The New Temple & Two Witnesses — Danny Bond

Revelation 10: John Eats the Little Book

In the end of chapter 10, God is very interactive with John at this point, as he's giving him the revelation, and he had him eat the little book in verse 10 of chapter 10 that was in the angel's hand.

And he ate it up, and it was in his mouth, sweet as honey, and when he had eaten it, it was bitter in his stomach. And I said to you that that was the title deed to the earth. The angel shows up standing on the earth and the sea, and he's huge, and he's holding the book in his hand, and then he shrinks down to John's size, shrinks the book down, and so John can eat it.

Remember now, we are dealing with prophecy, we are dealing with vision, and God is fully able to make interactive visions that are real, and yet it's all supernatural. So the question comes up, how do you know that the book in the hand of the huge angel, who shrinks down to John's size and gives it to him, is the title deed to the earth?

Because earlier in the book of Revelation, there was the hand that came out from the throne of God, and a voice came out that said, who is worthy to take the scroll and loose the seals? And we look at that in detail, that that was the title deed to the earth.

The Lord God holds out his hand and he says, who is worthy to take the scroll and loose its seals? The scroll is the title deed to the earth, and inside of it is beyond just the title deed, is the means by which God will take the earth back into his possession, out of the hands of Satan and evil men.

Thus, you have the seal judgments, which give way to the trumpet judgments, which give way to the bold judgments, seals, trumpets, and bowls. That's how he takes it back from Satan. When God made man, put him in the garden, he gave him dominion over the earth, right?

Man sinned, followed the devil, effectively gave the title deed to the earth over to the devil. But it was all delegated authority, because in the end, God Almighty owns and rules everything he has created.

So that when it's all said and done, he still owns it all. What Adam did in the garden was he gave over the authority to rule to the devil, but he didn't give the title deed to the earth, to the devil, because God kept it.

And so God gives it to Jesus Christ when he alone can step forth and take it. And thus, when the angel comes in chapter 10 to set in motion the events, which will now bring this all to a close, that book is that scroll.

And so when John eats it, it's not like it disappears. Oh, my gosh, John ate the title deed to the earth. God kept it all this time safe and sound. John ate it. It's more like what happened was really it was a lot like what we're doing here.

We are eating of partaking of the book of Revelation and all of these things. And that's what happened when John ate the book. He partook of all the good and all the bitter. So are you with me? Does that make sense?

The Temple and the Two Witnesses in Revelation 11

Now, as we come to Revelation chapter 11, verses 1 through 13, we come to deal with these issues. Then I was given a reed like a measuring rod. And the angel stood saying, rise and measure the temple of God, the altar and those who worship there.

But leave out the court, which is outside the temple. Do not measure it, for it has been given to the Gentiles, and they will tread the holy city under foot 42 months. And I will give power to my two witnesses and they will prophesy 1260 days clothed in sackcloth.

These two witnesses are the two olive trees and the two lampstands standing before the God of the earth. If anyone wants to harm them, fire proceeds from their mouth and devours their enemies. And if anyone wants to harm them, he must be killed in this manner.

These have the power to shut up heaven so that no rain falls in the days of their prophecy and they have power over waters to turn them to blood and strike the earth with all plagues. This is different than anything we've seen so far.

Strike the earth with all plagues as often as they desire. These are powerful men of God. Verse seven, when they finish their testimony, when they are done doing what God has asked them to do, the beast that is the Antichrist that ascends out of the bottomless pit.

That's where he gets his power from. Demons will make war against them, overcome them and kill them. And their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt.

Sodom, a city, Egypt, a nation, both evil in the Bible. Spiritually, it's called Sodom and Egypt. What city could this be? He tells us where also our Lord was crucified. How could God called Jerusalem, Sodom and Egypt?

Because at this particular point in time, the Antichrist is going to have his headquarters right there. He's going to be in the temple all the time. So you read a verse eight and they are killed by the Antichrist.

He's there. Verse eight, their dead bodies will lie in the street of Jerusalem. And verse nine, then those from the people's tribes, tongues and nations will see their dead bodies three and a half days and not allow their dead bodies to be put into graves.

Those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them. Make merry and send gifts to one another because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth. Verse 11. Now, after three and a half days, the breath of God, the breath of life from God entered them and they stood on their feet and great fear fell on those who saw them.

The giver of all life is able to give life when it is gone from the human body. And great fear fell on all those who saw them and they heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them, come up here. And so they ascended into heaven in a cloud and their enemies saw them go.

And the same hour there was a great earthquake and a tenth of the city fell in the earthquake. 7000 people were killed and the rest were afraid and gave glory to the God of heaven. Pretty heavy passage, wouldn't you say?

Basically, there's two things here. There is the temple measured and there are the two witnesses. Let's talk about the temple being measured here. It's one of the most interesting passages in the book.

The Measuring Rod and God's Precise Judgment

John, to begin with, is given a measuring rod, a reed. Then I was given, he says, a reed. I just marvel at what it must have been like for John at that point in time in his life. Whatever bad has happened to him is now eclipsed by all that God is doing in his life along the way.

So here he is on the island of Patmos and he's already eaten the little book and now he's given a reed. It just gets better and better. So he's given a reed and you say, well, what is a reed? A reed is a hollow bamboo like cane plant that grew in the Jordan Valley and it was very lightweight, very firm.

And so they could they commonly used it. They would cut them certain length and had a certain rigidity to it. So they would use them for walking sticks. Very lightweight, but very rigid. Also, because of its lightweight and rigidity, it was also commonly cut just right and used for making little pens to write with, little ink pens like you dip in an inkwell.

Further and more commonly, perhaps, was that it was commonly cut and used as a measuring rod so that you find this exact thing in Ezekiel chapter 40, where there is a temple there that is measured, probably the temple that will be in the millennium.

That is a whole study all by itself. Seems that way anyhow. And so these measuring rods, these reeds that were made into measuring rods were usually about nine feet long. A rod was six cubits. Might as well discuss it for a moment because you run into cubit all over the Bible.

A cubit is about 17 to 18 inches. How do you come up with that length? It's from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger. That's how long a cubit is. Six of those put together makes nine feet. And so that would make up the length of the rod.

So because they didn't have on their belt in those days, a nice silver square thing where you could pull it and yellow tape came out and you can measure things. They would take this reed from down by the river and cut them and make a nice measuring yardstick, as we would call it, for lack of a better phrase.

Now, John then is given a reed to measure this area of the temple. If you read the Bible long enough, you will begin to realize God is into measuring things. Read numbers, you'll find out he's into numbering things.

God is into measuring things in the Bible because everything that he does is exact and precise. For example, God measures out judgment in the Bible. If it wasn't for that fact, when we read in this passage, as we just did, that seven thousand died in that hour.

If it wasn't for the fact that he measures out judgment, more would have died. You understand? It's the mercy of God that causes him to measure out and limit judgment when it occurs. Judgment is God's strange work.

He doesn't like to do it. Saving souls and blessing people is what he loves to do because his name is love. So God measures out judgment in the Bible. God also measures out his own possessions for preservation, for preservation that is effectively what he has John doing here, measuring out the temple area, the altar and those who worship there.

He is measuring out what is his to preserve it, to make sure that everything happens exactly, precisely the way that he wants it to happen. The reason I point this out to you for one thing, it's in the text.

But the other reason is very important to me. And that is that we come to understand this measuring process that God uses and we will come to realize something very important. God has measured out your life as his possession.

He loves you and he knows every little detail about you. I thank God that he measures and protects what is his. His plan is precise. It is exact. He measures with a divine exactness to guard what belongs to him for an appointed hour, month, day, week, moment.

In other words, all of that is to say this, you can trust your life in the hands of your God. I love what Ecclesiastes 311 says. He has made everything beautiful in its time. So God here has John measuring off this part of Israel for his own protective reasons.

The Future Temple in Jerusalem

In John's time, if you look at John and his own relationship with the Lord at this point in John's time, he'd seen so much desecration. He saw the desecration of the temple in Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian in 70 A .D.

At that time, Israel had nine hundred and eighty five towns overrun by the Romans. That is tragic and sad and heartbreaking to behold. So he's given a measuring rod. Now John measures out the area for the new temple that will be built.

God is going to have the temple rebuilt in Jerusalem on the Temple Mount, where it was when Jesus Christ walked on this earth. So you read Revelation 11 one again. I was given a read like a measuring rod.

The angel stood saying, rise and measure the temple of God, the altar and those who worship there. Now pay close attention to this verse two, but leave out the court which is outside the temple. Do not measure it for it has been given to the Gentiles.

They will tread the holy city underfoot for 42 months, three and a half years. Now, this temple that is being measured here will be already built and operational before the last three and a half years on earth.

The Antichrist will help the people of Israel to rebuild their temple during the first three and a half years of the tribulation period, which is calm. He will be kind and benevolent and he will help them rebuild their temple.

And then sometime around right here, three and a half years into it, just pass it right there. He will turn on them, but first he will help them. So that's how the temple is going to come to be built in a very short, quick time with the aid of the Antichrist, who's going to be helping all kinds of people in the first three and a half years of this last seven year period on earth.

You might ask the question, why does God want them to rebuild the temple anyway? Why is this in his plan? Because he's a saving God. God wants them to rebuild the temple to drive them back to focus on the law.

He gave them originally the law of Moses, which pointed straight to Jehovah God, and that pointed straight to Jesus Christ. I have the Bible's word on it, Galatians 324, Paul writes, and he says, therefore, the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ that we might be justified by faith.

They are so far. You see, since the time of the destruction of their temple and the scattering throughout the world, most Jews are not Orthodox. So when you talk about an Orthodox Jew that's concerned about the law of Moses, the study of the scripture, they are very far and few in between.

So because they are so far from Moses and the law that pointed to Christ, God is going to allow them to rebuild the temple to get back into the process of living out the law of Moses, doing all of the sacrifices and everything in the temple and the sacrifices.

All of it spoke of Jesus Christ. So it's to point them, get them back, focus on Jehovah God and point them toward Christ. Why? Because God is going to fulfill the promises he's made to Israel. Hold your place here in Revelation and turn to Romans chapter 11, verse 26, because it's tied directly into what we're studying right now.

And this is the time period where this will come to pass. Romans 11, 26, Paul has gone through the whole issue. Romans 9, 10, 11. Has God cast off Israel since they rejected their Messiah or will he work again with them in such a way as to bring them to Christ?

And the answer is yes. And in Romans 11, 26, so all Israel will be saved. They will come wholesale to Christ through the witness of the hundred and forty four thousand. As it is written, the deliverer will come out of Zion and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

That's Israel. Verse 27, for this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins. So there is the promise on the pages of Scripture. And this will come true. And the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem is critical to the logistical fulfillment of that promise right there in Romans 11.

Critical. Galatians 3, 24. Again, the law was our tutor to bring us to Christ that we might be justified by faith. So you know what God's going to do? He's going to meet them on their own turf. Let them rebuild it.

Let them get back in action. And that will prepare them that they might turn to the one true God in Jesus Christ. And the two witnesses are going to be involved in that because they're going to be right there alongside all of that action.

Now, if you are thinking and if you've traveled to Israel or study these things, the immediate question comes up, how can they rebuild their temple when on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, there is the Dome of the Rock Shrine?

Because the Dome of the Rock Shrine is a Muslim holy place. In fact, they believe that Muhammad ascended from the rock that's inside of it back into heaven. So it's one of their great holy places on Earth.

So how are you going to do that? How do they rebuild the temple? Well, what is so fascinating, we read here, as John is told to measure Revelation 11 to leave out the court, which is outside the temple.

Do not measure it. It has been given to what the Gentiles, Revelation 11 to at the time of Jesus, it was 39 acres. How big is that? Think of a field for sale around here. That's 39 acres. That's pretty big, isn't it?

The Dome of the Rock Shrine takes up much of the temple area. However, there is 12 acres to the north of the Dome of the Rock. And to the west of the 12 acres is the Dome of the Tablets. And to the east is the Eastern Gate of Jerusalem, which was sealed up as the prophet foretold and will not be opened again until Jesus Christ comes back.

Those the Eastern Gate and the place where the Dome of the Tablets is, which was where the Ark of the Covenant sat inside of the Holy of Holies. They're right in line with each other, and they look straight across the Mount of Olives.

Now, here's where it gets really interesting. You say, does anybody take this seriously? Oh, yes. There is in Jerusalem an institute called the Temple Institute, and they take this, they're Orthodox Jews, and they take this so seriously.

They've been very busy, very busy for a number of years. In fact, I have some pictures to show you. They've been very busy. Here is the temple. You see it there to the right. See how huge the Temple Mount is?

There is the temple when there was no Dome of the Rock shrine. The whole empty space to the left, half there, the Court of the Gentiles at the time of Jesus. Leave out the Court of the Gentiles. Don't worry about it, God says, right?

Well, that leaves the area over to the other side. So at the time of Jesus, there was no Dome of the Rock, and it would have looked like that. In fact, you'd come in from the left, as you look at the picture, and they would use it as a shortcut.

They would cut across the Court of the Gentiles, and they'd go down and out the eastern gate. This is an aerial shot of the Temple Mount today, and that is the Dome of the Rock shrine. Very interesting, inside of that, there is this big rock, and you can see it.

By the way, this is the ridge on Mount Moriah. That rock is most likely inside of there where Abraham took Isaac to offer him to the Lord before the Lord stopped him. Same, it's the ridge of Mount Moriah.

So just over the ridge a little ways further is Calvary. OK, go to the next one. If you look at this, you see where the Court of the Gentiles, the bottom half where it's empty? Leave out that area. It's for the Gentiles, God says.

So if you just don't build the Court of the Gentiles, then you have room in the 12 acres north of it to go ahead and build a temple that will face west to east. Here we are on the Mount of Olives, and we're looking down from the Mount of Olives, and just down to the bottom right, you see the sealed up golden gate, the eastern gate.

It's a bricked in. Straight ahead from that is a little tiny thing, which you'll see in a minute, which is the Dome of the Tablets, and to your left then is the Dome of the Rock Shrine. That's the Wall of Jerusalem around there.

Moving on, we're zooming in now. We've gone straight in and across, and that's the little Dome of the Tablets I told you about. What is interesting is that that entire temple mount, with the exception of the rock underneath the golden mosque, the golden shrine, it's all hollow underneath.

39 acres of a platform built by Herod, except right here under that little, looks like a gazebo, it's bedrock. Right there, inside of there, is where the Ark of the Covenant stood inside the Holy of Holies and the Shekinah glory of God was manifest there.

I'll tell you what, I have stood in there. I just couldn't bear to put the picture with me in it at this point in time. But that is what you're looking at. Now you see the Eastern Gate, that rectangle down in front of the picture, that's the Eastern Gate sealed up until the time when Jesus Christ comes back.

Sealed up according to prophecy. Straight beyond it, now you see the little Dome of the Tablets back there. So if you rebuilt the temple and the Holy of Holies was right there, and the Ark of the Covenant, which the rabbis believe they know where it is, some believe it's buried down underneath there.

If you rebuilt it, you could put it right there exactly as it was before and everything would be in place biblically. Go to the next one. As they go ahead and rebuild it, this is what it would look like inside.

The Temple Institute and the Temple Implements

Now, the Temple Institute in Jerusalem is so serious about all of this, they have already built everything necessary. Let me show you. Temple Institute, you see it on the window there, you know what that is right there?

That is the first temple menorah since the temple was destroyed in 70 A .D. That's real. It's made of solid gold and it's sitting in the Temple Institute in Jerusalem. It goes right in that holy place we just saw in the last picture.

There it is up close. That right there is what is used to clean the seven-branch menorah. It's already built, too. The priest uses that to clean the different parts of the candelabra. Next one. That is built, ready, waiting to hold the showbread.

That's the table for the showbread, the new temple. Go to the next one. That is the golden altar, the vents for the incense, which stands right in front of the veil. It's made. It's there. In fact, go to the next one.

There it is inside of a glass case. You have the different parts. That, remember when we were studying Revelation and the angel took the incense, the censer with the incense in it, and he put fire in it and he swung it around and around and then he turned it loose and it went out and the judgment came on the earth?

That's a model of it right there. And that's what they used to put the incense on the altar we just saw. Go to the next one. That's the labor. You read about the labor in the Bible and you go, what in the world is a labor?

And what the labor was, is the priest, when they would come to do their service, whether it be at dawn or in the evening or whatever, they would come and they would wash completely with the labor to be clean, to do their service.

And then being a priest was hard, dirty, bloody work. So at the end of their time of service, they would wash off again. The labor is already there. They have it, it's built, it's made. This is the silver shovel.

This is a real thing we're looking at. At dawn in the morning, the priest would come and shovel out the ashes from the altar of the burnt sacrifice. There it is, the shovel ready to go when they build it.

You know what this is? These are a silver knife and a bronze knife. These are sacrificial knives to use in the offerings that will be offered when they open the temple. They're there, ready to go. Next one.

These are the lots they would cast in the great day of atonement for the scapegoat. One would be slain and the blood would be taken into the Holy of Holies and put on the mercy seat. And the other, they would lay hands, the priest would lay hands on the high priest, would lay hands on the scapegoat, and then they would turn him loose to run into the wilderness.

And he'd go way out then and they would shout back each one and turn that he was gone. They couldn't see him anymore until finally he was so far out there, nobody could see him. And then they would give shout word back to the congregation of Israel and they'd all clap and cheer because all their sins were atoned for for the whole year.

It was a great day of rejoicing the way they would choose which goat would do which thing was by casting these wooden lots. And there they are ready to go when they start the operation. Next thing. These are the trumpets they would blast before they would they would blow before they would do the burnt offerings.

Next, they're built, ready to go. You know what this is? Red heifer. The ashes of the red heifer had to be mixed with a certain mixture and part of the offerings in order to be accepted by God. And throughout all these years, it's been a big mystery.

How can even if we had everything else, we still couldn't do the offerings if we didn't have the ashes of a red heifer and we don't have a red heifer. So how can we do it? It's been one of the most perplexing things.

This is Melody. Melody is a red heifer born in the northern part of Israel. Now, the sad and tragic news is I just saw an update on the Internet that Melody's been disqualified, but there are other red heifers.

There's a guy in Texas. He's got a lot of them. He's sending over there. All of that is to say here is a red heifer. They found one disqualified. If they find one little blemish, they can't use it. But there's red heifers they have found and they will be able to do that.

That's a whole study by itself to the whole red heifer thing, obviously. Go to the next one. These are for the drink offerings, libations, so on. Let's go real quick now. That's for music in the temple that's ready to go.

It's been made crafted temple heart next. That is what the average priest would wear as average priest garment that's sitting there waiting for a priest to put it on. They have them. Next one. See, just like the one before.

Next one. This is amazing. We'll study this in the Old Testament. On the high priest breastplate, he had 12 stones with the names of Israel on them. So signifying that God always had his people in his heart.

And so did the high priest. There they are. They're ready and they will be. See the little holes around the edges. They will be woven through with thread that has to be made from spun gold to be woven into the breastplate that has to be made out of special thread and material.

And then put onto the ephod of the high priest on his chest. Well, there are the jewels. The next one. There's the gold thread. The next one. There's the gold thread holding the stones onto the breastplate.

It's there. They've made it. Next one. When the high priest would go into the Holy of Holies one time a year and on the Day of Atonement, he would have around the hem of his robe, 70 bells in shape of pomegranates that would be jingling as he went in 70 of these around the bottom of the high priest robe.

Well, there they are. And the high priest wore those into the on the bottom of his robe because when he went into the Holy of Holies one time of year into the presence of God, if he messed up even one tiny bit, he died.

So you would hear. And if you heard silence, they had a rope tied around his ankle and they would reel him back out. Nobody go in there. And so here they are. High priest, pomegranate shaped bells for the priest robe next.

Those are the stones of remembrance that would go on the shoulders of the father that would cover the high priest chest and shoulders and back that they are ready to go next. This is amazing. I have been hunting all over everywhere for all of these pictures, obviously.

And today I'd already been to the Temple Institute site and today on the Temple Institute site on the Internet, it said breaking news. This is what was there today. Five thirty. I thought, thank you, Lord.

This is the high priest's entire outfit. And this is from the back. The next one is from the front. You see the breastplate and the ephod is like a vest, but it's more than that. It goes up around the shoulders.

You see all that. Well, the late breaking news is they finally found everything they needed to make the ephod. They have everything else. And now they're just figuring out how to assemble the stones of remembrance on the top shoulders there, as you see in the picture.

And then I believe there's one last picture. There it is right there. Artist's conception of a completed ephod. So it wraps around you, goes over your shoulders, and then you see the front view on the right with the breastplate attached.

And what it said on their site is this late breaking news, having completed the breastplate for the next high priest of Israel. We are now pleased to announce that the initial stage of the weaving of the sacred ephod garment for the uniform of the high priest has been completed.

The Temple Institute must now begin the complicated task of joining the ephod to the remembrance stones and affixing the completed breastplate. This is a complex project and will be based on the research the Institute has already completed.

We are hopeful this task will be completed soon so that the results can be made public in the near future. They have every single thing they need to go right into the sacrifices and everything else, the worship and the law of Moses as soon as the temple is built.

Now, when I became a Christian, none of this existed. When I went to Israel the first time, they had a few of these items. Today they have everything. Tell me we are not in the last days. Tell me we are not at the time where the Antichrist is going to come to power.

These things will be fulfilled. Jesus Christ is coming back. He's going to rapture his church exactly like the Bible says. And then just as we've been studying the book of Revelation, all these things are going to occur as John has measured the temple.

The Ministry and Purpose of the Two Witnesses

The next thing is the two witnesses. The two witnesses are given this power to prophesy 1260 days. They will rebuild the temple. The one who helps them rebuild it is the Antichrist. They recognize him as their Messiah.

And so they're going that direction. In the meantime, these two witnesses are raised up by the Lord and they are in Jerusalem. Yes, they witness to the world. They have this incredible power, but their main function is to be right there at the temple to witness of the fulfilled law of Moses in Jesus Christ.

So when the Antichrist turns on the Jewish people, they will be there interpreting all these things. We've been learning all the Old Testament prophecies, the book of Revelation. They will be there to witness to them of these things.

The Greek term for witness is martyrs, from which we get our word in the English martyr. That's because in the early church, so many Christians died for their witness for Jesus Christ that a witness for Christ and death became synonymous.

Now, there's something about them that is distinctly mosaic. Now, we just looked at everything distinctly mosaic, right? God does everything strategic and specific and precise, right? So these two men have something distinctly mosaic about them.

And one is in verse three of Revelation 11. I will give power to my what does it say to witnesses? That's distinctly mosaic right there. Deuteronomy 17, six, the testimony of two or three witnesses. Deuteronomy 19, 15.

One witness will not rise up to indict someone, but by the mouth of two or three witnesses, the matter will be established. Matthew 18, 16. Jesus Christ says if he will not hear you take one or two more that by the mouth, he quotes Deuteronomy of two or three witnesses.

Every word will be established. It's distinctly mosaic. Hebrews 10, 28. He who has rejected the law of Moses dies without mercy on the testimony of two witnesses or three. The whole to witness thing is distinctly mosaic.

And if you see that right up front, then it flows from there. And it's not so mysterious. Their ministry takes place right alongside the new temple. Right alongside the mosaic law being put back into effect as the Jews return to the practice of the law of Moses.

These two witnesses come along witnessing to the fact that the law has been fulfilled in Jesus Christ as the Antichrist sets up the abomination of desolation. And he says that he is God and he commands the Jews to worship him.

They will then turn from him and they will rush effectively from the place. Guess what? Into the arms of the two witnesses who are basically Bible interpreting evangelists with tremendous power. Their message is all the prophecies of the Old Testament fulfilled in Christ, the law of Moses fulfilled in Christ.

And they will be calling people to Christ. They're two human beings. They are very distinctly mosaic in their qualities about them. Their Bible interpreting evangelists in the time of their ministry is revealed to us here.

It's the same time as you have everything going on that we've been discussing in verse three of Roman of Revelation, 11 power to the two witnesses to prophesy 1260 days. It's the last three and a half years of the tribulation.

These men are going to be preaching and evangelizing right along everything. Side everything that's happening in the new temple at the exact same time period, leading people to Jesus Christ. And what is amazing is in Revelation 12, six.

Just look there real quick. Revelation 12, six. During this same time, God is going to have many Jews sheltered in the wilderness. Revelation 12, six. Then the woman that's Israel fled into the wilderness where she has a place prepared by God that they should feed her there.

How long? One thousand two hundred and sixty days. So God is going to be protecting a lot of his people for that period. Many think it's the rock city of Petra there in the desert. We'll see more of that as we go on in Revelation.