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And welcome back, everybody. It's great to be back this week.

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And hopefully everybody's having a good weekend. We had a great Thanksgiving.

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Had a good Thanksgiving brunch.

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Would have liked seeing a few more people come out, but hey, that's all right.

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We saw enough.

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So hopefully we can help that keep going into a yearly thing.

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We love getting the community out and spending time with folks from the community.

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Because there were a few people from the community came out, got breakfast, and sat around, fellowshiped with us a bit.

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That was real nice.

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How's your week going, Brother Dennis?

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So far, so good.

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So far, so good.

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Yeah, Diane's been off Thursday, Friday, and today, too, just burning up some vacation time this year, you know, so we've had a good day.

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That's good.

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It's been good stuff.

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Awesome.

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How about you, Brother Brian?

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Yeah, good day so far.

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A little cool, a little rainy, but, you know, productive today.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it was a nice day up until the rain decided to hit me as I was coming home tonight.

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I was like, oh, it's nice and cold, but we'll live.

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And then I'm like, oh, it's pouring rain.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, that's great.

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Yeah.

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And it was, by the way, totally clear until I got to Henniger.

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So about 10 miles down the road, for those that aren't familiar with the area.

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Yeah.

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A little bit before we dive in, I think we'll be starting Revelation 4 tonight.

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We'll be talking about the rapture a little bit to open it up.

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Before we get into that, I had to share, I saw a very amusing post on Facebook.

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uh thursday um apparently the city of fort pain is running off street preachers now

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yeah you're not they don't like you preaching out there on the sidewalk according to well that's

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what the title of the video said um now of course you get into the video and they they don't show

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what they were doing but they absolutely show the officer coming up and telling them hey take a hike

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yeah and uh he clarifies it's you know you're not allowed to be out there with any kind of

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voice amplification without a permit right and uh uh so it was kind of interesting to watch that

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take shape on uh facebook as a bunch of people were going oh you can't get on to people and stop

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people from doing that and then some other people were like uh yeah they can and watch that madness

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devolve into insanity uh but yeah a lot of people seem to think that uh because they've watched some

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people on youtube they know a whole lot about how that works and it's like no they they have

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reasonable time place and manner restrictions perfectly allowed uh telling you you can't be

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out there with a megaphone at you know 10 at night or even in the middle of the day or whatever but

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you know it has to be content neutral but they can do it and uh uh oh by the way this guy was also

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running after people when they would try to walk away specifically women and girls and telling

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them they're going to hell for how they were dressed yeah yeah uh so um i the officer was

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was probably a little bit more concerned about some husband or boyfriend's about to walk up and put

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this guy's teeth down his throat yeah how you get when you do that you know i mean i think i think

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street preaching is great i i know i know a couple guys that actually do that they go to

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to a lot of college games and stuff oh it's awesome but they do it in a manner that um that uh with

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love and truth and that's what you got to do and you know not some guy out there screaming at you

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that you're going to hell.

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And definitely don't chase people

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when they try to walk.

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Follow some rules and regulations

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and get the gospel out,

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get the truth of it out,

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and then let people make that decision.

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I will say,

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and I did tell somebody on Facebook this,

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I would have much preferred it

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if the guy, the officer from Fort Payne

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would have just told him when he said,

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because the guy, of course,

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immediately started saying,

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what can I do?

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I think it would have been a lot nicer

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because all he called out

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was the voice amplification.

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and i would have much preferred if he had just said uh you can find out when i arrest you yeah

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you need to stop or leave or i'm going to arrest you those are your two options yeah so you know

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whichever but you're not going to keep doing it and i'm not going to sit here and explain to you

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what you can and can't do it'll be on the report you can pull the report when i when i get it filed

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uh and and then if you want to try something we'll go and talk to a judge about it and see what they

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have to say and i would have much preferred him to answer that way rather than going back and forth

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with him for, I mean, it was, I don't know, probably 10 minutes of that. The officer kind

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of kept dancing around and said, you're chasing women, dude. You and your wife are chasing women

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down the street when they try to walk away with kids. Stop it. I would have much for either,

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either say that and be done with it or just leave it with, I'm not giving you any information. You

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can pull the report when I'm done and just give him the CAD number and you're, you know, it's all

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taken care of. So that would have been kind of nice, but, but that officer handled it pretty well.

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A little bit of bravado in there, you know, a little bit of, you know, well, if you're going to threaten us with arrest, we'll leave.

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Well, I'm not threatening you with nothing.

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This is what's going to happen.

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Dude, calm down.

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Would have been a little bit nicer.

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And I would.

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I told somebody a couple of weeks ago, I would love to start seeing more officers go, I don't have to tell you nothing.

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This is for a judge.

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I believe I have enough.

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And if you want to try it in court, we'll try it.

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And just leave it at that.

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Because a lot of these people that do the nonsense, they just stop because they realize they're not going to get anything because it's either they're going to get themselves filmed.

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And, hey, if it's an illegal arrest, it's an illegal arrest.

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You'll sue and get a little bit of money.

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Congratulations.

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It's not going to be much.

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And the taxpayers are going to be really angry with you.

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So I suggest being very careful if you get a big payout going back to that city because the people are going to be upset because that's their money you're taking, not the officers, not the departments.

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That's the citizens that pay that.

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think about that before you do something stupid.

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But anyway, I thought

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that was just hilarious. I saw that

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Thursday. I thought, really? That's the title we're going to go with?

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And I wouldn't

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know the rest of it. Some of the people that the guy had

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talked to that day. This happened a couple of years

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ago, apparently. And some of the

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people he chased and said things to

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posted and said, no, here's what he was saying.

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And I was like, ooh.

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I'm glad for the context.

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So,

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alright. Well, going on to

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And by the way, I will say another thing.

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I would love to see more churches get out and just go on to the sidewalk or something, have you some bottles of water, especially during the summer.

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Just have some bottles of water when people are out doing stuff.

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Just hold up a sign.

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Share the gospel.

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And share it one-on-one a whole lot better.

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I mean, just talk to those people on the street.

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And you'd be shocked at how many people will come up and ask you what you're doing.

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And they'll have conversations.

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In Trenton back this summer, I literally saw a group that were right there at the red light.

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And as you were driving by, they literally had a giant box of Bibles.

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They were just stop masks for one.

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They were just handing them out.

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Anybody that wanted one, they just hand them to you.

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And there were people would, they'd go to turn and they'd just stop there and they'd just hand it in the window.

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Thanks.

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And drive on.

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And I was like, that is a cool way to kind of get some attention.

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They were going to an otter the other day.

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Hope it wasn't Mormons.

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No, no, no.

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I did see on the sign.

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It was the Baptist trip.

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First Baptist there in Trenton was the one doing it.

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Yeah, that's the same thing at Otter just, I don't know, last week sometimes.

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Yeah, it's a cool thing to do, and it's a really good way to get the message out.

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And you are allowed to do stuff like that.

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And I think as a community of Christians, we've kind of forgotten that the same thing that other people are allowed to do, we're allowed to do it too.

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And we can do it in a nice way that will really get some attention.

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It's hard to balance that thing, though.

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The gospel is not effective until you tell somebody that they're a sinner.

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Right.

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Oh, yeah.

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People don't like to hear that.

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No, no.

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I don't know that I'm going to hell.

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I don't want to know I'm a sinner.

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But it's just starting out with that.

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You know, it's like, can I talk to you about Jesus?

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You know, and then let's talk about hell.

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Let's talk about sin.

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Let's talk about questions for sin.

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Well, I love and I love there was a street preacher and I talk about him every once in a while.

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But he he has one of the most.

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Are you going to heaven?

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That's how he opens every conversation.

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Are you going to heaven?

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Yeah.

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Oh, yeah, I'm going.

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Yeah, I'm going.

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And then he says, why?

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And oh, man, that's where he gets almost everybody.

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Well, I'm a good person.

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Oh, are you?

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So you're a good person.

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He's the one.

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Have you ever stole anything?

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Have you ever have you ever lied?

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Have you ever cheated?

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Have you ever?

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And then he's like, so by your death, by your own admission, you're a thief.

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You're a liar.

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And people are like, oh, wait a minute.

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Can't get away.

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And he's so kind about it.

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That's the thing that shocks me.

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He's just he's gentle.

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He doesn't get in people's faces.

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He's so nice.

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And how many of the people you see are just, it breaks them.

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It comes at them.

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To actually.

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Undeniable truth.

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You know, that's just what you do.

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And that's what we're called to do.

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So I would love to see more Christians doing that, especially in this area.

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We really need some more to get out there and be vocal and talk about it.

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Because I think we forget just how many people around here, you know, we talk about it all the time.

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There's a church on just about every street corner.

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I mean, every few blocks you pass a church and how many people around here refuse to set foot in a church?

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And they don't want to hear the truth and they don't want to know.

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I think them seeing Christians getting out and doing stuff, like I say, hand out water while you're doing it.

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Just, I mean, that's cheap at Walmart.

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Go buy you a big thing of water in the middle of summer.

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Here, have you a bottle of water.

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Free.

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Doesn't cost you nothing.

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And that's enough to get people kind of attention.

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And if you're doing that, you're going to have people that are homeless and there are other stuff coming by and getting some.

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And you know what?

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They can use that, too.

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That's right.

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In the summer, because I don't have anywhere to go that's cool.

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That's right.

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I mean, it's a nice way to get people's attention.

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So I would love to see more of that, and I'd love to see it done the right way.

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And I'm disappointed that I don't see it done the right way around here very much.

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But anyway, on to Revelation chapter 4.

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So we move into chapter 4.

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The scene kind of changes.

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We were in the first three chapters.

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We dealt with the beginning of John's revelation, what he was seeing and what he saw as Christ, the son of God.

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Then the churches.

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And we read a lot of stuff and studied a lot of stuff in that that would fit anybody.

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You're going to fall somewhere in the middle of those churches.

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You're going to have some some attributes of maybe some of all of them at some point in time.

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but maybe not everything that we saw there.

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So the church is in chapter 4, we go from the church being here on earth

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to the church being in heaven,

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which tells us that there was a big event that took place, right?

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And we'll cover a little bit of that in chapter 1.

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But what is that big event?

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The church is no longer here.

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We are actually now in chapter 4.

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We're no longer the church, but who are we?

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We're the bride of Christ.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I mean, we become his bride.

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How does it happen?

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John 14, 1 through 3, let not your hearts be troubled.

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Do you believe in God?

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Believe also in me.

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In my Father's house are many mansions.

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If it were not so, I would have told you so.

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I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go to prepare a place for you,

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I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there you may be also.

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So we know that he prepared a place for us, and this is what we're seeing here.

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They're in that place, right?

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We're in that place.

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The church is there.

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And how did we get there?

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The rapture, right?

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1 Thessalonians 4.

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You got it pulled up?

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Yeah, I got it right here in my little bookmark here.

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Yeah.

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Let's see, verse 13, chapter 4, verse 13.

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We do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep or dead in Christ,

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so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.

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For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

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For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord

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will not precede those who have fallen asleep.

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For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout,

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the voice of the archangel and the trumpet of God,

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and the dead in Christ will rise first.

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Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds

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to meet the Lord in the air.

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And so we shall always be with the Lord.

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Therefore, comfort one another with these words.

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Isn't that good to know that we can find comfort?

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The rapture is not a scary thing.

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It's not a thing that we need to fear unless you don't know the Lord.

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And the rapture marks the beginning of a tribulation time for the people that's left here on this earth.

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That's right.

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1 Corinthians 15 gives us another little picture of that.

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It says, Behold, I show you a mystery.

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We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in the moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump.

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For the trump shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

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Amen.

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For this perishable must put on the imperishable.

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He's saying that, and he said right before that, flesh and blood can't go there.

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We can't go there.

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That's right.

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We can't inherit this.

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That's right.

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Because these bodies are dirty.

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They're sin-ridden.

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That's right.

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They're not suitable for heaven.

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And he tells us about the seed falling upon the ground, and that seed can't live until it's buried, right?

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And it's watered, and it just grows from there.

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Yeah, so it's undeniable that there is going to be a rapture.

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I think where the confusion comes in is when, right?

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Yeah, yeah.

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It's when.

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That's right.

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And I think one of the tripping points for some people is in verse 52 of 1 Corinthians 15, where it says, at the last trumpet.

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Yeah.

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And people tend to assume that's the last trumpet of Revelation.

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They go back, yeah, into Revelation.

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And it's not the same thing.

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No, it's not.

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Absolutely it's not.

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And that's something we'll definitely can get into.

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And this day and time, there's been so much controversy about the wind.

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And now it's starting to be an argument against there even being a rapture.

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I keep hearing these things about, you know, well, that's just something that came up in the 19th century.

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You know, I was so disappointed.

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I don't care to say something here, but I was so disappointed.

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I watched on the TikTok or Facebook the Holy Note.

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You all seen the Holy Note guy?

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Yeah, yeah.

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And he's really good.

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I mean, and he's really thorough on his doctrine.

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But I seen one the other day, and what he does is he'll show these clips of these churches that are just, I mean, out there.

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Crackpot churches.

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Just terrible doctrine.

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And then he'll listen to them for a minute and shut the door and say, nope.

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Or he might come in and open his Bible in church.

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I'm in church, ready to read the word.

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And then it opens up with some crazy preaching or something.

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and he shuts his Bible and walks out.

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Really good, really good content.

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But the other day, I seen one, and I can't remember the whole deal,

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but a guy was predicting the rapture, which is just another nutty thing.

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But what I didn't like about his post was he basically said,

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yeah, the rapture is just something that they come up with in the 19th century.

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And I was like, dude, oh, man, I was in line with you until that.

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And then I just kind of fell out with him on that.

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But this is biblical stuff.

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First century stuff.

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I don't care what they came up with in the 19th century or what you come up with yesterday.

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This is the word of God, right?

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And what was written in 1 Thessalonians and 1 Corinthians, what was written there was written after Jesus had died and rose again and ascended into heaven.

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All that took place after this.

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So it wasn't some event that took place just right there after Jesus died.

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It wasn't an event that took place in AD 70.

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This is a future event that when we look at the components of it and we see the things that happened during the rapture and after the rapture, we know that this is something that nobody has experienced.

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Unless there has been a major cover up that, you know, that everybody hasn't leaked out yet, then no rapture has taken place yet.

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And guys, we don't know when it's going to happen exactly.

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We know times are close.

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We know things are, we can see seasons and changes and different things going on around us.

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But come on, you know, the rapture is evident.

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And we see here in Revelation chapter three, here's the church on the earth.

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And the next chapter, here's the church in heaven, which tells me.

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And then when we start after chapter four and five, then we start seeing tribulation take place.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, and we do have a couple of examples, though, don't we?

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Sure we do.

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In Genesis 5, verse 22, it said,

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Then Enoch walked with God 300 years after he became the father of Methuselah,

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and he had other sons and daughters.

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So all the days of Enoch were 365 years.

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Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.

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Yeah, yeah.

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How close was he?

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Parpezo, right?

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Yeah.

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Snatched up.

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Snatched up.

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And then we got Elijah.

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Elijah and the whirlwind, right?

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And it's examples.

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Yeah, yeah, it is. It's absolutely examples of what he's going to do with his people.

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Yeah.

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I mean, knowing the art, you know, and we see God taking his people and saving them and those who would not listen are left behind.

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Yeah, I think people miss the point of revelation.

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And that's why we went through Daniel.

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Yeah.

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It was to understand the timeline of the whole big picture of this thing.

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These are the final seven years of that prophecy in Daniel that are geared toward punishment toward Israel.

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It's the last week of years, last week.

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And again, in 1 Thessalonians 5, Paul says,

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For God has not destined us for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.

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And in my view, we kind of bickered a little bit.

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We didn't bicker.

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But Matthew 24, days of Noah, for me, that was an example of a rapture.

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They are a lot out of Sodom and Gomorrah.

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There's examples of God snatching somebody out of the destruction.

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Right, right.

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Yeah.

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And it's all over the place.

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And the purpose of the revelation is not to punish Christians.

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We've become his children.

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That's right.

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It's a whole new dynamic.

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The father's not going to send his children through a time of wrath that's meant for the world to put an end to evil.

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That's it.

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That's it.

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And to have everybody make a final decision.

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And let me tell you something.

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Yeah.

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When we see what's happening here in chapter 4 and we go forward from here and we get into the tribulation time,

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we're going to see what this whole thing is really about is his chosen people, Israel.

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He's dealing with them.

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He's really dealing with them now.

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Other people will be saved during this time, every tribe, every tongue, every nation.

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The Bible shows a picture of that over in Revelation 19, I think, and a couple of different places there.

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But we see pictures of those tribulation saints, and we see pictures of that 140, or we see the 144,000 as they're out preaching the gospel.

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And those are Jewish men who've been appointed and have accepted Christ and are now going out and spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ to everybody that they see.

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So, yeah.

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Yeah, I'm going to be honest.

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I had to pause for a second and actually look up this idea that the rapture was somehow developed.

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The concept of it was developed in the 18th and the 19th century.

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Well, it was a woman in Scotland.

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It started with a woman in Scotland in 1830, had a vision about the church gathering before the tribulation and all that.

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And they say that's where it started.

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But when you look at the actual definitions of it, and of course, it was the what they're talking about is a formalized.

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Again, it goes back to that idea we talked about way, way at the beginning of the podcast, the idea of doctrine.

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It's just a formalization of something that is stated in the Bible.

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And the word rapture does not occur in the Bible.

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And so that's what they're talking about is the fact that it was formalized and specifically called the rapture and specifically using that Harpezo and all that.

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The formalization of it did happen in the mid-1800s or so, but that doesn't mean that's where the idea was developed.

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The idea comes from the Scripture.

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It's just a formalization, a collection of different Scriptures together to go, this collection of things teaches this.

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That's all it is.

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And the word rapture is not found there, but neither is the word Trinity.

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Right.

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But we know it's true.

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We know it's true, and we don't even question the Trinity.

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I mean, well, most of us don't.

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There are denominations out there that question the Trinity.

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Yeah.

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But, I mean, like you said, harpazo is the Greek word.

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That got translated into Latin as repturo, which comes into English as raptura.

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It just means be snatched away forcibly.

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Be snatched up, yeah.

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And it just blows my mind, though.

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I had actually forgotten that people were – there are a large number of modern denominations that completely reject that idea.

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They think we are going to be here for the entirety of the tribulation.

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Yeah.

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And I'm like, you know, sure, no.

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It doesn't fit who God is.

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It doesn't make any sense, especially when he shows us how he rescued Lot and Noah and took Elijah and Enoch and all these different things.

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And Paul says we're not destined for wrath.

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And that's what this seven years we're looking at right now is going to be.

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Wrath.

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Wrath.

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And it's going to be awesome.

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It's great wrath.

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And, you know, we're going to see God's cup of wrath poured out on mankind during this time.

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And when you go back and you study and you look at Jesus in the garden as he lamented there,

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and he was just praying and great drops of blood, he knew what was about to take place.

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The God of the universe who is sinless, who is perfect, who is holy,

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is about to take on every evil, every sin, every terrible thought,

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no matter what it is.

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He's about to take on all those things upon him,

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and he's about to be nailed to a cross.

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He's about to suffer and die,

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and the Father's not even going to be able to have it.

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There's going to be a separation there.

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And he says, if it be thy will, let this cup pass from me.

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One thing is, I think he said that not because he was wondering, well, could we do it another way?

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He knew that.

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I think he said those words just so that we could read them and know that there wasn't another way.

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He knew that, right?

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But he says, let this cup pass from me.

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What was that cup?

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I believe that that cup was the cup of wrath that we're going to read about here in the book of Revelation.

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And all that wrath, all the wrath that we see God pouring out and all that takes place during tribulation time, all the punishment, all of the wrath of God just coming down.

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All that was placed upon or poured upon Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary.

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Amen.

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He took all that.

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Yes, he did.

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He took all that.

480
00:24:58,640 --> 00:25:05,500
And let me just point out real quick, you know, anytime we talk about this, I am with you guys.

481
00:25:05,540 --> 00:25:09,580
I firmly 100% believe the church is going to be gone for all of that.

482
00:25:09,720 --> 00:25:09,860
Yeah.

483
00:25:12,020 --> 00:25:15,040
If we're wrong, it does not change who God is.

484
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,760
It does not change who we are to him.

485
00:25:17,940 --> 00:25:20,320
And it does not change what we are called to do.

486
00:25:20,580 --> 00:25:20,660
Yeah.

487
00:25:20,880 --> 00:25:22,140
That doesn't change.

488
00:25:22,440 --> 00:25:24,960
So people get so caught up in that argument.

489
00:25:25,380 --> 00:25:25,520
Yeah.

490
00:25:26,400 --> 00:25:28,440
I will not argue with people about it.

491
00:25:28,780 --> 00:25:36,880
I'm like, look, I am 100 percent in the in the in the camp of we are not going to experience any of this because of all the verses that you point out.

492
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:38,760
You're not destined for wrath.

493
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:39,540
God has made it clear.

494
00:25:39,630 --> 00:25:46,740
I mean, you go back to the examples of a lot of of of Noah, of, you know, you go back to the children of Israel and what they were spared.

495
00:25:46,860 --> 00:25:51,140
And I mean, coming out of Egypt and the what he did for the Passover there.

496
00:25:51,300 --> 00:25:57,860
I mean, you go back to all these things where God will often pour out his wrath and spare his by removing them from the situation.

497
00:25:59,420 --> 00:26:00,420
It's so apparent.

498
00:26:01,300 --> 00:26:06,300
But even if we're wrong, it doesn't change a thing about what our responsibility is now.

499
00:26:06,860 --> 00:26:09,520
And that's what we really have to focus on as Christians.

500
00:26:09,740 --> 00:26:10,920
And that's what I tell people.

501
00:26:11,060 --> 00:26:13,700
They're like, well, you know, we're absolutely going to be here.

502
00:26:13,700 --> 00:26:15,720
And if you can't do this now, what makes you think you can then?

503
00:26:15,730 --> 00:26:18,580
And I'm like, even if that's true, you're right.

504
00:26:18,580 --> 00:26:21,040
It doesn't change our responsibility now to do the things we're called to do.

505
00:26:21,160 --> 00:26:25,260
Well, I'll tell you, you know, for anybody who's listening, and this is not a challenge.

506
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:27,680
This is not me being combative.

507
00:26:28,340 --> 00:26:35,420
But if you don't think there's going to be a rapture, I sincerely want to understand what do you do with 1 Thessalonians 4 and 1 Corinthians 15?

508
00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:37,600
What do you do with those verses?

509
00:26:37,840 --> 00:26:38,400
Yeah, yeah.

510
00:26:38,860 --> 00:26:45,720
And again, the people that I know that argue it say that it's an event that happened right after Christ's death.

511
00:26:45,980 --> 00:26:48,860
I mean, then why was it written here?

512
00:26:48,900 --> 00:26:50,220
I mean, there were people who came alive.

513
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:53,220
Yeah, but not on a scale.

514
00:26:53,900 --> 00:26:55,660
They came alive, and then they turned around and died again.

515
00:26:56,180 --> 00:26:59,500
Now, we're talking about the dead in Christ, meaning all of them.

516
00:26:59,540 --> 00:26:59,820
Yeah, right.

517
00:26:59,940 --> 00:27:02,520
Meaning the graves busting forth.

518
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:02,960
Right.

519
00:27:03,180 --> 00:27:09,600
And so this thing starts when the church is gone.

520
00:27:09,840 --> 00:27:11,000
That's when tribulation starts.

521
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:16,260
And what will be left here is basically the church of Laodicea.

522
00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:22,200
I mean, it'll be that type of church that was described in this last part of chapter three.

523
00:27:22,420 --> 00:27:23,080
The vomit church.

524
00:27:23,190 --> 00:27:23,560
It will.

525
00:27:23,780 --> 00:27:27,080
Yeah, it'll be more of an organization than a church, right?

526
00:27:27,180 --> 00:27:27,260
Yeah.

527
00:27:29,180 --> 00:27:35,840
It will continue to meet, and we talked about this before with its lost members and its lost leadership.

528
00:27:37,060 --> 00:27:38,500
And gosh, we see that, don't we?

529
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:42,700
People who are preaching this stuff, I don't know.

530
00:27:43,700 --> 00:27:51,780
We were talking about some false prophets and some false religions last Wednesday, and somebody asked, you know, do you think that they're saved?

531
00:27:52,460 --> 00:27:53,020
I don't know.

532
00:27:53,040 --> 00:27:53,460
I can't.

533
00:27:53,460 --> 00:27:54,440
I mean, you know what I'm saying?

534
00:27:55,200 --> 00:28:03,520
I can't say in every instance if those people have just fallen away and backslidden so much that they believe the lie.

535
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:12,140
But I know they were never grounded, and it's hard for me to believe that you can preach something that's so against the Word of God and you're saved,

536
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:13,940
that you were ever saved to begin with.

537
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:14,320
Yeah.

538
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:15,020
So.

539
00:28:16,360 --> 00:28:17,540
Is Jesus God.

540
00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:23,040
I think there are times that you see some of these organizations that have these leadership

541
00:28:23,320 --> 00:28:24,480
that are saying these things.

542
00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,300
It's really obvious you're dealing with somebody that's not saved.

543
00:28:27,620 --> 00:28:27,800
Yeah.

544
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:29,720
I mean, that does exist.

545
00:28:30,300 --> 00:28:33,360
But the vast majority or, well, I'm not going to say the vast majority.

546
00:28:33,590 --> 00:28:37,620
I would say there's a lot of people who were saved and have been led astray.

547
00:28:38,100 --> 00:28:38,320
Yeah.

548
00:28:38,540 --> 00:28:38,840
Oh, yeah.

549
00:28:39,240 --> 00:28:40,540
They've been led astray.

550
00:28:40,980 --> 00:28:52,700
And because, I mean, think about it, Satan wants nothing more than to get a hold of those Christians that are young, they're new in leadership, and they didn't get a good foundation.

551
00:28:53,400 --> 00:29:04,920
And this is, and you can correct me if I'm wrong about this, but almost every time I've seen this with somebody like that, if they're not just flat out demonic in the things they're saying and flat out just full on.

552
00:29:06,100 --> 00:29:09,180
I mean, I'm looking at them going, Lord, I don't want to be in the same room with this person.

553
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:09,980
Like they scare me.

554
00:29:10,220 --> 00:29:11,500
Like it actually makes me nervous.

555
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:21,080
If they're not that, which there are plenty of, you have, on the other hand, the people that are being so sincere and they're being so honest and they're being so straightforward.

556
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:26,120
And then when you hear them talk, you realize they never got a good grounding.

557
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:27,580
They never got a foundation.

558
00:29:27,700 --> 00:29:34,080
They never got a good, solid hold on who Christ is and what the scripture says.

559
00:29:34,340 --> 00:29:38,940
And then Satan just kind of got in those little cracks because they didn't have that good footing.

560
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:43,180
And he was able to start, you know, uprooting a little bit here, trip them up here, trip them up here.

561
00:29:43,260 --> 00:29:50,840
And then before they realize that they think they're still on the right, they're still on the straight and narrow, but they've rolled down the hill and they're off on something else over here.

562
00:29:50,940 --> 00:29:51,640
They're neutered.

563
00:29:51,860 --> 00:29:52,160
They're neutered.

564
00:29:52,600 --> 00:29:54,640
And that's what Satan is trying to do to all of us.

565
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:55,000
Neutering.

566
00:29:55,340 --> 00:29:55,560
Absolutely.

567
00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:57,480
We don't know the power of Christ.

568
00:29:57,740 --> 00:29:59,940
We don't know the power of the name of Jesus in this world.

569
00:30:00,060 --> 00:30:00,300
That's right.

570
00:30:00,380 --> 00:30:04,860
The power of Jesus in our families, the power of Jesus in our own lives, the power of Jesus of our neighbors.

571
00:30:04,980 --> 00:30:08,420
And everywhere we turn, we have the power of Jesus living inside us.

572
00:30:08,470 --> 00:30:09,540
But we got to know the truth.

573
00:30:09,900 --> 00:30:10,160
Amen.

574
00:30:10,220 --> 00:30:11,480
Understand and live in it.

575
00:30:11,580 --> 00:30:11,700
Yeah.

576
00:30:11,970 --> 00:30:12,060
Amen.

577
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:12,420
Yes.

578
00:30:12,580 --> 00:30:18,660
And that what you just said is one of the things that to me is one of the scariest teachings of a lot of these new churches.

579
00:30:19,300 --> 00:30:23,160
They want to talk about the power of Jesus living in you, but they don't know who he is.

580
00:30:23,340 --> 00:30:23,480
Yeah.

581
00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:24,920
They don't know what that means.

582
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,680
And they think it means that we have all this power on the earth.

583
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:28,600
It's like we got no power.

584
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:29,480
It's all he is.

585
00:30:29,600 --> 00:30:39,100
Well, and we try to bring it down to some humanized thing, you know, like healing cancer and healing, you know, physical effects and different things like that.

586
00:30:39,390 --> 00:30:41,380
And look, I'm not saying God can't do that.

587
00:30:41,450 --> 00:30:43,320
I mean, God can heal.

588
00:30:43,460 --> 00:30:43,980
Yeah, absolutely.

589
00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:46,400
But this is not the focus, right?

590
00:30:46,470 --> 00:30:47,640
The focus is Jesus.

591
00:30:48,030 --> 00:30:50,060
The focus is salvation.

592
00:30:50,190 --> 00:30:52,100
The focus is eternity with him.

593
00:30:53,140 --> 00:30:55,740
The focus is a newness of life, being born again.

594
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:59,180
And that's our entire focus.

595
00:30:59,300 --> 00:31:13,900
And we get away from that with all these other, these hyper, you know, focused things on power, on being able to lay somebody in honor.

596
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:15,460
Yeah, that's what I've done with it.

597
00:31:15,890 --> 00:31:16,000
Yeah.

598
00:31:16,300 --> 00:31:20,060
Yeah, the power is working in your heart to make you just like Jesus.

599
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:20,420
That's right.

600
00:31:20,700 --> 00:31:26,720
In Romans 3, 29, we've been predestined to be conformed to the image of his son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

601
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:27,160
That's right.

602
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:28,060
And that's the power.

603
00:31:28,300 --> 00:31:28,660
That's it.

604
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:30,140
We overcome sin.

605
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:30,440
Amen.

606
00:31:31,140 --> 00:31:37,280
And I always go back to, I don't know if you guys have ever heard Dottie Rambo's story and how she was basically kicked out of the house.

607
00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:38,700
She's like 14 years old.

608
00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:42,980
She's like 12 or 14 when she told her dad she wanted to sing Christian music instead of country music.

609
00:31:43,020 --> 00:31:44,100
And he said, get out.

610
00:31:44,340 --> 00:31:44,840
And she went, okay.

611
00:31:45,660 --> 00:31:46,800
And I mean, talk about faith.

612
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:47,340
Yeah.

613
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,900
But when she was older, after she got married and she was singing and she was performing, they went to Holland.

614
00:31:52,460 --> 00:31:54,340
And she was asked by their little guide over there.

615
00:31:54,380 --> 00:31:55,600
He said, hey, can you do me a favor?

616
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,240
And he said, you really like talking about the cross a whole lot.

617
00:31:58,400 --> 00:31:59,920
And, you know, that's just a real gory subject.

618
00:32:00,180 --> 00:32:01,820
And we don't like to think about it.

619
00:32:01,820 --> 00:32:02,860
We don't like to talk about that.

620
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:04,360
That kind of depresses people.

621
00:32:04,420 --> 00:32:06,820
And she said, oh, he was so sincere.

622
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,800
And he wasn't being mean or ugly or nothing.

623
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:18,960
And she just took his hand and said, son, she said, if you won't tell the folks that organize this, that you ask me that, I won't either.

624
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:21,280
Because I tell you right now, I'm going to talk about the cross.

625
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:23,060
Because without the cross, we don't have salvation.

626
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:24,460
Without that, we got nothing.

627
00:32:24,620 --> 00:32:27,640
I mean, that's what led her to write the song.

628
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,760
I will glory in the cross because nothing I've done means anything.

629
00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,880
And again, echoing the words of Paul, it's not me.

630
00:32:33,940 --> 00:32:35,620
It's Christ in me that does all of this.

631
00:32:36,260 --> 00:32:39,040
And we've lost our way in that in modern.

632
00:32:39,860 --> 00:32:42,760
The American church, I'm afraid, is losing our way in that.

633
00:32:42,820 --> 00:32:43,880
And we've got to get back to it.

634
00:32:44,000 --> 00:32:44,300
That's right.

635
00:32:44,620 --> 00:32:44,760
Yeah.

636
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:45,220
Yeah.

637
00:32:45,290 --> 00:32:45,400
Yeah.

638
00:32:45,900 --> 00:32:46,100
Amen.

639
00:32:46,580 --> 00:32:46,680
Amen.

640
00:32:46,940 --> 00:32:53,858
So in chapter one, we see the church in this chapter and they're described as the four and

641
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:59,780
20 elders, which really represents Old and New Testament saints, you know, this coming

642
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:07,460
together, those who believed in faith, Hebrews chapter 11, and then the church who is there.

643
00:33:08,300 --> 00:33:11,880
We see all those people gathered around in the same place there.

644
00:33:13,679 --> 00:33:18,100
And what a wonderful picture it is of Jesus in heaven.

645
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:22,060
So verse 1, you want to read verse 1?

646
00:33:22,240 --> 00:33:22,320
Yeah.

647
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:22,740
Yeah.

648
00:33:23,180 --> 00:33:27,680
It says, after these things, I looked and behold, a door standing open in heaven.

649
00:33:28,320 --> 00:33:36,320
And the first voice, which I had heard, like the sound of a trumpet speaking with me, said, come up here and I will show you what must take place after these things.

650
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:38,240
You don't hit two, two.

651
00:33:38,640 --> 00:33:38,740
Sure.

652
00:33:39,300 --> 00:33:44,860
Immediately, I was in the spirit and behold, a throne was standing in heaven and one sitting on the throne.

653
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:45,640
Yeah.

654
00:33:46,160 --> 00:33:46,240
Wow.

655
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:55,440
You know, John, who wrote this, he tries his level best to describe this stuff.

656
00:33:56,080 --> 00:34:00,980
But you got to know that he's just scraping the words.

657
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:03,800
How do you describe something like this?

658
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:07,380
He's really the only one that ever really describes it.

659
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:17,480
And this is why another thing that I don't get into is these movies about people dying and going to heaven.

660
00:34:17,500 --> 00:34:22,760
And I know people, I don't want to discount anybody's experience or that they say they may have had.

661
00:34:23,720 --> 00:34:29,540
But when I look at Paul, when he talks about going into the third heaven,

662
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:34,100
and he says that basically it's just too much to describe.

663
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:36,899
He can't put it into words.

664
00:34:37,139 --> 00:34:56,639
And if Paul, who never had a lack for words, I mean, preached until somebody fell out of the window, cannot describe what heaven is like or what he saw there, then do I think that some little boy or some person is going to come back and start telling somebody his grandpa and what Jesus looked like and all this stuff?

665
00:34:56,720 --> 00:34:58,280
I just have a hard time.

666
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:10,420
I have a hard time believing that and buying into that when, you know, when it's such a like I said, he gave it to John to reveal to us to put it in his word.

667
00:35:10,540 --> 00:35:13,740
But, you know, that that's this is the account that I believe.

668
00:35:14,140 --> 00:35:17,240
But, yeah, but man, we have to be careful.

669
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:17,940
We do.

670
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:26,720
And you can tell by the way John describes things and by the way he says stuff, he's, like you say, he's just grasping for words.

671
00:35:27,060 --> 00:35:27,240
Yeah.

672
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,880
I mean, it's obvious when you read this, just the way it's all worded.

673
00:35:30,900 --> 00:35:34,420
It's like, it was like this, and it was like this.

674
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,900
And he's like, how do I impart what I saw?

675
00:35:38,100 --> 00:35:43,020
And it's like he's just grasping for some descriptive phrase, and words are failing him.

676
00:35:43,060 --> 00:35:49,020
Yeah, and God in his wisdom gives him pictures, you know, different symbols and different things.

677
00:35:49,490 --> 00:35:50,080
Make it timeless.

678
00:35:50,340 --> 00:35:50,660
That's right.

679
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:55,420
So that when he sees certain things and describes those things, we can kind of pick up on that.

680
00:35:55,540 --> 00:35:58,080
Well, that's back in Daniel, too, or, you know, that kind of thing.

681
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:03,020
But, man, when he starts in this chapter 4, he's just seeing things that are just, whoa.

682
00:36:03,020 --> 00:36:03,800
He really is.

683
00:36:04,290 --> 00:36:10,220
And I love the way that we got to pay attention to some of the words here, like the beginning of verse 1 after this.

684
00:36:11,580 --> 00:36:21,640
Those two words, we need to pay attention to them because they give us an idea that after chapter three, all these things unfold.

685
00:36:22,100 --> 00:36:25,660
We read chapter three, and then he says, after this.

686
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:29,800
It's another strong piece of evidence that we won't go through the tribulation.

687
00:36:30,890 --> 00:36:32,600
And then he says, I saw.

688
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:41,240
So we know that this is not just something that John heard with his ears, but something that he saw with his eyes.

689
00:36:41,380 --> 00:36:47,100
Yeah. And then and then he gives that phrase, behold, a door was open.

690
00:36:47,700 --> 00:36:53,040
This is one of four doors to be open in the book of Revelation, four different doors that were open.

691
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:56,720
Chapter three, verse eight, he's speaking to the church of Philadelphia.

692
00:36:56,810 --> 00:36:59,100
He says, I've set before you an open door.

693
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:03,340
This was a door of opportunity to spread the word of God.

694
00:37:04,300 --> 00:37:06,740
Chapter three and verse 20. Behold, I stand at the door.

695
00:37:06,900 --> 00:37:08,640
Knock. This was a door to your heart.

696
00:37:08,700 --> 00:37:09,880
He knocks on our heart's door.

697
00:37:10,340 --> 00:37:14,640
That's not just a church phrase that we use, but that's actually a biblical phrase.

698
00:37:14,980 --> 00:37:18,100
You know, I think sometimes we might do a poor job explaining that.

699
00:37:18,300 --> 00:37:21,520
And sometimes kids are like, what do you mean you're knocking on my heart's door?

700
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:28,660
But here and then here in this verse of chapter four, we see a door, which is the way to God through Christ.

701
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:33,880
And then the fourth door that we'll see open is in chapter 19, verse 11.

702
00:37:33,960 --> 00:37:40,480
And we see the door that Christ will step out of at his second coming at the end of the great tribulation.

703
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:48,660
But this door opened and mentioned here is a door that's always been open since he died for our sins, right?

704
00:37:48,770 --> 00:37:49,720
I mean, it really has.

705
00:37:50,330 --> 00:37:52,860
And he's given us the invitation to walk through it.

706
00:37:53,260 --> 00:37:55,580
And we enter in that door by faith.

707
00:37:56,460 --> 00:38:00,060
John 14, 6, Jesus said to them, I'm the way, the truth, and the life.

708
00:38:00,500 --> 00:38:02,860
No man comes to the Father but by me.

709
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:05,880
John 10, 9, I'm the door by me.

710
00:38:06,040 --> 00:38:10,800
If any man enter, he shall be saved and shall go in and out and find pastor.

711
00:38:12,240 --> 00:38:15,640
So you see those things that he is the door.

712
00:38:15,820 --> 00:38:16,700
He is the only way.

713
00:38:17,860 --> 00:38:19,220
Oprah can't get you there.

714
00:38:21,660 --> 00:38:23,680
Being a good person can't get you there.

715
00:38:23,780 --> 00:38:25,220
Attending church can't get you there.

716
00:38:25,540 --> 00:38:27,140
I don't care if your name's on the church roll.

717
00:38:27,140 --> 00:38:28,400
I don't care if you take up the offering.

718
00:38:28,580 --> 00:38:32,440
I don't care if you're a deacon or the preacher, the pastor in the pulpit.

719
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:34,100
That's not what gets you to heaven.

720
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:35,560
No, it ain't being a good person, is it?

721
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:35,860
No.

722
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:36,640
We can't be good enough.

723
00:38:36,870 --> 00:38:36,960
No.

724
00:38:37,050 --> 00:38:38,700
We can never overcome the bad.

725
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:39,100
That's right.

726
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:43,140
And going a little bit back to that, because he describes it.

727
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:44,660
This stuff's in the future.

728
00:38:45,190 --> 00:38:50,220
And what we read in chapter 1, verse 19, therefore, write the things which you have seen, which

729
00:38:50,759 --> 00:38:55,160
the description of Jesus there in chapter 1, the things which are, which is talking about

730
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:59,540
the churches, and the things which shall take place after these things, which starts in chapter

731
00:38:59,800 --> 00:38:59,960
4.

732
00:39:00,140 --> 00:39:00,280
Yeah.

733
00:39:00,610 --> 00:39:00,700
Yeah.

734
00:39:00,720 --> 00:39:02,860
So this is all future stuff.

735
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:04,120
Make no mistake about it.

736
00:39:04,540 --> 00:39:06,180
He's divided it up into three parts.

737
00:39:06,460 --> 00:39:06,720
Absolutely.

738
00:39:07,220 --> 00:39:07,640
Absolutely.

739
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:08,300
Yes.

740
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:09,140
Praise the Lord.

741
00:39:09,980 --> 00:39:13,660
And then he says a trumpet speaking to me.

742
00:39:14,020 --> 00:39:14,100
Yeah.

743
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,820
And, of course, we know that that's symbolic of what?

744
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:18,520
The voice of Jesus, right?

745
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:27,000
I mean, that's the voice of Jesus himself calling us home, rapturing us out just as it speaks in 1 Thessalonians 4.

746
00:39:28,500 --> 00:39:32,320
So he's one day going to call us up and it's going to be like a trumpet, right?

747
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:33,680
Like the voice of a trumpet.

748
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:36,280
Man, what a wonderful thing.

749
00:39:36,570 --> 00:39:38,400
And then, of course, here's the invitation.

750
00:39:38,980 --> 00:39:39,460
Come up hither.

751
00:39:40,340 --> 00:39:41,800
That's when he calls us up.

752
00:39:42,400 --> 00:39:43,080
We can't stay.

753
00:39:43,460 --> 00:39:44,240
We can't stay where we are.

754
00:39:44,250 --> 00:39:45,180
I mean, look at Lazarus.

755
00:39:46,199 --> 00:39:48,760
Lazarus, I remember watching, and I may have mentioned this on here before,

756
00:39:48,850 --> 00:39:54,600
but I remember watching one of those movies about Jesus, you know,

757
00:39:54,660 --> 00:39:58,700
that were pretty decent about the life of Jesus.

758
00:39:59,050 --> 00:40:03,780
And the miracle came up when he brought Lazarus from the dead.

759
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:12,780
And we see in that picture, they give us a picture there of Lazarus kind of walking out of the tomb.

760
00:40:14,460 --> 00:40:16,300
I don't believe he walked out of the tomb.

761
00:40:16,390 --> 00:40:18,020
I believe he floated out of the tomb.

762
00:40:18,020 --> 00:40:23,260
I mean, when he said, Lazarus, come forth, there was nothing that he could do but just bust out.

763
00:40:23,660 --> 00:40:25,780
You know, I mean, I believe he just he came out.

764
00:40:25,800 --> 00:40:28,160
He came back to life because there he was.

765
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:32,480
He was bound in all this, you know, modified and all this stuff.

766
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:35,460
And he just he came back to life.

767
00:40:35,560 --> 00:40:35,640
Right.

768
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,680
I mean, he didn't come out of the tomb on his own.

769
00:40:39,180 --> 00:40:43,480
Jesus called him to life and he could not stay dead when Jesus said live.

770
00:40:43,740 --> 00:40:43,880
Amen.

771
00:40:44,140 --> 00:40:44,760
Because he has the power.

772
00:40:44,980 --> 00:40:46,140
I've always wondered about that.

773
00:40:46,240 --> 00:40:47,500
It's like twinkle toe and out there.

774
00:40:48,340 --> 00:40:49,420
Legs were bound up, you know.

775
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:52,800
Somebody get me out of this thing.

776
00:40:53,540 --> 00:41:00,500
what's going on yeah man he was fully alive yeah fully absolutely as a lot he had ever been before

777
00:41:00,740 --> 00:41:06,360
yeah yeah in his life you know and and i can't imagine being the folks living in in uh jerusalem

778
00:41:06,480 --> 00:41:13,700
and judea during that time because you've just seen you know within within a few years you see

779
00:41:14,280 --> 00:41:19,400
lazarus gets raised from the dead you know he's been dead over three days i mean the bible made a

780
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:23,940
really, really strong point about that, that Christ waited until three days had passed before he even

781
00:41:24,050 --> 00:41:30,160
went to have a conversation with them. And that had to be killing him because these were his

782
00:41:30,460 --> 00:41:34,660
friends. These are people he cared about. And that had to be just heartbreaking for him to be like,

783
00:41:34,820 --> 00:41:38,980
I can't go yet because people are going to question it. I have to wait. I have to wait.

784
00:41:38,990 --> 00:41:42,760
And poor Mary and Martha are sitting there going, if you'd have just showed up, if you'd have just

785
00:41:42,860 --> 00:41:47,300
been here a few days. Oh, goodness. If you'd just been here a little bit quicker and he said, hang

786
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:52,200
on guys yeah i'm not done yet just calm down yeah wait until you see what i've got in store and then

787
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:56,240
he walks out there and says lazarus all right come out and here he comes and everybody's going

788
00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:01,660
wait he he's in there for like four days what's he doing no no this ain't gonna work i think that's

789
00:42:01,660 --> 00:42:07,680
where he said i'm the resurrection exactly and then and then you have it again he dies on the cross

790
00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:13,280
and then the morning he comes up all of a sudden other graves are busting open and people are

791
00:42:13,260 --> 00:42:18,880
walking around yeah there's so much power he has so much power over life that that that when he

792
00:42:19,100 --> 00:42:23,900
comes to life that everybody else can't help around him but come to life too and i don't and by the

793
00:42:23,900 --> 00:42:30,780
way i i am the bible doesn't say but i am convinced that it wasn't even a thing of like oh this is

794
00:42:30,940 --> 00:42:35,120
somebody who you know died the day before a couple i think this was people who've been dead some of

795
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:39,580
them years probably i'm sure and those they start they come busting out of them graves and people

796
00:42:39,600 --> 00:42:43,120
going, we had your funeral like two years ago.

797
00:42:43,270 --> 00:42:44,640
Some of the saints walking around.

798
00:42:44,980 --> 00:42:45,360
Oh, yeah.

799
00:42:45,600 --> 00:42:46,100
That's what you say.

800
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:50,500
But going back to the Lazarus thing for just a moment, you know, we also see in there what

801
00:42:50,530 --> 00:42:53,100
the shortest verse in the Bible, you know, Jesus said.

802
00:42:53,700 --> 00:42:55,260
Why do you think he was crying?

803
00:42:55,420 --> 00:42:57,140
You know, we look at it a lot of times.

804
00:42:57,190 --> 00:43:00,820
We say, well, he was crying because that was his best friend or one of his great good friends.

805
00:43:01,180 --> 00:43:05,960
Was he crying because of that or was he crying because of their unbelief that he could actually

806
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:06,660
do something?

807
00:43:06,860 --> 00:43:07,980
You know, I wonder about that sometimes.

808
00:43:08,420 --> 00:43:12,860
I'm not saying either way because either answer could be right or both.

809
00:43:13,380 --> 00:43:14,380
I certainly say it's probably both.

810
00:43:14,740 --> 00:43:14,820
Yeah.

811
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:19,480
It's probably, I mean, because he was fully manned, so he's feeling the hurt of his friend dying.

812
00:43:19,720 --> 00:43:19,800
Yeah.

813
00:43:19,980 --> 00:43:25,660
And then the rejection of people that he loved thinking, well, if he had just been here, he could have done something.

814
00:43:25,740 --> 00:43:27,100
He's like, you think so little of me?

815
00:43:27,300 --> 00:43:27,420
Yeah.

816
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:33,240
I've kind of thought of it in a sense of, you know, when somebody else is broken, you cry with them.

817
00:43:33,500 --> 00:43:33,600
Yeah.

818
00:43:34,260 --> 00:43:35,740
That Mary and Martha were broken.

819
00:43:35,760 --> 00:43:36,540
Yeah, he was.

820
00:43:36,720 --> 00:43:37,960
Passion just overwhelmed him.

821
00:43:38,020 --> 00:43:38,100
Yeah.

822
00:43:38,360 --> 00:43:38,480
Yeah.

823
00:43:39,320 --> 00:43:39,400
Yeah.

824
00:43:40,300 --> 00:43:44,860
And hey, I'm going to tell you something that to me, all the goodness.

825
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,540
You want to know you want proof that he was 100 percent human.

826
00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:51,880
That one verse.

827
00:43:51,980 --> 00:43:52,360
Oh, yeah.

828
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:52,780
Yeah.

829
00:43:53,140 --> 00:43:55,320
He's overlooking it and he starts crying.

830
00:43:55,700 --> 00:43:55,840
Yeah.

831
00:43:56,540 --> 00:44:02,240
I mean, I'm not saying that God doesn't weep, but it's not the same as when you see a person.

832
00:44:02,800 --> 00:44:02,880
Yeah.

833
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:03,380
Yeah.

834
00:44:03,820 --> 00:44:04,920
Because we can't see God.

835
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:05,880
We can't see that.

836
00:44:05,940 --> 00:44:08,820
But they saw Jesus crying.

837
00:44:09,290 --> 00:44:12,400
And that had to be something for his disciples.

838
00:44:12,530 --> 00:44:15,880
The Bible tells us that he felt things that we feel.

839
00:44:15,890 --> 00:44:17,040
He felt emotion.

840
00:44:17,820 --> 00:44:19,620
He felt the temptation of sin.

841
00:44:19,630 --> 00:44:20,460
He never sinned.

842
00:44:20,530 --> 00:44:22,920
He was sinless, but he felt the temptation of sin.

843
00:44:23,290 --> 00:44:24,540
He knew what that was like.

844
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:32,620
And because he was able to overcome all those things, then we can overcome all those things.

845
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:41,820
But we move down into verse 2 that you read, and we notice the word immediately, which is one of the characteristics of the rapture.

846
00:44:41,930 --> 00:44:43,700
When it happens, it'll happen fast.

847
00:44:44,020 --> 00:44:46,040
Yeah, twinkling of an eye, right?

848
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:46,720
Yeah.

849
00:44:47,270 --> 00:44:50,560
And then John says, I found myself in the Spirit.

850
00:44:50,740 --> 00:44:55,180
The Holy Spirit was revealing to John all that he was seeing.

851
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:58,200
The Holy Spirit was leading John in truth.

852
00:44:59,260 --> 00:45:00,800
John 16, verse 13.

853
00:45:01,000 --> 00:45:06,680
And how be it when he, the spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth.

854
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:12,240
For he shall not speak of himself, but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak.

855
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:14,220
And he shall show you things to come.

856
00:45:14,620 --> 00:45:18,080
So I think John is being led by the spirit of God there.

857
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:24,860
And then behold, a throne set in heaven and one sitting on the throne.

858
00:45:24,980 --> 00:45:28,620
Of course, this gives the picture of the sovereignty of God, the almighty God.

859
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:29,360
He is ruler.

860
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:30,320
He is in control.

861
00:45:31,340 --> 00:45:39,040
Psalms 11 4 says the Lord is in in his holy temple the Lord's throne is in heaven his eyes behold his

862
00:45:39,240 --> 00:45:46,380
eyelids try the children of men God reigneth over the heathen God sitteth upon the throne of his

863
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:53,000
holiness Psalms 47 8 clouds and darkness are around about him righteousness and judgment are the

864
00:45:53,260 --> 00:45:59,540
habitation of his throne Psalms 97 2 and then in Psalms 103 verse 19 the Lord hath prepared

865
00:45:59,980 --> 00:46:05,980
this throne in the heavens and his kingdom rule rule with overall uh and then we get another one

866
00:46:05,980 --> 00:46:13,120
in ezekiel chapter 1 verse 26 and 27 and above the firmament that was over their heads was like

867
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:18,580
it was a likeness of a throne and an appearance of sapphire and upon the likeness of the throne

868
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:27,120
was the likeness of the appearance of a man above opponent and i saw as john says as the color of

869
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:33,140
the amber as the appearance of fire round about within it from the appearance of his loins even

870
00:46:33,340 --> 00:46:38,000
upward and from the appearance of his loins even downward i saw it were the appearance of fire

871
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:44,620
and it had a brightness round about it i love how the bible just gosh it just threads together and

872
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:51,240
just this proves this and this proves this you know i love it i love it yeah um

873
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:55,740
the Lord Jesus sits at the right hand, right?

874
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:58,060
Hebrews chapter one, verse three,

875
00:46:58,150 --> 00:46:59,280
the brightness of his glory,

876
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:01,020
the express image of person,

877
00:47:01,360 --> 00:47:02,880
upholding things by the word of power.

878
00:47:03,020 --> 00:47:04,680
He himself purges our sins

879
00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:06,980
and sat down at the right hand of the majesty.

880
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:08,280
Hebrews 12, two,

881
00:47:08,820 --> 00:47:09,680
looking unto Jesus,

882
00:47:09,830 --> 00:47:11,400
the author and finisher of our faith,

883
00:47:11,780 --> 00:47:13,880
who for the joy that was set before him

884
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:14,820
endured the cross,

885
00:47:14,940 --> 00:47:15,800
despising the shame

886
00:47:16,210 --> 00:47:17,760
and sat down at the right hand of the throne.

887
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:19,920
I love how it gives those actions.

888
00:47:20,220 --> 00:47:21,020
He done this.

889
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:22,680
He got this, and then he sat down.

890
00:47:22,740 --> 00:47:23,200
He sat down.

891
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:23,960
He said, I'm finished.

892
00:47:24,400 --> 00:47:26,520
I've done this thing.

893
00:47:26,780 --> 00:47:26,920
Amen.

894
00:47:27,380 --> 00:47:27,520
Yeah.

895
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:28,340
Amen.

896
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:34,000
And we could go into, I don't want to take up too much time because I've got so much here.

897
00:47:34,140 --> 00:47:38,620
But anyway, verse number three.

898
00:47:39,140 --> 00:47:40,320
Verse number three, yeah.

899
00:47:40,720 --> 00:47:45,820
And it says, and he who was sitting was like a jasper stone and sardius in appearance.

900
00:47:46,420 --> 00:47:49,500
And there was a rainbow around the throne, like an emerald in appearance.

901
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:54,600
And I love, you know, the verse you just read said, well, you said sapphire, I think.

902
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:58,720
But this emerald, this emerald, the emerald's green, like this most beautiful green.

903
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:04,740
And when I think about this throne, and I just try to picture this in my mind as feeble as I am to do that.

904
00:48:04,780 --> 00:48:06,200
I have a lot of trouble with that.

905
00:48:06,860 --> 00:48:12,200
But you see this emerald rainbow around the throne, and it just makes me think of life.

906
00:48:12,660 --> 00:48:16,200
You know, winter, everything's dead, no green, nothing anywhere.

907
00:48:16,380 --> 00:48:18,480
In the spring, everything just turns green in life.

908
00:48:19,460 --> 00:48:21,060
He's full of life like that.

909
00:48:21,140 --> 00:48:21,560
Yeah, he is.

910
00:48:21,720 --> 00:48:23,000
He's the author of life.

911
00:48:23,160 --> 00:48:23,480
Isn't he?

912
00:48:23,720 --> 00:48:24,800
And all the life's in him.

913
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:30,600
But it's interesting, too, that he uses these stones to describe him.

914
00:48:31,100 --> 00:48:34,160
And I discovered something interesting, that these stones,

915
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:38,980
these same stones are related to the breastplate of the high priest.

916
00:48:39,220 --> 00:48:39,300
Yeah.

917
00:48:39,760 --> 00:48:39,940
Right?

918
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:45,960
The jasper was related to the first tribe of Israel, which is Reuben,

919
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:46,920
who's the firstborn.

920
00:48:47,140 --> 00:48:47,220
Yeah.

921
00:48:49,220 --> 00:48:53,160
The carnelian or what does it say my version had?

922
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:54,240
Sardin.

923
00:48:54,640 --> 00:48:55,040
Sardius.

924
00:48:55,700 --> 00:49:00,380
Sardius was the last stone of the breastplate, which related to Benjamin, the youngest.

925
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:00,940
Yeah.

926
00:49:01,180 --> 00:49:02,300
So it's the first and last.

927
00:49:02,740 --> 00:49:02,920
Yeah.

928
00:49:04,140 --> 00:49:04,680
That's right.

929
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:05,760
I'm Alpha and Omega.

930
00:49:06,040 --> 00:49:06,960
I'm the first and the last.

931
00:49:07,360 --> 00:49:07,860
Isn't that awesome?

932
00:49:07,940 --> 00:49:08,820
And that's good stuff.

933
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:09,600
That's good stuff.

934
00:49:10,140 --> 00:49:11,900
This stuff just comes together, man.

935
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:12,380
It does.

936
00:49:12,600 --> 00:49:13,860
It's just all interwoven.

937
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:20,300
And you can go back to that Jasper stone in Exodus 28, 20, and it talks about it, I think, a little bit there, the breastplate.

938
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:20,820
So, yeah.

939
00:49:21,040 --> 00:49:21,220
Yeah.

940
00:49:21,380 --> 00:49:21,920
Good stuff.

941
00:49:22,100 --> 00:49:22,360
Good stuff.

942
00:49:22,580 --> 00:49:26,180
Christ is the Son of God and the firstborn from the dead.

943
00:49:26,390 --> 00:49:26,480
Amen.

944
00:49:26,680 --> 00:49:26,880
Amen.

945
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:28,280
He's the first and the last.

946
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:28,880
Amen.

947
00:49:29,340 --> 00:49:29,960
That's good stuff.

948
00:49:30,250 --> 00:49:30,960
And then the rainbow.

949
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:32,160
Yeah.

950
00:49:32,270 --> 00:49:36,280
The Greek word is iris, which can also mean halo.

951
00:49:36,720 --> 00:49:46,060
Only the green is shown in this rainbow here, most likely reminding that it's a time also of giving of life,

952
00:49:46,110 --> 00:49:52,420
but judgment also that the earth would not be destroyed by water this time, just as God had promised.

953
00:49:52,610 --> 00:49:56,480
Right. And he's it's going to be a different, different thing here.

954
00:49:56,620 --> 00:50:01,780
Ezekiel 128 says, as the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain,

955
00:50:01,890 --> 00:50:04,100
so was the appearance of the brightness roundabout.

956
00:50:04,340 --> 00:50:07,080
This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.

957
00:50:07,540 --> 00:50:12,140
And when I saw it, I fell on my face and I heard the voice of one that spake.

958
00:50:12,260 --> 00:50:19,240
Boy, hasn't the rainbow been torn to pieces by the world that we live in?

959
00:50:19,280 --> 00:50:20,200
Project, right?

960
00:50:20,380 --> 00:50:20,660
Yes.

961
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:21,020
Yeah.

962
00:50:21,500 --> 00:50:21,900
It's awful.

963
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:22,740
It is.

964
00:50:22,980 --> 00:50:28,280
It's a terrible, terrible thing that we have took something that was a promise to us for life.

965
00:50:28,500 --> 00:50:32,400
That was a promise to us that he would not destroy the earth in that way again.

966
00:50:32,980 --> 00:50:37,220
something beautiful, something that we love to take pictures of, right?

967
00:50:37,270 --> 00:50:40,000
And we've got a couple of pictures, or I haven't,

968
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:44,840
but there's been a couple of people who's took some pictures of the rainbow over our church here.

969
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:46,800
Beautiful, beautiful pictures.

970
00:50:49,420 --> 00:50:51,040
On this hill, you can get some sunsets.

971
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:52,180
Oh, yeah.

972
00:50:52,520 --> 00:50:54,700
Man, gosh, some pretty pictures right here.

973
00:50:55,420 --> 00:50:57,320
I don't know if you guys have ever thought about this,

974
00:50:57,660 --> 00:51:02,219
but those first two stones, the Jasper and the Carnelian or the Sardis stone

975
00:51:02,240 --> 00:51:05,580
or the ruby, depending on the version that you look at.

976
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:07,940
Both of those are red stones.

977
00:51:09,900 --> 00:51:13,440
Jasper is an imperfect version of,

978
00:51:14,100 --> 00:51:15,920
it's a form of silica is what it is.

979
00:51:15,950 --> 00:51:18,340
So it has kind of a hazy, it's not real lustrous,

980
00:51:19,640 --> 00:51:20,780
but compare that to a ruby.

981
00:51:21,050 --> 00:51:24,420
So he starts out with a stone that is red,

982
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:27,040
kind of like blood, but it's a red stone.

983
00:51:27,450 --> 00:51:30,260
And then it's a perfect red stone.

984
00:51:31,400 --> 00:51:33,620
And then you have this perfect green, the emerald,

985
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:36,940
or the halo around it, the rainbow.

986
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:40,360
And I'm sitting there going, oh, yeah, the beginning and the end,

987
00:51:40,480 --> 00:51:44,000
the beginning of it where things are not – that's our faith right there.

988
00:51:44,060 --> 00:51:47,000
It's not perfect yet, but the end of it, he's going to perfect it.

989
00:51:47,060 --> 00:51:48,400
He's going to make it something beautiful.

990
00:51:49,060 --> 00:51:50,580
Hey, I've got a question about this one.

991
00:51:52,420 --> 00:51:54,640
Let's see if anybody has any idea.

992
00:51:54,940 --> 00:51:56,620
It's just a rainbow around the throne.

993
00:51:57,920 --> 00:51:59,100
Is it a horizontal rainbow?

994
00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:00,860
Maybe it could be.

995
00:52:01,100 --> 00:52:01,520
It could be.

996
00:52:01,650 --> 00:52:03,200
I guess it could still be that way, right?

997
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:06,380
But around it just makes me think it's, you know.

998
00:52:06,480 --> 00:52:08,500
It's just surrounding the throne of God.

999
00:52:08,980 --> 00:52:09,260
Yeah.

1000
00:52:09,540 --> 00:52:09,660
Yeah.

1001
00:52:10,140 --> 00:52:16,900
Yeah, I don't know how it's covered, but I bet it's the most beautiful rainbow that we'll ever see.

1002
00:52:17,400 --> 00:52:19,720
And we'll be able to look at it with perfect eyes, too.

1003
00:52:19,820 --> 00:52:19,980
Yeah.

1004
00:52:20,080 --> 00:52:20,280
Yeah.

1005
00:52:20,450 --> 00:52:20,540
Yeah.

1006
00:52:20,780 --> 00:52:21,860
Don't need these things anymore.

1007
00:52:22,020 --> 00:52:22,160
No.

1008
00:52:22,540 --> 00:52:22,700
No.

1009
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:25,280
I don't want to be blinded by this.

1010
00:52:27,940 --> 00:52:39,680
Verse 4, and round about the throne were four and twenty seats, and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting clothed in white raiment, and they had on their heads a crown of gold.

1011
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:42,740
So there's this representation there.

1012
00:52:43,210 --> 00:52:48,500
I mean, some say that they believe 12 of them represent believers from the 12 tribes of Israel,

1013
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:58,160
and 12 of them represents believers under the 12 apostles, which could represent the old and the new.

1014
00:52:58,420 --> 00:53:01,360
But it's a picture of the church in heaven is what it is.

1015
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:03,080
That's what I believe.

1016
00:53:03,620 --> 00:53:05,340
This is us in heaven.

1017
00:53:05,580 --> 00:53:07,120
That's the representation there.

1018
00:53:07,500 --> 00:53:17,560
Yeah, I've always wondered, just kind of looking at it on the surface, if like 12 of them might have represented like the Israel Old Testament and 12 the New.

1019
00:53:18,100 --> 00:53:21,280
Because we see that later in Revelation with the New Jerusalem.

1020
00:53:21,460 --> 00:53:26,660
Like the foundation is these 12 stones of the apostles and 12 gates or the 12 tribes.

1021
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:31,240
But it don't really line up that way because you look at they're clothed in white garments.

1022
00:53:32,460 --> 00:53:34,800
So that means they're saved by the blood of the Lamb.

1023
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:36,820
Right, yeah, yeah, that's right.

1024
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:40,800
So we know that this is a picture of the church,

1025
00:53:41,040 --> 00:53:43,480
so probably it might not be the old, like I said,

1026
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:45,260
the old 12 tribes of Israel.

1027
00:53:45,410 --> 00:53:45,780
I don't know.

1028
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:47,620
Yeah, that kind of comes later, don't it?

1029
00:53:47,700 --> 00:53:48,860
Yeah, yeah, it does.

1030
00:53:49,140 --> 00:53:49,440
It does.

1031
00:53:50,760 --> 00:53:52,360
But white raiment, what is white raiment?

1032
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:54,000
It's the righteousness of Christ, isn't it?

1033
00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:56,480
Yeah, that's the robe that we put on at the wedding feast,

1034
00:53:56,720 --> 00:53:58,320
the parable that Jesus told,

1035
00:53:59,140 --> 00:54:01,100
that you don't go to the wedding feast without your white robe,

1036
00:54:01,150 --> 00:54:02,040
and that's his righteousness.

1037
00:54:02,380 --> 00:54:03,140
It's not our righteousness.

1038
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:04,840
It's covering us.

1039
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:05,340
That's right.

1040
00:54:05,600 --> 00:54:05,860
That's right.

1041
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:07,540
And ours is filthy rags, right?

1042
00:54:07,970 --> 00:54:09,360
2 Corinthians 5, 21,

1043
00:54:09,620 --> 00:54:12,700
For he that made him to be sin for us who knew no sin,

1044
00:54:13,010 --> 00:54:18,160
that we might be made the righteousness of God in him,

1045
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:19,740
only through him.

1046
00:54:19,890 --> 00:54:20,640
Yeah, amen.

1047
00:54:22,620 --> 00:54:23,500
Crowns of gold.

1048
00:54:24,460 --> 00:54:26,840
The church will rule with Christ.

1049
00:54:27,180 --> 00:54:31,140
You know, that's the position of the church.

1050
00:54:33,500 --> 00:54:34,760
1 Corinthians 6, 3,

1051
00:54:35,500 --> 00:54:37,440
Know ye not that we shall judge the angels?

1052
00:54:37,980 --> 00:54:41,740
How much more things that pertain to this life, right?

1053
00:54:43,380 --> 00:54:48,480
So we've got a high position with Jesus Christ here

1054
00:54:48,660 --> 00:54:50,560
that he's made us kings and priests, right?

1055
00:54:50,980 --> 00:54:55,980
That we're going to rule and reign with him, which we see later on.

1056
00:54:58,940 --> 00:55:00,900
And that's not something to go to our heads.

1057
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:02,920
It's not something to have pride with,

1058
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:10,600
But that's the position that we have with Jesus Christ because we are the bride of Christ and we have become royalty, right?

1059
00:55:10,720 --> 00:55:13,080
We become the family of God when we are saved.

1060
00:55:13,140 --> 00:55:13,300
Amen.

1061
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:13,640
Yeah.

1062
00:55:15,660 --> 00:55:15,980
I'm ready.

1063
00:55:16,380 --> 00:55:16,880
Good stuff.

1064
00:55:17,000 --> 00:55:17,340
Me too.

1065
00:55:18,180 --> 00:55:18,460
Me too.

1066
00:55:20,460 --> 00:55:27,640
It also represents, of course, those crowns of gold rewards that are given at the judgment seat of Christ.

1067
00:55:28,980 --> 00:55:30,700
In 2 Timothy 4, 8,

1068
00:55:41,300 --> 00:55:42,280
James 1, 12,

1069
00:55:42,640 --> 00:55:44,240
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation,

1070
00:55:44,630 --> 00:55:47,640
for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life,

1071
00:55:47,780 --> 00:55:51,020
which is the Lord, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

1072
00:55:51,720 --> 00:55:54,480
And then 1 Peter 5, 4,

1073
00:55:55,160 --> 00:56:00,960
And when the chief shepherd shall appear, you shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away.

1074
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:05,740
So there's a reward coming to those who are following Christ.

1075
00:56:05,820 --> 00:56:07,060
It's a victor's crown, right?

1076
00:56:07,180 --> 00:56:07,460
It is.

1077
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:08,560
We've overcome.

1078
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:09,140
Yeah.

1079
00:56:09,520 --> 00:56:09,640
Yeah.

1080
00:56:11,340 --> 00:56:11,780
Excuse me.

1081
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:12,200
What do you mean?

1082
00:56:13,580 --> 00:56:14,060
Five.

1083
00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:14,600
All right.

1084
00:56:14,740 --> 00:56:14,860
Five.

1085
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:19,700
Out of the throne come flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder.

1086
00:56:20,460 --> 00:56:24,960
And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God.

1087
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:29,320
So I read this, and I automatically go back to Exodus.

1088
00:56:30,260 --> 00:56:30,320
Yeah.

1089
00:56:30,980 --> 00:56:34,640
When God's on Mount Sinai, and you see kind of the same things.

1090
00:56:34,820 --> 00:56:35,940
Yeah, yeah, that's right.

1091
00:56:36,100 --> 00:56:38,020
And they were scared to death to even approach you.

1092
00:56:38,180 --> 00:56:38,600
Yeah.

1093
00:56:40,279 --> 00:56:41,280
Make it stop.

1094
00:56:41,480 --> 00:56:41,960
Make it stop.

1095
00:56:42,300 --> 00:56:42,420
Yeah.

1096
00:56:43,019 --> 00:56:43,500
Uh-uh.

1097
00:56:44,359 --> 00:56:46,920
The power and the holiness that's got to be there,

1098
00:56:47,140 --> 00:56:49,420
and John is just face-to-face with it now.

1099
00:56:49,720 --> 00:56:50,200
It's like, man.

1100
00:56:50,440 --> 00:56:52,460
Yeah, and they see in this stuff, and it's like,

1101
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:56,760
We know that the lightnings and thunderings, they represent judgment is coming, right?

1102
00:56:56,960 --> 00:56:59,520
And then, of course, the voice.

1103
00:57:01,300 --> 00:57:05,080
Not only is judgment coming, but it tells us where the judgment's coming from.

1104
00:57:05,240 --> 00:57:06,140
It's coming from the throne.

1105
00:57:06,260 --> 00:57:06,380
Amen.

1106
00:57:06,860 --> 00:57:08,500
From the throne of God.

1107
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:09,120
Yeah.

1108
00:57:09,940 --> 00:57:19,680
And then seven spirits that we see are, of course, the seven characteristics or the attributes of the Holy Spirit.

1109
00:57:20,140 --> 00:57:22,660
Yeah, and this is the third time we've seen this in Revelation 2, right?

1110
00:57:22,670 --> 00:57:22,780
Yeah.

1111
00:57:23,100 --> 00:57:30,680
chapter one and three that's right yeah amen amen so so this i don't know we got uh we don't have

1112
00:57:30,780 --> 00:57:36,280
but a couple of minutes here do you want to you want to try to stop or wind up there uh or you

1113
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:41,920
want to go further you go further you go ahead okay oh i don't mind all right verse six okay

1114
00:57:42,980 --> 00:57:47,419
and before the throne there was something like a sea of glass like crystal and in the center and

1115
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:54,660
around the throne four living creatures full of eyes in front and behind that we should keep going

1116
00:57:54,660 --> 00:58:02,240
and describe them uh we can't yeah um yeah yeah the first creature was like a lion and the second

1117
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:07,180
creature like a calf and the third creature had a face like that of a man and the fourth creature

1118
00:58:07,230 --> 00:58:14,540
was like a flying eagle uh yeah let's stop right there okay that's good okay yeah yeah and then

1119
00:58:16,260 --> 00:58:25,400
What I take from this, I've been studying up on a guy named John Walvoord, who's just a really, really good prophecy guy who died quite a while back.

1120
00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:30,100
But he had some pretty good insight in there.

1121
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:32,180
And he said that they're not creatures.

1122
00:58:32,740 --> 00:58:34,060
They're not creatures as in beasts.

1123
00:58:34,520 --> 00:58:37,380
They're living ones is the actual word that's used here.

1124
00:58:37,880 --> 00:58:43,580
And full of eyes is representative of the omnipotence of God, that he sees everything.

1125
00:58:43,940 --> 00:58:47,660
behind, forward, all around in the past.

1126
00:58:48,000 --> 00:58:51,200
Yeah, and that each of these creatures,

1127
00:58:51,500 --> 00:58:55,440
each of these living ones has a characteristic of God.

1128
00:58:55,760 --> 00:58:58,420
Like the lion, the lion is the king of beasts.

1129
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:00,820
He represents majesty and omnipotence.

1130
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:04,840
The ox or calf, depending on the version,

1131
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:07,380
represents patience, continuous labor.

1132
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:12,140
And it's a very important animal in every age that we've ever lived in.

1133
00:59:12,660 --> 00:59:15,780
Man represents intelligence and rational power.

1134
00:59:16,580 --> 00:59:20,060
And then finally, the eagle represents God's sovereignty and his supremacy.

1135
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:25,760
And you can kind of compare these also with the four Gospels and how Jesus is represented in those.

1136
00:59:25,760 --> 00:59:26,300
Oh, absolutely.

1137
00:59:26,740 --> 00:59:26,880
Absolutely.

1138
00:59:27,340 --> 00:59:27,480
Yeah.

1139
00:59:27,700 --> 00:59:31,840
And that was one of the things that I had noted here.

1140
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:41,800
The sea of glass, I think it was the appearance of a sea and not the material it was made of.

1141
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:43,740
You know, when you when you see this sea of glass.

1142
00:59:44,460 --> 00:59:47,800
But but the sea represents the holiness and righteousness of God.

1143
00:59:48,300 --> 00:59:50,780
Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.

1144
00:59:52,500 --> 01:00:02,860
And and then the sea represents also the calm serenity and the rest that the saints in heaven are going to experience.

1145
01:00:03,160 --> 01:00:08,040
And they'll no longer be tossed to and fro by the winds and the waves of this world, you know.

1146
01:00:08,270 --> 01:00:08,440
Yeah.

1147
01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:12,620
And then the beasts are just that.

1148
01:00:12,820 --> 01:00:14,360
They're living creatures.

1149
01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:20,540
But the Greek word is zoe, which is our word for zoo.

1150
01:00:21,300 --> 01:00:25,860
But like you said, eyes before, behind, represent the alertness and awareness.

1151
01:00:26,010 --> 01:00:29,460
And they resemble the cherubim in Ezekiel.

1152
01:00:29,660 --> 01:00:29,880
Right.

1153
01:00:30,260 --> 01:00:32,620
Yeah, in Ezekiel chapter 1 and verse 5.

1154
01:00:33,240 --> 01:00:33,500
Yeah.

1155
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:34,620
Yeah.

1156
01:00:35,700 --> 01:00:39,240
When he's talking about the sea, it reminded me of chapter 21.

1157
01:00:39,340 --> 01:00:43,980
yeah right and it says then i saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first

1158
01:00:44,140 --> 01:00:50,040
earth passed away and there's no longer any sea yeah yeah yeah and that's uh and and i read a

1159
01:00:50,300 --> 01:00:57,120
commentary on that a while back it said that said that can represent uh uh separation yeah or danger

1160
01:00:57,340 --> 01:01:03,340
but i think see the the image of us the sea is it can represent different things i think i think it's

1161
01:01:03,300 --> 01:01:13,300
a little more fluid right yeah that's funny yeah uh but yeah i'll have your drums with you no going

1162
01:01:13,520 --> 01:01:17,240
back and you might then i didn't mean to get you away from this either but you were talking about

1163
01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:24,260
the the representation of the gospels right yeah matthew uh matthew's gospel the lord jesus was king

1164
01:01:24,990 --> 01:01:30,800
uh i think that's where the line representation comes in he died as a king he was raised as a king

1165
01:01:30,780 --> 01:01:36,680
And then the second one, the calf, represents Christ as a servant.

1166
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:39,440
We see that in Mark's gospel.

1167
01:01:41,180 --> 01:01:45,040
The third, as a man, it represents the humanity of Christ.

1168
01:01:45,150 --> 01:01:46,580
We see that in Luke's gospel.

1169
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:49,000
He's described as Savior and Son of Man.

1170
01:01:49,130 --> 01:01:52,620
And then the fourth, like you said, the eagle, it represents the deity of Christ.

1171
01:01:53,420 --> 01:01:58,640
And we see that all through the gospels, right, in John and who he is.

1172
01:01:58,780 --> 01:02:01,180
But, yeah.

1173
01:02:01,400 --> 01:02:01,560
Yeah.

1174
01:02:02,710 --> 01:02:06,020
This is also really closely connected with Isaiah 6.

1175
01:02:06,340 --> 01:02:06,740
Absolutely.

1176
01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:07,280
Yeah.

1177
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:08,780
Isaiah has a vision.

1178
01:02:09,579 --> 01:02:10,760
And 6.2 says,

1179
01:02:10,920 --> 01:02:13,180
Seraphim stood above him, each having six wings.

1180
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:15,740
With two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet,

1181
01:02:15,790 --> 01:02:16,660
and with two he flew.

1182
01:02:17,460 --> 01:02:18,640
And one called out to another and said,

1183
01:02:18,780 --> 01:02:20,520
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts.

1184
01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:22,060
The whole earth is full of his glory.

1185
01:02:22,460 --> 01:02:25,120
So it's interesting that they cover their face,

1186
01:02:25,330 --> 01:02:27,080
they cover their feet, fly with two.

1187
01:02:27,320 --> 01:02:30,960
It's like their shame and they're shielding from God's glory.

1188
01:02:31,320 --> 01:02:32,160
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

1189
01:02:32,640 --> 01:02:36,320
And their main purpose is just to just lift him up, right?

1190
01:02:36,680 --> 01:02:37,360
Worship God.

1191
01:02:38,080 --> 01:02:38,880
Yeah, yeah.

1192
01:02:39,200 --> 01:02:40,580
And ours is too, right?

1193
01:02:40,900 --> 01:02:42,560
But we can have a relationship with him.

1194
01:02:42,780 --> 01:02:43,140
It is.

1195
01:02:43,260 --> 01:02:43,840
Yeah, wow.

1196
01:02:45,520 --> 01:02:46,000
Good stuff.

1197
01:02:46,300 --> 01:02:46,920
Yeah, it is.

1198
01:02:47,220 --> 01:02:47,640
Good stuff.

1199
01:02:49,740 --> 01:02:49,820
Yeah.

1200
01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:54,320
You know, I envy John getting to see this stuff, but man, live.

1201
01:02:56,560 --> 01:02:56,900
Oh, yeah.

1202
01:02:57,140 --> 01:02:58,940
To be the one to have to describe it all?

1203
01:03:00,060 --> 01:03:01,280
How do you put that in a word?

1204
01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:04,260
Be like, hey, Lord, you got some cliff notes I could take?

1205
01:03:05,820 --> 01:03:08,760
And it looked like a Kenwood down the road.

1206
01:03:09,020 --> 01:03:10,080
Oh, you're a thing.

1207
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:15,140
A patchy helicopter, that's what it was.

1208
01:03:15,880 --> 01:03:16,700
I'm pretty sure.

1209
01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:19,120
Crop dusting.

1210
01:03:22,980 --> 01:03:25,740
Looked like a cheapo-cobra, I think, is what it was.

1211
01:03:28,580 --> 01:03:31,040
bigfoot yeah it was a yeti

1212
01:03:34,100 --> 01:03:35,440
he had beautiful hair

1213
01:03:38,140 --> 01:03:42,440
well goodness i mean and what i mean what could you say about seeing that you're seeing these

1214
01:03:42,680 --> 01:03:47,860
things flying around and the eyes all over in these weird faces and weird forms and i mean he

1215
01:03:47,960 --> 01:03:52,739
describes one sounds kind of like a sphinx and one of them sounds like a i don't know something and

1216
01:03:52,760 --> 01:04:01,180
And it's just like, you know, I have to imagine that at least once or twice during this whole process, John was standing there going, you want me to write that?

1217
01:04:02,960 --> 01:04:03,700
Do you really?

1218
01:04:04,400 --> 01:04:05,760
People are going to think I'm crazy.

1219
01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:09,380
I mean, it sounds like almost like, you know, we're used to cartoons.

1220
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:11,980
You know, you can see images like that of it.

1221
01:04:12,120 --> 01:04:13,680
And still, you wouldn't get close to it.

1222
01:04:13,760 --> 01:04:13,920
No.

1223
01:04:15,019 --> 01:04:18,860
And actually, I've already blown it with reading Isaiah, but we might as well read.

1224
01:04:18,960 --> 01:04:19,160
Oh, yeah.

1225
01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:20,820
Go ahead.

1226
01:04:21,180 --> 01:04:28,180
And the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, same as Isaiah's vision, right, are full of eyes around and within and day and night.

1227
01:04:28,260 --> 01:04:35,000
They do not cease to say, holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the almighty who was and who is and who is to come.

1228
01:04:35,260 --> 01:04:35,360
Amen.

1229
01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:39,260
That right there, that right there is the number one character attribute of God.

1230
01:04:39,460 --> 01:04:41,720
If there's anything, it's holy, holy, holy.

1231
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:42,100
That's right.

1232
01:04:42,100 --> 01:04:44,240
Because he doesn't repeat anything else about him.

1233
01:04:44,380 --> 01:04:44,480
Amen.

1234
01:04:44,640 --> 01:04:46,100
He doesn't say he's love, love, love.

1235
01:04:46,440 --> 01:04:47,580
He's kind, kind, kind.

1236
01:04:47,800 --> 01:04:49,260
He's all this stuff.

1237
01:04:49,360 --> 01:04:49,860
He's holy.

1238
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:50,480
He is.

1239
01:04:50,580 --> 01:04:53,180
He is perfect, perfectly holy.

1240
01:04:54,480 --> 01:05:02,460
We go back and look in Revelation 1.8, which was and is and is to come,

1241
01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:08,060
representing the never beginning, the never ending existence of Christ Jesus.

1242
01:05:08,980 --> 01:05:09,980
There's no ending.

1243
01:05:10,180 --> 01:05:11,680
There's no beginning for him, right?

1244
01:05:11,720 --> 01:05:17,900
He is holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come.

1245
01:05:18,940 --> 01:05:24,060
he is all that wrapped up in every bit of it and you know i have a question for you

1246
01:05:24,760 --> 01:05:30,500
you reckon that these uh these creatures that john was seeing same ones that described in isaiah

1247
01:05:30,780 --> 01:05:34,400
yeah the only difference is now they don't have their faces covered so you can find out what they

1248
01:05:34,420 --> 01:05:39,120
look like yeah i think so i think isaiah ezekiel was getting to see some of those yeah yeah i think

1249
01:05:39,120 --> 01:05:42,080
he was seeing it because you know he describes it they have their face he doesn't know what they

1250
01:05:42,200 --> 01:05:45,479
look like right other than the fact there's something flying and it's got its face covered

1251
01:05:45,500 --> 01:05:47,300
but he can't really see it real well.

1252
01:05:47,500 --> 01:05:49,380
Well, here, John's getting to see it.

1253
01:05:49,380 --> 01:05:50,040
It was all around.

1254
01:05:50,300 --> 01:05:52,620
Yeah, and he's like, oh, they don't have their faces covered here.

1255
01:05:52,780 --> 01:05:53,920
And so they never leave the throne.

1256
01:05:53,960 --> 01:05:56,040
And they're saying the exact same thing.

1257
01:05:56,400 --> 01:05:56,500
Yeah.

1258
01:05:56,820 --> 01:05:56,900
Yeah.

1259
01:05:57,560 --> 01:05:58,340
Yeah, they are.

1260
01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:00,440
I mean, that had to be wild.

1261
01:06:01,000 --> 01:06:01,860
And here's the other thing.

1262
01:06:02,680 --> 01:06:04,260
You think John hadn't read that in Isaiah?

1263
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:05,460
Oh, yeah.

1264
01:06:05,820 --> 01:06:05,940
Yeah.

1265
01:06:06,660 --> 01:06:06,940
Sure.

1266
01:06:07,040 --> 01:06:07,540
He had read it.

1267
01:06:08,200 --> 01:06:09,360
And then all of a sudden he's looking.

1268
01:06:09,480 --> 01:06:10,940
He's like, that's not what Isaiah described.

1269
01:06:11,320 --> 01:06:11,820
Look at it.

1270
01:06:12,300 --> 01:06:13,220
One of them looks like an eagle.

1271
01:06:13,360 --> 01:06:14,560
One of them looks like a lion.

1272
01:06:14,680 --> 01:06:17,860
One of them looks like a man, but they're these beasts and they got these wings.

1273
01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:20,880
And Isaiah had this distant picture of it.

1274
01:06:20,970 --> 01:06:21,060
Right.

1275
01:06:21,260 --> 01:06:23,120
And Ezekiel had this distant picture of it.

1276
01:06:23,380 --> 01:06:23,560
Exactly.

1277
01:06:23,860 --> 01:06:26,000
That wasn't completely clear.

1278
01:06:26,140 --> 01:06:31,360
But then, I mean, here he is, John, standing there with 20, 20 vision.

1279
01:06:31,430 --> 01:06:33,640
I mean, he's in the spirit.

1280
01:06:33,820 --> 01:06:34,600
He's in the spirit.

1281
01:06:34,660 --> 01:06:35,420
It's a different thing.

1282
01:06:35,740 --> 01:06:36,220
That's right.

1283
01:06:36,500 --> 01:06:39,800
Gosh, what an amazing thing.

1284
01:06:39,980 --> 01:06:44,340
And like you said before, what a great responsibility to write the book of Revelation.

1285
01:06:44,540 --> 01:06:44,980
Yeah, man.

1286
01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:45,460
Yeah.

1287
01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:45,920
Yeah.

1288
01:06:46,100 --> 01:06:47,740
You talk about Jesus, man.

1289
01:06:48,320 --> 01:06:49,620
We like to look at him.

1290
01:06:49,800 --> 01:06:53,920
We're coming up on Christmas and we think, oh, it's this cute little baby in a manger, man.

1291
01:06:54,020 --> 01:06:55,180
It's a sweet little story.

1292
01:06:55,340 --> 01:06:58,140
You know, well, here's what Paul said about him in Colossians.

1293
01:06:58,280 --> 01:07:01,340
He's the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.

1294
01:07:01,460 --> 01:07:06,440
For by him, all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible,

1295
01:07:06,740 --> 01:07:10,720
where the thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities, all things have been created through

1296
01:07:10,820 --> 01:07:11,640
him and for him.

1297
01:07:11,860 --> 01:07:11,940
Yeah.

1298
01:07:12,100 --> 01:07:15,380
He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.

1299
01:07:15,640 --> 01:07:16,260
Yeah, amen.

1300
01:07:16,640 --> 01:07:18,180
This is God we're talking about.

1301
01:07:18,710 --> 01:07:19,840
Holy, holy, holy.

1302
01:07:22,200 --> 01:07:23,420
And we have to remember that.

1303
01:07:23,980 --> 01:07:28,480
We have to remember that when you come before God, he's a holy God.

1304
01:07:28,640 --> 01:07:30,020
It's Jesus, people.

1305
01:07:30,800 --> 01:07:33,200
He's not this lovable little baby in a manger anymore.

1306
01:07:33,580 --> 01:07:34,280
No, absolutely.

1307
01:07:34,940 --> 01:07:37,220
Although that's an awesome thing, and we've got to celebrate it.

1308
01:07:37,240 --> 01:07:37,700
We're so happy.

1309
01:07:38,080 --> 01:07:38,640
Maybe one of us.

1310
01:07:38,650 --> 01:07:39,900
We're thankful that he's pain.

1311
01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:43,900
We're thankful that he come as an innocent, right?

1312
01:07:44,220 --> 01:07:44,440
Absolutely.

1313
01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:45,740
So thankful for that.

1314
01:07:46,300 --> 01:07:48,040
But he didn't stay a babe in the manger.

1315
01:07:48,200 --> 01:07:49,800
He's not coming back as a babe in the manger.

1316
01:07:49,900 --> 01:07:53,060
He's not coming back as a little lamb, although they describe him.

1317
01:07:53,200 --> 01:08:00,559
And I think the description there is almost John being a little bit facetious

1318
01:08:01,130 --> 01:08:02,040
or being a little bit funny.

1319
01:08:02,580 --> 01:08:08,420
He's like they ran and covered themselves because they were afraid of the wrath

1320
01:08:08,420 --> 01:08:08,940
of the lamb.

1321
01:08:09,060 --> 01:08:09,220
Yeah.

1322
01:08:10,460 --> 01:08:11,700
That don't sound right.

1323
01:08:12,040 --> 01:08:12,180
Yeah.

1324
01:08:12,760 --> 01:08:13,440
A lamb.

1325
01:08:13,460 --> 01:08:14,000
A lamb.

1326
01:08:14,720 --> 01:08:17,140
Yeah, the lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world.

1327
01:08:17,400 --> 01:08:17,500
Yes.

1328
01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:18,200
Right.

1329
01:08:18,680 --> 01:08:18,880
Amen.

1330
01:08:19,740 --> 01:08:22,259
And who's coming back as the conquering king.

1331
01:08:22,480 --> 01:08:22,680
Yeah.

1332
01:08:23,320 --> 01:08:25,560
He's the king taking back what was his.

1333
01:08:26,660 --> 01:08:29,279
He's been kind of – he's kind of left things go.

1334
01:08:29,520 --> 01:08:35,420
He's kind of let things – he's taken his hands back and gone, well, you know, we're going to let Satan do his thing for a little bit.

1335
01:08:35,600 --> 01:08:35,819
Yeah.

1336
01:08:36,859 --> 01:08:39,819
But we're getting to where he's going to come in and he's going to say, all right, that's enough.

1337
01:08:40,339 --> 01:08:40,400
Yeah.

1338
01:08:40,600 --> 01:08:42,620
See that 19 in chapter 19?

1339
01:08:42,940 --> 01:08:45,259
We're going to see the full picture that John saw.

1340
01:08:45,460 --> 01:08:47,540
And it is you don't want to be there.

1341
01:08:47,839 --> 01:08:51,700
And that's what this whole book's about is the culmination of all things into Christ Jesus.

1342
01:08:51,980 --> 01:08:52,359
Exactly.

1343
01:08:53,000 --> 01:08:53,660
Yeah, exactly.

1344
01:08:54,180 --> 01:08:58,080
And the power and the power that he has is just.

1345
01:08:59,520 --> 01:09:00,020
And that's the thing.

1346
01:09:00,140 --> 01:09:00,440
They're flying.

1347
01:09:00,660 --> 01:09:04,319
They're flying around this throne that is not just thrown to God.

1348
01:09:04,520 --> 01:09:06,240
Remember, who's sitting right next to him is Jesus.

1349
01:09:06,700 --> 01:09:07,500
Right there, nation.

1350
01:09:07,930 --> 01:09:08,680
Holy, holy, holy.

1351
01:09:09,420 --> 01:09:10,380
Oh, well, yeah, that's true.

1352
01:09:10,779 --> 01:09:13,160
It's the Lord God Almighty, the all-powerful.

1353
01:09:13,420 --> 01:09:16,319
And that's describing God, the Father, God, the Son, God, the Holy Spirit.

1354
01:09:16,460 --> 01:09:17,580
I mean, that's all God.

1355
01:09:18,480 --> 01:09:23,359
And it's describing God as being the Lord God, the all-powerful, the conquering king, the Lamb.

1356
01:09:24,000 --> 01:09:25,440
He's all of these things.

1357
01:09:26,240 --> 01:09:31,140
And that's, again, I think it's one of those things that we as Christians have a tendency to get very complacent about.

1358
01:09:31,230 --> 01:09:34,920
We think of Jesus Christ as being the one who loves us and laid down his life for us.

1359
01:09:34,960 --> 01:09:39,980
And he said, there's no greater love than this, but that a man would lay down his life for his friends.

1360
01:09:40,069 --> 01:09:41,160
He called us his friends.

1361
01:09:41,759 --> 01:09:43,180
And yeah, he's our friend.

1362
01:09:43,819 --> 01:09:48,560
But you got to think about the relationship between David and King David and his friends.

1363
01:09:48,830 --> 01:09:52,940
He was friends with a lot of these men that he traveled with for years before he became king.

1364
01:09:53,029 --> 01:09:53,440
They were his friends.

1365
01:09:54,380 --> 01:09:56,120
They still bowed before him when they came into his throne.

1366
01:09:56,320 --> 01:09:56,480
Yeah.

1367
01:09:57,320 --> 01:09:58,840
And it's the same thing with him.

1368
01:09:58,870 --> 01:10:01,160
You still bow before him because he's your king.

1369
01:10:01,740 --> 01:10:02,680
I mean, yeah.

1370
01:10:03,170 --> 01:10:04,640
Well, we don't have a concept of a king.

1371
01:10:04,820 --> 01:10:05,420
in this concert.

1372
01:10:05,740 --> 01:10:06,360
No, we don't.

1373
01:10:06,420 --> 01:10:08,920
No, we've lost that over the years.

1374
01:10:09,400 --> 01:10:11,000
And that's not necessarily a bad thing,

1375
01:10:11,280 --> 01:10:13,660
but I think also we've lost it

1376
01:10:14,070 --> 01:10:15,800
and it affects us.

1377
01:10:15,800 --> 01:10:17,000
It affects the way we view God.

1378
01:10:17,140 --> 01:10:18,040
Yeah, true monarchy.

1379
01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:19,060
We just don't.

1380
01:10:19,260 --> 01:10:19,460
Yeah.

1381
01:10:19,620 --> 01:10:20,220
We don't get it.

1382
01:10:20,380 --> 01:10:20,480
No.

1383
01:10:20,560 --> 01:10:22,820
People want to say Donald Trump's trying to be king.

1384
01:10:23,120 --> 01:10:23,760
That's just garbage.

1385
01:10:23,980 --> 01:10:24,140
Yeah.

1386
01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:24,960
He ain't close.

1387
01:10:25,260 --> 01:10:25,480
No.

1388
01:10:26,180 --> 01:10:28,540
I have yet to see him telling people,

1389
01:10:28,640 --> 01:10:31,280
if you don't avert your eyes when I walk into the room,

1390
01:10:31,440 --> 01:10:33,140
I'm going to have you whipped or killed.

1391
01:10:33,740 --> 01:10:37,520
Or don't enter my chambers or I will have you beheaded.

1392
01:10:37,620 --> 01:10:37,960
That's right.

1393
01:10:37,960 --> 01:10:38,080
Yeah.

1394
01:10:38,280 --> 01:10:38,700
Yeah.

1395
01:10:39,120 --> 01:10:41,300
And I mean, that's the kind of thing that the kings did.

1396
01:10:41,520 --> 01:10:44,420
And no, God's not an evil king like that.

1397
01:10:44,500 --> 01:10:46,900
But at the same time, that level of respect is still due.

1398
01:10:47,200 --> 01:10:48,520
Yeah, it is.

1399
01:10:48,760 --> 01:10:53,340
And if you do not give him that respect, then worse than that will happen.

1400
01:10:53,540 --> 01:10:53,960
Absolutely.

1401
01:10:54,400 --> 01:10:56,080
So we'll see that.

1402
01:10:56,260 --> 01:10:56,620
That's right.

1403
01:10:58,120 --> 01:10:58,340
Amen.

1404
01:10:59,060 --> 01:11:03,520
So we're stopping on verse nine is where we'll pick back up, I think, next week.

1405
01:11:03,720 --> 01:11:04,500
Yeah, the first.

1406
01:11:04,660 --> 01:11:08,040
So next week we'll be back with verse 9 of Revelation chapter 4.

1407
01:11:08,880 --> 01:11:11,480
And it won't take us very long to finish out those last few.

1408
01:11:11,700 --> 01:11:12,940
But, I mean, it's dense.

1409
01:11:13,140 --> 01:11:15,600
There's a lot there, but we'll probably get into five next week.

1410
01:11:15,900 --> 01:11:18,100
Yeah, we should get wide open into five.

1411
01:11:18,520 --> 01:11:22,520
And then the next week after that, hopefully, if everything works out,

1412
01:11:23,440 --> 01:11:31,320
our choir will be singing live on the air here on our podcast.

1413
01:11:33,220 --> 01:11:33,340
Nope.

1414
01:11:33,740 --> 01:11:34,900
the week after that.

1415
01:11:35,420 --> 01:11:35,760
Two weeks.

1416
01:11:36,600 --> 01:11:36,700
Okay.

1417
01:11:37,080 --> 01:11:38,580
So next week is the 8th,

1418
01:11:38,640 --> 01:11:39,500
then we have the 15th,

1419
01:11:39,500 --> 01:11:40,400
so we have two more shows,

1420
01:11:40,580 --> 01:11:41,420
and then we have our Christmas.

1421
01:11:41,580 --> 01:11:42,140
Okay, that's right.

1422
01:11:42,200 --> 01:11:42,860
On the 22nd.

1423
01:11:43,040 --> 01:11:43,140
Okay.

1424
01:11:43,260 --> 01:11:43,320
Yep.

1425
01:11:43,960 --> 01:11:44,220
All right.

1426
01:11:44,620 --> 01:11:45,120
Good deal.

1427
01:11:45,500 --> 01:11:45,860
Good deal.

1428
01:11:46,100 --> 01:11:47,680
So don't forget that.

1429
01:11:47,940 --> 01:11:49,140
And I think our plan is

1430
01:11:49,200 --> 01:11:51,520
we won't be back until January 5th, right?

1431
01:11:51,920 --> 01:11:54,080
We'll take the last part of the month off

1432
01:11:54,240 --> 01:11:56,340
and then come back hot and heavy on the 5th

1433
01:11:56,580 --> 01:11:57,380
to pick back up.

1434
01:11:57,700 --> 01:11:59,160
Doesn't that sound like a plan?

1435
01:11:59,180 --> 01:11:59,520
Sounds like a plan to me.

1436
01:11:59,760 --> 01:11:59,860
Yeah.

1437
01:12:00,460 --> 01:12:00,760
All right.

1438
01:12:00,820 --> 01:12:02,540
And that gives everybody a little bit of a break,

1439
01:12:02,780 --> 01:12:07,200
And for anybody that hasn't seen everything, you can go back and catch up.

1440
01:12:07,980 --> 01:12:12,200
We'll put extra into this next couple here and make sure you got enough to feed them.

1441
01:12:12,720 --> 01:12:12,920
Yeah.

1442
01:12:13,040 --> 01:12:13,620
Hold you over.

1443
01:12:13,900 --> 01:12:13,980
Yeah.

1444
01:12:14,980 --> 01:12:15,900
I feel like Thanksgiving.

1445
01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:17,640
You don't have to eat for a day after that.

1446
01:12:20,460 --> 01:12:20,860
Agreed.

1447
01:12:21,460 --> 01:12:22,160
But you do anyway.

1448
01:12:22,560 --> 01:12:23,140
Yeah, that's right.

1449
01:12:23,200 --> 01:12:26,460
You don't have to eat, but, you know, it's just kind of nice.

1450
01:12:27,360 --> 01:12:29,360
Those leftovers smell pretty good, man.

1451
01:12:30,720 --> 01:12:31,180
All right.

1452
01:12:31,280 --> 01:12:34,320
Well, everybody, we will looking forward to next week.

1453
01:12:34,600 --> 01:12:37,840
And man, this is holy, holy, holy.

1454
01:12:37,890 --> 01:12:40,100
I just that gets me excited.

1455
01:12:40,440 --> 01:12:40,640
Amen.

1456
01:12:41,240 --> 01:12:47,120
Thinking about thinking about how powerful and awesome and mighty and wonderful our God is that he is so holy.

1457
01:12:47,240 --> 01:12:49,020
And he said, I'm going to clothe you in my righteousness.

1458
01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:51,060
It's not us.

1459
01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:51,980
He loves us.

1460
01:12:52,200 --> 01:12:53,680
Yeah, he does.

1461
01:12:54,920 --> 01:12:56,840
So we will see you back next week.

1462
01:12:57,400 --> 01:12:59,040
Picking up with Revelation four, nine.

1463
01:12:59,340 --> 01:13:01,400
And Brother Brian, if you'll pray us out.

1464
01:13:01,620 --> 01:13:01,720
Sure.

1465
01:13:02,600 --> 01:13:03,300
Father, we love you.

1466
01:13:03,540 --> 01:13:21,880
We thank you, God, just for letting us just chew on your word tonight, God, for how it feeds us and fills us up and gives us an overflowing, Lord, of the spirit of God that, Lord, other people hopefully can be around us.

1467
01:13:21,940 --> 01:13:25,520
And, God, that they can taste it, too, and want more of it.

1468
01:13:25,660 --> 01:13:26,580
Lord, we pray that.

1469
01:13:26,940 --> 01:13:38,540
We pray that that's what this show, this podcast does, Lord, that it leaves people wanting more of you and going deeper into relationship with you.

1470
01:13:38,650 --> 01:13:42,100
And for those who don't know you, God, that they might come to know you.

1471
01:13:42,320 --> 01:13:43,540
Lord, it's all about you.

1472
01:13:44,340 --> 01:13:51,440
God, let us be never lifted up, but let you always be lifted up and glorified in everything that's said and done.

1473
01:13:51,960 --> 01:13:53,440
And we ask this in Jesus' name.

1474
01:13:53,790 --> 01:13:53,900
Amen.