Barry Stagner - Revealing Revelation 2023 Davao - Session 2

heard is anyone hungry for God's word this morning amen amen well please pray with me father we are so grateful for the things that we have seen we are thankful for the things that are the things of the church age and Lord we thank you that now as we look to those things that will happen after the church age that you would stir our hearts up to love and good works to tell people about Jesus Lord our soon coming King so that others may not endure the tribulation but most importantly that they would not experience the second death so teach us what's coming Lord enable to invigorate invigorate us to deal with what is we thank you for our time together today and we ask that you fully reveal the glorified Jesus Christ in our time and we ask this in Jesus name and all God's people said amen who's ready to go to heaven well we're going to take a journey there at least on the page but someday we are going to experience the Glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ the dead in Christ will rise we who are alive and remain will meet the Lord in the air and forever be with the Lord now in Revelation 4 1-5 we find a transition where John says after these things I looked and behold a door standing open in heaven and the first voice which I heard was like a trumpet speaking with me saying what come up here and I will show you things which must take place after this immediately I was in the spirit and behold the throne set in heaven and one sat on the throne and he who sat there was like a Jasper and a sardia stone in appearance and there was a rainbow around the throne in appearance like an emerald and around the throne were 24 Thrones and on the Thrones I saw 24 elders sitting clothed in white robes and they had crowns of gold on their heads and from the throne proceeded Lightnings thunderings and voices seven lamps of fire were burning Before the Throne which are the seven spirits of God there's a Greek phrase meditato that is repeated throughout the Book of Revelation as after these things and each of these is a marker of a transition in the narrative and we'll find that there's a change or a shift in events and for us what John says after these things at the end of the church age there's going to be a major change for us in location from this Earth to the house of the father and this gives us a picture of the Rapture of the church and we have to remember John who is invited to come up here is both an apostle he's a Jew and he's also a member of the church and he is called up to heaven and the church is not mentioned again until chapter 19 when Jesus returns with the church now John has taken to the throne room of God where he records a scene that is one of my favorite scenes in all of the Bible and the reason that it's one of my favorite scenes is because what John describes someday we're going to see someday we're going to see the beauty of the throne room of God someday we're going to see the amazing emerald green circular rainbow that encompasses the Throne of God the one who is in appearance like a Jasper and sardius stone will be seated upon it someday we're going to see the 24 Elders seated around the throne and someday we're no longer going to wonder I wonder who these 24 Elders are are they the heads of Israel and are they the heads of the church or the 12 apostles we will not any longer speculate but we will know the answer someday someday we'll know their identities someday we're going to hear someday we're going to see the Lightnings and the thunderings that proceed from the throne someday we're going to see the seven lamps and the attributes of the Holy Spirit on display as recorded in Isaiah 11 where as Amir quoted we're told of the spirit of the Lord resting upon him the mashiachman David the spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of counsel and might the spirit of knowledge and of fear of the Lord someday we're going to see this Revelation 4 6-8 Before the Throne there was a sea of glass like Crystal and in the midst of the throne and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes in front and in back the first living creature was like a lion a seven living creature like a calf the third living creature had the face of a man and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle and the four living creatures each having six wings with eyes full of eyes all around and within and they do not rest day or night saying read it with me please out loud holy holy holy Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come one day we're going to hear the voices of the four living creatures who cease not in their proclamation of the Lord's Holiness and might and his eternality that he was and is and is to come Imagine John taking this all in in one moment he's on the Isle of happiness for the testimony of Jesus in a penal colony and the next thing he sees is all this you know what that's what's going to happen to us because one day we're going to Blink and the next thing we see is going to be Jesus and next thing after that he's going to take us to the father's house and we are going to be looking at everything we just read and we're going to see it live and in person in Revelation 5 1-7 John says and I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a scroll written inside and on the back sealed with Seven Seals now many believe this is the title deed to the Earth and then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice who is worthy to open the scroll into Lucid seals and no one in heaven or on the earth or under the Earth that phrase means amongst the living or the Dead was worthy to open the scroll or to even look at it so John wept much because no one was found worthy to open and read the scroll or to look at it but one of the elders said to me do not weep Behold The Lion of the tribe of Judah the root of David has prevailed to open a scroll and to loose its Seven Seals and I looked and behold in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures and in the midst of the elders stood a lamb as though it had been slain having seven horns and seven eyes which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the Earth and then he came and took the scroll out of the right hand of him who sat on the throne all of Heaven all of Earth is searched the living and the dead are examined for candidates worthy to open the scroll and no one was found in heaven or on Earth to open the seals so John wept he was then told by one of the elders don't we the lion of the tribe of Judah has prevailed he is therefore qualified to open the seals and when John turned to look for the lion he saw a lamb standing as though it had been slain it had seven horns and seven eyes seven being the number of completeness Hornsby and symbolic of power eyes being symbolic of wisdom tells us that Jesus is all-powerful and he is all-knowing speaking of the attributes of almighty God this is the very thing that angels and Elders will again Proclaim in chapter 7. and then we enter into a Heavenly scene of worship when we're told in 5 8-10 when he had taken the scroll the four living creatures and the 24 Elders fell down before the lamb each having a harp and golden bowls full of incense which are the prayers of the Saints and they sang a new song saying you are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals for you were slain and have redeemed us to God by your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation and have made us Kings and Priests to our God and we shall reign on the Earth and listen when the reward for the sufferings of Christ begin to be realized the four living creatures the elders fall down before the lamb and sing a new song it's a song of redemption Redemption is the Greek word agarazzo and it means to buy or purchase and the purchase price for our souls was the blood of Jesus himself the one who was worthy the lamb who was slain and Hebrews reminds us in 9 12 not with the blood of bulls and calves Bulls of uh goats and calves but with his own blood he entered the most holy Place once for all having obtained Eternal what Eternal Redemption Hebrews would go on to say listen if the other sacrifices could get the job done in redeeming us to God they wouldn't have to be offered year after year but the fact is Jesus is the ultimate Passover Lamb he is the innocent victim who shed his blood for the sake of others and his blood is sufficient to cover the sins of the whole world and listen as we move to chapter six we need to remember that throughout the course of human history God has progressively been re revealing himself more and more and more it's called progressive revelation in other words more and more became clear regarding the future as the future became the present now we are living at a time where I believe that we can hear the hoof beats of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse off in the distance we're not going to go through the tribulation any of it we're not going to be here for the first half we're not going to be here for the second half because the tribulation is the 70th week of Daniel and the church wasn't present for the first 69 so why would we be here for the 70th we are not going to go through the tribulation if I was sitting out there I would be shouting Hallelujah saying thank you Jesus I'd be doing something if I were sitting out there now there were also these four horsemen written about or at least pointed to in the sixth Century by the prophet Zechariah and before we examine his writing I want to pull back the curtain a little bit the Bible is filled with nuances and beautiful aspects of the nature and character of God and his love for us if we begin to examine names and and other elements of scripture and Zechariah was a man given a series of eight Night Visions in them he was to receive a preview of the future of Israel including both comings of the Messiah the tribulation period details about the man of sin he would also be told of the temple in which all the nations of the earth will come to worship Jesus during the millennium and his eight Visions are the first revealing of certain aspects that John would later record in Revelation and in Zechariah 1 1. we're told in the eighth month of the second year of Darius the word of the Lord came to Zechariah the son of barakaya the son of Edo the prophet now God is always communicating to us amen he's always wanting us to know more about him his plan his nature and character zachariah's name means the Lord remembers his father's name barakaya means the blessings of God Ito means timely or in due time so in the very first verse of Zechariah in verse 1 1 what zechariah's family tree says is the Lord remembers the blessings of God in due time he does not forget that he is a good god and that he loves to bless his people and what Zechariah is being told excuse me is it God will never say never God will never forsake his Covenant with national Israel and someday National Israel is going to look on the Messiah of Zechariah as well and look upon the one whom they pierced and mourn so let's see what the Lord revealed about Revelation 2500 years ago through a man whose name reminds us that God is faithful in the visions of Zechariah in verses chapter 1 verses 8 through 9 he says I saw by night and behold a man riding on a red horse and it stood among Myrtle trees in the hollow and behind him were horses red Sorrel and white and then I said my Lord what are these so the angel who talked with me said to me I will show you what they are and the man who stood among the Myrtle trees answered and said these are the ones whom the Lord has sent to walk to and fro throughout the Earth so they answered the angel of the Lord that's a phrase that represents the pre-incarnate Christ who stood among the Myrtle trees and he said we have walked to and fro throughout the Earth and behold all the Earth is resting quietly and then later in chapter 6 of Zechariah and one to five we find this the prophet says and I turned and raised my eyes and looked and behold four chariots were coming from between two mountains and the mountains were mountains of bronze and with the first Chariot were red horses the secret Chariot black horses the third Chariot white horses and with the fourth period dappled horses strong steeds and then I answered and I said to the angel who talked with me what are these my Lord and the angel answered and said to me these are the four spirits of Heaven who go out from their station before the Lord of all the Earth and these passages we have the Revelation that will fully be disclosed later in the Book of Revelation through these four horses we're told that they are stationed throughout the Earth for the purpose of walking to and fro throughout it it is through Zechariah and the same imagery and Revelation that we see an example of God's progressive revelation of future events there's a man on a red horse and behind him each of these writers or three other horses and each with riders as indicated in verse 11. now while God can do anything amen he can make a donkey talk right I do not believe it's the horses that are answering uh In this passage I believe it's likely the writer who is answering the angel in these horses in this passage and behind the writer on the red horse is another red horse and behind the writer on the red horse the second red horse is a Sorrel horse and then a white horse and their colors are what give us an indication of their purpose in communicating to the nation of Israel red what's red symbolized in your body blood it talks to blood and War prophetically the color white speaks of Victory Sorrel is a mixture of red and white in other words that Sorrel horse's two colors white and red and what the Lord is telling Israel is that you will have times of War There Will Be Blood But ultimately there's going to be Victory the color of wine and what will the Jews experience during the tribulation there will be War There Will Be Blood and ultimately there will be victory and in the second of the two uh renderings of the horses that we see repeated in Revelation we are introduced to a black horse and that's an establishing with the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Now comes into view now the number four is important because the number four symbolizes something Global we talk about the four corners of the earth we talk about the Four Winds of the earth so these four horsemen represent something that's going to happen on a global scale that stems out of Jerusalem and Zechariah identifies these as strong steeds capable of patrolling the whole earth meaning again their impact is going to be global now this also tells us that the Judgment here is upon all those who stood against evil that we know that every nation according to Zechariah 12 3 someday is going to gather against Jerusalem and it's important for us to see that two books written 2500 years apart are consistent in their message so that we can be assured that what was written is going to come to pass as written you know a lot of people like to say you know the Bible was written by man and you know what I know a lot of people I met a lot of smart people but there are no smart people who are capable of writing this book this book requires divine inspiration other people say you know what it's been translated too many times down to the centuries well listen I'm thinking if God can say let there be light and there is light and then four days later he creates The Luminaries in the sky that God is capable of protecting his book he can make sure that we have what he intended for us to know and this fact that Zechariah and the last book of the Bible Revelation are both recording similar statements pointing to the same event reminds us of the old adage that the New Testament is hidden in the old in the Old Testament is revealed in the new so who is bringing about this judgment on the Earth well there is a Jesus that I think a lot of people know about that's not the biblical Jesus and he's a Jesus at least I like to call him peace out Jesus and you know we have Renditions of him there's no physical description outside of Revelation 1 of Jesus but many of you probably seen a picture of Jesus it doesn't look like a Jew he looks more like a surfer from California that's not Jesus but and that's the guy I like to call Peace Out Jesus he just gets along with everybody he doesn't care what anybody does he's just easy going and you know he would never judge anybody because judging is wrong but listen John 5 22 Jesus says the father judges no one but has committed all judgment to the son it is Jesus who is judging the Earth because the lamb alone is worthy to bring judgment on the sinfulness of mankind and if Jesus the lamb who opens the Seven Seals releases the wrath of God on a christ-rejecting world then as we walk through the opening of the seals we can see what is revealed in Revelation chapter 6 we find the first seal is open and a white horse rides out onto the world scene and we're told that he has a bow in his hand now a bow usually has another piece of equipment if it's going to be used as a weapon right there would be a bow and arrows but there's no mention of arrows because this bow is not a bow like we think of it if you were reading as Amir mentioned earlier the Septuagint the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament you'll find back in Genesis chapter 9 when God hung his bow in the sky that Greek word is the same word translated as Bo here in our text so in the Old Testament you have a precedent of a bow symbolizing a covenant and this is the Antichrist writing with a seven year Covenant with Israel in its hand onto the world scene in Revelation 6 1-2 and then in the second seal when Jesus opens that seal being the only one qualified to do so we see a writer on a red horse a fiery red horse right onto the world scene and he removes peace from the Earth now the interesting thing is there's a lot of people who say well you know the writer on the first horse has to be Jesus because it's a white horse and we know the good guys always ride a white horse well no not necessarily certainly not in this instance but let me remind you of something else why Jesus cannot be the writer on the first horse because a second horse Takes peace from the earth and when Jesus gives you peace nobody can take it from you the fact is we need to recognize that this man or this writer is going on to the world scene with a purpose aside from that of Jesus Jesus said I came to have life abundantly and that you may have it even super abundantly the thief in contrast does not come except to what steal kill and destroy and this writer on the second horse causes people to butcher each other now he's talking about causing men on the earth to kill one another and the word translated as kill does not imply International Warfare or mechanized Warfare as we think of it today it's not war at all the writer on the second horse causes people individual people to butcher each other to kill each other and listen this has to be normalized before it ever even becomes a reality during the tribulation do you know what the leading killer on this planet is for four years in a row abortion our world has accepted killing the most innocent of our society already and it's just a skip and a jump away from killing someone who's a living adult human being and this is what's going to happen under the writer on the fiery red horse then the third seal releases the one on the black horse and it's interesting some of the things we're seeing and hearing about today because we're told two different measures of grain the wheat and the barley and that they will cost a Denarius and a Denarius is a day's pay now there's quart of Wheat and three quarts of barley this is the the food supply of the wealthy and the poor remember the boy who gave his lunch to Jesus and he blessed it and fed thousands with it he had three barley cakes it was the meal of the poor the grain of the poor but whether it's the wheat or whether it's the barley it can only feed one person one meal for the whole day and this is how the famine is going to be during the tribulation period let me ask you are we hearing anything about grain shortages today is the Russian invasion of Ukraine causing grain prices to elevate is there a shortage of supply around the world today it's happening all over the world and you know what this is precursors to the four horsemenine apocalypse and their Ryan and then finally when the force seal is open there comes a Pale Horse and we're told death which signifies the grave that holds the human body after life and Hades which is the domain of the unbelieving Dead in their souls until the second resurrection and we see this pale horse as death and Hades trailing behind him and this is speaking of what's going to happen between the writers of the red horse and the Black Horse and how the famine is going to take lives and under the writer of The Pale Horse and it's interesting that word pale in the Greek is the word chloros it's a word for a sickly putrid green it's the color used to describe a corpse that has been dead for a number of days and he is indeed going to bring death and Hades is going to follow along with them and he is actually going to be given power to kill a quarter of the world's population now we are seeing shortages in supply all around the world but did you know that bees who contribute to producing one-third of the world's Food Supplies through pollination are dying losing 70 to 80 percent of their population and Albert Einstein said if the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left no more bees no more pollination no more plants no more animals no more man I thought you should be aware of that fact that this is happening today come on now that was a joke it may have been a bad one but it was still a joke now the last horse in Revelation that Pale Horse in Zechariah is called devil and it's a Hebrew word for Hail it's not actually a color but we do see hail peppered throughout the Book of Revelation as a form of God's cataclysmic judgment and this is followed by The Cry of the martyrs at the opening of the next seal how long O Lord until you avenge our blood on the Earth and then this is followed by geological and cosmological events that cause the Earth dwellers to pray to Mother Earth to protect them from the wrath of him who sits on the throne and the Wrath of the lamb in Revelation chapter 6 verses 17 and 18. now it's interesting that we see these events taking place we see a great Mountain burning with fire we'll talk about that as well as something that poisons a whole of the world's fresh water supply during the tribulation but listen as we're talking about heavy things I have to remind you periodically we're not going to be here we're going to miss all this we're going to be in the father's house and we will experience none of these things somebody say Amen now this brings us to What's called the the first of the interludes in Revelation in chapter seven and again we're having to move fast because we're covering 22 chapters in one day Revelation 7 at the end of both the seal and trumpet judgments there's a pause in the narrative to give some details about what's going on behind the scenes during the time of God's Wrath and that doesn't mean that things stop happening on the earth it just means the curtain is being pulled back to give us a look at what is happening in the Supernatural realm in Isiah Ezekiel rather 9 3 and 4 We're told the glory of the god of Israel has gone up from the Cherub where it had been to the threshold of the temple and he called to the man clothed with Lenin who had the writer's incorn at his side and the Lord said to him go through the midst of the city through the midst of Jerusalem and put a mark on the forehead so The Men Who sigh and cry over the Abominations that are done within the Earth and then in Revelation 7 1-4 the parallel passage says after these things I saw four angels standing at the Four Corners of the Earth holding the Four Winds of the earth and the wind should not blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree then I saw another Angel ascending from the East having the Seal of the Living God and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the Seas saying do not harm the Earth to sear the trees tilt we have sealed the Servants of our God on their foreheads and I heard the number of those who were sealed 144 000 of all the Jehovah Witnesses is that what it says no out of all the tribes of the children of Israel I don't know how you get the Jehovah Witnesses out of that but they obviously have but here in Revelation we see God marking or sealing 144 000 12 000 from each of the tribes of Israel virgin male Jews and what is he marking them for he's marking them for the purpose of preaching during the Great Tribulation now this is something that often gets overlooked but we need to recognize this here this morning this means that there will be Jews saved during the tribulation not just at the end of the tribulation because of the fact of the matter is God does not recruit unbelieving preachers he doesn't recruit even though there's preachers today who do not believe during the tribulation he's not going to ask Jews who deny that Jesus is the Christ the son of the Living God to preach Jesus as the Christ the son of the Living God these are going to be believing Jews and we're told that a numberless multitude of all Nations tribes peoples and languages standing Before the Throne wearing white and waving palm branches which are both symbolic of Victory palm branches and the color white and John has asked who are these people and wisely the Elder says or John says to the other ah you know sir much like we saw in Zechariah and the other says these are those who are washed in the blood of the Lamb now if you're washed in the blood of the Lamb that means you are clinched from all unrighteousness and that means that you are a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ because what can wash away my sin nothing but the blood of Jesus but listen this isn't the church the church is where in the father's house right now just because the term Saints is used doesn't mean it applies to the church because there are Old Testament Saints there are Church age Saints there are tribulation Saints and there are Millennial Saints and listen God is always in the business of saving as Amir pointed out he is unwilling that any should perish but that all would come to church no all would come to what repentance and listen these tribulation Saints and when they are marked by God in the 12 000 are marked by God in the tribulation Saints who pay with their life during the tribulation while the church is in heaven with the Lord in the father's house and the answer to the question John didn't answer as to who these are is given specifically in Revelation 7 14 where he said to me these are the ones who come out of the Great Tribulation wash their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb so where are they then what are they doing the next verse verse 15 of chapter 7 says therefore they are Before the Throne of God and serve him day and night in his Temple and he who sits on the throne will dwell among them so even in the Heavenly scene they have a distinct uh assignment in heaven they're not part of the church they're not at the bema seat they're not at the marriage of the Lamb they are Before the Throne of God serving him night and day in his Temple now Revelation 7 16 and 17 also talks about their experience where they shall neither hunger anymore nor thirst anymore the sun shall not strike them nor any heat for the lamb who is in the midst of the throne will Shepherd them and lead them to living Fountains of water isn't that a great phrase living Fountains of water you know it's like the a hot day and a cool drink only this water is even better than that and listen God will wipe away what's the next word every tear from their eyes now I've been asked the question any Bible teacher is asked a question when the opportunity presents itself about how can we enjoy heaven when we know people went to hell including people that we loved Christ rejecting family members how can Heaven Be Heaven if we know about those who we knew or cared about or even shared the same last name who rejected God's Universal offer of forgiveness it's possible that God wipes away the memory of them and he wipes away the tears and all things that cause them and it's also possible that some have have offered as a reason is because at this point we are like Jesus and that's what First John 3 tells us that when we see him we will be like him for we will see him as he is and therefore we will have a complete understanding of the justice and God's response to the rejection of Christ well either way what we do know for you and I as Believers in Christ when we go to heaven either be a death or the Rapture is it psalm 16 11 says that in his presence there is fullness of joy and that his right hand Pleasures forevermore that's our Eternal experience and nothing is going to diminish the joy and Glory of heaven and all that causes tears will be wiped away and at the opening of the seventh seal Heaven Falls silent for about a half an hour an angel then takes a golden sensor fills with fire mixed with the prayers of the Saints and then he throws it to the earth now this fire mingled with the prayers of the Saints I believe is the answer that has been prayed throughout the ages I know many people are praying it today how long O Lord haven't you wished on one occasion or more or probably every day that today was the day of the rapture and watching our world get more and more strange and more and more bizarre and the delusion that God said he would send upon the earth a strong delusion is manifesting itself today wouldn't it be a great day for the rapture I'm sorry these three people in front are going into the Rapture I don't know or they're excited about it wouldn't today be a great day for the rapture now this is followed by noises thunderings Lightnings and an earthquake a repeated pattern when the Heavenly scene is visited throughout Revelation 6 through 19. and then we find that the seven trumpets begin to sell in Revelation 4 4 and 5 we're told about those lightning thunderings and voices now Revelation 8 5 there's noises thunderings Lightnings and an earthquake and then 1119 Lightning's noises thunderings earthquake and great hail than 16 to 18 noises thunderings Lightnings and an earthquake and then the first trumpet sounds and there's judgment in Revelation chapter 8 verse 7 on the plant life of the Earth the Angel takes a sensor filled with fire and flings it to the Earth and one third of the trees in the grass is consumed with fire the second trumpet sounds in Revelation 8 8-9 and a mountain burning with fire from heaven crashes into the sea a third of the living creatures in the sea die and a third of all the ships are destroyed now you guys are familiar with volcanoes here obviously but that's not what this is this is not a volcano other translations say that this mountain burning with fire is thrown into the sea meaning it comes from an external location and hits excuse me into the oceans of the earth now I believe this is actually an asteroid because asteroids are actually comprised largely of iron and it's a solid mass and so during the tribulation there'll be an asteroid strike on the earth and then the third trumpet sounds in Revelation 8 10-11 and we see a great star wormwood called bitterness falls from heaven to the Earth and a third of all fresh water becomes undrinkable now again we know that stars are massively larger than the Earth you know there's one star named betel Goose it's the biggest star in the visible universe and if metal Goose was at the place our son is the exterior of metal Goose would extend all the way to Jupiter it's millions and millions and millions of times larger than our sun now this can't be the the Greek word there is aster and it speaks of a Heavenly Body and like with the mountain burning with fire I believe to be an asteroid I believe this is a comet because comets are comprised mostly of gas and ice and when a comet would go through the Earth's atmosphere it would break up and it would distribute radioactive ions all over the whole earth and therefore make bitter radioactive a third of the world's water supply that's why the name of the star the name of the uh the Heavenly Body is aster or rather wormwood meaning bitter and then we're told about the fourth trumpet and a third of the sun moon and stars become dark where a third of the night and a third of The Day the Earth will be plunged in to Darkness and this again is an atmospheric event or a geological event that affects the atmosphere this is actually you the Fulfillment of what Joel wrote about that caused so much hype some years ago where everybody's talking about the blood moons but what everybody overlooked when they were saying we're in this period of Blood Moons and this is a sign and all these other things is that this Blood Moon phenomenon when the moon turns red is simultaneous with an event that took place on the Earth where the Earth is shaken and the Sun is darkened also by a third so until the sun and the moon are both darkened simultaneously that's not what the Bible talks about we see this is going to be fulfilled during the tribulation and then 9 1-12 says that the first woe is passed and two more will appear and three more trumpets will sound and then the fifth trumpet the bottomless pit is open and a star and the word star can mean an Angelic being a star falls from heaven with a key to the bottomless pit unleashing demonic locusts they have no power to kill but with power to torment mankind for five months then they have a sting like that of a scorpion and they are led by a leader who is called apollyon which means the Destroyer during this time people will seek death and it will flee from them they'll wish they were dead but they would not be able to die or take their own life and again I take it important to mention we're not going to be here we're not going to see any of this amen now the sixth trumpet we find is judgment on Mankind and the four angels are about to sound and the Euphrates river is going to dry up and release a demonic Army of some 200 million beings that kill again a third of mankind so the fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse kills a quarter of mankind and this demonic realm kills a third of mankind and if you do the math with our world today and consider that maybe hopefully a billion people will be taken in the Rapture which I think is actually pretty generous calculation that means that between the four horsemen and apocalypse and the blowing of the sixth trumpet 4.6 billion people are going to die on the surface of the Earth I strongly suggest that if you don't know Christ today you commit your life to him skip the whole tribulation thing and go into hell on top of that amen now after the seal and trumpet judgments on the earth we find that people's hearts are so hard and they have become so Antichrist they repeat what happened earlier in Revelation chapter 6. after all the things we just talked about in 9 20 to 29 we're 20 to 21 we're told the rest of the mankind mankind who were not killed by these plagues did not what they didn't repent of the works of their hands that they should not worship demons and Idols of Gold Silver and Brass Stone and wood which can neither see nor hear nor walk and they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts knowing it is God on the throne knowing they are under his judgment they did not repent they'd rather live against God and for the devil than turn to Christ and repent the second interlude arrives at John hearing the uttering of seven thundering voices that he's told in chapter 10 verse 4. Seal up the things which the seven Thunders uttered and do not write them now this was not the voice of the mighty Angel we already met this voice Came From Heaven and yet some have speculated as to what the seventh unders utter now if John was told not to write it he didn't write it and we don't know what they say so if you see a book out there published it says what the seven Thunders ordered are written wrote rather don't buy it because nobody knows amen God didn't tell John what to write or not I told John not to write it and God hasn't told anyone since and therefore when the Bible is silent we should be silent too and the next thing John experiences is that voice speaking to him from Heaven again which indicates a scene in this vision is back on Earth and in Revelation 10 8-11 we're told a voice which I heard from Heaven spoke to me again and said go take the little book which is open in the hand of the Angel who stands on the sea in the Earth so I went to the angel and said to him give me the little book and he said to me take and eat it and it will be it will make your stomach bitter but it will be as sweet as honey in your mouth and then I took the little book out of the Angel's hand and I ate it and it was as sweet as honey in my mouth but when I'd eat it my stomach became bitter and he said to me you must prophesy again about many people's Nations tongues and kings and this Bittersweet experience of John when eating the little book reminds us that there are times where judgment is the only way to bring about the will of God and man during the tribulation is going to be such uh filled with such hatred of God that even knowing they are judged they will still reject his kind offer of forgiveness and John was told in verse 7 of chapter 10 in the days of the sounding of the seventh angel when he is about to sound the mystery of God would be finished as he declared to his servants the prophets and when the seventh angel sounds the seventh trumpet the mystery of God that he declared through His prophets is going to be finished meaning all the things that the prophets wrote about concerning the last days in the tribulation period are going to be brought to their end during the Bulls that are poured out on the Earth and remember in Luke chapter 4 16 to 21 that Jesus had come to Nazareth where he had been brought up and as his custom was he went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day and stood up to read and he was handed the book of the prophet Isaiah and when he had opened the book he found the place where it was written the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted to Proclaim Liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind to set at Liberty those who are oppressed into proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and then Jesus closed the book gave it back to the attendant and sat down and the eyes of all who are in the synagogue were fixed on him and he began to say to them today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing now what Jesus was actually doing was establishing that he's coming again that he's come the first time as Emmanuel God With Us but that he's going to come again and we know that because of where he broke off his reading he reached the end of the purpose for his first coming if you see and continue to read in Isaiah 61 specifically verse 2 his second coming is revealed where he says after proclaiming the acceptable year of the Lord and then he says in the day of Vengeance of our God now he came to the Earth not to condemn the Earth because the Earth was already condemned what the Earth didn't need was further condemnation what the Earth needed was a savior and so he came to save and listen when the seven trumpet sounds the wrath of God an undiluted measure is going to be poured out through the Bold judgments and in them the wrath of God is complete as you'll hear in chapter 15. but the second part of the interlude will give us the Hawaiian twin of another group we're introduced to a small group a group of two known as the two witnesses and in Zechariah 4 11-14 I answered and said to him who what are these two olive trees at the right of the lamp stand and that it's left and I further answered and said to him what are these two Olive branches that drip into the receptacles of the two gold pipes from which the golden oil drains and then he answered me and said do you not know what these are and I said no my Lord so he said these are the two anointed ones who stand beside the lord of the whole Earth now Zechariah again in the progressive revelation of God is pointing to what will be further explained in Revelation chapter 11. now there's a lot of people who offer their choices for their two witnesses a lot of people like to say well Moses and Elijah appeared with Jesus on the Mount of trigger Transfiguration and they are the two who stand before beside the lord of the whole earth so the two witnesses are Moses and Elijah others say well Enoch and Elijah are actually the ones who are coming because they never died they had individual raptures and they did not see death and the Bible says it's appointed on demand once to die but after this the judgment now if the qualifying feature of candidacy for being one of the two witnesses is not tasting death then that means there's a whole generation who would be candidates because I believe we are of the generation that is not going to take taste death I think the Lord's coming to get us and is going to snatch us off this Earth in a moment of twinkling of an eye very very soon and listen you know who the two witnesses are Bob and Larry I think are the real I don't know who they are nobody else knows who they are so again we don't need to speculate but what I can tell you for sure is there are going to be two witnesses I don't know who they are neither does anybody else even though one time when we were traveling somebody told Amir he was one of the two witnesses that's like saying I'm here you're going to miss the rapture and be killed in Jerusalem and lay dead on the streets of Jerusalem for three and a half days I don't see that to be a blessing to you now Earth dwellers cannot kill the two witnesses whoever they are the duration of their Ministry is preordained by God to the length of 42 months the whole first half of the tribulation and they are invincible during that time they exercise Old Testament Testament Prophet like power they call down fire they shut up the sky so it doesn't rain and when the 42 months are finished and they finish their testimony then and only then Satan Wars against them and kills them yet the two witnesses are raised from the dead in a form that is visible to the whole world which again speaks of this day and age that we live in it's now that the whole world can watch one event in another country simultaneously that's never been possible before our generation now in Revelation 11 11 to 13 we're told about this after three and a half days the Breath of Life from God entered them the two witnesses and they stood on their feet and great fear fell on those who saw them and they heard a loud voice from Heaven saying to them what come up here it's what John heard and they ascended to heaven in a cloud and their enemy saw them in the same hour there was a great earthquake a tenth of the city fell and the earthquake seven thousand people were killed and the rest were afraid and gave glory to the god of Heaven remember the city is Jerusalem at the sounding of the seventh trumpet were given another glimpse into the Heavenly scene the Ark of the Covenant was seen in the temple again as we mentioned earlier there were Lightnings noises thunderings and an earthquake and added to that great hail and in Revelation 11 15-18 we're told the seventh angel sounded and these loud voices in heaven sing the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign forever and ever somebody say and the 24 Elders who sat before God on their Thrones fell on their faces and worshiped God saying we give you thanks O Lord God Almighty the one who is and who was and who is to come because you have taken your great power and Reign the nations were angry and your wrath has come and the time of the Dead that they should be judged and that you should reward your servants the prophets and the Saints and those who fear your name small and great and should destroy those who destroy the Earth remember Jesus has committed to him by the father all judgment the third interlude says in Revelation 12 1-2 that a great sign appeared in heaven a woman clothed with the son with the moon under her feet and on her head a Garland did 12 stars and being with child she cried out in labor and in pain to give birth and this is a picture of what the Lord said back in the garden in Genesis 3 15. he talked about the seed of a woman which is a twofold prophecy in the reproductive process we know that the woman doesn't carry the seed the man does the woman carries the A and this I believe is pointing to the Virgin birth as it relates to the reproductive process and we also know that the woman is symbolic of Israel and the woman mentioned in Genesis 3 15 is also pointing to the nation of Israel and as Abram was told in Genesis 12 3 that in him through the descendants of Isaac and Jacob all the nations of the Earth would be blessed in other words the Bible says all the way back in Genesis that the Messiah of the world would enter the world through the Jews and in Revelation 12 3 and 4 John says that another sign appeared in heaven Behold a great fiery red dragon who's the Dragon Satan having seven heads and ten horns and seven diadems on his heads his tail drew a third of the stars from heaven and threw them to the earth and the dragon stood before the woman who was ready to give birth to devour her child as soon as it was born and when Satan led a rebellion against God a third of the Angels did side with them and their aim has been to destroy the woman meaning Israel ever since Israel came into being remember all the way under the Egyptian slavery Pharaoh tried to kill the male children born to the Israelites he was just a puppet of the devil the devil was trying to kill the Messiah by trying to kill all the male of the Hebrews at Birth Herod did the same thing he heard there was one born King of the Jews he didn't want any competition so he calculated that the estimated time that this one born King of the Jews was born and said let's just cover that whole season of life and kill every male Jew under two years of age and here in Revelation chapter 12 9 this great Dragon was cast out that Serpent of old called the devil and Satan who deceives the whole world he was cast to the Earth and his angels were cast out with him now remember in job Satan presented himself with the angels of God to the Lord telling us after his rebellion and even after his fall he still had continued access to the presence of God but here once and for all he is thrown out of heaven and as Amir mentioned that's why there's a new Heaven and a new Earth it is a place where nothing that creates an Abomination or a lie has ever been present there and in Revelation 12 12 we're told Rejoice O heavens and you who dwell in them woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the Sea for the devil has come down to you having what great wrath why because he knows he has a short time you see the devil believes in what the Bible says about the tribulation he knew he had a short time so why shouldn't we believe it and you know what Amir mentioned the four different interpretations of the Book of Revelation the first being preterist or meaning everything is passed and you know the main argument that the preterists make is that you know it was all fulfilled in 70 A.D including everything written in the Book of Revelation well there's one small problem with that if everything in Revelation was fulfilled in 70 A.D then how come Revelation wasn't written until 93 or 94 A.D 20 some odd years after what happened with the fall of Jerusalem it doesn't make any sense and therefore don't listen to the preterists and their interpretation of the Book of Revelation somebody say Amen to that now the male child Satan the male child Satan poised himself to devour is obviously Jesus and again pointing back to that Genesis 3 15 passage which is called the proto-evangelical meaning the first preaching of the Gospel Jesus told Satan right after man fell after he was deceived and Adam consciously sinned he said I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed he shall bruise your head and you shall bruise his heel now in Psalm 2 18 to Psalm 2 rather 8 9 we have a Messianic Passage where the Lord says ask of me and I will give you the Nations for your inheritance and the ends of the Earth for your possession he's speaking to his son you shall break them with a rod of iron you shall Dash them to pieces like a Potter's vessel again speaking of the judicial nature of Jesus Christ the lord and the woman obviously is Israel and chronologically it seems probable that since the duration of the two witnesses at 42 months Satan is able to make war against him and kill them at least momentarily before they rise on International satellite television before the whole world to watch after they gave gifts to one another like Christmas after they were destroyed or killed it's very likely that at this 42-month point is when Satan is permanently cast from heaven and he knows that he has but a short time but you know what um whenever it happens I'm just thankful that we're going to be in the father's house and not see any of this amen now in Matthew 24 15-21 Jesus said therefore if when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the Prophet standing in the Holy Place whoever reads let him understand then those who are in Judea flee to the mountains let him lose on the housetop not go down to take anything out of his house and let him who is in the field not go back to get his clothes but water those who are pregnant and those who are nursing babies in those days the reason he said that is because this can be a hard time and pray that your flight may not be in Winter or on the Sabbath for then there will be great tribulations such as not been since the beginning of the world until this time no nor ever shall be now whatever the timing may be the thing for us to remember is that we won't be here and there will be woes for those who are and listen we need to be telling people about Jesus hello we need to be telling people about Jesus and listen I had you know sometimes you know I I'm a student I like to study I like to prepare a very organized and I like things done in an organized manner but my favorite part of preaching is when you get the incoming stuff that's not on the page and years ago as I was in the middle of a sermon I just had one of those things that hit me like a bullet and it was also one of those things where I said you sure you want me to say that because our church was very young and you know every pastor wants to see new sheep in their church and they want to see the church grow I think if you don't have that desire in you maybe ought to look at another j-o-b that's what we're called to do we're called through the preaching of the word to have the implanted words save souls and this thing that came to me that I did share with the congregation was listen don't invite people to church invite people to Jesus and after you lead him to Jesus invite him to church and we'll teach him how to live for Jesus because the evangelists are all right here the ministers are all right here and you know in this generation there's been too much laid on the church that's not the church corporate's responsibility the responsibility to the whole church is to go to the world and preach the gospel to Every Creature so listen I'm sure because you're here today you've got a wonderful Bible teaching God-fearing church and pastor and be thankful for that but when you leave here go tell people about Jesus because your church can't save you the pastor can't save anybody one Jesus is the one who saves and listen this is the takeaway from all of this and listen as Amir pointed out we are living in the laodicean age of the church Prosperity today is taught as a sign of God's blessing when the fact is Jesus said in this life you'll have tribulation and you know what the word tribulation means it means anguish it means anxiety it means trials it can even be translated as troubles anybody here have any of that stuff going on oh apparently it's only me get your hands in the air anybody have any of that stuff going on yes that's what the Christian life is all about and listen don't get robbed by somebody telling you by faith you can be rich because Prosperity is not the sign of God's blessing the sign of God's blessing is a saved soul and a passion to tell other people about Jesus that's why Paul said in that famed passage of Philippians 4 13 I can do what all things through who Christ who strengthens me you know what he's talking about he's talking about verses 11 and 12. he said you know what I know how to be full and I know how to be hungry I know how to abound and I know how to abase I know how to have much and I know how to have little why because those are the Christian Life Experiences and he said I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me and listen we are living in a time where it is as it was in the days of Noah and let me encourage you don't be ashamed to tell people that judgment is coming because it is judgment is coming and we need to warn people and the Bible has a precedent of this being a very of in effective tactic remember we're told during the tribulation that there's an angel who flies in the mid heaven preaching the Everlasting gospel that's what it says it says there's an angel the the mid Heaven is the high point in the sky of the Sun or where the sun is at 12 noon there's an Angel flying at that point in the sky preaching the Everlasting gospel and you know what follows is the text of the Everlasting gospel and you know what it says fear God and give him glory for the hour of his judgment has come according to the Bible That's The Gospel or at least a part of it think about what happened with Jonah and I love to remind congregations about what happened majona who didn't want to preach to the wicked Assyrians because they were Wicked and he knew God's nature he knew he was a forgiving God and those Wicked people have done a lot of bad things toward us as the Jews I don't want anything to do with them I don't want to be sent there so God arranged a rather interesting mode of transport to his ministry location he got there through the belly of a great fish what was his message God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life is that what he said no even though these those things are true God does love us and he does have a much better plan for our lives than the devil amen but you know what he said you know what his whole message was 40 days and Nineveh will be overthrown that was his whole sermon and you know what the Book of Jonah says everybody from the King to the most common person put on sackcloth and mourned and repented and the Assyrians experienced a Revival that lasted for a hundred years don't be afraid to mention judgment because judgment is coming and the Book of Revelation is a tough book but it's a true book and everything within it is going to come to pass and listen in Luke chapter 21 and I'll leave you with this the Lord says take heed to yourselves lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing drunkenness and the cares of this life and that day the day of the Rapture come upon you unexpectedly for it will come as a snare on all those who dwell on the face of the Earth watch therefore and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass and stand before the son of man and listen Jesus is coming to get us soon and the only way to escape the things coming on the whole world is to be born again and make sure you are born again I'm not saying make sure that you pay your tithe make sure that you give offerings I'm not saying make sure that your church attendance is regular I'm not saying any of those things so none of them are bad just make sure you're born again because you can go to church and still go to hell but the fact is listen you must be born again means you must be born again not maybe you might ought to think about it you must be and this is the king of kings the Lord of lords he's giving that directive you must be born again because Jesus said if you're not then listen now Jesus said if you're not there's no way I can get you into heaven if you're not born again you can't get in why because he is the way the truth and the life and no one comes to the father but through him and he is the one through which our sin debt was paid in full can't get into heaven by being a good moral person you can't get into heaven by having a perfect record of church attendance or writing your check right down to the perfect 10th or whatever it is you may be convicted of doing as far as giving goes or that you cheerfully give none of those things could save you again what can wash away our sin nothing but the blood of Jesus somebody say Amen father again we are grateful for our time together today and I pray over these wonderful people are these kind and generous and caring people and I pray that amongst them that there are none who've yet to experience what it means to be filled with the Holy Spirit to be born again and reconciled to God but Lord should there be any with us here today I pray that they would not leave in that same condition but that they would leave New Creations in Christ for whom all things have passed away all things have passed away and all things have become new and you know what I cannot say this and not offer you the opportunity to be born again right now and if you're not born again and what I mean by that is you if the spirit of the true and living God takes up residence in your life you're going to know it now Christians will often say you know what sometimes I wonder if I'm really saying you know that's just a devil harassing you nothing can separate you from The Father's Love no one can snatch you from the father's hand if you have the Holy Spirit you have a guarantee of your future inheritance and if you cannot look back on life and say you know what I I remember when the Holy Spirit moved in because my desires began to change my value system began to change my likes and dislikes began to change and I began to hunger and thirst after righteousness because this is what happens when you're born again now listen getting born again doesn't make you perfect it just means everything you've ever done has been forgiven and now you don't want to live for yourself anymore you want to start living for God that's what happens when you get born again and if that hasn't happened yet for you make sure it happens right now and if you want that to happen for you and need that to happen for you I'm going to ask you to do something right now and I'm going to ask you to confess before all these people that you want Jesus Christ to save you and to send to cover your blood and every head is bounded every eye is closed but if you need to be born again right now stand to your feet Don't Be Afraid stand to your feet God is unwilling that any should perish and he wants all to come to repentance God bless each of you courageous people here listen anybody can can worm their way through life but it takes courage as a matter of fact one of the interesting things I've always found is the the character trait of the first people thrown into the Lake of Fire is the coward coward Revelation 21 8 the Cowardly unbelieving abominable idolaters and Sorcerers and all liars are who are cast in the Lake of Fire yeah would it take courage to stand up right now sure but you know what Jesus hung naked on a cross for you on a very busy Roman Road to save your soul and nobody in this room is going to see you stand and say oh look at them what they're going to say is hallelujah praise to the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world anybody else in this last minute don't let it get by don't get out of here without being born again God bless each of you and father I pray over these who are in obedience to your word standing not before this room not before me standing before you and saying by that stance save me forgive me of my sin I believe Jesus is the Christ the son of the Living God who came into the world for the express purpose of saving human Souls or their presence before you today and standing before you is saying that they want to live for you the rest of their lives thank you Lord for the sincere person standing here that you have wiped away their sin dead and every old thing is passed away and now they can start living anew and walking in newness of life we give you praise glory and high honor that you are still proving yourself to be unwillied that any should perish thank you for these who've stood before you we pray these things in Jesus name amen hey let's welcome the new family members today [Applause]

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