So we are moving right into our next horse. 00:00:30.53\00:00:33.96 There's four of them. 00:00:34.00\00:00:35.33 You got the white, the red, the black and the pale. 00:00:35.36\00:00:38.37 And all of these colors symbolize significant actions 00:00:38.40\00:00:43.51 or reactions that are working in the earth today. 00:00:43.54\00:00:46.41 So these four horses are riding through earth today, 00:00:46.44\00:00:48.91 but we've identified them 00:00:48.94\00:00:50.91 primarily first of as historic epics, 00:00:50.95\00:00:54.25 historic timeframes in the era of history, 00:00:54.28\00:00:57.85 going back to the apostolic age, 00:00:57.89\00:00:59.42 white horse, the purity of the gospel 00:00:59.45\00:01:01.52 and then coming into the persecution, 00:01:01.56\00:01:03.32 the red horse, the persecution that took place 00:01:03.36\00:01:06.19 as the gospel spread out throughout the world 00:01:06.23\00:01:08.70 and it became an issue with pagan Rome. 00:01:08.73\00:01:10.80 And now we're moving to a time of darkness, 00:01:10.83\00:01:13.20 a time when another transition takes place 00:01:13.23\00:01:16.64 in relation to Christianity 00:01:16.67\00:01:18.74 for Satan to try to work in and up and destroy 00:01:18.77\00:01:23.35 the Gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:01:23.38\00:01:25.01 So the black horse is gonna take us, 00:01:25.05\00:01:26.38 it's got another epic of time. 00:01:26.41\00:01:28.22 And we won't understand all the symbols here. 00:01:28.25\00:01:30.65 What we gonna find here as we read these verses is, 00:01:30.69\00:01:33.25 there's a little bit more here. 00:01:33.29\00:01:34.62 There's a little bit more for us to chew, 00:01:34.66\00:01:36.32 to bite often chew here, it might take us little longer 00:01:36.36\00:01:38.43 to get through some of these symbols and understand them. 00:01:38.46\00:01:40.43 But they will be, they are understandable. 00:01:40.46\00:01:43.10 So Jason, can you lead us out with the word of prayer 00:01:43.13\00:01:46.57 and then we get right into these verses, 00:01:46.60\00:01:47.97 read these verses. 00:01:48.00\00:01:49.34 Sure. 00:01:49.37\00:01:50.71 Dear heavenly Father, we ask that you be here with us 00:01:50.74\00:01:52.64 as we study about the black horse, 00:01:52.67\00:01:54.64 Lord, please bless the study 00:01:54.68\00:01:56.44 as You have all of our other ones, 00:01:56.48\00:01:58.15 in Jesus' name we pray, amen. 00:01:58.18\00:01:59.51 Amen. 00:01:59.55\00:02:01.08 Okay, let's read. 00:02:01.12\00:02:03.18 Jason, would you read for us verses. 00:02:03.22\00:02:05.05 What is it five and six, five and six. 00:02:05.09\00:02:08.72 Okay. 00:02:08.76\00:02:10.09 "And when he had opened the third seal, 00:02:10.13\00:02:11.73 I heard the third beast say, Come and see. 00:02:11.76\00:02:14.23 And I beheld, and lo a black horse, 00:02:14.26\00:02:18.00 and he that sat on him 00:02:18.03\00:02:20.84 had a pair of balances in his hand. 00:02:20.87\00:02:23.34 And I heard a voice 00:02:23.37\00:02:24.71 in the midst of the four beasts say, 00:02:24.74\00:02:26.54 a measure of wheat for a penny, 00:02:26.57\00:02:28.38 and three measures of barley for a penny, 00:02:28.41\00:02:30.85 and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine. " 00:02:30.88\00:02:34.32 Okay, so this first symbol that we want to look at here 00:02:34.35\00:02:38.12 I think is the symbol of the color. 00:02:38.15\00:02:39.95 We've been doing that all the way through. 00:02:39.99\00:02:42.26 The white we connected in about a dozen places there, 00:02:42.29\00:02:45.39 it's connected to the righteousness of saints, 00:02:45.43\00:02:48.06 the righteousness of God. 00:02:48.10\00:02:49.63 So saw that in relation to Revelation 19:11 00:02:49.66\00:02:52.23 the white horse and its rider is Christ. 00:02:52.27\00:02:54.40 So we identified the horses. 00:02:54.44\00:02:55.84 Christ, His people connected His church, 00:02:55.87\00:02:58.27 connected with Him. 00:02:58.31\00:02:59.71 And then the red horse, we connected the red 00:02:59.74\00:03:02.01 with the dragon in Revelation 12:3, 00:03:02.04\00:03:04.05 the great red dragon, persecution again, 00:03:04.08\00:03:07.22 the connection was made there. 00:03:07.25\00:03:08.75 There are number of Bible verses 00:03:08.78\00:03:10.82 that we want to look at here. 00:03:10.85\00:03:12.19 And I'm thinking may be we can just kind of look at a couple. 00:03:12.22\00:03:15.79 One of them is found in Acts 26:18. 00:03:15.82\00:03:22.06 Acts 26:18. 00:03:22.10\00:03:24.57 The other one that I want us to look at is in John 3:19-21. 00:03:24.60\00:03:30.87 So, Yvonne, do you have the Acts one? 00:03:30.91\00:03:33.07 Yeah, Acts 26, which is that? 00:03:33.11\00:03:34.44 Yeah, Acts 26:18. 00:03:34.48\00:03:37.28 John 3. Okay. 00:03:37.31\00:03:38.65 John 3:19 to 21. 00:03:38.68\00:03:41.58 Okay, and... 00:03:41.62\00:03:43.22 As soon as you get there just, you just go ahead. 00:03:43.25\00:03:45.12 26:18 you said? Yeah. 00:03:45.15\00:03:46.99 Okay, "To open their eyes and to turn them 00:03:47.02\00:03:50.49 from darkness to light. " 00:03:50.53\00:03:52.33 Do you want me to do 17? 00:03:52.36\00:03:53.70 Yeah, do 17, you get it. 00:03:53.73\00:03:55.06 "Delivering thee from the people, 00:03:55.10\00:03:56.77 and from the Gentiles, 00:03:56.80\00:03:58.13 unto whom now I send thee, to open their eyes 00:03:58.17\00:04:01.70 and to turn them from darkness to light 00:04:01.74\00:04:03.64 and from the power of Satan to God, 00:04:03.67\00:04:06.14 that they may receive forgiveness of sins 00:04:06.17\00:04:08.41 and an inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith 00:04:08.44\00:04:12.41 that is in me. " 00:04:12.45\00:04:13.95 Okay, so just real quick one, you want to comment on that. 00:04:13.98\00:04:16.15 Paul here is speaking about how the gospel, 00:04:16.18\00:04:19.29 the white horse is symbolizing the gospel is turning people 00:04:19.32\00:04:22.62 from darkness to light. 00:04:22.66\00:04:24.89 So here if we borrow this, 00:04:24.93\00:04:26.49 we bring this over to Revelation 6, 00:04:26.53\00:04:28.96 we have darkness and we have light. 00:04:29.00\00:04:32.73 And Jesus is saying that 00:04:32.77\00:04:34.27 this color is symbolic of the darkness 00:04:34.30\00:04:37.74 of not understanding the gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:04:37.77\00:04:40.78 Satan is going to try to keep us in darkness. 00:04:40.81\00:04:44.05 Now let's read John Chapter 3. 00:04:44.08\00:04:46.45 Verses 19 to 21. 00:04:46.48\00:04:48.68 "And this is the condemnation, 00:04:48.72\00:04:50.59 that light is come into the world, 00:04:50.62\00:04:52.39 and men loved darkness rather than light, 00:04:52.42\00:04:55.22 because their deeds were evil. 00:04:55.26\00:04:57.39 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, 00:04:57.43\00:05:00.00 neither cometh to the light, 00:05:00.03\00:05:01.56 lest his deeds should be reproved. " 00:05:01.60\00:05:03.87 Okay, so... 00:05:03.90\00:05:05.23 Oh, is that? Verse 21. 00:05:05.27\00:05:06.60 "But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, 00:05:06.63\00:05:09.27 that his deeds may be made manifest, 00:05:09.30\00:05:11.41 that they are wrought in God. " 00:05:11.44\00:05:13.21 Now, do you noticed something significant here? 00:05:13.24\00:05:16.11 These verses are talking about people. 00:05:16.14\00:05:18.91 Talking about people specifically. 00:05:18.95\00:05:20.65 So we've already identified the horses 00:05:20.68\00:05:22.15 as representing people works. 00:05:22.18\00:05:24.65 So in this particular epic of time, 00:05:24.69\00:05:27.39 we've got horses. 00:05:27.42\00:05:29.62 The black horse representing people 00:05:29.66\00:05:31.46 who are rejecting light and moving into darkness, 00:05:31.49\00:05:34.50 who are rejecting light and holding on to darkness. 00:05:34.53\00:05:37.00 Basically that's what's taking place. 00:05:37.03\00:05:38.93 You've got people... 00:05:38.97\00:05:40.30 See every one of these horses represents people 00:05:40.34\00:05:42.74 and choices that we make. 00:05:42.77\00:05:44.24 And we'll see this even more as we get to the end of this 00:05:44.27\00:05:47.08 whole symbol or symbols summarize it all 00:05:47.11\00:05:50.61 in this incredible application of parallel 00:05:50.65\00:05:53.48 to one of the parables. 00:05:53.52\00:05:55.08 A parallel to a parable of Jesus in Matthew 13, 00:05:55.12\00:05:58.75 but right now we just want to emphasize 00:05:58.79\00:06:00.59 that sometimes when we think about horses, 00:06:00.62\00:06:03.06 we think all these horses, they must represent, 00:06:03.09\00:06:05.59 you know, these earthly beast 00:06:05.63\00:06:07.23 and the other that's going on in the earth and it's, 00:06:07.26\00:06:09.46 you know, the red horse that must be communism, 00:06:09.50\00:06:11.37 you know, and they come down and they kill, 00:06:11.40\00:06:12.87 you know, and take piece from the earth 00:06:12.90\00:06:14.24 and then disperse. 00:06:14.27\00:06:15.60 No, these horses represent people 00:06:15.64\00:06:17.11 and they represent very practical decisions 00:06:17.14\00:06:19.21 that we make in relation to the gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:06:19.24\00:06:23.24 And so here we have people who are represented 00:06:23.28\00:06:26.25 as loving darkness rather than light. 00:06:26.28\00:06:28.35 And we have the gospel trying to take us 00:06:28.38\00:06:29.82 out of darkness into the light. 00:06:29.85\00:06:31.95 And these Bibles verses are helping us 00:06:31.99\00:06:34.52 to unravel that and understand, 00:06:34.56\00:06:36.29 you know, how that applies to this, to this age, 00:06:36.32\00:06:38.59 but we want to see it in relation to history. 00:06:38.63\00:06:41.66 How do we connect this to the churches 00:06:41.70\00:06:44.27 and the history that's taking place there? 00:06:44.30\00:06:45.63 What's happening in this period of time? 00:06:45.67\00:06:48.74 Let's test our students here. 00:06:48.77\00:06:51.71 Oh no. 00:06:51.74\00:06:53.31 Quiz? I'm serious. 00:06:53.34\00:06:54.84 We hate our quizzes. We hate that. 00:06:54.88\00:06:57.05 So but this one should be pretty easy. 00:06:57.08\00:06:58.51 Okay. 00:06:58.55\00:06:59.95 So this is seal number what? 00:06:59.98\00:07:04.22 This is number two, isn't it? 00:07:04.25\00:07:05.62 Number three. Three, three. 00:07:05.65\00:07:06.99 Right so, if we're looking at seal number three then, 00:07:07.02\00:07:09.72 if we need something that we can check it again, 00:07:09.76\00:07:13.06 so we can get a general idea 00:07:13.09\00:07:15.00 of what period we are talking about, 00:07:15.03\00:07:17.50 where would we go. 00:07:17.53\00:07:22.07 Would we look anywhere else in the Book of Revelation 00:07:22.10\00:07:24.67 for something that we have covered before? 00:07:24.71\00:07:27.14 The churches. The churches. 00:07:27.18\00:07:28.51 Excellent, you are doing great. The churches! 00:07:28.54\00:07:30.55 Yay! 00:07:30.58\00:07:34.75 The churches. Right. 00:07:34.78\00:07:37.49 And what church specifically 00:07:37.52\00:07:40.09 would we seek to find some kind of connection with? 00:07:40.12\00:07:44.56 What number? Three. 00:07:44.59\00:07:46.16 Number three, church number three. 00:07:46.19\00:07:47.53 And if we go back to the list of churches, 00:07:47.56\00:07:50.17 church number three is a church of Pergamos, 00:07:50.20\00:07:52.43 which is where we found compromise taking place. 00:07:52.47\00:07:55.44 And we saw that that time period 00:07:55.47\00:07:57.34 was beginning roughly around 321 A.D, 00:07:57.37\00:08:02.21 with the introduction of the Emperor Constantine, 00:08:02.24\00:08:06.68 and the compromise that began to happen 00:08:06.72\00:08:10.29 right after the persecutions of the second church period. 00:08:10.32\00:08:14.16 Okay. 00:08:14.19\00:08:15.52 So now we know, okay, this third horse, 00:08:15.56\00:08:19.06 this black horse would represent 00:08:19.09\00:08:21.63 compromise occurring 00:08:21.66\00:08:25.50 really at the time of this agreement 00:08:25.53\00:08:32.21 that is about to be made between Rome 00:08:32.24\00:08:36.28 as a nation and Christianity. 00:08:36.31\00:08:39.15 They began to come together 00:08:39.18\00:08:42.12 and mix paganism with Christianity 00:08:42.15\00:08:46.76 which would point us to the scales 00:08:46.79\00:08:48.46 that the rider on the black horse is holding, 00:08:48.49\00:08:51.16 balance, false balances. 00:08:51.19\00:08:52.53 False balances. 00:08:52.56\00:08:53.90 Yeah, we have a scale and you're trying to, 00:08:53.93\00:08:55.90 you know, you give a little and you take a little. 00:08:55.93\00:08:57.53 Right? Right. 00:08:57.57\00:08:58.90 Make it and that's what's going on here. 00:08:58.93\00:09:00.27 Hey, you know what? 00:09:00.30\00:09:01.64 We'll make some concessions, we'll make some agreements. 00:09:01.67\00:09:04.11 We'll mingle paganism with Christianity 00:09:04.14\00:09:06.64 so that everyone can be happy. 00:09:06.68\00:09:10.21 That's what begins to happen. 00:09:10.25\00:09:11.58 Yes. 00:09:11.61\00:09:12.95 And this is really interesting because as you bring that out, 00:09:12.98\00:09:15.55 there's a couple of other Bible verses 00:09:15.58\00:09:17.35 that I want us to refer to in relation to this. 00:09:17.39\00:09:19.82 The word balance here also means a yoke 00:09:19.85\00:09:25.03 or a burden or bondage, and it can refer, 00:09:25.06\00:09:28.73 you know in Mathew Chapter 11, 00:09:28.76\00:09:30.77 it talks about being yoked up with Christ. 00:09:30.80\00:09:33.64 But in other Bible verses, there's a negative connotation 00:09:33.67\00:09:37.37 to this yoke or this balance that's identified here. 00:09:37.41\00:09:39.84 And I think it's in a negative that we're seeing this. 00:09:39.87\00:09:42.78 Just like peace can refer to, 00:09:42.81\00:09:45.38 you know, the gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:09:45.41\00:09:47.92 The sword is negative in the last one. 00:09:47.95\00:09:50.89 It's a sword of persecution 00:09:50.92\00:09:52.29 but Jesus also can represent the sword. 00:09:52.32\00:09:54.52 So we have to understand the context, 00:09:54.56\00:09:56.09 that's why these principles are very important in layering 00:09:56.12\00:09:58.63 with the churches and the seals and then the trumpets, 00:09:58.66\00:10:01.16 helping us to make the connection. 00:10:01.20\00:10:02.86 So look at these Bible verses. 00:10:02.90\00:10:04.97 Look up Acts Chapter 15. 00:10:05.00\00:10:07.57 Yvonne, can you look up Acts 15:10? 00:10:07.60\00:10:10.74 And then, Jason, would you look up 00:10:10.77\00:10:12.81 Acts or Galatians 5:1? 00:10:12.84\00:10:15.31 Galatians 5:1 and Acts 15:10. 00:10:15.34\00:10:19.21 And as you're looking up Galatians 5:1, 00:10:19.25\00:10:23.55 I want to give a little bit of background 00:10:23.59\00:10:25.12 to what's happening in Galatia. 00:10:25.15\00:10:26.89 Do you have Acts 15 already? I do. 00:10:26.92\00:10:28.26 Let's start with that. 00:10:28.29\00:10:29.62 Okay, "Now therefore why tempt ye God, 00:10:29.66\00:10:31.53 to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, 00:10:31.56\00:10:34.13 which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?" 00:10:34.16\00:10:37.13 Okay, Paul here is dealing not only with the yoke 00:10:37.17\00:10:41.90 that the Jews were trying to bring in 00:10:41.94\00:10:43.97 to the Christian church, 00:10:44.01\00:10:45.34 the yoke of the ceremonial, listen to the ceremony laws, 00:10:45.37\00:10:49.28 that they even themselves 00:10:49.31\00:10:51.01 were not able to keep and follow, 00:10:51.05\00:10:54.05 but he is also talking about legalism in a sense. 00:10:54.08\00:10:56.99 He is talking about the Judises, 00:10:57.02\00:10:58.95 they were coming in a sense undermining 00:10:58.99\00:11:01.46 the gospel of Jesus Christ 00:11:01.49\00:11:02.96 and wanting to force the Gentiles to be circumcised 00:11:02.99\00:11:05.49 and they keep these certain ceremonial laws 00:11:05.53\00:11:07.73 that really had been fulfilled in Jesus Christ. 00:11:07.76\00:11:10.67 And Galatians 5:1? 00:11:10.70\00:11:12.03 Galatians 5:1, "Stand fast therefore in the liberty 00:11:12.07\00:11:15.80 where with Christ have made us free, 00:11:15.84\00:11:18.37 and be not entangled again with a yoke of bondage. " 00:11:18.41\00:11:21.54 Okay, so here, the yoke of bondage 00:11:21.58\00:11:26.08 is again coming in suddenly to the church 00:11:26.11\00:11:29.62 through this Judisers, 00:11:29.65\00:11:31.22 where they're wanting to observe 00:11:31.25\00:11:32.59 in the context of Galatians' 00:11:32.62\00:11:34.39 years and months and days, 00:11:34.42\00:11:37.43 all of these different holidays and formalisms. 00:11:37.46\00:11:41.16 Christian formalism that was trying to come in 00:11:41.20\00:11:44.17 to the early church 00:11:44.20\00:11:45.53 and that's exactly what we see taking place 00:11:45.57\00:11:47.14 during this darkness. 00:11:47.17\00:11:48.50 We see a mixture of paganism and forms and ceremonies 00:11:48.54\00:11:53.88 with the pure gospel of Christianity. 00:11:53.91\00:11:56.38 And so it's truly significant here 00:11:56.41\00:11:57.75 because the balance actually deepens the symbolism 00:11:57.78\00:12:01.38 of the black horse because in this case, 00:12:01.42\00:12:03.69 it is referring to these forms of legalism 00:12:03.72\00:12:06.96 that are eroding the gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:12:06.99\00:12:09.96 Slowly eroding, eating away at the gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:12:09.99\00:12:12.96 And end up coming to this fruition 00:12:12.99\00:12:15.73 in this incredible edifice of forms and ceremonies 00:12:15.76\00:12:20.77 that the church becomes down 00:12:20.80\00:12:23.41 toward the end of this period of time, 00:12:23.44\00:12:26.94 and something that the gospel has to break through 00:12:26.98\00:12:28.71 point by point. 00:12:28.74\00:12:30.08 We'll be looking at this point by point 00:12:30.11\00:12:31.45 and recover the brightness 00:12:31.48\00:12:32.85 and the purity of the gospel of Jesus Christ. 00:12:32.88\00:12:34.88 And its freedom. Yeah, and the freedom. 00:12:34.92\00:12:36.25 Because the holy yoke, the whole idea 00:12:36.28\00:12:38.25 that there is a yoke here and legalism is a yoke, it is. 00:12:38.29\00:12:44.33 And so many people are just so bound up in legalism 00:12:44.36\00:12:49.03 that they don't know the freedom that comes 00:12:49.06\00:12:51.43 with actually knowing Christ in that. 00:12:51.47\00:12:53.67 And not having to be just so... 00:12:53.70\00:12:57.51 heavy-laden... 00:12:59.91\00:13:01.24 Yeah, havey-laden. With the burden. 00:13:01.28\00:13:02.68 Yeah. 00:13:02.71\00:13:04.05 And what's interesting about this is that, you know, 00:13:04.08\00:13:06.31 that the Bible here is talking about these pair of balances. 00:13:06.35\00:13:10.85 These are false balances, and let's just made that word 00:13:10.89\00:13:15.22 singular, false balance. 00:13:15.26\00:13:17.43 So this idea of, you know, hey, let's be balance man, 00:13:17.46\00:13:23.03 be careful because sometimes, you know, 00:13:23.06\00:13:25.80 whose definition of balance. 00:13:25.83\00:13:27.30 Right. You know what I'm saying. 00:13:27.34\00:13:28.67 So now in the early church you have this. 00:13:28.70\00:13:31.04 Look, you know, we don't have to keep God's law the way 00:13:31.07\00:13:35.04 that He wrote it. 00:13:35.08\00:13:36.41 Let's compromise a little, you know, 00:13:36.44\00:13:37.98 let the pagans do their thing, be balance. 00:13:38.01\00:13:40.92 You know, don't be so, and so, you know, 00:13:40.95\00:13:43.18 on a very practical personal level. 00:13:43.22\00:13:46.92 White horse, you're on fire, 00:13:46.96\00:13:49.36 you know, they have the gospel. 00:13:49.39\00:13:51.29 But then the red horse comes along, 00:13:51.33\00:13:52.86 persecute you, oh, man, 00:13:52.89\00:13:54.63 and so the tendency when we become persecuted is, 00:13:54.66\00:14:00.84 what can I do to stop this persecution, 00:14:00.87\00:14:03.24 I know, I'll compromise a little bit. 00:14:03.27\00:14:05.74 Let me just kind of cool that, 00:14:05.77\00:14:08.61 and that's what the devil is trying. 00:14:08.64\00:14:09.98 You know, on a very personal level, 00:14:10.01\00:14:11.91 devil wants to get you connected 00:14:11.95\00:14:13.28 with that dark holes. 00:14:13.31\00:14:15.28 So that now you're balancing, I mean, your false balance, 00:14:15.32\00:14:18.15 you're compromising, 00:14:18.19\00:14:20.09 and this is exactly what is happening 00:14:20.12\00:14:22.56 in this church period, 00:14:22.59\00:14:24.83 where they begin to compromise with paganism, 00:14:24.86\00:14:28.53 and the mansion here 00:14:28.56\00:14:31.90 that actually speaks about in that verse 6. 00:14:31.93\00:14:36.81 "I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts 00:14:36.84\00:14:39.74 saying a measure of wheat for a penny, 00:14:39.77\00:14:41.94 and three measures of barley for a penny. " 00:14:41.98\00:14:44.11 Okay. Yeah. 00:14:44.15\00:14:45.95 So what are bread, 00:14:45.98\00:14:48.42 you know, indeed barely and wheat 00:14:48.45\00:14:49.95 are ingredients for bread. 00:14:49.98\00:14:51.32 What is bread symbolized in the Bible? 00:14:51.35\00:14:54.02 Jesus often. 00:14:54.06\00:14:55.39 Symbolizes Christ, and it symbolizes His word. 00:14:55.42\00:14:58.93 Man does not live by bread alone, 00:14:58.96\00:15:01.83 thy words were found and I did eat them. 00:15:01.86\00:15:03.77 So you've got the table of showbread, 00:15:03.80\00:15:05.93 remember in the sanctuary symbolism, 00:15:05.97\00:15:07.74 and the table of showbread represents, 00:15:07.77\00:15:09.37 you know, you got the live witnessing, 00:15:09.40\00:15:10.74 you got the altar prayer, 00:15:10.77\00:15:12.11 you got the table of showbread, 00:15:12.14\00:15:13.54 partaking of the word of God. 00:15:13.58\00:15:15.64 Two stacks of 6, 66 books in the word of God. 00:15:15.68\00:15:20.32 So God is bringing these symbols alive 00:15:20.35\00:15:22.28 and He is pointed out, He will make a connection again 00:15:22.32\00:15:24.82 with the sanctuary in the sense with the bread. 00:15:24.85\00:15:27.49 What does it mean for a penny? 00:15:27.52\00:15:29.19 See, a penny was like a day's wages. 00:15:29.22\00:15:31.36 So it was costly to maintain that connection 00:15:31.39\00:15:35.80 with the word of God 00:15:35.83\00:15:37.17 and to have the word of God was costly 00:15:37.20\00:15:39.63 as this compromise began to take place. 00:15:39.67\00:15:41.57 Yeah, I see those two loaves, you know, I mean two stacks, 00:15:41.60\00:15:46.34 six loaves each as true balance. 00:15:46.37\00:15:49.68 Perfect true balance, you know, 00:15:49.71\00:15:51.25 so something by attacking the word of God 00:15:51.28\00:15:55.82 and creating a false balance with the word of God 00:15:55.85\00:15:59.65 has much significance 00:15:59.69\00:16:01.02 when we come back to the table of showbread, 00:16:01.06\00:16:02.92 where there's all these seals are unfolding. 00:16:02.96\00:16:05.43 So you think about the book of... 00:16:05.46\00:16:06.83 you know, it talks about this, 00:16:06.86\00:16:08.23 how much it cost for this bread and if there is a famine, 00:16:08.26\00:16:12.33 there is a famine and guess what, 00:16:12.37\00:16:13.70 Amos Chapter 8, I'm going to read it. 00:16:13.74\00:16:16.34 Amos 8: 11, it says 00:16:16.37\00:16:17.91 "Behold, the days comes say the Lord God, 00:16:17.94\00:16:20.08 that I will send a famine in the land, 00:16:20.11\00:16:22.14 not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, 00:16:22.18\00:16:25.38 but of hearing the words of the Lord. 00:16:25.41\00:16:28.05 And they shall wander from sea and sea 00:16:28.08\00:16:29.82 and from the north even to the east 00:16:29.85\00:16:31.29 they shall run to and fro 00:16:31.32\00:16:33.52 to seek the word of the Lord and shall not find it. " 00:16:33.56\00:16:36.76 What began to happen in this time period is this. 00:16:36.79\00:16:40.70 Taking away of the word of God to where the word of God, 00:16:40.73\00:16:44.17 the true word of God becomes scarce. 00:16:44.20\00:16:47.30 Now, want you to think about this. 00:16:47.34\00:16:50.27 Remember we talked about, 00:16:50.31\00:16:51.94 because something very specific happened in 321 A.D. 00:16:51.97\00:16:56.11 And that was actually the first Sunday law 00:16:56.14\00:16:59.28 that was passed by Constantine. 00:16:59.31\00:17:00.65 I remember we talked about how the table of showbread 00:17:00.68\00:17:03.85 was changed out every Sabbath. 00:17:03.89\00:17:07.46 So we saw that look, 00:17:07.49\00:17:10.09 the things that are going to be the focus of the seal, 00:17:10.13\00:17:13.09 of the seals are the word of God, 00:17:13.13\00:17:15.63 the mount of the congregation and the Sabbath. 00:17:15.66\00:17:18.87 So under the white horse, white horse goes forth 00:17:18.90\00:17:22.90 with the true word of God and the Sabbath, you know, 00:17:22.94\00:17:25.84 that's what set Christians aside in the yoke 00:17:25.87\00:17:28.34 so they were actually persecuted under the red horse 00:17:28.38\00:17:31.11 because they were keeping the Sabbath. 00:17:31.15\00:17:33.31 It was a heavy Sabbath persecution 00:17:33.35\00:17:35.62 and because of this, some Christians began to say, 00:17:35.65\00:17:38.25 we need to distance ourselves from the Sabbath 00:17:38.29\00:17:40.49 because it's bringing persecution 00:17:40.52\00:17:42.69 and so under Constantine, 00:17:42.72\00:17:45.63 you have this compromise, right? 00:17:45.66\00:17:47.43 Now remember this, I want to show this, 00:17:47.46\00:17:48.96 let's get back to the third church, 00:17:49.00\00:17:52.20 which is what you guys pointed out, okay. 00:17:52.23\00:17:54.04 Remember how we talked about how Lucifer wanted to sit 00:17:54.07\00:17:57.91 on the sides of the north, 00:17:57.94\00:17:59.34 over the mount of the congregation. 00:17:59.37\00:18:01.44 Well, this is third seal. 00:18:01.48\00:18:03.48 I want you to go back, let's just go back 00:18:03.51\00:18:04.98 very quickly to the third church, 00:18:05.01\00:18:06.88 Revelation Chapter 2 00:18:06.92\00:18:09.35 and let's look at verse 12 and 13, 00:18:09.38\00:18:12.92 and let's see 12 and 13. 00:18:12.95\00:18:17.73 Could you, one of you read that for us verse 12 and 13. 00:18:17.76\00:18:20.56 "And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write, 00:18:20.60\00:18:22.86 These things saith he which hath the sharp sword 00:18:22.90\00:18:25.90 with two edges, I know thy works, 00:18:25.93\00:18:28.30 and where thou dwellest, even where Satan's seat is. " 00:18:28.34\00:18:31.07 All right, stop right there. 00:18:31.11\00:18:32.81 Even where what? 00:18:32.84\00:18:34.18 Satan's seat. Satan's seat. 00:18:34.21\00:18:36.48 Third church, third seal, 00:18:36.51\00:18:39.48 Sunday law, historically. 00:18:39.51\00:18:42.82 So Satan is attempting to take his seat 00:18:42.85\00:18:47.66 over the mount of the congregation. 00:18:47.69\00:18:49.99 Worship. Wow. 00:18:50.03\00:18:51.36 Worship. 00:18:51.39\00:18:52.73 Wow. 00:18:52.76\00:18:54.10 He is sitting in a sense we can say 00:18:54.13\00:18:56.20 he is attempting to sit on the sides of the north 00:18:56.23\00:18:59.47 over the mount of the congregation, 00:18:59.50\00:19:02.27 and using his authority to change the Sabbath. 00:19:02.30\00:19:08.18 Yeah. 00:19:08.21\00:19:09.54 It was the priest that changed the table of showbread 00:19:09.58\00:19:12.51 every Sabbath. 00:19:12.55\00:19:13.88 So now when he sits, saying, yeah, 00:19:13.92\00:19:15.42 I have authority to do this. 00:19:15.45\00:19:16.92 I'm sitting over the mount of the congregation. 00:19:16.95\00:19:18.95 I have authority to change God's law, 00:19:18.99\00:19:22.02 which brings us right back to the Book of Daniel, 00:19:22.06\00:19:24.13 which we will get into later, but you see this connections 00:19:24.16\00:19:27.06 that let you know this is definitely 00:19:27.10\00:19:29.00 where we are in history, 00:19:29.03\00:19:30.47 the fact that Satan's seat would be mentioned 00:19:30.50\00:19:32.87 in connection with the third seal 00:19:32.90\00:19:36.17 is absolutely profound 00:19:36.20\00:19:37.64 and important for us to understand. 00:19:37.67\00:19:39.27 It really is, and you know that history 00:19:39.31\00:19:41.34 again informs us today. 00:19:41.38\00:19:43.04 When we look back at the history we say, 00:19:43.08\00:19:44.91 okay, here's where it applies. 00:19:44.95\00:19:46.55 Then we take the principles and we apply to us today. 00:19:46.58\00:19:49.82 We don't necessarily see Satan doing the same thing exactly 00:19:49.85\00:19:54.69 but we see the same principles taking place. 00:19:54.72\00:19:56.89 So Sunday law, famine for the word of God, 00:19:56.93\00:20:01.50 the true word of God is scarce. 00:20:01.53\00:20:03.40 And there's this famine and people aren't understanding 00:20:03.43\00:20:06.47 really what the word of God teaches 00:20:06.50\00:20:07.84 because we have these transition taking place 00:20:07.87\00:20:10.57 and the word of God 00:20:10.61\00:20:11.94 doesn't become the centre any longer. 00:20:11.97\00:20:13.31 So how does that apply to us today? 00:20:13.34\00:20:15.91 Now, I want to share with you a couple of 00:20:15.94\00:20:17.85 bible worship versions 00:20:17.88\00:20:19.91 that I think bring this home to us, in our time. 00:20:19.95\00:20:23.08 What we see taking place today, by the way, 00:20:23.12\00:20:24.72 this is really interesting 00:20:24.75\00:20:26.09 because recently I was given a bible to read, 00:20:26.12\00:20:30.53 it's called the... 00:20:30.56\00:20:35.26 I'm now forgetting the name of it, 00:20:35.30\00:20:36.63 but it's the bible that's written in sequence, 00:20:36.67\00:20:39.03 everything is in, kind of like the Chronological Bible, 00:20:39.07\00:20:41.87 Chronological Bible. 00:20:41.90\00:20:43.71 And I was like, this is great, you know. 00:20:43.74\00:20:45.07 'Cause when you reading Mathew, 00:20:45.11\00:20:46.44 you don't just read Mathew, you have Mathew, Luke, John, 00:20:46.47\00:20:48.34 Mathew, Mark, Luke, John. 00:20:48.38\00:20:49.88 First chapter, second chapter. 00:20:49.91\00:20:51.25 It puts it all in there, 00:20:51.28\00:20:52.61 everything's in chronological order. 00:20:52.65\00:20:53.98 So I started Genesis, start reading through, 00:20:54.02\00:20:55.72 and it was filled with footnotes, 00:20:55.75\00:20:57.09 and I was like, oh. 00:20:57.12\00:20:58.62 And so I'm reading through, and reading these footnotes, 00:20:58.65\00:21:00.92 and I started noticing, wait a minute, 00:21:00.96\00:21:04.19 theses footnotes are actually undermining the word of God. 00:21:04.23\00:21:09.86 They're actually undermining the word of God. 00:21:09.90\00:21:11.23 I'm thinking, why are they doing this? 00:21:11.27\00:21:12.60 So I stopped reading the footnotes. 00:21:12.63\00:21:14.10 And then I realize as I went through there, 00:21:14.14\00:21:15.84 I realize, you know the bible is the best selling book 00:21:15.87\00:21:21.31 in the world. 00:21:21.34\00:21:23.58 Yes, still, right. Still. 00:21:23.61\00:21:26.41 It's not on the New York best sellers list 00:21:26.45\00:21:27.78 because it be there, 00:21:27.82\00:21:29.15 it be on the topsy all the time. 00:21:29.18\00:21:30.69 It's a best seller. 00:21:30.72\00:21:32.55 And because of this, it's a really good way 00:21:32.59\00:21:34.82 for people to make money who publish books. 00:21:34.86\00:21:37.33 However, in order to make money on the bible, 00:21:37.36\00:21:40.16 we have to have your own version, 00:21:40.20\00:21:41.53 because every version is copyrighted 00:21:41.56\00:21:42.90 and you can't make money on someone else's. 00:21:42.93\00:21:44.27 So this is one of the reasons 00:21:44.30\00:21:46.27 why there are so many new versions of bible. 00:21:46.30\00:21:48.30 So the Chronological Bible, it's not that these guys, 00:21:48.34\00:21:51.34 these people are really interested in, 00:21:51.37\00:21:53.07 its a new way to make some money on the bible. 00:21:53.11\00:21:56.34 Here's a new Bible. 00:21:56.38\00:21:57.71 And we'll put whatever footnotes in there 00:21:57.75\00:21:59.11 we want to put in there. 00:21:59.15\00:22:00.48 They can be skeptical footnotes, 00:22:00.52\00:22:01.85 they can be undermining God's word, 00:22:01.88\00:22:03.22 but this is a Chronological Bible, 00:22:03.25\00:22:04.59 'you got to get this bible and read the... ' 00:22:04.62\00:22:06.22 That's the point. Wow. 00:22:06.25\00:22:07.66 Okay now, here's the danger. 00:22:07.69\00:22:10.36 Satan is very subtle the way he works. 00:22:10.39\00:22:12.46 Another version of bible, another version of bible, 00:22:12.49\00:22:14.20 another version of Bible, has to be changed 00:22:14.23\00:22:15.96 10 to15 percent from previous version. 00:22:16.00\00:22:17.73 You can only change the bible so much 00:22:17.77\00:22:19.17 before you're going out of the Greek, 00:22:19.20\00:22:20.54 and you are going into whatever. 00:22:20.57\00:22:21.90 So let me just, not long ago, 00:22:21.94\00:22:24.51 I really got interested 00:22:24.54\00:22:26.17 in a version of the bible called The Message. 00:22:26.21\00:22:28.34 Yeah. 00:22:28.38\00:22:29.71 Oh man, down to earth, 00:22:29.74\00:22:31.11 easy to read, easy to understand. 00:22:31.15\00:22:32.61 I was preaching, I was telling people, 00:22:32.65\00:22:33.98 "You got to get this version, you got to get this version. " 00:22:34.02\00:22:36.58 And then you know, I mean, this was something that... 00:22:36.62\00:22:39.82 'cause I used to be King James only, 00:22:39.85\00:22:41.32 you know, and I kind of balance, 00:22:41.36\00:22:43.43 I am hoping balance from that, you know. 00:22:43.46\00:22:45.63 But now I am swinging over here, I am going, 00:22:45.66\00:22:47.36 "Whoa, whoa, wait a minute. " 00:22:47.40\00:22:48.76 And so I said, "I'm going to put this to the litmus test. " 00:22:48.80\00:22:51.53 So I decided to go in The Message Bible 00:22:51.57\00:22:53.77 to some of the verses that I used to test 00:22:53.80\00:22:56.54 it's authenticity. 00:22:56.57\00:22:58.74 So I went to, first verse I went to is Revelation 1:10. 00:22:58.77\00:23:03.14 Revelation 1:10, 00:23:03.18\00:23:04.51 "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day. " 00:23:04.55\00:23:06.08 So let me read it to you from The Message Bible, 00:23:06.11\00:23:09.95 "I was in the Spirit", excuse me, 00:23:09.98\00:23:12.72 "It was Sunday 00:23:12.75\00:23:14.09 and I was in the Spirit, praying. " 00:23:14.12\00:23:16.93 It was Sunday. 00:23:16.96\00:23:19.89 We brought out this idea of this transition to Sunday, 00:23:19.93\00:23:23.47 scarcity to the word of God. 00:23:23.50\00:23:24.83 Today, there is no scarcity of the word of God, 00:23:24.87\00:23:26.20 it's every where. 00:23:26.23\00:23:27.57 Isn't it? 00:23:27.60\00:23:28.94 I mean, you can get the Bibles Galore, 00:23:28.97\00:23:30.34 you can get The Chronological Bible, 00:23:30.37\00:23:31.71 you can get The Message Bible. 00:23:31.74\00:23:33.07 But when you get these bibles, what are you reading, 00:23:33.11\00:23:35.04 and is this really what the bible is teaching? 00:23:35.08\00:23:37.81 Now I quoted The Message Bible. 00:23:37.85\00:23:39.51 By the way, The Message Bible now sits on the heretic shelf. 00:23:39.55\00:23:41.65 Everyone should have the heretic shelf. 00:23:41.68\00:23:43.02 Student of the Bible, 00:23:43.05\00:23:44.39 you need to have a heretic shelf. 00:23:44.42\00:23:45.75 I still utilize it, but I've got this caution. 00:23:45.79\00:23:49.36 But as I started studying this, 00:23:49.39\00:23:50.99 I want to just, I want to find 00:23:51.03\00:23:52.69 any and every bible version I can find 00:23:52.73\00:23:55.06 and read this verse in there. 00:23:55.10\00:23:56.43 So the Expanded Bible, "It's the Lord's day, 00:23:56.46\00:23:59.10 probably a reference to the first day of the week, 00:23:59.13\00:24:00.57 which is Sunday. " 00:24:00.60\00:24:02.24 That's the Expanded Bible. 00:24:02.27\00:24:04.44 And then I found another version of bible 00:24:04.47\00:24:06.61 which is called the Holman Christian Bible, 00:24:06.64\00:24:09.98 "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day. " 00:24:10.01\00:24:11.48 Footnote: Sunday. 00:24:11.51\00:24:13.58 Then I found the English translation of The Voice, 00:24:13.62\00:24:15.68 "I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day 00:24:15.72\00:24:17.35 (the first day of the week)," which is Sunday. 00:24:17.39\00:24:19.62 Then I found another five, 00:24:19.65\00:24:21.62 no, six translation of the bible, 00:24:21.66\00:24:24.49 including the Spanish one, 00:24:24.53\00:24:25.86 and I won't embarrass my Spanish teacher 00:24:25.89\00:24:28.20 from high school in trying to read that. 00:24:28.23\00:24:30.67 Sunday, Sunday, Sunday, first day of the week, 00:24:30.70\00:24:32.27 first day of the week, first day of the week. 00:24:32.30\00:24:33.74 So what we see in that history of that transformation 00:24:33.77\00:24:36.57 that took place by Constantine's law, 00:24:36.60\00:24:38.44 we see the same thing taking place today, 00:24:38.47\00:24:40.48 a subtle transition, pluralism. 00:24:40.51\00:24:44.15 So that when I do a bible study now with someone and they say, 00:24:44.18\00:24:47.12 "Oh, the Sabbath, well, I go to church on Sunday." 00:24:47.15\00:24:50.12 "Well, Sunday actually isn't in Bible." 00:24:50.15\00:24:51.49 "Oh, it's in my Bible. 00:24:51.52\00:24:53.59 It's in my Bible, Revelation 1:10." 00:24:53.62\00:24:54.96 "Well, Revelation 1:10, you know, The Message Bible, 00:24:54.99\00:24:56.96 that's not really based on the Greek." 00:24:56.99\00:24:58.63 "Well, there were scholars, the scholars did that. 00:24:58.66\00:25:01.70 They know what they are talking about. 00:25:01.73\00:25:03.06 I trust the scholars. 00:25:03.10\00:25:04.43 If they think that's a good translation, 00:25:04.47\00:25:05.80 I got six other translations by the way. 00:25:05.83\00:25:07.34 If all these people think, 00:25:07.37\00:25:08.70 if all these bible have Sunday in there, 00:25:08.74\00:25:10.11 the first day of the week in there, 00:25:10.14\00:25:11.47 its good enough for me. 00:25:11.51\00:25:14.14 That's where we are today. Yeah. 00:25:14.18\00:25:16.08 So that history is coming forth. 00:25:16.11\00:25:17.65 Now, notice what it says here, in a context of this says, 00:25:17.68\00:25:20.52 "Hurt not the oil and the wine." 00:25:20.55\00:25:22.65 I know we're not going to have enough time 00:25:22.68\00:25:24.02 to cover the oil and the wine, 00:25:24.05\00:25:25.39 but we need to cover this in detail 00:25:25.42\00:25:26.76 because this connection here between the oil and wine, 00:25:26.79\00:25:30.36 and the importance of the bible, 00:25:30.39\00:25:33.50 the word of God and the authority of that word, 00:25:33.53\00:25:36.46 and the fact that it should not be alter. 00:25:36.50\00:25:38.00 Because when you get to the end of Revelation, 00:25:38.03\00:25:39.40 you remember, let's read those bible verses. 00:25:39.43\00:25:41.20 Jason, can you read for us 00:25:41.24\00:25:43.04 Revelation 22:18? 00:25:43.07\00:25:49.81 Sure. 00:25:49.84\00:25:53.11 "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words 00:25:53.15\00:25:55.95 of the prophecy of this book, 00:25:55.98\00:25:57.85 If any man shall add unto these things, 00:25:57.89\00:25:59.89 God shall add unto him the plagues 00:25:59.92\00:26:02.22 that are written in this book." 00:26:02.26\00:26:03.59 And 19. 00:26:03.63\00:26:04.96 "And if any man shall take away 00:26:04.99\00:26:06.33 from the words of the book of this prophecy, 00:26:06.36\00:26:09.00 God shall take away his part out of the book of life, 00:26:09.03\00:26:12.40 and out of the holy city, and from the things 00:26:12.43\00:26:14.64 which are written in this book." 00:26:14.67\00:26:16.10 That is serious. Wow. 00:26:16.14\00:26:18.27 That is serious. 00:26:18.31\00:26:19.74 God is saying, don't add, don't take away. 00:26:19.77\00:26:22.71 You add words to this, you take words away from this, 00:26:22.74\00:26:25.68 well, here we have six bible versions, 00:26:25.71\00:26:28.02 six modern bible versions and all of those versions 00:26:28.05\00:26:30.55 by the way, are post 2000. 00:26:30.59\00:26:32.92 All of them were translated after the year 2000. 00:26:32.95\00:26:34.29 Interesting. 00:26:34.32\00:26:36.09 Okay, so they are all modern, that are changing, 00:26:36.12\00:26:40.26 that are adding to the word of God. 00:26:40.30\00:26:42.20 They are putting in definitions of the Lord's day 00:26:42.23\00:26:45.50 that aren't actually in the text, 00:26:45.53\00:26:47.07 they are not in the Greek. 00:26:47.10\00:26:48.44 But they are in their now, 00:26:48.47\00:26:49.80 and now people are reading bibles 00:26:49.84\00:26:51.17 that basically saying, 00:26:51.21\00:26:52.67 as never before that Sunday is in the Bible, 00:26:52.71\00:26:56.51 it's the Lord's Day. 00:26:56.54\00:26:58.28 So we're moving now back toward this compromise 00:26:58.31\00:27:02.65 that we saw in those dark ages. 00:27:02.68\00:27:04.02 The black horse is still riding. 00:27:04.05\00:27:05.45 The black horse is still riding and we're there. 00:27:05.49\00:27:07.26 And people, we need to be aware of this, 00:27:07.29\00:27:08.96 we really need to be aware of this. 00:27:08.99\00:27:10.49 So we're under a minute and we got a close out. 00:27:10.53\00:27:13.13 But we want to remind people... 00:27:13.16\00:27:16.23 What do we remind people? 00:27:16.26\00:27:17.60 If they have any questions, 00:27:17.63\00:27:18.97 just send their emails to sss@3abn.org 00:27:19.00\00:27:23.20 as a Salvation, and Symbols, and Signs. 00:27:23.24\00:27:25.71 Salvations, and symbols, and signs. 00:27:25.74\00:27:27.88 Close this out, Yvonne, with the word of prayer, 00:27:27.91\00:27:29.24 would you? 00:27:29.28\00:27:30.61 Father, we just thank you so much 00:27:30.65\00:27:31.98 for this studying lord 00:27:32.01\00:27:33.35 and this Revelation of your spirit, 00:27:33.38\00:27:36.79 your love for us. 00:27:36.82\00:27:38.15 And we just thank you Lord God 00:27:38.19\00:27:40.22 for all that you do and for being in our lives. 00:27:40.26\00:27:43.16 Continue to bless, guide, and direct us. 00:27:43.19\00:27:44.99 We pray in Jesus' name. 00:27:45.03\00:27:46.39 Amen. Amen. 00:27:46.43\00:27:47.76 Amen. That went very fast. 00:27:47.80\00:27:49.13 It did. 00:27:49.16\00:27:50.50 We got to hit the oil and wine. 00:27:50.53\00:27:51.87 Now, just real quick, before we go though, 00:27:51.90\00:27:53.23 the oil and the wine, 00:27:53.27\00:27:54.60 oil represents the anointing of the Holy Spirit 00:27:54.64\00:27:56.44 and wine represents the blood of Jesus Christ. 00:27:56.47\00:27:58.84 We're going to look at some bible versus, 00:27:58.87\00:28:00.34 but we really need to emphasize that because this is the key 00:28:00.38\00:28:03.55 to escaping the darkness, the compromise. 00:28:03.58\00:28:06.95 It's to be annoyed with the Holy Spirit 00:28:06.98\00:28:09.05 and not letting men teach us but the God teachers, 1 John, 00:28:09.08\00:28:11.85 and then to be depending on the blood of Christ, 00:28:11.89\00:28:14.02 because that's also 00:28:14.06\00:28:15.39 what the compromise came in with, 00:28:15.42\00:28:16.76 with the compromise and the gospel. 00:28:16.79\00:28:18.39 Sweet. 00:28:18.43\00:28:19.76