Salvation in Symbols and Signs,
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that's basically
what we've called
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this little Bible study
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that we're having in
the Book of Revelation,
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Salvation in Symbols and Signs.
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And really, it's, it's
more than just Revelation.
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We want to take in
prophecy as a whole,
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but we started with this book.
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And it's gonna be
really awesome to see
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how the Lord leads,
because the Book of Revelation
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is a summary of the
entire Bible in a sense.
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It's, as we
looked at the overview,
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it's a picture of a God of love,
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who is the bridegroom and us
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who are the bride being rescued
from the dragon, if you will.
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And it's a story
with a happy ending.
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It's beautiful
story with a happy ending.
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So we're going
to be looking at it,
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from the Book of Revelation
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but we're also gonna be delving
into other parts of the Bible.
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And eventually
we're gonna even get
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into the Book of Daniel
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and connect the two
books together which I think,
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it's really gonna
bring out this picture,
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this beautiful picture of
God's heart and God's love.
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I call it
prophetic pictures of God.
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And a lot of times
we look at prophecy,
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we attribute it to
the antichrist, beast,
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and to dark gloomy pictures.
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But I think its
prophetic pictures of God.
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So I'm thinking as we
get started right now,
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we should just
ask God to bless us
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and guide us and lead us.
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Yvonne, would you
like to pray for us?
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Yeah, sure, sure.
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Father God, we just praise
Your name and thank You so much
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for the privilege of
being able to study this book
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and to learn more
about You and Your Son
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through this book.
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We thank You Lord God.
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So we ask for Your Holy Spirit's
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presence here with us
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as we open the pages of
this, of Your holy word.
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We thank You Lord
God in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen. Thank you, Yvonne.
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So Salvation in
Symbols and Signs,
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I just want to emphasize that,
Salvation in Symbols and Signs.
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Yeah. That's
really what it's about.
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Yeah.
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And I think that
one of the things
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that's really turn
this book is verse 3.
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Revelation Chapter 1:3.
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Jason, would you
read that verse for us?
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Sure.
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"Blessed is he that readeth,
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and they that hear the
words of this prophecy,
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and keep those things
which are written therein:
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for the time is at hand."
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Okay.
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There is a threefold blessing
in the Book of Revelation.
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And the reason why God
has put a threefold blessing
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in the Book of
Revelation is to encourage us,
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to read it, to
hear it and to keep it.
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Why would we
need to be encouraged
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to read and keep and
hear the Book of Revelation?
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Why?
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Is there...
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Possibly in God's understanding
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a danger that people
would be uninterested,
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disinterested in
the Book of Revelation?
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Afraid, perhaps of
the Book of Revelation?
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I mean, when I was
in Pakistan years ago,
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I was doing a
series on Revelation,
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and a young man was translating
the meanings into Urdu.
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And my translator
came to me between sessions
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and he said to me "Pastor,
I need to tell you something,
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I need to tell you
something." I said, what is it?
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He said, well, he
said, when I started to study
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the Book of Revelation...
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He said, my dad who is
an elder in the church,
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and the pastor of
my church came to me
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and they said "don't
study the Book of Revelation."
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If you study the
Book of Revelation,
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scary beast will
come to take you tonight.
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I couldn't believe it. I
was like, are you serious?
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But yes, he was serious.
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I've been to seminars
where people have told me
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that they are dutifully
reading through the Bible.
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They are Christians and they
believe it's good, it's right,
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it's important to
read through the Bible.
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And they will read
through the Bible dutifully,
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and when they get to
the Book of Revelation,
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they'll do a 180 and go
all the way back to Genesis
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and start again,
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but they will not read
the Book of Revelation.
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I was...
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Over and over again. Yeah.
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It's interesting
that one of the reasons
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why many Christians
avoid the Book of Revelation is
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because they believe
that the Book of Revelation
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is really for the future,
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and it doesn't have
any relevance for them
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because they are gonna
be gone, raptured away.
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Good point.
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And so, you know, I
think Christ giving us
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this injunction, listen,
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"Blessed are they who read this,
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who understand it."
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This is the one book that
Satan doesn't want you to get.
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It's the last book of the Bible.
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You know the
consummation of the Bible.
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And so, it's like the
Lord's final sayings to us.
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And He's gonna put His
most important information
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in those final sayings.
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So there's a reason I
believe that, you know,
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it's actually Satan behind
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making this book
look unattractive.
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You don't want to read it
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because things
might happen to you.
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I mean, he uses
these tactics of fear,
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and, all, well, you know,
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I can't understand about
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or I can
understand everything else,
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but no I'm just,
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I'm not a scholar so
I can't understand that.
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And I think that's
crucial because a failure
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to understand prophecy is
what led the people in Christ,
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they too reject Him.
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That's an interesting...
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That's an important
connection right there.
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Their
misunderstanding of prophecy.
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Yes.
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Led them to reject
Him as the Messiah.
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That's right.
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Because they
confused His first coming
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with the second coming.
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And I think the
same thing is true today.
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You know, a misunderstanding
of Christ's second coming
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for His third coming
is gonna prepare people
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to receive a counterfeit messiah
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who puts his feet
on the ground and...
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You know these are all
kind of big things in the Bible,
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but the point
I'm making is that,
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if we fail to
understand prophecy,
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we're not going to
be able to be prepared
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for those events that
are coming up on the earth.
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It is true.
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And that's, that's why
this verse is so important.
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You know, this is the
only book of the Bible
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that has a threefold blessing
on it, pronounced on it?
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There's no other book of
the Bible, where God said,
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"blesses he that reads,
blesses those that keep,
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blesses those that hear
the prophecies of this book.
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There's no other
book in the Bible
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that has that in it.
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And the word blessed is
a really interesting word.
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Do you know what it means?
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The actual literal
meaning of the word blessed
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is to be happy, to be happy.
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Now, here's where we
start already identifying
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counterfeits of Satan.
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God says, if you
read, if you hear
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and if you keep the words
of the prophecy of this book,
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you will be happy.
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Satan says, some
scholars say, some people say,
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no you will be, you will
be afraid, you will be scared,
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it's a fearful book,
it's a book of doom and gloom.
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So this is, this is
an issue of God's word
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against man's word.
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Of God's word,
taking God's word by faith
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versus the experience that
we have in our understanding
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of how this book reads.
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And that's why I
really appreciate the way
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that we are
approaching this book
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because it's different.
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When I was a
dad, I'm still a dad,
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but my son is 23
and my daughter is 18.
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So she is Legal Smeagol
now, if you know what I mean.
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So once a dad, always a dad.
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But when I was a dad of kids,
we played a game in our house.
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I was a guilty of starting it.
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And it will go
something like this.
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I will be walking
along in the house
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somewhere
minding my own business
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and out of nowhere my
son or my daughter would say,
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boo, and they
would try to scare me,
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and I did the same to them.
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And I remember, I
came home one day,
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I was parking in the driveway
and going through the garage
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into the house from the
garage there was a laundry room
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and the pantry.
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And right off the laundry room,
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and then through the
next door was the kitchen
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and you could see the counter.
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As you got to the garage
store into the laundry room,
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you could see
the kitchen counter.
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And I could see the counter,
I was coming home for lunch,
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I could smell the
food, and I saw the counter,
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and I saw the plates there.
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And I was just, you
know, oh, yeah, I am hungry.
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And but, all of a sudden
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I realized there
is unusually quiet.
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And my antenna went up,
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and I stopped right at the door,
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right at the steps
into the laundry room.
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And I decided to
do my fake steps.
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Those are the things that
you do while you are walking,
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but you are not
actually going anywhere.
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And I made the
noise as if I was walking,
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but I wasn't
actually going anywhere.
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And right after about
the third or fourth step,
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out of the pantry
jumped my wife and my son
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and my daughter, boo!
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And I stood there
as calm as a cucumber
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and I said "boo to you too".
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They said, oh, dad,
you didn't scare us.
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And I said, no,
because I knew you were there.
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And that's what
prophecy is all about.
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Prophecy is not to scare us,
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prophecy is to
prepare us by showing us
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what's hiding around the corner.
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Good, good.
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And so, if we know God
is so loving and so kind,
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as to show us
what the future holds.
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You know, sometimes I
wish 20 years ago, oh, man,
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if I was alive 20 years
ago, I know how to invest.
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You know, I know what,
because I would have known
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what was coming
around the corner.
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When it comes to prophecy,
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we don't have to wish backwards.
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Our vision can
be 2020 right now.
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And God is telling
us in Bible prophecy,
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this is what's coming, this
is what's it gonna look like.
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So we don't have to be deceived,
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we don't have to get in a ruckus
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about events that are
taking place in the world
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that aren't
identified in Bible prophecy.
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Right.
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God is telling us
exactly how it lays out.
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And He tells us
once, seven churches,
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then He tells us
again, seven seals,
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then He tells us again,
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seven trumpets
and He tells us again,
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seven salvation signs.
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And every time He adds
another picture of these events,
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He gives more details for us,
so that we can understand them.
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So this way you
are checking yourself.
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You know, the process
is repeat and enlarged.
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So something that
is just out of the blue
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that doesn't match
what you have seen before.
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Right?
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You know, yet I can't be
in it because we are repeating
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and enlarging.
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Yes.
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That is such a good point.
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In fact, as we've been talking
about the Book of Revelation
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and the idea that's a
summary of the entire Bible.
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Guess what?
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The entire Bible
is written this way,
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repeat and enlarged.
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For example, Genesis
Chapter 1, Creation Story.
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God created man and
woman in His own image,
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He created them, right?
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Genesis Chapter 2,
repeat and enlarged.
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How specifically did
He create man and woman?
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Well, He created Adam
from the dust of the earth,
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but He created Eve
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from the rib in
the side of Adam's
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or the rib in Adam's side.
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You see, right
from the beginning,
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God uses this
repeat and enlarged idea.
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In fact, you start with Exodus
and then you go to Leviticus
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and then you go to Numbers
and then you go to Deuteronomy
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and you're
repeating and enlarging.
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The Ten Commandments in
Exodus are repeated and enlarged
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upon in Deuteronomy.
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All of the three days are
in each one of those four,
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first four books.
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Then you go to
Samuel, 1st and 2nd Samuel,
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repeat and
enlarged, 1st and 2nd Kings,
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repeat and enlarged,
1st and 2nd Chronicles.
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And when you
read through the Bible
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and you're reading
Chronicles Chapter...
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Wait a minute, I
already read this.
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This is... This is...
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Or, yeah, it's
repeating. Yeah, that's true.
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Psalms, Psalms is the same way.
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David starts a
thought and he ends a thought.
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And he starts a thought
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and he ends a
thought and he starts it...
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He says the same thing in
this, this parallel poetry.
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And then you go
through to the New Testament
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and what do you find?
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Mathew? Repeat and enlarged.
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Mark?
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Mark is
probably the first gospel
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that's been repeat and enlarged.
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Luke, repeat and enlarged, John.
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Same story told the...
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And it's really
interesting, isn't it?
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Because in
Daniel, you have Daniel 2,
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Daniel 7, Daniel 8, Daniel 11,
you have four repeat enlarges.
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In the gospels you
have four repeat enlarges.
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God inspired four
people to write these gospels,
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like He did it in fours.
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And four is the
significant number
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in the Book of Revelation.
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Four is
representative of all people,
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it's north,
south, east and west.
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It's a four
directions of the compass.
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For the four winds?
Yes, the four winds.
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That means everyone
is included in this.
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Everyone's
included in the gospels.
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I like stuff like that,
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like, you see
that's was confusing to me.
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So you have all these symbols,
you have all these signs.
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And where do
you find the meaning
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like prophetic days, a
year or something like...
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Like where do you look for that?
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Where do you find that?
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You know, this is a
really good question.
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And sometimes the
symbols are identified
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immediately in the text.
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Let me give you
an example of this.
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In Revelation Chapter 1,
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Jesus is pictured
among the candlesticks.
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Now the candlesticks,
that sanctuary language,
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that's sanctuary symbolism,
that again is borrowed
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from the Old Testament,
from the rest of the Bibles,
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all through the old and
the New Testaments and Hebrews.
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Right.
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And in Revelation 1:20, we're
told what the mystery of this,
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these candlesticks are.
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It says here,
Revelation Chapter 1.
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Yvonne, would you like to read
that for us, Revelation 1:20?
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Are you there? Sure. Sure.
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"The mystery of the seven stars
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which thou
sawest in my right hand,
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and the seven
golden candlesticks.
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The seven stars are the
angels of the seven churches:
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and the seven candlesticks
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which thou sawest
are the seven churches."
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Yes.
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Now this is, this is sometimes
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how the symbols are broken down.
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Okay.
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In Daniel 7 for example,
Daniel sees these beasts
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rising up out of the
sea and in this dream.
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And in verse 17, he's
told what the beast represent.
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Those beasts that
you saw are kings,
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their kingdoms verses 17 and 23.
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So there are times
in Revelation 17:15,
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John is told "the waters
where that woman is sitting,
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are peoples and nations,
and multitudes, and tongues."
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There are times when
it's right in the context
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of the prophecy that
the symbol is unfolded.
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But then there are other times
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when you have to
go search for it.
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And so this day
for a year thing,
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that is definitely
something that God has used
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in the Old Testament in a
number of different places,
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and you have to go
look for it and see...
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Oh, and then you have to
see, does the symbol fit.
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You can't just take a symbol
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and identify it in a Bible verse
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and then just
throw it in there and,
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you know, wield in
where you've got to see
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if it actually make sense.
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So...
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When you read the prophecy.
Christ is described as a lion.
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Well, we wouldn't say that
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He is the lion
in Daniel Chapter 7.
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Six. That's what I'm saying.
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Or Daniel... In Daniel...
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in Daniel 7.
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Oh yeah, right, right.
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He is the, you know,
that the lion, the leopard,
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the bear, the dragon.
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So He's not-- You
see what I'm saying.
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So the symbol has to
match with the context.
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Good point.
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And...
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When you look at, you
know, some of these symbols
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you have to actually see
the pattern in scriptures.
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So if you look at, for
example the number three,
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you'll see the number three.
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You may not realize that first,
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but every time you
read about the number three,
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you begin to see.
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Oh, there's
something symbolic here.
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And the first time
number three is mentioned,
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there's, you know,
that, on the third day,
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God brought forth the
fruit from the ground,
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and that's
immediately something...
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Like, wait a minute.
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So the first fruits were
brought forth from the ground
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on the third day.
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So the first fruits were
brought forth from the ground
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on the third day.
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And you begin to think, huh,
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Jesus Christ who
is our first fruits,
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brought forth from the
ground on the third day.
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Now you begin to see,
look at that number three
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and see every time
three is mentioned,
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the butler and the baker,
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after three days,
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one of you is
gonna be let loosed,
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the other one is gonna die.
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Jonah, in the belly
of the whale, three days.
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The, Abraham, sees a
place where he is to sacrifice
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his son three days, right?
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All these examples
of the number three,
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leads to the conclusion
that three has something to do
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with life and death.
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So when you look at
different numbers or symbols,
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you want to be careful
to look for repetition,
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because that's what's happening.
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When you see
something being repeated,
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connected with a
certain symbol or sign,
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take note of that repetition.
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So if you were to go
home right now and do a study
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on the number three.
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All the three days of scripture,
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you would find,
oh, wow, look at this.
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So many of them tie
into that particular
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thought of the dividing
line between life and death.
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So that would
be just one example
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of how to find
symbols, how to find signs.
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And when you see the pattern,
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I'm seeing a pattern
here with this number three.
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I'm seeing a pattern
here with this number four,
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or with the number seven.
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Those things
are gonna be crucial
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when you come to
the Book of Revelation.
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What about the number 12?
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Number 12 is...
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and before we get
there, I want to just hit on
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what Ivor said just
to expand on the thought.
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So a number of points
that Ivor just mentioned,
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I've never heard before.
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Okay, I've been
studying the Book of Revelation.
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I've been studying
Bible for 30 some years,
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never heard it before,
and that is the way it is.
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Yeah.
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Okay, God, the Holy
Sprit teaches individuals,
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they bring forth
stuff that's new and old.
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And some of the
ideas are brand new to us.
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And what I tell people
as I say, write it down,
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write, take notes.
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Use your Bible if,
you know, if that...
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make the connections,
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because now that
you have heard this
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and it make sense
and it's biblical,
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you're gonna have an opportunity
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and now God is gonna
give you an opportunity
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to share with somebody else.
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And when, it's not when
you hear it, that it lodges,
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that it's, that it click.
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It's when you share
it, that it becomes yours.
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Right.
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That's when it
really lodges in your heart,
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in your understanding.
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Now 12 is
another symbolic number.
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How do we...
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How do we identify that number?
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Well, we go back to
the Old Testament again
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and we realized that when
God first developed His people,
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they were developed as 12
sons that became 12 tribes.
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The 12 tribes of
Israel, they were God's people.
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And then when we go
to the New Testament,
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we find Jesus doing something
very significant with 12.
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He calls 12 apostles.
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The 12 apostles become
God's New Testament church,
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or we understand today
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they will be the
Christian church.
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So God had an
Old Testament Church,
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the 12 tribes of Israel.
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God had a New Testament
Church, the 12 apostles.
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Wow, 12, 12, that
number is now connecting
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with God's church, God's people.
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The number 12 represents
God's organized church
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or organized
people on planet earth.
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When you get to the end
of the Book of Revelation,
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you have the
city the New Jerusalem
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that we're all gonna
enter and guess what?
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It has 12 gates and
it has 12 foundations,
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and the name of the
12 tribes over the gates,
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and the foundations
have the 12 apostles,
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12 times 12 is 144.
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144,000 is the
symbolic number of the redeemed,
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God's people, God's kingdom.
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So we connect
all of this together.
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The Book of Revelation
connects all of this together.
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The numbers play out
and give us understanding,
00:19:23.79\00:19:27.06
representation of
certain aspects of truth.
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The three, the life and death,
the 12, the Kingdom of God,
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the four, the all
inclusiveness for example
00:19:33.20\00:19:35.57
going back to the four.
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When Jesus Christ gave a parable
00:19:37.41\00:19:39.07
of the sower and the seed,
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He was talking
about the word of God
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being sown in the
earth, in all the earth.
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How many types of ground that
He identify in that parable?
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Not three, not five, but
four, four types of ground,
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one good, three bad.
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When you get to
Revelation Chapter 6,
00:19:54.99\00:19:57.73
you have the
opening of the seals.
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And in Revelation Chapter
6, there are four horses.
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Not five, not three, but four.
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And what do we say,
the four represents?
00:20:04.93\00:20:06.97
Four is inclusive of
all the people of the earth,
00:20:07.00\00:20:09.90
north, south, east and west,
00:20:09.94\00:20:11.27
the four
directions of the compass,
00:20:11.31\00:20:12.64
the four winds of earth.
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So, so in Revelation 6,
you have these four horses.
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One of them, the white
horse is good, three of them,
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the red, the black,
and the pale are bad.
00:20:21.12\00:20:23.55
Same with the ground.
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In fact, there's a perfect
parallel between the horses
00:20:24.95\00:20:27.12
and the sower when
they see the parable
00:20:27.16\00:20:29.09
of the sower and the seed.
00:20:29.12\00:20:30.46
And when we look at that
as we get into Revelation 6.
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So four is symbolic of God's
sowing seed in all the world,
00:20:32.43\00:20:35.83
of everyone being
included in the seed sowing,
00:20:35.86\00:20:37.90
everyone being
included in the horses.
00:20:37.93\00:20:39.93
Twelve, God's Kingdom,
God's New Testament Church,
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Old Testament Church.
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So when the angel...
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In the Book of John, I
mean it's now Revelation 7,
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there are four angels,
00:20:50.78\00:20:52.88
standing on the four
corners of the earth.
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It symbolizes that
the sealing message
00:20:55.32\00:20:57.99
is not a local
message, it is a global message.
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Yes.
00:21:02.49\00:21:04.03
So now that we
begin to see the number,
00:21:04.06\00:21:05.39
when we look at the
number, we say, okay,
00:21:05.43\00:21:07.36
I know that number
four represents worldwide.
00:21:07.40\00:21:09.86
So when I see it now,
00:21:09.90\00:21:12.80
I can bring
into my understanding
00:21:12.83\00:21:14.90
or my interpretation,
this has something to do
00:21:14.94\00:21:18.14
with something that
is global and worldwide.
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And it is something to do
00:21:22.28\00:21:23.61
with what we're doing
right here on Dare to Dream.
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That's right.
00:21:25.01\00:21:26.35
We're taking a message
00:21:26.38\00:21:27.72
that God has
blessed to every nation,
00:21:27.75\00:21:30.35
kindred, tongue, and people,
00:21:30.39\00:21:31.72
we're taking into the
world because Revelation 7
00:21:31.75\00:21:34.12
and the symbolism
there of four tells us
00:21:34.16\00:21:35.69
that's what we should be doing.
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Absolutely.
00:21:37.09\00:21:38.43
And another symbol
00:21:38.46\00:21:39.79
that's identified
in relation to that is,
00:21:39.83\00:21:41.16
what we call the
Three Angels' Messages,
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but actually it's four angels.
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If you have
Revelation 14, the 1, 2, 3,
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and you got Revelation 18,
what we call the fourth angel,
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the message of the fourth angel.
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And it lightens the
earth with the glory of God.
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So these are, how
these symbols break down.
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It's beautiful.
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It's basic, it's
simple, but it's beautiful
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when you look at this.
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It's so amazing to
me, that it's so designed,
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that it's not have
hazard, that it's not,
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all of these
things have meaning,
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have deeper meaning.
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And that's, you know, it just
bespeaks of an omniscient God,
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Who just knows
everything there is to know,
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and yet can
break it down for us.
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Yeah.
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This is incredible to me.
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I think when we
approach the Book of Revelation,
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we need to approach
it like it's a science,
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and there are laws
that govern science.
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So there are laws that
govern the understanding
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of the Book of Revelation.
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And I think many
times people approach it,
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and there's no law
to how they approach it.
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You know, it's just like
okay, we'll make this mean,
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this is this, and then, this,
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I think that means this is this.
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I mean, if we went
through science like that,
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we be in trouble.
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You know, so just as there
are laws that govern science,
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there are laws that
govern the Book of Revelation.
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And when you
understand those laws,
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then you know this
couldn't possibly fit
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the description of
what this beast states or,
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you know, what these seals are
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or what these churches represent
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because the laws
dictate the interpretation.
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Right, right
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Right?
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So there is a symbol,
actually a design that,
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that I want to
share with you that,
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again kind of
shows this principle
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of repeat and enlarged
but also divine design.
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And that is the
fact that when we look
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at the Book of
Revelation, we see Jesus.
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The book opens up with Christ
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standing in the middle of
seven golden candlesticks.
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Now that should ring a bell
to us because, wait a minute,
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that's from the
sanctuary, right?
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So as you go through
the Book of Revelation,
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you'll find the
Book of Revelation
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has many symbols
from the sanctuary in it.
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Which means, that it would
be a good idea for us to have a,
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an
understanding of the sanctuary
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if we want to understand
the Book of Revelation.
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So we'll see that
the Book of Revelation
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is based upon the
pattern of the sanctuary.
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So take for example,
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we'll just run through
the sanctuary very quickly.
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If you're
familiar with it, great.
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If not, then you'll get familiar
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with it very quickly.
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But there were six articles
of furniture in the sanctuary.
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The first was the
alter of sacrifice,
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this is followed by the laver.
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Now of course we
know that those point
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to the death of
Christ, the altar of sacrifice,
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and the laver
represents baptism,
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you know being washed.
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And they're in the courtyard,
they are on the outer part
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of the sanctuary.
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They are in the out, they are
in the courtyard, absolutely.
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So those two
articles of furniture show
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how Christ came to
redeem us from sin,
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how He forgive us
and purified us, okay?
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He was the Lamb slain from
the foundation of the world.
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He was the Lamb slain from
the foundation of the world.
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And that's Revelation 13.
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Absolutely, and He
washes us in Revelation 1:5.
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And the Lamb slain
is the first symbol
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in Revelation Chapter 5
that we find identifying Christ.
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Absolutely.
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And when we look
at the Lamb slain,
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I don't want to deter,
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but when you
look at the Lamb slain
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in Revelation Chapter 5,
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the Lamb slain is a
symbol of the cross.
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From that point on,
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there are another 28
references to the Lamb
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in the Book of Revelation,
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which is also
sanctuary language.
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Absolutely.
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Every time that reference is
made to the Lamb in Revelation,
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it's a reference to the cross,
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because it goes
back to the Lamb slain.
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Therefore the
cross is a central theme
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of the Book of Revelation.
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In the Old Testament,
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the sinner would place his hands
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on the head of the lamb
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and confessed his
sins over that lamb,
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and then the lamb was slain.
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So when John the Baptist
sees Jesus for the first time,
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the first thing he does
is, he uses sanctuary language.
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Behold the Lamb of God.
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Right?
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You wouldn't have
understanding of Lamb of God.
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Okay, unless you
understood the sanctuary, oh,
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this is the one that is
gonna take up on the sins
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of the whole world
and die for their sins.
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Right?
00:26:13.94\00:26:15.27
So that's the altar of sacrifice
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and then the laver.
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In the holy place, you had
three articles of furniture,
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they were the
table of showbread,
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the altar of incense
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and the seven
branched candlestick.
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And those articles of furniture,
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the table of showbread
represents the word of God,
00:26:31.29\00:26:34.36
the altar of
incense represents prayer,
00:26:34.39\00:26:37.43
and the candlestick
letting your light shine.
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Christ is our light witnessing.
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But those three articles show
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how God sustains
the repentant sinner.
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All right, so after
I'm, I've accepted Christ,
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am I born again?
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Okay, now this is how I
sustain my walk with Christ.
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Okay. Okay?
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Then you get into
the most holy place,
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and this is where
Christ does the work
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of finally removing
sin once and for all.
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Okay, that's the
Day of Atonement.
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And remember what
happened on the end of the Day
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of Atonement, Christ would...
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I mean, the high priest
would lay his hands on the head
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of the scapegoat and
send the scapegoat out
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into a desolate place.
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Right, right.
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When you look at
this pattern, you find
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that the whole New
Testament is based off of this.
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Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John,
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deal with the
sacrifice of Christ.
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That's your altar of sacrifice.
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The laver,
Pentecost, the Book of Acts,
00:27:29.78\00:27:34.98
from Acts all the way to Jew,
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tell us how we
ought to be purified.
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When you get to Revelation,
you have the candlesticks,
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the table of showbread
and the altar of incense,
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which takes us
into the holy place.
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Revelation 11, brings
us into the most holy place
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and from there on now you
have the close of the book.
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Wow. Wow.
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That is beautiful
and we are out of time.
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This, where did the time go?
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So let's just close
with a word of prayer
00:28:02.91\00:28:04.68
and we'll continue on
in our next study together.
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Father, I want to thank You,
00:28:08.05\00:28:09.38
You've been leading
and guiding us step by step
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and we just praise You for that.
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I ask, You'll continue to do so
00:28:12.85\00:28:14.26
as we continue
to study this book.
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We want the blessings.
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We thank You for
them in Jesus' name, amen.
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Amen.
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