to the
church of Smyrna that predicted
the persecution that would
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happen, God tells the Christians
that are being persecuted by the
Roman empire, "You will have
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tribulation ten days." Well, ten
days isn't very long. But the
decree was issued in 303;
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Constantine reverses the decree
in 313, ten years later. Meets
with Diocletian and has it
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overturned. Ten days represents
ten years. A day in prophecy is
a year. And you find that all
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through the Bible. Here's an
explicit example of it in the
book of Ezekiel. Judah has been
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sinning against God for forty
years, and God is going to tell
them about it, and He tells
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Ezekiel., "Look, you have to lay
on your side for forty days. I
have laid on you each day for a
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year."
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So there are the two principles.
Every time you cross from B.C.
to A.D., you add one to the
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total. And in Bible prophecy, a
day represents what? You
should've gotten that one right
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because it's still up there on
the screen. When you cross from
B.C. to A.D., how much do you
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add to the total? One. And a day
represents a year. Now let's
review what we looked at last
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night, and we covered a lot of
ground. Last night, we looked at
Daniel chapter 8, which we
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discovered was parallel to
Daniel chapter 2. And in Daniel
chapter 2, we had the head of
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gold, Babylon; chest and arms of
silver, Persia; belly and thighs
of brass or bronze, depending on
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the translation into English,
brass or bronze, that was
Greece; the legs of iron, that
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is Rome; and then some of the
iron continues into the feet,
but they're feet mixed with
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clay, and that represented the
divided Roman empire. That was
Daniel 2. And what we discovered
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last night is that many of the
prophecies of the Bible are
parallel. They go over the same
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ground, but they add more detail
every time they go over it. And
that was true of Daniel chapter
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8. It opens with Belshazzar,
Babylon. He only gets a brief
mention, because as you know,
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the empire collapses shortly
after Belshazzar sits on the
throne, and Babylon is gone.
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Then Daniel has a vision and he
sees a ram with two horns. And
were the horns the same size?
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Yes or no. No. One horn bigger
than the other. It is the
Medo-Persian empire. And we knew
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that because Gabriel goes and
explains and he says, "That's
the Medes and the Persians," the
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ram with two horns. Then a goat,
a he-goat, comes from the west
with one big horn on his head.
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The horn is broken off, and four
more horns come up behind it,
and we saw that represented
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Greece. And we knew it was
Greece because Gabriel says,
"Hey, that's Greece." It doesn't
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get any simpler than when
Gabriel says, "Hey, it's
Greece." And then we looked at
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the little horn, and there was
mind-boggling detail, and I
cheated - I didn't cover it in
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explicit detail - but we'll come
back to it. It represented the
united and divided Roman empire.
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Runs parallel with the legs and
feet of the statue. And in every
instance in this prophecy,
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Gabriel gives all kinds of
detail, even naming names at
times. But then there was one
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more part to the prophecy. You
remember what that was. It was a
prophecy of 2,300 days, verse
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14. "He said to me, 'For two
thousand three hundred days;
then the sanctuary shall be
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[what?] cleansed.'" Now, this
part was completely different.
There are no beasts. There are
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no horns. Nobody's conquering
territory. It's just 2,300 days
'til the sanctuary is cleansed.
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And this is the only part of the
vision that Gabriel doesn't give
details on. He doesn't explain
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it. He says, "Daniel, that part
about the evenings and mornings,
that part about the days, it's
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true. It's for way off in the
future, so seal it up." And
that's it; that's all he says.
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And if you remember from last
night, Daniel gets really upset.
He faints. He gets sick. He's
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astonished, he says, and he
knows it's important, but he
doesn't understand it. Did that
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mean that it's inexplicable? We
can't understand it? Not at all.
We actually started to look for
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clues and we found some right in
Daniel chapter 8. Clue number
one came from verse 17.
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"Understand, son of man, that
the vision refers to the time of
the end." This is a last-day
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prophecy. It points us to the
time of the end. No question
about it. We found another clue
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in verse 19. "For at the time
appointed, the end shall be." An
appointed time. We went and
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looked at the preaching of Paul
in the book of Acts and we
discovered, he did preach a time
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that's been appointed in the
last days. "He [God] has
appointed a day on which He will
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judge the world in righteousness
by the Man whom He has
ordained." Jesus, of course, as
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we discovered too, last night,
is the Judge. That's good news
Jesus is my judge. Clue number
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three, we found in the text
itself. It referred to the
cleansing of the sanctuary. So
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we had three major clues: the
time of the end; a time that's
appointed - and we know that the
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judgement's been appointed - and
the sanctuary is cleansed. And
we started to put the pieces
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together last night to see if we
could figure out exactly what
this means. We looked for what
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we could discover. And as we
started to examine, there was no
doubt that God is pointing us to
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the Old Testament sanctuary. The
Old Testament sanctuary is one
of the biggest keys to unlock
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Bible prophecy. In fact, the
language of Daniel 8 itself is a
major, major clue. All the
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language in Daniel 8 is
sanctuary language. Not only
does it mention a sanctuary
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outright; not only does it talk
about sacrifices and so on, but
it also uses clean animals to
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describe the nations. A ram and
a goat; those are animals used
in the sanctuary. Now, that's
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not always true. In Daniel 7,
you'll see that God uses animals
that are not used in the
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sanctuary, like a lion and a
leopard and a bear and so on.
But it's all clean animals here.
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There is no doubt God is saying,
"Hey, look at the sanctuary." He
has to say it like that to us,
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but in Daniel's day, they knew.
They knew exactly where this was
pointing. So last night, we went
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on a tour of the sanctuary. We
started in the outer courtyard.
It's all review now. But it's
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important to review this. We
started at the altar of burnt
offering where the animals were
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sacrificed - their lives were
laid down - sinners would
symbolically - book of Hebrews
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is clear. No animal saved
anybody. They were looking
forward in faith to Jesus
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Christ, Who is our only Path to
heaven. "No other name under
heaven given among men, whereby
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you may be saved," Acts chapter
4. But they symbolically
confessed their sin over the
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lamb, and the lamb pointed
forward to Jesus. And then he
takes their sins from them, just
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like Jesus. Our sins are put on
Jesus. The Bible teaches, "He
becomes sin for us." And the
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animal is sacrificed. The altar
is a prophecy of the cross of
Christ. Jesus takes our sins for
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us. Then there is the laver, and
we studied that last night. The
priests had to wash themselves
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before they could go inside the
tabernacle, because inside the
tabernacle was the very presence
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of God. And you cannot go into
the presence of God without
being cleansed by Jesus Christ.
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It's not possible. That's why
the Bible says that when we
confess our sins, God is
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faithful and just to forgive us
our sins and to cleanse us from
all unrighteousness. That was
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outside in the courtyard. Then
we went inside and we looked
inside the sanctuary. All review
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still. We saw the seven-branched
candlestick, the only source of
light. Jesus said, "I am the
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light of the world." We saw the
table of show bread with the
twelve loaves, one for each of
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the tribes of Israel. Jesus
said, "I am the Bread that came
down from heaven. I am the Bread
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of life." The priest represents
Jesus. The book of Hebrews tells
us that Jesus is our High
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Priest. Jesus said, "No one
takes My life from Me. I lay
down My life Myself." He's not
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only the Sacrificial Victim; He
is the Priest. He gave his life
willingly. Nobody abducted Jesus
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and hung Him on a cross. He gave
His life for us willingly
because He wants us in the
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kingdom of heaven. Then we had
the altar of burnt incense up
against the veil. This room was
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called the holy place - behind
the veil called the most holy
place - and the altar of burnt
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incense, the smoke came from
sweet-smelling spices that were
offered, and it went up over the
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veil into the most holy place.
And in Revelation 8 - I know I'm
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moving fast But we want to
cover it to make sure we're
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following along. It represents
the prayers of God's people
going before the throne of God.
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The ark of the covenant
represented the throne of God.
And actually, when they pitched
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camp, the very presence of God
would come down and take up
residence between these two
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cherubim, these two angels, on
the ark of the covenant. How do
I know that the presence of God
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would be there? Well, the Bible
tells me. Exodus chapter 25,
God's speaking to Moses. "I
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will speak with you from above
the mercy seat." I love that His
throne is called the mercy seat.
00:19:35.24\00:19:41.54
"I will speak with you from
above the mercy seat, from
between the two cherubim which
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are on the ark of the
Testimony." All through the
Bible, especially in the book of
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Psalms, the Old Testament, God
says, "I dwell between the
cherubim." The ark represents
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God's throne in heaven. Now,
here's something really
interesting. When Ezekiel
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chapter 28 talks about Lucifer
falling from grace - there are
two key passages that do that:
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Isaiah 14, Ezekiel 28 - it calls
Lucifer "the covering cherub."
These are covering cherubs on
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the ark of the covenant. They
cover the Shekinah glory of God
with their wings. Lucifer
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apparently fell from a very high
position. He stood right next to
the throne of God. It's
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fascinating. He's called "the
covering cherub." Now, the
sanctuary is very important. It
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is one of the keys that unlocks
the book of Revelation. Let me
just show you how prevalent the
00:20:41.27\00:20:45.44
sanctuary is in the book of
Revelation. If you don't study
the sanctuary, you'll never
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understand Revelation, period.
Revelation 11:19: "Then the
temple of God was opened [where?
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Where is it?] in heaven, and the
ark of His covenant was seen in
His temple." Here's the ark of
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the covenant in heaven. It's the
throne of God in heaven's
sanctuary. Remember, the one on
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earth we studied, God showed
Moses a plan, said, "Build
this," and the book of Hebrews
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said that it was a copy and
shadow of heavenly things.
Revelation 1:13, at the
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beginning of the book. "In the
midst of the seven lamp stands
[John sees] One like the Son of
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Man." Jesus appears with seven
candlesticks right at the
beginning of the book. And if
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you read the language, He's
dressed like an Old Testament
priest. It's sanctuary language.
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Revelation 5 verse 6, we studied
this one a few nights ago. "I
looked, and behold, in the midst
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of the throne [there's the
throne] and of the fourth living
creatures, and in the midst of
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the elders, stood a Lamb as
though it had been slain." Where
did they slay lambs? In the
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sanctuary. You need this
background to really dig into
this language. Revelation 8:
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"Then another angel, having a
golden censor, came and stood at
the [what?] altar. [Sanctuary
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language.] He was given much
incense, that he should offer it
with the prayers of all saints
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upon the golden altar which was
before the throne." That's that
small altar right in front of
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the veil where they burned the
incense and it went up over the
drapes. It's the golden altar
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before the throne. There was a
veil in between, but its
function was with the throne.
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The smoke went to the throne of
God. Revelation 14: "Another
angel came out of the" - where?
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I don't want to lose you yet.
These are important. Another
angel came out of where? - "the
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temple, crying with a loud voice
to Him who sat on the cloud,
'Thrust in Your sickle and reap,
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for the time has come for You to
reap, for the harvest of the
earth is ripe.'" It's the second
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coming, and it uses sanctuary
language. How? Well, do you
remember the feast of first
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fruits, right, where they waved
one sheaf of grain before the
Lord? We talked about it last
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night. "They found the first bit
that was ripe, and they waved it
before the Lord, thanking Him
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that the rest of the harvest
would come." The second coming
is often described as a harvest
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in the New Testament. In First
Corinthians 15:23, the Bible
tells us, "Christ is our first
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fruits, and afterwards, the rest
of us will be in the harvest
when Jesus comes again." It's
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all sanctuary - it's all
sanctuary language. Revelation
14 again: "Then another angel
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came out of the temple which is
[where? Where is it? It's in
heaven], he also having a sharp
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sickle. And another angel came
out from the altar [more
sanctuary language], who had
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power over fire, and he cried
with a loud cry to him who had
the sharp sickle, saying,
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'Thrust in your sharp sickle and
gather the clusters of the vines
of the earth.'" It's harvest
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language for the second coming.
When Jesus is about to come,
they make an announcement in
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heaven's sanctuary. This is one
of the biggest keys to the book
of Revelation. I cannot
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underline this enough. You have
to study the sanctuary because
there is a sanctuary in heaven.
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The earthly one, the Bible is
explicit, was built according to
a blueprint, and it was a copy
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and a shadow of heavenly things.
This language is not just in the
book of Revelation either.
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Isaiah 6, Isaiah sees the throne
of God. "In the year that King
Uzziah died, I saw the Lord
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sitting on a throne, high and
lifted up, and the train of His
robe filled the [what?] temple."
00:24:35.70\00:24:44.31
Where is God sitting on His
throne? In heaven's temple. It
was there again tonight in Psalm
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11. This is one of the most
dominant themes in the Bible.
Now, last night, we studied the
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temple; we looked at the
furniture, but we also studied
the feasts and festivals.
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Anybody remember how many major
festivals there were? Anybody?
There were seven. You could
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almost guess at "Revelation
Speaks Peace" it's seven and be
right most of the time. There
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were seven special feasts held
every year. And those seven
feasts showed us the complete
00:25:12.07\00:25:17.31
work of Jesus for us. It gives
us the work of Jesus for us from
the day He dies on the cross and
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pays our penalty, to the day
that He comes again for His
people. We're going to go
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quickly now. We did it in detail
last night. There was the
passover feast. Christ, our
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passover, is sacrificed. It is
Jesus Christ giving His life for
us. On the second day of the
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passover was the feast of
unleavened bread. They had to
remove all the yeast, all the
00:25:40.14\00:25:44.21
leavening agents, from their
home because it was a symbol of
sin. And when Jesus gives His
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life for us, He cleanses us of
sin. On the third day, they had
the feast of first fruits.
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That's where they did that wave
sheaf offering. "Thank you for
the first bit of the harvest.
00:25:55.18\00:25:59.25
The rest will come." It's Jesus
rising from the dead. He's the
first fruits of them that slept,
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Paul says. Then we had the feast
of Pentecost, which celebrated
00:26:05.53\00:26:11.07
Mount Sinai, the Israelites
getting to Mount Sinai and
receiving God's ten commandment
00:26:11.17\00:26:14.97
law, and fire comes down on that
mountain. On the day of
Pentecost, in the New Testament,
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as they're celebrating that,
fire falls on the head of the
disciples, and they preach the
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gospel in the languages of all
those present. It's the
beginning of the New Testament
00:26:23.04\00:26:27.88
church. Then we had a big, big
break, because there were no
festivals through the summer
00:26:27.98\00:26:34.29
months, just like historically,
we went through a long period of
centuries where not much
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happens. We plunge into the Dark
Ages, frankly. Then there was
the feast of trumpets in the
00:26:38.49\00:26:43.77
fall. They blew the trumpets and
said, "You've got ten days
left." Ten days left. Why?
00:26:43.87\00:26:51.21
Because in ten days, they had
the day of atonement, which was
a solemn day of judgement. You
00:26:51.31\00:26:55.34
had to have everything right
with God or you were removed
from the people of God forever.
00:26:55.44\00:27:00.92
Then you had the feast of
tabernacles which celebrated God
bringing His people successfully
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into the promised land, just
like He will when Jesus comes,
and it's the second coming of
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Christ. It is the whole ministry
of Jesus. Now, that's all
review. Then we slowed down and
00:27:11.09\00:27:18.93
looked at the day of atonement.
Yom Kippur. Here's what happened
on that day. As we just
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mentioned, they blew the trumpet
ten days before. And everybody
was supposed to search their
00:27:26.91\00:27:32.98
hearts because you only had ten
days left 'til judgement.
Leviticus 23:29: "For any person
00:27:33.08\00:27:39.15
who is not afflicted in soul on
that same day shall be cut off
from His people." Removed
00:27:39.25\00:27:46.03
forever. Everything had to be
right there, or you were removed
from the camp. It was your final
00:27:46.13\00:27:50.67
chance. It was a moment that you
had to come clean. And they had
a special ceremony to cleanse
00:27:50.77\00:27:58.14
the temple. That is described in
Leviticus 16. "Then he shall
make atonement for the holy
00:27:58.24\00:28:06.25
sanctuary, and he shall make
atonement for the tabernacle of
meeting." Now, wait a minute.
00:28:06.35\00:28:14.59
Why would a building need
atonement? Buildings don't sin.
People sin. People need
00:28:14.69\00:28:23.87
atonement. So why a building?
Leviticus 16 actually says they
needed to cleanse it of the
00:28:23.97\00:28:29.17
uncleanness of the children of
Israel. Why? Well, when they
offered those animals, the
00:28:29.27\00:28:35.88
little lamb, and confessed their
sins, it symbolically, the lamb
took their sins from them, and
00:28:35.98\00:28:41.75
it's carried inside day after
day after day, the priest takes
the blood into the temple. The
00:28:41.85\00:28:46.79
uncleanness, it says in
Leviticus 16, had to be cleansed
once a year. It's symbolic. But
00:28:46.89\00:28:53.06
even symbolically, sin does not
dwell in the presence of God, so
they cleansed it. How did that
00:28:53.16\00:28:58.60
happen? One day a year, the high
priest actually went into the
most holy place. One day a year.
00:28:58.70\00:29:06.07
On that day, they took two
goats. One was called the Lord's
goat, and they sacrificed the
00:29:06.17\00:29:11.78
goat, and they took that blood
into the sanctuary. The priest
went right into the most holy
00:29:11.88\00:29:16.45
place. Nobody does that but the
high priest one day a year.
There's an old legend - probably
00:29:16.55\00:29:21.96
not true, but at least it
reflects how seriously they took
it - there's a legend that says
00:29:22.06\00:29:27.13
that they actually attached a
bell to the hem of the garment
and a rope to his leg, and they
00:29:27.23\00:29:31.90
would listen. "Is everything
okay in there?" Because if
everything wasn't right in the
00:29:32.00\00:29:35.44
camp of Israel, the high priest
would die, and nobody wants to
go in and get him, so they want
00:29:35.54\00:29:40.84
to pull him out with a rope.
They took it that seriously. One
day a year. This is mentioned in
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the book of Hebrews too. Hebrews
9 verse 7. "But into the second
[the second apartment, the most
00:29:49.58\00:29:55.49
holy place] into the second part
the high priest went alone once
a year not without blood [you
00:29:55.59\00:30:02.70
can't get there without the
blood of Jesus], which he
offered for himself and for the
00:30:02.80\00:30:10.67
people's sins." He went in once
a year to cleanse the sanctuary
of all that sin, and he does it
00:30:10.77\00:30:15.68
on Yom Kippur, the time of
judgement. And that ritual goes
on year after year after year
00:30:15.78\00:30:22.82
after year after year after
year, and then Jesus dies on the
cross. And on the day Jesus dies
00:30:22.92\00:30:28.89
on the cross, there is a great
earthquake, and an unseen hand
rips the veil in two that hangs
00:30:28.99\00:30:36.53
between the holy and the most
holy place. Ripped in two. Why?
Why would God reach in and rip
00:30:36.63\00:30:45.61
that veil in two? It's because
you don't need it anymore. The
real Lamb of God has come and
00:30:45.71\00:30:52.18
given His life at the cross of
Calvary. You don't need the
symbols anymore. It's like a
00:30:52.28\00:30:58.39
boarding pass, right? You pay
four hundred bucks for a
boarding pass and all you get is
00:30:58.49\00:31:02.36
a piece of paper out of your
ink-jet printer. It's not worth
anything. It's just a symbol of
00:31:02.46\00:31:07.96
a plane ride. When you get on
the plane and they close the
door and take off, you can rip
00:31:08.06\00:31:11.37
it up. You don't need your
boarding pass anymore because
they're not going to kick you
00:31:11.47\00:31:15.30
off the plane for not having it.
I think. Right? It's a symbol of
- hand rips the veil in two. We
00:31:15.40\00:31:26.18
don't need it now. We have the
real Lamb, the real High Priest,
and all the attention is about
00:31:26.28\00:31:31.15
to go to the real sanctuary. It
was just a symbol. We have the
real one in heaven. Hebrews 9:
00:31:31.25\00:31:37.53
"For Christ has not entered the
holy places made with hands
[that's the one the Israelites
00:31:37.63\00:31:42.03
built], which are copies of the
true, but into heaven itself now
to appear in the presence of God
00:31:42.13\00:31:48.70
for us." We have the real Lamb
and the real sanctuary. Now
let's go back to the prophecy.
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Daniel 8:14: "He said to me,
'For two thousand three hundred
days; then the sanctuary shall
00:31:56.04\00:32:01.48
be cleansed.'" When do they do
that? On the day of judgement.
What in the world is Daniel
00:32:01.58\00:32:10.16
getting at? Buckle your
seatbelts. Because Gabriel
doesn't explain anything in
00:32:10.26\00:32:21.60
Daniel 8, but he comes back in
Daniel 9. You gotta remember,
there were no chapters and
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verses in the original
manuscript. We read to the end
of a chapter and stop because
00:32:27.88\00:32:34.08
somebody put a number there in
the Middle Ages. You've got to
read the whole thing. And sure
00:32:34.18\00:32:40.39
enough, Gabriel comes back.
Daniel 9 opens with Daniel
praying for understanding. He's
00:32:40.49\00:32:46.09
astonished. "I don't get it."
And when he's finished praying,
he gets a visitor. Guess who?
00:32:46.19\00:32:51.27
"Gabriel, whom I had seen in the
vision at the beginning [what
vision? The one he just had in
00:32:51.37\00:32:56.50
Daniel chapter 8], being caused
to fly swiftly, reached me about
the time of the evening
00:32:56.60\00:33:01.01
offering." More sanctuary
language. "And he informed me
and talked with me and said, 'O
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Daniel, I have now come forth to
give you skill to understand.'"
"I'm going to explain it now."
00:33:06.92\00:33:10.15
Don't you wish we had seen this
last night? Read the whole
thing. You should've gone home
00:33:10.19\00:33:14.89
and read the whole book. "I'm
now going to help you. Daniel, I
know you didn't get it." "I saw
00:33:14.92\00:33:19.93
you pass out, man. I saw you get
sick and pass out and you were
astonished, but now I've come to
00:33:19.96\00:33:24.57
explain it." And how does
Gabriel explain it? Gabriel
explains it by giving Daniel
00:33:24.63\00:33:30.11
something he can hang his hat
on. He gives him something to
digest. He gives him something
00:33:30.21\00:33:37.91
that modern-day Christians refer
to as the "seventy-week
prophecy." Now, before we dig
00:33:38.01\00:33:44.62
into what Gabriel's about to
say, let's remember our
principles. When you cross the
00:33:44.72\00:33:50.19
line from B.C. to A.D., how many
do you add? One. What does a day
represent in Bible prophecy? A
00:33:50.29\00:33:55.53
year. How many days are there in
a week? Seven. Some of you had
to think about that and you were
00:33:55.63\00:34:01.34
counting your toes and you only
had five and I saw you switch
feet. Seven days in a week. So a
00:34:01.44\00:34:07.78
week would be how many years?
Seven years. We have to move
methodically and carefully
00:34:07.88\00:34:14.12
tonight and let the Bible speak
for itself because we're about
to look at something that, for
00:34:14.22\00:34:17.25
the last couple of generations,
has been tossed around in
Christianity. Tossed around left
00:34:17.35\00:34:22.29
and right. There's a thousand
books on it. But for the most
part, we've lost track of how
00:34:22.39\00:34:29.00
our ancestors, for 1800 years,
read this. Tonight I'm going to
show you how, for nearly 2000
00:34:29.10\00:34:32.80
years, Christians read this. For
the most part, in recent
generations, we've been reading
00:34:32.90\00:34:36.37
it out of context, and so we're
going to go slowly. We're going
to look at it carefully. Daniel
00:34:36.47\00:34:41.58
9 and verse 24. Going to be a
lot of math tonight. "Seventy
weeks," says Gabriel. How many
00:34:41.68\00:34:48.35
weeks? Seventy. How many days
would that be, in seventy weeks?
Anybody know? Four hundred and
00:34:48.45\00:34:54.32
ninety. I did hear somebody say
it over there. Four hundred and
ninety. That would be how many
00:34:54.42\00:35:00.40
years? Four hundred and ninety
years, right? A day is a? Year.
Just a test. Here we go.
00:35:00.50\00:35:07.54
"Seventy weeks are determined
for your people and your holy
city." Daniel, seventy weeks are
00:35:07.64\00:35:11.67
set aside for your people. Who
are Daniel's people? The Jews.
Which is Daniel's city?
00:35:11.77\00:35:18.41
Jerusalem, right. And he says,
"They are determined for your
people and your city." And that
00:35:18.51\00:35:24.19
word "determined" in Hebrew? Oh,
the Hebrew - this is going to be
on TV and Hebrew scholars are
00:35:24.29\00:35:28.06
always appalled at how I handle
Hebrew. "Chafuk." That's the
word, or a reasonable facsimile
00:35:28.16\00:35:34.30
of the word. Do you know what it
means? Set aside from. Cut off
of something else. He says,
00:35:34.40\00:35:41.77
"Seventy weeks are cut off of
something else for your people."
Well, what are they cut off of?
00:35:41.87\00:35:46.64
What did he come to explain? He
came to explain the bigger
prophecy of Daniel 8. He said,
00:35:46.74\00:35:51.75
"I've now come to give you skill
and understanding, and out of
those 2300 days, seventy weeks
00:35:51.85\00:35:58.32
are cut out of it for your
people," the Jews, Daniel's holy
city Jerusalem. Seventy weeks,
00:35:58.42\00:36:05.63
four hundred and ninety days. A
day represents what? A year.
Here's what we've got so far. It
00:36:05.73\00:36:12.13
looks like this: there's a
2300-day prophecy Daniel doesn't
understand. So Gabriel comes
00:36:12.23\00:36:18.07
back and says, "I'll help you
with this now." "Four hundred
and ninety of those are for your
00:36:18.17\00:36:25.21
people and your city." That's
pretty useful. But what we don't
know is when it begins or when
00:36:25.31\00:36:31.59
it ends. We've got no reference
point. How do we figure it out?
No problem. Gabriel's happy to
00:36:31.69\00:36:38.69
help. "Know, therefore, and
understand," he says to Daniel,
"that from the going-forth of
00:36:38.79\00:36:44.80
the commandment to restore and
to build Jerusalem unto Messiah
the prince," who's Messiah the
00:36:44.90\00:36:52.01
prince? That's Jesus. "From the
command to rebuild Jerusalem
'til Jesus shall be seven weeks
00:36:52.11\00:36:58.98
and sixty-two weeks." Now,
that's important. what's seven
plus sixty-two? You had to think
00:36:59.08\00:37:05.72
about that. That's not a hard
problem. There's no trick in it.
What's seven plus sixty-two?
00:37:05.82\00:37:09.52
Sixty-nine, it's sixty-nine
weeks. "The streets shall be
built again and the wall, even
00:37:09.62\00:37:14.83
in troublesome times." I want
you to remember that sixty-two
weeks 'cause you're going to see
00:37:14.93\00:37:18.67
that language in a moment. He's
saying, from the command to
rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah
00:37:18.77\00:37:25.27
will be sixty-nine weeks. This
is unbelievable. What's
sixty-nine times seven? Just
00:37:25.37\00:37:30.68
take seven off the other total.
It's four hundred eighty-three.
What's he saying? There'll be
00:37:30.78\00:37:35.12
four hundred eighty-three years
from the command to rebuild
Jerusalem until Messiah the
00:37:35.22\00:37:41.99
prince. You can't fake this
stuff. We know exactly when that
decree came out. We know it
00:37:42.09\00:37:48.60
historically. It's the seventh
year of Artaxerxes, it says.
Seventh year was 457 B.C. The
00:37:48.70\00:37:55.94
command to rebuild Jerusalem.
Now we have the beginning. Now
it really is time, if you didn't
00:37:56.04\00:37:59.94
buckle your seatbelts, to get
them buckled. This is going to
blow your hair straight back.
00:38:00.11\00:38:07.65
457 B.C. We know when it starts,
and it says 483 years, or the
sixty-nine weeks, takes us down
00:38:07.75\00:38:19.89
to, go ahead, 27 A.D. 27 A.D.
What is 27 A.D.? That happens to
be the fifteenth year of
00:38:20.00\00:38:29.57
Tiberius Caesar. And what
happens in Tiberius Caesar's
fifteenth year? In Luke chapter
00:38:29.67\00:38:36.81
3, Jesus is baptized at the
Jordan River and begins His
public ministry right on
00:38:36.91\00:38:42.52
schedule. People have often
said, "Why didn't Jesus do
anything for the first thirty
00:38:42.62\00:38:45.69
years of His life?" And there's
these conspiracy theories. "Oh,
He went to India and hid there."
00:38:45.79\00:38:51.93
Nonsense. Everyone in Jerusalem
said, "We know this guy. It's
the carpenter's son. We grew up
00:38:52.03\00:38:56.73
with Him." People say, "Well, He
wasn't the age of majority yet."
That is true. But there's
00:38:56.83\00:39:01.00
another reason that He doesn't
begin His public ministry until
27 A.D. It's because it's not
00:39:01.10\00:39:05.64
time yet. He steps into the
river, the heavens open, and God
says, "This is My Beloved Son in
00:39:05.74\00:39:10.11
Whom I am well pleased." And
John points to Him and says,
"The Lamb of God Who takes away
00:39:10.21\00:39:15.22
the sin" - He shows up exactly
on time. Everybody could know
that Messiah had come. It was
00:39:15.32\00:39:20.49
exactly the right time, and
there were people in those days
that knew it was time. 27 A.D.
00:39:20.59\00:39:26.49
Now, that's 483 years. It gets
it exactly right. But the whole
thing is not 483 years; the
00:39:26.59\00:39:34.54
whole thing is 490 years, and
that would take us down to 34
A.D. Anything happen in 34 A.D.?
00:39:34.64\00:39:42.54
You'd have to expect something.
And the answer is yes. In that
year, the national council
00:39:42.64\00:39:50.32
rejects the final appeal of a
deacon by the name of Stephen
who, in his sermon, points them
00:39:50.42\00:39:57.33
to the heavenly sanctuary. Read
it. It's in Acts chapter 7. He
describes it, and he describes
00:39:57.43\00:40:02.26
the whole history of God with
His people, and they stone him
to death and they reject his
00:40:02.36\00:40:07.77
final appeal. And a great
persecution starts, it says, and
the believers are scattered all
00:40:07.87\00:40:13.17
over the place. And there's a
young guy sitting there holding
the coats: Saul of Tarsus. And
00:40:13.27\00:40:20.08
he's knocked off his horse by
Jesus one day and becomes the
apostle not to Jerusalem, but to
00:40:20.18\00:40:31.36
the Gentile nations. 490 years
are set aside for your people,
Daniel. At the very close of it,
00:40:31.46\00:40:35.73
suddenly the gospel goes with
power to the whole Gentile
world. Jesus said in Matthew 21,
00:40:35.83\00:40:41.40
He warned everybody, "You're
running out of time." He knew
the prophecy of Daniel 9. "The
00:40:41.50\00:40:47.01
vineyard is going to be rented
out to someone else," is His
language. Matthew 21 verse 43,
00:40:47.11\00:40:51.01
He's pleading with tears in His
eyes, "Please. The kingdom of
God is going to be taken to you
00:40:51.11\00:40:56.92
and given to a nation that'll
bear the fruit." Now the gospel
goes directly to the Gentiles. I
00:40:57.02\00:41:02.19
mean, it was always what God
intended. In Isaiah, it says,
"You're to be a light to the
00:41:02.29\00:41:06.09
Gentiles," He said to Israel,
and it wasn't happening, so God
just bypasses it and picks Saul
00:41:06.19\00:41:11.57
of Tarsus, the least likely
candidate on earth to carry the
gospel to the whole world. And
00:41:11.67\00:41:16.30
today, because of that, we can
all be Israelites, all of us.
It's not a genetic thing
00:41:16.40\00:41:21.88
anymore. You can be a descendant
of Abraham. You can get in on
the covenant. Galatians 3:29:
00:41:21.98\00:41:28.95
"If you are Christ's, then you
are Abraham's seed, and heirs
according to the promise." If
00:41:29.05\00:41:32.82
you're in Jesus, you are
Abraham's descendant. That's
what the Bible says. Romans 2
00:41:32.92\00:41:39.96
verse 28: "For he is not a Jew
who is one outwardly, nor is
circumcision that which is
00:41:40.06\00:41:45.97
outward in the flesh; but he is
a Jew who is one inwardly, and
circumcision is that of the
00:41:46.07\00:41:51.54
heart." Look, Israel's always
going to have a special place in
God's heart. But the distinction
00:41:51.64\00:41:56.44
between Jew and Gentile is not
there. We are all now, in
Christ, God's people. Israel was
00:41:56.54\00:42:03.08
supposed to bring the gentiles
into the covenant family, and
now God just went and did
00:42:03.18\00:42:08.16
exactly that. We have all been,
in the language of Paul, grafted
in. Romans 10: "For there is no
00:42:08.26\00:42:15.20
difference between Jew and
Greek; for the same Lord over
all is rich unto all that call
00:42:15.30\00:42:19.80
upon Him." Distinction is gone.
The 490 years for Daniel's
people have come to a close, and
00:42:19.90\00:42:25.31
it goes out. The time was up.
Stephen is stoned, and the
gospel goes out. So here's what
00:42:25.41\00:42:32.68
we have so far. The 490 years
happened exactly right. From the
decree to rebuild Jerusalem 'til
00:42:32.78\00:42:37.39
Messiah the prince, bang on
schedule, to the close of the
time of Daniel's people, right
00:42:37.49\00:42:42.42
on schedule. But there's more
detail. It gets even better.
Daniel 9:26: "After the
00:42:42.52\00:42:47.50
sixty-two weeks [do you
remember, it was seven plus
sixty-two? Do you remember that?
00:42:47.60\00:42:52.70
Sometime after that] Messiah
[who's Messiah? Jesus], shall be
cut off, but not for Himself."
00:42:52.80\00:43:00.91
When was Jesus cut off for other
people? I mean, it literally
says he was - his life is taken.
00:43:01.01\00:43:05.88
That's at the cross of Calvary.
"And the people of the Prince
who is to come shall destroy the
00:43:05.98\00:43:11.42
city and the sanctuary." Now,
you want to read this very, very
carefully. It said that sometime
00:43:11.52\00:43:16.02
after that sixty-two weeks,
Messiah would be cut off,
crucified. And then sometime
00:43:16.12\00:43:22.63
after that, someone would come
and destroy the city and the
sanctuary. Did that happen after
00:43:22.73\00:43:26.94
the crucifixion of Jesus?
Absolutely. Jesus said, "Not one
stone will be left upon
00:43:27.04\00:43:34.41
another," and sure enough, and
outside people did come - the
Romans under Titus - and took
00:43:34.51\00:43:39.58
the whole temple apart. After
that, Messiah will be crucified.
Then the temple comes down. It's
00:43:39.68\00:43:46.15
easy. When was Messiah cut off
after the sixty-two weeks? At
the cross of Calvary. It's
00:43:46.25\00:43:51.13
absolutely right. Sometime after
those first 483 years, the
sixty-nine weeks, after the
00:43:51.23\00:43:57.20
sixty-two, because it's seven
plus sixty-two. It happens
exactly right. Jesus is
00:43:57.30\00:44:02.37
crucified sometime after that.
But it gets even more specific.
How much time is there between
00:44:02.47\00:44:12.68
27 A.D. and 34? Seven years. One
week, right? Seven years. Now I
want you to listen to this.
00:44:12.78\00:44:19.69
"Then he shall confirm a
covenant with many for one
week." Let me ask you this,
00:44:19.79\00:44:23.79
because there's a lot of
confusion today about this that
has come up in recent
00:44:23.89\00:44:28.10
generations. Who is the subject
of this prophecy? Jesus, Messiah
the prince. "He shall confirm a
00:44:28.20\00:44:35.90
covenant with many for one
week." It's the final stretch in
this time for Daniel's people.
00:44:36.00\00:44:43.81
"But in the middle of the week,
He shall bring an end to
sacrifice and offering." Who
00:44:43.91\00:44:49.12
brought the sacrificial system
to an end? The day He died on
the cross, the veil was torn in
00:44:49.22\00:44:53.69
two and it wasn't needed
anymore. Right in the middle of
the week, spring of 31 A.D. We
00:44:53.79\00:45:04.40
know that's bang-on accurate.
Jesus brings an end to the
sacrifice. His disciples stay in
00:45:04.50\00:45:08.94
Jerusalem for the next
three-and-a-half years, and then
the gospel goes to the Gentile
00:45:09.04\00:45:15.64
nations. It all happens right on
time. Now let me address
something, because I know
00:45:15.74\00:45:19.48
there's some questions in some
minds, 'cause I had the very
same question once upon a time.
00:45:19.58\00:45:24.12
In recent generations, just in
recent generations, by the way,
some people have taken the
00:45:24.22\00:45:29.89
seventieth week and they've
chopped it all from the
prophecy, stuck it down at the
00:45:29.99\00:45:33.16
end of time, and said it's the
Antichrist who makes a covenant
with God's people. When does
00:45:33.26\00:45:38.80
Antichrist ever make a covenant
with God's people? The subject
is Messiah the prince. There's
00:45:38.90\00:45:45.31
no question about it. Some
people say, "The seventieth
week, we're going to chop that
00:45:45.41\00:45:48.81
off and stick it way down at the
very end of time." But let me
ask you a really simple
00:45:48.91\00:45:56.95
question. What number comes
after sixty-nine, normally?
Seventy. Let's say, let's say,
00:45:57.05\00:46:01.96
that I invite you to come visit
me at my house and I live -
what's the interstate here?
00:46:02.06\00:46:07.36
Thirty-five. I live seventy
miles down thirty-five. And what
you want to do is get off at
00:46:07.46\00:46:12.93
Easy Street, the exit. Not Easy
Street; I don't live on Easy
Street. Straight Street. That's
00:46:13.03\00:46:17.27
where I want to live. Alright?
And you say, "Okay, I'm going to
come." And you know that if
00:46:17.37\00:46:20.78
you're going to drive seventy
miles, it should take, what,
forty-five minutes? Roughly?
00:46:20.88\00:46:29.05
We're out on the prairie here.
Things happen, you pick up
speed. Alright, an hour. It's
00:46:29.15\00:46:34.09
going to take an hour to get out
there. And you drive and you
drive and you drive and you've
00:46:34.19\00:46:37.69
been driving for three hours and
you still haven't seen the exit
for Straight Street. So you give
00:46:37.79\00:46:40.43
me a call on the cell phone.
"Hey, Shawn, I thought you said
you were seventy miles out." I
00:46:40.53\00:46:44.80
said, "I am, but the part I
didn't tell you, is that there's
two thousand miles between the
00:46:44.90\00:46:48.70
sixty-ninth and the seventieth
mile." Doesn't make sense. And
what we've done to this doesn't
00:46:48.80\00:46:56.28
make sense. We've only done it
in recent generations. There is
nothing in the language that
00:46:56.38\00:47:02.38
says, "Chop it up and spread it
out." Seventy still comes after
sixty-nine. The seventieth week
00:47:02.48\00:47:08.86
And the amazing thing is, it
fits. You don't have to do
violence to it. It describes
00:47:08.96\00:47:14.73
exactly what happened. But let's
finish it, because there's still
some people who think the
00:47:14.83\00:47:18.37
Antichrist is in the very last
verse. Daniel 9:27: "And on the
wing of abominations [that
00:47:18.47\00:47:23.91
sounds rough] shall be one who
makes [what? What will he do?
Make what?] desolate, even until
00:47:24.01\00:47:32.41
the consummation, which is
determined, is poured out on the
desolate." What was left
00:47:32.51\00:47:38.29
desolate? The temple was left
desolate. Matthew 23, in a final
appeal, Jesus is weeping over
00:47:38.39\00:47:42.49
the city of Jerusalem. "How
often I've sent My prophets to
you. I have tried and tried.
00:47:42.59\00:47:48.33
Behold, your house is left to
you." Desolate. Who did that?
The Romans did that. Look, it
00:47:48.43\00:47:57.27
fits exactly the way it reads.
There's a parallel structure
there. The prophecy tells us
00:47:57.37\00:48:02.11
that at some point after those
sixty-two weeks, Messiah would
be cut off. Crucifixion.
00:48:02.21\00:48:06.98
Happened right on time. After
that, a people, a prince and a
people would come and destroy
00:48:07.08\00:48:12.25
the temple. Happened exactly the
way that it was predicted. It
says those two points. But in
00:48:12.35\00:48:16.69
the Bible, often we have
parallel things. You see it in
the book of Psalms a lot. Point
00:48:16.79\00:48:22.56
A, point B, and then it repeats
itself. The next thing it says
is, Messiah puts an end to the
00:48:22.66\00:48:28.10
sacrifices. He's the One Who
confirms the covenant. God had a
covenant with Israel, nobody
00:48:28.20\00:48:29.94
else. He confirms the covenant,
He puts an end to sacrifices,
and after that, someone comes
00:48:30.04\00:48:32.84
and makes the temple desolate.
That's exactly how it reads. It
predicts the crucifixion and
00:48:32.94\00:48:37.65
then the destruction of the
temple, and the whole thing. I
mean, we don't even need the
00:48:37.75\00:48:42.98
temple now anymore because the
real temple is heaven. And the
real priest has come. The real
00:48:43.08\00:48:47.96
Lamb of God has come, and all of
our attention ought to be on
Jesus in heaven's sanctuary.
00:48:48.06\00:48:53.63
This is a prophecy where Gabriel
says to Daniel, "There's only
490 years left for your people,"
00:48:53.73\00:48:58.87
and after that, the temple even
came down. There is no need to
chop this in pieces because it
00:48:58.97\00:49:06.68
makes sense. I had a preacher
friend who used to tell me, "If
the plain sense makes good
00:49:06.78\00:49:13.75
sense, seek no other sense, or
you end up with nonsense." Look
at it carefully. here's the
00:49:13.85\00:49:24.36
whole thing. Predicts Jesus, 490
years for Daniel's people in
Daniel's city. All happens right
00:49:24.46\00:49:30.50
on schedule. Gabriel has come
back and solved the problem for
us. And he told us that that
00:49:30.60\00:49:36.87
section of it was cut out from
the 2300 years. Now the math is
easy. Remember to add one when
00:49:36.97\00:49:48.12
you cross zero, and it takes you
down to the middle of the 19th
century, 1844, in fact. That
00:49:48.22\00:49:55.96
probably shouldn't come as a
surprise. When we looked at the
seven seals, the last sign fell
00:49:56.06\00:50:03.50
in 1833. Do you know what it
means? We're already there.
Already underway. The books are
00:50:03.60\00:50:13.64
open, the angels are getting
ready. We're already in the last
phase. It's described in Daniel
00:50:13.74\00:50:21.22
7. Daniel 7 has Babylon,
Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome,
divided Roman empire, and then
00:50:21.32\00:50:26.52
it inserts something: the
judgement hour. Here's what it
says: "I beheld 'til the thrones
00:50:26.62\00:50:31.46
were cast down, and the Ancient
of days did sit, whose garment
was white as snow, and the hair
00:50:31.56\00:50:37.27
of His head like the pure wool.
His throne was like the fiery
flame, and His wheels as burning
00:50:37.37\00:50:42.40
fire. A fiery stream issued and
came forth from before him. A
thousand thousands ministered
00:50:42.50\00:50:47.74
unto him, and ten thousand times
ten thousand stood before him."
It's the number of angels. Read
00:50:47.84\00:50:54.75
it in Revelation. "The judgement
was set and the books were
opened." At some point, the
00:50:54.85\00:51:02.36
judgement begins, and it begins
when Jesus comes. When I grew
up, I was always told Jesus
00:51:02.46\00:51:07.76
would come, drag you off, and
stick you in the judgement. It's
not that way at all. Judgement
00:51:07.86\00:51:12.03
is done when Jesus comes,
because in Daniel 7, the very
next event is Jesus receiving
00:51:12.13\00:51:17.34
His kingdom. "I saw the night
visions, and behold, one like
the Son of man came [oh, I'm so
00:51:17.44\00:51:22.08
glad it's the Son of man, that
Jesus identifies with us], one
like the Son of man came with
00:51:22.18\00:51:28.08
the clouds of heaven and came to
the ancient of days, and they
brought Him near before Him. And
00:51:28.18\00:51:32.22
there was given Him dominion,
and glory, and a kingdom, that
all people, nations and
00:51:32.32\00:51:36.62
languages, should serve Him. His
dominion is an everlasting
dominion, which shall not pass
00:51:36.73\00:51:42.00
away, and His kingdom that which
shall not be destroyed." That's
the stone. And he gets it right
00:51:42.10\00:51:48.30
after the judgement. God's
kingdom lasts forever. Jesus
receives it when the books are
00:51:48.40\00:51:57.81
closed. We're almost done. Earth
is on borrowed time. After the
judgement hour, Jesus comes. We
00:51:57.91\00:52:08.56
don't know the day or hour. But
you must be sensing that we're
running out of time. History is
00:52:08.66\00:52:16.06
over. When Jesus comes, the
Bible says, "Behold, I come
quickly; and my reward is with
00:52:16.16\00:52:20.40
Me, to give every man according
as his work shall be." How could
Jesus bring all the rewards?
00:52:20.50\00:52:25.21
It's because when He comes, the
judgement is done. Over. At some
moment, the world will know that
00:52:25.31\00:52:31.68
the judgement has begun,
Revelation 14, a final message
to the world. "And I saw another
00:52:31.78\00:52:38.39
angel fly in the midst of
heaven, having the everlasting
gospel to preach unto them that
00:52:38.49\00:52:41.12
dwell on the earth, and to every
nation, and kindred, and tongue,
and people, saying with a loud
00:52:41.22\00:52:46.39
voice, 'Fear God and give glory
to Him, for the hour of His
judgement [will come? No], has
00:52:46.49\00:52:58.07
come.'" The world can know. At
some point, the world will know.
Folks, there really is a last
00:52:58.17\00:53:04.71
moment. There really is a final
phase. There really is a time of
the end. And we're already
00:53:04.81\00:53:14.62
there. And Jesus' kingdom is
coming, no pain, no suffering,
no death. It's all true. Jesus
00:53:14.72\00:53:26.63
came the first time exactly as
predicted. There are hundreds of
prophecies of the first coming
00:53:26.74\00:53:32.91
of Christ. Everybody in his day
could've easily known it was
Him. We just saw another
00:53:33.01\00:53:40.12
compelling one tonight.
Everything predicted in the
sanctuary has come to pass. All
00:53:40.22\00:53:48.22
of the predictions of Jesus have
come to pass. Everything we've
seen so far - Daniel 2,
00:53:48.32\00:53:56.43
Revelation 6 - it's all to pass.
It's all been accurate and
right. Jesus came the first time
00:53:56.53\00:54:01.94
exactly as predicted. And I
promise you, He's coming the
second time exactly as
00:54:03.44\00:54:12.98
predicted. He's really coming
again. God is not going to let
suffering last forever. You're
00:54:13.05\00:54:25.36
His child. He sees it. My
question for you tonight is
simple: Where are you with Jesus
00:54:25.46\00:54:31.90
at this moment? Where are you
with Him? You need the blood of
Christ. There's no other way
00:54:32.00\00:54:40.64
home. Where are you with Him?
You need to know that, because
at some point, they're going to
00:54:40.74\00:54:53.79
close the books, and it's done.
There's a trumpet blast in this
world tonight. You're running
00:54:53.89\00:55:01.90
out of time. It's already
underway. And we're almost home.
Where are you with Jesus There's
00:55:02.00\00:55:15.44
a reason that Jesus lingers just
a little longer before He comes.
Peter writes that God is not
00:55:15.54\00:55:22.48
willing that any should perish.
He's waiting on you, because
heaven wouldn't be heaven
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without you, in His opinion. He
loves you. I'm going to ask that
you pray with me. Father in
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Heaven, when we see the detail
that You have poured into the
plan of salvation, and all of
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the lights that You turned on
along the way so that we
wouldn't miss it. That temple in
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the Old Testament, year after
year, pointing forward to Jesus.
And Jesus, God in human flesh,
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walking among us and giving His
life for us. The ultimate
sacrifice. Jesus the first
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fruits. Lord, I know that in
Your heart, You long for
everyone here to be in the
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kingdom. I'm going to ask
tonight, does your heart belong
to Jesus? There's no sin He
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can't forgive. If Jesus, if you
are determined that He is your
Lord, I'm going to ask you to
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raise your hand, let the angels
of heaven see it. Father, You
see these hands and You smile.
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These are your children, Your
sons and Your daughters.
Tonight, You're smiling because
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it's almost time to come and get
us. And these people will be
home, Your children, Your
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family. Come quickly, Lord
Jesus, we love You. And we pray
it in Jesus' name, amen
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