Prophecy: Outline of Revelation

that was just sort of special because you know you could hear the people of background and junior I still think of him everyone's long i'm speaking cuz he would yell at me for the you know that wasn't used to people saying I agree rate the middle services what's funny I've been here long enough now I know where most people sit so i can get up here like right now and i can look out I old there so this person isn't here in this for I can tell who's not here because you all usually sit mainly in the same place some of you move around which just causes me massive confusion but what do I need to do with this mic so I don't get feedback oh okay a question I get asked all the time is has the tribulation started you know because of the problems in the world and and it's when when England just went out of the European Union a number of people said is this the start of the tribulation and you know I know it's not well how do you know that and so this is a question that's on the mind of people in the church it's on the question of minds of people outside the church at the public appearance campaigns people will come up and say is the tribulation started how do we know I mean we don't know exact dates but how do we know exactly how what events lead up to and when you say okay the tribulation has started we only know that to the book of Revelation what I want to do today is you know in an hour cover what should take 12 hours to cover what I want to do is do a simple outline of Revelation and I say a simple outline because I'm not going to cover a lot of details I we can't i'm not going to explain everything that's in the book of Revelation and in all honesty I can't explain everything this is the book of Revelation but we can get an outline that will tell us awful lot about what the Bible calls the tribulation remember I gave a a Bible was actually a sermon a couple months ago on Daniel 2 and said that was a major template for understanding prophecy you can't understand certain aspects of book of Revelation without Daniel this is also true with another template prophecy which is Matthew 24 the Olivet prophecy will actually go through a little bit of the Olivet prophecy today but just a little bit really what most people don't realize when they look at the Olivet prophecy we usually read the first the first chapter of the Olivet prophecy but the element prophecies two chapters long there's more material in the Olivet prophecy about the church at the end time then there is about end time events but we usually don't study those two things together yet it was all given by Jesus Christ at the same time but so today we're just going to go through a basic outline very simple outline trying to deal with mainly what we know you know mainly what is obvious in the book of revelation revelation was the last book written it's at it's part of the New Testament is written by the Apostle John somewhere between 90 and 100 AD it had an important meaning to those people then too but most of it is prophecy about the future way in the future that those people would you know long beyond after they had died if we go to the beginning of the book of Revelation in chapter 1 verse 3 it says this blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are written in it for the time is near the time is a whole lot more deer than it was to the original audience that got that they rid the original audience that would receive the book of Revelation would not have understood probably ninety percent of it they would not have understood what it meant it a bit like Daniel when he asked God what does this mean and he said well this is sealed to the end these things are going to happen long after you're dead so you're not going to understand it most of what they received they would not have understood now there's some day we'll go into all the different interpretations of the book of Revelation there's what is called pretty Predis viewpoint in which they look at the book of Revelation as things that all happened in the first ad our first century AD we reject that is not being what Scripture is so what we're looking at here is a prophecy about the future about the return of Jesus Christ if we go to a few verses later once again I'm covering a lot of information and I just I'm hitting highlights its the concept sermon to look at the concept of the book of Revelation so we're just going to be hitting highlights we have seven statements about Jesus Christ and his followers and these two verses here of Revelation 1 verse 7 Jesus Christ who is the faithful witness number one he's the witness he's the one who God is revealing these things to he's the firstborn from the dead we know that for what Paul teaches three and ruler over all the kings of the earth which this is about how he comes back to establish himself as the ruler to him who loves us now that's real important as we go through this book you know when we go through the book of Revelation you I've acted people say please don't talk about the book of Revelation it's too frightening it's too scary it just makes me depressed as we go through here this is a frightening book I will just start out with this when people say as the tribulation start started my answer always says oh no these are the good old days enjoy this time this is a good time okay this is really good time compared to what the tribulation is actually going to be so him who loves us a real important thing to remember when we go through revelation he has freed us from our sins in his blood and made us to be a kingdom of priests to serve his god and father to him be glory and power forever and ever in other words he's preparing people so that when he returns to serve Him in bringing humanity to God and seven look he is coming in the clouds and every eye will see him those who pierced and all the peoples of the earth will mourn because of him this is by the way from the NIV version most when I go through is from the New King James so this is very important it tells us a lot about Jesus Christ but it tells us about his followers here he loves us he's freed us from her sins and we are being made into priests to serve in his kingdom and help him change the world the good message of the book of Revelation is is it Jesus Christ is coming back to change the world that's the positive side the problem is before that happens a lot of bad things are going to happen a lot of bad things are going to have so we get into the first part of the book of Revelation and we have in chapters 2 and 3 the seven churches so if these people there were literally seven churches in these places in what is now modern day Turkey and this letter showed up and they would have read it to their congregations and there is there are differing opinions on how interpret this some historical historical interpretation is well this book is mainly or this this two chapters are mainly just given to these churches and they're just historical the other is of these are seven different kinds of congregations or seven different kinds of attitudes that form over time and a third interpretation is that this is about progressive Church errors this is actually has a prophetic meaning to it now I'm going to tell you my opinion remember I always tell you when my opinion so what is your opinion is your opinion that it's about seven churches seven Church eras or seven attitudes my answer is yes see it's written in such that all of those lessons can be taught from the same passage there was seven literal churches these are deuce is seven different distinct types of of attitudes that exists within the church and yes there are seven church areas in which there is a predominant attitude during that time so when people ask me my answer is yes and I think that's very important in fact someone's asked me that if maybe next year I could do a whole series on this so will will do a whole series of Revelation at two and three sometime probably in 2017 now we get into the vision that John has on the throne of God John sees a scroll with seven seals and he hears a song you are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals because you were slain speaking of Jesus Christ and with your blood you purchased men for God from every tribe and language and people and a nation you've made them to be a kingdom and priests to serve our God and they will reign on earth so here we have a scroll with seven seals so think of a scroll like this and it's rolled together and there's seven seals on it and each seal you break you can enroll a little bit of this scroll ok so there's seven seals on this scroll and he sees it and he Labor's with and he just struggles with who can open this he said in this vision he's having nobody can open this scroll so John is agonizing with this and so the scroll is open and there's four seals and we've just jumped through a lot of the first few chapters of Revelation okay I realize that but if just what the information we covered you can read those chapters and see how it fits together the message comes it's a message the revelation of Jesus Christ to John and John gives this and crisis is revealing these things to him and he tells him send us to the seven churches and he tells all about the churches and you start to see what wait a minute this is more than just these seven churches there's a prophetic message here and then he gets to these seals he's at the throne of God he seized the throne of god in his vision and there's this this scroll with these seals and he begins to open them as he begins to open them you have the first four seals and we're going to go through all seven of the seal the first four seals has also called the four horsemen of the apocalypse and we'll see why as we go through this so they're called the four horsemen so we have the four horsemen of the apocalypse and the first four seals are the same thing now that seems like a simple issue but for many people they dive talked to people we don't know what that means okay the first four seals the four or horse where they apocalypse what are these were there the same thing so it's each seal is broken something new is revealed about this endtime that leads up to the return of Jesus Christ and here's what we have now let's go to Revelation chapter 6 and we're going to go back and forth here between Revelation chapter 6 of Matthew 24 once again this is nothing new this is this is very simple sort of prophecy 101 in some ways but it's still easy to get all these things mixed up in our heads you know how does this all fit together has the tribulation started you know I mentioned before number of years ago there was a very popular book out claiming that Saddam Hussein was they was the beast you can get that book now free at goodwill I just give it away you know and it was a logical argument it just didn't fit it didn't fit what we see here in both revelation and when we look at our other template chapter six verse 1 now I saw when the lamb opened one of the seals so Jesus Christ now begins to open these seals and just think of this scroll is beginning to roll back and now John is being told about what's going to happen and I heard one of the four living creatures they said these living creatures are angels before the throne of God saying with a voice like thunder come and see and I look to behold a white horse and he who sat on it a bow and a crown was given to him and he went out conquering and to conquer so here we have a white horse you know you'd imagine this is opening up it's sort of like uh maybe Bo what am I looking at a hologram it comes out of the he's looking this holograph what am I looking for give me a word holograph its image comes up out of the page okay and he's looking at it and what he sees is this white horse and it is it's going out and it's conquering now leave a marker there and let's go back or to Matthew 24 Matthew 24 this is our template Daniel 2 is our template all of that prophecy or template this is how we build an understanding of Revelation without Daniel 2 and without Matthew 24 I have no idea what entire passages of Revelation say I just don't know verse 3 now as he sat on the Mount of Olives the disciples came to him privately saying tell us when were these things be and what will be the sign of your coming at the end of the age okay tell us what's going to happen before you come so we'll know it will be able to see it we can experience it so let us know so we'll be prepared they didn't realize it was gonna be a long time in the future yet and Jesus's androids answered and said to him them verse 4 take heed that no one deceives you for many will come in my name saying I am the Christ and deceive many and you will hear of wars and rumors of wars so he starts with that there's going to be many come and these people will come and say that he is the Christ there'll be lots of religious deception let's get down to verse 23 verse 23 then if anyone says do you look here is Christ or there do not believe it for false Christ's the false prophets rise and show great wonders to deceive if possible even the elect see I have told you beforehand he said if you're not prepared if you don't if you don't know about this beforehand you will be deceived by great signs and wonders now we can tie that in where we could go off into a whole hour now and tie that into the Beast of false prophet and other things that will be happening but this is a concept servant okay we're looking at big concepts here therefore if they say to you this is verse 28 Loki's in the desert do not go out but look he's in the inner rooms do not go then goes on to explain what it's going to look like when Christ returns so there's going to be a great deal of false religion going on who is the white horse of Revelation I will come back to that in a minute we get the second seal the third seal the force it let me just flip ahead here once okay let's look at this there are two white horses and revelation two white horses okay the first one rides to conquer the second one Jesus Christ is on notice the deception they both appear as conquering benefactors and they both appear on white horses there's a reason for this similarity because as we just read in Matthew this first white horse is going to be a false religion and this is where we begin to understand it even more depth the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse because the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse the details are given in Matthew 24 remember we lay Daniel two we lay Matthew 24 on top of that now we're just taking revelation I'm certain yet we take daniel tool a mans 24 on top of it well just take it revelation letting it on top of it that's all we're doing and as you do you can see how it all fits together so there are two and there are two women in the book of Revelation it's so important to know the difference because the reason they're described this way is it will be hard for people to tell the difference what is going to happen is a false religion come along that looks so real that people from different religions are going to follow it including Christians it is going to appear to be a false Christianity he's riding a white horse that's the purpose of the description okay so let's go back here to the second seal let's go back to the second seal revelation 63 revelation 63 yeah well go back to to Matthew and look at this when he opened the second seal I heard the second living creature saying come and see in another horse fiery red went out it was granted to the one who sat on to take peace from the earth that the people should kill one another and there was given to him a great sword so now we have this this horse that appears and there's just just global war taking place terrible war remember these four horsemen ride all over the world this isn't a local event these are worldwide events now we go back to Matthew 24 verse 5 where we ended before it says for many will come in my name saying I am Christ verse 6 and you will hear of wars and rumors of wars see that you're not troubled for all these things must come to pass but the end is not yet for nation will rise up again nation and Kingdom against Kingdom they asked Jesus what's going to happen he gave them very broad description well we have now in revelation 6 here's how these events begin to unfold so is this the tribulation now let's go back let's look now at the third seal I'll read about the third and fourth seal here verse 5 of revelation 6 when he opened the third seal I heard the third living creature say come and see so I looked hold a black horse and he who sat on it had a pair of scale it's in his hand and heard a voice say in the midst of the four living creatures a quart of wheat for a Denarius and three quarts of barley for a Denarius but do no harm on the oil and the wine in other words food is going to be a lot of food is going to be very scarce other foods will not verse 7 says when he opened the fourth seal I heard a voice of the fourth living creature saying come and see and I looked at me hold a pale horse and his name who sat on him was death and Hades which followed him I want to stop right there let's go back let's go back now to Matthew 24 remember verse 7 says for nation will rise against nation and Kingdom against Kingdom there shall be famines and pestilences and earthquakes in various places so the third and fourth of the seals we have the third and fourth of the four horsemen but notice verse 8 all these are the beginning of Sorrows Jesus told him when these for now these are just events their series of events when these series of vents get bigger and bigger and bigger until they culminate how bad will it be well that's pretty bad he said oh no these will be looked on as the good old days how bad will this be let's go back to the fourth seal in Revelation chapter 6 so you still with me and why I feel I fused yes and a few Oh No okay look what it says here at the end of verse 8 four horsemen are writing and power was given to them over a fourth of the earth to kill with sword with hunger and with death and by the beasts of the earth power was given to kill with sword and hunger with death and by the beasts of the earth when the four horsemen I've reached their full power a fourth of the earth will die that's catastrophic a fourth of the earth and you can think of a fourth of Europe dying or a third during the bubonic plague but that's just you know that's one continent a fourth of the earth will die you see why we're not in the tribulation yet but with the four horsemen when what these events all culminate in this horrendous time when there's Wars and there's famines and there's disease epidemics so great to the fourth of the world dies the tribulation hasn't started yet so if it hasn't started yet well yeah now we got to look at we got to start looking at the fifth seal and then we're going to go back to Matthew 24 discover something fifth seal so let's go to revelation 6 verse 9 when he opened the fifth seal I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God for the testimony which they held and they cried out with a loud voice saying how long O Lord holy and true to you judge in the Avenger of blood on those who dwell on the earth and then a white robe was given to each of them and it was said to them that they should rest a little while longer and 20 both the number of their fellow servants and their brethren who would be killed as they it was completed so the fifth seal his persecution violent persecution on the people of God violent persecution of the people of God let's go back to Matthew and let's look in verse 9 remember these are the beginning of Sorrows wars and rumors of wars and devastation and disease epidemics we lay that right you know we laid we take revelation 6 that lay it right on top of Matthew 24 one-fourth of the world dies and then they will deliver you mean if this changes you here is the church he's speaking to his disciples and those who would follow him so then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you and you will be hated by all nations for my name's sake he says many will be offended there'll be lawlessness it's gonna be a terrible time he also says during this time verse 14 and the gospel of the kingdom will be preached to all the world is a witness and to all the nations and then the end will come so the gospel hasn't been preached yet to all the world but that's going to happen so we're gonna have to figure out this revelation give us an understanding of how that happens he goes on and talks about how though be the abomination of desolation but if you skip down to verse 21 because this abomination of desolation we have come back to in a minute or there will be Great Tribulation such has not been since the beginning of the world until this time no nor ever shall be so this persecution on the church is the beginning of a great tribulation back verse 29 says immediately after the tribulation of those days the Sun will be darkened so immediately after at the end of the tribulation there's going to be signs in the skies and if you go to before I get to the sixth seal let's talk about this for a minute here you have the four horsemen what we're watching today are events and we watch those events and we see them beginning to happen and as we do we wonder okay is this the beginning of the tribulation these events have to get worse and worse and worse and there's a point where it must all have it very fast very quickly the reason I'm going to say that is because what I'm going to go through here when we talk about the great tribulation beginning okay these events happen and happen and happen and then very quickly the whole world collapses it literally collapses in the chaos there is famine there is death it's his economic collapse twenty-five percent of the earth dies and now that's the beginning of the tribulation so when I talk about the four horsemen when those events actually happened is what launches the tribulation so it's part of the tribulation and that is what launches it but as it launches it certain things begin to happen what is it that happens so when you watch twenty five percent of the world dying there will be another set of events that happen that is called the Great Tribulation so we need to watch all these trends because at some point they'll accumulate and what they do things are going to have a real fast so now the tribulation begins is that what begins with a persecution on the church it begins because twenty-five percent of the world is dying there's chaos there's collapse and now something is going to happen and we know a number of things happen when we go through revelation we see the rise of the beast power when we go back to Matthew 24 we see what is called a bobbin east of desolation in Revelation 12 we see the part of the church has taken to a place in the wilderness and in revelation 11 we see to witness now these are four things that happen what's interesting is they all begin at exact almost exactly the same time so think about this now we got to put this together these trends get worse and worse and worse and then boom for horse when the apocalypse just I mean the seals are dumped out well that's dumped out and we see this total collapse then what happens well first of all there's a revelation 13 the rise of the beast power now we go back to Daniel to we know that before the coming of Christ will be revival the Roman Empire so we don't have to worry if this is going to be China okay it's or Russia it's going to be well may involve parts of what is now Russia or former USSR but but he's going to be seated in Europe okay now there are two beasts in Revelation 13 1 represents a political power the other religious power here's what's important these two powers Rule on the earth in accordance with revelation 13 for 42 months how long is 42 months everybody so I'll know you get it okay smart group okay we now have a three and a half year period people say does the beast power exists stuff people said well the European Union is the beast power no it's not these power only exists for three and a half years now I'm not saying there aren't you know the beast the man who's going to be the Beast is alive today and there's people trying to maneuver to make this happen that's true but the beast power comes together and only exists in its final form for three half years so don't be surprised that the European Union falls apart to an extent as this existed a whole lot more in three and a half years you see what I'm saying this gives us reference points they say when's that going to start I can only tell you when it starts when it's happening I can't tell you when it's going to happen beforehand is the Bible doesn't I do know when we're watching 25 when you're watching the news and 25 or so the people are dying and you don't have any food on the table and you start to see these things that happen you know what's happening you know what's happening because it's happening now the other thing of that list was Matthew 24 the abomination of desolation where I just skipped through a little bit of it where it's called the Great Tribulation the term Great Tribulation is attached to the abomination of desolation and when you read in luke luke adds something to the story and of course the entire abomination of desolation is a fascinating subject in itself prophetically but it includes an invasion of Jerusalem so at the very beginning of this time called the Great Tribulation which is simply being it's it's happening out of this chaos that happens very quickly you have Jerusalem being invaded and trampled underfoot until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled well that doesn't help us much because we don't even know what the times of the Gentiles are when Luke wrote but in revelation 11 the times of the Gentiles will be 42 months how long is 42 months okay starting to get a feel here that these things these are concurrent events right because they all last thing I'm on time now the third of the four things I mentioned is the woman the church is taken to his place since in the wilderness the woman you know there's so many interpretations of Revelation 12 one is that the woman is Mary but that doesn't make sense the other is that it symbolizes Jewish Christians and that's because the feed there are people who believe they're two different churches the Jewish Church and the Gentile Church and that doesn't make any sense so what we really have here is the woman and that's another sermon in itself in the first verses she represents ancient Israel and after the resurrection of the child who's mentioned there Jesus Christ she represents the church at the end time okay in according to that prophecy it's a long prophecy at the end time Satan tries to attack the church and she is put into a place where she is protected not all the church by the way part of the church is protected part isn't part of the church is protected four times time and half a time you know there's very very few things in the Bible that are universally accepted almost every scholar says time and times and half a time does three and a half years oh we have another three and a half years so let's we get the four horsemen and it calming twenty-five percent of the world is dying there's wars and chaos and death and destruction and nobody's got control the beast power comes on the scene there's an invasion of Jerusalem and there's a persecution on the church which is the fifth seal and part of the church is taken into the wilderness this is all happening concurrently or at least very quickly mingled together these things are all happening real fast real fast and then the last and the list was oh i just want to mention too there's two women to women in Revelation one is obviously the church which Satan tries to destroy the other woman rides a beast I wish I could find better than a that's sort of bad t-rex there but so I can find so what we have two women one representing the true people of God and one representing this false religion the fourth or the first of the four horsemen of the apocalypse by the way is a false religion ok so there's symbols of the same things then we have in Revelation 2 11-2 witnesses come on the scene remember we read there in Matthew that the whole world is going to the gospel is gonna preach to the whole world and then the end will come well how's that going to happen ah these two guys showing the sea they will tell the people to repent and stand against the beast power for 1260 days how long does 1260 day see it's all the same time period this stuff all happens concurrently so the gospel is being preached to the world and completely I mean every everyone comes along throughout history and gets its little piece you know a hundred fro for 80 years Herbert Armstrong was able to reach people because of mass communication and ways that nobody is done but still that's not what Matthew is talking about it's not about this it's like about how these two individuals are going to reach the whole world the whole world will know who they are the God that they speak of there they will finally be killed and their bodies lie in the streets of Jerusalem people from all over the world will see their dead bodies and then the two witnesses will be resurrected after three and a half days after their killed their their resurrected it for three and a half days so we're back to the overview breaks the seals these horsemen ride these events begin to build and build and build the horsemen aren't writing yet but I think they're sort of trotting along okay that's my personal opinion that's my personal opinion when they reach that culmination point it's catastrophic as the world goes into chaos and as the world goes in the chaos these things happen the beast power comes on the scene the abomination of desolation we have the invasion of Jerusalem in and and Gentile people's taking over Jerusalem part of the church is taken to his place in the wilderness because it's being persecuted and not only it not just the church by the way the descendants of Israel will be persecuted to according to Daniel 12 and the two witnesses come on all this is happening at one time and all this lasts for three and a half years that's the tribulation so as the tribulation started yet no so enjoy this as bad as this is actually we're living in pretty good times unite eat well what you dinner tonight that'll be on luxury doing the tribulation you know of air conditioning tonight tribulation is the worst apocalyptic movie you've ever seen is unimaginable that's why in Matthew 24 it says if Christ doesn't return when he does nobody will live everybody will die it's that catastrophic how bad does it get well Revelation 7 now reduces two groups of people I don't want to go through that now we have the sixth seal in revelation 6 12 through 17 which are signs in heaven which correspond with Matthew 24 29 and then we have the seventh seal seventh seal is the beginning of a new stage in this Tribulation Period just like the Horsemen of the Apocalypse are what create this it's what drives it then you have this three and a half years of tribulation the seventh seal begins the day of the Lord we don't know how long the day of the Lord is but there's one scripture in Isaiah 34 that's calls it a year if if we know how long it is we don't know a year is the only guests we have I hate to say dogmatic statements what I don't know all i have is isaiah 34 128 and it says it's a year but that's it's a it's a little vague but if we if we know anything it's probably a year maybe even less but if it is a year what we have is two and a half years into this tribulation when the beasts power finally has rule which doesn't happen overnight and ask control and is controlling the world economy we have God begin to step in the seventh seal that last seal is broken and we find out that in this seal there's a whole series of events there are seven trumpets now we talked about seven trumpets every year on the feast of trumpets Elly blaring the announcing the return of Jesus Christ but the seven trumpets is more than just that seventh trumpet which announces the return of Jesus Christ it is now where the entire earth begins to disintegrate this is where global warming actually happens because of what human because of what humanity has done to itself plus what God is doing God is now being directly he's directly involved in what's going on my personal opinion is part of this too is because God is finally taking his hands off and saying okay you're going to live by your consequences I think we'll brought this up so between Satan and humanity and he's keeping it from destroying itself and he's just going to let it go and that he's going to start he's going to start actively saying I'm doing this and I'm doing this and I'm doing this to bring people to repentance and according to when we go through revelation some people will repent most of them will have to die for the repentance majority of humanity wilmot first trumpet revelation eight heyo and fire the third of all trees and green grass destroyed now you think about what the four horsemen did and then we're not you then the beach fires evolved in this global takeover who knows what destruction is taking place during that time period there's a lot you know discussion about what in the world happens to the nations of Israel you know what happens is this going to be total destruction and yet there reads the time when the tribulation were the good old days because now is the day of the Lord we think we know how to fight war do you fight God hail and fire a third of the trees and green grass is destroyed the second trumpet one-third over the sea becomes blood one-third of sea creatures die when third of ships destroyed never that is that's a massive problem it's not just the blood I mean the sea is turning to a blood consistency a third of the ships are destroyed now there's all kinds of attempted explanations of what this means that we're pretty interesting but I'm not going through that this is just an overview okay how could that actually happen the third trumpet a third part of fresh water turns bitter third of the earth is facing no water you can live days without food you can live very long without water fourth trumpet atmosphere deteriorates so that one-third of light is filled it out if they talk about a nuclear winter we have a problem with our atmosphere probably from all the wars of the things they're going on that lead up to this time period plus gods now being intervening what's going on that light is going away you know what happens when you don't have light you can't grow food people say all the good old days when the four horsemen were writing the last three trumpets are also known as the three rows the fifth trumpet which is the first whoa the beast power brings about World War at this point the war goes global it's everybody against the Beast the Beast power 6 trumpet the second whoa Asia becomes involved in the war we have this huge army come out of China India that area and they're coming into the Middle East the beast power armies are coming into the Middle East and they finally kill the two witnesses finally we're going to the final shootout and whoever's left gets this piece of bird out earth basically that's what's come down to whoever's left gets this apocalyptic earth that won't grow anything that's mainly desert you know sometimes I oh I can't wait to the tribulation come to Christ was back then sometimes I think I don't know I want Christ to come back I really hope I'm in the place in the wilderness you know if I'm not in the place of the wilderness what I've asked God has let me be martyred quickly by 12 guys who all shoot me at heart at the same time yeah let's just get this over quick at seventh trumpet the third whoa the seventh trumpet is composed of seven vials or seven bowls sometimes it's translated remember we're all in the day of the Lord here this is God's intervention where he's both causing events and saying okay I'm not protecting the earth anymore and it's now being driven Ford and humanity isn't repenting humanity has continued to destroy itself of course remember Satan's involved it is Satan Lee has two desires either he makes us into animals theory of evolution we just become higher forms of animal animals and we act like animals or he wants us destroyed one of the other he doesn't want us to be children of God so he's driving humanity towards its own destruction it revelations 14 a of a series of messages I won't go through all those but let's go through the seven vials ah this happens very quickly remember the the two witnesses are killed and it's three and a half days later their resurrected that's the resurrection the resurrected at the resurrection so for the next three and a half days you basically have this source mass death of sea creatures well third of the wood already died the rest of our dying fresh water turns the blood nobody can find water the Sun scorches the earth there's darkness well one third of the sudden or even blocked out this means is it's just darkness there's very little sunlight filtering through the Euphrates River dries up in the Asiatic armies and remaining beast RVs converge on medical ghetto there's a great earthquake and hail and if you read revelation 16 and 17 the entire babylonian system collapses the obese power be as the collapse is basically an army its economic system collapses it appears the government itself may have collapse the religious sustain the whole thing is collapsing and you have these hordes of Asiatic Army's coming over trying to find food and you know just survive probably have who knows how many women and children with them here they come you know hundreds of millions of people converging on Jerusalem are finally they're going to destroy humanity forever that's what would happen and then it's the good news right at that moment well we've reached the point where we have exhausted every human idea see every human idea that's come along for these thousands of years always fatal that's why the United the United States is wonderful this is is going to fail it's a human idea the Constitution of the United States as brilliant as it is is not God's Constitution guys Constitution is this book okay it's this book the United States is going to fail because it's a human idea it just had to be about the best thing we could ever come up with but it is not going to survive never was it never was going to survive not according to revelation because no human system has ever worked the ones that work a little better than the others are the ones that have the most of God's laws involved it and we had some of God's laws involved on all of them not all of them and so we finally reach we're all human endeavor under Satan's direction we'll go it was going to end this way when Adam and he got kicked out of the GAR this is the only way can end understand what God kicked Adam and Eve out of the garden this is the only way he could end I'm just amazed we didn't do it beforehand well maybe that that's probably was the reason for the flood where are we going to do it too quickly God had a plan it was supposed to last a certain amount of time and if it ended too quickly why you had to step in to keep it from happening too quickly and so here we are and Christ returns the Saints are resurrected the Saints are resurrected those who are in that place in the wilderness they're changed they rise the meat Christ I in the air just like it says the first Corinthians 15 let's get Matthew 24 gives us a basis Revelation 20 you could tie in first Corinthians 15 at 1st Thessalonians at the return of Jesus Christ there's the final destruction above the beast power and the asiatic armies that have sort of combined to the battle this invasion from outer space Zechariah 14 talks about that Matthew 24 Revelation 19 and the biting binding of Satan and the establishment of God's kingdom on this earth remember at the beginning of the book of Revelation because this ties this together why are you and I are supposed to understand this book we don't understand all the details and I can't tell you exactly what all this that's going to happen I can only tell you what it's happening if you wake up tomorrow and twenty five percent of the world has died I'll jump up and say the four horsemen they've written okay if the beasts power just comes on the scene hey guess what tribulation started okay because it will be happening I can't tell you the exact date it's going to happen but at the end of this time Christ does these things and remember at the beginning of the book he says well I all the way back at work let me read it I won't have to go all the way through the you talked about Jesus Christ be the faithful witness the firstborn among the dead and ruler of the kings of the earth to him who loves us has freed us from our sins in his blood and made us to VA kingdom and priests to serve his god and father to him be glory and power forever you and I even called now by the very by the grace of God tried to explain why he would call you and not your neighbor we're called by the grace of God and we're given an enormous opportunity to what that becomes enormous responsibility and that is to be prepared to serve Jesus Christ when he sets up this kingdom can you imagine the state of the survivors of the world hundreds of millions of people billions and billions have died they don't believe in any God they don't believe it anything they're animals that will cheat and lie and steal and kill and do anything for a piece of food that's what they'll have been driven to we have to go care for those people if we think oh I've got I would be with Jesus Christ I'm gonna fry some of the beast power soldiers that's not what you and I he'll do that for us okay we gotta go take this world and we've got to help turn them to God first of all to Christ so they understand okay God sent His Son and it's not going to be easy you know why we're told Zechariah what happens Egypt won't even come to the feast Gog and Magog according to Ezekiel tries to come down and fight against the Messiah wait a minute he's already on earth the destruction of the beasts powers is the last war then you got at the end of the millennium you got Gog and Magog trying to do it again this is tough these people been hardened driven mad by what they've been through as the tribulation started oh man go home and enjoy that bowl of cereal you know that bowl of Cheerios you eat it before you go to sleep tonight enjoy that as you turn on your air conditioner in your television you drive home in a car I don't say this the scary i do say it to scare us a little bit because we want to be prepared for this so that if God says go to the place of the wilderness we say yes Lord and if God says no you stay I have a job for you to do the moment during the tribulation we say yes Lord and we follow what he says I pray every day almost every day I hope I can be a kind of worthy to escape the tribulation of course my dad prayed that right before he died he said God answered my prayer I don't have to go through the tribulation he was all happy you know is he he said you do come on dad I had a funny sense of humor my dad you know we have the Millennium Christ sets up King on a nurse can you imagine he first thing he does he heals the earth it grows food he heals all the water he heals all the animals there's fish all over the place and animals all over the place and food just grows up and the weather's beautiful and wonderful and we gotta get sit down with Israelis and Palestinians and tell them I teach them how to get along we can't even get along with each other we're gonna have to teach the world how to get along book of Revelation isn't done yet there's the millennium and there's the great white throne judgment which we know all humanity who never had a chance to know God gets their chance gets their opportunity which is follow of course as part of that is the lake of fire but dead revelation 21 and 22 is such an part of the Bible because New Jerusalem God's throne comes to this earth we don't go to heaven heaven comes here the earth becomes the very throne of God where it says we will be his children forever that's not everything you always wanted to know about the book of Revelation because we scratched the surface but if we can at least get that snapshot of how it fits together four horsemen accumulate into the tribulation tribulation is all these events we went through four of them the last three and a half years Jesus Christ comes back establishes God's kingdom on this earth at the end there's a great white throne judgment and after that God brings his throne here and there's the lake of fire and after the lake of fire all that's left are the children it'll become his children sometimes we look at ourselves as the center of God's plan you and I are just want a little piece of it in history the center of God's plan is when Jesus Christ gives the family to god it says he presents the children to the father when he gives the kingdom to God that's the center point as billions of billions of children I don't even think we'll be in the front of the line see that's not the point the point is is that we have been given by the grace of God an opportunity to participate now an opportunity to be part of what he's doing now and to share that with the world and to be there when Jesus Christ returns to help him change the world you

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