06-27-2021

Let's see, uh, let's see where we've been recently and we'll jump into. Continue along the way here. Last time, a couple of times we talked about this really key passage in my viewpoint, in the book of revelation, chapter 10, verse seven, uh, very important, but honestly, I've read just about every book I can read on the end time since I was, you know, saved at the age of 24, I've never seen anybody discuss this verse with regard to the church because most have been bluffed into thinking the church won't be here by the time you get to chapter 10, uh, they think the church has gone after chapter three today, depending on how much time we have, you will see many places where you see the church.

The Mystery of God in Revelation 10

And the book of revelation beyond chapter three, but here it is. This is one example, but you have to understand, uh, the phrase or the phrase, the mystery. But if you look at that word formula in the new Testament, it, uh, it's always talking about something that has to do with this mystery that God used the apostle Paul to reveal to all of God's people for the first time in the epistles of Paul.

And it is the indwelling of the holy spirit in the individual believer, but also in, in the church, the true church. Right. And so that can have to do with the rapture. It can have to do with, um, just believers being connected to one another and to the father of the son, the holy spirit, all connected together.

That is the great mystery that it's talking about, but predominantly, uh, it's talking about the church in general. So when you understand that word formula verse seven kind of pops, because. It says something very interesting in the days of the voice of the seventh Trump when it begins to sound.

So you have to understand the trumpet sound is not like, I mean, I think it is going to be a real sound, but it's not like you would just hear someone stand up back there and blow a blast on the trumpet and then sit down and it's over.

It represents things that happen for days and days and days and many weeks into months. So the events, the second coming itself is, is many weeks and months of things happening. And it's not just a blink in the, of the eye.

And, uh, the rapture is the blink of an eye. It happens in the, in the twinkling of an eye, but, uh, that's just one part of the second coming, which includes many things. So we have to understand that.

But, um, so this, what's interesting about this, it says when the angel begins to sound. So this is obviously at the very front part of this last section of time. And when they asked Jesus two questions in Matthew chapter 24, at the very first of the chapter.

First question is when will this temple be destroyed? And that happened in 70 AD. So it's already happened. And Jesus answered that, told him about it. But the second question, a lot of people miss that it's two questions.

The second question was tell us what the signs of the end of the world are. That's a whole different question because the world did not end in 70 AD. Did it? So all of the answers to that question, none of those have happened yet.

They're all in our future, maybe not too distant future. And so my friends who say everything in 24 has already happened or wrong, and they haven't realized it's two questions, not just one question that was asked and two questions were answered, not just one.

So think about it. That's just pretty logical, pretty simple to see. As long as your mind is open to see it. And may the Lord open the minds of my friends who don't see it. All right. So, um, you have this angel sound just about to sound the seventh Trump and that seventh Trump is going to involve these bowls of wrath of God poured out.

It's the worst part of the tribulation period. And the Bible itself says that it's worse than any time on the earth that the earth has ever seen. That includes the flood. Think about that. Or anytime it shall see.

And, uh, that if God didn't cut it short, no life would be left on the earth. So that's, what's about to happen with the blowing of the seventh Trump, but it lasts a while. I mean, the fact that it has seven bowls shows you it's not the instant.

I mean, all that stuff has to happen and all that is part of the seventh Trump. You see my point? And then, then it, it includes these, um, three woes kind of subsets of all this. Those are going to happen.

So the worst of the worst part is about to happen when this trumpet blows, there's some bad things have already happened. If you remember from previous messages on the pre the sick first six trumpets, those weren't, those were not a picnic.

And we had one case where a fourth of all humanity was, was killed. And another one where a third of everyone left from that was killed. Remember that? So now, now we're going to see the bad stuff. Think about that.

Think about that. But when, before all of this bad stuff happens, the worst of the worst happens at the beginning of the sound of this seventh Trump, it says something really important. The mystery of God shall be finished.

And you look up the Greek word finished. It means mature, complete. And as he declared to his servants, the prophets, so. This is not, this is something the prophets looked into the old prophets looked into through a glass darkly, couldn't fully understand it.

They tried to understand it and couldn't. And, uh, as God reveals this to the apostle Paul and to John and Peter and some of the people he used to write the new Testament, God's people can see things more clearly.

He says, I took the little book out of the angel's hand and ate it. And it was in my mouth, sweet, like honey, but also bitter. And that's the same way we should feel right now as the world starts to fall apart in front of our eyes.

It's bitter, isn't it? And eventually they will begin to kill Jews and Christians just because they're Jews and Christians for no other reason that is already set up. That's even for the first time in my life or our lives, it is set up in the United States of America.

And, uh, so we have to be prepared for this, but, uh, so it's bittersweet. It's sweet in the sense that the Lord is coming back, he's coming back to bring us home. And this generation may be the only generation that does not have to experience physical death.

Isn't that exciting? And, uh, Dave knows what's coming. So he's taking the kids out. So that's probably smart. They vote, uh, I'm with you. Yeah. She'll do it too. You probably just come on back in here.

Just give her a microphone. Keep growing up fast. Maddie is. Now this mystery of God should be finished. Um, it cannot mean the rapture because the rapture cannot happen until after the first resurrection, only two resurrections, and the first one happens at the end of the world, which means this age, the church age.

And, uh, so that's not what it means, but what it does mean is that the job of the church, which has been to be the salt and light of the earth is now over. God allows us to retire so that we can hide.

And, uh, that's what that's about. And we'll see, we've already seen previously that, um, God has other witnesses that will take over and he will put marks on them where they cannot be harmed, but the church doesn't have such a mark.

We we're not like that. We can be harmed. So we have to hide. And he tells us that in scripture. So his promise to protect us, you know, remember in Zechariah, where it says we'll, we may be hidden. The reason it says may is because it's conditional promise.

You got to do stuff. You have to obey him. Uh, if you want to be hidden and that that's why, you know, I feel like in large part, the Lord called me to preach and put me here and all the stuff we've gone through in life and in this church.

And to get to this point today is to give the message to the United States of America in particular, because I'm an American. If it gets out to the world, great. And the message is get ready and you need to be prepared and you need to be, you need to, to hide when the time comes.

Now we've got some time for that because they've got to build a new temple, which means they got to, something's got to happen to one of the, or at least one of the two mosques that are on the temple Mount there, they're going to be gone.

And that's going to create a small war or a big war over the middle East. And there are a lot of things that are going to happen before that temple is built to get it built. And then at exactly three and a half years into the seven year period, um, the antichrist will offer a pig on the altar.

That's supposed to be God's altar and profane that temple. You better be hidden in a good place by that time, because they'll find you if you're not at that point. Um, they're, they're putting up, I'm not even allowed to say this.

Nevermind. I mean, I can say this, they're going to have ways to see you from satellites that they don't have right now, but they're, that's already planned and about to be put up there. Like it's really interesting information that I, God gave me the ability to see it's it's classified information actually.

But the whole idea is all I need to say is the United States of America will have the ability to find Christians and Jews better than any other nation. So maybe that's the clue that you might not want to be on this in this country towards that time.

That's sad though, isn't it? To think that our own country may turn against its citizens, but I think we should be prepared for that possibility. All right, that's review. And then this one, uh, chapter 11 is sort of a parenthetical.

It means it's not necessarily chronological and it stops and talks about more detail about certain points in that chronology, but it talks about these two witnesses, uh, that will prophesy in Jerusalem, like street preaching for three and a half years.

My opinion, that's the last three and a half years, not the first three and a half years. It's the last three and a half years. I will give power to my two witnesses. They will prophesy for 1 ,200, three score days.

That's three and a half years. These two olive trees, the two candlesticks. Now there's the church where we chapter 11, that's well beyond chapter three, the candlesticks picture, the church Lord told us that in the first few chapters of revelation, all you have to do is read, you just got to read the Bible more than you read these books and you got to be willing to let the Bible speak to you rather than take the books and then believe the theory and then change the Bible that that's not honest.

So we have to be honest. And the Bible tells us the candlestick represents the church. The church is still there. And these two olive trees are two prophets who are Christians born at one. They're probably Jewish believers.

Like my mentor, dr. Freeman was, and they're part of the church, the body of Christ, which is still on the planet by in chapter 11. And they're, they're going to be on the planet until the end of the seven years, because they're preaching during the last three and a half years.

So there's proof that the church is there the full seven years. Isn't that interesting? Well, that's different than what you've read. Uh, pray for me. Cause I think Lord's led me to write this book, to write a book about this.

I don't think there is one and I want to get it done this year, which is going to be really hard. So Katie's going to have to help me with that somehow. That means Dave's going to be starting to do all the podcasts and, or Paul, how about you pick Paul that thrilling with him?

He would say, no, no, no, no. Paul, Paul is the one who directs them and records them. He's always sitting right there. Telling me, helping me say the right things. And I said, son, someday you need to be doing them.

No dad, no one do them. I'm kidding, Katie. Who knows? But, um, maybe you can just help me manage my time where I can do everything I'm doing and still write the book. Charlotte goes, that'll take more than just Katie.

I honestly want to do it. So pray for me. Cause I don't want to disobey the Lord. I don't want to not do it. I feel really strongly about it. Okay. So these are two olive trees that we've been talking about.

Right. And then, uh, in chapter eight, verse one, we see the seventh seal, which has the seven trumpet, the seventh trumpet in it, and all seven trumpets actually, and when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven.

You remember that? So that's pretty, you know, that's pretty, um, pretty frightening or serious. Let's just put it that way. I saw the seven angels, which stood before the Lord and to give them the seven trumpets.

So remember there were six seals. The first four were the four horsemen and then five and six. And then the seventh seal has these seven trumpets. And that's kind of where we are in the chronology, the seven angels, which have the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound, and then we're going to keep updating this, but, uh, we've, we've made our way all the way to the, uh, to the right side of it, which that whole right half is the seventh seal, which has the seven trumpets.

And we just read a passage, uh, about the beginning of the seventh trumpet, which is at the far right. And you can see it says first vial, second vial, third vial. So you're going to have seven bowls or vials that are poured out, which is the wrath of God poured out onto the earth.

And, uh, and so, um, you know, the, you, you have to be careful with words. If you take the word wrath, it can mean several things, depending on the context that you find it in. It can just mean anger.

Can't don't you, would you agree, Bill? It can just mean God's angry at sin. And if you, if you say those bowls or God's wrath poured out, it means anger and justice is poured out on the earth, but there are certain contact texts where in the context, it just, uh, it talks about heaven and then it contrasted with the wrath of God.

What would you think it would mean in that context? Like you have heaven and you have God's wrath, it would mean hell. So sometimes it means hell, which is the ultimate wrath of God. And God certainly has no intention of any of his children ever experiencing that wrath, but you can't say that he won't allow his children to experience tribulation because all you have to do is read Fox's book of martyrs.

All you have to do is look at his son on the cross. And that's a ridiculous argument. It can't mean that God won't let his children go through trouble, tribulation, or the tribulation period. It simply never says that anywhere in the Bible.

So that's, that's a category as a lie, perhaps the biggest slides ever been told about Lucifer to the church. And then now we're here chapter 12. Some of it is parenthetical, if not all of it, because it speaks of Israel and it talks about this man child, which came forth from Israel.

Who do you think that might be? And it says this man child came and then was taken up into heaven. So that's Jesus. So this is really amazing information. And she, but it is parenthetical in the sense that, uh, it kind of stops the chronology and talks about some detail here, although it's going to show us some time reference within the parentheses.

You'll see that as we go. And she brought forth a man child who was to rule all nations. Who is that? The ruler of all nations will be Jesus. And he will rule them with a rod of iron. And we know that's during the thousand year millennial kingdom, which is approaching because that happens after the seven years is over, doesn't it?

All right. And it says her child was caught up unto God and to his throne. Well, that's the first advent of Christ, his death burial, and then resurrection. And so there he is. Um, so you can kind of see, you know, it's not, it's not necessarily in the same timeframe we were just in, right?

Because now it's jumping back. Now it's jumping back 2000 years to when Christ was born. And when he died, you see that, right? That's why I call it a parenthetical, but it's going to come back in and give us some other time reference that's in the future here in a minute too.

So the woman fled into the wilderness where she has a place prepared by God that they should feed her there. 1 ,203 score days. Now you, now you're, you just jumped back into the timeframe we were just talking about.

So maybe you call that a one verse parenthetical, uh, but that you see the days there, the, uh, 1 ,203 score days, that's three and a half years. So for the last three and a half years of the seven year tribulation period, God's going to hide the Jews.

So, isn't it interesting that to the Christian, he says you may be hidden. So what does that tell you? God's not going to hide you and me. We have to hide you and me, but he will take care of us if we keep the conditions and obey him.

He promises to take care of us. If we do that pretty interesting. And there was a war in heaven. Now, some people have debated when this happened, like, did this happen right before, um, Genesis, you know, when he came down and talked to Eve, so let's just read it in the context because since it's a parent, since verse five was a parenthetical, it could jump back out of time and just be talking in general, or you have to decide, or is it talking about three and a half years into the seven years, Satan is cast down and all H E double L breaks loose on loose on the earth.

You tell me what you think. So, all right. So here we have, the woman is prepared. She's hidden in the wilderness for three and a half years by God. Many people think that's Petra, which is in Jordan.

And, uh, Charlotte and I have been there. We wrote in their own either camels or nothing. It was horses horseback. It's the one without the hump. That's the horse, right? Wake up. All right. Okay. So, um, I like that joke.

That's a good one. Um, or it was a sick horse or an old horse. I don't know. Sharon, Sharon saying, get moving, keep going. All right. So it's, it probably very likely could be where he hides Israel during those three and a half years.

So it's talking about hiding Israel during three, last three and a half years. And then the very next verse says, and there was a war in heaven. Well, is that chronological possibly. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and the dragon fought and his angels and prevail not neither was their place found anymore in heaven for them.

Now we do know that in the days of Joe, Satan was allowed to go into the heavenlies and speak to God. But, and you, and that's been debated. Otis didn't even think that happened in heaven. He thought it happened on the earth where the sons of men met with God.

It, God came down and talked to him down here. He didn't let him in heaven. I think probably it was in heaven. But if it was that, that privilege stops here, Satan can't do, he cannot accuse the brethren before the throne of God anymore.

If that ever did happen, it ain't happening anymore at this point. So he was cast down and, uh, was not found anymore in heaven. Well, that anymore in heaven implies he once was in heaven, right? Well, we know what he was before he fell.

So there can be debate on verse eight. I don't care about that. What I care about is he's now on the earth and it's three, seemingly three and a half years into the tribulation period. And that would certainly make sense that that's why it would become the great tribulation at that point.

Doesn't it? Because, because look what it says. And the great dragon was cast out the old serpent called devil and Satan, which deceived the whole world. Is that happening now? Why you think people can't think, right?

You you're amazed, aren't you? And how people think you hear him talk on TV, you hear certain political parties talk about what they think is real and what they think should happen. And you go, how do they think that?

Well, because they they're being deceived now. He will deceive the whole world. By the time we get three and a half years into this seven year period. And he was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him.

And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of God. Now, don't you think that's interesting that at the same time, this horrible stuff's happening because we're still going to be here and Satan's going to be cast down here, which seems frightening and terrible, but they're praising God about it.

I heard a loud voice now is come salvation. Now I want you to picture the arc for a moment. Can you picture the water? What that water must've looked like to people who had never seen rain, even and God's eight people, the chosen remnant for the entire human race were put on that arc along with two of every kind of animal and several of certain kinds of clean animals.

And then the rain came. Now they're on an ocean that covers the entire earth. Can you imagine what that water might've looked like? It was probably churning and rough waves and winds and cataclysm actually.

And, uh, and yet, you know, they were saved by the water. It says in first Peter, the Greek, I prefer to say through the water because the Greek word D can mean through often means more often than not means through rather than by.

So I think it means they were saved through the water. As they went through the water, they were saved because the lost world that hated them was destroyed. So the same thing that destroyed the world saved God's people.

That's the picture of what's about to happen here in a very different way. Not by water. The rainbow proves that, but this time by fire. All right. So some of it, I think nuclear actually. So now is come salvation and strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his Christ for the accuser of the brethren is cast down, which accused them before God day and night.

So that sounds to me like he did have access to heaven. Does it meet you brother bill? And in job, it sounded very much like Satan still had access to heaven. And some of the demons still did could come before God and talk to him.

And what they always did was accused you and you and you and you and me and said, look what they just did. How do you consider them saved? Look what they just did. Right. How that'll work for you this last week.

Think about that. And yet Jesus stands up at the right hand of God and says, no, they're forgiven. I've paid to send that shut up to the other lawyer, which is Satan, you know, shut, sit down, shut up.

They're paid for. You have, you'd have no access to them. You can't touch them. Isn't that awesome. He's our advocate before the father. Well, that's been going on for thousands of years. And it stops at this point and Satan's cast down.

He doesn't have that access anymore. So he's angry about it. So he goes down to the earth and guess what he wants to do. He's going to kill every Jew and Christian he can get his hands on. And that his people that he listened says he deceived the whole world.

So how many, how many armies and police officers and, and people that you thought were good people, will that be, that will be looking to kill you because they all belong to him and he's deceived them into thinking they're serving God when they kill you, even the apostle Paul was deceived that way, wasn't he?

When he was Saul, wasn't he going to kill Christian? He thought he was doing the right thing. Don't you think your neighbor can think that some of them probably already thinking it. So there we have it.

But look at verse 11. Now you say, you tell me this nonsense that you don't find the church. I know. I don't mean you. I know y 'all don't believe that anymore, but we all used to believe it. But the writers of these books and the scholars and the theologians and the seminaries who, who perfect perpetrated this lie upon America and upon the whole world, look what this says.

And they, who, who is they? Who do you think that is? The acute, let me ask you this. Who are the brethren in the phrase, the accuser of the brethren is cast down. Could you at least say that's God's children, Jew and Gentile, right?

Okay. So they are the brethren. They overcame him by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony. And they love not their lives and the death. Do you not see them on the earth still being slaughtered because they're Christians, but you know who they overcame even in their death, the very one who was having them killed.

So the ones who do find themselves being killed will overcome. God will take them through that time in mercy. And it won't be nearly as bad to the person that's having to, as it will look like to the people watching.

I'll promise you that. I don't know how God does it. I know he's built things in your body already, where you go into shock. You can't even feel, feel anything. How many times have you heard stories of soldiers who just kept fighting?

They'd already been shot all the way through and they just keep fighting, they didn't feel it. Right. Because they're in shock. And, uh, so it's not nearly as bad to the person that happens to is it's going to look like it is to the people watching.

I know that, but I'll tell you what, they will overcome Satan and the people that want to kill them by the blood of the lamb, everything is overcome by the blood plus nothing, and then you, I shouldn't say plus nothing, because it says, and about the word.

So you, you, you actually wouldn't know about the blood if you didn't have this, right? So the blood is what covers them, but the word of God is what gives them strength and power and testimony. They will be testifying while these people are killing them.

Just like they did in the first century, when they were feeding them to lions. Some of those soldiers were saved because the testimony, the people they were taking in there and they went in with them and were eaten because they got saved.

And they said, I'm going with them. Can you even believe that Fox's book of martyrs tells you all about it. These same things will be happening. I love verse 11. It needs to be circled and talk to our children.

Now it's kind of interesting. It says they love not their lives until the death. God gives you a certain grace at that moment when you know, you're not going to be able to hide. If you're one of those it's caught.

And you know, and you know, you're about to die. You'll have grace, just like you've had in your life when a loved one passed away and you got through that and you didn't think you could, I think most of us left in this room have experienced that and you can, and he'll give you grace to die for your faith.

In fact, boldness, you'll probably lead more people to Christ at that moment than you did your whole life. Who knows? But that's a beautiful passage. So who is they? Well, you get my drift, right? There's the church in chapter 12, well beyond chapter three of revelation.

So that's a lie that when you say the church is not found in the book of revelation past chapter three. All right. Now, therefore rejoice ye heavens and ye that dwell in them. Woe to the inhabitors of the earth and of the sea for the devil is come down to you having great wrath because he knows that he has, but a short time.

So let me ask you, bill, just let's think about this, uh, Paul and class. Everybody we're trying to figure out when this casting down from heaven took place and many have said in the early chapters of Genesis, but in Genesis, would you say he had a short time left to deal with people, but if you only had three and a half years left, would you say that's a short time?

So which do you think it is? Logically now I know from heavenly beings, maybe, you know, 8 ,000 years is a short time. But I know three and a half years is a short time. So I lean towards thinking that that event took place right where it put it.

I mean, it has chronology around it. It says there's three and a half years left when he's cast down and it's right there in the context all around it. So I lean towards believing that is when that took place.

And I do think he still had access to heaven when Job was alive. And I think he did when I think he does now, I think he still accuses you and me right now in front of God. And Jesus is our advocate. Why would the new Testament that Paul wrote, which is for the church, right?

So we know that's for the church age. Why would he say Jesus is our advocate before the father, if we didn't need an advocate? So I think this happens on this schedule here. And when the dragon saw that he was cast into the earth, he persecuted the woman.

Who's that? Remember at the very first of the chapter, it talked about this woman that had a man child. So who's the woman that's Israel. He persecuted the woman and brought forth who, who had brought forth the man child, 2000 years earlier.

Right. And to the woman were given two wings of a great Eagle that she might fly into the wilderness. That's allegorical, but it could be huge cargo jets or cargo. Even they even have huge ones with propellers that can carry several army tanks so they can carry literally hundreds of people.

And it's not the first time they put hundreds of Jewish people on one of these planes and transported them out of harm's way. They did that in Ethiopia. There was a whole group of, of black Jews who there, the Muslims were killing and Israel flew these huge planes over there, landed them right there and stuffed them full of hundreds and hundreds, if not in the small thousands of black Jewish people and shipped them back to Israel where they were safe, isn't that cool?

Well, on a larger scale, that could happen here to get the Jews out of Jerusalem, out of the surrounding areas of Israel and into Petra or wherever they're going, wherever God's going to put them. So, isn't it, don't you find it interesting that from Paul's viewpoint, I mean, John's viewpoint who had no vocabulary of the word airplane, not in his vocabulary, jet airplane or cargo plane, not in his vocabulary.

So what he's trying to tell us what he saw, because this is a bit, he saw it happen, God let him see the vision of all these things happening and he writes it down as the woman given two wings of a great Eagle, that's a pretty big bird.

Isn't it that she might fly into the wilderness into her place. That means there is a sovereign, uh, sovereignty of God has chosen a designated place. There's no chance they're going anywhere else. They're going to that place.

It's already been chosen before time began where she is nourished. She will have food. She will have water and it's going to happen for a time and times and a half. That's three and a half years. That's a representative of three and a half years.

And there'll be protected from the face of the serpent, but that's not the church. That's the Jewish people still alive on the planet. And a lot of them are not believers yet at this point, in my opinion, because I think all Israel should be saved.

I think that happens when they see him. What do y 'all think? I think they probably thinking Israel that their government's pretty cool government to protect them though, put them in those planes and protect them.

Don't you think? And who knows if America is still on their side at this point, if they are, those will be American airplanes, but I just don't know. I don't know if we're even still, even still there at that point or, or supporting Israel at that point.

Let's hope America is, but we just don't know that. And the serpent cast out his mouth out of his mouth. Water is a flood after the woman that he might cause her to be carried away by the water. Now, do you think that's real water or do you think that's allegorical?

What is water revelation? 17. If you go forward in time, God tells us what this water is. So we don't have to guess at this one. The waters, which you saw where the whore sit is now that's the false church.

There's two of them there. There's a secular one and a, you know, religious one, the religious one will be the false church. I don't believe it's just Roman Catholicism. Like so many have believed. I believe it's Roman Catholicism and, uh, Babto Catholics and Pinto Catholics and methodo Catholics.