Okay, we are marching through the trumpets 00:00:29.92\00:00:32.59 and we just finished trumpet number 3 00:00:32.63\00:00:35.26 and moved into trumpet number 4 00:00:35.30\00:00:37.37 and we're going to pick up trumpet number 4... 00:00:37.40\00:00:39.73 review a little bit and then finish it off 00:00:39.77\00:00:42.00 and maybe we'll even get into the fifth trumpet 00:00:42.07\00:00:44.31 which by-the-way is called the "woe," 00:00:44.34\00:00:46.47 in fact there are three... 00:00:46.51\00:00:48.34 the last three trumpets are all called woes 00:00:48.38\00:00:50.08 which is something we need to talk about a little bit 00:00:50.11\00:00:52.25 just so that we can clarify that and understand how that relates 00:00:52.28\00:00:55.78 to the last three trumpets 00:00:55.82\00:00:57.15 but first we need to start with a word of prayer, 00:00:57.19\00:00:58.75 Jason, you want to start us out with a word of prayer 00:00:58.79\00:01:00.59 and then we'll go right into it. 00:01:00.62\00:01:01.96 Jason: "Dear Heavenly Father, as we go into our study today 00:01:02.02\00:01:05.43 Lord, we ask that you would send your Holy Spirit to be with us 00:01:05.46\00:01:08.83 and we are covering some deep material 00:01:08.86\00:01:11.43 and need help understanding it, 00:01:11.47\00:01:14.60 getting a full grasp on it 00:01:14.64\00:01:16.34 please be here with us, in Jesus' name we pray, amen. " 00:01:16.37\00:01:18.57 All: "Amen... " 00:01:18.61\00:01:20.11 James: So just to recap what we have taking place here 00:01:20.14\00:01:22.98 is basically this outline of history... prophetic history 00:01:23.04\00:01:26.38 and we paralleled it with the churches and with the seals... 00:01:26.41\00:01:29.75 really with the churches a lot 00:01:29.78\00:01:31.55 because we've been looking at some of the similarities 00:01:31.59\00:01:33.42 between the two and we're in this place 00:01:33.46\00:01:35.32 where Jerusalem is fallen and then you've got 00:01:35.36\00:01:39.53 paganism fallen... Pagan Rome... 00:01:39.56\00:01:41.56 you've got Jerusalem, Judaism, 00:01:41.60\00:01:43.53 Papal... Pagan Rome falling 00:01:43.57\00:01:45.43 and in filling up the vacuum of Pagan Rome 00:01:45.47\00:01:48.24 is the rise of a compromised church, 00:01:48.27\00:01:51.04 it's the "falling away" that Paul predicted 00:01:51.07\00:01:53.48 where the church 00:01:53.51\00:01:54.84 extends out to... it's arm and it's hand to the world 00:01:54.88\00:01:58.08 and they come together but in that process 00:01:58.11\00:02:00.58 this compromising takes place and what that does is... 00:02:00.62\00:02:03.85 it affects the waters of salvation that are made bitter, 00:02:03.89\00:02:08.56 it affects the lights of the heavens so that we don't see 00:02:08.59\00:02:13.23 what's really going on in heaven with Christ 00:02:13.26\00:02:15.16 in mediation and intercession which... 00:02:15.20\00:02:16.83 to this... to Daniel chapter 8 00:02:16.87\00:02:18.67 and the Sanctuary and the truth being cast to the ground 00:02:18.70\00:02:21.34 and it's time prophecy predicting 00:02:21.37\00:02:22.84 it will be for so many days... 2,300 days... 00:02:22.87\00:02:26.24 and here that whole history is summarized 00:02:26.27\00:02:29.48 in the context in verse 12 of the fourth angel sounding 00:02:29.51\00:02:33.75 and the third part of the sun 00:02:33.82\00:02:35.15 and the moon and the stars being smitten 00:02:35.18\00:02:37.19 because when this compromise took place, 00:02:37.22\00:02:38.82 there were a lot of people who said, 00:02:38.85\00:02:40.39 "No, we're not going to compromise our faith, 00:02:40.42\00:02:42.92 we can't compromise Christ, we can't change what we believe, 00:02:42.96\00:02:45.29 we're going to hold to what the Bible says" 00:02:45.33\00:02:47.63 and a divide took place, a division took place 00:02:47.66\00:02:50.23 and those who held to the truth of the Bible 00:02:50.27\00:02:52.80 during the Dark Ages as that compromise began to take place, 00:02:52.83\00:02:56.34 they we persecuted by those who did not. 00:02:56.37\00:02:58.97 The gospel doesn't call us to persecute anyone. 00:02:59.01\00:03:01.71 Yvonne: Right. 00:03:01.74\00:03:03.08 James: Jimmy Carter once said, 00:03:03.11\00:03:04.45 "The religion of Christ never persecuted anyone" 00:03:04.48\00:03:05.85 but when you hold to the gospel and refuse to give it up 00:03:05.88\00:03:09.88 and others have compromised that gospel, 00:03:09.92\00:03:12.79 then, an enmity can develop there 00:03:12.82\00:03:15.29 where they will actually persecute you 00:03:15.32\00:03:17.36 because you hold to that truth 00:03:17.39\00:03:18.73 and that's what happened, for example, with Cain and Abel. 00:03:18.76\00:03:21.20 Yvonne: Persecution from within. 00:03:21.23\00:03:22.60 James: Yeah, the persecution with those who... 00:03:22.63\00:03:24.90 who profess to be holy, 00:03:24.93\00:03:26.47 Cain and Abel, both were worshipping God. 00:03:26.50\00:03:28.17 Yvonne: Hmmm... hmmm... 00:03:28.20\00:03:29.54 James: Supposedly... but one was holding to the gospel, 00:03:29.57\00:03:31.61 the lamb... the sacrifice... and the other was not, 00:03:31.64\00:03:33.68 he slipped into a righteousness by works 00:03:33.71\00:03:36.01 and when he was rebuked by his brother, 00:03:36.04\00:03:37.81 he killed his brother... he persecuted his brother. 00:03:37.88\00:03:40.58 Ivor: We can take it back to heaven again, 00:03:40.62\00:03:42.05 remember in heaven there was war 00:03:42.08\00:03:43.42 and one-third turned on the two-thirds, 00:03:43.45\00:03:47.02 right, one-third... that number of rebellion 00:03:47.06\00:03:49.92 that was supposed to represent God's people 00:03:49.99\00:03:52.83 are warring against those... 00:03:52.86\00:03:54.90 so... that vision that you're talking about... that split... 00:03:54.96\00:03:57.93 is what we see occurring here... all in the name of Christ 00:03:57.97\00:04:00.94 and yet what you have is the wheat and the tares 00:04:00.97\00:04:04.37 right, you have those who claim to worship God. 00:04:04.41\00:04:07.74 Jesus said, "The time is coming where they that kill you 00:04:07.78\00:04:10.08 will think they're doing God a service. " 00:04:10.11\00:04:13.25 Jason: You know, sometimes change can be uncomfortable 00:04:13.28\00:04:16.48 and it seems like some people pick their religion 00:04:16.52\00:04:19.95 based on their lifestyle so they try and choose a religion 00:04:19.99\00:04:23.39 that fits their lifestyle rather than 00:04:23.43\00:04:25.63 changing their lifestyle to fit what Christ asks of us. 00:04:25.66\00:04:29.50 James: That's a really good point, Jason, I like that, 00:04:29.53\00:04:33.03 and that is so true because even when we look for 00:04:33.07\00:04:36.00 religions that are going to allow us to continue 00:04:36.04\00:04:38.97 living or doing the things that we do, 00:04:39.01\00:04:40.74 we're not going to necessarily find the truth, 00:04:40.78\00:04:42.48 but when we find the truth, but here's what's really... 00:04:42.51\00:04:45.15 I think it's really powerful, 00:04:45.18\00:04:46.51 I was telling you about my Catholic upbringing 00:04:46.55\00:04:47.88 and God is merciful 00:04:47.92\00:04:50.69 but He wants me to come to a knowledge of the truth 00:04:50.72\00:04:53.69 but He doesn't want to violate my freedom of choice 00:04:53.72\00:04:56.32 and my conscience and... so I'm living this life 00:04:56.36\00:04:58.79 and my life is getting worse and worse and worse, 00:04:58.83\00:05:01.20 in many respects and I'm making choices 00:05:01.26\00:05:03.23 that are okay with my church, let's say, 00:05:03.26\00:05:05.23 as long as I go to confession every week 00:05:05.27\00:05:06.60 but they're bringing dire results... into my life, 00:05:06.63\00:05:10.17 dire experiences into my life 00:05:10.21\00:05:12.07 and finally, I'm just completely exasperated 00:05:12.11\00:05:16.58 with religion and I cry out to God 00:05:16.61\00:05:18.91 and I experience Christ in a personal, powerful way 00:05:18.95\00:05:23.55 and it liberates me from things 00:05:23.59\00:05:25.75 that I knew I couldn't get rid of like alcohol, for example, 00:05:25.82\00:05:29.02 He liberates me and in that newfound freedom, 00:05:29.06\00:05:32.09 I fall in love with Him and in falling in love with Him 00:05:32.13\00:05:35.16 when I read Bible verses that say, 00:05:35.20\00:05:37.53 "If you love me, keep my commandments" 00:05:37.57\00:05:39.87 I start thinking, "Whoa... I do love Christ, 00:05:39.90\00:05:43.87 I'm going to keep His commandments" 00:05:43.91\00:05:45.44 and I start going to church on Sunday 00:05:45.47\00:05:46.91 because I didn't know any 00:05:46.94\00:05:49.24 different than going to church on Sunday 00:05:49.28\00:05:50.61 but I knew that was the Commandments, 00:05:50.65\00:05:51.98 the Commandments... you know, you go to church, 00:05:52.01\00:05:53.48 you keep the Sabbath day, 00:05:53.52\00:05:54.85 "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy... " 00:05:54.88\00:05:56.22 and then I'm challenged by my sister 00:05:56.25\00:05:58.05 who happens to be studying the Bible 00:05:58.09\00:05:59.99 which I've never studied up to that point 00:06:00.02\00:06:01.36 and she tells me, "Actually, the Bible teaches 00:06:01.39\00:06:05.16 you should go to church on Saturday" 00:06:05.19\00:06:07.33 and I'm thinking, "That's crazy... that's nuts... 00:06:07.36\00:06:11.17 nobody goes to church on Saturday" 00:06:11.20\00:06:12.53 well, by the way, there are a few million people 00:06:12.57\00:06:14.84 that do and always have gone to church on the Bible Sabbath, 00:06:14.87\00:06:17.91 and so... the point is though 00:06:17.94\00:06:20.78 is that as I fall in love with Jesus, 00:06:20.81\00:06:23.04 as He is placed into the bitter waters, 00:06:23.08\00:06:25.25 as He becomes the center of Bible prophecy 00:06:25.28\00:06:27.58 then it is... that I have the motivation 00:06:27.62\00:06:29.42 the love of Christ constrains us... 00:06:29.45\00:06:31.85 rather than looking for the religion 00:06:31.89\00:06:34.22 that will fit my lifestyle, 00:06:34.26\00:06:35.59 I'm simply looking to submit my lifestyle to the Bible 00:06:35.62\00:06:39.06 because I found the Savior, 00:06:39.09\00:06:40.43 I found someone that can actually take... 00:06:40.46\00:06:41.80 change my lifestyle and cause me to love those things 00:06:41.83\00:06:44.80 that I don't really care for 00:06:44.83\00:06:46.63 and to hate those things that I once lived for 00:06:46.67\00:06:49.37 and that motivates me to be open to whatever the Bible has to say 00:06:49.40\00:06:53.14 that's... and so that's what we want to introduce people to 00:06:53.17\00:06:56.01 not just to truth... but to Jesus 00:06:56.04\00:06:57.68 we want to introduce them to Jesus... 00:06:57.71\00:06:59.61 and that's what Satan is about here 00:06:59.65\00:07:01.65 in Revelation chapter 8 and verse 12 00:07:01.68\00:07:03.65 it says, "And the fourth angel sounded, 00:07:03.69\00:07:05.55 and the third part of the sun was smitten, 00:07:05.59\00:07:07.36 the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; 00:07:07.39\00:07:09.09 so the third part of them was darkened, 00:07:09.22\00:07:11.56 and the day shone not for a third part of it, 00:07:11.59\00:07:13.53 and the night likewise. " 00:07:13.60\00:07:14.93 The day and the night... I think it's extra emphasis, 00:07:14.96\00:07:17.80 I think this is a key verse, a pivotal point in this prophecy 00:07:17.83\00:07:22.90 and so there's emphasis on all this light... 00:07:22.94\00:07:25.41 not just the heavenly luminaries but the day and the night 00:07:25.44\00:07:28.44 day is day because of the sun 00:07:28.48\00:07:32.58 and night is night in relation to the moon 00:07:32.61\00:07:36.48 and there's something very simple 00:07:36.52\00:07:39.59 and very practical about understanding 00:07:39.65\00:07:42.22 that those two luminaries are darkened, 00:07:42.26\00:07:44.76 the first one is Malachi, for example, chapter 4 verse 2 00:07:44.79\00:07:49.46 if you can look that verse up, Yvonne, 00:07:49.50\00:07:50.83 Malachi 4 verse 2... really interesting verse... 00:07:50.87\00:07:54.24 when it comes to describing the sun 00:07:54.27\00:07:59.04 and then another one, Jason, 00:07:59.07\00:08:01.38 that I was thinking, maybe you could look up would be... 00:08:01.41\00:08:03.85 John chapter 1... John chapter 1 00:08:03.88\00:08:07.98 and I'm going to give you a bunch of verses there 00:08:08.02\00:08:09.92 but if you can just start with verse 1 00:08:09.95\00:08:12.52 it seems Yvonne's done with Malachi 4:2. 00:08:12.55\00:08:15.09 Yvonne: Malachi 4:2, "But unto you that fear my name 00:08:15.12\00:08:18.29 shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; 00:08:18.33\00:08:21.90 and you shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall. " 00:08:21.93\00:08:25.47 James: "The Sun of righteousness... " 00:08:25.53\00:08:26.90 how does that spell that sun? 00:08:26.94\00:08:28.34 Yvonne: Sun... James: Sun... 00:08:28.37\00:08:29.74 James: Okay, so here is a direct connection again 00:08:29.77\00:08:33.31 to our Bible verse... the day is when the sun shines, 00:08:33.34\00:08:36.85 sun... what is the sun that's being obscured? 00:08:36.88\00:08:39.35 What is the day that's being obscured during this apostasy? 00:08:39.38\00:08:42.15 The Sun of righteousness... Jesus Christ. 00:08:42.18\00:08:44.32 He's being obscured... He's being counterfeited... 00:08:44.35\00:08:46.49 He's being left out of the picture... 00:08:46.55\00:08:48.09 His High Priestly work... 00:08:48.12\00:08:49.72 the work that He is doing in the Heavenly Sanctuary 00:08:49.76\00:08:51.39 is being left out of the picture. 00:08:51.46\00:08:52.79 Ivor: And so, when the sun is darkened, 00:08:52.83\00:08:54.50 I mean, when the sun is not shining, 00:08:54.53\00:08:56.36 you have darkness, 00:08:56.40\00:08:57.73 this entire period of time is called the Dark Ages, 00:08:57.77\00:09:01.44 they shut out the light of Christ 00:09:01.50\00:09:04.47 so if you shut out the light, then... what do you have left? 00:09:04.54\00:09:08.28 Darkness... but even in darkness... 00:09:08.31\00:09:10.08 God doesn't leave us without... without light. 00:09:10.11\00:09:13.05 Yvonne: Hmmm... 00:09:13.08\00:09:14.42 Ivor: So what light does He give us in the darkness? 00:09:14.45\00:09:17.32 James: Yeah, let's go to these verses and I ask 00:09:17.35\00:09:21.79 Jason to read and then that's... I like... I like that. 00:09:21.82\00:09:24.53 Jason: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, 00:09:24.56\00:09:27.76 and the Word was God. " 00:09:27.83\00:09:29.16 James: Verse 4... Jason: Verse 4... 00:09:29.20\00:09:30.57 "In him was life; and the life was the light of men. " 00:09:30.60\00:09:32.97 James: Ooooh... verse 5... 00:09:33.03\00:09:34.37 Jason: "And the light shineth in darkness; 00:09:34.40\00:09:36.10 and the darkness comprehended it not. " 00:09:36.17\00:09:37.77 James: And then verse 9... 00:09:37.81\00:09:39.14 Jason: "That was the true Light, which lighteth every man 00:09:39.17\00:09:42.51 that cometh into the world. " 00:09:42.54\00:09:43.98 James: Light, light, light, light, light... 00:09:44.01\00:09:46.58 it's all about Jesus, it's all about Jesus 00:09:46.61\00:09:48.88 but I want you to notice again, verse 1, 00:09:48.92\00:09:50.65 can you read that first verse again? 00:09:50.69\00:09:52.32 Jason: Sure, "In the beginning was the Word, 00:09:52.35\00:09:54.06 and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. " 00:09:54.12\00:09:56.73 James: The Word... so we're not just talking about 00:09:56.76\00:09:59.39 anything... we're talking about the Word... 00:09:59.43\00:10:00.96 the specific attack was not just on the righteousness of Christ, 00:10:01.00\00:10:05.13 but it was also on the Bible... 00:10:05.17\00:10:06.60 the Word of God itself was being attacked during this time 00:10:06.63\00:10:09.90 the Bible became a book 00:10:09.94\00:10:11.77 that was not made available to the people 00:10:11.84\00:10:14.31 and it was also a book that it was illegal to have, 00:10:14.34\00:10:17.15 you could not have a Bible, 00:10:17.18\00:10:19.01 common people didn't own one, 00:10:19.08\00:10:20.88 they didn't know what the Word of God taught, 00:10:20.92\00:10:22.35 so, of course, if you're a religion 00:10:22.38\00:10:24.85 that assumes to have the prerogatives of Christ on earth, 00:10:24.89\00:10:30.46 and you're teaching things that are wrong, 00:10:30.53\00:10:33.13 how are people going to know that if they don't have a Bible? 00:10:33.16\00:10:35.26 Yvonne: Right. Ivor: Hmmm... hmmm... 00:10:35.30\00:10:36.67 James: So this is one of the ways 00:10:36.70\00:10:38.03 that so many people were put in the darkness 00:10:38.07\00:10:40.40 because the Bible wasn't made available. 00:10:40.44\00:10:42.64 Jason: That's a thing to... I guess, something to look at 00:10:42.67\00:10:46.31 in today's time too because there are a lot of people 00:10:46.34\00:10:49.91 that go to church and they just 00:10:49.94\00:10:51.28 take what the Preacher's saying, 00:10:51.31\00:10:52.65 you have to study the Word for yourself 00:10:52.68\00:10:54.85 because you can still end up lost... 00:10:54.88\00:10:56.99 you don't know if... I mean... your Pastor is human, 00:10:57.02\00:10:59.19 he might misquote something by accident, 00:10:59.22\00:11:01.72 or he might do it on purpose, you never know 00:11:01.76\00:11:04.56 and if you're not in the Word of God yourself, 00:11:04.59\00:11:07.40 you're not going to know the difference. 00:11:07.43\00:11:08.76 James: It still applies to us today... 00:11:08.80\00:11:10.43 we've got to be in the Word of God today, 00:11:10.47\00:11:12.17 we've got to be following the Bible today. 00:11:12.23\00:11:13.84 I think one of the dangers that I've experienced 00:11:13.87\00:11:16.30 in the modern world is that there are so many Bibles 00:11:16.34\00:11:18.77 and so many Bible translations 00:11:18.81\00:11:20.41 and I think that we need to remember 00:11:20.44\00:11:22.74 that the Bible today 00:11:22.78\00:11:24.48 is the best-selling book in the world every year, 00:11:24.51\00:11:28.38 it would be on America's top bestseller list 00:11:28.45\00:11:31.22 every single year... but it's just taken for granted, 00:11:31.25\00:11:34.99 I mean, in other words, 00:11:35.02\00:11:37.13 you can't just put it on there every single year, 00:11:37.16\00:11:39.06 but it is... and one of the... 00:11:39.09\00:11:41.43 one of the negatives about that is that 00:11:41.46\00:11:44.33 there are a lot of companies that produce Bibles, 00:11:44.40\00:11:46.87 simply to make a profit 00:11:46.90\00:11:48.24 so the Bible is produced to make money 00:11:48.27\00:11:50.31 not because the people producing it 00:11:50.34\00:11:52.47 necessarily believe in it or believe that it's a book 00:11:52.51\00:11:54.74 that needs to be duplicated and what happens is 00:11:54.78\00:11:57.25 these companies... in order to make money... 00:11:57.28\00:11:59.68 you have to have a Bible 00:11:59.71\00:12:01.32 that's not copyrighted by somebody else 00:12:01.35\00:12:02.68 because you're not going to make the money 00:12:02.72\00:12:04.05 on somebody else's Bible, it's copyrighted... 00:12:04.09\00:12:05.42 so you have to... and in order to have your own Bible, 00:12:05.45\00:12:07.16 you have to change the Bible enough 00:12:07.19\00:12:09.46 a certain percentage 00:12:09.49\00:12:10.99 in order for you to have your own copyright. 00:12:11.03\00:12:12.79 Jason: That's a scary thing. 00:12:12.83\00:12:14.16 James: So every year we have new Bibles coming out, 00:12:14.20\00:12:15.96 we have, The Teenager Bible 00:12:16.00\00:12:18.13 and the Kids' Bible and the Fisherman's Bible 00:12:18.17\00:12:20.14 the Hunter's Bible, we have Sports Person's Bible, 00:12:20.17\00:12:22.50 we have the Grandpa's Bible and the Aunt's Bible, 00:12:22.54\00:12:24.44 and we have the Ladies' Bible and we have the... 00:12:24.47\00:12:26.34 all these different versions, The Chronological Bible... 00:12:26.37\00:12:28.74 you start reading through... 00:12:28.78\00:12:30.11 I read through The Chronological Bible 00:12:30.15\00:12:31.48 a couple of years ago, I don't recommend it to anyone 00:12:31.51\00:12:33.42 because the footnotes are terrible, 00:12:33.45\00:12:34.78 the footnotes actually undermine the Bible, 00:12:34.82\00:12:37.65 I'm thinking, "Why are they saying this? 00:12:37.69\00:12:40.46 This is the Bible... " it... it was amazing 00:12:40.49\00:12:43.19 but it was published by a secular company 00:12:43.22\00:12:45.09 basically to make money... 00:12:45.13\00:12:46.59 and so we can see the same thing happening today 00:12:46.63\00:12:49.13 that we're talking about here in this prophecy. 00:12:49.16\00:12:51.67 Yvonne: So, scholarship wise... 00:12:51.70\00:12:53.03 which Bibles do you guys recommend? 00:12:53.07\00:12:55.60 If our Viewers want to know, "What Bible should we get?" 00:12:55.64\00:12:59.91 Because there are so many versions out there 00:12:59.94\00:13:02.21 and sometimes it's really nice to do the 00:13:02.24\00:13:04.95 parallel version comparison you know, 00:13:04.98\00:13:07.62 but you want to make sure that you have a standard 00:13:07.65\00:13:10.32 against which you can base all of them. 00:13:10.35\00:13:13.59 James: So, I absolutely recommend... 00:13:13.62\00:13:16.83 every single person needs to have in their library 00:13:16.86\00:13:18.99 King James or a New King James, that Bible stands alone 00:13:19.03\00:13:22.33 as the standard... it's based on the Textus Receptus, 00:13:22.36\00:13:25.63 it's a completely different set of manuscripts 00:13:25.70\00:13:27.90 than most of the other modern versions 00:13:27.94\00:13:30.27 which are all based on the Vaticanus and Sinaiticus 00:13:30.31\00:13:32.84 the Westcott-Hort Greek or the Nestles 00:13:32.87\00:13:36.14 and they are two different families of manuscripts 00:13:36.18\00:13:40.45 that bring us to those versions 00:13:40.48\00:13:41.82 so a lot of people like the NIV... the ESV... the NAS... 00:13:41.85\00:13:45.85 all of those are easy re-translations 00:13:45.89\00:13:48.79 and some of them are more accurate than certain verses 00:13:48.82\00:13:51.73 in the King James or the New King James 00:13:51.76\00:13:53.29 so it's not an issue of excluding modern versions 00:13:53.33\00:13:56.97 or excluding all those versions 00:13:57.00\00:13:58.33 but it's an issue of... like you said, 00:13:58.37\00:13:59.70 of having a standard and for me, it's the King James 00:13:59.73\00:14:02.64 or the New King James... that's the standard 00:14:02.67\00:14:04.61 and if you're really going to study the Bible, 00:14:04.64\00:14:06.51 you've got to have a King James and a New King James 00:14:06.54\00:14:08.74 because that's where you're going to find the Bible 00:14:08.78\00:14:10.91 in it's whole... some of these other versions 00:14:10.95\00:14:13.65 even in the margin it will say, 00:14:13.68\00:14:15.28 "These verses aren't found in the earlier manuscripts" 00:14:15.32\00:14:18.82 and I could go into all the history of that 00:14:18.85\00:14:20.26 but we don't have time, or... they aren't there... 00:14:20.29\00:14:22.79 there'll be verses that actually aren't there, 00:14:22.82\00:14:24.59 they're not in there. Yvonne: Right. 00:14:24.63\00:14:26.66 James: So that's my take on that. 00:14:26.70\00:14:28.63 Ivor: KJB... and I'll use other translations 00:14:28.66\00:14:32.37 and kind of compare and... so, I think it's good to... 00:14:32.40\00:14:36.64 I'll just always love the KJB, 00:14:36.67\00:14:38.57 that's what I came into the church... I mean... 00:14:38.61\00:14:40.38 I didn't even know they had other translations 00:14:40.41\00:14:42.14 so I was like, "Okay, KJB, here we go" 00:14:42.18\00:14:44.05 I had no idea that there were other translations 00:14:44.08\00:14:47.68 until sometime afterward but it's just my favorite, 00:14:47.72\00:14:51.32 I think it's... for me it reads the best 00:14:51.35\00:14:53.86 and it just... I think... comparing the other Scriptures 00:14:53.89\00:15:01.63 you use the other versions to what you see here, 00:15:01.66\00:15:04.10 can sometimes help round out a picture for you 00:15:04.13\00:15:07.67 but this is what I use, that's what I have so... 00:15:07.70\00:15:11.21 but regarding the night... 00:15:11.24\00:15:15.04 and we're talking about the Bible and the Sun... 00:15:15.08\00:15:19.01 in the night... we were saying that God still leaves us a light 00:15:19.05\00:15:24.52 right and in 2nd Peter chapter 1 verse 19 00:15:24.55\00:15:26.86 and I'll... I'll go ahead and read it 00:15:26.89\00:15:29.12 because I have it open right here... here is what it says, 00:15:29.16\00:15:31.93 "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; 00:15:31.96\00:15:35.36 whereunto you do well that you take heed, 00:15:35.40\00:15:38.67 as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, 00:15:38.70\00:15:41.94 until the day dawn, 00:15:41.97\00:15:43.77 and the day star arise in your hearts... " 00:15:43.81\00:15:45.67 Ivor: So, in this verse... prophecy is that light 00:15:45.71\00:15:50.81 when there's darkness around right, 00:15:50.85\00:15:53.95 so we're to be dependent upon prophecy 00:15:53.98\00:15:57.02 when there's darkness until the day star arise in your heart... 00:15:57.05\00:16:01.09 until the day dawns... so, okay, 00:16:01.12\00:16:03.36 they block out the Sun... all right, there's darkness... 00:16:03.39\00:16:05.29 okay, but you know what? 00:16:05.33\00:16:06.66 In darkness, prophecy can guide us 00:16:06.70\00:16:09.13 and keep our steps and so, what do they do? 00:16:09.16\00:16:11.97 They shut out the light of the night as well, 00:16:12.00\00:16:15.60 in other words... they manipulate Bible prophecy 00:16:15.64\00:16:19.97 right... to... because here's what was happening, 00:16:20.01\00:16:24.28 we have the Reformation coming up on the... 00:16:24.31\00:16:27.45 upon the scene during the time of this... 00:16:27.48\00:16:30.55 James: And even Paul is predicting the very falling away 00:16:30.59\00:16:34.26 that is being fulfilled by this... 00:16:34.29\00:16:36.06 Ivor: Absolutely, absolutely, and so what they're doing is... 00:16:36.09\00:16:38.39 as more and more fingers eventually begin to point 00:16:38.43\00:16:41.36 to the Papacy as... "wait a minute... you... 00:16:41.40\00:16:44.07 wait a minute... wait a minute, 00:16:44.10\00:16:45.43 bitter waters... sun being darkened, moon... " 00:16:45.47\00:16:49.40 and as more fingers are pointing and realizing, 00:16:49.44\00:16:52.94 "Wait a minute, the Papacy is actually in Bible prophecy" 00:16:52.97\00:16:55.91 they're like, "No, no... " 00:16:55.94\00:16:57.78 they're obscuring those prophecies to say, 00:16:57.81\00:16:59.71 "That's not us... no, no, no, no, no... 00:16:59.75\00:17:01.62 that's some other time... " 00:17:01.65\00:17:03.05 we kind of talked about this a little bit earlier, 00:17:03.08\00:17:04.55 Futurism and Preterism... 00:17:04.59\00:17:05.92 the sun and the moon we're told... 00:17:05.95\00:17:10.46 were put in the sky to help us discern times and seasons, 00:17:10.49\00:17:14.86 according to Daniel 7, the Bible says, 00:17:14.90\00:17:17.53 "This little horn will think to change times and laws... " 00:17:17.57\00:17:21.14 in other words... "We're going to manipulate prophecy 00:17:21.17\00:17:24.27 so that you can't point to us as a fulfillment 00:17:24.31\00:17:27.58 of the very things we're fulfilling. " 00:17:27.61\00:17:28.98 Yvonne: Ah... 00:17:29.01\00:17:30.35 Ivor: But there's another verse I'm going to show you, 00:17:30.38\00:17:31.78 just go back with me to the Book of Proverbs 31 00:17:31.81\00:17:34.52 and then we can elaborate on this a little bit more 00:17:34.55\00:17:37.19 but in Proverbs 31 we talked about 00:17:37.22\00:17:40.16 the fact that Proverbs 31 describes the woman... 00:17:40.19\00:17:43.89 right, who was a representation of the church... the true church 00:17:43.93\00:17:47.60 and in Proverbs 31... verse... I believe it's verse... 00:17:47.63\00:17:53.70 let's see here... verse 18... 00:17:53.74\00:17:56.60 speaking about this woman, it says, 00:17:56.64\00:17:59.01 "She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: 00:17:59.04\00:18:01.54 her candle goeth not out by night. " 00:18:01.58\00:18:05.51 Yvonne: Hmmm... 00:18:05.55\00:18:06.88 Ivor: "Her candle goeth not out by night... " 00:18:06.92\00:18:09.12 so here you have this true woman 00:18:09.15\00:18:11.05 the Bible says, the true church... 00:18:11.09\00:18:12.89 the true woman... she has the light of prophecy, 00:18:12.92\00:18:15.09 that light doesn't go out by night 00:18:15.12\00:18:17.69 but in Revelation you've got this power... 00:18:17.73\00:18:20.43 seeking to darken the light that is given for those in darkness. 00:18:20.46\00:18:25.90 All: Hmmm... 00:18:25.93\00:18:27.27 Ivor: Taking away prophecy... 00:18:27.30\00:18:28.64 and we know that this is exactly what happened 00:18:28.67\00:18:30.11 during the Dark Ages... 00:18:30.14\00:18:31.47 the Word of God is tampered with 00:18:31.51\00:18:33.61 as a result, prophecy is misunderstood, 00:18:33.64\00:18:36.95 I mean, they're keeping the Word of God from the people, 00:18:36.98\00:18:39.65 there's compromise... all these things are happening 00:18:39.68\00:18:42.32 and what's important for us to... and this is something... 00:18:42.35\00:18:45.45 remember in the last program I was like, 00:18:45.49\00:18:47.12 "I'm going to say something... no I shouldn't say it... " 00:18:47.16\00:18:48.76 Yvonne: Yeah, yeah, yeah... yeah... 00:18:48.79\00:18:50.23 Ivor: Well, I'll say half of it now 00:18:50.26\00:18:51.63 and half of it now is this, 00:18:51.66\00:18:53.23 you'll notice that the 3rd and 4th trumpets 00:18:53.26\00:18:56.26 appear to deal with doctrinal issues, 00:18:56.30\00:19:00.34 with spiritual teachings... right... Bible... 00:19:00.37\00:19:04.91 prophecy... light... what we're going to see 00:19:04.94\00:19:09.41 as we get to the 5th and 6th trumpet, 00:19:09.44\00:19:12.48 is that these seem to be more military... 00:19:12.51\00:19:15.95 right, more political as it were in nature... 00:19:15.98\00:19:19.39 now remember, what is the Papacy? 00:19:19.42\00:19:21.26 It's a Church... James: Ecclesiastical Power... 00:19:21.29\00:19:25.06 Ivor: State... Entity... 00:19:25.09\00:19:26.43 it is a religio-political power so, if we're right, 00:19:26.46\00:19:31.33 then look at what's happening 00:19:31.40\00:19:32.73 in trumpets 3 and 4, God is revealing the weakness 00:19:32.77\00:19:38.87 of the "religion side" of it, 00:19:38.91\00:19:41.24 in trumpets number 5 and 6, we're going to see 00:19:41.28\00:19:44.91 the political or military aspect 00:19:44.95\00:19:47.62 and both of these together combined 00:19:47.65\00:19:50.25 is what helps to bring down the fall of the Papacy in 1798, 00:19:50.29\00:19:56.02 remember when the trumpet is blown, 00:19:56.06\00:19:57.39 it means the enemies of God's people are going to fall, 00:19:57.43\00:19:59.59 we don't see a fall... 00:19:59.63\00:20:01.00 we saw a fall in the first trumpet, 00:20:01.03\00:20:03.33 you know, Jerusalem fell, 00:20:03.37\00:20:05.57 we saw a fall in the second trumpet... Rome fell... 00:20:05.60\00:20:08.07 but in trumpet number 3 we don't see a fall... 00:20:08.10\00:20:10.27 we see something being revealed 00:20:10.31\00:20:12.24 in trumpet number 4 we don't see a fall... 00:20:12.27\00:20:14.78 in trumpet number 5 and 6 when those are completed... 00:20:14.81\00:20:18.61 guess what we end up having? The fall of the Papacy... 00:20:18.65\00:20:22.45 those four trumpets together 00:20:22.48\00:20:24.72 help bring about the fall of this religio-political power. 00:20:24.75\00:20:28.62 First two trumpets, trumpets 3 and 4... 00:20:28.66\00:20:32.53 religious in nature, 00:20:32.56\00:20:34.20 trumpets 5 and 6... political in nature... 00:20:34.23\00:20:38.37 James: Okay, a couple of verses that I want to use 00:20:38.40\00:20:41.07 us to look at to confirm this, Yvonne, 00:20:41.10\00:20:43.34 if you can look up for us Daniel chapter 7 00:20:43.37\00:20:45.57 and begin with verse 2 and then I'm going to give 00:20:45.61\00:20:48.34 Jason, Matthew 2:12 to 14... 00:20:48.38\00:20:51.68 so, just picking up where Ivor left off 00:20:51.71\00:20:56.05 on the night... because Daniel 7 verse 2... 00:20:56.08\00:20:59.39 because I've always understood that Sun 00:20:59.42\00:21:02.62 but the night has been a little bit difficult for me, 00:21:02.66\00:21:04.46 and I definitely can connect 00:21:04.49\00:21:07.13 with that verse in 2nd Peter chapter 1 verse 19, 00:21:07.16\00:21:09.90 but as I was thinking about this 00:21:09.96\00:21:12.30 and Ivor and I were chatting about this, 00:21:12.33\00:21:13.67 all of a sudden it hit me, the night... the night... 00:21:13.70\00:21:15.40 the night... what does God do... 00:21:15.44\00:21:16.77 what light does God give us in the night 00:21:16.81\00:21:19.01 that would have been obscured by this power... 00:21:19.07\00:21:21.31 Ivor already nailed it but I want Bible verses 00:21:21.34\00:21:23.58 so Daniel chapter 7 verse 2 00:21:23.61\00:21:25.85 and I want you to read verses 2, 7 and 13. 00:21:25.88\00:21:28.25 Yvonne: "Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, 00:21:28.28\00:21:32.39 and, behold, the four winds of the heaven 00:21:32.42\00:21:35.76 strove upon the great sea. " 00:21:35.79\00:21:37.56 James: Okay, stop right there, he saw where? 00:21:37.59\00:21:39.43 Yvonne: In the night... 00:21:39.46\00:21:41.16 James: In his visions at night, what visions were they? 00:21:41.20\00:21:43.03 Prophetic visions, 00:21:43.06\00:21:44.40 7 prophetic visions, okay, verse 7. 00:21:44.43\00:21:46.07 Yvonne: "After this I saw in the night visions, 00:21:46.10\00:21:49.64 and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, 00:21:49.67\00:21:52.97 and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: 00:21:53.01\00:21:56.08 it devoured and brake in pieces, 00:21:56.11\00:21:58.01 and stamped the residue with the feet of it: 00:21:58.05\00:22:00.08 and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; 00:22:00.12\00:22:03.59 and it had ten horns. " 00:22:03.65\00:22:05.19 James: Okay, now verse 13. 00:22:05.22\00:22:06.55 Yvonne: "I saw in the night visions, and behold, 00:22:06.59\00:22:10.53 one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, 00:22:10.56\00:22:13.36 and came to the Ancient of days, 00:22:13.40\00:22:15.00 and they brought him near before him. " 00:22:15.06\00:22:17.07 James: Night vision, night vision, 00:22:17.10\00:22:18.43 night vision, night vision. Yvonne: Yeah. 00:22:18.47\00:22:19.80 James: Do you have night vision? Do you have night vision? 00:22:19.83\00:22:22.87 See, God's people have night visions 00:22:22.90\00:22:25.01 and those night visions come from God 00:22:25.04\00:22:27.04 and they help us to understand where we are 00:22:27.08\00:22:29.24 especially when the sun is obscured, 00:22:29.28\00:22:31.05 the night vision helps us to understand where we are. 00:22:31.11\00:22:33.01 So, he's trying to obscure the Sun... 00:22:33.05\00:22:34.58 Christ's righteousness, the gospel 00:22:34.62\00:22:36.05 and he's also trying to obscure prophecy... see that... okay 00:22:36.08\00:22:40.56 what else does prophecy do, Jason, Matthew chapter 2 00:22:40.62\00:22:43.12 verses 12 through 14. 00:22:43.16\00:22:45.23 Jason: Okay, "And being warned of God 00:22:45.26\00:22:47.30 in a dream that they should not return to Herod, 00:22:47.33\00:22:50.43 they departed into their own country another way. 00:22:50.47\00:22:53.47 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord 00:22:53.54\00:22:56.60 appeareth to Joseph in a dream saying, 00:22:56.64\00:22:59.11 Arise, and take the young child and his mother, 00:22:59.14\00:23:01.44 and flee into Egypt, 00:23:01.48\00:23:02.81 and be thou there until I bring thee word: 00:23:02.84\00:23:04.85 for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him. 00:23:04.88\00:23:08.78 When he arose, he took the young child 00:23:08.82\00:23:17.19 and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt. " 00:23:17.23\00:23:20.00 James: Okay, the angel is coming to the Magi... the wise men 00:23:20.03\00:23:23.73 telling... "Hey, don't go back to Herod" 00:23:23.77\00:23:25.10 when does he come to them? At night. 00:23:25.13\00:23:26.94 The angel comes to Joseph, 00:23:26.97\00:23:28.90 "Hey, you need to flee into Egypt" 00:23:28.97\00:23:30.41 which, by the way, was a prophecy... 00:23:30.44\00:23:31.87 of Him fleeing into Egypt. 00:23:31.91\00:23:34.44 God's people were also taken into Egypt by Joseph 00:23:34.48\00:23:40.48 you remember that? Yvonne: Hmmm... hmmm... 00:23:40.52\00:23:42.08 James: Joseph took them in to take care of them 00:23:42.12\00:23:44.52 so, Egypt was a place where God's people were 00:23:44.55\00:23:46.62 protected for a while in the Old Testament, 00:23:46.65\00:23:48.62 Egypt was a place where Jesus was protected for a while 00:23:48.66\00:23:51.73 in the New Testament, 00:23:51.76\00:23:53.09 and both of those visions were given... 00:23:53.13\00:23:55.30 well, both of those visions... 00:23:55.33\00:23:56.67 the specific vision that Joseph had was given to him at night. 00:23:56.70\00:23:59.93 So God, not only gives us prophetic visions 00:23:59.97\00:24:02.90 but also gives us instruction, direction, 00:24:02.97\00:24:05.87 that's being obscured by this power, 00:24:05.91\00:24:08.08 when it says the sun and it says the night... 00:24:08.11\00:24:10.05 all of that is being obscured by this power 00:24:10.08\00:24:11.75 so we won't have the direction of the Word, 00:24:11.81\00:24:13.31 we won't have the direction of prophecy, 00:24:13.35\00:24:14.78 we won't have the instruction 00:24:14.82\00:24:17.09 that God wants to give us from heaven... 00:24:17.15\00:24:19.72 those luminaries are obscured... 00:24:19.75\00:24:21.56 darkness... and we don't know what to do. 00:24:21.59\00:24:22.96 Honest people have not known what to do 00:24:22.99\00:24:25.83 because those visions and those prophecies 00:24:25.86\00:24:28.46 were obscured or they were... they were misinterpreted 00:24:28.50\00:24:30.77 to mean something that... that God never intended. 00:24:30.83\00:24:33.07 Ivor: I'm going to mention something here 00:24:33.10\00:24:35.64 that I think... will set us up for our next program as well. 00:24:35.67\00:24:37.44 James: Okay. 00:24:37.47\00:24:38.81 Ivor: Is that what... and this is the... 00:24:38.84\00:24:40.68 this is the principle that... 00:24:40.71\00:24:42.08 another principle that we should mention 00:24:42.11\00:24:45.41 is the way that we come to the Book of Revelation 00:24:45.45\00:24:50.95 to understand it is that we allow prophecy 00:24:50.99\00:24:53.96 to show us what history we're looking for. 00:24:53.99\00:24:56.93 James: Yes. 00:24:56.96\00:24:58.29 Ivor: We don't look at history 00:24:58.33\00:24:59.66 and then go back and try to find it in prophecy 00:24:59.69\00:25:02.26 right, we understand the prophecy... 00:25:02.33\00:25:05.87 we understand... we try to understand the prophecy first, 00:25:05.90\00:25:08.24 what is the framework? What should I be looking for? 00:25:08.27\00:25:10.91 And then once you get that, 00:25:10.94\00:25:12.34 "Okay, now I know what I'm looking for... " 00:25:12.37\00:25:14.14 and you go and you find it in history. 00:25:14.18\00:25:15.88 What gets a lot of people in trouble is that, 00:25:15.94\00:25:18.08 they'll look at something historical 00:25:18.11\00:25:19.91 and go, "Okay, this must be prophecy" 00:25:19.95\00:25:21.65 and then go back and... you see what I'm saying? 00:25:21.68\00:25:23.92 So we become more "history based" 00:25:23.95\00:25:26.25 in our prophecy... "What is...?" 00:25:26.29\00:25:28.52 Versus, prophecy based... in our prophecy... 00:25:28.59\00:25:30.79 so, for example, as we just said, 00:25:30.83\00:25:32.79 looking at these four trumpets so far... 00:25:32.83\00:25:35.13 we were able to say, "Look, according to the prophecy 00:25:35.16\00:25:38.90 these are the things we should be looking for" 00:25:38.93\00:25:41.20 not... "Is there history that fulfills it. " 00:25:41.24\00:25:43.51 "Ah, yes there is... look... look... " 00:25:43.54\00:25:45.87 it's obvious, right? 00:25:45.91\00:25:47.24 We know we're looking for... we know the generals... 00:25:47.28\00:25:49.84 and so, we're like, "Okay, this fits in... " 00:25:49.88\00:25:52.68 this is going to be crucial when we get to trumpet number 5 00:25:52.71\00:25:56.08 and trumpet number 6 because all we have to do 00:25:56.12\00:25:58.75 to understand the parameters, all we have to do 00:25:58.79\00:26:01.42 is say, "Okay, well, let's look for the history," 00:26:01.46\00:26:03.66 we know what we're looking for, 00:26:03.69\00:26:05.03 "Where is the history?" And guess what? 00:26:05.06\00:26:06.80 It's right there before our eyes. 00:26:06.83\00:26:08.16 Yvonne: Hmmm... 00:26:08.20\00:26:09.53 Ivor: So I just thought it's important for us 00:26:09.56\00:26:10.90 to kind of set the path as we get into trumpet number 5. 00:26:10.93\00:26:15.40 James: Okay, and then one last thought here 00:26:15.44\00:26:17.47 and that's verse 13 00:26:17.51\00:26:20.14 which really isn't a trumpet, per se... 00:26:20.18\00:26:23.04 it's kind of... instruction 00:26:23.08\00:26:24.41 and the instruction that we have here is, 00:26:24.45\00:26:26.72 basically telling us that the last three trumpets 00:26:26.75\00:26:29.72 are called, "woes. " 00:26:29.75\00:26:31.09 Verse 13 in Revelation 8, "And I beheld, 00:26:31.12\00:26:33.36 and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, 00:26:33.39\00:26:36.52 saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, 00:26:36.56\00:26:39.26 to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices 00:26:39.29\00:26:43.10 of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!" 00:26:43.13\00:26:45.27 The last three trumpets are called "Woes" 00:26:45.30\00:26:48.67 and I just want to clarify this, 00:26:48.70\00:26:50.27 it's not that there are three woes and three trumpets, 00:26:50.31\00:26:52.57 so six... that's not what he's saying here, 00:26:52.61\00:26:55.41 he's simply saying, "the woes are the trumpets" 00:26:55.44\00:26:57.55 but these specific trumpets are called, "woes" 00:26:57.58\00:26:59.65 and that's for a specific reason 00:26:59.68\00:27:02.18 and the "woes" are to the inhabitants of the earth 00:27:02.22\00:27:04.85 and we can close this with the idea that... 00:27:04.89\00:27:07.46 that we don't want to be an inhabiter of the earth, 00:27:07.49\00:27:10.26 we want to be sitting in heavenly places 00:27:10.33\00:27:12.69 with Christ Jesus. Yvonne: Amen. 00:27:12.73\00:27:14.06 James: And when we find ourselves 00:27:14.10\00:27:15.43 sitting in heavenly places with Christ Jesus, 00:27:15.46\00:27:16.80 we're going to find that these woes aren't really for us, 00:27:16.83\00:27:20.84 we are going to be protected or covered, if you will, 00:27:20.87\00:27:25.04 in fact, in the first one, it talks about 00:27:25.07\00:27:27.38 "not hurting those who have the seal of God" 00:27:27.41\00:27:29.64 we're going to be protected or covered 00:27:29.71\00:27:31.51 from these "Woes" 00:27:31.55\00:27:33.62 that are coming upon the inhabitants of the earth 00:27:33.65\00:27:34.98 and that's really what we want. 00:27:35.02\00:27:36.35 Yvonne: Amen. 00:27:36.38\00:27:37.72 James: So, Jason, what do we have for connecting with us 00:27:37.75\00:27:40.66 for those who have questions? 00:27:40.69\00:27:42.02 Jason: Oh, if they have questions, 00:27:42.06\00:27:44.29 they can submit it to sss@3abn. org 00:27:44.33\00:27:46.59 we'd love some video questions. 00:27:46.63\00:27:49.86 James: Yes, video questions, any questions you have 00:27:49.93\00:27:52.97 bring them to sss@3abn. org now when we get together, 00:27:53.00\00:27:56.04 again, we're going to be moving right in 00:27:56.07\00:27:57.94 to Revelation chapter 9. 00:27:57.97\00:27:59.51