WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun, in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:07.480 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.720 --> 00:00:14.160 Hey, good morning, everybody. Welcome to the Bible guys. Today 5 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:18.960 is Friday. Friday. Yeah, Friday is great and I think. 6 00:00:18.800 --> 00:00:20.280 You should start singing the Friday song. 7 00:00:21.679 --> 00:00:25.600 Well you mean that real song like it's Friday. 8 00:00:25.640 --> 00:00:28.280 It's like you sing good morning to us. Yeah, so 9 00:00:28.320 --> 00:00:30.120 if you made Friday by one. 10 00:00:30.039 --> 00:00:33.119 Except for that's the most irritating song in ye. 11 00:00:33.759 --> 00:00:34.640 But good Morning's not. 12 00:00:35.119 --> 00:00:35.600 No, it's not. 13 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:38.840 I love good morning because it is a throwback to 14 00:00:39.039 --> 00:00:40.039 one of my favorite. 15 00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:41.840 Eras nineteen forties. 16 00:00:42.079 --> 00:00:42.799 Yeah. 17 00:00:42.880 --> 00:00:45.679 By the way, an old movie that I just watched 18 00:00:45.679 --> 00:00:50.240 with my family with Gene Kelly, so same guy and 19 00:00:50.359 --> 00:00:52.039 Judy Garland is called for me. 20 00:00:52.039 --> 00:00:52.520 And my gal. 21 00:00:53.159 --> 00:00:54.359 Have you ever seen it? I don't know. 22 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:57.240 The bells are ringing. 23 00:00:56.719 --> 00:00:58.920 For oh yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I know that song. 24 00:00:59.119 --> 00:01:02.799 Yeah, so that's that's from that movie and it's great. 25 00:01:03.119 --> 00:01:03.640 Good for you. 26 00:01:03.759 --> 00:01:06.400 It is great for you. Black and white. 27 00:01:06.400 --> 00:01:07.480 You love the black and white. 28 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:08.680 If you if you're. 29 00:01:08.519 --> 00:01:10.599 Out there and you are just thinking yourself, you know what, 30 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:12.280 I'm gonna check out an old black and white film 31 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:14.239 watch for me, my gall it's wonderful. 32 00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:17.840 I went on a black and white old movie binge 33 00:01:17.879 --> 00:01:22.719 a while back. Really yeah, I don't know, probably January February, 34 00:01:23.480 --> 00:01:26.879 so six months ago, and it was all Humphrey Bogart movies. 35 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:30.799 Oh wow, yeah, so Maltese Falcan and yeah, yeah that's cool. 36 00:01:31.439 --> 00:01:35.359 Hey, so we are about to read a statement from 37 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:37.879 Jesus that says, yes, I. 38 00:01:37.840 --> 00:01:38.599 Am coming soon. 39 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:40.120 There seems to be a theme this week. 40 00:01:40.239 --> 00:01:43.200 Yeah, there certainly is, yes, And but before we get 41 00:01:43.200 --> 00:01:47.840 into that, we have a segment that desires paced together, 42 00:01:47.920 --> 00:01:49.159 piece together, I think is a. 43 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:52.000 Brand new Oh yeah, we've never done this one. 44 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:56.359 Before, and it's called the survival Clever scenario. Imagine you 45 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:58.280 are both stranded on a desert island. 46 00:01:58.560 --> 00:01:59.959 Greatly is it only the two of them? 47 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:05.079 I guess, So thank you for that. 48 00:02:06.280 --> 00:02:08.400 And it says, imagine you are stranding on a desraland 49 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:11.400 with only a kazoo and a can of beans. 50 00:02:12.319 --> 00:02:14.719 Let's hear you debate how you make it out alive. 51 00:02:14.840 --> 00:02:17.400 Well, Desiree, this may not go the way that you 52 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:20.680 wanted to go, because I would die in a week, yes, 53 00:02:20.879 --> 00:02:24.039 within a couple of days actually, And the end of. 54 00:02:24.400 --> 00:02:25.919 The end, and here's how it would happen. 55 00:02:25.960 --> 00:02:26.719 I would not survive. 56 00:02:26.759 --> 00:02:29.400 Here's how it's how it would happen. Yes, I know. 57 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:31.319 You would start playing the kazoo. 58 00:02:31.879 --> 00:02:35.039 Well, there's no question would and you'd be like, if 59 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:35.960 you can enjoy? 60 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:41.439 No no no, no no no no, and I would 61 00:02:41.439 --> 00:02:44.560 go And that's how you die. 62 00:02:45.159 --> 00:02:46.120 Oh that's how I die. 63 00:02:46.439 --> 00:02:50.000 That's how I died, right down your throat. Yeah. Yeah, 64 00:02:50.039 --> 00:02:51.080 and then i'd eat the beans. 65 00:02:53.120 --> 00:02:55.360 So you told me after years? 66 00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:04.000 Yeah, the oh boy. Okay, but we got we have 67 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:04.960 to get off of the island. 68 00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:07.120 So what you're saying, we have to get off of 69 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:08.960 the kazoo before we even ate. 70 00:03:09.319 --> 00:03:13.879 I think so, well, we'd save it, all right, we'd 71 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:16.400 save it, and I get angry, real hungry. I couldn't 72 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:18.479 help it at that point. You ever, you ever just 73 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:20.120 say mean things and you think why was that being 74 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:22.759 so mean? You just realize you're being hungry. Yeah, that's 75 00:03:22.759 --> 00:03:25.159 what happened. So we'd be saving the beans in order 76 00:03:25.159 --> 00:03:27.759 to Okay, So here's here's what I think we should do. 77 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:29.599 Okay on the desertland. 78 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:34.639 Yeah, I think we should uh, we should eat the beans. 79 00:03:34.800 --> 00:03:36.520 Your best part of that is you go I kill you, 80 00:03:36.639 --> 00:03:37.360 you go and then I. 81 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:37.960 Eat the bees. 82 00:03:41.599 --> 00:03:44.199 Well you're going down anyways, so you know, it's just 83 00:03:44.520 --> 00:03:48.560 I don't want you worrying. You're fretting and worrying. Yeah, uh, 84 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:52.000 I think. So we're on an island. I think what 85 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:56.159 we'd have to do is get some some branches and 86 00:03:56.319 --> 00:03:58.479 stuff because we have to escape the island. That's all 87 00:03:58.479 --> 00:04:00.719 we're trying to do is get off the island. Well yeah, 88 00:04:00.759 --> 00:04:01.560 make it out alive. 89 00:04:01.960 --> 00:04:04.080 Sure, yeah, it doesn't say where. 90 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:06.280 Yeah, so we're gonna have to. We have to get 91 00:04:06.280 --> 00:04:08.680 some some logs. We have to put them together. So 92 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:10.719 I think what we'll do is we'll take the can. 93 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:12.479 Can you plant beans and get more beans. 94 00:04:12.800 --> 00:04:16.160 No not not from the can? No, no, no, they've 95 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:19.560 been cooked. Okay, they make it there. So that's a 96 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:20.240 good idea though. 97 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:21.000 Yeah. 98 00:04:21.399 --> 00:04:24.480 Yeah. So then uh, well we'll use the can uh 99 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:28.040 or make nails out of pieces of can so we 100 00:04:28.079 --> 00:04:30.160 can put that in Huh. 101 00:04:30.240 --> 00:04:33.160 How do you cut a can with rocks? Okay? 102 00:04:33.319 --> 00:04:35.839 Yeah, yeah, yeah all right, So so then we make 103 00:04:35.879 --> 00:04:38.360 some some nails out of that, and then we'll nail 104 00:04:38.360 --> 00:04:42.519 it together into a raft. And then you can be 105 00:04:42.639 --> 00:04:44.879 like Jack and I'll be like his girlfriend on the 106 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:45.600 on the raft. 107 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:49.720 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll just I'll just be floating along, right, 108 00:04:51.480 --> 00:04:54.360 and then eventually you're playing your canoe, playing your kazoo. 109 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:57.800 Eventually you're to say, never, let go, let me sink. 110 00:04:57.959 --> 00:05:00.319 That's right, just let you go. And then just like, 111 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:02.439 because that's how it works in the movies, the raft 112 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:04.600 was big enough for both of them, right, yeah, but 113 00:05:04.680 --> 00:05:06.360 he's for some reason not on the raft. 114 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:08.439 Well, it was a door. It was a floating door. 115 00:05:08.720 --> 00:05:11.319 Yeah, exactly. I don't know. I don't know how you 116 00:05:11.439 --> 00:05:12.439 escape with Again. 117 00:05:12.319 --> 00:05:15.720 They did MythBusters and they actually figured out that there 118 00:05:15.839 --> 00:05:18.879 actually was enough room for both of them on the door. 119 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:22.279 I totally when I watched the movie, it ruined the 120 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:24.360 movie for me. Well yeah, I was like, are you 121 00:05:24.360 --> 00:05:27.199 flipping serious? This is how the movie ends? Yeah? Right, yeah. 122 00:05:27.399 --> 00:05:29.199 You know, one of the greatest movies in the history 123 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:33.000 of Rotten Tomatoes in terms of, like, you know, the 124 00:05:33.519 --> 00:05:36.439 scores they give it a perfect ten is The Shawshank Redemption. 125 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:38.040 Oh have you seen the Shawshank Redemption. 126 00:05:38.160 --> 00:05:41.040 No, we talked about that before. Okay, yeah, you got 127 00:05:41.040 --> 00:05:41.920 mad at me about it. 128 00:05:41.879 --> 00:05:45.319 Okay, Yeah, that's it's pretty crazy that you've never seen it, 129 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:48.560 it's actually wow anyway, But there's a there's a part 130 00:05:48.560 --> 00:05:50.240 at the end of the movie for the listeners who've 131 00:05:50.240 --> 00:05:51.839 seen it. There's a part of the end of the 132 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:54.319 movie where I was watching, you know, you just sometimes 133 00:05:54.360 --> 00:05:56.800 come across clips, and there was a clip like on 134 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:00.040 TikTok or YouTube or something where where there was a 135 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:02.759 guy that said he was interviewing Tim Robbins, and he 136 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:06.759 said it was a cartoon and he said, hey, every 137 00:06:06.800 --> 00:06:08.920 question he goes, how did you pull the movie posters 138 00:06:09.040 --> 00:06:11.439 so tight? Where you made it so taut that a 139 00:06:11.560 --> 00:06:14.639 rock can go through it after getting inside the tunnel? 140 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:16.040 He goes, how did you do that? 141 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:20.120 And and if you know the movie, you know, like, 142 00:06:20.240 --> 00:06:23.759 oh my goodness, Like he's correct, and he goes, what 143 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:26.319 what you didn't enjoy the movie, Tim Robbins says, and 144 00:06:26.319 --> 00:06:28.319 he goes, yes, he goes, I very much enjoyed the 145 00:06:28.319 --> 00:06:31.639 movie up until that part, right, And so it's like 146 00:06:31.720 --> 00:06:34.000 it's like what he's really implying is like it ruins 147 00:06:34.079 --> 00:06:38.240 the movie, right, And so yeah, I definitely think, uh, 148 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:41.759 what were we talking about? We're talk about getting off 149 00:06:41.759 --> 00:06:45.000 the island, Okay, So yeah, I would die desiree. I 150 00:06:45.040 --> 00:06:48.600 would die just so that's it. I would I'm not 151 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:50.439 a survivor outdoorsy. 152 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:52.839 I think I think you would do it. I would 153 00:06:52.839 --> 00:06:55.480 feel obligated to keep you alive because we got to 154 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:56.480 make it back to the show. 155 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:04.040 That's that's why, that's why not our not our wives, but. 156 00:07:03.959 --> 00:07:09.079 Show to the show. Yeah, yeah, which that was my 157 00:07:09.399 --> 00:07:11.319 subtle way of say, hey, we should get back to 158 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:11.680 the show. 159 00:07:11.800 --> 00:07:12.000 Yeah. 160 00:07:12.120 --> 00:07:13.680 I don't know. I don't know how you live with 161 00:07:13.720 --> 00:07:16.199 a kazoo and the cannabeans. I don't do you how 162 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:17.560 do you get off the island. I don't know that 163 00:07:17.600 --> 00:07:20.680 the cannabeans or the kazoo actually gets you off the island? 164 00:07:21.319 --> 00:07:24.040 Right, Well, I mean the nails out of the can 165 00:07:24.160 --> 00:07:24.959 was pretty brillian. 166 00:07:25.079 --> 00:07:28.079 Yeah, I don't know that that would work, but yeah maybe. 167 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:30.600 Well, I mean, but what you said was pretty awesome. 168 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:33.480 Okay, and then you could be playing a kazoo like 169 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:35.439 like with Iya the Tiger for our theme song. 170 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:39.959 Is where I would totally be able to provide that. 171 00:07:40.399 --> 00:07:45.879 Yes, yeah, you wouldn't get sick of that and then 172 00:07:45.920 --> 00:07:51.600 did I Yeah? Okay, all right, so you know what. 173 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:56.480 It's ridiculous that that that segment was a long time coming. 174 00:07:57.160 --> 00:07:58.879 It was very long timing coming. 175 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:01.319 Yeah. And you know what is also a long time coming? 176 00:08:01.360 --> 00:08:01.639 What's that? 177 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:02.519 The second coming? 178 00:08:05.040 --> 00:08:07.600 Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was a rough one there. Yeah, 179 00:08:07.639 --> 00:08:09.079 there's rough I don't even know. 180 00:08:09.279 --> 00:08:13.959 But we are going to launch into Revelation chapter number 181 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:16.319 twenty two, verses one through twenty one. 182 00:08:16.879 --> 00:08:18.560 Yeah, which these are good ones. 183 00:08:18.639 --> 00:08:19.839 Yeah, these are good ones. 184 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:23.439 Revelation Chapter twenty two should be exciting for people. 185 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:25.759 It's by the way, for those who don't know, there's 186 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:28.639 only twenty two chapters in the Bible. 187 00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:30.839 I think actually the relation. 188 00:08:30.839 --> 00:08:33.120 I'm sorry, in Revelation. I think the other day I 189 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:35.960 actually said twenty one chapters. I think I messed that up. 190 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:38.960 Oh yeah, twenty two chapters, twenty two yeah, yeah, And 191 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:42.360 here's what it says. This is the last chapter yep, 192 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:45.720 in the last book of the Bible. 193 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:47.399 From the last surviving disciples. 194 00:08:47.480 --> 00:08:48.960 Yes, so it seems like this is a sit up 195 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:50.200 and pay attention kind of moment. 196 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:50.840 Yeah. 197 00:08:51.120 --> 00:08:53.120 Sure, in the Bible, it's kind of a big deal. 198 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:56.080 It says, then the Angel showed me a river. So 199 00:08:56.159 --> 00:09:00.120 this is an the angel that's been leading John through 200 00:09:00.360 --> 00:09:05.120 the entire Book of Revelation, and me is John. So 201 00:09:05.240 --> 00:09:07.200 then the Angel showed me a river with the water 202 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:10.320 of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the Throne of 203 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:13.080 God and of the Lamb. He's describing heaven. Yes, So 204 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:17.080 just imagine there's the throne. The throne is the center 205 00:09:17.240 --> 00:09:21.159 of eternity essentially, and there's this river, the river that 206 00:09:21.240 --> 00:09:25.240 has the water of life flowing gray symbolic, flowing from 207 00:09:26.039 --> 00:09:29.639 the Throne of God, clearest crystal flowing from the Throne 208 00:09:29.639 --> 00:09:31.679 of God and of the lamp. It flowed down the 209 00:09:31.679 --> 00:09:34.559 center of the main street. On each side of the 210 00:09:34.639 --> 00:09:37.840 river grew a tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, 211 00:09:37.919 --> 00:09:40.879 with a fresh crop each month. The leaves were used 212 00:09:40.879 --> 00:09:43.799 for medicine to heal the nations. No longer will there 213 00:09:43.840 --> 00:09:46.039 be a curse upon anything, for the Throne of God 214 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:48.200 and of the Lamb will be there, and his servants 215 00:09:48.240 --> 00:09:50.679 will worship him, and they will see his face, and 216 00:09:50.720 --> 00:09:52.960 his name will be written on their foreheads. And there 217 00:09:52.960 --> 00:09:55.799 will be no night, there no need for lamps or son, 218 00:09:55.879 --> 00:09:58.320 for the Lord God will shine on them and they 219 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:01.559 will rain forever and ever. Then the Angel said to me, 220 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:04.399 everything you have heard and seen is trustworthy and true. 221 00:10:04.799 --> 00:10:07.240 The Lord, God, who inspires his prophets, has sent his 222 00:10:07.240 --> 00:10:10.679 angels to tell his servants what will happen soon. Look, 223 00:10:10.919 --> 00:10:13.639 I am coming soon. Blessed are those who obey the 224 00:10:13.679 --> 00:10:17.720 words of prophecy written in this book. I John am 225 00:10:17.759 --> 00:10:19.679 the one who heard and saw all these things. And 226 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:21.720 when I heard and saw them, I fell down to 227 00:10:21.759 --> 00:10:23.559 worship at the feet of the angel who showed me. 228 00:10:23.720 --> 00:10:26.639 Showed them to me, But he said, no, don't worship me. 229 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:28.519 I am a servant of God, just like you and 230 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:31.279 your brothers, the prophets, as well as all who obey 231 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:34.919 what is written in this book. Worship only God. Then 232 00:10:34.919 --> 00:10:38.080 he instructed me, do not seal up the prophetic words 233 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:40.279 in this book, for the time is near. Let the 234 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:42.679 one who is doing harm continue to do harm. Let 235 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:45.200 the one who is vile continue to be vile. That 236 00:10:45.279 --> 00:10:47.919 the one who is righteous continue to live righteously. Let 237 00:10:47.960 --> 00:10:50.759 the one who is holy continue to be holy. Look, 238 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:54.240 I am coming soon, bringing my reward with me to 239 00:10:54.279 --> 00:10:56.320 repay all people according to their deeds. I am the 240 00:10:56.399 --> 00:10:59.159 Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning 241 00:10:59.159 --> 00:11:02.159 and the end. Blessed are those who wash their robes. 242 00:11:02.440 --> 00:11:04.720 They will be permitted to enter into the gates of 243 00:11:04.759 --> 00:11:07.279 the city and eat the fruit of the Tree of Life. 244 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:10.879 Outside the city are the dogs, the sorcerers are sexually immoral, 245 00:11:10.919 --> 00:11:13.759 the murderers, the idle worshipers, and all who love to 246 00:11:13.799 --> 00:11:16.559 live a lie. I Jesus, have sent my Angel to 247 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:19.120 give you this message for the churches. I am both 248 00:11:19.159 --> 00:11:21.600 the source of David and the heir to his throne. 249 00:11:21.679 --> 00:11:24.720 I am the bright morning Star, the Spirit and the Bride. 250 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:28.000 Say come, Let anyone who hears this, say come, Let 251 00:11:28.120 --> 00:11:31.720 anyone who is thirsty, come, Let anyone who desires drink 252 00:11:32.480 --> 00:11:35.559 freely from the water of life. And I solemnly declare 253 00:11:35.679 --> 00:11:38.600 to everyone who hears the words the prophecy written in 254 00:11:38.639 --> 00:11:41.240 this book. If anyone adds anything to what is written here, 255 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:44.200 God will add to that person the plague's described in 256 00:11:44.200 --> 00:11:47.080 this book. If anyone removes any of the words from 257 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:49.639 this book of prophecy, God will remove that person's share 258 00:11:49.960 --> 00:11:51.840 in the Tree of Life and in the Holy City 259 00:11:52.000 --> 00:11:54.399 that are described in this book. He who is the 260 00:11:54.399 --> 00:11:56.840 faithful witness to all these things, say, yes, I am 261 00:11:56.879 --> 00:12:01.039 coming soon. Amen, Come, Lord Jesus. May the grace of God, 262 00:12:01.440 --> 00:12:03.759 or may the grace of the Lord Jesus be with 263 00:12:03.840 --> 00:12:08.440 God's holy people. There you go. That's how he ends it. 264 00:12:09.039 --> 00:12:13.279 Yeah, that is how he man So, hey, let's start 265 00:12:13.320 --> 00:12:13.840 at the beginning. 266 00:12:13.919 --> 00:12:17.919 Jeff, Okay, I'd like to start even before the beginning 267 00:12:17.960 --> 00:12:21.080 and jump into the chapter head because it's you know, 268 00:12:21.159 --> 00:12:23.960 there weren't any chapters and verses for John. 269 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:24.639 Correct. 270 00:12:24.720 --> 00:12:27.240 John didn't say, Okay, I just finished writing chapter twenty one. 271 00:12:27.320 --> 00:12:28.799 Now I'm going to write twenty two. Right. 272 00:12:28.879 --> 00:12:31.519 So we took the letter that John wrote, and we 273 00:12:31.919 --> 00:12:34.519 have actually all the letters of the Bible, and we 274 00:12:34.600 --> 00:12:37.159 divided them up into sections to be able to. 275 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:41.039 What yeah, about nine hundred years after I identify, Yeah, 276 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:43.559 after the Bible was done being written is when we 277 00:12:43.600 --> 00:12:45.480 started breaking it into chapters and verses. 278 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:45.840 Yeah. 279 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:49.519 Yeah, So if you go back further, he's got this. 280 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:52.559 This angel is showing him and in verse fifteen and 281 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:54.480 chapter twenty one says, the angel who talked to me 282 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:56.600 held in his hand a golden measuring stick to measure 283 00:12:56.639 --> 00:12:58.879 the city, its gates, and its wall. When he measured, 284 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:00.960 he found it was square as wide as it was long. 285 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:03.399 In fact, it's length and with a height were each 286 00:13:03.480 --> 00:13:07.559 fourteen hundred miles. And he measured the walls upon them 287 00:13:07.600 --> 00:13:10.440 to be two hundred and sixteen feet thick. The wall 288 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:13.279 was made of jasper in the city pure gold as 289 00:13:13.320 --> 00:13:15.240 clear as glass. The wall of the city was built 290 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:18.200 on foundation stones inlaid with twelve precious stones. The first 291 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:21.679 was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald, 292 00:13:21.679 --> 00:13:25.120 the fifth onyx, the sixth Carnelian, the seventh chrystolite, the 293 00:13:25.200 --> 00:13:28.720 eighth burl, the ninth topaz, and the tenth chryso praise, 294 00:13:28.879 --> 00:13:32.519 the eleventh jacinth, and the twelfth amethyst. The twelve gates 295 00:13:32.559 --> 00:13:35.279 were made of pearls, each gate from a single pearl, 296 00:13:35.559 --> 00:13:38.399 and the main street was pure gold, as clear as glass. 297 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:40.559 I saw no temple in the city, for the Lord 298 00:13:40.559 --> 00:13:43.000 God Almighty in the Lambar its temple, and the city 299 00:13:43.039 --> 00:13:45.200 has no need of sun or moon, for the glory 300 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:47.840 of God illuminates the city, and the lamb as its light. 301 00:13:48.440 --> 00:13:50.600 The nations will walk in its light, and the kings 302 00:13:50.600 --> 00:13:52.799 of the world will enter the city and all their glory. 303 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:54.840 Its gates will never be closed at the end of 304 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:57.240 the day, because there is no night there, and all 305 00:13:57.279 --> 00:13:59.279 the nations will bring their glory and honor into the 306 00:13:59.320 --> 00:14:02.480 city nothing evil will be allowed to enter, nor anyone 307 00:14:02.519 --> 00:14:05.600 who practices the shameful idolatry and dishonesty, but only those 308 00:14:05.799 --> 00:14:07.799 whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of life. 309 00:14:08.320 --> 00:14:10.600 Then the angel showing the river flowing from the throne 310 00:14:10.639 --> 00:14:14.679 down the main street. Yeah right, how cool? Yeah, I 311 00:14:14.679 --> 00:14:16.039 mean that's amazing, dude. 312 00:14:16.039 --> 00:14:19.840 And you know what's amazing is so there's a statement 313 00:14:19.879 --> 00:14:22.799 about heaven in the Bible that says not the half 314 00:14:22.799 --> 00:14:25.919 has been told. Oh right, right, So it's interesting how 315 00:14:26.519 --> 00:14:30.480 Jesus talked more actually ten times more I think about 316 00:14:30.559 --> 00:14:34.080 Hell than he did about heaven. And even though he 317 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:39.679 didn't necessarily describe Hell in great detail, there's still more 318 00:14:39.720 --> 00:14:42.320 written about it than there is heaven. And so we 319 00:14:42.679 --> 00:14:45.639 only have a few pieces of information about heaven. But 320 00:14:46.360 --> 00:14:49.399 what's interesting about everything you just read was those were 321 00:14:49.600 --> 00:14:52.960 dimensions that was actually measurements. 322 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:56.559 Yeah right, so fourteen hundred miles. 323 00:14:56.440 --> 00:15:02.960 Cub cubed, which is an incredible right, and which is 324 00:15:03.240 --> 00:15:04.039 pretty crazy. 325 00:15:04.440 --> 00:15:07.600 And then also he talks about think about this. 326 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:09.840 So, so, first of all, a couple of things that 327 00:15:09.879 --> 00:15:13.200 we grabbed from your twenty one. You broke the rules 328 00:15:13.200 --> 00:15:14.200 and read chapter twenty one. 329 00:15:14.279 --> 00:15:15.879 Yeh yeah. Yeah, I'm going to read another verse from 330 00:15:15.879 --> 00:15:16.960 twenty one and the Yeah. 331 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:19.919 So here's what we know for a fact. Number one, 332 00:15:20.360 --> 00:15:23.480 there's no sun in heaven. God is the source of 333 00:15:23.519 --> 00:15:26.080 light in heaven, right, and so he is the one 334 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:31.159 who sits in the center and light flows. Secondly, water 335 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:34.919 flows from the throne, right, So he's the source of life, 336 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:38.720 of light and drink and. 337 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:39.960 The water of life. Yeah. 338 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:42.279 And in the water of life which gives life right 339 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:44.919 to the trees and which are on either side of 340 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:47.120 the street. And it actually does say street, which was cool. 341 00:15:47.200 --> 00:15:48.879 Yeah, and those are the trees of life. 342 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:52.480 Okay, so here's another thing about heaven. Let's have a 343 00:15:52.519 --> 00:15:55.799 little fun talk about heaven. Did you know. I'm sure 344 00:15:55.799 --> 00:15:56.120 you did. 345 00:15:56.720 --> 00:16:00.480 But there is an entire rainbow around the throne of heaven. 346 00:16:01.320 --> 00:16:03.759 So there is an entire rainbow. So think about this. 347 00:16:03.840 --> 00:16:06.399 When God set the rainbow in the sky in Genesis 348 00:16:06.480 --> 00:16:09.320 chapter nine for Noah, and he did so as a 349 00:16:09.360 --> 00:16:12.519 reminder that he's no longer going to flood the earth, which, 350 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:16.919 by the way, is a promise that God keeps until death, 351 00:16:17.320 --> 00:16:19.759 which means it's a constant promise, which is why here 352 00:16:19.759 --> 00:16:22.679 it is thousands and thousands and thousands of years later, 353 00:16:22.879 --> 00:16:25.240 we still have a rainbow after the rain. You think 354 00:16:25.240 --> 00:16:28.759 it's pretty, but but just keep in mind, it's a 355 00:16:28.879 --> 00:16:31.320 it's a promise that God made a long time ago, 356 00:16:31.360 --> 00:16:33.960 that says, just as a reminder, it's raining, it's gonna 357 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:38.519 stop right anyway. So there's a rainbow around the throne. 358 00:16:38.679 --> 00:16:42.480 And then there are angels that swarm around the throne 359 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:47.600 that they're Cherubims and seraphims and with two they cover 360 00:16:47.639 --> 00:16:50.399 their eyes with two, they cover their feet with two. 361 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:55.200 They fly so with six wings and there and they're shouting, Holy, Holy, 362 00:16:55.240 --> 00:16:58.080 Holy is the Lord God almighty. The whole earth is 363 00:16:58.159 --> 00:16:59.200 covered in his glory. 364 00:16:59.279 --> 00:17:01.840 According to Isa, right so even. 365 00:17:01.720 --> 00:17:05.319 Right now, and they're singing is so loud it shakes 366 00:17:05.319 --> 00:17:08.799 the foundation of the temple. Yes, it's pretty impressive. Yes, 367 00:17:09.240 --> 00:17:11.559 smoke fills the temple. It's pretty pretty impressive. 368 00:17:11.640 --> 00:17:13.960 So right now there's a river flowing from the throne. 369 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:17.200 There's a rainbow around the throne God, God is providing 370 00:17:17.319 --> 00:17:21.680 the light source of heaven, and there's angels singing and 371 00:17:21.720 --> 00:17:23.039 declaring God's glory. 372 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:26.319 I believe that this city is the place Jesus said 373 00:17:26.359 --> 00:17:29.200 he went to prepare that's what I believe. I believe 374 00:17:29.200 --> 00:17:31.319 that this is the city. Remember when we just talked 375 00:17:31.359 --> 00:17:34.119 about that. Yeah, like I go to prepare a place 376 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:36.079 for you. I think this city is it. But if 377 00:17:36.079 --> 00:17:39.319 you go to Revelation twenty one, the very first verses, 378 00:17:39.359 --> 00:17:40.920 he said, then I saw a new heaven and a 379 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:44.880 new Earth. This is after God brings final judgment on 380 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:48.960 this planet. He destroys this planet. Everything is wiped out, 381 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:51.119 and then God makes a new heaven and a new 382 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:54.079 earth for the old heaven. And the old Earth had disappeared, 383 00:17:54.599 --> 00:17:56.599 and the sea was also gone. So this is now 384 00:17:56.640 --> 00:18:00.000 all land. There's no sea. And I saw the Holy City, 385 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:03.039 the New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven 386 00:18:03.079 --> 00:18:06.960 like a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And look, 387 00:18:07.079 --> 00:18:09.119 I heard a loud shout from the throne saying, look, 388 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:11.680 God's home is now among his people. He will live 389 00:18:11.720 --> 00:18:13.680 with them, and they will be with his people. God 390 00:18:13.759 --> 00:18:15.640 himself will be with them, and he will wipe every 391 00:18:15.640 --> 00:18:18.039 tear from their eyes, and they'll be no more death 392 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:20.960 or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are 393 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:23.880 gone forever. And the one sitting on the throne said, look, 394 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:26.839 I'm making everything new, right then we get into the 395 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:30.519 description of this incredible all these gems that are the 396 00:18:30.559 --> 00:18:33.279 foundation of the building. You got this this city that 397 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:38.039 is fourteen hundred miles cubed. That's from here to from Michigan, 398 00:18:38.079 --> 00:18:42.160 from Detroit to Orlando, well even beyond it's almost to Miami. 399 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:48.440 Fourteen hundred miles, right, cubed cubed, Yeah, cubed. So you 400 00:18:48.480 --> 00:18:52.039 can't crash a city like that into a planet, right, 401 00:18:52.799 --> 00:18:53.920