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And welcome back, everybody.

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So good to be back this week.

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Brother Dennis is running just a little bit late.

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He'll be here in a moment.

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Uh, we'll get to see him comes uh, springing

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 in on us in a bit.

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But brother Brian, how are you doing tonight?

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Man, I'm doing great.

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I'm doing better now.

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I think this episode might be brought to you by Scooters Coffee.

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I don't know.

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Woke up this morning, a little drain, but I'm

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 doing good now, so I've been sipping on that today and but doing good, man.

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Just ready to dive into the Word of God and excited about

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 just the hope that

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 we have in Jesus today.

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Awesome.

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I am I am super excited about it.

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I know these, uh, like we had said last week, uh, chapter

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 10, uh, finishes out these, uh,

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 these angels and the, you know, coming in

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 and all the stuff they're bringing in.

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Hey there, brother Dennis.

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Brother Dennis coming in the back.

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Perfect timing.

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These

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 retired folks, I'm telling you, man.

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They don't even know what time is anymore.

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It's just like living in heaven in it.

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It really is.

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It is.

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Oh, it smokes.

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I'm sitting there just looking at the news, just scrolling around,

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 messing around, and you texted me and I'm like, I'm fine.

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are you?

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Oh.

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Oh, it's time for six.

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How did that happen?

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I love it.

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Oh, that is fantastic.

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All right.

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Well, hey, you made it, and that's the important thing.

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You have a good day aside from running late.

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Yeah, it's good.

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Great.

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Fantastic, fantastic.

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All right.

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I think we are about ready to dive in.

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We're starting with Revelation chapter 10, verse one tonight, and we might

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 we might make it a little bit into chapter 11 because 10's a little bit short.

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But yeah, last week we had dropped off with,

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 um, let me pull this up here.

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We had dropped off the very last thing we read, uh,

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 at the end of chapter 9 was doo-doo all the way down here.

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Yeah, we've just seen that we have the...

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 the plagues

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 that come out and the horses

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 and the riders and all that and we ended

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 up seeing the the rest of humanity that

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 had not been killed up to this point because we have a 3rd of them wiped

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 out and then a 3rd of them wiped out.

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Then it just keeps happening where you have so much of the world is wiped out at this point.

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And what's left at this point is refusing to

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 repent of the works of their hands and they do

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 stone, and wood, idols that cannot see, hear, walk about.

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Um, that's what's left on the earth, uh, by

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 the time you get to Revelation, uh, chapter 10.

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And of course, you do still have

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 some of the some of the people who did

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 accept during this time are still going to be left because

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 they are spared from a lot of these plagues and all of these things

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 as far as the judgment gods pouring out, but

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 they are not spared from what the judgment man is making against them.

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And even in the midst of all that, there's still hope left, right?

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Because we still got a couple of preachers that are going to be coming and laying down the word of God.

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Yeah, yeah.

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On top of the 144,000.

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Yeah, that's not that.

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We haven't even gotten to those 2 yet.

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But so we we come in with chapter

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 these angels that are coming out and making

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 just letting everybody know what's going on here.

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So that brings us to 101.

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10 kind of starts another, one of those, is call it, parenthetical.

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It's kind of a kind of a breakaway.

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Was it 10 through 14, I guess, is somewhere around in there anyway.

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It kind of breaks away from the...

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the bowls of judgments.

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So, uh, 10 verse one.

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And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven

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 clothed with a cloud and the rainbow

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 was a bone.

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His head and his face was, as it were,

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 the sun and his feet is pillars of fire.

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So we get this description.

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And let me say this.

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There's a couple schools of thoughts here that

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 as to the identity of this angel.

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 the description, but others would argue that Christ,

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 never mentioned as an angel as we see it in the book of Revelation.

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There is no mistaking of who Jesus

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 is when we see him described in here.

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If you side with that school of thought, then we

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 then we would see this angel as one who directly serves Christ,

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 because he has certain he has certain attributes

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 that Christ also has.

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So just remember that the whole book that

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 we're studying in the book of Revelation is the unveiling and

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 the revealing of the glorified Christ.

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That's who we're talking about here.

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We know in chapter 5 and verse 2 that we,

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 and this was, this was a strong angel also, right?

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Revelation 5, too.

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It says, and I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice

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 who is worthy to open the book and to loose the seals thereof.

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Maybe who was that angel?

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You know, we don't know really for sure.

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Yeah, yeah, we don't, do we?

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And I think I think what Christians get caught up in

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 a little bit too, is that we know the names of a couple of them.

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And we kind of say, well, they're all either Michael or Gabriel.

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Right, yeah, but that's not true.

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There's 1000000s of them.

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And there may be some that are more powerful than Michael.

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Yeah, we don't know.

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But this one is a, he's a,

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 man, this is a mighty angel.

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I side with the other side.

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I'm going to go with this is not the Lord because later on we'll see.

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We say another verse.

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Yes, that's right.

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Yeah, exactly.

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He does some worshiping.

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Or some swearing.

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But this guy, this guy, man, what a description, though.

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He's got a rainbow on his head, face like the sun, feet like pillars of fire.

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Well, I guess we need

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 to go on before I get too far out there.

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Verse two, and he had in his hand a little book, which was open.

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He placed his right foot on the seat and is left on the land.

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That means he's a...

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I think the way I take that is this is a super

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that is in charge of the whole world.

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the sea and the land.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Go ahead and read, what was it, verse 3 too?

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Verse three.

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And he cried out with a loud voice as when a lion roars.

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And when he had cried out, the 7 pills of thunder uttered their voices.

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Yeah, yeah, so...

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I mean, this book is, it's

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 most likely the same 7 seal book

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 that was passed from God, the Father to God,

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 the Son, after Christ opened the 7 seals, he

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 to give to John to eat it, right?

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He was going to eat the book.

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This is the book of the title deed to

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 the great tribulation, which Jesus is coming in power.

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The voice of 7 thunders is just to put God's

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Yeah, it really does.

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It just shows the mighty power.

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It does.

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If you've ever wanted God to speak to you audibly.

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You probably don't.

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No, no, yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, it's it is a powerful thing

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 that will make you tremble, right?

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Oh man, like the Israelites in the wilderness, right?

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come to rears.

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Don't make him stop.

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That's right.

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Yeah, and begging it for stock.

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Well, you know, that's one of the amazing things to me is the times

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 people don't like it.

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And even when just the angels start really making

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Everybody starts running away.

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Everybody's like, I don't know about this.

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And then there are other times where we do see

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 the angels having a conversation with somebody where they aren't doing

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 this, but there, to me, there's a clear difference between we're

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 conversation with you, the very different thing, because you go back to a lot.

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And, I mean, those angels stood and they conversed with them, and they ate with them, and

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 there's no indication there that they were making all

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cower in the corner.

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Yeah, that was kind of an anomaly, wasn't it?

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Yeah, usually, usually when the unholy comes into

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 some kind of contact with the holy, there's there's something, something happens.

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Yeah, well, and and even Jacob or,

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 uh, yeah, Jacob, you know, when he's wrestling

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 with the angel and, uh, you know, it's

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 just like, you know, what in the world?

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you know, and the angel's actually telling him, let me go, let me go.

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you know, but he's not, he doesn't really start, you know, getting away

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 from him until the angel reached down, breaks his hip.

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 holding back, but what we're seeing here is an angel

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 speaking with speaking with this loud voice.

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And I think that anytime we see that, that is a proclamation

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 where the angel is basically filtering

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 God's God's words for us so that we're not just, you

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Well, isn't that what the Holy Spirit does for?

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Absolutely, that's what Christ does when he intercedes for us because

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 Christ, the son, tells tells

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 God the Father, hey, they belong to us, you know, he's

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 looking through him and he, of course,

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 he loves us and he sees us as his children.

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right?

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And so, yeah.

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So we're not, we're

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 not hearing the full judgment of God, are we?

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in his voice, so...

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10 four?

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10 four.

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10 four.

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10 4 good, buddy.

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And when the 7 Thunders had uttered their voices,

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 I was about to write, and I heard a voice from

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 heaven saying unto me, seal up those things which the

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 7 Thunders uttered and write them not.

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So here's John about to write something down.

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They're like, no, no, no, no, hold on, hold on.

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This is the only place in the book of Revelation where anything's hidden.

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Yeah.

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What is it that's hidden?

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Well, we don't know.

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And we would all, I think, do well to just

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 ride it out.

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And because if Christ wanted us to know, I think you would have told us.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, and the whole aura of

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 God, I guess you could say, is filled with mystery, right?

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Yeah, mystery mystery in the Bible is not something that's,

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 well, you got to go try to figure it out on your own kind of thing.

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It's something that's hidden that's going to be revealed, right?

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And that's what revelation is, the mystery of God at the end times.

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But man, I don't know.

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Can you imagine?

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I always thought about John while

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 he's seeing all this stuff he's writing.

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You just think about that in a practical sense.

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It's his hand about fall off.

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I mean, how bad can you write?

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Yeah, yeah.

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I think he was probably, it was

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 like he was powered by the Holy Spirit too, right?

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You know, I mean, it was like, let me let me take your hand because

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 your human hand can't write this fast.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah.

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It had to be something going.

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Or this thing, I wonder how long it took for him to

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 receive this whole thing too, you know?

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Oh yeah, yeah, I know.

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days.

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Yeah, it is.

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Which, you know, you look at, of course, entire

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 human minds, it would be days into God

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 could have gave it to him in an hour and it felt like dates.

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It felt like years, you know, because again, God's

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 timing in our time and he's without time or space.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, and and the

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 amazing thing about this is here, here, John, is seeing glimpses

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 of that period where time is gone.

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And I mean, his everything is having to be presented

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 to him in a way that he can understand it and that he can,

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 can, um, receive it all and for it to make sense so that he can write it down.

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So, I mean, even, you know, again, even this stuff that's being revealed,

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 even the things being shown to him, it's all being filtered down for

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 the human mind to comprehend it.

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I think an experience like this, too, is something that he could

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 probably go back and write this from memory because it's so interesting.

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It's so ingrained.

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Yeah, I agree.

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Absolutely seeing something that powerful.

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Yeah.

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And I mean, he does, he opens the book of Revelation.

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The thing to remember is he opens it up by saying he was caught up in the spirit

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 on the Lord's Day.

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And, you know, we talked about how, you know, we

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 think, you know, we kind of have an idea of what that means.

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We don't really know exactly what he meant by.

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He's caught up in the spirit and it never even talks about him.

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Speaking of tongues.

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Oh, okay.

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No speaking in tongues, no gyrating, none of that.

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But I mean, that's the thing is he

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 gets caught up in the spirit.

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Somebody's after him.

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And...

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Yeah, tell you what.

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And like you say, this could have been something that was all

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 just instantaneous and then he woke up and

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 and it was all written down.

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I don't know what just happened, or it could have been something like you say,

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 lasted for days and days, you know, possibly several days where he's

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 just riding and riding with no real break in here.

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I personally think that I

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 tend to lean on what you're saying there.

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I think the writing was not something he was physically doing while he's watching it.

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I think from his perspective, he was, but then when he

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 wakes up, it's like, oh, I've got to, now I've got to actually write all this out.

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I think it was just, it was, but that was his body's

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 way and his mind's way of recording all this for a permanent memory

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 that he then went and wrote down and transcribed exactly.

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one sense, it's a vision, right?

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His body's still sitting on Patmos.

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but his his soul or somewhere else.

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Yeah, exactly. almost dead or like a catatonic kind of thing.

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his burnt body.

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Yeah.

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This guy was, he had to have been in pain.

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I mean, he was, yeah, he was boiled alive.

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So, yeah.

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Was that before this?

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Yeah, that was he'd been on the island of Patmos.

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That's where he was at when all this took place and I think he'd already been tortured at that time.

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Man.

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So yeah, I mean, thinking about it that way,

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 him getting caught up in the spirit.

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I, you know, and then it was a reawakening at

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 the end and then record it.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Where were we at?

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Five, five, 10, five, 10, five.

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Good buddy.

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Then the angel, whom I saw standing on the sea and

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 on the land, lifted up his right hand to heaven, and swore

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 by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven

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 and the things in it, and the earth and the things in it, and

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 the sea and the things in it, that there will be delay no longer.

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So now we see that this is most likely an angel.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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He's swearing by God.

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Absolutely.

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Yes, because the Bible tells us,

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 well, there are several verses that back that up, aren't there?

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Like, he'll swear by not by no better name.

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God made a promise to Abraham,

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 because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself.

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John 11 and 3 in the beginning was a

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 word and words with God, the word was God, the same in the

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 beginning, was with God.

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All things were made by him and for him and without him was no things made.

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And then John 8, 58.

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Jesus said to them, very, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am.

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All these things were made by him and without him was

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 not a thing, anything made, of course, we already read that, but yeah.

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And it goes on, Colossians 116, seven.

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you know?

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We know that, yeah, this was this was an angel.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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All right, seven.

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Seven.

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Verse seven.

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Seven, eight?

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Whatever.

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But in the but in the days of the voice of

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 the 7th angel, and when he

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 shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished,

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 and as he hath declared to his servants the prophets.

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And the voice which I heard from heaven, spake unto me again

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 and said, go and take the little book which is open in

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 the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.

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That says it pretty plainly there, don't it?

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It does.

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It does.

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Yeah.

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the angel.

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Yeah, that's right.

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So, again, scripture backs up scripture, doesn't it?

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It does.

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Yeah, it does.

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You got to keep reading.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Just don't take snippets here and there, piece it together.

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It's a jigsaw puzzle.

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It's how things get confusing.

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It is.

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It is.

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Yeah.

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So this all takes place when the 7th

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 angel was preparing to blow the 7th trumpet.

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It would indicate that the trumpet

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 brings on a conclusion of the great tribulation.

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This is when the mystery of God is finally made clear.

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You know, there's a lot of facets of the mystery that

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 we have been given the total answer to.

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At least this is a mystery that he wanted to make clear to us.

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There's still some things that I

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 think that will be made clear even after this, right?

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still some things are just not clear yet.

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So knowing some of these things, he had been sealed

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 means that he's still got an eternity to share things with us, right?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, there's a lot to discover too.

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You know, and our best scientists still haven't discovered

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 everything here is about this creation, you know, not even close.

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No, uh-uh.

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Yes, it's something new every day.

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Yeah.

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And then he gives this order from heaven

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 to John to take the book from the angel, right?

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Yeah.

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So, yeah.

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Yeah.

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And verse 9, he says, so I went to the angel, telling him

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 to give me the little book and he said to me, take it, need it.

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It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth, it will be sweet as honey.

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So well, I'll keep going here.

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I took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it, and in my mouth, it was sweet as honey.

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And when I'd eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.

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And they said to me, you must prophesy again concerning many peoples and

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 nations and tongues and kings.

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Eat a book.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Does it kind of go back to what we were talking about though?

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Like this is this being ingrained, you know, as

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 you said, this was not only ingrained in him, it was digested, right?

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He digested the word of God and he

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 couldn't forget this, right?

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This was not something that he could just he could just lose, man.

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You think that's connected to that?

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Maybe?

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I think so.

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Because this is this is similar to the gospel too, right?

466
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It's similar to the Bible we have today.

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It can be sweet as honey with all the promises and all the stuff.

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But you can pay your pay with your life for it.

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Yeah, that's right.

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Yeah.

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I mean, he was he was given this instruction

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 to take this little book and receive the word of God

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 in faith, right?

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I mean, that's really what he was telling him.

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Take this and eat this and know that this is what's going to happen.

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Now, go out and and and tell

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 them, tell the world about this.

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Um, Jeremiah 1516.

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The words were found, and I did eat them, and thy

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 word was unto me, the joy and rejoicing of

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 mine heart, for I called by the name,

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 O Lord God of hosts.

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And Jeremiah.

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And then in Ezekiel, 31 through three.

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Moreover, he said unto me, son of man,

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 eat that thou findest, eat this roll, and go

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 speak unto the house of Israel.

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So I opened my mouth and he caused me to eat that roll, and

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 he said unto me, son of man, cause thy belly to

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 eat and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee.

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Then did I, then did I eat it, and

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 it was in my mouth as, as honey for sweetness.

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Um, Psalms 119, 103.

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How sweet are thy words unto my taste?

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Yea, sweeter than honey in my mouth.

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So, I mean, again, the word

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 of God, backing up the word of God.

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His word is sweet because it reveals a

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 great end for us, right?

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But the judgments that will pass before

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 it gets there bitter, right?

502
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Very bitter.

503
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Yeah.

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It's joy.

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I mean, you know, that's the thing.

506
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And that's the Christian walk.

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Like you said, it starts out.

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We have that joy of the forgiveness of our sins and

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 the knowing that we're going to go to heaven.

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And I'm going to be honest, the bitterness to me came

511
00:21:55,466 --> 00:21:56,900
 after the salvation part.

512
00:21:56,933 --> 00:21:58,833
The salvation part was all joy and happiness.

513
00:21:58,900 --> 00:22:02,966
And, hey, yeah, this is gone and this weight's lifted, and then the real weight of, oh.

514
00:22:03,033 --> 00:22:05,766
What did he just do for me?

515
00:22:05,866 --> 00:22:06,933
What just happened?

516
00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,233
And then it sinks in and there's a little bit of bitterness there and it's not a bad thing.

517
00:22:10,299 --> 00:22:13,466
It's a realization of, of,

518
00:22:13,466 --> 00:22:16,466
 um, you know, what we need to do and

519
00:22:16,466 --> 00:22:18,200
 what we have to, what we're called to do.

520
00:22:18,266 --> 00:22:21,000
And I think all of this sums it up very well.

521
00:22:21,099 --> 00:22:24,133
You know, going back to this being a vision that John

522
00:22:24,166 --> 00:22:27,200
 is experiencing, not just seeing, experiencing with this

523
00:22:27,233 --> 00:22:30,466
 whole being, and it's it's that taking and

524
00:22:30,466 --> 00:22:33,566
 that absorbing of the word and making it a part,

525
00:22:33,566 --> 00:22:35,366
 because when we eat something, we make it a part of us.

526
00:22:35,433 --> 00:22:38,533
And he's taking it and it's becoming a part of who he is.

527
00:22:38,633 --> 00:22:42,333
And it's amazing to me that, you know, he does this.

528
00:22:42,400 --> 00:22:44,733
And then they tell him, hey, okay, it's time to go prophesy.

529
00:22:44,799 --> 00:22:47,799
And, you know, there's all these examples of other prophets being

530
00:22:47,799 --> 00:22:49,466
 told, take this and eat it, now prophesy.

531
00:22:49,533 --> 00:22:52,533
Well, I mean, it goes along

532
00:22:52,533 --> 00:22:53,533
 with a communion too, right?

533
00:22:53,633 --> 00:22:56,866
When Jesus said, my blood is indeed drinking, my body is food.

534
00:22:56,933 --> 00:22:58,066
Yeah.

535
00:22:58,066 --> 00:22:59,500
And we're internalizing him.

536
00:22:59,566 --> 00:23:00,400
Yeah, yeah.

537
00:23:00,466 --> 00:23:02,200
Take in remembrance of me.

538
00:23:02,266 --> 00:23:05,866
That's the same thing that he's telling John here.

539
00:23:05,933 --> 00:23:07,433
Take and eat this and remember it.

540
00:23:07,466 --> 00:23:08,299
Right?

541
00:23:08,366 --> 00:23:10,166
So digest this.

542
00:23:10,233 --> 00:23:13,866
Digest what I'm telling you, don't forget it, and then share it.

543
00:23:13,966 --> 00:23:17,500
That's something we really need to,

544
00:23:17,500 --> 00:23:18,866
 we really need to think about, right?

545
00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:21,866
And maybe something I need to bring out the next time we do communion.

546
00:23:21,933 --> 00:23:22,700
Yeah.

547
00:23:22,766 --> 00:23:25,033
Yeah, that's good stuff there.

548
00:23:25,133 --> 00:23:25,666
Yeah, it is.

549
00:23:25,733 --> 00:23:26,200
Yeah, it is.

550
00:23:26,266 --> 00:23:29,366
And man, I just wish so many more of us would, and I'm

551
00:23:29,366 --> 00:23:31,866
 not claiming to be great at this, but would internalize this.

552
00:23:31,966 --> 00:23:34,066
Yeah, yeah, it's got to be real.

553
00:23:34,133 --> 00:23:37,833
God's not looking for us to be spiritual

554
00:23:37,833 --> 00:23:40,933
 and moralists and, you know, all these perfect

555
00:23:40,966 --> 00:23:42,166
 outside things.

556
00:23:42,233 --> 00:23:44,633
I mean, he called the Pharisees whitewashed tombs.

557
00:23:44,666 --> 00:23:47,466
beautiful on the outside, inside they're dead.

558
00:23:47,566 --> 00:23:48,500
Yeah.

559
00:23:48,533 --> 00:23:52,000
You know, it's, that's not what he's looking for.

560
00:23:52,066 --> 00:23:52,900
No, no.

561
00:23:52,966 --> 00:23:56,200
You know, and I think the church today,

562
00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,799
 on our quest to be so relatable

563
00:23:59,799 --> 00:24:02,799
 and to just

564
00:24:02,799 --> 00:24:06,566
 be able to fit in and all the things, you know, that sometimes

565
00:24:06,566 --> 00:24:09,599
 we just, man, we just take the spirit completely out of

566
00:24:09,633 --> 00:24:12,633
 what we're doing and just letting God move and letting

567
00:24:12,633 --> 00:24:15,799
 God do what he does and we're

568
00:24:15,833 --> 00:24:18,866
 too worried about, we're too, we're either worried about

569
00:24:18,866 --> 00:24:23,466
 being too contemporary or worried about being too traditional and, you know, and

570
00:24:23,666 --> 00:24:26,000
we get caught up in between the 2 of them, right?

571
00:24:26,066 --> 00:24:29,400
And what we've got to do is just filter out the mess, right?

572
00:24:29,500 --> 00:24:33,266
And just, my prayer is the purity of God.

573
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:36,433
And the hope of Jesus Christ, those are

574
00:24:36,466 --> 00:24:40,366
 the things that we can focus on, the truth of the word of God.

575
00:24:40,433 --> 00:24:43,533
We can focus on those things and let the spirit cause us

576
00:24:43,533 --> 00:24:45,933
 to worship in the way that he wants us to, right?

577
00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,000
I mean, if it's a contemporary song, let's sing

578
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,133
 it to the top of our lungs.

579
00:24:50,200 --> 00:24:53,200
If it's a hymnal, let's sing it to the top of our lungs, but

580
00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:56,233
 let's cut off, let's cut out the stuff and the arguing and the

581
00:24:56,266 --> 00:24:59,266
 bickering back and forth about this is, you know,

582
00:24:59,266 --> 00:25:01,066
 this style or this style or that style.

583
00:25:01,166 --> 00:25:04,400
Because again, we're trying to please one crowd

584
00:25:04,433 --> 00:25:07,766
 or the other, and we leave out the fact that we're trying to please God here.

585
00:25:07,833 --> 00:25:08,966
Yeah.

586
00:25:08,966 --> 00:25:12,266
Well, yeah, we forget that what

587
00:25:12,266 --> 00:25:16,766
 we're called to do is to apply

588
00:25:16,766 --> 00:25:17,966
 the word to ourselves first.

589
00:25:18,033 --> 00:25:18,866
Sure.

590
00:25:18,933 --> 00:25:19,233
Yeah.

591
00:25:19,299 --> 00:25:20,299
and then spread it.

592
00:25:20,366 --> 00:25:20,766
Yeah.

593
00:25:20,799 --> 00:25:23,233
And, and, yeah, live it.

594
00:25:23,566 --> 00:25:24,466
every day.

595
00:25:24,533 --> 00:25:27,633
And and when we're so focused on how it looks and

596
00:25:27,633 --> 00:25:29,900
 how we look and whether or not we can draw people in.

597
00:25:29,966 --> 00:25:31,933
And don't get me wrong, you want to draw people in.

598
00:25:32,033 --> 00:25:35,200
But at the end of the day, everybody I

599
00:25:35,200 --> 00:25:38,233
 know that has gone to church and stayed in church and it's been real to

600
00:25:38,266 --> 00:25:39,466
 them.

601
00:25:39,466 --> 00:25:42,566
The thing that actually draws them and keeps them is

602
00:25:42,566 --> 00:25:43,933
 not all of the showmanship.

603
00:25:44,033 --> 00:25:44,799
Yeah.

604
00:25:44,799 --> 00:25:46,000
And I'll tell you, man.

605
00:25:46,066 --> 00:25:49,066
I can tell the difference sometimes, just

606
00:25:49,066 --> 00:25:52,299
 sometimes, between whether it's real or not, because usually

607
00:25:52,299 --> 00:25:55,400
 if somebody's a real church score, they're real religious,

608
00:25:55,433 --> 00:25:58,466
 and it ain't really real to them, it ain't really

609
00:25:58,466 --> 00:25:59,766
 taking over inside.

610
00:25:59,866 --> 00:26:01,966
They're more about the rules than they are about anything else.

611
00:26:02,033 --> 00:26:05,433
They're more about the appearances about the external stuff.

612
00:26:05,500 --> 00:26:07,033
Yeah, this is how we got to do this.

613
00:26:07,133 --> 00:26:08,200
This is how I gotta do that.

614
00:26:08,266 --> 00:26:11,566
And somebody that's got it real going on most times,

615
00:26:11,566 --> 00:26:14,666
 most times is just kind of like, I don't care.

616
00:26:14,733 --> 00:26:15,500
That's a fringe thing, man.

617
00:26:15,566 --> 00:26:16,766
Right, absolutely.

618
00:26:16,766 --> 00:26:18,266
I don't care what colored carpet is.

619
00:26:18,333 --> 00:26:19,833
No, let's throw it out.

620
00:26:19,900 --> 00:26:20,299
Exactly.

621
00:26:20,366 --> 00:26:20,700
Exactly.

622
00:26:20,799 --> 00:26:22,000
Let's worship.

623
00:26:22,066 --> 00:26:25,666
Let's have some true undeniable worship

624
00:26:25,666 --> 00:26:27,866
 that we don't hold back from.

625
00:26:27,933 --> 00:26:29,166
So, yeah.

626
00:26:29,333 --> 00:26:33,099
Hey, let's do this.

627
00:26:33,166 --> 00:26:34,099
Jump into 11.

628
00:26:34,366 --> 00:26:35,433
We did a whole chapter.

629
00:26:35,500 --> 00:26:36,099
We did.

630
00:26:36,166 --> 00:26:37,166
I mean, just like that.

631
00:26:37,233 --> 00:26:39,033
Man, where's the time gone?

632
00:26:39,099 --> 00:26:44,833
So,

633
00:26:44,866 --> 00:26:48,933
 uh, let's go the 1st maybe a couple of verses there, chapter 11.

634
00:26:49,133 --> 00:26:49,766
Yeah, sounds good.

635
00:26:49,833 --> 00:26:53,133
And there was given me a read like

636
00:26:53,133 --> 00:26:56,299
 unto a rod, and the angel stood saying, rise and

637
00:26:56,333 --> 00:26:59,366
 measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them

638
00:26:59,366 --> 00:27:03,066
 that worship therein, but the court, which is without the temple, leave out.

639
00:27:03,166 --> 00:27:06,333
And the measure and measure it not,

640
00:27:06,333 --> 00:27:09,366
 for it is given unto the Gentiles, and the holy

641
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:13,900
 city shall they tread underfoot 40 and too much.

642
00:27:13,966 --> 00:27:16,966
One thing we need to

643
00:27:16,966 --> 00:27:20,366
 see here is the time period that we have come to.

644
00:27:20,433 --> 00:27:23,766
So if you look at Luke 2124,

645
00:27:23,799 --> 00:27:27,033
 it says, and they shall fall by the edge

646
00:27:27,033 --> 00:27:30,866
 of the sword and shall be led away captive in all nations,

647
00:27:30,866 --> 00:27:34,099
 and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles

648
00:27:34,133 --> 00:27:36,700
 unto the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

649
00:27:36,766 --> 00:27:39,866
Today, the nation

650
00:27:39,866 --> 00:27:43,266
 of Israel is still trodden down by the Gentiles.

651
00:27:43,366 --> 00:27:46,533
If you were to go into the old city today,

652
00:27:46,533 --> 00:27:50,133
 you'll find many different races there.

653
00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:53,200
I mean, just a lot of different races, a lot of different

654
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:56,133
 religions, but not really a whole lot of Jews.

655
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,599
And they're coming back a little bit more now, but we're

656
00:27:59,633 --> 00:28:03,033
 looking at a future time here where God has turned back

657
00:28:03,033 --> 00:28:04,533
 to his chosen people, right?

658
00:28:04,599 --> 00:28:07,700
I mean, the church is in heaven, the churches is with him.

659
00:28:07,733 --> 00:28:11,066
And anytime you see,

660
00:28:11,066 --> 00:28:14,233
 the beginning of measurements in the Old Testament,

661
00:28:14,266 --> 00:28:17,299
 you're going to find that God's about to deal with

662
00:28:17,333 --> 00:28:19,133
 Israel in some way.

663
00:28:19,166 --> 00:28:22,466
Jeremiah 31, 38,

664
00:28:22,466 --> 00:28:24,000
 39, behold, the days come.

665
00:28:24,166 --> 00:28:27,200
Saith the Lord, that the city shall be built to

666
00:28:27,233 --> 00:28:30,233
 the Lord from the tower of Hanil, unto the

667
00:28:30,233 --> 00:28:33,266
 gate of the corner, and the measuring line shall yet go forth

668
00:28:33,266 --> 00:28:36,299
 over against it upon the hill of Gareb, and

669
00:28:36,333 --> 00:28:39,033
 shall compass about to Goath.

670
00:28:39,099 --> 00:28:42,266
Then again in Zechariah, there's about 13

671
00:28:42,266 --> 00:28:45,266
 verses there in Zechariah chapter 2, those

672
00:28:45,266 --> 00:28:46,933
 1st 13 verses.

673
00:28:47,033 --> 00:28:48,700
I won't read all of them for time's sake.

674
00:28:48,766 --> 00:28:51,700
But yeah, I mean the read or the rod.

675
00:28:51,766 --> 00:28:53,900
It's used a couple of different ways, isn't it?

676
00:28:53,966 --> 00:28:54,866
Yeah, it is.

677
00:28:54,933 --> 00:28:55,466
It is.

678
00:28:55,533 --> 00:28:59,166
And I want to throw out too, that for anybody listening,

679
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,099
 this chapter is going to get into some stuff.

680
00:29:01,166 --> 00:29:01,866
Yes.

681
00:29:01,900 --> 00:29:02,799
And take

682
00:29:02,933 --> 00:29:04,599
take it literally wherever possible.

683
00:29:05,366 --> 00:29:05,666
right?

684
00:29:05,733 --> 00:29:08,466
I mean, the 2 witnesses are going to see are 2 people.

685
00:29:08,566 --> 00:29:09,866
Yes, they are.

686
00:29:09,933 --> 00:29:11,433
3.5 days is literal.

687
00:29:11,500 --> 00:29:13,700
Days a day, years a year, a month, a month.

688
00:29:13,733 --> 00:29:16,833
The earthquakes an earthquake, 7000 people,

689
00:29:16,833 --> 00:29:18,633
 7000 people, just take it literally.

690
00:29:18,700 --> 00:29:19,299
Take it literally.

691
00:29:19,366 --> 00:29:19,833
Right.

692
00:29:19,900 --> 00:29:23,500
And I like this measuring rod, I think, because a little study

693
00:29:23,500 --> 00:29:24,866
 on that, especially Zechariah 2.

694
00:29:25,066 --> 00:29:28,466
It's like God tends to tell people to measure his property.

695
00:29:28,533 --> 00:29:29,666
Yes, yes.

696
00:29:29,733 --> 00:29:30,566
He does, yeah.

697
00:29:30,633 --> 00:29:32,766
And he tells them, he tells them, don't measure.

698
00:29:32,866 --> 00:29:33,866
Don't measure.

699
00:29:33,933 --> 00:29:36,966
Well, he's going to say at the next verse, but he

700
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:40,633
 tells them to measure the temple, God, and the altar, and those who worship in it.

701
00:29:40,733 --> 00:29:41,133
Yeah.

702
00:29:41,133 --> 00:29:41,833
Right.

703
00:29:41,933 --> 00:29:42,333
With a rod.

704
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:42,866
Exactly.

705
00:29:42,933 --> 00:29:44,833
And a rod was a specific length.

706
00:29:44,933 --> 00:29:46,966
I think it was about 20 feet, something like that.

707
00:29:47,033 --> 00:29:49,000
And people don't measure up that.

708
00:29:49,066 --> 00:29:49,900
No, they don't.

709
00:29:49,966 --> 00:29:51,799
Their worship does not measure.

710
00:29:51,933 --> 00:29:54,933
They're in the temple and he's going to measure them as well as

711
00:29:54,933 --> 00:29:56,000
 the temple, right?

712
00:29:56,133 --> 00:29:56,366
Yeah.

713
00:29:56,433 --> 00:29:57,066
Yeah.

714
00:29:57,166 --> 00:29:58,166
Yeah.

715
00:29:58,233 --> 00:30:01,700
And there's another interesting thing about this is he's

716
00:30:01,733 --> 00:30:04,766
 telling John to go measure this temple.

717
00:30:04,833 --> 00:30:07,233
Well, when John wrote this, the temple had been destroyed.

718
00:30:07,299 --> 00:30:08,299
Yes, that's right.

719
00:30:08,366 --> 00:30:08,700
Right?

720
00:30:08,799 --> 00:30:11,799
It was like, what, 25 years after the temple had been destroyed.

721
00:30:11,866 --> 00:30:16,400
And there's got to be a temple in Jerusalem to be fulfilled.

722
00:30:16,466 --> 00:30:18,299
There's 2nd Thessalonians 2.4.

723
00:30:18,533 --> 00:30:20,666
There's Revelation 13 that we're going to get to.

724
00:30:20,733 --> 00:30:22,566
There's Daniel nine, Daniel 12.

725
00:30:22,900 --> 00:30:23,366
Yes.

726
00:30:23,366 --> 00:30:26,666
There's Matthew 24, which is a reference back to Daniel where

727
00:30:26,666 --> 00:30:30,266
 Jesus says something about the abomination of desolation in the temple.

728
00:30:30,333 --> 00:30:32,466
So that temple has got to be there.

729
00:30:32,566 --> 00:30:33,766
Absolutely.

730
00:30:33,833 --> 00:30:34,433
Absolutely.

731
00:30:34,466 --> 00:30:37,700
And then the reed or the rod,

732
00:30:37,733 --> 00:30:40,599
 again, like I said, there's a couple different ways.

733
00:30:40,599 --> 00:30:41,200
It's used.

734
00:30:41,266 --> 00:30:43,166
One is chastisement or judgment.

735
00:30:43,233 --> 00:30:44,766
Psalms 29.

736
00:30:45,033 --> 00:30:47,466
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron.

737
00:30:47,566 --> 00:30:51,466
Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.

738
00:30:51,533 --> 00:30:55,233
And then the other way that it's used as comfort, right?

739
00:30:55,299 --> 00:30:58,299
Psalms

740
00:30:58,299 --> 00:31:02,000
 23 and verse four, yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death.

741
00:31:02,066 --> 00:31:05,299
I will fear no evil, for thou art with me, thy

742
00:31:05,333 --> 00:31:07,733
 rod and thy staff, they comfort me.

743
00:31:07,766 --> 00:31:10,933
So 2 different ways that the rod is either used for

744
00:31:10,966 --> 00:31:13,900
 chastisement or the rod is used for comfort.

745
00:31:13,966 --> 00:31:16,299
The temple of God.

746
00:31:16,366 --> 00:31:19,833
Again, like you said, it's a direct reference

747
00:31:19,833 --> 00:31:21,033
 to the holy of holies.

748
00:31:21,166 --> 00:31:24,166
And we're looking at an Old Testament system

749
00:31:24,166 --> 00:31:25,666
 here in these last days.

750
00:31:25,733 --> 00:31:29,566
So right now we have the Holy Spirit living inside of us and we're the temple.

751
00:31:29,633 --> 00:31:32,133
But this is going to be different.

752
00:31:32,133 --> 00:31:35,599
And Ephesians chapter 2, verse, uh, verse

753
00:31:35,633 --> 00:31:38,866
 21, uh, in whom all the building fitly

754
00:31:38,866 --> 00:31:41,866
 framed together, groweth unto a holy temple, and the Lord, in whom

755
00:31:41,866 --> 00:31:45,466
 ye also were, build it together for a habitation of God through the Spirit.

756
00:31:45,533 --> 00:31:46,000
That's us.

757
00:31:46,066 --> 00:31:46,966
That's where we are now.

758
00:31:47,033 --> 00:31:50,266
But during this time, we're looking at the Old Testament

759
00:31:50,266 --> 00:31:51,400
 temple system, aren't we?

760
00:31:51,466 --> 00:31:54,466
The altar is a golden

761
00:31:54,466 --> 00:31:55,533
 altar of prayer.

762
00:31:55,599 --> 00:31:58,633
And since the altar, since

763
00:31:58,666 --> 00:32:02,000
 the altar for burnt offering, was not in the temple

764
00:32:02,033 --> 00:32:05,566
 proper, but it was in the outer court of the temple.

765
00:32:05,633 --> 00:32:08,200
So even the worshipers are to be measured.

766
00:32:08,333 --> 00:32:11,433
And like you said, I just wonder if

767
00:32:11,433 --> 00:32:13,166
 God was measuring us right now.

768
00:32:13,233 --> 00:32:15,500
What would our worship be?

769
00:32:15,566 --> 00:32:17,766
Like, what would our measurement be?

770
00:32:17,799 --> 00:32:20,900
if we were trying to, if he was sizing us up

771
00:32:20,933 --> 00:32:24,033
 and saying, okay, you know, where do you measure up to today?

772
00:32:24,099 --> 00:32:26,833
Like I said, it'll be the judgment seat of Christ on it.

773
00:32:26,933 --> 00:32:27,466
Oh, yeah.

774
00:32:27,533 --> 00:32:27,933
Oh, yeah.

775
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,033
Yeah, we'll be measured there.

776
00:32:30,099 --> 00:32:34,299
The court without the temple was

777
00:32:34,299 --> 00:32:35,299
 not to be measured.

778
00:32:35,366 --> 00:32:38,599
This would be where the cross of Christ is represented,

779
00:32:38,633 --> 00:32:42,033
 given the indication that the cross is still

780
00:32:42,033 --> 00:32:43,466
 going to be a message even in heaven.

781
00:32:43,533 --> 00:32:44,966
They're still going to be talking about it, right?

782
00:32:45,033 --> 00:32:48,366
I mean, even now, at

783
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:51,400
 the very end of this whole thing, the cross, well,

784
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,333
 the message of the cross will never die because it's what got us there.

785
00:32:54,466 --> 00:32:55,533
Yeah.

786
00:32:55,533 --> 00:32:58,766
And, and, uh, for

787
00:32:58,766 --> 00:33:01,766
 it's given into the Gentiles, uh, like you said,

788
00:33:01,766 --> 00:33:05,066
 I mean, we talked about it in Luke 2124.

789
00:33:05,366 --> 00:33:08,366
The Gentiles are still ruling at this time,

790
00:33:08,366 --> 00:33:11,366
 uh, but it'll be short-lived in 48 months,

791
00:33:11,366 --> 00:33:13,500
 uh, where we're looking at right here.

792
00:33:13,599 --> 00:33:16,766
So 3.5 years from this halfway point,

793
00:33:16,766 --> 00:33:18,733
 Christ is coming back.

794
00:33:18,833 --> 00:33:22,000
Israel will be in the place that Christ wanted them

795
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:25,233
 to be at that time and he'll be he'll

796
00:33:25,233 --> 00:33:27,666
 be confirming his covenant with Israel.

797
00:33:27,766 --> 00:33:28,099
right?

798
00:33:28,166 --> 00:33:31,466
And like you said, chapter 12,

799
00:33:31,466 --> 00:33:35,400
 verse 14, 13, 5, Daniel 7, 25, 12, 11.

800
00:33:35,799 --> 00:33:37,466
All those, all those things.

801
00:33:37,533 --> 00:33:38,366
927?

802
00:33:38,433 --> 00:33:38,833
Yep.

803
00:33:38,866 --> 00:33:40,066
So, yeah.

804
00:33:40,133 --> 00:33:41,133
Yeah, yeah.

805
00:33:41,200 --> 00:33:42,566
And it's a, did we read two?

806
00:33:42,633 --> 00:33:44,133
Uh, yes.

807
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:44,500
Yes.

808
00:33:44,566 --> 00:33:45,033
Oh, okay.

809
00:33:45,099 --> 00:33:45,500
Sorry about that.

810
00:33:45,566 --> 00:33:47,099
Yeah, so yeah.

811
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:50,133
42 months, man.

812
00:33:50,200 --> 00:33:53,133
And this is something we talked about when we looked at Daniel, right?

813
00:33:53,200 --> 00:33:56,000
A prophetic year is 360 days.

814
00:33:56,066 --> 00:33:59,099
And that comes from the flood story where

815
00:33:59,133 --> 00:34:02,233
 Moses measured out the months and all these months worked out to so

816
00:34:02,266 --> 00:34:04,833
 many days, which worked out of a year or whatever.

817
00:34:04,900 --> 00:34:07,166
And every month had 30 days in it.

818
00:34:07,233 --> 00:34:10,266
So a prophetic year is 360 days.

819
00:34:10,366 --> 00:34:14,000
And so this 42 months goes exactly to 3.5 years.

820
00:34:14,066 --> 00:34:16,033
Yeah, or 1260 days.

821
00:34:16,133 --> 00:34:19,966
So it's going back to that Daniel stuff and this is what this is.

822
00:34:20,033 --> 00:34:23,066
This is a fulfillment of Daniel chapter nine.

823
00:34:23,199 --> 00:34:24,433
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

824
00:34:24,533 --> 00:34:28,133
This is this, you know, Daniel gave us the big overview and now we're getting the details.

825
00:34:28,166 --> 00:34:28,866
That's right.

826
00:34:28,966 --> 00:34:29,199
Yeah.

827
00:34:29,266 --> 00:34:29,566
Yeah.

828
00:34:29,633 --> 00:34:32,433
But man, this is powerful stuff, though.

829
00:34:32,500 --> 00:34:35,733
But I'll tell you, I'll tell you, y'all, anybody listening, hang on,

830
00:34:35,733 --> 00:34:39,866
 hang on with us because this is going to get some some wild stuff the way it is.

831
00:34:39,866 --> 00:34:40,099
It is.

832
00:34:40,133 --> 00:34:43,166
Twists and turns in here because we're kind

833
00:34:43,166 --> 00:34:45,599
 of in another one of those interlude situations.

834
00:34:45,699 --> 00:34:46,599
Right.

835
00:34:46,599 --> 00:34:48,133
You know, and then we're going to hit the bowls.

836
00:34:48,233 --> 00:34:48,866
That's right

837
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,266
Yeah, it's going to break loose again.

838
00:34:51,333 --> 00:34:54,266
The end of chapter 11 kind of gets...

839
00:34:54,333 --> 00:34:55,266
A little dicey.

840
00:34:55,366 --> 00:34:57,466
It's like how does this stuff fit together chronologically?

841
00:34:57,533 --> 00:34:58,366
Right, right.

842
00:34:58,466 --> 00:35:00,133
But I'm here to learn.

843
00:35:00,233 --> 00:35:00,833
Amen.

844
00:35:00,866 --> 00:35:01,266
Amen.

845
00:35:01,366 --> 00:35:01,833
Me too.

846
00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:02,366
Me too.

847
00:35:02,433 --> 00:35:04,699
Go with the next verse there.

848
00:35:04,766 --> 00:35:05,466
Yeah, yeah.

849
00:35:05,566 --> 00:35:06,400
Verse three.

850
00:35:06,466 --> 00:35:09,500
And I will grant authority to my 2 witnesses and

851
00:35:09,533 --> 00:35:13,666
 they will prophesy for 1260 days clothed in sackcloth.

852
00:35:13,733 --> 00:35:16,900
So this is 42 months, and this is 3,

853
00:35:16,900 --> 00:35:18,033
 uh, 360.

854
00:35:18,266 --> 00:35:19,866
This is yeah, 3.5 years.

855
00:35:19,966 --> 00:35:20,733
Yeah, yeah.

856
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:21,500
years.

857
00:35:21,566 --> 00:35:22,699
Three score days, right?

858
00:35:22,766 --> 00:35:25,333
So yeah, man.

859
00:35:25,433 --> 00:35:28,733
So we know exactly who these 2 witnesses are, right?

860
00:35:28,766 --> 00:35:29,400
No.

861
00:35:29,433 --> 00:35:29,766
No.

862
00:35:29,866 --> 00:35:31,066
No, we don't.

863
00:35:31,133 --> 00:35:34,666
I mean, who

864
00:35:34,666 --> 00:35:37,366
 these 2 guys are when it really comes right down to it doesn't matter.

865
00:35:37,466 --> 00:35:38,166
It doesn't matter.

866
00:35:38,266 --> 00:35:41,566
Now, my opinion based on scripture is

867
00:35:41,566 --> 00:35:44,566
 that one of these witnesses is probably Elijah.

868
00:35:44,633 --> 00:35:47,800
He tells us in Malachi

869
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,966
 chapter 4, verse five, behold, I will send you Elijah the

870
00:35:50,966 --> 00:35:54,199
 prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

871
00:35:54,333 --> 00:35:58,233
So we can, we may be able to bank on that.

872
00:35:58,233 --> 00:36:01,699
And then Matthew 1711 and Jesus answered

873
00:36:01,733 --> 00:36:04,733
 and said to them, Elias, who's Elijah, truly shall

874
00:36:04,733 --> 00:36:06,933
 1st come and restore all things.

875
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,900
But as to the identity of the

876
00:36:10,900 --> 00:36:14,133
 other witness, someone say it was Moses because

877
00:36:14,133 --> 00:36:17,599
 he was there with Elijah on the Mount of Transfiguration.

878
00:36:17,666 --> 00:36:18,900
turned the river to blood.

879
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:20,000
Yeah, yeah.

880
00:36:20,066 --> 00:36:23,099
Others suggest it could be John the Baptist, since he was

881
00:36:23,133 --> 00:36:24,366
 the forerunner of Christ.

882
00:36:24,466 --> 00:36:27,466
In the New Testament, Elijah

883
00:36:27,466 --> 00:36:31,300
 would be the witness of the Old Testament, but Elijah,

884
00:36:31,300 --> 00:36:34,833
 and John would have been the sackcloth

885
00:36:34,833 --> 00:36:35,833
 wearers.

886
00:36:36,099 --> 00:36:38,533
you know, so I would try...

887
00:36:38,633 --> 00:36:39,766
Yeah, yeah, or Enoch.

888
00:36:39,833 --> 00:36:40,000
Yeah.

889
00:36:40,066 --> 00:36:41,266
Yeah, with God.

890
00:36:41,333 --> 00:36:41,500
Right.

891
00:36:41,566 --> 00:36:42,500
Just like Elijah.

892
00:36:42,566 --> 00:36:44,900
You know, but I don't know.

893
00:36:44,966 --> 00:36:47,666
I'm not going to try to guess without scripture to back it up.

894
00:36:47,733 --> 00:36:50,533
But, you know, hey, I think.

895
00:36:50,633 --> 00:36:51,933
and I don't know, man.

896
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:55,466
I've always thought it was Elijah and, you know, just because they both got raptured,

897
00:36:55,466 --> 00:36:58,633
 you know, but really, there's not a lot to base that

898
00:36:58,666 --> 00:37:01,533
 on because there's going to be 1000000s raptured right before all this happens.

899
00:37:01,599 --> 00:37:03,133
And you're not coming back.

900
00:37:03,233 --> 00:37:05,566
And we look at John the Baptist.

901
00:37:05,633 --> 00:37:07,433
He was Elijah who was to come.

902
00:37:07,466 --> 00:37:08,699
Jesus told his disciples.

903
00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,933
If you if you can hear it, he was Elijah, who's to come.

904
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,766
I think and nobody, there's no reincarnation.

905
00:37:16,833 --> 00:37:17,366
No.

906
00:37:17,366 --> 00:37:17,666
No.

907
00:37:17,666 --> 00:37:18,066
No.

908
00:37:18,166 --> 00:37:22,099
It's not going to literally be Moses or Elijah or any of these guys.

909
00:37:22,166 --> 00:37:24,733
I think it's going to be 2 regular guys that are completely sold out.

910
00:37:24,866 --> 00:37:26,300
to God.

911
00:37:26,366 --> 00:37:27,366
Yeah, very well.

912
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,199
God's just going to like light them up.

913
00:37:29,266 --> 00:37:30,199
Yeah, yeah.

914
00:37:30,266 --> 00:37:33,266
Yeah, because it's hard, which I don't want to get ahead of

915
00:37:33,266 --> 00:37:36,300
 us here, but it's hard to look at, okay, you know,

916
00:37:36,333 --> 00:37:39,333
 Moses and Elijah, are they, um,

917
00:37:39,333 --> 00:37:42,366
 are they 2 guys that's already got their, their, their glorified

918
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,400
 bodies, you know, at this point in this time and then they come

919
00:37:45,400 --> 00:37:47,066
 back and then we know that they're, guess what?

920
00:37:47,133 --> 00:37:48,800
They're going to die and then they're going to come back to life.

921
00:37:49,300 --> 00:37:51,266
So it's, you know, yeah.

922
00:37:51,333 --> 00:37:53,300
I think both these guys will have that spirit about them.

923
00:37:53,366 --> 00:37:54,300
Yeah, yeah.

924
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:57,800
But, I mean, at least these guys could be walking around right now.

925
00:37:57,866 --> 00:37:58,466
That's right

926
00:37:58,666 --> 00:37:59,599
Yeah, they could be.

927
00:37:59,666 --> 00:38:00,000
Could be.

928
00:38:00,033 --> 00:38:00,633
They could be.

929
00:38:00,699 --> 00:38:04,300
And these next verses, what they're able to do.

930
00:38:04,366 --> 00:38:06,500
Oh, man, yeah, yeah.

931
00:38:06,566 --> 00:38:08,000
are we on verse four?

932
00:38:08,066 --> 00:38:08,966
Oh, yeah.

933
00:38:08,966 --> 00:38:12,133
There are the 2 olive trees.

934
00:38:12,233 --> 00:38:16,000
These are the 2 olive trees and the 2 candlesticks standing before the

935
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,000
 god of the earth.

936
00:38:17,066 --> 00:38:20,066
And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of

937
00:38:20,066 --> 00:38:23,833
 their mouth, and devoureth their enemies,

938
00:38:23,866 --> 00:38:26,866
 and if any man will hurt them, he must, in

939
00:38:26,866 --> 00:38:28,099
 this manner, be killed.

940
00:38:28,166 --> 00:38:31,333
Um, Zachariah,

941
00:38:31,366 --> 00:38:32,800
 chapter 4, hey.

942
00:38:32,800 --> 00:38:33,500
That's good stuff, eh?

943
00:38:33,633 --> 00:38:36,633
Yeah, yeah, he, uh, I hate

944
00:38:36,633 --> 00:38:39,933
 to read all this, but we Man, you can just probably just read verse 14.

945
00:38:40,066 --> 00:38:42,166
Yeah, yeah, let's do that.

946
00:38:42,233 --> 00:38:45,266
And I say, no, my lord, then

947
00:38:45,266 --> 00:38:48,433
 he said, these are the 2 anointed ones that stand

948
00:38:48,466 --> 00:38:50,666
 by the lord of the whole earth.

949
00:38:50,733 --> 00:38:53,433
So if you want to go if you want to go back and read it.

950
00:38:53,500 --> 00:38:55,033
Go back to verse one.

951
00:38:55,133 --> 00:38:56,566
those 14 verses there.

952
00:38:56,633 --> 00:38:58,166
yeah, yeah, you're exactly right.

953
00:38:58,233 --> 00:39:00,566
The 2 anointed ones.

954
00:39:00,633 --> 00:39:02,366
Stand by the Lord about it.

955
00:39:02,433 --> 00:39:03,199
Yeah.

956
00:39:03,233 --> 00:39:04,233
Who are these guys?

957
00:39:04,300 --> 00:39:06,633
They're worthy, right?

958
00:39:06,699 --> 00:39:09,866
I mean, they've got great power and

959
00:39:09,866 --> 00:39:12,966
 they they both are

960
00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:15,800
 immortal almost to a certain point, right?

961
00:39:15,866 --> 00:39:19,866
I mean, they're for their purpose to serve.

962
00:39:19,966 --> 00:39:23,133
And the immortality comes from the power of God,

963
00:39:23,133 --> 00:39:26,133
 of course, it's more like they're sealed until their job is done.

964
00:39:26,199 --> 00:39:27,733
Their power.

965
00:39:27,833 --> 00:39:29,133
It comes to the Holy Spirit.

966
00:39:29,199 --> 00:39:29,800
Oh, absolutely.

967
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:31,833
This is where we see the Holy Spirit working.

968
00:39:31,900 --> 00:39:33,633
This is where we see the Holy Spirit.

969
00:39:33,699 --> 00:39:37,300
not residing in the church as it

970
00:39:37,300 --> 00:39:41,833
 does now, but the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit coming and as he done.

971
00:39:41,933 --> 00:39:43,900
Because how are the 144,000 sealed.

972
00:39:43,966 --> 00:39:45,699
They're sealed by the Holy Spirit of God, right?

973
00:39:45,766 --> 00:39:46,766
Same way we are today.

974
00:39:46,833 --> 00:39:50,300
And then we see these 2 witnesses out there,

975
00:39:50,333 --> 00:39:54,266
 and the Holy Spirit's doing a great work in them, and he's empowering them to be able to do what they're doing.

976
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:57,800
Yeah, and the crazy thing is that these

977
00:39:57,833 --> 00:40:00,766
 guys, except the Holy Spirit willingly.

978
00:40:00,833 --> 00:40:01,900
They yield to it.

979
00:40:01,966 --> 00:40:03,933
Just like we're supposed to do, right?

980
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:07,833
These are normal, ordinary average human beings, just like me and you.

981
00:40:07,900 --> 00:40:08,300
Right.

982
00:40:08,333 --> 00:40:09,766
They're just there's people.

983
00:40:09,833 --> 00:40:11,266
But to yield to it.

984
00:40:11,333 --> 00:40:11,933
Yeah, yeah.

985
00:40:12,033 --> 00:40:12,366
Give it.

986
00:40:12,466 --> 00:40:15,199
Imagine what we could do if we yield into the Holy Spirit, right?

987
00:40:15,233 --> 00:40:16,533
Or to the Holy Ghost.

988
00:40:16,599 --> 00:40:18,133
Let's just say the Holy Ghost, you know?

989
00:40:18,766 --> 00:40:21,166
There's power in that word.

990
00:40:21,233 --> 00:40:24,566
First King's

991
00:40:24,566 --> 00:40:25,933
 1838.

992
00:40:26,199 --> 00:40:29,433
Also, the fact of fire devouring their

993
00:40:29,433 --> 00:40:32,666
 enemies would further suggest that

994
00:40:32,666 --> 00:40:35,833
 this could be Elijah

995
00:40:35,866 --> 00:40:39,866
 or somebody with the spirit of Elijah, like you said, 1st

996
00:40:39,866 --> 00:40:43,766
 Kings 1838, then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the sacrifice

997
00:40:43,766 --> 00:40:48,500
 and the wood and the stones and the dust and licked up the water that was in the trench.

998
00:40:48,566 --> 00:40:52,266
So it'll be something like the spirit of Elijah,

999
00:40:52,300 --> 00:40:53,966
 on that person, wouldn't it?

1000
00:40:54,033 --> 00:40:54,433
Yeah, yeah.

1001
00:40:54,533 --> 00:40:55,833
Now, the Holy Spirit.

1002
00:40:55,900 --> 00:40:58,900
And again, where do I get his power from?

1003
00:40:58,966 --> 00:41:00,800
The Holy Spirit, right?

1004
00:41:00,866 --> 00:41:03,866
So whoever this is, they're allowing the Holy Spirit

1005
00:41:03,866 --> 00:41:06,866
 to use them like Elijah allowed the Holy Spirit

1006
00:41:06,866 --> 00:41:10,566
 to use them like Moses, allowed the Holy Spirit to use him, right?

1007
00:41:10,666 --> 00:41:11,566
So, yeah.

1008
00:41:11,633 --> 00:41:15,166
Well, and I always, I always, every time I see this, and I,

1009
00:41:15,166 --> 00:41:18,199
 you know, always my mind goes directly where, you know,

1010
00:41:18,233 --> 00:41:20,433
 what y'all are saying, they're allowing the Holy Spirit to use them.

1011
00:41:20,500 --> 00:41:24,099
But I always go back to what Christ told the disciples.

1012
00:41:24,166 --> 00:41:26,266
And if you just had the faith of a mustard seed.

1013
00:41:26,333 --> 00:41:29,333
You can say to this mountain bee casting, that this is what

1014
00:41:29,333 --> 00:41:30,633
 mustard seed faith looks like.

1015
00:41:30,699 --> 00:41:31,633
Yeah, yeah.

1016
00:41:31,666 --> 00:41:33,266
Except it's not a mustard.

1017
00:41:33,333 --> 00:41:33,500
See.

1018
00:41:33,566 --> 00:41:34,500
This is what real faith.

1019
00:41:34,599 --> 00:41:35,966
It's not a mustard seed.

1020
00:41:36,033 --> 00:41:39,433
They got faith the size of a football stadium because they're just not.

1021
00:41:39,533 --> 00:41:42,866
I mean, they're just doing exactly what the spirit moves them to do exactly

1022
00:41:42,866 --> 00:41:44,099
 what God commands.

1023
00:41:44,199 --> 00:41:45,199
They're not questioning it.

1024
00:41:45,266 --> 00:41:49,033
And as people are coming against them, they're going, no, no, no.

1025
00:41:49,133 --> 00:41:51,466
And their enemies are just falling in front of them.

1026
00:41:51,533 --> 00:41:53,333
I mean, God is anointing these people.

1027
00:41:53,366 --> 00:41:57,199
When people talk about the anointed of God, you're

1028
00:41:57,233 --> 00:42:00,099
 expected to act like this, you're expected to behave the way they are.

1029
00:42:00,166 --> 00:42:03,933
You're expected to go and move and not be

1030
00:42:03,933 --> 00:42:07,166
 moved by the things of the world and not be coward, you

1031
00:42:07,166 --> 00:42:10,933
 know, not cower in front of the attacks that Satan throws at you.

1032
00:42:11,033 --> 00:42:13,133
And far too often.

1033
00:42:13,166 --> 00:42:14,699
That's not what we see.

1034
00:42:14,866 --> 00:42:16,400
And I see a lot of people.

1035
00:42:16,466 --> 00:42:17,599
And I will say this.

1036
00:42:17,666 --> 00:42:20,699
A lot of people want to go to this and

1037
00:42:20,733 --> 00:42:22,400
 point out, these are the anointing to God.

1038
00:42:22,466 --> 00:42:24,266
See, nobody can come up against them.

1039
00:42:24,333 --> 00:42:27,366
Anybody that's anointed to God, oh, you got, you can't ever be

1040
00:42:27,400 --> 00:42:30,933
 saying nothing about somebody that's out here doing these awful things because they're anointed to God.

1041
00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:32,833
I'm like, Yeah.

1042
00:42:32,966 --> 00:42:34,800
No, these guys aren't acting like that.

1043
00:42:34,900 --> 00:42:35,900
Yeah, yeah.

1044
00:42:35,966 --> 00:42:39,000
No, they they come to preach the gospel

1045
00:42:39,033 --> 00:42:41,233
 and people are coming against them for preaching the gospel.

1046
00:42:41,366 --> 00:42:41,533
Exactly.

1047
00:42:41,633 --> 00:42:41,933
Truth.

1048
00:42:41,966 --> 00:42:45,500
There is nobody, there is nobody out here attack,

1049
00:42:45,533 --> 00:42:48,566
 able to attack them from, uh,

1050
00:42:48,566 --> 00:42:51,666
 a standpoint of they actually did something that that was

1051
00:42:51,699 --> 00:42:55,166
 dishonorable or or sinful

1052
00:42:55,166 --> 00:42:58,166
 in front of everybody to the point that they're out here just living, living

1053
00:42:58,166 --> 00:43:01,166
 life however they want to, and then going and saying, oh,

1054
00:43:01,166 --> 00:43:02,233
 yeah, we're going to prophesy.

1055
00:43:02,333 --> 00:43:03,266
no that's not what they're doing.

1056
00:43:03,400 --> 00:43:04,833
They're sold.

1057
00:43:04,900 --> 00:43:06,866
as you put it, what'd you say?

1058
00:43:06,933 --> 00:43:07,533
They're sold out.

1059
00:43:07,599 --> 00:43:08,233
Sold out.

1060
00:43:08,266 --> 00:43:09,699
I sold out.

1061
00:43:09,699 --> 00:43:13,633
And what we really believe is what really comes out, you know?

1062
00:43:13,733 --> 00:43:17,066
And these guys have just completely, completely

1063
00:43:17,066 --> 00:43:18,599
 gone into the Lord's hands.

1064
00:43:18,699 --> 00:43:21,333
I mean, and man, get the noise out, right?

1065
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:24,800
Get the noise out of our lives out of our heads and we

1066
00:43:24,833 --> 00:43:26,500
 could be strong Christians like this.

1067
00:43:26,566 --> 00:43:29,866
I mean, God's not going to cost us to have fire flowing

1068
00:43:29,866 --> 00:43:31,833
 out of their mouth and kill people more likely.

1069
00:43:31,900 --> 00:43:33,033
That's probably not his will.

1070
00:43:33,099 --> 00:43:35,066
That's for certain time in a certain place.

1071
00:43:35,133 --> 00:43:36,033
Right, right, right.

1072
00:43:36,099 --> 00:43:38,800
But other things, man, we can make...

1073
00:43:38,866 --> 00:43:43,000
Comes

1074
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:44,133
 out everywhere, but yeah.

1075
00:43:44,199 --> 00:43:44,599
Okay.

1076
00:43:44,666 --> 00:43:45,066
I'm sorry.

1077
00:43:45,166 --> 00:43:48,266
But to

1078
00:43:48,266 --> 00:43:51,733
 have that same stance where you're standing unafraid

1079
00:43:51,766 --> 00:43:53,199
 when the attacks come.

1080
00:43:53,266 --> 00:43:57,033
I mean, that is something that we do have the power to do and we do, we are called to do.

1081
00:43:57,099 --> 00:44:00,400
And we don't we don't know what kind of difference that when

1082
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:03,500
 we're sold out, what kind of what kind of crazy stuff is happening in

1083
00:44:03,533 --> 00:44:04,900
 the spiritual world that we can't see.

1084
00:44:04,966 --> 00:44:05,900
Exactly.

1085
00:44:05,966 --> 00:44:08,400
We have no we have no way to see it right now.

1086
00:44:08,500 --> 00:44:10,533
It's called a sword of the spirit for a reason.

1087
00:44:10,599 --> 00:44:13,599
There's some wild stuff happening that we're

1088
00:44:13,599 --> 00:44:14,666
 going to find out about one of these days.

1089
00:44:15,333 --> 00:44:15,633
that's right

1090
00:44:15,766 --> 00:44:17,966
through prayers and whatever else we're doing.

1091
00:44:18,033 --> 00:44:18,666
Yes.

1092
00:44:18,766 --> 00:44:22,400
You know, the Bible refers to the

1093
00:44:22,433 --> 00:44:25,433
 number of times that you entertain an angel unaware and things like that, but

1094
00:44:25,433 --> 00:44:27,233
 I'm, I, there's battles.

1095
00:44:27,333 --> 00:44:28,633
It's going on constantly.

1096
00:44:28,733 --> 00:44:30,266
It's constantly happening.

1097
00:44:30,333 --> 00:44:33,333
And I think when we're moving like we should with God,

1098
00:44:33,333 --> 00:44:36,433
 with God's spirit and we're going where the spirit leads us and we're

1099
00:44:36,466 --> 00:44:39,400
 doing what God called us to do, Satan's losing ground.

1100
00:44:39,466 --> 00:44:40,900
It's just that simple.

1101
00:44:40,966 --> 00:44:43,966
Around you and in the things that you do, he's losing ground.

1102
00:44:44,033 --> 00:44:45,699
Well, those battles are to stop us.

1103
00:44:45,766 --> 00:44:49,400
They're to stop the church, the the,

1104
00:44:49,433 --> 00:44:52,599
 the, the bride of Christ from moving forward and and

1105
00:44:52,599 --> 00:44:56,000
 sharing the gospel and and telling the world about Jesus, right?

1106
00:44:56,066 --> 00:44:59,166
And then the other the other battle that's

1107
00:44:59,199 --> 00:45:02,733
 going on is for the souls of those that are lost that

1108
00:45:02,733 --> 00:45:04,266
 they would never be saved.

1109
00:45:04,433 --> 00:45:08,566
And if he can quieten the church, then he can he can keep people from being saved.

1110
00:45:08,633 --> 00:45:11,966
And so yeah, that battle is just is constantly going on around us.

1111
00:45:12,033 --> 00:45:14,000
But that's why we can't stop, right?

1112
00:45:14,066 --> 00:45:17,833
No matter what happens, no matter what we go through as a church, no

1113
00:45:17,866 --> 00:45:21,266
 matter what kind of tragedy or troubles or trials that hit us.

1114
00:45:21,333 --> 00:45:24,433
If we believe that this is the truth and we know that we

1115
00:45:24,466 --> 00:45:27,566
 live in a fallen world and bad things are going to happen to good people and all

1116
00:45:27,566 --> 00:45:30,566
 those things, if we truly believe that as a

1117
00:45:30,566 --> 00:45:31,866
 church, then we can't stop.

1118
00:45:31,966 --> 00:45:35,066
We just got to keep going forward and forward and forward and forward and

1119
00:45:35,066 --> 00:45:36,599
 not be stopped in our tracks, right?

1120
00:45:36,699 --> 00:45:38,833
Take out take out the evil one.

1121
00:45:38,933 --> 00:45:42,099
I remember I was watching some clip on Facebook

1122
00:45:42,099 --> 00:45:45,266
 or somewhere of an ex-Georgia player,

1123
00:45:45,266 --> 00:45:46,466
 bulldogs, football, you know.

1124
00:45:46,533 --> 00:45:47,966
Yeah, the dogs.

1125
00:45:48,033 --> 00:45:48,566
Yeah.

1126
00:45:48,566 --> 00:45:51,566
But

1127
00:45:51,566 --> 00:45:53,233
 he was he was saying in running back room.

1128
00:45:53,333 --> 00:45:56,433
These guys had a had a motto, but, you know, when Nick Chubb and

1129
00:45:56,433 --> 00:46:00,133
 Gurley and some of those some of those guys were there and he said, instead

1130
00:46:00,166 --> 00:46:03,766
 of running out of bounds, when somebody's about to attack you, take one of them with you.

1131
00:46:03,833 --> 00:46:04,466
Yeah.

1132
00:46:04,466 --> 00:46:05,699
Take one of them with you.

1133
00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:08,233
Make them put you out of bounds, right?

1134
00:46:08,333 --> 00:46:11,266
And then we need to be living our Christian lives exactly the same way.

1135
00:46:11,333 --> 00:46:12,099
Absolutely.

1136
00:46:12,099 --> 00:46:12,866
Take them with you.

1137
00:46:12,933 --> 00:46:13,400
right.

1138
00:46:13,466 --> 00:46:16,633
They're going to push you out of bounds, push you out of the game.

1139
00:46:16,733 --> 00:46:17,566
Yeah absolutely.

1140
00:46:17,633 --> 00:46:19,466
We got to have this fight in spirit about it.

1141
00:46:19,533 --> 00:46:20,466
Oh, you should, yeah.

1142
00:46:20,566 --> 00:46:21,699
Man, we're so wimpy.

1143
00:46:21,766 --> 00:46:22,366
Yeah we are.

1144
00:46:22,433 --> 00:46:24,099
It's like, oh, it's a bad thing happen.

1145
00:46:24,166 --> 00:46:25,533
I'm going to go sit in my room for 12.

1146
00:46:25,900 --> 00:46:26,433
Yeah, let me cry.

1147
00:46:26,433 --> 00:46:28,033
Or I had a bad week.

1148
00:46:28,166 --> 00:46:30,366
You know, I just don't feel very spiritual today.

1149
00:46:30,466 --> 00:46:32,199
Warriors, man.

1150
00:46:32,199 --> 00:46:35,300
And it's kind of what my thoughts were Sunday when, I mean,

1151
00:46:35,333 --> 00:46:38,333
 that we get so caught up on what God can

1152
00:46:38,333 --> 00:46:41,866
 do, what God has done, and that we,

1153
00:46:41,866 --> 00:46:45,699
 we, we can not to think about what he, what he, what he'll do right now, right?

1154
00:46:45,766 --> 00:46:46,300
Yeah.

1155
00:46:46,366 --> 00:46:47,133
in your life.

1156
00:46:47,199 --> 00:46:50,833
And so, yeah, just because bad

1157
00:46:50,866 --> 00:46:52,666
 times come does not mean we stop.

1158
00:46:52,733 --> 00:46:53,633
We just keep going forward.

1159
00:46:53,666 --> 00:46:54,300
Yeah.

1160
00:46:54,333 --> 00:46:54,733
Yeah.

1161
00:46:54,833 --> 00:46:56,800
I think I think that's where we tackle them, right?

1162
00:46:56,933 --> 00:46:57,866
Take one with you.

1163
00:46:57,933 --> 00:46:58,533
Amen.

1164
00:46:58,599 --> 00:47:00,733
Or two.

1165
00:47:00,833 --> 00:47:02,033
Yeah.

1166
00:47:02,066 --> 00:47:04,333
verse six, verse six.

1167
00:47:04,466 --> 00:47:07,766
These have the power to shut up the sky so that rain will

1168
00:47:07,766 --> 00:47:10,766
 not fall during the days that are prophesying and they have

1169
00:47:10,766 --> 00:47:13,766
 power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the

1170
00:47:13,766 --> 00:47:16,766
 earth with every plague as often as they desire.

1171
00:47:16,833 --> 00:47:17,766
And that crazy?

1172
00:47:17,866 --> 00:47:19,966
These are the most powerful prophets that have ever lived.

1173
00:47:20,066 --> 00:47:21,000
It is, yeah.

1174
00:47:21,166 --> 00:47:21,500
Yeah, yeah.

1175
00:47:21,566 --> 00:47:23,599
All these things they're able to do.

1176
00:47:23,666 --> 00:47:26,066
And it's like they've got the foreknowledge to do it, right?

1177
00:47:26,133 --> 00:47:29,366
I mean, when you look back at Moses and Elijah,

1178
00:47:29,366 --> 00:47:32,599
 it was like, okay, you know, God's telling them, okay, here's what you need to do now.

1179
00:47:32,666 --> 00:47:33,433
here what you need to do now.

1180
00:47:33,533 --> 00:47:34,366
Here's what I'm going to do now.

1181
00:47:34,433 --> 00:47:35,366
Here's what I'm going to do now.

1182
00:47:35,433 --> 00:47:37,533
God says here, I'm just going to give you this, right?

1183
00:47:37,599 --> 00:47:39,500
Christ said, I'm going to give you this power.

1184
00:47:39,566 --> 00:47:41,000
And you know what you need to do with it?

1185
00:47:41,066 --> 00:47:41,599
Now go do it.

1186
00:47:41,666 --> 00:47:41,900
Yeah.

1187
00:47:41,933 --> 00:47:44,333
And they got that radio tuned in exactly right.

1188
00:47:44,366 --> 00:47:44,766
They did.

1189
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:48,566
The noise is being blocked out and they're just perfectly in tune.

1190
00:47:48,633 --> 00:47:51,933
Yeah, so we see several other suggestions

1191
00:47:51,933 --> 00:47:54,966
 that, you know, I mean, there's indications

1192
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:58,000
 who it could be, who it's not, but all we know is these

1193
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:00,733
 men have great power through Jesus Christ.

1194
00:48:00,833 --> 00:48:01,433
Yeah.

1195
00:48:01,466 --> 00:48:02,366
That's what we know.

1196
00:48:02,500 --> 00:48:05,500
Hey, man, that's what we got to focus on too, is that it's

1197
00:48:05,500 --> 00:48:06,933
 Jesus power, not theirs.

1198
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:07,633
That's right.

1199
00:48:07,733 --> 00:48:08,066
right.

1200
00:48:08,133 --> 00:48:09,966
Verse seven.

1201
00:48:10,066 --> 00:48:13,533
And when they shall have finished their

1202
00:48:13,533 --> 00:48:16,533
 testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of

1203
00:48:16,533 --> 00:48:19,699
 the bottomless pit shall make war against them and

1204
00:48:19,733 --> 00:48:21,533
 shall overcome them and kill them.

1205
00:48:21,633 --> 00:48:24,666
So just as when Christ

1206
00:48:24,699 --> 00:48:27,699
 earthly ministry was finished when he died, and now we see

1207
00:48:27,699 --> 00:48:30,699
 the what we think or

1208
00:48:30,699 --> 00:48:33,333
 what the enemy thinks is the end of these 2 men.

1209
00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:37,400
But they do not die until their work is done.

1210
00:48:37,466 --> 00:48:38,666
Just like Christ, right?

1211
00:48:38,733 --> 00:48:42,033
And Christ allows it to happen.

1212
00:48:42,099 --> 00:48:44,433
He allows it to finish up.

1213
00:48:44,500 --> 00:48:48,333
Of course, we know that this victory that

1214
00:48:48,333 --> 00:48:52,233
 Satan thinks he has or the enemy thinks he has, is

1215
00:48:52,233 --> 00:48:55,266
 short-lived, and these 2 men, they're going to live up

1216
00:48:55,300 --> 00:48:58,466
 to their name as witness, which is the Greek word for

1217
00:48:58,466 --> 00:49:01,033
 Mardas, which we get our word martyr from.

1218
00:49:01,133 --> 00:49:03,266
And they're going to glorify God in this.

1219
00:49:03,333 --> 00:49:05,066
And God's going to glorify himself in this.

1220
00:49:05,133 --> 00:49:06,366
Yeah, and then them dying.

1221
00:49:06,466 --> 00:49:07,066
That's right.

1222
00:49:07,066 --> 00:49:08,566
And, man, that's crazy.

1223
00:49:08,633 --> 00:49:11,733
And there's there's actually in Revelation, I can't remember what

1224
00:49:11,733 --> 00:49:14,966
 chapter and verse are, but there's 3 different references to beasts

1225
00:49:14,966 --> 00:49:16,400
 in Revelation.

1226
00:49:16,466 --> 00:49:19,199
2 of them are in chapter 13, I think.

1227
00:49:19,300 --> 00:49:22,099
But this one says the beast that comes up out of the bottomless pit.

1228
00:49:22,166 --> 00:49:23,066
That's Satan.

1229
00:49:23,133 --> 00:49:24,199
Yeah, yeah.

1230
00:49:24,266 --> 00:49:27,300
And then there's a beast that comes up out of the sea, which

1231
00:49:27,333 --> 00:49:28,400
 is the Antichrist.

1232
00:49:28,466 --> 00:49:28,766
Yeah.

1233
00:49:28,766 --> 00:49:31,866
Then there's a beast that comes up out of the earth, which is the false Christ.

1234
00:49:31,966 --> 00:49:32,666
A false prophet.

1235
00:49:32,733 --> 00:49:32,766
yeah

1236
00:49:32,933 --> 00:49:33,166
Yeah.

1237
00:49:33,233 --> 00:49:34,533
false religious leader, right?

1238
00:49:34,599 --> 00:49:36,566
Yeah, yeah.

1239
00:49:36,633 --> 00:49:38,766
We might, let's see, what time is it?

1240
00:49:38,866 --> 00:49:39,466
705.

1241
00:49:39,699 --> 00:49:41,666
Let me get one more at least.

1242
00:49:42,099 --> 00:49:42,400
I know.

1243
00:49:42,466 --> 00:49:43,233
I don't know what happened.

1244
00:49:43,366 --> 00:49:44,433
Just vanished.

1245
00:49:44,566 --> 00:49:46,000
Gosh, seems like I just got here.

1246
00:49:46,066 --> 00:49:52,466
Let's

1247
00:49:52,466 --> 00:49:53,666
 go into verse eight.

1248
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:54,433
11 8?

1249
00:49:54,533 --> 00:49:57,766
And their dead bodies shall line the street,

1250
00:49:57,766 --> 00:50:01,066
 the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt,

1251
00:50:01,066 --> 00:50:04,366
 where also our Lord is crucified.

1252
00:50:04,433 --> 00:50:07,466
And they of the people, and the kindreds, and they

1253
00:50:07,466 --> 00:50:10,500
 of the people, and the kindreds and tongues and nations shall see

1254
00:50:10,533 --> 00:50:13,833
 their dead bodies 3 days and a half and

1255
00:50:13,833 --> 00:50:17,833
 shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put into grace.

1256
00:50:17,933 --> 00:50:21,333
And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them and make merry

1257
00:50:21,333 --> 00:50:24,633
 and shall send gifts one to another because these

1258
00:50:24,633 --> 00:50:27,500
 2 prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

1259
00:50:27,566 --> 00:50:30,800
And after 3 days and a half , the spirit of

1260
00:50:30,833 --> 00:50:33,933
 life from God entered into them and they stood

1261
00:50:33,933 --> 00:50:37,533
 up on their feet, great fear fell upon them, which saw them.

1262
00:50:37,599 --> 00:50:40,933
And I'm going to read verse 12 and we can stop there,

1263
00:50:40,966 --> 00:50:44,066
 and they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, come up hither,

1264
00:50:44,066 --> 00:50:47,166
 and they ascended up to heaven in a cloud, and their

1265
00:50:47,199 --> 00:50:48,633
 enemies beheld them.

1266
00:50:48,699 --> 00:50:52,833
I'm talking about this is some good stuff right here.

1267
00:50:52,900 --> 00:50:56,233
I mean, these men were despised by the world.

1268
00:50:56,333 --> 00:51:00,233
They were left to rot in the streets and and

1269
00:51:00,233 --> 00:51:04,066
 then we see this great city Jerusalem.

1270
00:51:04,133 --> 00:51:05,433
Isaiah 110.

1271
00:51:05,633 --> 00:51:08,666
Hear the word of the Lord, ye rulers of Sodom, give ear under the

1272
00:51:08,666 --> 00:51:10,500
 law of God, ye people of Gomorrah.

1273
00:51:10,599 --> 00:51:13,766
So Isaiah's talking about to Israel here

1274
00:51:13,766 --> 00:51:15,800
 referring to them like Sodom.

1275
00:51:15,866 --> 00:51:20,233
I mean, it's also called Egypt

1276
00:51:20,266 --> 00:51:23,800
 in verse 8 because of the world's influence on it, right?

1277
00:51:23,866 --> 00:51:26,133
So we see those similarities.

1278
00:51:26,199 --> 00:51:26,966
And it's Jerusalem.

1279
00:51:27,033 --> 00:51:27,500
It is.

1280
00:51:27,566 --> 00:51:27,866
Yeah.

1281
00:51:27,933 --> 00:51:28,699
absolutely.

1282
00:51:28,766 --> 00:51:29,366
Yeah.

1283
00:51:29,433 --> 00:51:30,033
Yeah.

1284
00:51:30,099 --> 00:51:33,733
And man, can we can we read 13?

1285
00:51:33,833 --> 00:51:34,133
Sure.

1286
00:51:34,166 --> 00:51:34,333
Yeah.

1287
00:51:34,433 --> 00:51:38,333
It says, and in that hour, there was a great earthquake and a 10th that the city fell.

1288
00:51:38,366 --> 00:51:41,466
7000 people were killed in the earthquake and the rest were

1289
00:51:41,500 --> 00:51:43,766
 terrified and gave glory to the God of heaven.

1290
00:51:43,833 --> 00:51:44,433
Amen.

1291
00:51:44,500 --> 00:51:45,633
The 2nd war was passed.

1292
00:51:45,699 --> 00:51:46,900
Behold, the 3rd is coming quickly.

1293
00:51:46,966 --> 00:51:47,800
Amen.

1294
00:51:47,866 --> 00:51:49,466
Glory to God.

1295
00:51:49,533 --> 00:51:52,266
But they didn't you don't you don't hear mention of Jesus.

1296
00:51:52,366 --> 00:51:54,099
You don't hear mention of the lamb.

1297
00:51:54,166 --> 00:51:55,466
They give glory to God.

1298
00:51:55,533 --> 00:51:56,133
That's right.

1299
00:51:56,133 --> 00:51:56,900
Just kind of a general.

1300
00:51:56,966 --> 00:51:57,866
He is.

1301
00:51:57,866 --> 00:51:58,800
They repent.

1302
00:51:58,966 --> 00:51:59,666
They they do.

1303
00:51:59,733 --> 00:52:00,199
Yeah, yeah.

1304
00:52:00,266 --> 00:52:03,300
I mean, here their bodies are on display for everybody

1305
00:52:03,333 --> 00:52:07,266
 to see, probably through television and media.

1306
00:52:07,366 --> 00:52:10,900
And, and, you know, they wouldn't

1307
00:52:10,900 --> 00:52:14,599
 even take a chance on an empty tomb, they willing to leave them here on display.

1308
00:52:14,666 --> 00:52:17,099
And so they begin to have a party, don't they?

1309
00:52:17,199 --> 00:52:19,000
I mean, they again, they're fired up.

1310
00:52:19,066 --> 00:52:20,500
They partying this holiday, man.

1311
00:52:20,566 --> 00:52:21,766
Yeah, these guys are gone.

1312
00:52:21,833 --> 00:52:24,833
And these 2 men, they preached the gospel

1313
00:52:24,833 --> 00:52:26,566
 and they preached it with power and authority.

1314
00:52:26,633 --> 00:52:28,433
They didn't hold back.

1315
00:52:28,433 --> 00:52:31,533
And because of that, it didn't make them very popular.

1316
00:52:31,599 --> 00:52:32,800
And so they kill them.

1317
00:52:32,866 --> 00:52:36,400
But now the power of God is being put on display.

1318
00:52:36,466 --> 00:52:39,466
God let them die in a public place in a public

1319
00:52:39,466 --> 00:52:42,766
 manner, didn't bury them, left them on the street to

1320
00:52:42,766 --> 00:52:46,000
 write, so that God could do what only God could do.

1321
00:52:46,066 --> 00:52:47,300
And now all these cameras.

1322
00:52:47,366 --> 00:52:48,000
Think about this.

1323
00:52:48,099 --> 00:52:51,199
All these cameras that watch them die that are displaying

1324
00:52:51,233 --> 00:52:54,333
 this and the news is on there going, the profits that

1325
00:52:54,333 --> 00:52:57,633
 cause so many issues and so many problems, the evil profits

1326
00:52:57,633 --> 00:53:01,766
 that were out here oppressing us and bringing us down.

1327
00:53:01,833 --> 00:53:03,800
out of their mouths.

1328
00:53:03,866 --> 00:53:06,800
Yeah, fire coming out of their mouths trying to destroy us.

1329
00:53:06,866 --> 00:53:08,466
Now they're gone and now they're dead.

1330
00:53:08,500 --> 00:53:11,500
And then here all these cameras are still on these

1331
00:53:11,500 --> 00:53:14,366
 bodies that are laying there rotting and they're saying, look at them.

1332
00:53:14,433 --> 00:53:15,500
They're dead, they're gone.

1333
00:53:15,633 --> 00:53:16,933
Where's their power now?

1334
00:53:17,033 --> 00:53:19,066
And then all of a sudden, boom, God says, here it is.

1335
00:53:19,133 --> 00:53:20,266
Here it is.

1336
00:53:20,333 --> 00:53:20,866
Get up.

1337
00:53:20,933 --> 00:53:21,633
man.

1338
00:53:21,699 --> 00:53:24,733
I mean, I bet you that every cameraman and every news

1339
00:53:24,766 --> 00:53:26,900
 station are wishing that they didn't have a camera on them now.

1340
00:53:27,033 --> 00:53:27,800
Absolutely.

1341
00:53:27,866 --> 00:53:31,500
And this is not like, this is not like the rapture where, you know, he says, come up here.

1342
00:53:31,599 --> 00:53:32,066
Right.

1343
00:53:32,066 --> 00:53:33,666
Just these 2 guys.

1344
00:53:33,766 --> 00:53:37,366
And this looks a lot instead of like the rapture where it's a twinkling of an eye.

1345
00:53:37,466 --> 00:53:39,199
These guys are going up like Jesus did.

1346
00:53:39,333 --> 00:53:41,599
Like, hey, ascending in the clouds.

1347
00:53:41,666 --> 00:53:42,266
Yeah, yeah.

1348
00:53:42,333 --> 00:53:42,666
Look at us.

1349
00:53:42,766 --> 00:53:45,266
You're going to see this is on display now, right?

1350
00:53:45,333 --> 00:53:45,566
Right.

1351
00:53:45,566 --> 00:53:45,733
Yeah.

1352
00:53:45,833 --> 00:53:49,233
Yeah, there's a difference in the rapture and we're going in a moment and twinking

1353
00:53:49,233 --> 00:53:52,866
 of an eye and people are sitting there trying to figure out what's going on.

1354
00:53:52,966 --> 00:53:54,866
There'll be no doubt what's happening.

1355
00:53:54,933 --> 00:53:55,833
They going to watch it.

1356
00:53:55,900 --> 00:53:57,433
cameras will be on these boards.

1357
00:53:57,533 --> 00:53:57,933
Yeah, yeah.

1358
00:53:58,000 --> 00:54:01,033
I almost like calling you know, I almost like

1359
00:54:01,066 --> 00:54:02,599
 calling them out of the grave, right?

1360
00:54:02,666 --> 00:54:05,699
I mean, that, hey, come up hither,

1361
00:54:05,733 --> 00:54:07,233
 you know, come back to life.

1362
00:54:07,766 --> 00:54:09,900
You got some precedent for that too in Lazarus, don't we?

1363
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:10,766
Yeah, absolutely.

1364
00:54:10,900 --> 00:54:11,666
We do.

1365
00:54:11,733 --> 00:54:14,166
Hey, when he says come up, we're going to come up.

1366
00:54:14,266 --> 00:54:17,000
Nothing can stay dead with the voice of God.

1367
00:54:17,066 --> 00:54:19,800
Thank God.

1368
00:54:19,900 --> 00:54:22,466
You know, and it says, it says they heard it.

1369
00:54:22,533 --> 00:54:26,166
Do you think that is literally everybody on the earth

1370
00:54:26,199 --> 00:54:27,433
 hears that voice?

1371
00:54:27,533 --> 00:54:28,666
Yeah, I think so.

1372
00:54:28,666 --> 00:54:29,733
Here's that shout.

1373
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:31,033
Here's that come up, boys.

1374
00:54:31,133 --> 00:54:31,766
and then they're looking.

1375
00:54:31,833 --> 00:54:33,566
Hey, wait a minute, what's going on over there?

1376
00:54:33,633 --> 00:54:34,333
Yeah.

1377
00:54:34,433 --> 00:54:35,800
Hey, those guys we just killed.

1378
00:54:35,866 --> 00:54:39,400
Yeah. left laying in the street to rot.

1379
00:54:39,466 --> 00:54:40,099
Yeah.

1380
00:54:40,133 --> 00:54:43,300
And these guys had the breath of God come back into them and they're they

1381
00:54:43,300 --> 00:54:47,233
 sit up, stand up, and then they hear...

1382
00:54:47,266 --> 00:54:47,566
Yep.

1383
00:54:47,633 --> 00:54:48,099
Off they go.

1384
00:54:48,166 --> 00:54:49,666
Amen.

1385
00:54:49,733 --> 00:54:52,300
Oh, that's awesome man.

1386
00:54:52,366 --> 00:54:55,400
And people are going to see this and just be amazed.

1387
00:54:55,466 --> 00:54:56,699
Amazed.

1388
00:54:56,800 --> 00:54:58,699
This is not something Antichrist can do.

1389
00:54:58,766 --> 00:55:00,866
It's not something the false prophet can do.

1390
00:55:00,933 --> 00:55:02,433
It's not something Satan can do.

1391
00:55:02,500 --> 00:55:02,966
That's right.

1392
00:55:02,966 --> 00:55:04,400
They can't breathe life into anybody.

1393
00:55:04,466 --> 00:55:06,066
He breathes death into people.

1394
00:55:06,166 --> 00:55:06,866
That's right.

1395
00:55:06,933 --> 00:55:10,166
And we're going to see something similar happen to the Antichrist in a little bit, aren't we?

1396
00:55:10,233 --> 00:55:13,233
And he's going to, there's where a lot of the

1397
00:55:13,233 --> 00:55:14,533
 smoke and mirrors are going to come in.

1398
00:55:14,633 --> 00:55:17,266
But there's something about Satan.

1399
00:55:17,333 --> 00:55:19,233
Like you said, he cannot he cannot give life.

1400
00:55:19,300 --> 00:55:20,233
He is not a life giver.

1401
00:55:20,333 --> 00:55:21,400
There's a lot of taker.

1402
00:55:21,466 --> 00:55:22,099
right?

1403
00:55:22,166 --> 00:55:25,400
His his purpose

1404
00:55:25,433 --> 00:55:26,866
 is to steal, kill and destroy.

1405
00:55:26,933 --> 00:55:28,233
That's right.

1406
00:55:28,300 --> 00:55:29,666
So, yeah.

1407
00:55:29,733 --> 00:55:30,333
Amen.

1408
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:31,166
Oh, man.

1409
00:55:31,233 --> 00:55:34,233
You better mention what verse we're on.

1410
00:55:34,300 --> 00:55:37,900
We are starting on verse 15 of chapter 11.

1411
00:55:38,133 --> 00:55:38,666
Yeah.

1412
00:55:38,733 --> 00:55:40,400
11, 15 next week.

1413
00:55:40,466 --> 00:55:42,599
Oh, man.

1414
00:55:42,699 --> 00:55:46,000
I tell you, that is such a,

1415
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:47,199
 oh, that's a good place to start.

1416
00:55:47,266 --> 00:55:47,900
Stop.

1417
00:55:47,966 --> 00:55:51,199
Because, man, that is so exciting

1418
00:55:51,233 --> 00:55:54,266
 to know that once again,

1419
00:55:54,266 --> 00:55:57,566
 over and over,

1420
00:55:57,566 --> 00:56:00,800
 Satan comes against God, Satan comes against Christ.

1421
00:56:00,866 --> 00:56:03,733
Satan comes against the church and he thinks he's won.

1422
00:56:03,833 --> 00:56:04,233
Yeah.

1423
00:56:04,233 --> 00:56:07,866
Hey, these prophets are causing problems.

1424
00:56:07,966 --> 00:56:08,733
I'm just going to go out here.

1425
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:09,800
I'm going deal with them.

1426
00:56:09,866 --> 00:56:11,066
I'm going to kill them.

1427
00:56:11,133 --> 00:56:12,199
They're gone.

1428
00:56:12,266 --> 00:56:13,199
I'm done with it.

1429
00:56:13,300 --> 00:56:14,133
Three days later.

1430
00:56:14,199 --> 00:56:17,833
Do you know when

1431
00:56:17,866 --> 00:56:21,099
 you think about that, how much that's got to gall him

1432
00:56:21,099 --> 00:56:24,800
 to know that he killed Christ.

1433
00:56:24,933 --> 00:56:27,366
And 3 days later, he stood up and walked out of the grave.

1434
00:56:27,466 --> 00:56:28,966
And then here he is.

1435
00:56:29,033 --> 00:56:32,333
He kills these guys 3.5 days later, they stand up and then they ascend into heaven.

1436
00:56:32,366 --> 00:56:33,866
Oh, that's gotta burn him up.

1437
00:56:33,933 --> 00:56:37,400
I mean, it's I mean, that is God displaying to him.

1438
00:56:37,466 --> 00:56:38,833
I have the power here, man.

1439
00:56:38,933 --> 00:56:41,800
He's been chasing that seed since the beginning, right?

1440
00:56:41,866 --> 00:56:43,366
I mean, from Adam and Eve.

1441
00:56:43,433 --> 00:56:46,599
He's been chasing that seed trying to stomp it out, trying to destroy

1442
00:56:46,599 --> 00:56:49,633
 it, you know, and man,

1443
00:56:49,666 --> 00:56:51,633
 he keeps getting bruised by the heel of Jesus, doesn't he?

1444
00:56:51,766 --> 00:56:54,333
And he fails and fails and fails.

1445
00:56:54,466 --> 00:56:55,833
Yeah, that is crust.

1446
00:56:55,900 --> 00:56:56,300
That's right.

1447
00:56:56,366 --> 00:56:57,866
Man.

1448
00:56:57,933 --> 00:57:01,400
Well, next week we will pick up with Revelation

1449
00:57:01,433 --> 00:57:04,533
 1115, Revelation

1450
00:57:04,533 --> 00:57:07,633
 chapter 11, verse 15, and

1451
00:57:07,666 --> 00:57:10,699
 the last trumpet blows.

1452
00:57:10,766 --> 00:57:11,233
Yeah.

1453
00:57:11,266 --> 00:57:13,166
Oh, the 3rd woe is coming.

1454
00:57:13,233 --> 00:57:14,166
It is.

1455
00:57:14,199 --> 00:57:15,266
The last verse there.

1456
00:57:15,333 --> 00:57:17,133
3rd woe.

1457
00:57:17,199 --> 00:57:20,233
the last trumpet blow, and then we get into some,

1458
00:57:20,333 --> 00:57:23,333
I mean, we've seen the rough stuff and now

1459
00:57:23,333 --> 00:57:27,099
 we start getting into the, it's more details.

1460
00:57:27,166 --> 00:57:29,066
Yeah, we get we get into some details.

1461
00:57:29,133 --> 00:57:32,233
We get into, we get over the, the,

1462
00:57:32,266 --> 00:57:35,366
 the general overview and the, the high level view and

1463
00:57:35,366 --> 00:57:36,800
 we start getting into a few details.

1464
00:57:36,866 --> 00:57:40,033
We start seeing some blood information.

1465
00:57:40,133 --> 00:57:43,300
Yeah, we start seeing the information about what's

1466
00:57:43,300 --> 00:57:46,333
 going to happen to the Antichrist,

1467
00:57:46,366 --> 00:57:48,766
 to the false prophet, to the beast.

1468
00:57:48,833 --> 00:57:52,766
And we get to see it spelled out in no uncertain terms.

1469
00:57:52,833 --> 00:57:55,400
I mean, this is not something that's a mystery to us.

1470
00:57:55,466 --> 00:57:59,466
This is not something that God tells John to, hey, don't write about that.

1471
00:57:59,566 --> 00:58:02,599
This is something that he wants us to

1472
00:58:02,633 --> 00:58:05,266
 understand and know how this all ends.

1473
00:58:05,333 --> 00:58:07,966
And that's where we're headed with this.

1474
00:58:08,033 --> 00:58:11,266
So, uh, Revelation 11,

1475
00:58:11,266 --> 00:58:14,800
 15, and we will pick back up there next week and

1476
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:17,833
 uh, brother uh, Dennis, since you came

1477
00:58:17,866 --> 00:58:19,233
 in late, we'll let you dismiss tonight.

1478
00:58:19,300 --> 00:58:19,699
Sorry, man.

1479
00:58:19,733 --> 00:58:21,400
Mr. Tardy.

1480
00:58:21,466 --> 00:58:23,000
All right, let's pray.

1481
00:58:23,066 --> 00:58:26,099
Father, thank you so much for giving us your word, Father, that

1482
00:58:26,133 --> 00:58:27,566
 you give us hope.

1483
00:58:27,633 --> 00:58:30,866
Father, we don't know where we'd be without you

1484
00:58:30,866 --> 00:58:33,733
 revealing these things to us, and Father, we give you thanks.

1485
00:58:33,833 --> 00:58:37,066
Thanks from the bottom of our hearts to know that you

1486
00:58:37,066 --> 00:58:40,066
 are all powerful, you're sovereign, you're in

1487
00:58:40,066 --> 00:58:43,066
 control, and you've never lost control, that, Lord, you're working

1488
00:58:43,066 --> 00:58:46,099
 all things together for our good and your glory.

1489
00:58:46,166 --> 00:58:49,566
Father, I pray that these things would happen soon,

1490
00:58:49,599 --> 00:58:52,833
 that you would come to get us soon, Father, that before that,

1491
00:58:52,833 --> 00:58:54,033
 Father, I pray for revival.

1492
00:58:54,099 --> 00:58:57,699
Father, let this country come back to you somehow,

1493
00:58:57,699 --> 00:59:01,166
 some way that hearts would be turned to you and lives saved

1494
00:59:01,166 --> 00:59:02,533
 by the 1000000s.

1495
00:59:02,633 --> 00:59:05,733
Father, I pray for every listener that they

1496
00:59:05,733 --> 00:59:08,766
 would turn to you in a deeper and closer way, Father, that we

1497
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:10,633
 tune the noise of this world out.

1498
00:59:10,733 --> 00:59:13,833
Father, that we draw closer to you and be more

1499
00:59:13,833 --> 00:59:15,199
 like these 2 witnesses.

1500
00:59:15,333 --> 00:59:17,133
Father, we want to serve you.

1501
00:59:17,199 --> 00:59:18,199
We want to love you more.

1502
00:59:18,266 --> 00:59:20,366
Father give us grace to believe you more.

1503
00:59:20,433 --> 00:59:23,599
And Father, I pray for your protection until

1504
00:59:23,633 --> 00:59:26,333
 we come back here again in Jesus' name.

1505
00:59:26,366 --> 00:59:26,966
Amen.

1506
00:59:27,033 --> 00:59:27,500
Amen.

1507
00:59:27,566 --> 00:59:27,900
Amen.