Revelation 19

Well, good morning, Andre of Yulee. Will you pray for us?

Is that the Spanish translation? Yeah, let's pray. Father, again, we're so thankful that we can come before you, Lord. We thank you for your word. We thank you for your truth, that it doesn't change. And we pray, Lord, that you'd be a brother of mine.

Be not only with his thoughts, but be with our lives, Lord. Help us to become more like Christ, the soul of us, that he gave himself for us. And we pray it all in his name. Amen.

Take your Bibles and open them up to Revelation 19. Good to see you, Meg. Another milestone. We start a new chapter. Let's read the whole chapter together. It says, And after these things, I heard something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven saying, Hallelujah!

Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, because his judgments are true and righteous. For he has judged the great harlot who has corrupted the earth with her immorality, and he has avenged the blood of his bondservants on her.

And a second time they said, Hallelujah! Her smoke rises up forever and ever. And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures, they fell down and worshipped God, who sits on the throne saying, Amen, Hallelujah!

And the voice came from the throne saying, Give praise to our God, all you his bondservants, you who fear him, the small and the great. Then I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of a mighty peal of thunder saying, Hallelujah!

For the Lord our God the Almighty reigns. Let us rejoice and be glad and give glory to him, for the marriage of the Lamb has come and his bride has made herself ready. It was given to her to clothe herself in fine linen and bright and clean, for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

And he said to me, Write, Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he said to me, These are the true words of God. Then I fell at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, Do not do that.

I am a fellow servant of yours and your brethren, whom hold the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. And I saw the heavens opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and wages war.

His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written on him which no one knows except him. He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God.

And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, were following him on white horses. For his mouth comes a sharp sword, so that he may strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron.

And he treads the winepress of the fierce wrath of God the Almighty, and on his robe and on his thigh he has the name written, King of Kings and Lord of Lords. And then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and he cried out with a loud voice, saying to all the birds which fly in heaven, Come, assemble for the great supper of God, so that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of commanders, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses, and those who sit on them and the flesh of all men, both free men and slaves and small and great.

And I saw the beasts and the kings of the earth and their armies assembled to make war against him who sat on the horse and against his army. And the beast was seized, and with him the false prophet, who performed signs in the presence by which he deceived those who received the mark of the beast and those who worshipped his image.

And these were thrown alive into the lake of fire, which burns with fire and brimstone, and the rest of them were killed with the sword. And that came out of the mouth of him who sat on the horse, and all the birds were filled with their flesh.

Yummy! That sounds tasty. Makes you want to eat. We have seen these twos that come together all through the book. Right at the beginning, we saw two responses of Jesus to the churches. Anybody remember what those two responses were?

That was four score and seven years ago. You had commendation. That's right. And condemnation. We also saw there were the faithful in the church and the what? Unfaithful. As you continue to go through the book, you have the lamb and the beast.

You have followers.

Then, not only do you have the followers of the lamb and the beast, you have the whore and the bride. I'm running out of room. And now you come to two suppers. We read that. What were the two suppers?

The supper of the lamb and the supper of our great God. Well, we can continue to go on because there's two cities, which is the old Jerusalem and the new Jerusalem. And when we get to the end of the book, we'll have two creations,.

The old and the new.

There's all these antithesis, or what you want to say dichotomies, all through the book. But we come to the end of 817 and 818 where you have the destruction of the whore, which makes way for the bride.

Now, what did we learn about the whore? It had to be executed. And God will not have two brides again. Remember, he had two brides in the Old Testament, didn't he? Right? What were they? What's that? Somebody said it.

Somebody said it. Yeah, north and the south because of their disobedience, it separated, and God wound up having basically two brides. And Ezekiel, we read through that multiple times. You had two brides.

He made a parable about it, and he said one was a whore, and one was a whore above, which one was Samaria, one was Jerusalem. He said, look, I did away with Samaria to make an example of her so that you would repent, and you didn't repent, and you wound up being what?

Worse. Yeah, you wound up being a worse hooker than she was. And he said, I won't have it, and he destroyed both of them, which makes way for the true bride, and the true bride ultimately is church. God will not have two brides again.

He will have one that will be faithful, and that faithful bride is made up of every tribe, nation, people, and tongue. It's made up of one that has been declared righteous and given the white robes of righteousness by faith, by trusting in Christ.

But then that leads us to chapter 19. And reading us to chapter 19, you have this fourfold hallelujah. And if you know anything about the word hallelujah, it is a Hebrew word. And it is a Hebrew word that in almost every language, it comes right across into the whatever vernacular, whether it be Greek, or whether it be English, or whether it be any other language, but it comes right along, transliterated and used the same way, hallelujah.

We sing it in songs. When something happens, even on the other side of the globe, something happens, we go, hallelujah! It might be in speaking another language. But there's an obvious connection to what this word means.

This word, Hebrew, halel, meaning praise, yah, which is an abbreviated version of the covenant name of God, which is Yahweh. And you put them together, and it means hallelujah, and it means what? I just gave you the definition.

Praise God, or praise Yahweh, yeah. Praise the Lord. And this fourfold hallelujah is praising God for what He has done. It says here in verse 1, it says, After what things? After what things? After the destruction of the whore, the destruction of the city, and the vision.

Remember, this is a prophecy, and John was giving something that was going to happen in the future. We're looking back to something that's already destroyed, meaning the destruction of Jerusalem. And it says here, Hey, I went back and looked.

I was like, every time we talk about heaven, with the exception of two times, it's loud. Heaven's not quiet. The King James was, I think it comes out 23 times. The word loud is used. New American Standard, which I prefer, uses 28 times the word loud, just in the book of Revelation alone.

So if there's only 22 chapters, and you've got 28 times, that's almost every chapter or more. And in this case, there will be more than one time. So heaven's not quiet. Heaven is loud. And back early in the book, when we were going through the seven seals, you remember the seventh seal opened, and it was quiet for 30 minutes.

And that quiet was basically the calm before the storm. It was as the Old Testament prophets would do, said, Hey, we're going to stand and shut our mouth before God as an act of worship. That's what happened at the seventh seal.

They're shutting their mouth before God, because what came at the seventh seal was what? Final judgment. What was the end of the seventh trumpet? Final judgment. What was the end of the seventh bowl? Final judgment.

That's why we don't understand the book being strictly chronological, because if you do strict chronology of the book of Revelation, you end up with like eight final judgment scenes. And I've said it a hundred times at least.

What's the structure of the book? Progressive parallelism, which means you're saying the same thing over and over again, but intensifying. Hey, that happens in the Old Testament. The book of Daniel was that way.

And I don't know if Andy made this connection, or if he didn't, because I didn't listen to every message that he did, and Job. You know, Job does that. Job was cyclical, wasn't it? With Job, you had 35 chapters of the same thing over and over and over again.

But every time that cycle started again, what happened, Andy? It intensified. It intensified. Whether it was Eliphaz and all of his buddies, his lovable counselors. Yeah, it intensified. So that structure is what's used in Hebrew when I say Revelation, not just the book, but the Hebrew understanding.

So heaven is loud. It is a place of loudness. And why? It's because it's a place of praise. It's a place where God and the Lamb and the Spirit are being worshiped in its fullness. So if you think when you get to heaven it's going to be quiet, clear indication that it's not going to be.

It's going to be very loud. So if you don't sing loud in there, you better start, because we're supposed to sing loud when we get there. And it seems like we're going to be a lot of up and then down, too, because every time you see the 24 elders or the four living creatures, what are they doing?

It looks like they're doing head, shoulders, knees, and toes. They're up and down, up and down, up and down. They got new knees. Yeah, their old hinges don't break. It said, and after I heard these things, something like a loud voice of a great multitude in heaven.

Here's what they were saying. Here's that word, hallelujah. Salvation and glory and power belong to our God. Why would he say salvation? He just talked about the destruction of apostate Jerusalem. Why would he say salvation?

What's that? Yeah. Yeah, what comes together? Without salvation. Yeah, once again, the structure of all of the Bible, whether you start in the beginning in Genesis and you go to the end of the book, with judgment comes what?

Salvation. And what is the cross? What's the cross? Judgment. The biggest judgment in all of human history took place. And the biggest crime, by the way. An innocent man was murdered by apostate Jews, by the hands of the Gentiles.

But what happened on the cross? Christ was judged. Not for stuff he did, but for stuff that the believer would do. I would say the sins of those that would believe. Of every person that would ever believe.

Think about that. Not one sin. Not two sins. Every sin for every person that would ever believe. And what have we seen earlier in the book? How many saints were in heaven? Myriads. Myriads. You can't even count them.

But through the judgment of the cross came the salvation of people. Same thing happens. All through the Old Testament. I mean, you can go through Adam and Eve. Were Adam and Eve saved by the judgment of something else?

You better believe it. And what was that? The shedding of the blood of that animal that God provided a covering for their sins. Keep going. You can go all the way through. You could do Noah. Noah was saved by God doing what?

Drowning the whole world. Go through the remnant of the northern kingdom. The remnant of the southern kingdom. What happened to them? They were hauled off into captivity and preserved while the other ones were slayed like mud and stomped down like mud in the street.

So, when we see salvation and glory and power belong to God, it's because salvation has come. It came to His people. They have now been taken care of like God said He would do. He was going to judge that nation for what they did.

And we're going to get to it in just a second. And why did He judge them? And why did it bring Him glory and display His power? Because His judgments are true and they're righteous. Where did we see that already?

Back up to... I think it's in chapter 15. Yeah, chapter 15. We have what was called the Song of Moses and the Song of the Lamb. And it said here that your marvelous works in verse 3. And they sang a song of Moses and the bond-servant of God and the Song of the Lamb and said, Great and marvelous are your works, O Lord God the Almighty.

Righteous and true are your ways. Hey, this is the song that they sang in Exodus chapter 15 after they came through the Red Sea. Remember, they came through the Red Sea. God parted it, making of the biggest act of redemption and the slaying of the enemies of God.

Because what did He say? When He got there, they said, well, what are you supposed to do, Moses? You brought us out here to kill us? And Moses said, well, hang on, let me talk to God. God said, go ahead and raise your hand.

I'm going to part the sea. They part. They walked through on dry land and Moses said this, Stand and see the salvation of God. They got to the other side. And they got to the other side. He said, you're never going to see these people again.

Although they did. And we'll talk about it in just a second. They did see Him again. They just didn't see Him alive. They got to the other side. God closed the end, drowned every one of them. And as that happened, did the people of Israel say, God, that ain't fair.

Did they? No, what'd they do? They sang a song of redemption. Saying, thank you. You can go back and read the one that Miriam sang with them in chapter 15 of Exodus. And you'll hear them in tambourines and all kinds of stuff.

Thank you, Lord, for drowning the horse and the chariot in the sea. Well, it says here, because it was righteous and true. What does this say here? And when they're singing the song of the lamb, which I do believe is the culmination of the song of Moses, is your ways are righteous and true.

Same thing when you get to chapter 19. The destruction of Jerusalem. They got what they deserved. And it is your ways are righteous and true. Hey, whatever God does, whether we agree with it or not, is it righteous and true?

No matter what. Has anybody here, God done something in their life that they didn't really agree with? If you didn't raise your hand, now you're lying. Yes! Because our ways are not His ways. Look, we go, a tragedy happens, you go, God, I don't agree with that.

God says, I know you don't, but my ways are not your ways. I'm smarter than you. Well, God, I know that, but I want answers. I don't have to give you answers. Even if I gave you the answers, it wouldn't be sufficient because it wouldn't fix your hurt.

So what you need to do is just trust me. Trust me. Difficult. Easy to preach. Difficult to do. And then He says here, your ways are true and righteous. And specifically, this is dealing with why is His ways true and righteous?

And He says here, because He has judged the great harlot, has been judged, and the great harlot who was corrupting the earth and her immorality. Why was the great harlot judged? I know there's multiple reasons why, but one, first and foremost, in the Old Testament, they continually rejected the words of the prophets, right?

Right? Anybody remember the Stephen sermon in Acts 6, I think it is? I believe it's in Acts 6. He's dragged before the Sanhedrin. He gives basically... We say it's a sermon, but it's really not. It's not sermonic in nature at all if you know anything about a sermon.

He actually gives an unfolding of the redemptive history of the people of God who continually rebelled against God and against His prophets. And He says, look, time and time again, He sent His prophets and you wouldn't listen.

You stiff-necked people. And He goes on and on. And, buddy, He is just dropping the hammer and dropping the hammer. And what did they do? They seized Him, gnashed their teeth, and drug Him outside the city and stoned Him to death.

That's what they did to Him. But He was saying, what's happening to you and what will happen to this temple because we don't need this temple anymore. Ultimately, I think that is why they drug Him out of the city.

This temple was useless really anymore. And He said that. God doesn't dwell in a temple made with hands anymore. That angered them because what was the center of Judaism? In the same way that when Jesus said that that angered the Jews on the Temple Mount, the Pharisees?

Sure. It's funny. I wouldn't say funny. Ironic. Not this past week because I was gone a good part of the week, but the end of the last week, me and Keith were on the phone talking about the new academy we're doing.

It's the promises of God are yes and amen in Christ. And we were talking about the fulfillment of Christ in the Old Testament. And little did I know that a guy was eavesdropping inside the house on my conversation, which I don't care.

He was a Jew. And he came outside and he wanted to argue about Deuteronomy. I was like, well, buddy, if you want to argue about Deuteronomy, let's do it. If that's what you want to do because let me tell you about the covenant curses of Deuteronomy.

It's because you rejected your Messiah. You're not in your homeland anymore because he did the same thing in 586. Why did y 'all get kicked out of your... Why did you get kicked out of your homeland? And he said, well, it's because we rejected what God said.

Okay, why can't you not go to the temple over there today and sacrifice an animal and stand in the temple and have a priest stand in your place? I said, it's because you rejected all of that which came fulfilled in Christ.

Now he disagreed with that, but he couldn't disagree with this. Why are you not in your homeland? Why is there no temple? Why is there no sacrifice? Why is there no priest? So God says, I'm done with you.

You rejected the once for all sacrifice and I'm wiping it clean. He said, well, I don't agree with Jesus. Buddy, you don't have to agree with me that Jesus is the Messiah. You don't have to stand before God on the day of judgment and give an account.

But that's why you're not in your homeland. That's why you don't have a priesthood. That's why you don't have sacrifice anymore. I said, ultimately, how are you going to atone for your own sins? Let me tell you what this jackleg said.

He said, I give alms, I fast, and I pray. I said, you just told me that you're standing on the foundation of Torah which is the words of Moses. He said, that's right. I said, you tell me when anybody came along and their words trumped Moses.

Moses said, without the shedding of blood, there is no forgiveness of sin. Without a priest, you don't have an intercessor. Who told you you could trust alms, praying, and fasting? I said, you're only required one time a year to fast and that's the day of atonement and you can't even do that because there's no temple.

I said, so who told you you could do that? He said, well, I'm not sure. I said, I'll tell you who told you to do that. The Council of Jamia in 90 A .D. when there was no more temple, they tried to continue Judaism.

So the Council of Jamia got a bunch of men together, Jewish men. We want to continue to carry on Judaism and carry it on in such a way that our people can still feel like they're accepted by God. I said, and it's damnable because they took and trumped the words of Moses and I said, under your own theology, nobody trumps the words of Moses.

Who was the greatest prophet in the Old Testament? He agreed, Moses. Okay, so whoever this guy was at the Council of Jamia is wrong, is wrong. God will make no exceptions. You reject the Messiah. I don't care if you've got Abraham's blood running through your veins.

You reject the Messiah, you will die in your sin. This here says, he avenged the blood of the bond servants on her. Multiple times we've seen this already in the book. These are fulfilling the words of Christ.

It shows the reliability of the words of God and the words of Christ and reliability and the tenacity of his words because he already told them on the week he was crucified that all the blood on all the prophets are going to fall on you from Abel to Zechariah, the son of Berechiah.

And did Jesus lie? No. 70 A .D. was the stamp of approval that his words were true and that he had now fulfilled all that he had said. Matter of fact, I think it's in Luke 19. I'm not sure you fact checkers can check.

Jesus is on his way carrying... He's got the cross. He's heading to Calvary. And the women are crying. He said, Ho, ho, ho, ho, don't cry. Don't cry over me. He said, You cry over what's coming. He said, You cry over what's coming.

He says, Because there's coming a day when this place is going to be surrounded by enemies. It's going to be handed on every side and it's going to knock every stone down. That is Luke's rendition of what Jesus said.

And there's a little word we forget or a little phrase. So that all that God had written would be fulfilled. What had been written at that point? Certainly not all of it discourse. Certainly nothing of the book of Revelation.

So there was even stuff in the Old Testament that prophesied the coming destruction of Jerusalem in the Old Testament. I would say parts of that would be Malachi, the covenant curses of Deuteronomy 27 -28, the covenant curses of Leviticus 26 -28.

So Jesus' words were fulfilled. And in verse 3 he says, in verse 3, it says, The second time they said, Hallelujah! Once again, here it is. Praise the Lord! Because her smoke rises up forever and ever.

Now, two ways of seeing how her smoke rises up forever and ever. Okay? The preterist position would say this would be people actually looking back at the destruction of Jerusalem. Because what did they do to Jerusalem?

They burned it in 70 AD. Yeah, they tumbled it, set it on fire. The preterist position would say, hey, they're looking back and they're seeing the destruction of Jerusalem and the smoke of it rising forever and ever.

That's not, I don't think that's the best way of understanding this part. Although I think there is some merit to the preterist position. Certainly, if you were a Jew and you were on the other side of the Kidron Valley, on the other side of the Mount of Olives, down miles away, would you have been able to look towards Jerusalem after its destruction and saw smoke?

No doubt. I mean, what did Abraham see the next morning after Sodom and Gomorrah had been pulverized by fire and hail? That's actually a quote. That's what this is. They looked back and it said that the smoke of its torment was rising forever.

Now, one, I said this earlier on in dealing with the situation with Sodom and Gomorrah. You had eternal fire. Eternal fire is just a reminder that it comes from God and that the smoke of its burning is a reminder.

When we look over to the Dead Sea, okay, that's a reminder that God did what to a rebellious, perverted generation? A .J. smashed it. So when you, when we look over, we look over to Jerusalem today, just like I told that guy, we look over there today, what's a reminder that you rejected your Messiah?

There's no temple. Yeah. And the comparisons are unbelievable. They rejected the Word of God in 586. What happened to the temple of Nebuchadnezzar? Flattened. For 70 years, they had to look back and go, that's our disobedience.

That was our disobedience. For 70 years, that was our disobedience. Because we disobeyed God, we were kicked out of our homeland. But God promised that He would bring them back in. Jesus never promised that it would ever be a restoration after 586 because everything that that city pointed to, whether it be the priesthood, the temple, the mount, Solomon's portico, all of those things pointed to Christ.

And once He comes, dude, there's no need for any of that. No need. So the smoke of her torment, or the smoke rises up forever and ever is a reminder, when we even look over there today, that's a reminder that they rejected Jesus, they rejected His words, they didn't want the Messiah, they wanted their own religion.

And when you look over there today, that's why people are standing in front of that wall putting little pieces of paper in there talking to a wall because God don't hear them. How retarded that looks.

I guess you can't use that word retard. Sorry, excuse me. Talking to a wall. Talk to the God that provided the way of escape of His wrath. That wall can't do anything for you. Let's get, even if they did, I even told you, hey, let's just give you the benefit of the doubt.

They stuck up. They figured out how to do something with the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which they got to figure that out. And then they figured out what they're going to do with the Dome of the Rock. So you have two, you have the temple mount with two places of idolatry on it.

Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock. Just let you know, Dome of the Rock's not a mosque, okay? If they were able to figure out how to do with all that, which they could with a big bomb, by the way, and they put a structure over there, would that structure really have any significance?

No, it would not. So even if it was, they put something up, it would just be like putting up a Costco. No significance, no meaning, no eternal significance how it pointed to God or His Son. Now... That's a blasphemy.

I mean, you got to remember, God was so incredibly patient. The day that Jesus was crucified, God had every right to open the ground, swallow up the whole, the whole Jezreel Valley, I mean, the whole Kidron Valley where all the blood was running down from the temple site.

He could have opened up, swallowed all of Mount Moriah, all the seven mountains that surrounded it, just scoop. He would have been completely fine doing that, and right, and just to do so. But He was very incredibly patient for some, depending on your time, whether it be 30, 40 years, depending on when you believe Jesus actually was crucified.

It was 30, 40 years. That generation, we can all agree it was that generation, incredibly patient that every time they went in there and they cut a lamb's throat, chopped up a bull, wrung off a turtle dove's head, every time they did that, thinking that they were somehow atoning for their sin, God was incredibly patient because He could have just, and should have, but because His disciples did most of their evangelizing in the early parts of the New Covenant, where were they at?

They were in the temple complex. I mean, remember when they were, when James and John were arrested, what were they doing? They were proclaiming Jesus on the temple complex. When Paul would go in there, what would he do in the book of Acts?

Same thing. He would go in there. He would proclaim the gospel to the people on the Temple Mount, Solomon's Bortico, and all the surrounding precincts, and then probably start a riot and leave. That was kind of Paul's evangelistic method.

Go in, preach the gospel, start a riot, get beat up, and leave. And it says here, excuse me, in verse 4, the 24 elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God who sits on the throne saying, oh, we'll get to that.

All right. So once again, we're seeing these 24 elders and these four living creatures back on the scene. Not what do you think the 24 elders, but what did I say my understanding of the 24 elders was?

The Old Testament church and the New Testament church. I would say the saints. Yeah. Old Testament saints, New Testament representative of basically the apostles, and you add those together, you come to 24 elders, which is representative of the saints of the old, the New Testament church of the new covenant, and culminate them together because I do believe the Old Testament saints are part of the bride of Christ.

I do believe that. And that is the culmination of them. What about the four living creatures? What do they represent? All of God's creation. Matter of fact, you had the bull or the calf. What did it represent?

Every one of those was the most majestic in its area. So you take the ox or the calf or the cow, however you want to say it, it was the biggest, best, strongest beast of the field. What do you do with the eagle?

It was the superior flight of the air. What do you do with the lion? I mean, come on. When Ryan roars in the savanna, everything shuts its mouth. And what about man? Remember when I had a face like a man?

What was man? God's greatest creation. It was his image bare. He didn't take the lion. He didn't take the calf. He didn't take the eagle. He didn't take the praying mantis. He didn't take the bumblebee.

He didn't take the mosquito. He didn't take the frog and put his image in it. What did he do? He scooped out of the dirt of the ground. He fashioned man into his image and then breathed into Adam his breath into Adam's nostrils and he then became a living and breathing soul.

That's what Adam became. If we somehow think that Adam didn't have spiritual life, and there is a perspective that Adam did not have spiritual life in the garden, he did. God breathed into him and he became a living and breathing soul.

That's why when he says, the day that you eat of this, the Hebrew construction is in dying you will die. Well, that's two. What was going to happen? Chomp, chomp. Eve ate, gave it to her husband. He was standing there like a dummy and should have been stomping on the head of the serpent.

Okay. He let her take it and she's like, man, she looks really hot holding that fruit. I'll eat it. I mean, come on. Eve had, man, you got to admit, Eve and Adam had to be pretty stunning. I mean, they were God's crown of His creation.

And then he took that fruit, chomp, chomp, he spiritually died. Then it took 960 years for that spiritual death to catch up to his body. That's just how I understand it. You disagree with me? I don't care.

Okay, I don't care. That's how I understand it. There was spiritual death, spiritual separation, then his physical death caught up. And the four living creatures were representative now of all of creation.

Not only just Old Testament and New Testament, all of His creation. Hey, and what's going to happen one day in the new creation? Everything's going to worship God. Everything. It even says in the book of Romans that the earth groans and cries out for its redemption.

This might be a loaded question. Is the earth sinful? Is the beast of the field sinful? Is the tree out in the front or the bushes, are they sinful? No. They've been tainted by the fallenness of sin, but they're not sinful.

Matter of fact, I'll even say this, the creation actually obeys God better than you and I do. The sun's going to come up at the same place. Well, now somebody's going to say you're lying because the sun don't come up.

Hey, look, the sun's going to rise and set at the same place. It's going to do exactly the way God said it was going to do. Exactly. Even told Noah that. When he came out of the ark, he said times and seasons, you're going to have a sowing and reaping, you're going to have winter and summer, you're going to have the seasons are going to be the same.

That's why these nut jobs about climate change tickle me to death. It's never going to change. It'll change when he splits that eastern sky, but it's not going to change now. The sun's going to rise. Look, trees are going to continue to grow.

The wind's going to continue to blow. We can't stop any of that because they're obeying God's created order. You and I are sinful because we don't obey His created order in which we should do. Now, thank be the Lord that we have an intercessor that bled and died in our place and we can trust in His perfect righteousness that we can then be clothed in His perfect obedience.

But we're the sinful thing, not the ground. Don't you think God struck Uzzah dead? Remember Uzzah? Pretty harsh. I mean, I ain't going to lie. You read some of it in the past, and you're like, God, did you have to do that?

God said, yeah, I did. That man thought he was holier than the dirt, and he reached out, and when he took... Matter of fact, the ark probably was about this big. He reached out to catch it from falling off the cart and over.

And it sent chills through the nation of Israel. Matter of fact, it sent chills through the spine of David that if I remember correctly, he left it sitting for 90 days, scared to touch it. Because he was...

Matter of fact, there's only two times in Scripture where a person's angry with God. One was Jonah for God saving Nineveh, and the other one was when Uzzah got struck dead by God and it says that David was angry with God.

Just on a short note. Do we ever have any right to be angry with God? Never. Never. Matter of fact, Lee told Jonah, what right do you have to be mad with me? You drink my water, you walk on my dirt, and breathe my air.

You ain't got no reason to be upset with me. These things fell down. They worshiped God who sits on the throne saying amen. Hey, that's another Hebrew word that gets carried over in every language that...

I mean, it's amen. I agree. That's right. That's perfect. Hallelujah. And a voice came from the throne again saying, Give praise to our God, all you His bondservants, you who fear Him, the small and the great.

Now, this is what's called Amerism. You say small and great. You know what Amerism is? Beginning to end. First, last. Small, great. It's just everything in the middle. It's like everything from here to here.