We are here... we are here,
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we have landed in
Revelation chapter 22
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and basically...
this is a close...
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it's... we have those
four prophetic cycles,
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do you remember those?
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It started with an introduction
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and then started
with the seven churches
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that was
Prophetic Cycle number 1,
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that ended in Revelation 3
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and then we pick
up in Revelation 4
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with the seven seals
that ended in Revelation 8
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and then we
picked up in Revelation 8
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with the seven trumpets
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and that took
us to Revelation 11
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and then in Revelation 12,
we have the last prophetic cycle
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which was the seven vials
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and that takes you all the way
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to Revelation chapter 22 and
verse 7 and then in verse 8...
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Ivor: Chapter
15... seven vials...
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James: Yeah...
Ivor: Chapter 15...
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James: But it
starts in chapter 12...
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Ivor: Okay...
the 12 includes this.
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James: Yeah, because 12 and 13
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are kind of this
summary and then boom!
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bring us to the end of
time and then the vials are...
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Ivor: Hmmm...
hmmm... hmmm... hmmm...
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James: And then in
Revelation chapter 22 verse 8
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John is closing out...
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"And I John saw these things...
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I John saw these
things and I heard them... "
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so that's where
we're landing there
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so what we want to do is just
kind of... look at these verses
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how is John closing this out,
maybe do a little bit of summary
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and just bring it all
together. Yvonne: Yes...
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James: That's what we want to do
so... it's been a good journey,
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it's kind of
reluctant to end it you know.
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Yvonne: I know... I know.
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Jason: You guys can
stick around for a while...
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we'll just knock
out Daniel, you know.
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James: Hey, there you
go... I didn't think about that.
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Laughter...
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Jason, will you pray
for us as we get started?
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Sure, "Dear Heavenly
Father, we thank you so much
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for being with us
throughout our journey
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through the book of Revelation,
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this is a book that is deemed
by many to be very confusing
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but it's been
presented as a love story
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which it truly is
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as we've seen over the
course of this program,
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as with any
program that we do Lord,
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we ask that your Holy
Spirit would be with us,
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that He would lead and
guide us into all truth
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and help us to retain the
information that we're studying,
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in Jesus' name we pray, amen. "
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"Amen. "
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Okay, Revelation 22...
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let's just begin by
reading some of these verses,
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let's start in verse 8...
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there are some interesting
things that happen here,
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if you could just read those
first two verses, verses 8 and 9
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Yvonne, would you
like to read those for us?
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Sure, "Now, I John saw
and heard these things,
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And when I heard and saw,
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I fell down to worship
before the feet of the angel
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who showed me these things.
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Then he said to me, See
that you do not do that:
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for I am your fellow servant,
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and of your
brethren the prophets,
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and of those who keep the words
of this book: worship God. "
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Wow! just hold
there for just a second,
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what do you think about this?
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We talked about this a little
bit in the previous program
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but I really want
us to nail it here,
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what's going on right
here in these two verses?
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John mistakenly goes to
worship a created being.
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James: Yes, and how does
that created being respond?
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Yvonne: Get up...
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Jason: Let's not do this again.
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James: I like that,
"Let's not do this again...
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let's not do this again... "
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and then what
does the angel say?
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Worship God... worship God,
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you know,
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John is an older disciple,
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I mean, this is
in his later years,
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he's sanctified
and dedicated to God,
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obviously, God
has come to Patmos
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and given him the vision
of the book of Revelation
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and they tried to
kill John before this time
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and God preserved His life.
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so, we know that
John is just this...
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dedicated all-out
follower of Jesus,
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but he's inclined... he
inclines to worship this angel.
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In our fallen humanity,
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we have these things
that's hard to get rid of,
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or they're just our natural
tendency and I think that...
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that we are... we are
created to worship God
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but we have
inclinations to worship stars...
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angels in the Bible
were likened to stars.
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We worship movie stars,
we worship sports stars,
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we worship music stars...
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we worship
people... created beings...
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that's what John is doing here
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or inclined to do
here instead of God,
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so I think it's... I think it's
a revelation of his humanity,
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it's a reminder to
us... coming from the angels
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and I imagine in my mind,
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I don't know if
this is true or not
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because I don't know the
name of this particular angel
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it's going to be interesting
when we get to heaven
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to actually see if
these angels have names...
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like we know Gabriel does
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but I wonder if
this is one of the angels
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that almost got deceived
by... but didn't quite...
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you know what I'm saying?
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Like, not quite... and so he
is very sensitive about this,
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he is just like, "No way...
no way John, don't do this,
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worship God...
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I don't want this to
all start all over again. "
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And you know what's so
powerful about this is that
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you think
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when Satan and
his angels appear,
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they're appearing
as angels of light...
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and if John the
Revelator, right,
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who was like... bowing...
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because he knew who God
was, he knew who Jesus was,
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and this "being" is so...
this angel... he's still like...
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so if John in his
position... you know...
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how much more do
we need to understand
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the gravity of what will
happen at the end of time,
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these are things we
are not used to seeing
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and the overwhelming
sight that we face...
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of what Revelation is
trying to warn us about
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I think, wow, this verse along
with the one in Revelation 19
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is in there for a reason,
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God's saying,
"Look, this is my servant,
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I am showing him all this stuff
and he's still like... bowing. "
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James: Ivor, Ivor, we've
got to connect these verses
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back to
Revelation 13. Ivor: Yes.
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James: Whenever you share that,
you've got to come back and say,
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"Hey, we're
talking about Revelation...
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and by-the-way... just so
you know how real this is,
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let's just jump over to
Revelation 22 real quick... "
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Ivor: Yeah... Yvonne: Hmmm...
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James: Even John... you think
you're safe from this deception,
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this delusion... this
fire coming down from heaven,
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even John...
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so you could see
why the whole world
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would follow in
one direction... wow!
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Ivor: Yes... yes...
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Jason: And with things today
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with that whole New Age
Movement and all that stuff
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you see... in turn
you were talking about
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people worshiping stars and
movies and... they're created...
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a lot of times you
hear people saying,
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"Well, just put
it in the universe...
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the universe... give
it to the universe... "
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like, who do you
think created the universe?
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Why would you go to the
created instead of the Creator?
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God is the One
that you need to go to,
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not the trees, not
the stars, not the...
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that's something
that just gets me...
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the "put it in the
universe thing" like it's...
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I don't know...
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All right, there are a
couple of more thoughts here,
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we've talked
about it a little bit
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but I just want us to...
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to bring them back
because they're really good,
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if we can read, Yvonne,
could you keep reading for us
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in Revelation chapter
22 verses 10 through 12,
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10 through 12?
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Yes, "And he said to me,
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Do not seal the words of
the prophecy of this book:
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for the time is at hand.
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He who is unjust,
let him be unjust still:
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he who is filthy,
let him be filthy still:
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he who is righteous,
let him be righteous still:
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he who is holy,
let him be holy still.
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And, behold, I
am coming quickly;
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and my reward is with me,
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to give every one
according to his work. "
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Now there are
some nuggets in here
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that I want us to just look at,
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the first one is
found in verse 10.
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"Do not seal the
prophecies of this book... "
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this book is not sealed,
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the book of Daniel was sealed
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but the book of
Revelation is not sealed,
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it is an unsealed book...
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the word Revelation means
to uncover... to disclose...
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it is a book that is open,
it's symbolic but it's open,
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it's never been
sealed, "don't seal it up... "
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people need to
understand this, why?
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because in the 12th verse
and I'm just skipping number 11
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but we'll get back to it,
in the 12th verse it says,
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"Behold, I come quickly... "
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actually, let's
just stay at verse 10,
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the point I wanted to
make here is in verse 10,
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"For the time is at hand... "
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how could he say,
"the time is at hand?"
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We're reading prophecies right
now and studying prophecies
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that we're
applying to the future,
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this was written 2,000 years ago
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we got to remember that every
one of these prophetic sections
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began in John's time,
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it began in John's time,
"the time is at hand... "
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so, remember the
prophecies start with Christ
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and they go
through the Apostolic Age
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and then to the
pagan persecution
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and then to the Dark
Ages... you see what I'm saying?
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It begins now so
the time is at hand,
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when you understand the
prophetic cycles of Revelation,
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that makes sense...
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that makes sense.
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And then... go ahead.
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I had a question so if
you wanted to emphasize...
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So, there's something that's
a little confusing here to me
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because
Revelation 22 verse 8, right,
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the angel who
showed him these things...
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"And the angel said,
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He who is unjust, let
him be unjust still... "
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but then in the next
verse, it's Jesus talking...
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"Behold I'm coming quickly"
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so, if you don't
know any differently...
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James: It's
verse 13 that clarifies
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and we haven't got to it yet.
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Yvonne: Okay.
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James: Verse 13
is where we see...
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see a transition is taking
place here that we haven't seen
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but verse 13 is where He says,
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"I am Alpha and Omega,
the beginning and the end. "
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Yvonne: Right.
Ivor: Hmmm... hmmm...
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James: So, many times in
Revelation and also in Daniel,
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Daniel 10 is notorious for this,
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you're like, "Is that
Christ or is that the angel?
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Is that Christ or
is that the angel?
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Is that Christ or
is that the angel?"
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When we go back to
Revelation chapter 1,
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it says, "The
Revelation of Jesus Christ,
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which God gave unto him,
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to shew unto his servants things
which must shortly come to pass;
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and he sent and
signified it by his angel
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unto his servant John... "
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so you have this
interaction taking place
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but then John sees
Jesus... the Son of man
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but then there's an
angel and then there's...
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so you have this interaction
that's taking place here
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and that's why the
book of Revelation...
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you can't just divide
it up into chapters neatly
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because the
things that John sees,
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"And I saw... and I
saw... and I saw... "
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sometimes those
visions are including an angel
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but sometimes they're
directly a vision of Christ,
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Christ is the One talking
and many times what happens is
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like we saw in
the previous verse,
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the angels says,
"Hey, I'm an angel... "
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and Christ says, "I'm
the alpha and the omega"
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John is seeing this
and then he's seeing Christ
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then he's going back to
this and then he sees Christ
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and usually it's
clarified within the verses.
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Yvonne: Yeah.
James: Good question.
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Jason: I like
something that one of you said
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in a previous program about
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how we can't be
selfish with prophecy,
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a lot of times
we have a tendency
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to be selfish with prophecy
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where we think it only
applies to our... to the future
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or it only applies to our time
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but they had their prophecy too
back then... back in the Bible.
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James: "Surely the
Lord God will do nothing
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except He reveals His secrets
unto His servants the prophets"
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so God is working through
prophecy, that's Amos 3:7
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and He gives prophecy
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so that He can tell
His people what He's doing
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and He's always cared about
His people in every generation
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therefore, He's given
prophecy for every generation
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and the benefit that we have...
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in the final generation...
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is not that we should
greedily take all the prophecies
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and apply to them
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but that we could learn
from all those prophecies
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because they're
our prophetic history
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that bring us to where we are
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because a lot of
them are repeated...
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not the prophecy itself
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but the history of
that prophecy is repeated.
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We see the same
principles, the same spirit,
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the same manifestations of
the character in the end of time
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that took place
back in that time.
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This is why it's
important to understand...
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one of the first things...
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in fact, our first
program we opened up with
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Preterism,
Futurism and Historicism...
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and Idealism
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and we talked
about how Preterism
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says all the prophecies related
to one time in the past...
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Futurism says,
"it's all in the future"
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Historicism takes it
age by age, step by step...
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every generation of people...
generation of Christians
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have been able to look at
the road map using Historicism
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and say, "Okay, you are
now here... you are here. "
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Right, at every stage,
"You are here, you are here,"
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God is always
telling us where we are
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and so, now, we
know where we are
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versus where they
were in the time of...
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you know... the Dark Ages
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this is why that
kind of prophecy...
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Historicism is so
important because it helps us to
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not only look back and
see, "Okay, where we came from
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but we look
forward... all that is true...
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right, then, we
know where we're going,
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yeah, we're on
the right track. "
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Yvonne: Hmmm... it's good.
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James: So when you
get lost, you're like,
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"Yeah, I don't know where it is
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but I know that
I've passed the landmark
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that I was
supposed to pass so far,
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so from this point on, I know...
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I just need to get back to
where the last landmark was
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and then go forward from there,
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maybe I took a left too soon and
I need to go a little further. "
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Ivor: You have a
point of reference.
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James: You have a
point of reference.
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Ivor: What makes the book
of Revelation so difficult
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for so many people
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is that they have
no point of reference.
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It's just like, "When is this?"
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We have no clue...
is this after we leave,
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is this... there's
no point of reference
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and so most people just pretty
much stay away from the book,
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or they're all over the place.
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Jason: So, Historicism
then encompasses all the other
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Futurism, Preterism, Idealism
and just brings it all together.
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James: Yes, it's all inclusive
it's like the whole grain.
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Here's Preterism and
Historicism that's past...
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there's Futurism and
Historicism there's future.
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There's Idealism and Historicism
there are principles there
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that apply all through the ages,
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Idealism is saying, "Oh, these
are just principles that apply,
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these are powers and principles
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there's no real history...
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you don't have to nail
this down to a day... "
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well, Idealism is also there
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because there are principles
that apply that are...
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that are... that go
beyond dates and years etc.
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So, we... this has
been a great journey
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because what we've seen here is
a book that really makes sense,
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it's a book that
has... it's a masterpiece.
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It's a book that was
written by Divine origin
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and the reason why we don't have
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every answer to every question
is because we're not God...
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but God has the answers
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and God can bring those answers
to us as we need to see them
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and there are some
things that won't be clear
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until they actually unfold...
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some prophecies
won't be completely clear
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I mean, we have the
ideas... the general ideas
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but they're not completely
clear until they unfold.
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Hmmm... hmmm...
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So we talked about this
next verse here, verse 11,
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"He that is unjust,
let him be unjust still:
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and he that is filthy,
let him be filthy still:
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and he that is righteous,
let him be righteous still:
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and he that is holy,
let him be holy still. "
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We talked about that
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in relation to not being
an arbitrary decree of God
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God is not fixing
people's destinies,
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we fix our own
destiny, we decide...
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but God has brought the whole
world to a place of decision...
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He's lightened the
earth with His glory
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and He looks out in
the world and He says,
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"You know what?
Everyone's made a decision
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if I let this go for
another year or another month
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or another week or another day,
it wouldn't make any difference
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he that his holy is
going to be holy still
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and he that is righteous
is going to be righteous still
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and he that is filthy
is going to be filthy still
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and he that is unjust
is going to be unjust still
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I'm going to
come... I'm going to go... "
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everyone's made a
decision and no one's changed
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and that picture of God
is vital in our understanding
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because God is longsuffering
He doesn't want anyone to perish
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so He'll hold out... He's
holding out... for one more
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but He's bringing
the world to a place
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where they're finally
going to make a decision
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and He can bring this to an end
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and He comes quickly
and we think, 2,000 years...
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but remember... a day with
God is like a thousand years
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and a thousand
years is like a day
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so for heaven... for eternity...
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2,000 years...
that was two days ago.
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God can wait a couple of days
for one more sinner to be saved
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He'll wait a couple of days...
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and when we get to
heaven, we'll figure that out.
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"Oh yeah, it was just a couple
of days... yeah, it's over... "
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it's like... it's kind of like,
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it's kind of like our
session... our 72 sessions
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"Wow, you know,
one session... oh!
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we've got to get
two sessions, oh!
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oh, we're only at Revelation
12 after three sessions... oh!"
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and then we get to
the end we're like,
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"Oh, it's over... oh!"
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Jason: It's like growing up.
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Ivor: 6 years old...
oh Man! I want to be 11.
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Laughter... Yeah.
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James: And then, we want to
go a little bit further here,
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we've looked at verse 13,
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"I'm alpha and omega,
the beginning and the end"
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verse 14...
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Ivor: "Blessed are they
that do his commandments,
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that they may have
right to the tree of life,
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and may enter in through
the gates into the city. "
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This is what I
like about this verse...
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James: Hmmm...
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Ivor: That...
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the book of Ecclesiastes
chapter 12 says, let's read it.
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James: Let's hear the conclusion
of the whole matter...
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Ivor: Yeah, it's kind of
like, I can almost hear us go,
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"Why do we need to study
the whole book of Revelation?"
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But let's look at it
anyway, you want to quote it?
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James: "Let's hear the
conclusion of the whole
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matter... " Ivor: But first it
says, "Of study of many books,
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there is great
weariness of flesh... "
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oh, anybody weary over
this long study of Revelation?
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Right, but then,
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"Let us hear the
conclusion of the whole matter
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fear God and
keep His commandments:
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for this is the
whole duty of man. "
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Ivor: "For God shall
bring every work into judgment,
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with every secret thing,
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whether it be good
or whether it be evil. "
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God says, "Okay, look,
we could be writing books...
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James: We can
wear our flesh out.
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Ivor: Yes. James: But...
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Ivor: In case... in case...
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you've missed
everything we've just done
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in the book of Revelation,
let's sum it up for you,
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last chapter of the book...
he closes with those words...
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"Blessed are they
that do His commandments
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that they may have
right to the Tree of Life. "
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Why was Lucifer
cast out of heaven?
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Because of lawlessness.
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Why were Adam and Eve
put out of the garden?
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Because of lawlessness.
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How do we get back
in? Commandments of God...
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faith of Jesus...
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believing in Christ...
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and "if you love me,
keep my commandments. "
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So He says, "Look, in
case you got confused,
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in case there was
something you missed,
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let me just
summarize it for you...
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blessed are they
that do His commandments
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that they may have
right to the Tree of Life...
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I've just summarized
the whole thing for you. "
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So, we are without excuse right,
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He says, "In case
it was too wearisome...
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I couldn't follow
those half-an-hour programs,
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it lost me in the head... "
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well, we could have just
told you this in the beginning
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but we wanted you
to watch the program
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but now that you've
watched the program,
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we're just
summarizing it by saying,
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"Keep His commandments...
keep His commandments. "
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He says, "If you love
me, keep my commandments. "
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James: And Matthew 22,
puts the topping on that...
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brings it all together
in a sense... Jesus said,
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because He was asked
the question, verse 36...
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"Master, which is the
great commandment in the law?"
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And what does He say?
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"Jesus said unto him, Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God
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with all thy heart,
and with all thy soul,
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and with all thy
strength, with all thy mind,
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and this is the first
and great commandment.
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And the second is like unto it,
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Thou shalt love thy
neighbor as thyself.
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On these two commands
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hang all the law
and the prophets. "
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"Keeping my commandments...
is love... it's love... "
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so we don't want our Viewers
to see these as separate...
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Ivor: Right.
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James: Love and
commandment-keeping
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is one and the same thing
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and God... in the
book of Revelation
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has finally
brought them back together
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see, because
they've been separated...
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he's... "Oh, I love God... "
00:20:07.50\00:20:09.17
"Oh, that's legalism... keeping
the commandments is legalism. "
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No... no it's not...
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because the whole law is
fulfilled in this... love...
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love is the
fulfilling of the law.
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Ivor: The wedding
vows... the wedding vows...
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James: That's right,
that's such a good illustration.
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Ivor: But it's quite amazing
because... think about it...
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this very moment of entering
into the gates of heaven,
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Jesus Himself
says, at the end of time,
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He will stand... He's going
to put the goats on one side,
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the sheep on the other...
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He's going to
say, "Come in sheep...
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because I was
naked and you fed me,
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I was hungry...
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naked and you clothed me...
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I was hungry and you fed me...
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I mean, He goes down this list,
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I was thirsty and you
gave me water to drink,
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I was in
prison... you visited me. "
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"When did we do that?
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Wait a minute... I
don't remember... "
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Yeah, they are so
selfless that they're like,
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"Okay, what are you...
what are you talking about?"
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Right, and He says,
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"Inasmuch as you did
it to the least of these,
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you have done it unto me. "
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That was love, right,
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then, to the
others... "You didn't feed me...
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you didn't visit me...
you didn't clothe me... "
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"But Lord, we knew
how you were coming...
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we knew your feet weren't
going to touch the ground... "
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right, "we
understood prophecy. "
00:21:18.81\00:21:23.28
Yvonne: Hmmm... hmm...
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Ivor: Love will determine
where we end up, yeah... yeah...
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James: Hmmm... hmmm..
destiny... it's destiny...
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and that's why in the
very next verse it says,
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"For without are dogs, and
sorcerers, and whoremongers,
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and murderers, and idolaters,
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and whoever loves
and makes a lie. "
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Whoever loves and makes a lie...
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and it starts
early... lying starts early.
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I ask... when I
do a class or two
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with some of our RICE students
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we go through
some basic questions
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and I ask them, one of
the questions I ask is,
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"Do you ever
lie... do you ever lie?"
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"Honey, you look great today!"
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"How do I look?"
"You look good. "
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"Do you ever lie?"
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Because... because
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sometimes lying is
the greatest form of pride
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we want to be
liked, we want to be...
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so we say things
that aren't really true
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to people and about people,
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we say things
that aren't really true
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and we fall into this
natural tendency to lie.
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I think that if we
look at our political world,
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it's just all caught up in that
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and I really don't think
that these guys even realize...
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these people even
realize how much they're lying.
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To them, it's just the
way the world operates,
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this is the way
the world operates,
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and it is hard
because you have to take...
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and you have to
think about this...
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you have to take a
certain amount of responsibility
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in order to
always tell the truth.
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You have to...
there's a certain amount of...
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yeah, there's a
certain amount of pressure
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that's going to come upon you
to tell the truth all the time
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and there's a
consequence to that
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and so, ultimately I
think, this is going to be...
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that's why it says
here, "Whoever loves... "
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like, we're
summarizing "the saved"
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as those who keep the
commandments of God and love God
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we're summarizing "the
lost" as those who lie,
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who love a lie
and believe a lie.
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Phew... that's pretty
big when you think about it
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because I can tell you honestly
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that lying is something that I
struggle with... on that level.
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Not on the level
of just... you know...
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but on the level of
wanting myself to look good
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or wanting to
come across in a way
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that isn't "hurting
someone" or whatever,
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and we really need
to be honest with people
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and we can be honest with people
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if we have the love
of God in our hearts...
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we can be honest with people.
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You know, when Peter was filled
with the Spirit and they said,
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"Don't preach anymore in
the name of Jesus Christ,
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we're going to kill you
and put you in prison. "
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He could have said,
"Well, you know" but he didn't
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he said, "Hey, whether
it's good or not... you judge...
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but I am going to
be preaching Christ
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I'm just going to be...
I'm not... I'm not even... "
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but at the trial of
Jesus... "I don't know Him...
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I don't know
Him... I don't know Him. "
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See how easy it was for
him to fall into the lie
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to protect himself.
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I think that's
part of the dilemma
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that we're dealing with here
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you know, in the end of time.
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You also look at what
Lucifer did in heaven,
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he was... the Bible says,
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"By the multitude of
your merchandise... "
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called him "a trafficker"
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what was he trafficking?
He was trafficking lies...
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What was he merchandising?
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He was merchandising
lies and the angels bought it.
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So they bought his
merchandise, right?
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The message for us
today is, "Don't buy it... "
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right, don't buy his lies,
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don't buy his merchandising,
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and that's part of
what the false gospel is,
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the false gospel is a
picture of God that is a lie.
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It's a picture of
Christ that is a lie
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and much of that has
to do with the doctrines,
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"God burns people
forever and ever... "
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"You want to be
forgiven? You have to pay God. "
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Right, "you have
to pay... indulgences"
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Yvonne:
Purgatory... indulgences...
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Ivor: Yeah, you know,
all these different teachings
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that reflect
something that is not true
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about the character of God
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which again is one
of the main reasons
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why people turn
away from God, and then,
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people love that
lie, people like...
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think about the
Atheist who may be like,
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"Ah, this is who God is"
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and they are intent on making
God to be someone that He's not,
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right, but they're looking
at it through faulty eyes.
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So, this is why it's so
important for God's people
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at the end of time to show
the truth about God's character
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because in Him is
truth... in Him there is no lie.
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It goes right back to
Satan and the first deception,
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read John chapter
8 verse 44 for us,
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this is really a powerful verse.
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"Ye are of your
father the devil,
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and the lusts of
your father ye will do.
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He was a murderer
from the beginning,
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and abode not in the truth,
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because there
is no truth in him.
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When he speaketh a
lie, he speaketh of his own:
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for he is a liar,
and the father of it. "
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Wow! this is taking about Satan,
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the reason why this
is such a big deal here
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in Revelation's close is because
Satan is the father of lies,
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he's the father of deception,
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we need to walk...
we need to pull away...
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have you ever
heard of a white lie?
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Yvonne: Oh yeah.
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James: What is
that? An acceptable one?
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Yvonne: Yeah, right...
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James: It's okay...
no... Yvonne: Harmless...
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James: he's the father...
yeah, he's the father of it.
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So in a sense... and I love
it because it's a contrast...
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"Here are they that
keep the commandments of God"
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and when we're
filled with the love of God,
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we're going to be
okay... we're going to be okay.
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Ivor: And it's
beautiful because the book ends,
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after he says...
you know... warns...
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"Don't take any words out of
this book or add any to it... "
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and then it just ends
with the encouragement,
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He's coming quickly
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and in that last verse,
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"The grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ be with you all...
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the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ be with you all. "
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James: But, I like this
verse... and I want to share it,
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it's so powerful... verse 17,
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"And the Spirit and
the bride say, Come.
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And let him that hears Come.
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And let him
that is athirst come.
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And... not only those that hear,
not only those that are thirsty
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but whoever
will... whoever will...
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I just want to say
to all of our Viewers,
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whoever will... come...
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take of the
water of life freely...
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freely...
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Yvonne: And He will
in no wise cast you out.
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James: Yes...
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Yvonne: Come... He will
in no wise cast you out.
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Ivor: Have you ever
missed a family reunion?
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Man! that's the
worst... "You weren't there?"
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"No, Man! I couldn't make it. "
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This is the fact...
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God is inviting us to
an eternal family reunion,
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and that's how He
closes the book, "Come... "
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Yvonne: Yes.
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Ivor: "Here's your invitation...
will you be there?"
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James: If we only had one
promise, that would be enough,
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"and him that cometh to me
I will in no wise cast out. "
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Beautiful...
beautiful... beautiful closing.
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