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Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth,

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equip the saints and impact our culture.

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I want you to think in three bucket terms, three buckets.

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Revelation chapter one goes in bucket number one and that is the things that were passed.

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Revelation chapter two and three as we make our way through this, these are the things that are.

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Revelation chapter four verse one, this is the announcement of the third bucket.

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These are the things which will be of the future.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast.

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ,

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then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings.

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To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen.

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Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you.

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Here is Jack Hibbs.

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Get a cup of coffee or bottle of water or pull over or if you're driving, put your headphones on

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or get ready, we'll do the best we can as we begin now to dive in from 30,000 feet understanding

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the book of Revelation and it is God's will that you and I understand it by the way.

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He did not give this book to us as a mystery.

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I'm going to prove that now, but the exact opposite.

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This is the revelation, the apocalyptic, the apocalyptic, the apocalyptic, the unveiling,

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the taking off of the wrapping or in our minds, I imagine a statue and you can see the outline

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a symbol as a silhouette of the statue of liberty and you can tell that something is big underneath

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but you don't know what and they raise the covering, the sheet off.

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That's the word that is used when it is the revelation, the unveiling of Jesus Christ.

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We're going to dive into this so get comfortable.

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But as you get ready, as you get ready, think this way.

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I want you to think in three bucket terms, three buckets, buckets one, two, three

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or buckets by color. I don't care how you define them but have three of them

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because you need to have a bucket of the past, you need to have a bucket of the things that are

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now and you need to have a bucket that will hold the things of the future.

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So get yourself ready.

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Here we go. May the Lord bless this as we trust that He will because He's promised to do so.

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Here we go. Revelation, chapter one, verse one, the revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave

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Him, that's God gave to Jesus, to show His servants things which must surely take place or the word

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in Greek as quickly happen once they begin and He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant

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John. There is the chronology of the revelation given. No secret about it, everybody, who bore

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witness to the Word of God, to the testimony of Jesus Christ and to all things that He saw.

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Listen to this. Blessed is He who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep

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those things which are written in it for the time is near. That is what's known as the prologue

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to the book of Revelation. This is the foundational purpose and reason. God is announcing,

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here is how I'm giving it and this is the purpose. It is the glorification, revelation,

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announcement. It is the unveiling of my son, Jesus Christ, thus it's the book of Revelation

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and verses one to three is that prologue and now verses four through eight is what is known as

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the salutation. It says in verse four, John, this is the beloved John. I believe that it is the

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same John that is John of the gospel. John to the seven churches which are in Asia, grace to you

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in peace from Him who is, who was, who is to come. By the way, that's the attribute of the God

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of Israel revealed in the book of Isaiah and from the seven spirits who are before His throne.

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The seven spirits before His throne, folks, you can see in Isaiah chapter 11 verses one and two.

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It's not a mystery. In fact, it's good for me to insert this now. The book of Revelation

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is understood by those and only those who know their Old Testament. This is a setup by God

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to reveal to you your Old Testament knowledge. Yes, that's right, everybody. You in the New Testament

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era and the New Testament church, we are only a real New Testament church if we study and know

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the Old Testament. You say, how can you say that? It's so easy to answer your question by asking

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you a question. When Peter, Paul and James and John, when they were out preaching the gospel in

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the New Testament, were they carrying their New Testament Bibles? You know, New Testament, Psalms

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and Proverbs? Nope. What were they carrying? When the New Testament apostles went preaching,

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what were they preaching? The Old Testament. Why? Because the gospel is in the Old Testament.

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Jesus is in the Old Testament. In fact, it is the book of Revelation that alludes to quotes from

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reveals Old Testament scriptures more than any other New Testament book. Is that fascinating?

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Isn't that awesome? He goes on. Verse five, and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness in the

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firstborn or the preeminent one from the dead and the ruler over the kings of the earth,

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to him who loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood and has made us kings and priests

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to his God and father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen. Listen to John,

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behold, he is coming with clouds. Every eye will see him as reference to the second coming,

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and they also who pierced him. That's the Jewish religious leadership in the future.

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And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of him, even so, amen. Folks, verse seven as an

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example is a great verse to tear out as it were or copy down and put in your future bucket.

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Do you see that? It's simply placed in your future bucket. Verse eight, oh, I love verse eight,

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the cults, hate verse eight. We love verse eight. I am the alpha and the omega. The beginning and

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the end says the Lord who is, who was, who is to come, the almighty. That's a reference to God

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himself out of the book of Isaiah, chapter 48, verse 12, mind you. I, John, verse nine, and now we

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come to the things which you have seen. So what I just read to you previously, those are things that

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are part of the things that are foundational. Now watch how this ties in. We are still looking

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at chapter one as the things of the first bucket. These are the things that you've seen.

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I, John, both your brother and companion, intribulation, and in the kingdom, and in patience of

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Jesus Christ was on the Isle that is called Patmos. That's part of the Greek Isles, Patmos,

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and that's where John was banished because John was guilty of preaching Christ Jesus.

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Church tradition has it that they attempted to kill John by boiling him in oil. He,

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he, it didn't kill him. Again, this is church tradition, church history. He was then banished to

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the island of Patmos to work there. The salt mines to eventually die. Thank God that didn't happen.

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God got him out of Patmos and got him over to Ephesus where he died in Ephesus.

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But John is the only apostle that died of old age and of natural circumstances.

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And by the way, it's good to note right now that the book of Revelation's written somewhere

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between 93 and 95 AD. So that is, that is very, very important. He says, listen to this verse 10,

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he said that I was in the spirit, capital S spirit. That's the Holy Spirit on the Lord's day.

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I personally believe that John now in verse 10 is seeing the things of the Lord in his day. God

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is allowing him to see into the future. And I heard behind me a loud voice as of a trumpet saying,

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I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last. That is fantastic folks because that is,

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again, the God of the Old Testament. That's one of his titles. And what you see right in a book

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and send it to the seven churches which are in Asia, to Ephesus and to Smyrna and Pergamus and

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Thyatira and Sardis and Philadelphia and Leodicea. And so he gives the seven letters to the seven

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churches. We're going to read them in a little bit. But there's a reason we'll talk more on that.

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Why those seven, when there were many, many hundreds, why that one? We'll see, or why those I

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should say. Now watch what happens. John now begins to see the content of the vision. Then I turned

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to see the voice that spoke with me and having turned, I saw seven golden lamp stands. I want you

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to think about that for a moment. These are either seven independent stand-alone lamp stands,

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which are possible, but not likely. It may very well be the seven lamp stands that make up

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the menorah. The menorah that is mentioned in Exodus, we find the menorah throughout the Old

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Testament and now we find the menorah and the closing book of the Bible. And Jesus says that he is

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in the midst, as we shall see, he's in the midst of the seven lamp stands. One like the son of man

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clothed with a garment down to the feet and girded about the chest with a golden band or

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a sash. His head and his hair were white like wool and as white as snow and his eyes like a flame

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of fire. His feet were like fine brass as if refined in furnace and his voice as the sound of

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many waters. He had in his right hand seven stars. We're going to find out more about those in

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moment. And out of his mouth went a sharp sword or sharp two-edged sword and his countenance, his face,

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was shining in its strength or countenance was like the sun shining in its strength. Verse 17,

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oh, get a load of this. Listen carefully. John says this, and when I saw him, I fell at his feet

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as dead, but he laid his right hand on me saying, do not be afraid. I am the first in the last.

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Listen, everybody, just out of chapter one already, who's the first in the last?

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There's no, you have no other, there's no option. It's him. It's Jesus.

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Did Jovo, and this is, we'll say, oh, no, no, Jehovah God is the first in the last.

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Yeah, Jovo God is the first in the last. There's one Savior, the Lord God. How does He save us

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by the atoning work of the sacrificial Son of God? That's why Jesus Christ, he's not another alpha

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in Omega. There's only one. There's only one person last. There's only one beginning in the end.

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Jesus Christ is God. Revelation chapter one just made that super clear if you know your Old Testament.

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Isn't this fascinating? It's thrilling, but this gets deep. Watch this. Verse 18,

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I am He who lives and was dead and behold him alive forevermore. Okay, whoever the alpha in the

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Omega is, the first in the last, the one who was, who is, who is to come, whoever is, I'm being

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sarcastic right now, whoever is, he died and he came back to life. Wow. And I have the keys of

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Hades and death. Verse 19, write the things which you have seen. That is the first division to

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the book of Revelation, the things which you have seen. That's bucket number one. And here comes

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bucket number two, the things which are now, the things which are now presently, John, the things

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that I'm going to show you now, where you stand, John, in the world that you're in. And guess what,

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mark this down in your notes. The world that John is in is the church age. John being, of course,

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a member of the church as you and I trust are. Jesus is speaking to him and announcing to him

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that division goes this way. There's things that I'm telling you about of the past. There's things

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I'm going to be telling you about about the now. And there's things I'm going to be telling you about

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about the future. Three divisions of the book of Revelation. And that outline is presented in

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verse 19, maybe one of the most important verses of the entire book is Revelation 1 verse 19.

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Verse 20 goes on to say, the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand and the

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seven golden lamp stands. Listen to this, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches.

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Some say pastors and the reason why some say that is because the word anglios means messengers.

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And so some have said, well, it's actual angels and some have interpreted to mean

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messengers being the ministers of. I go with the latter to be honest with you, but that's my

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choice and you can have yours. The seven stars are the seven angels of the seven churches and

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the seven lamp stands which you saw are the seven churches. That is God's description, chapter 1,

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the things which have been. Now look at this. We pick it up in chapter 2 and everybody,

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chapters 2 and 3 is the second bucket. And that contains the things that are now. And here we go.

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The message that we're going to see starting out with is this. And to the angel, imagine if it is

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the pastor or the messenger or maybe whatever it is, we know for sure it is the ambassador or the one

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that will communicate to the believers that are nephysis, right? These things says he who holds the

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seven stars in his right hand, who walks in the midst of the seven lamp stands. Wow. I want to

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believe that Jesus walks through our lamp stand at our church. I hope Jesus is welcome at our church.

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Don't you? He says in verse 2, I know your works, your labor and your patience and that you cannot

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bear those who are evil and have tested those who say they are apostles and are not and have found

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them to be liars. Wow. How would they know that? Because this church and Ephesus judged what was

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being taught against the revealed word of God. What revealed word of God? They didn't have a new

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testimony yet. They judged what was being said by these ministers against the Old Testament

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of God's word. And you have persevered and have patience and have labored for my namesake

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and have not become weary. Nevertheless, I have this against you that you have left your first love.

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Remember, therefore, from where you have fallen, repent and do the first works or else I will come

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to you quickly and remove your lamp stand from its place unless you repent. Jesus is saying,

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unless you love me more than anything else, including ministry, I'm going to remove your influence.

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When the light goes out, it doesn't mean the church at Ephesus loses their salvation. It means that

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they lose their witness. The lamp goes out. And Jesus says, I need you to repent so your light

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can keep burning. But this is what you need to do to repent. You need to come back to me and make

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me the object of your Christian witness, your Christian love, and your Christian witness. It's

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awesome. And verse 5, he tells you how to do that. Remember, therefore, from where you have fallen

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repent and do the first works or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lamp stand from

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its place unless you repent. Notice the first works is the work of love. But this you have that

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you hate the deeds of the Nicolayatins, which I also hate. Jesus says, I hate those who are

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Nicolayati, lords over the people. They are spiritual ministers in my church, but they lured

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themselves over the people. They do not let me be lured. They are men of controlling powers over

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my people. Jesus says, I hate that. Verse 7, he who has an ear to hear, let him hear what the

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Spirit says to the churches, to him who overcomes, I will give to eat from the tree of life,

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which is in the midst of the paradise of God. Awesome. Now watch this. And now we go to church number

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2 and this is the church at Smirna. And remember, everybody, these are the things that are present

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before John. John is seeing the church age from his day all the way out to when the church leaves

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the earth. So certainly, this speaks to our time. And to the angel, the church of Smirna,

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right, these things says the first and the last who was dead and came to life. Oh my gosh.

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If you're a Jehovah witness right now, your head's spinning around in circles.

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If you are a Mormon, this concerns you very, very much so because there's no other first

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and last. There's not thousands of gods, a. God. No, there's only one, the God.

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And the Redeemer, God, died for you and he lives again. This is the second time you've heard that.

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And just these two chapters remarkable, absolutely amazing. He goes on to say in verse 9,

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and I know your works, tribulation and poverty, but you are rich. And I know the blasphemy of those

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who say that you are Jews, that they say they are Jews and are not, but they are of the synagogue

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of Satan. What? Replacement theology? Is that what he's possibly thinking about?

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Is it possible that replacement theology is being referenced here?

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The replacement theology beginning with many who denounce the word of God, but probably the most

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fervent replacement theology people today are those of Islam saying there are no Jews. Jews

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don't matter. Jews know more. Whatever it was, the Jews is ours now. We've taken their blessings.

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We've stepped in. We've taken over. What about those who say the church is Israel? That the

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church is made up of Christians who are spiritual Jews and so there is no real Jew or Jew to come

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as a believer or Israel or Jerusalem. Something to think about. I would watch out. He says,

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there are the synagogue of Satan. Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer.

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Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison that you may be tested and you will

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have tribulation 10 days. That certainly took place under one of the particular Roman emperors,

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but I think it speaks regarding the future as well. Be faithful unto death and I will give you

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the crown of life. This is the church of martyrdom. There are those believing until my granddaughter

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just the other day. I said, how was your Sunday? She said it was great and I said, you know,

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I heard on the news today that we had a great day at church, but there were Christians in Sudan

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just on the same day in Africa who were locked inside of their church and burned to death by

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jihadists. Wow. God's church is all over the earth. Some people who are of his church are called

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to be martyrs and Jesus said, Jesus says, be faithful unto death and I will give you the crown

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of life. Verse 11, he was in ear to hear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

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That's a key challenge. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death, meaning you may

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die spiritually. I mean, sorry, take that back. You may die physically once in your life as we

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all shall do, but the second death is spiritual death and spiritual death, the believer never

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goes through spiritual death. The believer will only go through physical death, not spiritual death.

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The first death everyone must go through, believer or not. The second death only unbelievers go

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through. Make sense? That's a key thing to remember. All of us are going to die unless the rapture

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happens. Make sure you do not die the spiritual death, which is called the second death. That is

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the last thing that you ever want to experience. Now to the church at Pergamum. And to the angel,

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the church at Pergamum, right, these things says he who has the sharp, two-edged sword that's the

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word of God, I know your works and where you dwell where Satan's throne is and you hold fast to my

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name and did not deny my faith, even in the days in which Antipas was my faithful martyr who was

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killed among you were Satan dwells. Wow, but I have a few things against you and here he's going to

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tell you because you have there those who hold the doctrine of Baileum, who taught Bailek to put

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a stumbling block before the children of Israel to eat things sacrifice to idols and to commit

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sexual immorality. Baileum was a false representation, a prophet who misrepresented God to say the least.

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Thus you also have those who hold to the doctrine of the Nicolayetans, which things, I, hey, that's

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the second time Jesus has said this, repent or else I will come to you quickly and will fight against

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them with the sword of my mouth. Wow, he has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches

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to him who overcomes I will give some of the hidden manna to eat, the hidden manna, the

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word of God to give them strength in the hour of need. I will give him a white stone and on the

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stone a new name written which no one knows except him who receives it. Next church everybody is

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the church at Thyatira. Listen carefully to this. A lot of people believe that in the chronological

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fashion that the age of the Thyatira was the church of the dark ages if you lay that out. That's

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for a deeper study for you to do on your own but there are chronological commentaries on the book

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Revelation that that reveal that that breaks it down. It's quite fascinating. I encourage you to

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look at the writings of that by Dr. John Wolveroot would be great. The church of Thyatira. He says,

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and to the angel the church of Thyatira, these things says the son of God who his eyes like a flame

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of fire and his feet like fine brass. I know your works love service faith and your patience and

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as for your works the last are more than the first. Nevertheless I have a few things against you

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because you allow the woman Jezebel who calls herself a prophetess to teach and beguile my servants

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to commit sexual immorality and eat those things or eat the things sacrifice to idols and I

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and I give her time or I gave her time to repent of her sexual immorality and she did not repent.

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Indeed I will cast her into a sick bed and those who commit adultery with her into great tribulation

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unless they repent of their deeds. I will kill her children with death and all the churches

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shall know that I am He who searches the minds and the hearts and I give to each one of you according

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to your works but to you I say and to the rest in Thyatira as many as do not have this doctrine

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and who do not have not known the depths of Satan as they call them I will put on you no other burden

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but hold fast what you have till I come and He who overcomes and keeps my works until

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the end and to Him I will give power over the nations. He shall rule them with a rod of iron

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as the potter potter's vessels shall be broken to pieces as I also have received from my father

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and I will give him the morning star it's amazing and he who has an ear to hear let him hear what

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the spirit says to the churches that's absolutely stunning and remarkable remember we are working

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now in what is called the second bucket pausing for a drink maybe you can do the same

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Revelation chapter 1 goes in bucket number 1 and that is the things that were passed

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only John's time all the way through to our day this this would include the time of

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of Zwingli and Luther it would include the time of the church fathers the the the times of

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of the birthing of the church the day of Pentecost all the way through to the spirit of God

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delivering up the church at the rapture of the church and so we pick it up together everybody we

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are reading regarding the church of Sardis now and to the angel of the church at Sardis right these

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things says he who has the seven spirits of God remember we talked about them earlier they're found

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in Isaiah chapter 11 verses 1 and 2 and the seven stars I know your works that you have a name

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that you are alive but you are dead yikes be watchful and strengthen the things which remain

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that are ready to die for I have not found your works perfect before God remember therefore

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how you have received and heard hold fast and repent therefore if you will not watch

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you know what's amazing God is always saying to us watch watch watch be watchful be watching

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even in our waiting as believers weird to be watchful he says I will come upon you as a thief

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and you will not know the hour I will come upon you you have a few names even in Sardis who have

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not defiled their garments and they shall walk with me in white for they are worthy what makes

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them worthy they've kept his name it's not their works it's not their talent it's not their

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magnitude of Christian ministry it's the fact that they were faithful to what God had called

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them to do absolutely 100 percent tangible applicable usable information given by God

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and this is a great exhortation from none other than Jesus Christ himself and so verse 5 he

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overcomes shall be clothed in white garments and will not I will not blood out his name from the

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book of life but I will confess his name before my father before his and before his angels he

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has an ear to your lid him here with the spirit says to the churches before we read about Philadelphia

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very very quickly you might say well Jack what about this blooding blooding the name out of the book

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notice he says if you do these things your name will not be blotted out of the book of life

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to get your name blotted out of the book of life means you never had it written in the lambs

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book of life go look and see it's two different books there's the book of life that records the name

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of every human being that's ever been born known to God only at this time

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the second book is the lambs book of life and only those who are born again are written in the

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lambs book of life on the day of judgment those whose names are written in the book of life

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their names are also in the lambs book of life on the day of judgment when the books are opened

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if your name is not in the lambs book of life then it's blotted out of the book of life

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go study that on your own but that that is that is something if you're born again your name cannot

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be blotted out of the book of life because it is preserved sealed and stamped onto the day of

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redemption in the lambs book of life now here's the church that all of us want to be a part of

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this is what I strive here at the church that I pastor at Calvary Chapel is dear God please

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may this church be a Philadelphia church may it be a church of brotherly love to Philadelphia

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and to the angel of church to Philadelphia right these things says he was holy he was true

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he was the key of David to find that interesting right he who opens and knowing shuts and shuts

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opens by the way in my Bible on April 26th God gave me this verse to open up the church during

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COVID because he says there that he who opens and no one shuts and shuts and no one opens God

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told me in my heart loud and clear wasn't my heart God spoke it to my heart and it was this

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Jack you don't have the authority to close the doors of my church my church must remain open

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and so we did I know your works behold or see I've set before you an open door and no one

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can shut it not even the governor for you have a little strength and you have kept my word

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and not denied my name whoo folks you do that you'll do fine keep his word don't deny his name

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wow that's the you want to you want the key to success save save your money on buying Tony

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Robbins books on how to be the best or whatever there's the key keep his word and don't deny his name

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indeed he says I will take those of the synagogue of Satan we read about those guys earlier

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who say they are Jews and are not but are liars indeed I will make them come and worship

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before your feet and to know that I have loved you because you have kept my command to persevere

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listen everybody let God's word speak you do not do not twist God's words ready because you have

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kept my command to persevere I also will keep you from the hour of trial which shall come upon

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the whole world to test those who dwell on the earth that's Revelation 210 oh sorry Revelation 310

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there's a promise that God says I'm going to deliver you from a time coming that will engulf the

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entire earth but possibly could that be the answer is in Luke 2136 and Luke 2136 I'm paraphrasing

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because it just popped into my head he says if you watch and if you're faithful and you're looking for

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me I will provide for you a way of escape when that time comes where all those on the face of the

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earth will be tried I believe that that is the blessed hope that Christ is going to John chapter 14

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verses one two and three pull us off from the face of the earth I hope it's my generation I hope

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it happens today but wow what an amazing thing what a great promise that was Revelation 310

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verse 11 behold I come quickly hold fast what you have that no one may take your crown he who

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overcomes I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God and he shall go out no more I will write

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on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God the new Jerusalem which comes down out

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of heaven from my God and I will write on him my new name we'll read about that in future chapters

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he who has an ear to hear let him hear what the spirit says to the churches and sadly

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but to be warned is to be forearmed the church period of Leodicea this is what I firmly believe

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we are living in right now is this age it's the final church here

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and to the angel of the church of Leodicea or the Leodiceans these things says the amen the amen is

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these is let it be true the faithful and true witness the beginning of the creation of God I know

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your works that you are neither cold nor hot I could wish that you were cold or hot so then because

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you are lukewarm and neither cold nor hot I will spew you out of my mouth because you say I'm rich

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I've become wealthy and I have need of nothing and do you not know that you are wretched miserable poor

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blind and naked I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire that you may be rich

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and white garments that you may be clothed and that the shame of your nakedness may not be revealed

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and annoying your eyes with ice have that you may see as many as I love are rebuke and chase him

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therefore be zealous and repent behold I stand isn't this sad Jesus is saying hey behold I stand

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at the door and knock he's knocking on the door of this church I think it's Rembrandt don't

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quote me on this but I think Rembrandt painted this painting one of the great one of the great

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oil painters of the day did where Jesus is outside knocking on the door of the church of Leo

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Decia and the the the door has no handle on it it has no door knob has no latch Jesus is knocking

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on the door which means which implies whoever's on the inside they have the ability to unlock the

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door and open it up but Jesus doesn't have that ability to barge in he can only knock you have to

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invite him in and you can go research I'm sure I'm wrong Rembrandt did some 90 or so religious

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paintings I do think that he may very well have been the the artist of that when it doesn't matter

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you'll find it when you search for it um behold I stand at the door knock if anyone hear my voice

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opens the door I will come in to him sounds personal right and dine or eat with him and he

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with me to him who overcomes I will grant to sit with me on my throne as I also overcame and sat

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down with my father on his throne he who has an ear to hear what the spirit says to the churches

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now watch this everybody revelation four market down in your notes revelation chapter four

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verse one this is the announcement of the third bucket we now move to the third bucket these are

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the things which will be of the future so can I just repeat this for you chapter one is placed

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in bucket number one because the things that John saw bucket number two is chapters two and

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three which is where John is living in the church age period of time chapter four technically chapter

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four verse two to revelation chapter 22 to the end is what's of the future things that are going to

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be revelation chapter four verse one is a unique moment and I want to want to see if you'll grasp

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this if you'll see this if you'll entertain this meditata that is after these things I looked

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this is John speaking and behold a door standing open in heaven okay watch everybody John

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looks upward he sees a door open it's in heaven and the first voice which I heard was like a

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trumpet speaking with me saying come up here and I will show you things which must take place

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after this oh wow after what after you come up here gosh I wish I could spend the rest of

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our time together just on that John hey come up here oh come why I want to show you things that

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are going to take place after this after what after you're up here not hard could it be that John

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who died of natural causes the oldest of the apostles the last author of the Bible

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is it possible that John signifies the church because John is never again mentioned

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technically meaning the church is never again mentioned as we leave chapter three

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and we find her and where is she she's found in revelation chapter 19 on the other side of the door

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John looks up and he sees the door it's in heaven doors opened up and the voices come up here the

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voice sounds like a trumpet John goes on up there John records everything what's going on up in

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heaven and on earth from that point on and we don't hear any more doors being swung open until

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revelation 19 when the door is opened up again but John's in heaven with the church with Jesus

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coming out of that door down to earth are you excited is that exciting you I'm excited

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after these things I looked and behold a door standing open in heaven and the first voice which

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I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me saying come up here and I will show you things which

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must take place after this verse two immediately I was in the spirit and behold a throne set

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in heaven and one sat on the throne and he who sat there was like a jasper and a sardis stone

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and appearance and there was a rainbow around the throne I don't understand this but it's going to

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be awesome a rainbow around the throne in the appearance like an emerald I don't get it

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but it must be cool a rainbow is a rainbow an emerald is green isn't it I mean I don't know my

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stones I don't know rocks but is it an emerald green but a rainbow's the spectrum of the rainbow

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what's going on wow these are things we're gonna see you and I together we're gonna see these

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things we're gonna we're gonna go through that door going now if you know your Bible you're gonna

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say I remember that day we went through that podcast and Jack was talking about this and there is

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that emerald rainbow thing and now it makes perfect sense we're gonna see it I love it verse four

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and around the throne were 24 thrones and on the thrones I saw 24 elders sitting clothed in white

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robes and they have crowns of gold on their heads and from the throne proceeded lightnings

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thunderings and voices and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne which are the

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seven spirits of God now this is getting exciting and I know that some of you guys have different

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views that's fine that's okay that's fine but but this we know John is showing us he's taking us on

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on a tour of heaven right now and don't you find it kind of fascinating that there's 24 elders

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that are up there we need to keep our eye on these guys who are they a lot of speculation by the way

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let's be honest nobody knows for sure some say it's the 12 apostles and the 12 tribes of Israel

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maybe could be it could be that there were 12 orders of priests in the in the Old Testament priesthood

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to keep the fire burning at the temple and worship going at the temple 24 hours a day seven days

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a week all year round there were 24 orders of priests could these elders represent those guys

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it's possible then who would they be we should ask that question who are these guys

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what are we and that's something by the way you should write down and say let's let's see if we

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can find out who your speculation let's remember the 24 elders and let's listen if they say

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anything let's try to capture what they say verse six before the throne there was a sea of glass

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like crystal and in the midst of the throne and around the throne were four living creatures oh boy

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full of eyes in front and in back I don't know what to tell you about that except freak out

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in fact somebody put this in AI they told AI to give them a description it freaked me out

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by the way everybody sorry I have to mess around these glasses my eyes aren't working today

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there are all kinds of different ranks and orders of angels so this is one particular order of angel

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that has that has eyes in the front of it and in the back of it

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full of eyes tons of eyes creepy weird wow verse seven the first living creature was like a lion

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oh this is going to be fun everybody the second living creature like a calf the third living

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creature had a face like a man and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle guess what

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verse seven verse seven is Matthew, Mark, Luke and John I'm not kidding represented before the

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throne of God is the gospel of God and it has been for eternity the four living creatures they have

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as if we if we were to jump over to Ezekiel for example and read about them the four living creatures

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they appear to have they they're they appear to be four living creatures each of them have one

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head with four faces face face face face and face and what are those faces this is this is this

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just extra credit kind of stuff that we're messing around with here but it is cool

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when it says the face of a lion did you know that Matthew's gospel presents Jesus to the Jew

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as being the lion from the tribe of Judah more than a Mark Luke or John did you know that

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is that a coincidence the second creature was the was that of a calf or an ox

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a beast of burden a calf an ox is a beast of servitude

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which gospel has Jesus serving mankind more than any of the four gospels there's only one gospel

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it's got the most miracles done by Jesus to benefit others and it's the shortest gospel with

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the most miracles the book of Mark by the way Matthew has a genealogy mark doesn't Luke does and

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John does interesting is this a coincidence I'm just saying I'm just landed out there for you to

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think the third living creature had a face like a man what comes after Mark Luke in the gospel of

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Luke Jesus is not referred to as the lion from the tribe of Judah nor of the servant

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Luke is the book that introduces us to Jesus Christ the son of man

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coincidence I don't know let's see what the fourth face is all about and the fourth living

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creature was that of a flying eagle eagle speaks of God I will bury you up on eagle's wings

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the eagle speaks of the deity of God the strength of God the promises of God one gospel is left

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what gospel declares the deity of Jesus Christ as being God unlike the other three

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John in fact John is the one that has the third and final lineage it's in John chapter one

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it shows you the genealogy of Jesus as God in John chapter one and Luke's gospel is the genealogy

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of Jesus Christ through I believe it is Mary and the genealogy that is given in Matthew is the

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genealogy of Jesus Christ through Joseph and there's and and again Mark has done because

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Jesus came to serve and he's represented in heaven but I believe he's represented in heaven by

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these faces which are it's kind of fun can't prove it but I like it and the four living creatures

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each having six wings oh man we're full of eyes around and within and they do not rest day or night

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saying holy look holy holy holy lord god almighty so three holies and then singular lord god almighty

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singular three plural holies but one lord god almighty who was and is who is to come all right

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freak out that's freak time to freak we just learned in the first three chapters

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that the one who was who is who is to come who is it you know you know the answer do you see how

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what we're doing here it's so fun the Bible is interpreting the Bible we don't get to make stuff up

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there's only one who was who is who is to come that's almighty God he's also the one who was living

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and died and rose again he's also the one that touched John and said don't be afraid I am the

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out for the omega I'm the first in the last he excited I hope you're excited I'm so excited I don't

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know we'll ever make it through here I'm gonna pass out but this is thrilling stuff

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whenever the living creatures give for sorry verse nine and whenever the living creatures give

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glory and honor and thanks to him who sits on the throne who lives forever and ever the twenty

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here they come the twenty four elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and and worship him

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so these twenty four elders they worship him who lives forever and ever and they cast their crowns

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before the throne same okay so wow now they're gonna talk to us whoever these guys are they're

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gonna talk to us watch you are worthy o Lord to receive glory honor and power for you created

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all things wow and by your will they exist and we're created hey folks I don't want to derail

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you at all but the book of Colossians the book of Hebrews tells us that Jesus Christ is the creator

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of all things chapter five chapter five now this is very very critical you guys because chapter five

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as we begin to look at this we begin to look at the seventh seal that's being opened which introduces

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the seven trumpet judgments of God this is going to be a powerful powerful section of scripture

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um I don't do art very well you guys I I've got papers here in some colors I might try

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but as we get into this you're gonna see a scroll okay imagine here imagine a scroll

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it's rolled up inside this scroll it's going to be it's going to be opened up

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okay and when it comes down to the end of this this end of the scroll the last seal of this scroll

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is going to open another scroll is going to come out of that opening and you're gonna have all

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of these things these seals that are open and then at the final one there's going to be another

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seal that's open and it's connected to another revelation of judgments these these uh

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judgments that are coming upon the earth come in a wave of revelation and just keep that in mind

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and we'll see if it helps you Revelation chapter five remember now what do we know

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John's in heaven John's in heaven he's telling us what he's seen

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so you were listening to an eyewitness account of our reporter on scene and his name is John

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and where's he reporting from from heaven how do you get there uh why doesn't he talk about the church

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anymore on earth let's watch let's see what happens I chapter five verse one

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and in the right hand of him who sat in the throne a scroll written inside and on the back

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so it's written on both ends in sealed with seven seals John says then I saw a strong angel proclaiming

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with a loud voice who is worthy to open the scroll and to lose its seals and knowing in heaven

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or on earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll or to look at it so John says in verse four

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so I wept much because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll or to look at it

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but one of the elders how many elders 24 one of them said to me do not weep behold the lion of

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the tribe of Judah the root of David has prevailed to open the scroll and to lose its seven seals

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everybody this is future this is the future and current time replacement theology people say

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that the things about Israel don't matter well I don't know what they're going to do with verse five

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of chapter five because it talks about the lion of the tribe of Judah and the root of David this

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is a big deal everybody you might want to put in your notes just just for reference sake this is a

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reference to the things of Israel just write that down let's see if it's true or false

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verse six and I looked and beholden in the midst of the throne and the four living creatures and in

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the midst of the elders stood a lamb as though it had been slain having seven horns and seven

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eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth again Isaiah chapter 11 verses 1

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and 2 then he came and took the scroll out of the right hand of him who sat in the throne

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now listen to this song it's about ready to be sung and ask yourself this question who can

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sing this song now when he had taken the scroll the four living creatures and the 24 elders fell

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down before the lamb each having a harp and golden bulls full of incense which are the prayers of

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the saints wow and they sang a new song so in the Greek construction it's possible that the angels

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join in we don't know about that but we know that the singers of the song are those that are in

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heaven and it includes the 24 elders okay very important let's hear what they say by the way

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you are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals for you were slain and have redeemed us

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have oh wait not them not those redeemed us to God by your blood out of every tribe and tongue

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and people and nation and have made us kings and priests to our God and we shall reign on the earth

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people everybody I'm trying to contain myself for sheer joy and I'm not exaggerating

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it is essential to find out who the us are because whoever the us whoever the us is are it includes

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the 24 elders now we know something about them they're one of us one of them speaks to John

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whoever they are being one of us they came from out of the world from every kindred tribe tongue

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and nation of the earth are you sitting down they're not Jews this is the church

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God is going to start working with the Jews and we'll see this clearly with with the Jews and the

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nation of Israel and Jerusalem in a moment that's what the tribulation periods for the seven years

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of what is called the time of Jacob's trouble but everybody that should have just blown your

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socks right off your feet the 24 elders are those who were redeemed out of every kindred tribe

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tongue and nation of the earth Gentiles wow

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verse 11 then I looked and behold a voice of many angels around the throne and the living

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creatures and the elders and the number of them was 10,000 times 10,000 thousands of thousands meaning

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innumerable numbers saying with a loud voice worthy as the lamb who was slain to receive power

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in riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing notice the redeemed the angels

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everybody in that statement no problem there angels can say it redeemed church redeemed Israel

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anybody can say that beautiful verse 13 and every creature which is in heaven and on earth

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and under the earth such as there in the sea and those that are in them I heard saying blessing and

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honor and glory and power to him who sits on the throne and to the lamb forever and ever then

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the four living creatures said amen and the 24 elders fell down and worshiped him who lives forever

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this is awesome wow now we come to watch now we come to these seal judgments now I'm going to share

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again I'm just this is personal this is just with us so how do you keep this straight in your

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mind beginning with chapter six there's there's three revelations of God's judgment on earth

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and this is how I read this is how I remember it um do you remember some of you might remember

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STP STP was invented I think by Andy Granatelli and it was a big product that sponsored

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Mario and Dreadies racing team back in the day STP special automotive additive automotive oil

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STP why am I telling you this because this is how you're never going to forget what I'm about to say

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recollection by association STP in that order what comes first in the book of revelation during

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the tribulation period the seal judgments S T the trumpet judgments T and P the Bible says

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but I can't remember STB so for me pans like a pan pan poured out like a bowl STP seal trumpet

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pans balls seal trumpet bowl judgments got that STP pan now that may sound nutty but you'll

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never forget it after this moment from this time on you'll know the order of them and you'll know

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what they're about number one we're talking about this seal judgments and so it says now I saw

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when the lamb opened one of the seals and I heard one of the four living creatures saying with a

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with a voice like thunder come and see and I looked and behold a white horse and he who sat on

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it had a bow and a crown was given him and he went out conquering to conquer revelation six verse

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two right in your margins is the revelation of the antichrist okay that is the first seal the first

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seal reveals the advent of this man called the antichrist just file that away we're going to go

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now to the second seal is opened up and that's verses three to four when he opened the second seal I

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heard the second living creature saying come and see and another horse fiery red went out and it

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was granted to the one who sat on it to take peace from the earth and that people should kill one

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another and there was given him a great sword so global mass murders will happen during what is

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what I would just call open war and it's it comes out of the second seal judgment I hope this is

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either this is boring you to death and you already fell asleep or you're you're getting excited

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one thing's for sure is that we're getting blessed I'm reading and you're hearing it

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in God's promise to bless us third seal so imagine third seal being pulled down now

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and he opened the third seal and I heard the third living creature say come and see

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and I looked and behold a black horse and he was sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand

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and I heard a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying a quart of wheat for a

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denarius three quarts of barley for denarius and do not harm the oil and the wine

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do not harm the oil in the wine next page page turner we go oh yeah okay fourth seal the fourth

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seal when he opened the fourth seal I heard the voice of the fourth living creature saying come

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and see and I looked and behold a pale horse that's an interesting word the word pale

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in the west we think of pale like you you need to go get some sunlight

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pale the word is actually the word pale in Greek is green it's a weird kind of green

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like a like a pale green or a dull green I don't know why he pointed it out to you it knows if

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it's important or not but the pale horse and the name of him who sat on it was death and Hades

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followed with him and power was given to him over the fourth of the earth wow one quarter of the

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earth to do what to kill with sword with hunger with death and by the beast of the earth how sad how

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horrific the animals are going to start going insane during the tribulation period wow

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now the fifth seal and when he opened the fifth seal I saw under the altar listen the souls of

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those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held in near margins

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friends in verse nine write down tribulation saints write down tribulation saints

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whoever these people are they died after revelation four verse one

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these believers have died during the tribulation age that's important to make a note

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don't assume for one moment that this is the church it's not at all the church it's tribulation

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believers and they cried with a loud voice saying how long oh lord holy and true until you judge

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an avenge our blood you see on those who dwell on the earth and a white robe was given to each of

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them and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer until both the number of

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their fellow servants and their brethren who would be killed as they were was completed wow

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the sixth seal verse 12 I I looked and when he opened the sixth seal and behold there was a great

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earthquake and the sun became black a sathcloth of hair and the moon became like blood and the stars

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of heaven fell to the earth like as a fig tree drops its late figs when it is shaken by a mighty wind

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that's amazing meteoric events some sort of astronomical events

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and then verse 14 says then the sky receded as a scroll when it is rolled up by the way that's Isaiah 34

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verse 7 wow and every mountain and island has moved out of its place and the kings of the earth

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and great men and rich men the commanders of the mighty men and every slave and every free man

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hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains listen to this and said to the

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mountains and rocks fall on us and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne listen

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and from the wrath of the lamb stop right there for a second I speculate right now warning warning

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I speculate we know that at the time of the second coming Revelation chapter 19 Isaiah chapter 66

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it is asked of Jesus the Lamb of God when did your robe get all bloody and he said I got my robe

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bloody when I treaded out the fierceness of my wrath and now the wrath of my father we also know

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that the Bible says regarding the time of Jacob's trouble the seven years that the Lord will fight for

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Israel as he did in the day of battle is it possible that during the tribulation period

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in some way shape or form invisibly visibly I don't know

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but Christ is going to be literally intervening in those seven years and especially the last three

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and a half years on defense of Israel to where we see him with a blood splattered robe we know

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that his his robe is blood splattered he tells us it's the blood of his enemies

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and that it's yet future from where you and I sit today something fascinating to ponder isn't it to

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think about and by the way those of the entire world they want to commit suicide they want to

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be killed they they cry out asking the mountains and the hills to crush them they they run and hide

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and they want to hide from the wrath of the Lamb John sees the Lamb at the right hand of the father

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the world sees the Lamb wrathful full of indignation and judgment

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wow verse 17 and and the great day of his wrath is common who is able to stand now watch this there's

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what is known as the interlude where the the redeemed are spoken of during the tribulation period

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and this is important of course all of this is important but watch this in fact I don't know if

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you guys can see my Bible right now but you're probably saying what the heck is going on with his

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Bible he's got like the stars David all over it yeah it's because it works you'll see after these

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things I saw for angel standing at the four corners of the earth no it's not flat if you want to

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look at the entire round sphere of the earth you unfold that round sphere like all round spheres can

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be slit open and unfolded and made flat and you can see the entire world in one glance instead of

575
01:12:22.080 --> 01:12:28.320
spinning it around sorry folks I know some of you are using this to be a flat earther but that's

576
01:12:28.400 --> 01:12:37.760
all the attention I'm going to give you of that there holding the four winds of the earth

577
01:12:38.640 --> 01:12:45.120
that the wind should not blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree and then I saw another angel

578
01:12:45.120 --> 01:12:51.760
ascending from the east having the seal of the living God and he cried with a loud voice to the

579
01:12:51.760 --> 01:13:00.000
four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and to the sea saying do not harm the earth

580
01:13:00.000 --> 01:13:09.920
the sea or the trees till or until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads

581
01:13:10.320 --> 01:13:23.680
and I heard the number of those who were sealed 144,000 of all the tribes of the children of Israel

582
01:13:23.680 --> 01:13:42.000
were sealed not Palestine not Gaza Israel 144,000 12,000 from each tribe the seven year tribulation period

583
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begins with the advent of the Antichrist with the peace treaty Daniel chapter 9 verses 24 to 27

584
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at the halfway mark he's going to deceive the nation of Israel and break that peace treaty

585
01:13:59.520 --> 01:14:08.320
and that's when they're going to understand that they're going to flee and what comes out of that

586
01:14:08.320 --> 01:14:17.440
is a massive revival and awakening of Jews unto salvation

587
01:14:19.680 --> 01:14:27.120
verse 5 of the tribe of Judah 12,000 were sealed I'm going to skip this name the names this way

588
01:14:27.280 --> 01:14:35.840
Judah 12,000 were sealed Ruben another 12 Gad another 12,000 Asher another 12,000

589
01:14:35.840 --> 01:14:47.280
Naphthili another 12,000 Manassa Simeon Levi Ishikar Zebulan all of these 12,000 each Joseph 12,000 each

590
01:14:47.280 --> 01:14:51.200
Benjamin 12,000 each where is the tribe of Dan

591
01:14:51.920 --> 01:15:07.360
is in that interesting there is a reference regarding Dan that that Dan Dan was like a a

592
01:15:07.360 --> 01:15:17.600
writerless horse and he would fall backward some believe that Old Testament verse that passage

593
01:15:18.560 --> 01:15:31.120
might reveal the fact that the Antichrist could possibly descend from or be a descendant from the tribe

594
01:15:31.120 --> 01:15:38.960
of Dan you see Jack who cares apparently the Jews are going to care about the tribes and apparently

595
01:15:38.960 --> 01:15:45.840
God cares about the tribes because the last book of the Bible speaks about the 12 tribes of Israel

596
01:15:45.840 --> 01:15:56.320
that God is redeeming and using 12,000 men out of the 12 tribes to become

597
01:15:56.320 --> 01:16:02.160
Imagine this Billy Graham type of Paul the Apostle types with who knows what

598
01:16:03.920 --> 01:16:10.640
technologies or abilities is amazing Meditata verse 9 after these things I looked and behold a

599
01:16:10.640 --> 01:16:17.600
great multitude which no one could number of all nations tribes peoples these are Gentiles

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01:16:17.600 --> 01:16:23.520
tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb clothed with white robes white robes

601
01:16:24.880 --> 01:16:30.720
with palm branches in their hands crying out with a loud voice saying salvation belongs to our God

602
01:16:30.720 --> 01:16:39.040
who sits on the throne and to the lamb and all the angels stood around the throne and the elders

603
01:16:39.040 --> 01:16:44.960
and the four living creatures remember the 24 elders fell on their faces before the throne and

604
01:16:44.960 --> 01:16:51.200
worship God saying amen blessing and glory and wisdom Thanksgiving and honor and power and might

605
01:16:51.200 --> 01:16:59.360
be to God forever and ever amen then one of the elders answered saying to me who are these a

606
01:16:59.360 --> 01:17:02.320
raid and white robes isn't that a great question

607
01:17:02.480 --> 01:17:12.080
that men enough to him who are these and white robes who are these guys wait look at this who's

608
01:17:12.080 --> 01:17:21.440
asking the question and one of the elders answered and said to me John who are these a raid in white

609
01:17:21.440 --> 01:17:28.720
robes and where do they come from verse 13 tells me that they're not the church the elders would have

610
01:17:28.720 --> 01:17:36.000
known that and John would have known that the elders says hey John who are these people

611
01:17:37.440 --> 01:17:38.800
let's see what John's answer is

612
01:17:41.840 --> 01:17:49.360
verse 14 and I said to him sir you know so he said to me these are the ones who came out of the

613
01:17:49.360 --> 01:17:56.640
great tribulation and washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the lamb tribulation

614
01:17:56.640 --> 01:18:02.800
saints everybody therefore they are before the throne of God and serve him day and night in his

615
01:18:02.800 --> 01:18:12.240
temple he who sits on the throne will dwell among them they shall never hunger anymore nor thirst

616
01:18:12.240 --> 01:18:20.640
anymore the sun shall not strike them nor any heat for the lamb who is in the midst of the throne

617
01:18:20.640 --> 01:18:29.040
will shepherd them and lead them to living a fountains of waters and God will wipe away every tear

618
01:18:29.040 --> 01:18:38.800
from their eyes these are absolutely tribulation saints after this massive awesome conversion

619
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of Gentiles throughout the entire globe that comes out of the preaching of the 144,000

620
01:18:46.880 --> 01:18:54.720
evangelists 12,000 from each tribe and it's amazing how God has kept track of the tribes we now

621
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go into chapter 8 and chapter 8 is listen is the the six trumpet judgments so do you remember

622
01:19:05.840 --> 01:19:19.120
STP so now we go from the seals to the trumpet judgments and STNP they increase in

623
01:19:20.320 --> 01:19:30.240
horror and intensity and with that you you'll see the advent at some point in time of

624
01:19:31.120 --> 01:19:40.080
Satan himself and the antichrist in the hosts chapter 8 verse 1 and when he opened the seventh seal

625
01:19:40.080 --> 01:19:47.760
there was silence in heaven for about a half an hour and I saw this seven angels who stand before

626
01:19:47.760 --> 01:19:59.520
God to them were given seven trumpets then another angel having a golden sensor came and stood

627
01:20:00.640 --> 01:20:06.720
at the altar and he was given much incense that which he should offer it with the prayers of all

628
01:20:06.720 --> 01:20:15.840
the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne so we're watching heaven throne room

629
01:20:15.840 --> 01:20:22.160
events here and the smoke of the incense with the prayers of the saints ascended before God from

630
01:20:22.880 --> 01:20:30.960
the angel's hand then the angel took the sensor watch this and filled it with fire from the altar

631
01:20:30.960 --> 01:20:38.000
and threw it is that violent threw it to the earth and there were noises and thunderings and

632
01:20:38.080 --> 01:20:46.400
lightnings and earthquake and the seven angels had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound

633
01:20:47.040 --> 01:20:53.520
trumpet number one verse seven by the way this correlates with Isaiah 28 verse 2 by the way

634
01:20:53.520 --> 01:21:03.920
Isaiah 28 verse 2 the first angel sounded in hail and fire followed mingled with blood and they

635
01:21:03.920 --> 01:21:09.680
were thrown to the earth and a third of the trees were burned up all green grass was burned up think

636
01:21:09.680 --> 01:21:20.560
about the ecological damage of all of this trumpet number two then the second angel sounded and

637
01:21:20.560 --> 01:21:26.240
something like a great mountain so it's not a mountain but it's like a great mountain burning

638
01:21:26.240 --> 01:21:35.200
with fire was thrown into the sea and a third of the sea became blood and I heard and a third of

639
01:21:35.200 --> 01:21:40.960
the living creatures in the sea died and the third of the ships were destroyed so we're talking about

640
01:21:40.960 --> 01:21:49.600
some meteoric thing hitting the waters of the sea and causing what must be tremendous death and

641
01:21:49.600 --> 01:21:58.320
tremendous like tsunami I'm guessing like a tsunami effect to wipe out that magnitude of ships

642
01:21:58.960 --> 01:22:05.040
that are in the sea that the third of them would be destroyed and then we see now the

643
01:22:05.040 --> 01:22:12.560
the third trumpet the waters are smitten in verse 10 the third angel sounded and a great star

644
01:22:12.560 --> 01:22:17.280
fell from heaven burning like a torch and it fell on the third of the rivers and on the

645
01:22:17.360 --> 01:22:23.680
springs of water and the name of the star is warmwood and a third of the waters became warmwood

646
01:22:23.680 --> 01:22:30.400
that is bitter poison poison is bitter and many men died from the water because it was made bitter

647
01:22:31.120 --> 01:22:40.320
verse 12 now it is the fourth trumpet blast then the fourth angel sounded and a third of the sun

648
01:22:40.800 --> 01:22:47.120
was struck and a third of the moon and a third of the stars so that a third of them were darkened

649
01:22:47.120 --> 01:22:55.280
and a third of the day did not shine and likewise the night wow and I looked and I heard an angel flying

650
01:22:55.280 --> 01:23:02.880
through the midst of heaven saying with a loud voice whoa whoa whoa to the inhabitants of the earth

651
01:23:02.880 --> 01:23:10.160
because of the remaining blast of the trumpet of the three angels who are about to sound so

652
01:23:10.160 --> 01:23:19.440
if it ain't bad enough here it comes man and we come now to the fifth trumpet which is chapter 9

653
01:23:20.400 --> 01:23:27.760
then the fifth angel sounded and I saw a star falling from heaven to the earth and to him

654
01:23:28.800 --> 01:23:33.440
is that interesting the star falls from heaven

655
01:23:33.760 --> 01:23:44.880
to the earth and to him was given the key to the bottomless pit a star in the Old Testament

656
01:23:46.240 --> 01:23:58.720
often refers to kings or angels rulers or angels and here it does a pronoun the star is a he

657
01:23:59.120 --> 01:24:07.280
so that is pretty amazing stuff verse 2 and he opened the bottomless pit and smoke arose out of the pit

658
01:24:07.280 --> 01:24:14.160
like the smoke of a great furnace and the sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke of the pit

659
01:24:14.160 --> 01:24:22.320
then out of the smoke locust came upon the earth and to them it was granted power as scorpions on

660
01:24:22.320 --> 01:24:29.680
the earth have power they were commanded not to harm the grass of the earth or any green thing

661
01:24:30.400 --> 01:24:39.440
or any tree but only those men who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads so everybody remember

662
01:24:39.440 --> 01:24:46.640
the 144,000 12,000 from each tribe it says here that they're men and they're not to be touched by

663
01:24:46.720 --> 01:24:52.720
these plagues verse 5 and they were and they were not given authority to kill them

664
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but but to torment them for five months and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when

665
01:25:01.840 --> 01:25:10.560
it strikes a man in those days men will seek death and will not find it they will desire to die

666
01:25:11.360 --> 01:25:18.880
and death will flee from them wow oh my gosh can you imagine can you imagine at this time there's

667
01:25:18.880 --> 01:25:26.640
going to be those who are going to get hurt injured fall down commit suicide but they can't die

668
01:25:27.600 --> 01:25:35.200
they won't have the ability to escape at this period of time as as death at that death would be

669
01:25:35.200 --> 01:25:40.080
a gift if you fall from a 12 story building but you you would lay there in pain no one's going

670
01:25:40.080 --> 01:25:47.360
to be able to die that's part of that's part of a judgment right there that is terrifying if you

671
01:25:47.360 --> 01:25:55.760
think about that wow verse 7 and the shape of the locust was like horses prepared for battle

672
01:25:55.760 --> 01:26:01.440
and on their heads were crowns something like gold and their faces were like the faces of men

673
01:26:02.400 --> 01:26:08.080
they had hair like a women's hair and their teeth were like lions teeth these are obviously

674
01:26:08.080 --> 01:26:15.280
demonic manifestations and they had breast plates like breast plates of iron and the sound of

675
01:26:15.280 --> 01:26:22.080
their wings was like that a sound of chariots with many horses running to battle that's a that's

676
01:26:22.080 --> 01:26:32.720
very very very noisy very mechanized or metallic in sound I wonder if it's out like engines of

677
01:26:32.720 --> 01:26:38.400
some bizarre sound and they had tails like scorpions and there were stings and they were in their

678
01:26:38.400 --> 01:26:45.120
tails and the power was to hurt men for five months they had as king over them the angel of the

679
01:26:45.120 --> 01:26:52.240
bottomless pit whose name in Hebrew is a baddened but in Greek he has the name of polyon one

680
01:26:52.240 --> 01:26:59.040
woe was passed behold two more woes are coming after these things and now you guys it's the sixth

681
01:26:59.040 --> 01:27:08.000
seal verse 13 and the sixth angel sounded and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden

682
01:27:08.000 --> 01:27:14.160
altar which is before God saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet released the four angels

683
01:27:14.160 --> 01:27:21.040
who are bound at the river Euphrates or the great river Euphrates so the four angels who had

684
01:27:21.040 --> 01:27:28.080
been prepared for the listen to this the hour and day and month and year were released to kill

685
01:27:28.080 --> 01:27:35.600
a third of mankind now the number of the army of those horsemen was 200 million and I heard the

686
01:27:35.600 --> 01:27:42.000
number of them and thus I saw the horses in the vision those who sat on them had breast plates of

687
01:27:42.000 --> 01:27:49.600
fiery red haseneth blue and sulfur yellow and the heads of the horses are like the heads of lions

688
01:27:49.600 --> 01:27:57.840
and out of their mouths came fire smoke and brimstone sheesh but these three plagues by these

689
01:27:57.840 --> 01:28:03.760
three plagues a third of mankind was killed by the fire by the smoke and the brimstone which came

690
01:28:03.760 --> 01:28:10.240
out of their mouths for their for their power is in their mouth and in their tails for their

691
01:28:10.240 --> 01:28:16.720
tails are like serpents having heads and with them they do harm but the rest of mankind who were

692
01:28:16.720 --> 01:28:25.680
not killed by these plagues did not repent unbelievable did not repent of the works of their hands

693
01:28:26.320 --> 01:28:35.120
that they should not worship demons and idols of gold silver brass stone wood which can neither see

694
01:28:35.200 --> 01:28:40.560
nor hear nor walk and they did not repent of their murders and of their sorceries

695
01:28:42.480 --> 01:28:49.840
by the way the word sorcery in Greek here is pharmacai they did not repent of their hallucinogenic

696
01:28:49.840 --> 01:29:01.120
drugs or their sexual immorality or their thieves or thievery chapter 10 watch this

697
01:29:01.760 --> 01:29:07.600
chapter 10 now we have this section we want to make sure I'm just sticking to our notes

698
01:29:07.600 --> 01:29:13.760
in time wise want to be a little bit sensitive of time to some degree here we're going through

699
01:29:13.760 --> 01:29:23.200
the book of Revelation here folks and so chapter 10 I saw still another mighty angel coming down

700
01:29:23.200 --> 01:29:31.600
from heaven cloth with a cloud and a rainbow was on his head and his face was like the sun and his

701
01:29:31.600 --> 01:29:38.160
feet like pillars of fire please again everybody notice john is telling you everything from heaven

702
01:29:39.680 --> 01:29:47.200
john represents the church the church is in heaven revelation four verse one just keep that

703
01:29:47.760 --> 01:29:50.720
just even if you don't believe it just write that down let's see what happens

704
01:29:53.360 --> 01:29:59.360
and he had a little book open in his hand and he said his right foot on the sea and his left

705
01:29:59.360 --> 01:30:05.120
foot on the land and he cried out with a loud voice as when a lion roars and when he cried out

706
01:30:05.120 --> 01:30:13.360
seven thunders uttered their voices what in the world is that seven thunders uttered their voices

707
01:30:14.240 --> 01:30:22.320
now when seven thunders uttered their voices I was about to write but I heard a voice from heaven

708
01:30:22.320 --> 01:30:26.880
saying to me seal up the things which the seven thunders uttered and do not write them

709
01:30:27.600 --> 01:30:33.600
wow and the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land lifted up his hand to heaven

710
01:30:34.560 --> 01:30:40.800
and swore by him who lives forever and ever who created heaven and the and the things that are in

711
01:30:40.800 --> 01:30:46.000
it the earth and the things that are in it and the sea and the things that are in it that there

712
01:30:46.000 --> 01:30:56.080
should be delay no longer but in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel when he is about

713
01:30:56.080 --> 01:31:04.960
to sound the mystery of God would be finished as he declared to his servants the prophets that's a

714
01:31:04.960 --> 01:31:13.360
huge statement then the voice which I heard from heaven spoke to me again saying go take the little

715
01:31:13.360 --> 01:31:20.080
book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the earth and when I

716
01:31:20.640 --> 01:31:28.400
went to the angel and said to him give me the little book he said to me take it eat it and it will

717
01:31:28.400 --> 01:31:35.760
be in your stomach bitter but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth and I took the little book

718
01:31:36.320 --> 01:31:42.480
out of the angel's hand and ate it and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth but when I had eaten

719
01:31:42.480 --> 01:31:50.320
my stomach became bitter and he said to me you must prophesy again about many people's nations

720
01:31:50.400 --> 01:32:04.000
tongues and kings chapter 11 then I was given a read like a measuring rod an angel stood saying rise

721
01:32:04.000 --> 01:32:12.720
and measure the temple of God the altar and those who worship there but leave the out but leave

722
01:32:12.720 --> 01:32:18.080
out the court which is outside the temple and do not measure it for it has been given to the Gentiles

723
01:32:18.080 --> 01:32:24.720
and they will tread the holy city underfoot for 42 months this is fun write it down

724
01:32:27.040 --> 01:32:39.600
42 months is three and a half years in biblical counting 42 months is equal to 1,260 days in your

725
01:32:39.600 --> 01:32:49.040
Bible why your Bible from Genesis to Revelation works off of a 360 day calendar so this is this is

726
01:32:49.040 --> 01:32:57.360
a tremendous bit of technical insight that he's giving us 42 months the Gentiles are going to be

727
01:32:57.360 --> 01:33:07.760
trampling the area that is sacred to the Jews and to God let's keep going verse 3 and I will give

728
01:33:07.760 --> 01:33:14.800
power to two witnesses so two witnesses are coming in the tribulation period two special people

729
01:33:15.520 --> 01:33:26.960
and they will prophesy 1,260 days three and a half years excuse me clothed in sackcloth oh sackcloth is

730
01:33:26.960 --> 01:33:35.360
Old Testament garb you say ah jack John the Baptist wore sackcloth you are correct

731
01:33:38.640 --> 01:33:45.360
John the Baptist was the last Old Testament prophet so you're right sackcloth is indicative

732
01:33:45.360 --> 01:33:50.880
of Old Testament prophets so this is kind of fun let's just keep reading here um

733
01:33:51.760 --> 01:33:59.200
verse 8 and then the voice which I heard from heaven spoke to me again and said go take the

734
01:33:59.200 --> 01:34:06.080
little book which is open and in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land I'm

735
01:34:06.080 --> 01:34:14.800
sorry you guys I just missed that up completely jumped into the wrong spot chapter 11 verse 3 and I

736
01:34:14.800 --> 01:34:22.960
will give power to two witnesses and they will prophesy 1,260 days clothed in sackcloth verse 4

737
01:34:23.760 --> 01:34:31.760
these are the two olive trees and the two lamb stands standing before the God of the earth

738
01:34:32.720 --> 01:34:39.040
that's Zechariah chapter 4 so you're going to want to look at that later you're going to want to

739
01:34:39.040 --> 01:34:42.320
there's a lot of stuff you're going to want to look at there there's a lot of Old Testament

740
01:34:42.320 --> 01:34:49.120
references in verse 4 you can research that later and if anyone wants to harm them fire proceeds

741
01:34:49.120 --> 01:34:56.400
from their mouth and devours their enemies and if anyone wants to harm them he must be killed

742
01:34:56.400 --> 01:35:03.200
in this manner these have power to shut up heaven so that no rain falls in the days of their

743
01:35:03.200 --> 01:35:10.480
prophecy and they have power over waters to turn them to blood and to strike the earth with all

744
01:35:10.480 --> 01:35:19.440
plagues as often as they desire opinion at this moment opinion I'm going to guess that these two

745
01:35:19.440 --> 01:35:34.480
sackcloth wearing witnesses prophets are either types of Elijah and Moses or they are Elijah and

746
01:35:34.560 --> 01:35:41.840
Moses brought back to earth for this ministry why the two miracles that they're known for turning

747
01:35:41.840 --> 01:35:49.680
blood turning water to blood and Isaiah bound up the sky so that it didn't rain for three and a half

748
01:35:49.680 --> 01:35:55.920
years he also had the ability to call fire down from heaven I'm just saying just guessing

749
01:35:56.400 --> 01:36:06.480
verse 7 and when they finish their testimony the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit

750
01:36:07.120 --> 01:36:15.840
will make war against them and overcome them and kill them let's find out who this is so we get

751
01:36:15.840 --> 01:36:21.920
introduced now to our first beast whoever he is he ascends out of the bottomless pit

752
01:36:22.560 --> 01:36:33.680
and he's able to make war against the prophets and to kill them and their body their dead bodies

753
01:36:34.240 --> 01:36:40.480
will lie in the street of the great city which is spiritually which spiritually is called Sodom

754
01:36:40.480 --> 01:36:49.840
and Egypt where also our Lord was crucified Sodom Jerusalem was referred to as Sodom because of its

755
01:36:49.840 --> 01:36:56.160
depravities in its godlessness and called Egypt because of its paganism

756
01:36:59.280 --> 01:37:06.320
Jerusalem is named several things often bad because of their unbelief but we have that all

757
01:37:06.320 --> 01:37:12.400
the answer we don't have to speculate it tells us it's where our Lord was crucified that's

758
01:37:12.400 --> 01:37:19.360
Jerusalem Jesus was not crucified in Sodom and he was not crucified in Egypt these are nicknames

759
01:37:19.360 --> 01:37:26.160
over Jerusalem then those from the people tribes tongues and nations will see their dead bodies

760
01:37:26.160 --> 01:37:34.640
three and a half days and not allow their dead bodies to be put into the graves verse 9 tells me

761
01:37:34.640 --> 01:37:42.400
that live TV will be broadcast it says the entire world will see these two guys lying dead

762
01:37:42.640 --> 01:37:54.240
for these amount of days globally you know it's fun about this and I need to pick up the pace I know

763
01:37:54.240 --> 01:37:59.760
but you know it's fun about I'm reading a 2000 year old document you could have stepped back 100

764
01:37:59.760 --> 01:38:05.440
years ago and asked the most knowledgeable theologian what does that mean did say that's that's

765
01:38:05.440 --> 01:38:15.200
impossible must be symbolic today you and I know exactly what that means CNN or TBN they're

766
01:38:15.200 --> 01:38:24.480
going to be their recording broadcasting to the world live and all the Gentile that live are

767
01:38:24.480 --> 01:38:32.560
still alive are going to be seen this satellite news absolutely amazing what do they do about this

768
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and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them that is the dead ones the two dead

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making Mary and sending gifts to one another so FedEx and and Amazon's going to do great that day

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because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth verse 11 now after the three

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01:38:51.440 --> 01:38:59.760
and a half days the earth the breath of life from God entered them and they stood on their feet oh my

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01:38:59.760 --> 01:39:08.720
gosh it's awesome and great fear fell on all those who saw them I bet and verse 12 says they heard

773
01:39:08.720 --> 01:39:16.800
a loud voice from heaven saying to them come up here hey that's what John heard John heard that

774
01:39:16.800 --> 01:39:27.360
in chapter four verse one didn't he and they ascended to heaven in a cloud and their enemies

775
01:39:27.360 --> 01:39:34.400
saw them and in the same hour there was a great earthquake and a tenth of the city fell

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01:39:34.960 --> 01:39:40.000
and in the earth and an earthquake seven thousand men were killed and on the rest of

777
01:39:40.560 --> 01:39:51.200
were afraid and gave glory to God of heaven the second woe was passed and behold the third woe

778
01:39:51.200 --> 01:40:00.000
is coming verse 15 then the seventh angel sounded and there were loud voices in heaven saying

779
01:40:00.000 --> 01:40:07.120
the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign

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forever and ever and the 24 elders here they are again and church friends where are they 24

781
01:40:14.320 --> 01:40:22.480
elders are in heaven watching all this who sat before God on their throne fell on their faces

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01:40:22.480 --> 01:40:29.920
and worshiped God and this is what they said we give you thanks O Lord God Almighty the one who is

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who who was and who is to come because you have taken your great power and rained the nations were

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angry and your wrath has come and the time of the dead listen that's Psalm chapter two if you want

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01:40:47.920 --> 01:40:54.560
to keep reading and the time of the dead that they should be judged and that you should reward your

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servants the prophets and the saints and those who were those who fear your name shall small and

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and should destroy those who destroy the earth verse 19 chapter 11 then the temple of God was

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opened in heaven and the ark of his covenant was seen in heaven that's what Indiana Jones we

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01:41:17.360 --> 01:41:24.080
that's what Indiana Jones needed to know and in Raiders of the Lost Ark he'll he'll never find

790
01:41:24.080 --> 01:41:29.040
it apparently the real ones in heaven that's cool the one that's on earth is just a model the real

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01:41:29.040 --> 01:41:35.520
one's up there in his temple and were and they were lightnings and noises and thunderings and

792
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earthquake and great hail chapter 12 chapter 12 now a great sign appeared in heaven a woman clothed

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with the sun so notice this is a vision in heaven this is seen in heaven it is a woman a cloth with

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the sun and with the moon under her feet hey that's pretty wild that's Genesis this is

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this is in reference to the patriarchs of the nation of Israel this is the stuff dealing with Joseph

796
01:42:14.240 --> 01:42:21.760
the god of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and interesting regarding Joseph's dreams remember that

797
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now so I want to read that over so a great sign appeared in heaven a woman clothed with the sun

798
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with the moon under her feet and under her head a garland of 12 stars then being with child she

799
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cried out in labor and in pain to give birth and another sign appeared in heaven so in the spirit

800
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realm behold a great fiery red dragon having seven heads and ten horns and seven diadems on his head

801
01:42:50.960 --> 01:42:58.080
heads his tail drew a third part of the stars of heaven so this is believed to be Satan this is

802
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a parenthetical insert this portion so pause the scene tribulation period this imagery gives us a

803
01:43:09.200 --> 01:43:15.680
flashback the Messiah is about ready to come into the world it's the Messiah will come from the

804
01:43:15.680 --> 01:43:24.400
nation of Israel he will be an association with the 12 stars or the patriarchs of Israel Jesus

805
01:43:24.400 --> 01:43:34.400
is the descendant of David he's the son of David he's a descendant of Abraham and you're getting

806
01:43:34.400 --> 01:43:42.640
a very very unique and remarkable prophetic insert of these events that are going to describe

807
01:43:43.440 --> 01:43:50.640
Israel's latter end of the three and a half years of deliverance stay tuned

808
01:43:52.800 --> 01:43:59.280
to this this is this is really again I'm telling you if you knew if a Jew is reading this right now

809
01:43:59.280 --> 01:44:04.640
they're saying oh my goodness this sounds like I'm reading Hebrew scriptures well in many ways

810
01:44:04.640 --> 01:44:14.480
you are my friend verse four his tail drew a third part of the stars from heaven my translation

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01:44:14.480 --> 01:44:21.280
Satan deceived a third of the angels from heaven and they fell with him and threw them to the earth

812
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and the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth to devour her child notice in

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your Bible it's capital C the translators in the languages in the original languages understand

814
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this to be Christ as soon as it was born and she bore a male child who was to rule all nations

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with a rod of iron and her child was caught up to God into his throne then the woman fled into

816
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the wilderness where she has a place prepared by God that they should feed her there 1,260 days

817
01:45:00.880 --> 01:45:06.000
how many days is that what is that time equal three and a half years

818
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so you see the three and a half years in correlation there's the first three and a half years

819
01:45:13.120 --> 01:45:17.920
there's the last three and a half years together there's seven years the tribulation period

820
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Daniel chapter nine verses 24 to 27 tells you that it is in fact seven years in total

821
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and verse seven says that war broke out in heaven and Michael and his angels fought against the

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dragon that Satan and the dragon and his angels fought but they did not prevail nor was a place

823
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found for them in heaven no longer so the great dragon was cast out that serpent of old called the

824
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devil Satan who deceives the whole world he was cast to the earth and his angels were cast out with

825
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him then I heard a loud voice saying in heaven now salvation strength and kingdom of our God

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and the power of his Christ have come for the accuser of the brethren who accuses them before

827
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God day and night has been cast down amen and they overcame him that's the devil by the blood of

828
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the lamb and by the word of the testimony and they did not love their lives to death again tribulation

829
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saints therefore rejoice oh heavens and you who dwell in them woe to the inhabitants of the earth

830
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and the sea for the devil has come down to you having great wrath because he knows that he has

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a short time please look this up later I'm really running over time but what I just read

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Will you go read Isaiah chapter 26 verses 19 to 21 Isaiah chapter 26 verses 19 to 21 it's almost

833
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verbatim what you just read a moment ago God will pour out his wrath upon the earth because of their

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sins but in Isaiah 26 19 to 21 before he does that he says come my people come to me and shut your

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chamber doors behind you while I pour out my wrath upon the earth guess what the word is for

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chamber doors it's a wedding chamber it's technically a chamber of consummation it's where the bride

837
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and the groom rejoice over their vows and their relationship Isaiah 26 verses 19 to 21 overlay that

838
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right here as you should on top of Revelation chapter 12 we pick it up verse 13 now when the dragon saw

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that he had been cast out of the earth he persecuted the woman I believe the woman is Israel

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who gave birth to the male child I believe that's Jesus but the woman was given two wings of a great

841
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eagle that she might fly into the wilderness to her place where she was nourished for a time

842
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times and a half a time from the presence of the serpent that's time times and a half a time

843
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that's three and a half years that is 1260 days so the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a

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flood after the woman that she might cause her that that he might cause her to be carried away by the

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flood but the earth helped the woman and the earth opened up its mouth and swallowed up the flood

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which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth and the dragon was enraged with the woman listen the

847
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dragon has always been upset with Israel and those who are upset are in league with him regarding

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Israel of course Israel is not perfect I wonder I wonder how I wonder how imperfect America is

849
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I wonder how people I just can't stand anti-Semitism because it's so hypocritical if somebody's

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an American a Canadian a German Saudi Jordanian and they're ragging on Israel and your nation's

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as bad or worse shame is so despicable I just God's faithful so the dragon was enraged with the

852
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woman again who I think is Israel and he went to make war with her with the rest of her offspring

853
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who keeps the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus oh oh oh wait wait wait wait wait wait

854
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what did you read that did you hear that

855
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verse 17 we got to see this again the dragon was enraged with the woman

856
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and he went to make war with her with make war with the rest of her offspring

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who are they who keep the commandments of God and have the testimony of Jesus

858
01:50:13.520 --> 01:50:22.640
born again Jews saved Jews that come to Messiah Yeshua during the tribulation period there is

859
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literally no other way to interpret that because the Bible interprets that for us verse

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or chapter 13 wow here's here this is amazing here we go

861
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then I stood on the sand of the sea and I saw a beast okay so is this the same beast or a second

862
01:50:40.480 --> 01:50:46.480
beast we're going to find out rising up out of the sea having seven heads and ten horns

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and on his horns ten crowns and on his heads a blasphemous name now the beast which I saw was

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like a leopard his feet were like the feet of a bear okay so this is heaven's perspective of

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global power and his mouth like the mouth of a lion and the dragon gave him his power

866
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his throne and great authority so remember earlier the dragon early on we remember he was called

867
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a beast Satan and now we have this what I'm going to call I'm speculating here I'm just speculating

868
01:51:24.080 --> 01:51:30.800
this could be we'll write this down this could be another beast different than the first beast

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but he's in the same corral with the first one if we do in fact have two one ascended

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01:51:39.680 --> 01:51:45.600
out of the bottomless pit this one comes out of the sea and if you're Jewish right now you know

871
01:51:45.600 --> 01:51:51.040
what that means the sea of humanity that's where we get that turn from the sea of humanity that's

872
01:51:51.040 --> 01:51:58.160
a Jewish idiom did you know that the sea of humanity that's a Jewish idiom the Jews view

873
01:51:58.160 --> 01:52:06.320
the Gentile world as the seas isn't it interesting that in eternity there's a lot of water but

874
01:52:06.320 --> 01:52:13.360
there'll be no sea the Bible says I just hope there's really big lakes that look like a sea because

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01:52:13.360 --> 01:52:17.760
I love the ocean but God's got a different plan about it he's got a whole different thing would

876
01:52:17.760 --> 01:52:26.800
none of us will be disappointed so cheer up you'll be okay and so and so the dragon gave his

877
01:52:27.440 --> 01:52:32.400
gave him his power his throne and great authority so I'm pretty certain we're looking at a second

878
01:52:32.400 --> 01:52:38.800
beast here because the because the dragon gives him authority verse 3 I saw one of his heads as if

879
01:52:38.800 --> 01:52:47.360
it had been mortally wounded what and his deadly wound was healed and all the world marveled and

880
01:52:47.360 --> 01:52:54.640
followed the beast did you know that before did you know that before that the antichrist we're

881
01:52:54.640 --> 01:52:59.840
going to call him the antichrist the second beast did you know the antichrist is going to get

882
01:52:59.840 --> 01:53:05.840
stabbed in the head shot in the head something's going to happen to where he has a mortal head wound

883
01:53:06.800 --> 01:53:14.880
does he die or does he look like he's dead is this Satan mocking the resurrection of his son

884
01:53:15.840 --> 01:53:18.400
the antichrist Satan cannot give life

885
01:53:22.080 --> 01:53:25.920
but does the antichrist who somehow gets wounded in the head appear to be dead

886
01:53:26.960 --> 01:53:31.840
to the point that when he comes back from the dead or that it appears he's resurrected

887
01:53:33.040 --> 01:53:39.520
have you ever heard this before listen this comes out of the Old Testament you guys

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01:53:40.080 --> 01:53:48.640
look at your margins we can't take the time to do it I just encourage you to look up some of

889
01:53:48.640 --> 01:53:56.160
the other scriptures regarding that you can look at the antichrist in the Old Testament

890
01:53:56.160 --> 01:54:03.840
so they worshiped the dragon and gave authority who gave authority to the beast and they worshiped

891
01:54:03.920 --> 01:54:10.160
the beast now it's confirmed saying who is like the beast who is able to make war with him

892
01:54:11.120 --> 01:54:19.200
revelation chapter 13 verse 4 introduces us to Satan and the antichrist and he was given

893
01:54:19.200 --> 01:54:25.440
verse 5 a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies and he was given authority to continue 42

894
01:54:25.440 --> 01:54:34.160
months this is the antichrist he's going to continue 42 months 42 months equals time times and a half

895
01:54:34.160 --> 01:54:41.600
of times which equals 1,260 days all those are the same same period of time then he opened his mouth

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01:54:43.280 --> 01:54:48.640
and blasphemy against God to blasphemy his name his tabernacle and those who dwell in heaven

897
01:54:49.040 --> 01:54:57.120
and it was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them and authority was given

898
01:54:57.120 --> 01:55:04.640
to him over every tribe tongue in nation friends I'm sorry I'm not going as fast as I'd want to go

899
01:55:05.920 --> 01:55:13.600
please mark this down by memory serves me correct revelation 13 verse 7 is equal to Daniel 721

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01:55:14.560 --> 01:55:20.960
so many people believe that the church is in the tribulation period and they are destroyed by the

901
01:55:20.960 --> 01:55:32.800
antichrist because of this verse they are very very wrong both in Daniel 721 and revelation 137

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01:55:33.520 --> 01:55:41.280
these are the tribulation saints that are destroyed by the powers of the antichrist they will die for

903
01:55:41.280 --> 01:55:53.440
their faith they're not the church verse 8 and all who dwell on the earth will worship him whose names

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01:55:53.440 --> 01:55:59.520
have not been written in the book of life of the lamb slain from the foundation of the world they're

905
01:55:59.520 --> 01:56:04.640
not born again their names are written in the book of life they've not been blotted out yet their

906
01:56:04.640 --> 01:56:09.840
names are not written in the lamb's book of life to keep your name in the lamb's book of life

907
01:56:09.920 --> 01:56:14.160
that is for eternal life you got to take your name from the book of life everybody's names are

908
01:56:14.160 --> 01:56:21.600
written in the book of life everybody but in life during your lifespan you need to get your name

909
01:56:21.600 --> 01:56:28.400
highlighted copy and paste into the lamb's book of life because if it's not in the lamb's book of life

910
01:56:29.120 --> 01:56:33.920
your name will be blotted out of the book of life on the day of judgment to get your name

911
01:56:33.920 --> 01:56:38.320
blotted out of the book of life means you were never born again to keep your name in the book of

912
01:56:38.320 --> 01:56:43.600
life is to get your name in the lamb's book of life your name appears in both places on both

913
01:56:43.600 --> 01:56:50.720
ledgers it makes sense it's simple we do it all the time on a spreadsheet don't we when we move

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01:56:50.720 --> 01:57:00.000
or copy numbers or copy a statement copy paste and there you go verse 9 if anyone has ear has an

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01:57:00.000 --> 01:57:06.560
ear lit in here he who leads into captivity shall go into captivity he who kills will be

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with the sword must be killed with the sword here is the patient patience and the faith of

917
01:57:13.840 --> 01:57:21.760
the saints again those are tribulation saints then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth

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01:57:21.760 --> 01:57:29.360
is this beast number three everybody I don't know we'll see and he had two horns like a lamb like a

919
01:57:29.360 --> 01:57:38.160
lamb and spoke like a dragon and he exercises all the authority of the first beast in his presence

920
01:57:38.800 --> 01:57:46.960
and causes the earth and those who dwell in it to worship the first beast whose deadly wound was

921
01:57:46.960 --> 01:57:54.000
healed he performs great signs so that he even makes fire to come down from heaven

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01:57:54.400 --> 01:58:03.840
on the earth in the sight of men so he mimics gods miracles just like a pharaoh's magicians

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01:58:04.640 --> 01:58:11.200
mimicked Moses's miracles in the book of Exodus and he deceives those who dwell on the earth

924
01:58:11.200 --> 01:58:16.480
by the signs in which was granted to do in the sight of the beast telling those who dwell on

925
01:58:16.480 --> 01:58:25.200
the earth to make an image statue thing to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived

926
01:58:27.920 --> 01:58:39.440
wow we have satan we have the antichrist and we have this guy who is saying

927
01:58:40.400 --> 01:58:48.960
I honor the one who gives power to the beast and I honor the one whose fatal wound was healed

928
01:58:50.080 --> 01:58:56.080
and I want all the world to honor him as well this guy's a spokesperson he's

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01:58:58.560 --> 01:59:04.480
he's party number three to an unholy trinity think about that satan

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01:59:05.440 --> 01:59:11.360
antichrist false prophet and the false prophet calls for a statue to be made

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how many times does that appear in the Old Testament right statues all the time

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pretty remarkable stuff everybody but it gets more amazing oh wow verse 15 this is an AI verse

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if I've ever heard one he was granted to he was he was granted power to give breath

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01:59:34.080 --> 01:59:43.760
to the image of the beast and the image of the beast that it should both speak and cause as many as

935
01:59:43.760 --> 01:59:52.320
would not worship the image of the beast to be killed some sort of created machine is going to

936
01:59:52.320 --> 01:59:59.840
appear to come alive look very human like apparently and certainly be able to discern in the

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01:59:59.840 --> 02:00:05.360
masses who's got the mark of the beast and who doesn't and whoever doesn't have the mark of the

938
02:00:05.360 --> 02:00:15.280
beast will be killed wow I think this is I think this is my opinion I think this image this machine

939
02:00:15.280 --> 02:00:24.400
this robot is going to be a demon possessed AI device image thing that somehow looks humanoid

940
02:00:24.400 --> 02:00:34.880
in honor of the antichrist and no one may buy or sell except the one who has the mark or the name

941
02:00:34.880 --> 02:00:42.480
of the beast or the number of his name here is wisdom let him who understands calculate the number

942
02:00:42.480 --> 02:00:50.320
of the beast for it is the number of a man his number is six six six then I looked and behold a

943
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lamb standing on Mount Zion and with him 144 thousand having his father's name written on

944
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their foreheads well now we know and I heard a voice from heaven like the voice of many waters

945
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and like the voice of a loud thunder and I heard the sound of harpists playing their harps and

946
02:01:14.720 --> 02:01:23.200
they sang as it were a new song before the throne before the four living creatures listen

947
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location location location and the elders and no one could learn that song except the 144 thousand

948
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who were redeemed from the earth everybody the 144 thousand you know where they came from

949
02:01:39.760 --> 02:01:44.960
you know that they're all men that they're evangelists and that they're from the tribes of

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02:01:44.960 --> 02:01:51.120
Israel these are the ones who were not defiled with women okay now we know they were virgins

951
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for they are virgins the the Bible says it right there if I would have shut up and just read it

952
02:01:56.160 --> 02:02:03.200
it would have told me these are the ones who follow the lamb wherever he goes these were redeemed

953
02:02:03.280 --> 02:02:11.200
from every from among men being first fruits to God into the lamb and in their mouth was found no

954
02:02:11.200 --> 02:02:17.360
guile for they are without fault before the throne of God then I saw another angel flying in the

955
02:02:17.360 --> 02:02:24.000
midst of heaven having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth to every nation

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02:02:24.000 --> 02:02:29.120
tribe tongue and people wow remember Jesus said by the way this nation will be preaching

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another world and then the end will come this is how I know missionaries think that that's how

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02:02:34.320 --> 02:02:38.320
we're going to do it but we're not going to do it we should keep going but we're not going to make

959
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it and angels going to do it saying with a loud voice fear God and give glory to him for the hour

960
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of his judgment has come and worship him who made heaven and earth the sea in the springs of water

961
02:02:51.680 --> 02:02:57.440
and another angel followed saying Babylon is fallen is fallen the great city because she has made all

962
02:02:57.440 --> 02:03:05.360
nations a drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication then a third angel followed them

963
02:03:05.360 --> 02:03:14.800
saying with a loud voice if anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on his

964
02:03:14.800 --> 02:03:23.280
forehead or on his hand he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God which is

965
02:03:23.280 --> 02:03:29.040
poured out full strength into the cup of his indignation and he shall be tormented with fire and

966
02:03:29.040 --> 02:03:34.160
brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and the presence of the lamb and the smoke of their

967
02:03:34.160 --> 02:03:41.120
torment ascends forever and ever and they have no rest day or night who worship the beast and his

968
02:03:41.120 --> 02:03:49.040
image whoever receives the mark of his name 666 here is the patience of the saints here are those who

969
02:03:49.040 --> 02:03:55.600
keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me

970
02:03:55.600 --> 02:04:03.440
right blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on yes says the spirit that they may rest

971
02:04:03.440 --> 02:04:12.960
from their labors and and their works follow them and verse 14 and I looked and behold John says

972
02:04:13.040 --> 02:04:21.200
a white cloud and on a cloud sat one like the son of man having on his head a golden crown and in

973
02:04:21.200 --> 02:04:28.480
his hand a sharp sickle and another angel coming out of the temple crying with a loud voice to him who

974
02:04:28.480 --> 02:04:36.080
sat on the cloud thrust in your sickle and reap for the time has come for you to reap for the harvest

975
02:04:36.080 --> 02:04:43.520
of the earth is ripe so he who sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth and the earth was

976
02:04:43.520 --> 02:04:51.360
reaped then another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven he also having a sharp sickle wow

977
02:04:52.080 --> 02:04:58.560
lot of judgment lot of blood going on and another angel came out of the altar verse 18 who had

978
02:04:58.560 --> 02:05:05.440
power over fire and cried with a loud cry with him to him who had the sharp sickle saying thrust

979
02:05:05.440 --> 02:05:13.280
in your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth for her grapes are fully ripe

980
02:05:13.280 --> 02:05:19.600
so the angel thrust his sickle into the earth and gathered the vine of the earth and threw it into

981
02:05:19.600 --> 02:05:29.760
the great wine press of the wrath of God please read Isaiah 63 everybody I mean almost verbatim

982
02:05:30.640 --> 02:05:36.880
I think Isaiah 63 that will give you more insights actually and the wine press was trampled

983
02:05:36.880 --> 02:05:42.640
outside the city that's outside of Jerusalem and blood came out of the wine press up to the horses

984
02:05:42.640 --> 02:05:54.960
bridles for 1,600 furlongs 1,600 furlongs as a as a biblical furlong goes is about 180 miles to 200

985
02:05:54.960 --> 02:06:06.320
miles that's pretty amazing everybody from Jerusalem those of you have been there follow me step out

986
02:06:06.720 --> 02:06:19.120
of the old city go down into the kidrun valley beneath the golden gate the eastern gate drop a pen

987
02:06:19.120 --> 02:06:32.400
pin drop follow the kidrun valley which turns into megeto which goes up near

988
02:06:35.200 --> 02:06:45.280
what's up there just near Carmel it has eastward toward the Galilee that's like a big arc

989
02:06:45.520 --> 02:06:55.120
that's called megeto or the valley of Jehosephat megeto are megetan

990
02:06:58.320 --> 02:07:07.680
so we got something going on here this is so cool because in Israel you can walk this I've been

991
02:07:07.760 --> 02:07:17.520
all over that 200 mile arc man are you not glad that Jesus Christ has saved your soul and given

992
02:07:17.520 --> 02:07:26.560
you eternal life and opened up your eyes and brought you out of darkness oh I'm so grateful to

993
02:07:26.560 --> 02:07:32.640
our God chapter 15 when I saw another sign in heaven then I saw another sign in heaven great

994
02:07:32.640 --> 02:07:38.480
and marvelous seven angels having the seven last plagues for in them the wrath of God is complete

995
02:07:39.120 --> 02:07:46.480
I saw something like a sea of glass mingled with fire and those who have the victory over the beast

996
02:07:46.480 --> 02:07:52.720
over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name standing on the sea of glass

997
02:07:52.720 --> 02:08:01.520
having harps of God and they sang the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the lamb saying

998
02:08:02.240 --> 02:08:07.840
great and marvelous are your works Lord our Lord God Almighty just and true are your ways

999
02:08:08.560 --> 02:08:18.160
O king of the saints who shall not fear you O Lord and glorify your name for you alone are holy

1000
02:08:18.160 --> 02:08:24.720
for all nations shall come and worship before you for your judgments have been manifested

1001
02:08:25.600 --> 02:08:32.160
after these things I looked and behold the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was

1002
02:08:32.160 --> 02:08:39.680
opened this is great so John's up there he sees this happen up there and out of the temple came seven

1003
02:08:39.680 --> 02:08:48.480
angels having the seven plagues clothed in pure bright linen and having their chest girded with

1004
02:08:48.480 --> 02:08:55.520
golden bands then one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls

1005
02:08:55.520 --> 02:09:03.760
remember bowls STP pans or bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever the temple

1006
02:09:03.760 --> 02:09:08.880
was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power and known was able to enter the

1007
02:09:08.880 --> 02:09:16.480
temple till the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed so here we go these are the

1008
02:09:16.480 --> 02:09:27.760
bowl judgments or the pan judge judgments STP seals trumpet pan or bowl then I heard a loud

1009
02:09:27.760 --> 02:09:34.880
voice from the temple saying the seven angel to the seven angels go and pour out the bowls of the

1010
02:09:34.880 --> 02:09:42.400
wrath of God on the earth so the first went and poured out his bowl upon the earth and a foul and

1011
02:09:42.400 --> 02:09:48.320
loathsome sore came upon the man who had the mark of the beast and those who worshipped his image

1012
02:09:48.320 --> 02:09:55.520
then the second angel poured out his bowl on the sea and it came became blood as of a dead man

1013
02:09:55.520 --> 02:10:00.720
and every living creature in the sea died wow sounds like we're reading Exodus again huh

1014
02:10:00.720 --> 02:10:06.320
then the third angel poured out his bowl and on the rivers in the springs of water they became

1015
02:10:07.120 --> 02:10:14.080
and I heard the angel of the water saying you are righteous O Lord the one who is and who was

1016
02:10:14.080 --> 02:10:22.560
and who is to be because you have judged these things for they have shed the blood of saints and

1017
02:10:22.560 --> 02:10:30.320
prophets and you have given them blood to drink for it is there just do and I heard another from

1018
02:10:30.400 --> 02:10:36.160
the altar saying even so Lord God Almighty true and righteous are your judgments then the fourth

1019
02:10:36.160 --> 02:10:43.760
angel poured out his bowl on the sun and power was given to him to scorch men with fire and men were

1020
02:10:43.760 --> 02:10:51.200
scorched with great heat and they blasphemed the name of God who has power over the plagues and did

1021
02:10:51.200 --> 02:10:58.160
not repent and give them glory then the fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast

1022
02:10:58.240 --> 02:11:04.800
and his kingdom became full of darkness and they nod their tongues yikes because of the pain

1023
02:11:06.240 --> 02:11:11.120
and they blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores and did not repent of

1024
02:11:11.120 --> 02:11:16.880
their deeds then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates and it's water

1025
02:11:16.880 --> 02:11:22.960
dried up so that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared and I saw three unclean

1026
02:11:23.040 --> 02:11:29.680
spirits like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out

1027
02:11:29.680 --> 02:11:40.480
of the mouth of the false prophet wow for they are spirits of demons performing signs which go out

1028
02:11:40.480 --> 02:11:48.720
to the kings of the earth and of the whole world to gather them to the battle of the great

1029
02:11:48.800 --> 02:11:56.640
day of God Almighty behold I am coming as a thief blessed as he who watches and keeps his garments

1030
02:11:56.640 --> 02:12:01.680
lest he walked naked and they see his shame that's a quotation from Jesus it's awesome

1031
02:12:02.880 --> 02:12:09.280
and they gathered them together to the place called in Hebrew or a magedan then the seventh

1032
02:12:09.280 --> 02:12:16.080
angel poured out his bowl into the air and a loud voice came out of the temple of heaven so that's

1033
02:12:16.080 --> 02:12:25.600
above from the throne same it's done and there were noises and thunderous thunderings and light

1034
02:12:25.600 --> 02:12:32.800
means and there was a great earthquake such a mighty and great earthquake has had not occurred

1035
02:12:32.800 --> 02:12:40.640
since men were on the earth now the great city was divided into three parts and the cities of

1036
02:12:40.640 --> 02:12:48.080
the nations fell and great Babylon was remembered before God to give her the cup of the wine of the

1037
02:12:48.080 --> 02:12:54.640
fierceness of his wrath and then every island fled away and the mountains were not found

1038
02:12:55.840 --> 02:13:02.800
and great hail from heaven fell upon every hailstone about the weight of a talent okay that's

1039
02:13:02.880 --> 02:13:10.320
pretty insane because you're talking about a hundred pounds of a hundred pound hailstone falling

1040
02:13:13.360 --> 02:13:18.800
it just so happens today in our daily Bible reading in the one year Bible

1041
02:13:19.440 --> 02:13:28.480
Lisa and I read about one hundred pound hailstones that God sent against Egypt and the stones fell

1042
02:13:29.360 --> 02:13:37.680
on Egypt when he delivered the children of Israel but none of the hailstones fell upon

1043
02:13:37.680 --> 02:13:47.040
Goshen the land within Egypt where the Jews were kept here we're in the you see why in the book

1044
02:13:47.040 --> 02:13:53.040
of Revelation you read the Old Testament and then jump into the book of Revelation and it just

1045
02:13:53.040 --> 02:14:07.040
absolutely makes sense this screams context God is judging with his wrath and the unbelieving world

1046
02:14:07.840 --> 02:14:16.320
and he's rescuing his Jewish people who believe and how he does it with blood turning to water

1047
02:14:17.120 --> 02:14:27.600
frogs hailstones every Jew gets this every Jew understands this it's absolutely amazing

1048
02:14:29.200 --> 02:14:36.000
verse 21 chapter 16 leather the great hailstones from heaven fell upon men hailstones about the

1049
02:14:36.000 --> 02:14:41.200
weight of a talent hundred pounds and men blasphemed God because of the plague and the hail

1050
02:14:41.280 --> 02:14:47.920
since the plague was exceedingly great then one of the seven angels chapter 17

1051
02:14:49.440 --> 02:14:57.040
who had the seven bulls came and talked with me saying to me come and I will show you the judgment

1052
02:14:57.040 --> 02:15:03.120
of the great harlot who sits on many waters and with whom the kings of the earth committed

1053
02:15:03.120 --> 02:15:09.840
fornication and the inhabitants of the earth were made drunk with the wine of her fornication

1054
02:15:09.840 --> 02:15:16.720
oh who could this be wow she she's a female feminine pronoun

1055
02:15:19.840 --> 02:15:24.960
so she's not she's not a beast but she's somehow in concert with

1056
02:15:26.800 --> 02:15:35.360
Satan and his antichrist and his false prophet and his image whoever she is

1057
02:15:36.160 --> 02:15:44.080
so he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness and I saw one sitting on a scarlet beast

1058
02:15:45.120 --> 02:15:50.800
which was full of names of blasphemy having seven heads hey seven heads and ten horns

1059
02:15:52.400 --> 02:15:57.680
that was the description given to the antichrist and to Satan earlier on the two beasts

1060
02:15:59.440 --> 02:16:03.840
or Satan and the beast I should say that's for sure

1061
02:16:06.000 --> 02:16:12.400
and the woman was arrayed and purple and scarlet and adored with gold and precious stones

1062
02:16:12.400 --> 02:16:19.840
and pearls having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her

1063
02:16:19.840 --> 02:16:30.240
fornication and on her forehead a name was written mystery Babylon the great the mother of

1064
02:16:30.320 --> 02:16:39.520
harlots and of the abominations of the earth well Babylon of the great Babylon the great

1065
02:16:40.160 --> 02:16:47.440
this my speculation this tells me that in the last days probably rather abruptly

1066
02:16:50.240 --> 02:16:56.480
the world's going to change so much after the ezekiel 38 battle that precedes I believe the

1067
02:16:56.480 --> 02:17:04.400
seven years that somehow the ancient area of the Euphrates region the Iraq area

1068
02:17:05.760 --> 02:17:14.400
Persia Iraq mainly Iraq will somehow be rebuilt why because the cradle of civilization the area

1069
02:17:14.400 --> 02:17:26.000
of ancient Babylon Shushan that region is the epicenter not a guess it's a fact is the

1070
02:17:26.000 --> 02:17:39.520
epicenter of all pagan worship systems that is a historical geological archaeological fact

1071
02:17:39.520 --> 02:17:46.000
and I saw the woman drunk with the blood of the saints and with the blood of the martyrs of

1072
02:17:46.000 --> 02:17:52.400
Jesus and when I saw her I marveled with great amazement and the angel sent to me

1073
02:17:53.360 --> 02:18:00.960
why did you marvel I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her

1074
02:18:00.960 --> 02:18:09.840
who who has the seven heads in the ten horns the beast that you saw was and is not and will ascend

1075
02:18:09.840 --> 02:18:18.240
out of the bottomless pit and go to perdition perdition perdition perdition perdition interesting

1076
02:18:18.240 --> 02:18:25.440
two people are referred to as the sons of perdition one is Judas Iscariot and the other

1077
02:18:26.640 --> 02:18:34.960
is Satan himself interesting by the way I'm not saying Judas Iscariot has anything to do with this

1078
02:18:34.960 --> 02:18:39.840
I'm just saying perdition the son of perdition it says here they will go into perdition

1079
02:18:39.840 --> 02:18:44.480
there may not be any linkage whatsoever I'm just pointing that interesting word out

1080
02:18:45.280 --> 02:18:52.640
and those who dwell on the earth will marvel whose names are not written in the book of life

1081
02:18:52.640 --> 02:18:59.280
from the foundation of the world see that when they see the beast that was and is not and yet is

1082
02:19:00.240 --> 02:19:07.440
here is the mind which has wisdom the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sits

1083
02:19:07.760 --> 02:19:17.360
there are also seven kings five have fallen one is and the other has not yet come and when he comes

1084
02:19:17.360 --> 02:19:24.800
he must continue a short time just speculating but could the the world

1085
02:19:24.800 --> 02:19:33.280
there's only one famous city that I know of that is famous for having seven hills or seven

1086
02:19:33.280 --> 02:19:42.720
mountains and that's Rome Rome has seven mountains is is it possible that the seven hills

1087
02:19:42.720 --> 02:19:51.600
are mountains of Rome that Rome will be the epicenter of a false religious system called a

1088
02:19:51.600 --> 02:20:00.000
her a harlot the one who propagates to the entire globe Babylonian worship which is by the way

1089
02:20:00.000 --> 02:20:07.440
any kind of worship you name it go for it whatever your culture wants and yet does it

1090
02:20:07.440 --> 02:20:14.160
create is it is this woman parading herself as a false church of some sorts or a false religious

1091
02:20:14.160 --> 02:20:21.120
system I speculate but it is interesting that the Bible points out the seven hills or seven

1092
02:20:21.120 --> 02:20:31.040
mountains where this woman where this woman is in association the verse 11 the beast that was

1093
02:20:31.040 --> 02:20:35.600
and is not is himself also the eighth that's important the book of Daniel the eighth

1094
02:20:37.120 --> 02:20:43.680
is of the seven and is going to tradition that's a reference to the Antichrist Daniel tells me this

1095
02:20:44.320 --> 02:20:49.600
and the ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as of yet but they

1096
02:20:49.600 --> 02:20:56.320
receive authority for one hour as kings with the beast oh my goodness that is Daniel chapter wow

1097
02:20:56.320 --> 02:21:04.640
Daniel chapter two seven nine Daniel chapter eleven you must read the book of Daniel

1098
02:21:07.920 --> 02:21:13.440
these are of one mind and they will give their power and authority to the beast

1099
02:21:14.400 --> 02:21:21.120
these will make war with the lamb and the lamb will overcome them for he is lord of lords and

1100
02:21:21.120 --> 02:21:27.920
king of kings and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful and he said to me this is

1101
02:21:27.920 --> 02:21:35.280
so John is saying he said to me so it's not capitalized age so maybe I guess it's an angel speaking

1102
02:21:35.520 --> 02:21:44.880
to John the waters which you saw were the harlot sits are peoples multitudes nations and tongues and

1103
02:21:44.880 --> 02:21:52.240
the ten horns which you saw on the beast these will hate the harlot make her desolate and naked and

1104
02:21:52.240 --> 02:21:59.920
eat her flesh and burn her with fire for God has put it into their hearts to fulfill his purpose

1105
02:22:00.560 --> 02:22:07.120
to be of one mind and to give their kingdom to the beast until the words of God are fulfilled and

1106
02:22:07.120 --> 02:22:16.400
the woman you saw is the great city which reigns over the kings of the earth wow after these things

1107
02:22:16.400 --> 02:22:24.400
verse eight or chapter 18 verse one I saw another angel coming down from heaven having great authority

1108
02:22:24.400 --> 02:22:29.760
and the earth was illuminated with his glory and he cried mightly with a loud voice saying babble on

1109
02:22:29.760 --> 02:22:37.520
the greatest fallen is fallen and has become a habitation of demons of prison for every foul spirit

1110
02:22:37.520 --> 02:22:43.360
in the cage for every unclean and hated bird for all the nations have drunk of the wine of the

1111
02:22:43.360 --> 02:22:49.600
wrath of her fornication the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her and the merchants

1112
02:22:49.600 --> 02:22:55.200
of the earth have become rich through the abundance of her luxury and I heard another voice

1113
02:22:55.200 --> 02:23:02.880
from heaven saying come out of her my people lest you share in her sins lest you receive of her

1114
02:23:02.880 --> 02:23:11.040
plague so this is God calling the tribulation believers run flee from this paganism get out

1115
02:23:11.600 --> 02:23:18.640
verse five for her sins have reached to heaven and God has remembered her iniquities rendered to her

1116
02:23:18.720 --> 02:23:26.080
just as she rendered to you and repay her double according to her works in the cup in which she

1117
02:23:26.080 --> 02:23:34.960
has mixed mix for her double and the measure that she glorified herself and lived luxuriously

1118
02:23:34.960 --> 02:23:42.240
and in the same measure give her torment and sorrow for she says in her heart I said as queen I am

1119
02:23:42.320 --> 02:23:50.560
no widow I will not see sorrow therefore her plagues will come in one day oh man one day death

1120
02:23:50.560 --> 02:23:56.160
and mourning and famine and she will be utterly burned with fire for strong is the Lord God who

1121
02:23:56.160 --> 02:24:01.520
judges her and the kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her

1122
02:24:02.080 --> 02:24:08.080
will weep and lament for her when they see the smoke of her burning standing at a distance

1123
02:24:08.080 --> 02:24:15.440
for fear of her torment saying alas alas the great city Babylon that mighty city for in one hour

1124
02:24:15.440 --> 02:24:22.560
your judgment has come and the merchants of the earth will weep and mourn over her for no one buys

1125
02:24:22.560 --> 02:24:30.880
their merchandise anymore merchandise of gold and of silver and precious stones and pearls scarlet

1126
02:24:30.880 --> 02:24:41.760
every kind of cotton wood every kind of object of ivory every kind of object of precious

1127
02:24:42.640 --> 02:24:49.600
wood runs iron and marble and cinnamon so now we go from the hardware department to the

1128
02:24:50.480 --> 02:25:00.720
produce section I guess cinnamon incense frank fragrant oil frankincense wine oil fine flower

1129
02:25:00.800 --> 02:25:08.880
wheat men is in this amazing so specific cattle sheep horses chariots oh wow and bodies

1130
02:25:09.840 --> 02:25:15.600
and souls of men that were just reminds me of human trafficking right there creeps me out

1131
02:25:18.160 --> 02:25:24.000
wow they did merchandise with bodies and the souls of men

1132
02:25:24.480 --> 02:25:32.640
and the fruit that you're so long for has gone from you and all the things which are rich and

1133
02:25:32.640 --> 02:25:38.800
splendid have gone from you and you shall find them no more at all the merchants of these things

1134
02:25:39.440 --> 02:25:44.800
who became rich by her will stand at a distance for fear of her torment weeping and wailing and

1135
02:25:44.800 --> 02:25:50.480
saying alas alas the great city that was clothed and fine linen purple and scarlet and adorned

1136
02:25:50.480 --> 02:25:56.080
with gold and precious stones and pearls for in one hour as such great riches came to nothing

1137
02:25:56.960 --> 02:26:03.840
and every shipmaster and all who traveled by ship sailors and as many as trade on the sea stood

1138
02:26:04.400 --> 02:26:11.920
at a distance and cried out when they saw the smoke of her burning saying what is like this great city

1139
02:26:13.040 --> 02:26:20.240
and they threw dust on their heads it's a Middle Eastern thing by the way weeping and wailing

1140
02:26:20.240 --> 02:26:26.400
and saying alas alas the great city in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her

1141
02:26:26.400 --> 02:26:35.120
wealth for in one hour she is made desolate rejoice over her oh heaven and you holy apostles and

1142
02:26:35.120 --> 02:26:45.120
prophets for God has avenged you on her that's a deep that is deep consideration there that's

1143
02:26:45.120 --> 02:26:53.520
revelation 1820 wow then in mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it

1144
02:26:53.520 --> 02:27:01.760
into the sea saying thus with violence the great city Babylon shall be thrown down and shall not

1145
02:27:01.760 --> 02:27:07.760
be found anymore the sound of the harpists the musicians the flutus the trumpeters shall not be

1146
02:27:07.760 --> 02:27:14.320
heard in you anymore no craftsman of any craft shall be found in you anymore and the sound of the

1147
02:27:14.960 --> 02:27:20.000
millstone shall not be found in you anymore and the light of the lamp shall not shine in you

1148
02:27:20.000 --> 02:27:25.520
anymore and the voice of the bridegroom and the bride shall not be heard in you anymore for your

1149
02:27:25.520 --> 02:27:34.480
merchants were the great men of the earth for buy your sorcery oh buy your hallucinogenics all the

1150
02:27:34.480 --> 02:27:44.160
nations were deceived wow and in her was found the blood of prophets and saints and of all who

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were slain on the earth revelation 19 revelation 19 everybody mark your notes this is the commencement

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of the latter moments of the seven year tribulation period the seven years were right at the end of it

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by the time we get the revelation 19 everything we've been reading from chapter 4 verse 2

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has been horrific and you've been hearing it and we've been reading it now here we go

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after these things I heard a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven John speaking to us

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everyone saying al-Aluya salvation and glory and honor and power to the Lord our God for true and

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righteous are his judgments because he has made the great harlot who corrupted the earth with

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their fortication and he has avenged on her the blood of his servants shed by her okay whoever

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saying this is speaking about the tribulation martyrs they reference those people

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as those who were martyred by her again they said al-Aluya and her smoke rises up forever never

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and the 24 elders and the four living creatures fell down in worship god who sat in the throne saying

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amen al-Aluya then a voice came from the throne saying praise our God all you his servants and those

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who fear him both small and great and I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude as the

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sound of many waters and as the sound of mighty thundering saying al-Aluya for the Lord God omnipotent

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reigns so we're going to we're about ready to we're in heaven all right I'm going to be blunt you

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can't you cannot have an opinion about what we're reading now the cameras are all in heaven

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John's in heaven he's talking to us everything you're seeing is in heaven no more we're not talking

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earth now right now we're in heaven the cameras went from earth now the cameras are in heaven

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and this is what they said let us be glad and rejoice and give him glory for the marriage of the lamb

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has come and his wife has made herself ready all right wait a minute hang on everybody how can

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this be and to her it was granted to be arrayed and fine linen clean and bright for the fine linen

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is the righteous acts of the saints she was given a wedding gown fine linen clean and bright that's

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what that is fine linen not robes fine linen where is she she's in heaven John sees the church being

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dressed up in heaven how'd she get there

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revelation 401 that's how she got there then he said to me right blessed are those who are called

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to the marriage supper of the lamb and he said to me these are the true saints of God I got

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added news flash for you if right now you're a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ you are the

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bride of Christ you're in the church okay there's the tribute there's the Old Testament saints they're

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they wear robes we know that there's the tribulation saints they wear robes we know that

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the church is the only group that's that's given fine linen clean and bright white fine linen

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is a wife invited to her wedding you see Jack that's one of the dumbest things I've ever heard

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it is dumb it's because a wife is never invited to her wedding without a wife there is no wedding

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without a groom there is no wedding look you can be invited to the wedding of some king and queen

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and you can go there and fly there and get all dressed up if they don't show up you ain't at no

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wedding so let me read that again then he said to me blessed are those who are called to the

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marriage supper of the lamb hey happier those people who got the invitation to go to the the

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the wet wedding ceremony of the Lamb of God Jesus Christ and his church the bride of Christ

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who's invited to that tribulation saints for sure born again Jews those are also tribulation saints

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I find this fascinating and very comforting by the way and I fell at his feet to worship him

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but he said to me see that you do not do that for I am your fellow servant of your brethren who

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have the testimony of Jesus worship God for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy

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and I saw heaven open and behold a white horse and he who sat on him was called faithful and true

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and in righteousness he judges and makes war verse 11 is a verse that is telling us that whatever

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is going on in verse 11 John sees what implies a going and coming going and coming of Christ in

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judgment upon the face of the earth during this tribulation period again go read

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I say 26 verses 19 to 21

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his eyes were like a flame of fire and on his head were many crowns and he had a name written

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that no one knew except himself in his clothes with blood dripped a robe dipped in blood

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and his name is called the word of God and the armies in heaven clothed in fine linen white

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and clean this is the church the bright of Christ followed him on white horses now out of his

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mouth goes a sharp sword that with it he should strike the nations he himself will rule them with

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a rod of iron he himself treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God

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and he has on his robe and on his thigh a name written king of kings and lord of lords

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then I saw an angel standing in the sun and he cried with a loud voice saying to the to all the birds

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that fly in the midst of the heaven of heaven I should say atmosphere come and gather together

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for the supper of the great God that you may eat the flesh of kings the flesh of captains the

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flesh of mighty men the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them and the flesh of all the

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people free and slave both small and great listen those birds are going to consume the flesh

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of the unbelievers when Christ judges market down the world in Matthew chapter 25

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go read it and see the correlation there as well as Isaiah 63 to 66

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and I saw the beast the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against

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him who sat on the horse and against his army yeah good luck then the beast was captured

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and with them interesting they gathered together to make war but there's no did you know this

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there's actually no evidence of war there is no evidence of an army Armageddon war you know

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the war of Armageddon the battle of Armageddon it's the war that doesn't happen they gather together

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to make war against Jesus and his and the church the bride of Christ coming from heaven

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they gather together in Maguedo Harmageddon Armageddon but it doesn't appear that they

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go to war because they direct their vengeance toward the coming of Christ at the second coming

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then the beast was captured and with him the false prophet who worked signs

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in his presence by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who

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worshipped the statue the image these two were cast alive into the lake of fire burning

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with brimstone and the rest were killed with the sword which proceeded from the mouth of him

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who sat on the horse and all the birds were filled with their flesh folks that's the second coming

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chapter 20 then I saw an angel coming down from heaven having the key to the bottomless pit

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and a great chain in his hand and he laid hold of the dragon the serpent of old who was the devil

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and Satan and bound him for 1000 years and he was and he cast him into the bottomless pit and

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shut him up and set a seal on him so that he should deceive the nations no more until the

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thousand years were finished but after these things that's after the thousand years he must be

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released for a little while and I saw the and I saw thrones and they sat on them and judgment was

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committed to them and I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus

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and for the word of God who had not worshipped the beast listen or his image or had not received

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his mark on their foreheads or on their hands and they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand

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years tribulation saints not the church those are tribulation saints so crystal clear but the rest

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of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were over for finished this is the first

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resurrection blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection why because those are

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the ones that are born again over such the second death that's the death that takes place after

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the judgment of God you Christian you're not going to see that has no power but they shall be

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priest of God and of Christ and shall reign with him for thousand years now when when the thousand

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years have expired so we're looking way into the future we're looking at least

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one thousand seven years from today about that now when the thousand years have expired Satan will

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be released from his prison you see why would God do that because Satan will be released and he will

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go out and tempt those who were born during the tribulation I'm sorry scratch that he will go out

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to tempt those who were born during the millennium the book of Isaiah tells us that those who live

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into the millennium where Christ is ruling from Jerusalem upon the throne of David there'll be

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people having babies not us will be glorified will be with Christ the mortals who live in

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to the kingdom age enter into the kingdom prepared when they they're mortals and Isaiah says you

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know what during that period of time when a man dies at the age of a hundred everybody is going to

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weep like a baby like a baby died that means longevity is going to come back the earth is going to

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be repopulated but Satan's been bound and so Satan is going to be released again and well let's

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just read it so now when the thousand years that expired Satan will be released from his prison

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and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth God and may God

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don't let that worry you those are geographical names of northern powers that have always been

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Israel's enemies to gather them together to battle whose name I'm sorry whose number is as the

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sand of the sea they went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints

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and the beloved city and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them and the devil

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who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire in Brimstone where the beast and the false

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prophet are and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever how long folks forever and

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ever then I saw a great white throne and him who sat on it from whose face the earth and the

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heaven fled away and there was found no place for them and I saw the dead small and great standing

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before God and the books plural were opened and another book was opened which is the book of life

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and the dead were judged according to their works by the things which were written in the books

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listen none of this is good people you do not want to be found in Revelation chapter 20 the poor

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Mormons Mormons will read this portion and they'll say see this we're judged by our works

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they see this as a positive it's so sad it's very bad very very bad there's no recovery

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from this judgment watch this the sea gave up the dead that were in it death and Hades gave

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delivered up the death who are in in them and they were judged each one according to his works

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then death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire this is the second death and anyone not

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found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire the reason why they're not found

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in the book of life is because they were never bored again their names never made it into the

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lambs book of life revelation 21 and I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and

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the first earth had passed away also there was no more sea don't be sad it's going to be amazing

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then I John saw the holy city new Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God prepared as a

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bride adorned for her husband so all sparkly and beautiful and I heard a loud voice from heaven

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saying behold the tabernacle of God the tabernacle is where God meets man the tabernacle of God is

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with men and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people and God himself will be with

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them and be their God and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes there shall be no more death

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nor shall sorrow no sorrow nor crying and there shall be no more pain for the former things have

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passed away then he who sat on the throne said behold I make all things new and he said to me

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right for these words are true and faithful and he said to me it is done I am the alpha and the omega

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the beginning and the end I will give of the fountain of the water of life freely to him who thirst

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that's Jesus folks he who overcome shall inherit all things and I will give and I will be his God

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and he shall be my son but the cowardly notice the top of the list then I love this at the top

1283
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of the list of those in hell are cowards they shall not inherit I'm sorry cowards

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unbelieving abominable murders the sexually immoral sorcerers drug addicts those

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there are devoted to drugs I idol worshipers idolaters all liars shall have their part in the

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lake which burns with fire and brimstone which is the second death then of the then one of the

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seven angels who had the seven bowls filled with the seven last plagues came to me and talked with me

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saying come and I will show you the bride the lamb's wife and he carried me away in the spirit to

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a great in high mountain and he showed me the great city the holy Jerusalem descending out of heaven

1290
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from God having the glory of God and her light is like a most precious stone like a jaspers stone

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clear as crystal also she had a great and high wall with the twelve gates and twelve angels at

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the gates and names written on them which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of

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Israel there you not the twelve tribes of Palestine people it's Israel three gates on the east

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three gates on the north three gates on the south and three gates on the west now the wall of the

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city had twelve foundations and on them were written the names of the twelve apostles of the lamb

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and who and he who talked with me had a gold read to measure the city in its gates in its wall

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and the city is laid out as a square so everybody should probably insert this right now

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the earth is heaven the new heaven and the new earth the atmosphere is the new heaven

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and then the the house of God the dwelling place of God where the bride lives and where the lamb lives

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descends out of heaven and it's it's a city this heaven heaven is not the city there's the city

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of God that is in heaven this is a completely new redeemed renewed forever

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the city is laid out as a square and its length is as great as it's with and it measured the city

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with the read twelve thousand furlongs its length breadth and height are equal another word something

1304
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something to the effect of 1500 miles in each direction is the city 1500 miles that way

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that way that way and that way back it's a cube or as a cube then he measured its walls

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and measured 44 cubits according to the measure of a man which is this from the pinky finger to

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no I'm sorry a cube it from the elbow to the pinky finger then he so he's measured that

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well verse 18 and the construction of its wall was as jasper and the city was pure pure gold

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like clear glass and the foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all kinds of

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precious stones the first foundation was jasper the second sapphire the third uh

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chalceledon the fourth emerald the fifth sardinux the sixth sardis the seventh chrysalate

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the eighth burl the ninth topaz the tenth chrysalis the eleventh jasinus the twelfth amethyst

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and the twelve gates were twelve pearls each individual gate was one pearl and the street

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of the city was pure gold like transparent glass but I saw no temple in it that kind of freak

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for the lord god old mighty and the lamb or its temple and the city had no need of the sun or

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of the moon to shine in it for the glory of god illuminated it and the lamb is its light

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and all the nations of those who are saved shall walk in its light and the kings there's

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going to be kings of the earth bring their glory and honor into it wow its gates shall not be

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shut at all by day there shall be no night there and they shall bring the glory and the honor

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of the nations into it isn't that interesting you guys in eternity in heaven in eternity there's

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going to be kings and there's going to be nations which means god made borders

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but there shall be no means enter anything that defiles or that causes in a

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abomination or a lie but only those who are written in the lambs book of life there you go

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please make sure your names in the lambs book of life everybody chapter 22

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and he showed me a pure river of water of life clear as crystal proceeding from the throne of

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god and from the lamb and in the middle of the street and on the on either side of the river

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was the tree of life which bore 12 fruits each tree yielding its fruit every month so there's

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12 months in eternity there's going to be 12 months and the leaves of the tree were for the

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healing of the nations wow and there shall be no more curse thank god but the throne of god

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and of the lamb shall be it shall be in it and has and his servants shall serve him they shall see

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his face and his name shall be on their foreheads and there shall be no night there for they for

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there no need of lamp nor lamp of the no light of the sun for the Lord god gives them light and

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they shall reign forever and ever then he said to me these are faithful and true these words are

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faithful and true and the Lord god of the holy prophet sent his angel to show his servants the

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things which must shortly or the word is quickly when it happens it goes quickly take place

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behold I am coming quickly blessed is he who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book

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now I John saw and heard these things and when I heard and I saw I fell down to worship before

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the feet of the angel who showed me these things then he said to me see that you do not do that

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for I am your fellow servant and of your brethren the prophets wow and of those who keep the words

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of this book worship god and he said to me do not seal the words of the prophecy of this book

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for the time is at hand he who is unjust let him be unjust still he was filthy let him be filthy

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he who is righteous let him be righteous still he who is holy let him be holy still

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and behold I am coming quickly and my reward is with me to give to everyone according to his work

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I am the alpha and the omega the beginning and the end the first and the last

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blessed are those who do his commandments that they may have the right to the tree of life

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and may enter through the gates into the city but outside or in hell are dogs sorcerers sexually

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immoral murderers idolaters whoever loves and practices alive I Jesus have sent my angel to testify

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to you these things in the churches wow I am the root on the offspring of David and the bride and

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morning star by the way he said that in verse 16 he said that to the seven letters to the seven

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churches those same things and the spirits and the brides say come and let him who hears say come

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and let him who thirst come and whoever desires let him take the waters the water of life freely

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who I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book if anyone adds to these

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things God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book and if anyone takes away from

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the words of this book of this prophecy God will take away his part from the book of life

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and from the holy city and from the things which are written in this book he who testifies to these

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things says surely I am coming quickly amen even so come Lord Jesus the grace of our Lord Jesus

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Christ be with you all amen the book of revelation cannot be understood without reading the Old Testament

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so to get you going I'm going to give you some homework start reading the book of Daniel the book

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of Isaiah the book of Zachariah the book of Jeremiah the book of Joel start there start there

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and then when you're done with those books start reading in Genesis to Malachi and then jump over

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the New Testament if you'd like to the book of Revelation and watch what happens to your understanding

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thank you guys for being with us I have no idea how long we've been going but it's been a long time

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have a great day God bless you and let's keep walking with Jesus until we see the whites of his eyes

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or the flame of his eyes because he's coming God bless you guys

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