The Centrality of Christ in Bible Prophecy — Keith Malcomson

Christ as the Center of Bible Prophecy

Please turn with me here this morning, Revelation chapter 19. Revelation chapter 19, I'm going to read from verse 4 to verse 14. And my text this morning is one simple comment or line in verse 10 of Revelation 19.

We're on this wonderful series on the centrality of Christ. And here this morning, listen to what my title is, The Centrality of Christ in Bible Prophecy. We've looked at the centrality of Christ in eternity past, in creation, in the Bible, in Israel, in the church, in the Christian life.

We've looked at his centrality in all these areas. But I want to draw out this issue of Bible prophecy, not just the Bible, we've done that. But I want to home in on the whole area of prophecy from God and to show you how Christ is absolutely central in it.

Reading from Revelation 19 and verse 4. And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen, Hallelujah. And a voice came out of the throne saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.

And I heard, as it were, the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thundering, saying, Hallelujah. For the Lord our God, omnipotent reigneth. Let us be glad and rejoice and give honor to him.

For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his wife has made herself ready. And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in the fine linen, clean and white. For the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

And he said unto me, Right, blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God. And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not?

I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus. Worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. And I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse. And he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns. And he had a name written that no man knew but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood, and his name is called the Word of God.

And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon a white horse, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron.

And he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and the wrath of Almighty God. Let's pray together here. Father, we do thank you for the Word of God this morning. I thank you for that revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ contained within this precious book.

It is precious to us because it reveals Christ. Every time I open this book, I see the Lord Jesus Christ. Nor God, I learn more of him and I feast on him. Nor God, thank you for the spirit of prophecy that imbibes the pages of this book.

Nor God, thank you for the spirit of prophecy that quickens the Word of God and applies it to the heart of men. And thank you for that spirit of prophecy from Genesis to Revelation that is the testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ.

It points to him. It proves him. It reveals him. Lord God, it shows us how real he is. And we ask you, make this so real. Show us the centrality of Christ in Bible prophecy here this morning. In Jesus' mighty name, amen.

The Testimony of Jesus as the Spirit of Prophecy

My text here for this message is taken from Revelation 19 and verse 10. And it's the end of that verse. It says the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. The testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

These two things are synonymous. They're the same. When we talk about the testimony of Christ, we are talking about the spirit of prophecy. When we speak about the spirit of prophecy, what you find within it is the testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ.

In fact, this term testimony, listen to what it means here this morning. It is the Greek word martria, where we get our word martyr from. You and I know what a martyr is. A martyr is someone who stands.

They so believe something. I mean, they absolutely so believe in it that when their life is threatened, they'll say, you can take my life, but I'm not giving up what I believe. This is what I believe.

I would die for it. I would suffer for it. I would go through any trouble. I don't have a choice about this. I am so convinced. In the church, we talk about a martyr, and even in Afghanistan, there have been missionaries and Christians who have died for believing in the Lord Jesus Christ.

They were given an option, renounce Christ and we'll let you go free. No, I'd rather die than have my physical freedom. You see, that is a martyr. What is a martyr? They witness, they testify, they proclaim that this truth is so real that they'll pay the ultimate price for it.

This Greek word actually means to give evidence, to give witness, to have a testimony, to have proof, to substantiate, to confirm, to make sure, or to bear an actual record. In the light of that, let me say it again, the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

In other words, the testimony of Jesus is the evidence to prove that He is who He says He is. It is an overwhelming amount of evidence to say He is the Son of God. He did die. He did rise from the dead, and He is coming again.

This is the testimony of Christ. When we talk about someone's testimony, they say, this is what happened to me. This is my personal experience. I was there. I witnessed this. Jesus changed my life. I am born again.

No one can take that away from me. I know He healed my sick body. He done miracles in my life. He's answered my prayers. He has spoken to me. He has changed my heart. You know what that is? That is testimony.

That is evidence. I'm going to give you evidence that the Lord Jesus Christ is alive and real. It says here the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. In other words, you can never separate these things.

In our Bibles, we have the testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ. We have infallible evidence. We have proof beyond doubt. I am not of those who say our faith is blind faith. Faith is not blind faith. You know what?

If someone tells me to jump over a wall without looking, I'm not going to do it. I'm going to say, I respect you and I'm very glad for your advice, but if you think I'm going to jump over a wall whenever I haven't looked over a wall, there could be a 20-foot drop.

There could be stones. There could be glass. If you think I'm a fool, then I'm going to close my eyes and just jump. But you know what? A Christian isn't like that. A Christian demands evidence. A Christian demands proof, and I'm not talking about physical proof of trying to prove there is a God.

I'm not talking about that. But the testimony of Christ carries within it evidence and proof either to your heart or in Scripture to show you that this is true. God does not say you've just got to believe it no matter what.

You know what He does? He convinces you. He shows you that it's true, and He will give you as much proof as you could possibly need. Notice here it says the testimony of Jesus. This truth about Jesus, this revelation about Jesus, this fact of Christ.

You know what it is? It is the spirit of prophecy. From Genesis to Revelation, the Bible reveals a thing called prophecy. In other words, you can't read the Bible without recognizing there is prophecy within it.

It says here about the testimony of Christ being the spirit of prophecy. Do you know what it's actually saying here? That this revelation about who Christ is, the person of Christ, that He's real, the Son of God, that He's coming again.

Do you know what God has done? He's closed this testimony in the spirit of revelation. What is revelation or what is prophecy? Prophecy is predictions. It is proclamations. It could be facts about details that have not happened yet.

The rise of kings, the names of kings, worldwide events. That's what prophecy is. It actually reveals things to come. It shows God's divinity. Do you realize no other religious book in the world has the spirit of prophecy like this book in my hand?

No other religious book, no occultic book, no New Age book, not any of the great religions of the world. None of the atheists have it. This is the only book that infallibly has the spirit of prophecy running throughout it.

And do you know what the central issue of the spirit of prophecy? When you find the real spirit of prophecy, do you know what you find right at the heart of it? It's the testimony of Christ. If you ever encounter the spirit of prophecy, I promise you what's going to happen.

Show me someone who has really encountered the spirit of prophecy. Do you know what they look like? They go, I know He's alive. I know I'm born again. I know Jesus is coming again. How do you know that?

By the spirit of prophecy. In other words, the real truth of Christ is closed. It is mantled upon by the spirit of prophecy. When you find the spirit of prophecy, you find Christ there. He is at the center of it.

When we come to the Bible, what is prophecy? It is pre-written history. In fact, the entire Bible is made up of biography, the history of nations, the history of the people of Israel, of individual men like Abraham, Isaac, Jacob.

It is a family line. It is the history of the world from Adam down to today. But do you know what? You can never separate history and Genesis from Bible prophecy. What you're going to find is this spirit of prophecy.

Everywhere you find a man of God or a woman of God, this spirit of prophecy is there revealing that Jesus is who He says He is. Prophecy has its actual fulfillment in history. Prophecy predicts, it interprets, and it explains God's dealing with men.

Prophecy reveals that God is the Lord of history, that Christ is who He says He is. And so when you find the real spirit of prophecy, whether in the Bible or with an Old Testament prophet or a New Testament apostle, do you know what you find?

You find a testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is revealed. There is overwhelming evidence. Why do you think God has put prophecy in the Bible in such a remarkable way? I believe it's as an infallible evidence that everything this book says about Jesus is true.

As we've said many times before, in the Old Testament, you read this phrase, Thus saith the Lord, 3 ,808 times. That is overwhelming. Do you know, no other religious book even attempts to do that. The books of the Apocrypha don't once say that because they're not inspired of God.

But yet in the Old Testament, constantly, Thus saith the Lord. This is going to happen. This nation will fall. This king will rise. These events will happen. You see, the Bible is filled with Bible prophecy, or the spirit of prophecy is so in our Bible that if prophecy is not true, if only one prophecy doesn't come to pass or gets contradicted, we've got to throw the Bible out, we've got to throw Christ out, we've got to throw our convictions out, and we better bury the church.

That's what we better do, I can assure you. When we begin to look at Bible prophecy, we find that 27 of the Bible, or one quarter of it, is Bible prophecy. Can you imagine one quarter of this book is prophecy?

In other words, you can find out if it's true or not. You can find out if the sixth day creation is true or not. You can find out if the history in Genesis is true or not. You can find out if Jonah actually did get swallowed by a whale.

You can know if Jesus did rise on the third day. You know how? Because this entire book is filled with so many prophecies that if in any way it is not real prophecy from a real God who knows everything and knows the future, not just several hundred years ahead, but thousands of years ahead, and what is just about to happen in our world.

If it gets it wrong, we can throw the Bible out, but also you can find out if the Bible is actually true. No, well over 60 of these prophecies, or about two thirds, have already been fulfilled. In other words, we can test it.

We can look at it. We can know whether we should trust the other third, or the other 30 to 40 of these prophecies. You see, God has so built the spirit of prophecy into this book. I mean, you can't read any book without finding prophecies within it.

It is utterly remarkable. If you go to the first five books of the Bible, there are 60 remarkable, clear prophecies made. If I test those prophecies, did they come to pass, I can either reject those books or say this is God.

God is speaking within these books. When I come over to the Psalms, I find there's a hundred clear, distinct prophecy contained within these songs, and at least one third of them are specifically about the Lord Jesus Christ.

If you turn to Psalm 22, it's all about the cross. It is a prophecy that Christ will be pierced. It's a talking about the coming Messiah. In fact, when you go to Psalm 23, you find that Christ is the shepherd.

Then you go to Psalm 24, and you find that He's the coming King. And so, you see a full picture of the Lord Jesus Christ in this. We find a remarkable spirit of prophecy within the Bible. Isaiah, above all others, gave more prophecies, predictions, accurate details than any other book or man in the Bible.

Jeremiah gives at least 80 specific prophecies, so you can know if this is true. You can actually find out, is it true or false? Do you see why we have a Bible saturated with prophecy? I mean, it's so ingrained, you can't separate it.

Why is it that God put the spirit of prophecy within the Bible? Why do you think that is? Because the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of the Lord Jesus Christ. If God knows all things, gave us the Bible, and predicts all things through time, do you know what it means?

Infallibly, the Lord Jesus Christ is who He says He actually was. It is remarkable. When you come to Acts and the epistles in the New Testament, there are 130 clear prophecies. And it's teaching on holiness and prayer and many other things about family.

You've got 130 prophecies. Why has God done this? It's to show that it's true. It's to confirm your heart that you become overwhelmed. If the prophecies are true, then Christ is real, and He is who He says He is.

He is God manifest in the flesh. Some of these prophecies in Revelation, there's about 130 in Revelation. Some are extremely clear, others need explained. But all of them must come to pass. We know that in the life of the Lord Jesus Christ, there are hundreds of prophecies in the Old Testament.

More than 500 that were specifically about the coming Messiah, where He would be born, what would happen in His life, about His mother that would bear Him. All of these things were given. And in fact, there were 25 remarkable prophecies that were given in the Old Testament about the coming Messiah that were fulfilled concerning Christ and His betrayal, His trial, His death, His burial, all within 24 hours.

You've got 25 utterly remarkable prophecies. And all those hundreds of prophecies have to be fulfilled in one man's life, in a very short period of time. And you're talking about nations, legislation, world events.

You're talking about the God of history here. You see, prophecy is supernatural. It's not natural. Man cannot predict the future. Some of us do predict things. Some of us guess. Some of us are wise. Some of us have experience, and you can say, well, I think Limerick is going to lose.

And most of the time, you'd get maybe 99 right on that one. But do you know what? Man does not have the ability to predict the future. It is only the Spirit of God that can predict the future. Let me give you an example of Islam.

False Prophecy in the Quran and Other Religious Movements

And Muhammad gave us what is called Islam today. And after he died, they began putting together all the little sentences and words, and we ended up with the Quran. You know what one man said about the Quran?

He didn't say it was the prophecies of Muhammad. He called it the babblings of Muhammad. That's all he could say. But I tried to find the prophecies in the Quran. You see, I'm fascinated. When I know what the Bible has, substantiating it, proving it as evidence, it's overwhelming.

No book comes close. What do I find in the Quran? I've searched very hard. I've scanned Google. I've scanned YouTube. I have searched books. I have searched the Quran. It's very hard to find prophecy in the Quran, and yet he is called the prophet, the prophet.

You know, when I went to the Quran and started searching the traditions of Islam, I did find some prophecies, but most of them are personal to Muhammad. Let me give you an example of Islamic Bible prophecy.

And let's compare it with the Bible. Muhammad had four wives, and he wasn't happy with four wives. So he got a divine revelation to say he can have another wife, and God allows him. One of his commanders had a wife that he desired.

So God spoke to him and said, you need to divorce your wife, and she needs to marry me because God said. When his wife knew he was going to take, I'm just giving you snippets here. We'll teach this sometime.

And when his wife got understandably angry, saying four is enough, and they hear that God has told him to take another wife, well, they got very angry and very upset over this. You know, they're going, there's going to be less of them going around here.

So I've got to plead my corner. Well, all of a sudden, it's all in the Quran. All of a sudden, he gets a divine revelation from God to say, God told me that if you don't accept this and you don't leave me alone, God is going to judge you and you'll die in a horrible way.

Well, they all of a sudden sobered up. I don't know why they believed the man. But listen, here's another one you probably have never heard in the Quran, and I checked it this morning. In the Quran, in chapter 69, verse 44 to 46, it says there, Muhammad speaking, he says, if I die through my aorta being cut or damaged, and if I die by that means you know that I fiddled and played games with the Quran and I'm not a prophet.

It says that in the Quran. If you go to all the traditions and the leaders that were around Muhammad, guess how they say he died. And this is, I looked at it this morning. They actually witnessed and say that his last breath, he said, my aorta, there's something wrong.

I've been poisoned. He was killed. And the lady who poisoned him was a Jew who said, if he's a prophet, he's going to know there's poison in it. He'll know that. Well, his last breath was the judgment of God.

You know what he's saying? The Quran is right in that verse. If God cuts that off, it proves I'm not a prophet and I play games with the Quran. Do you understand what I'm saying here? I'm only touching on it.

Compare that, an immoral man playing games with people's emotions, saying God's told us to go and attack Mecca. God's told us to kill you. And we compare that with Bible prophecy. I know there's a lot of nice people, a lot of mild to make people in Islam, but I want to show you that isn't Islam.

What I just told you is true Islam. Or what about the JWs, a cult that's began and spread across the world? Well, they said in their own writings, Jesus would return in 1914. They got it wrong. So they change it to 1915.

They got it wrong. They change it to 1918. They got it wrong. They change it to 1920. They got it wrong. They change it to 1925. You know, if you're ever going to make a prophecy, make sure you make it well beyond when you think you're going to die, like in a hundred years time.

If you're going to make a false prophecy, don't make it next year because chances are you're going to get exposed. They also, after he didn't come in 1925, they said, no, we got it wrong. It's 1942. He didn't come.

They thought Hitler. They thought after, well, Hitler's losing the war. Let's not say next year. Let's just leave it for a bit. They said 1975. He didn't come. They said 1980. He didn't come. Do you understand what I'm saying?

We're talking about the great religions of our world from Islam to the JWs, the Jehovah's Witness, and they try to use prophecy. Do you know what it makes them look like? Like fools. You could say you're deceiving.

I'm not going to believe anything you say because what you call prophecy shows that it's a sham and a deception. Do you know what I'm telling you this morning? The Bible that reveals the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

Christ in Genesis and the First Gospel Promise

I've got four points for you here if we can just look at it this morning. First of all, Christ in the book of Genesis. I'm going to go to four different areas of the Bible, and I want to simply show you.

We're just going to dip into it. We're not going very deep, but I'm just going to touch on this, that the centrality of Christ in Bible prophecy from Genesis to Revelation, there are thousands of distinct prophecies.

Why has God put it there in the Bible? To show you how accurate this Bible is. You know what? If they don't come to pass, throw this book away. It's a deceptive book, but if they're true and they come to pass, you know what it means?

You must repent, be born again, and put your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. First of all, Christ in the book of Genesis. Do you know when you come to Genesis, there are prophecies contained in the book of Genesis about things that would happen in individuals' lives, in families, in nations, in cities, and in the world at large.

There are clear predictions from the very beginning of the Bible. You know, if I was writing a Bible, I wouldn't start like that. I'd want to start more and more softly. But in the Bible, it's integral.

So every step of the way, every book of the Bible, you can know if it is of God or not. The book of Genesis is not only history. It is not only sound theology. It's not mystical, symbolic meanings in the six days.

It is actual theology, doctrine, and history. It is not only prophecy, but it is the very beginning of man. The book of Genesis has the spirit of prophecy in it. And when you look at real prophecy, you're going to see Christ.

You'll remember that one year ago in around Easter time and Passover, there was a lot of American prophets. They began to prophesy. Do you remember that? They began to prophesy. Do you know what? Come to Passover 2020, all of them were prophesying.

And COVID is going to be dead in the water. Remember Copeland? He began to blow it away. It didn't go very far, did it? And you had all of these prophets saying, I prophesy. I'm in the 50 top American charismatic prophets.

They say, I denounce it. I proclaim it's going to be dead. And they all prophesied. By Passover, they started to give dates. They started to set dates. A preacher I once knew very well, he got pulled in on this.

And he began to predict and say, by Passover, COVID is going to be gone. We are going to be out. I'm telling you, everything's going to be changed. Where are those prophets today? Well, I told you at the time, they're false prophets.

And I said, wait, wait, I'm showing you. I'm going to tell you this is where it's going. And then after that didn't happen. And there was only a tiny relapse. They come and they said, there's going to come a great revival at Pentecost.

You watch a world changing revival. Did it happen? No, it didn't happen. But all these men continue with their ministry. I'm telling you, the Bible contains accurate prophecy. The first prophecy in the Bible is in Genesis chapter 3 and 15.

Notice what actually happened here. Man has disobeyed God. Man has sinned against God. Eve took the fruit. She gave it to her husband. Man fell into sin. They realized they're naked. They ran away and hid from God.

When God comes looking for them, He always walked with them in the cool of the evening. Where are you? Adam, where are you? You know what? He was hiding. Who said you're naked? Why are you hiding? What's gone wrong?

What did you do? Do you see how God deals? You know what? He proclaimed judgment on the serpent for deceiving man and woman. He said, you're going to go on your belly all the rest of your days. He proclaimed judgment upon the devil himself.

He judged woman and said, your pain and childbirth is going to greatly increase. And that's how it'll be. Unless you get a church to pray for you like Neve and you have the baby before you get in the room.

Well, that's miraculous. That's answered prayer. But I tell you, there was a chastening and a discipline from God on the woman and on the man. You know what? When you go out to a garden, you're going to get thorns all over my back garden, those willows.

They're worse than demons. I curse them in the name of Jesus. Nothing happens to them. They just keep growing up. I need to perfect my faith. If you say unto these willows, be ye cast into the sea, it hasn't worked yet, but I'm going to keep on at it.

Saints, our entire world came under judgment, under punishment, under the effects and consequence of sin. But right at that very point, I mean at the darkest hour of mankind, you know what the Lord uttered?

In verse 15, listen to what he says. This is the first prophecy that was given in the book of Genesis. And it's the spirit of prophecy here. The spirit of prophecy is operating, making a prediction about events that are going to go on for the next 6 ,000 years.

They're going to go on from generation to generation to generation. It's going to affect every nation in the world. Sin is going to affect every nation. God's punishment is going to affect every generation.

But here is a promise. It is a promise of a Messiah. It is a promise of a Savior. You know what? Within this first prophecy, I find the Lord Jesus Christ. I find a wonderful testimony about the Lord Jesus.

What does it say here? I will put enmity between thee, the serpent, and the woman. You know what that enmity is? It is hostility. It is hatred. It is warfare. Here is the serpent has tempted Eve, made her to sin, deceived her, led her into sin.

And you know what God says? I'm putting enmity between you, the woman, and the serpent. I mean a warfare is going to rage between you, the serpent, the devil. We know who the serpent is when we go through the book of Revelation.

It says in the last days, we're going to see that serpent again. It says he is that old serpent, the dragon, the devil. He is Satan. That's who the serpent is. Look at this warfare between the woman and the serpent.

He then goes on to say there's two seeds, between thy seed and her seed. You know there's the seed of Satan. There is a seed that comes from Satan. Do you know in the New Testament, Jesus talked about a harvest, wheat and tares, and the farmer comes out and goes, where did all these false converts come from?

Says the evil one planted them. Listen to me very carefully. Where do false converts, tares come from? Where do goats come from? Where do those that get into the church and deceive false prophets come from?

Deceivers, liars, game players, those that act like real Christians, and yet they hate righteousness. Do you realize they are the seed of the serpent? They are known by their character, their attitude.

They're not sinners who stand against the gospel. They're not atheists saying, I don't believe it. They're people in the church who say, I'm a Christian, I'm born again. And they could even preach to everyone else, yet they're liars and they're deceivers.

That is the seed of the serpent. But notice what it says here. There are two seeds. I'm going to put this hostility between your seed and the seed of the woman. There are two lines here. When it talks about seed, it's talking about children or a certain seed.

And it shall bruise thy head. There is a prophecy here that a child is going to come out of Eve. A child is going to be born out of the line of Eve. Born physically of human flesh. And that singular seed is going to bruise the head of the serpent.

You see in the garden, that serpent arose and bit the woman. It was a deadly bite. It brought sin in. It brought the fall. It brought deception. That was the beginning. But do you know what the prophecy says right after it happens?

You know what, Eve? You have sinned. But I'm going to cover your sin with garments through the shedding of the blood. And do you know what? This seed that is going to be born of you one day, he is going to bruise the head of the serpent.

But do you know what? That same serpent is going to bruise his heel. His heel is going to be bruised. You say, when did that happen? Hebrews 2 .14. For as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also, that is Jesus, himself likewise took part of the same human flesh.

And through death that he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is the devil. Do you see when the serpent bruised the heel of Jesus, that he bruised the head of the serpent and he destroyed his power?

This is a prophecy given in the garden, given at the very point of the fall. I mean, it's dark. Do you see prophecy coming to pass? The serpents judge, the man's judge, the woman's judge. But do you know what?

There's a prophecy here. There's a prophecy about a seed. Who is the seed? It's the testimony of Christ. It is a person who is going to come and smite the enemy. As you begin to read Genesis, you begin to read of this seed.

In Genesis 22 and 18, and in thy seed speaking Abraham, all the nations of the earth are going to be blessed. Look at old Abraham. He's been walking 25 years. You're going to have a child. Really? And then to his old barren wife, she's not only barren from a young age, but she's so old now, there's no chance of this.

What's God prophesying? Abraham, listen to me. Through your seed of your body, through your wife, you're going to have a seed, a child that's going to bless all of the earth. This is remarkable prophecies.

But do you know these unique prophecies are all about a person. It's all about the Lord Jesus Christ. This same prophecy was renewed to Isaac in chapter 26. It was renewed to Jacob in chapter 28. And in Genesis 49 verse 10, listen to this prophecy to Judah, one of the sons of Jacob.

It says, the scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet until Shiloh come. And that's not our dog. Until Shiloh come and unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Shiloh is a name for the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah.

It's speaking about the seed. When you look at Genesis, it's talking. There are prophecies, remarkable prophecies. And you know what, all the time they point to the Lord Jesus Christ from the very beginning where you see real prophecy.

That's why if you ever hear a prophet prophesying and he doesn't emphasize Christ's death, resurrection, his burial, his ascension to the right hand of the Father. If he doesn't preach against sin and doesn't preach repentance and doesn't preach the blood, he's a false prophet.

Don't you have anything to do with him? Real prophecy is marked by a revelation of Christ. I assure you, I can tell a church that has the spirit of prophecy. They've got to preach Christ. They will preach the Lord Jesus Christ.

We're also told that Abel, the son of Adam and Eve, Jesus in the New Testament said Abel is a prophet. Nowhere else is that said. But it says he is a prophet of God. And yet he didn't give any prophecies.

When we go to Genesis 4, there's no prophecies, no predictions. What we do have is a man who says, I'm going to make a blood sacrifice. I can only have a relationship with God through blood. And his brother Cain rose up and killed him because he hated that he was accepted by faith.

What does that mean? In Hebrews 11 verse 4, it says about Abel, being dead, yet he speaketh. Abel is a prophet. His life was prophetic. The events of making a blood sacrifice was all pointing to the words of the Lord Jesus Christ.

You know what Abel's blood is crying out? For vengeance against his brother. But the blood of Jesus cries out for mercy. In Genesis, when we look at Noah, Noah was told by God, I'm going to destroy the world.

That's prophecy. Judgment is coming. Wrath is coming. I am against sin. I have warned against sin. Noah for 120 years became a preacher of righteousness. He preached walk before God, listen to God and live right.

Do you know what God also said? I want you to build an ark. He gave him the dimensions and see that ark represented the Lord Jesus Christ. You see where you get true prophecy. Since you have real predictions of judgment, of wrath, of punishment, of a day of reckoning, but that's not the end.

Look for the Lord Jesus Christ. There is an hour in which I'm going to flood the entire earth, but there is an ark. There is salvation. There is a door. There's only one way into that ark. Christ is the ark of safety.