WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:02.919 So for anybody listening that's my age or older, they 2 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:09.039 know this. He Johnny. All we gotta do is change 3 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:11.759 it to Jesus because we're talking about the second Coming. 4 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:14.080 So he Jesus. 5 00:00:14.199 --> 00:00:16.719 Yep, he's coming back. So he's Chris and I'm Jeff 6 00:00:16.760 --> 00:00:29.239 and we're the Bible guys. I think it's going to 7 00:00:29.239 --> 00:00:31.239 be way better when Jesus shows up than when Johnny 8 00:00:31.280 --> 00:00:31.920 Carson shows up. 9 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:32.159 Yeah. 10 00:00:32.200 --> 00:00:34.759 By the way, I feel obligated to tell our listeners 11 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:37.960 who said who said that? Here's what was his name? 12 00:00:38.640 --> 00:00:41.560 Art? No, no, no, no, no, I can't. 13 00:00:41.359 --> 00:00:43.960 Remember Ed McMahon, Ed McMahon, I want to say Art 14 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:45.479 link letter And as soon as I started saying, that's 15 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:47.159 not the right name, but Ed McMahon. 16 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:52.039 Uh. So today we're going to start out with this 17 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:55.000 is hilarious. So the segment is called who said It? 18 00:00:55.560 --> 00:00:58.560 And it's saying that you will read five lines from 19 00:00:58.640 --> 00:00:59.759 the Bible. So they're all from the. 20 00:00:59.759 --> 00:01:01.520 Bible of from the Bible. But I have to say who, and. 21 00:01:01.520 --> 00:01:03.000 You have to say who. You have to guess who 22 00:01:03.079 --> 00:01:06.280 said it. But get this, for some reason, I don't 23 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:09.879 know why, but she chose all five King James version 24 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:10.760 quotes oh. 25 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:12.400 Good, good, Okay, that'll help. 26 00:01:12.400 --> 00:01:17.239 It'll help because you memorize that King James version. That's 27 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:20.959 so funny. Okay, So this first one should be pretty easy. 28 00:01:22.640 --> 00:01:28.159 Let me die with the Philistines, uh Sampson. Yes, that's 29 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:32.159 in Judges chapter sixteen. Yeah, this next one is super easy. 30 00:01:32.200 --> 00:01:33.879 I think you'll get it. Oh that's a lot of pressure. 31 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:36.000 Yeah, I know it's a lot of pressure. 32 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:40.599 But it's very clear who said this. Okay, ready, what 33 00:01:40.920 --> 00:01:41.560 is truth? 34 00:01:42.959 --> 00:01:44.920 That's pilot, Yes, punch, just pilot. 35 00:01:45.319 --> 00:01:49.200 That's in John eighteen. Now this one is not so easy. 36 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:50.560 Okay. 37 00:01:50.680 --> 00:01:54.200 So this one again old English version. Nobody talks this 38 00:01:54.239 --> 00:01:59.719 way anymore. But here comes why hast thou conceived this 39 00:01:59.799 --> 00:02:04.599 thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied unto men, 40 00:02:05.239 --> 00:02:06.239 but unto God. 41 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:08.759 That's Peter talking to Anonias and Sapphira. 42 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:14.280 Yes, good job, Act chapter five. Okay, And then this 43 00:02:14.319 --> 00:02:19.400 one is here we go? Wherefore I take you to 44 00:02:19.560 --> 00:02:23.439 record this day that I am pure from the blood 45 00:02:23.439 --> 00:02:28.840 of all men. That's hard. I would I would not 46 00:02:28.919 --> 00:02:31.919 have guessed this. I would have gotten all three of those. 47 00:02:31.960 --> 00:02:35.800 I would not have gotten this to record. 48 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:38.240 I sort of read it weird, weird, because it's a 49 00:02:38.240 --> 00:02:42.680 weird version. Wherefore I take you to record this day 50 00:02:43.120 --> 00:02:45.000 that I am pure from the blood of all men. 51 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:50.800 Oh, dude, I don't know. 52 00:02:51.080 --> 00:02:57.919 Uh, David, it's a great Yes, Paul apparently apostle man. 53 00:02:57.960 --> 00:02:59.800 I almost said Paul, and I'm not joking. 54 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:03.400 Well, he's a good guess. He's most of the New Testament, 55 00:03:03.919 --> 00:03:05.719 but acts chapter twenty. 56 00:03:06.080 --> 00:03:07.000 Wow, apparently. 57 00:03:07.199 --> 00:03:10.560 Okay, so toward the end of his life, I guess 58 00:03:11.319 --> 00:03:12.560 I don't know what he meant by that. 59 00:03:12.599 --> 00:03:13.840 You'd have to have to look it up. 60 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:15.960 I have to look it up. And then finally, here's 61 00:03:15.960 --> 00:03:17.520 the last one. I think you'll get it. 62 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:18.360 Uh. 63 00:03:18.599 --> 00:03:23.199 It's small, but I think it's pretty distinguished. Speak for 64 00:03:23.319 --> 00:03:27.960 the servant hereth Samuel. Yes, there you go. Yeah, first 65 00:03:27.960 --> 00:03:30.800 Samuel chapter three. He was in the temple. Yeah, and 66 00:03:30.840 --> 00:03:32.159 he was responding to God. 67 00:03:32.319 --> 00:03:33.960 And I should have gone with my gut on the 68 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:36.080 Paul thing, and it would have been five or five. 69 00:03:36.360 --> 00:03:36.680 Yeah. 70 00:03:36.680 --> 00:03:38.919 Well, that's all right, you know what, we're all human, yes, 71 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:41.039 and if I can, if I can help prove that 72 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:42.120 on occasion, that's good. 73 00:03:43.159 --> 00:03:45.400 If I can help prove that occasion. 74 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:51.240 Man, are so much pressure, yeah, yeah, a lot of pressure. 75 00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:53.199 So we kind of have this thing going. What made 76 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:53.879 Chris mad? 77 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:54.520 Yes? 78 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:56.960 And then usually it's let's ask Jeff the Bible, the 79 00:03:57.960 --> 00:04:00.960 obscure Bible verse questions like that, who said this? 80 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:02.400 Or asked Chris about movies? 81 00:04:02.479 --> 00:04:04.840 Yeah, yeah, Chris's movies, guy, Yeah, yeah. 82 00:04:04.879 --> 00:04:07.560 So Jeff knows the Bible, Chris knows the movies. 83 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:09.800 I don't think that's the point she's trying to make. 84 00:04:10.400 --> 00:04:14.960 Yeah. I think what she's doing is she she knows 85 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:19.160 that you have a greater knowledge of you just do 86 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:23.040 you just have more knowledge of especially obscure scriptures, right, 87 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:27.240 And I have a wealth of knowledge of things that 88 00:04:27.279 --> 00:04:27.759 don't matter. 89 00:04:30.399 --> 00:04:34.160 Something matter, you know what. So storytelling is such an 90 00:04:34.160 --> 00:04:37.720 important part of speaking and preaching and making connections. Jesus 91 00:04:37.759 --> 00:04:39.720 would say, hey, let me tell you about the Kingdom heaven, 92 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:41.360 and then he tell you about a farmer. I'm gonna 93 00:04:41.360 --> 00:04:43.079 say about the Kingdom heaven. He talked about sheep. Let 94 00:04:43.120 --> 00:04:44.639 me tell you about the king of heaven. He talked 95 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:46.560 about some guy who gets robbed. Right, who's my name? 96 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:46.839 Right? 97 00:04:47.120 --> 00:04:51.759 And so storytelling is so important with regard to connecting 98 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:55.480 heavenly things to the earthly mind. Right, And so the 99 00:04:55.519 --> 00:04:57.319 skill set that you have is brilliant and. 100 00:04:57.439 --> 00:05:00.680 Well, thank you. But and every time we plan a 101 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:04.480 service on a Sunday morning or a holiday service, that's 102 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:07.639 exactly what we do. Yeah, we create artistic elements to 103 00:05:07.680 --> 00:05:10.759 tell a story. Yeah, all of it's. 104 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:14.000 Perfectly designed to do what you do, perfectly designed. So 105 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:18.720 we are in revelation, well, we're in prophecy, the end 106 00:05:18.720 --> 00:05:21.360 times kind of stuff. So we're bouncing around the New 107 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:25.079 Testament and with different references to the end Times. But 108 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:26.920 here we're going to hang out a little bit today 109 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:29.439 in the Book of Revelation. I think it's all the 110 00:05:29.439 --> 00:05:32.399 Book of Revelation. It is, it is, and we're kind 111 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:34.040 of now talking about some of the characters and the 112 00:05:34.079 --> 00:05:34.920 events that happen. 113 00:05:35.079 --> 00:05:37.279 Yeah, well, because this is a Monday, and people may 114 00:05:37.360 --> 00:05:40.160 just be tuning in the last five days, the last 115 00:05:40.160 --> 00:05:44.000 five podcasts we covered, you know, a lot of revelation, 116 00:05:44.480 --> 00:05:46.639 and this is the book that we're not necessarily going 117 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:49.920 through chapter by chapter. But what we're doing is we're 118 00:05:51.160 --> 00:05:53.399 doing a broad overview in broad strokes and saying here's 119 00:05:53.399 --> 00:05:57.040 the main players, here's the main events. And we don't 120 00:05:57.079 --> 00:06:01.439 claim to be you know, theologians or professors, right, were 121 00:06:01.439 --> 00:06:03.040 the Bible guys who like to talk about the Bible, 122 00:06:03.279 --> 00:06:05.600 and hopefully this is a way that people can understand 123 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:08.560 the Book of Revelation and be interested and then have 124 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:09.560 it apply. Yeah. 125 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:12.920 Yeah, So we're going to jump right into it. 126 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:15.199 We've got a lot to cover, yep, And just kind 127 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:17.439 of a warning for this week. This is the week 128 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:20.560 when everything goes sideways and gets really crazy, right right, 129 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:22.639 So last week we kind of established. 130 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:23.920 It's the last three and a half years. 131 00:06:23.839 --> 00:06:28.000 Of tribu so we're kind of established. But hey, we 132 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:30.079 read the back of the book. Hang in till Friday, 133 00:06:30.600 --> 00:06:35.199 Jesus winds. That's how it works out. But so let's 134 00:06:35.199 --> 00:06:38.399 just start in Revelation chapter fourteen, and it says, then 135 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:41.040 I saw the Lamb standing on Mount Zion, and with him, 136 00:06:41.240 --> 00:06:43.720 we're one hundred and forty four thousand who had his 137 00:06:43.839 --> 00:06:46.680 name and his father's name written on their foreheads. And 138 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:49.399 I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of 139 00:06:49.639 --> 00:06:53.319 mighty ocean waves or the rolling of loud thunder. It 140 00:06:53.360 --> 00:06:56.120 was like the sound of many harpists playing together. This 141 00:06:56.240 --> 00:06:59.600 great choir sang a wonderful new song in front of 142 00:06:59.600 --> 00:07:01.759 the throne God. And before the four living beings and 143 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:04.639 the twenty four Elders. No one could learn this song 144 00:07:04.680 --> 00:07:06.720 except the one hundred and forty four thousand whod been redeemed 145 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:09.800 from the earth. They've kept themselves as pure as virgins, 146 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:13.000 following the Lamb wherever he goes. They have been purchased 147 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:15.439 from among the people on the earth as a special 148 00:07:15.480 --> 00:07:17.959 offering to God and to the Lamb. They have told 149 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:21.279 no lies. They're without blame. Jump in first and say 150 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:24.759 the description of who they are. You know, there's no 151 00:07:24.839 --> 00:07:28.519 human that has never sinned with regard to alle right, right, 152 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:34.680 So this is the generality of who they are. This 153 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:37.120 isn't that they're perfect and sinless. The same thing with 154 00:07:37.160 --> 00:07:40.600 the idea kept themselves pure as virgins. In the Old Testament, 155 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:45.920 prophets would often accuse God's people of committing adultery spiritually 156 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:48.879 by worshiping other gods. And so we know that through 157 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:52.600 up to this point chapter fourteen, the whole world has 158 00:07:52.639 --> 00:07:55.000 been tempted, and the world other than those that are 159 00:07:55.000 --> 00:07:58.720 following God have turned to worship the beasts, right, And 160 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:01.399 so they've worshiped other gods. And so it doesn't have 161 00:08:01.519 --> 00:08:06.360 to be that they're virgins, but rather pure as virgins, 162 00:08:06.439 --> 00:08:08.600 is what he's saying, meaning I believe what it's saying 163 00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:12.639 is that they didn't cheat on God with the beast, and. 164 00:08:12.560 --> 00:08:16.240 Didn't Jesus use virgins as as an illustration as well? Yes, 165 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:19.040 so yeah, it's the same thing. 166 00:08:19.680 --> 00:08:21.399 So I think the big question is who are these 167 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:23.839 and one hundred and forty four thousand? 168 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:25.560 Right, there are some people who make a really big 169 00:08:25.600 --> 00:08:26.160 deal about. 170 00:08:25.959 --> 00:08:28.839 It, Jehovah's witnesses, to say that they're Jehovah's witnesses, right, 171 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:31.959 But it's just not that's not how the Bible spells 172 00:08:31.959 --> 00:08:32.159 it out. 173 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:33.879 A billion people on the planet and they want to 174 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:34.720 be a part of the elite, the. 175 00:08:34.679 --> 00:08:35.720 One hundred and forty four thousand. 176 00:08:35.799 --> 00:08:39.080 Yeah, the problem is there's millions of JW's So that's 177 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:42.039 what's weird about it. But yea yeah, So anyways, let's go. 178 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:45.840 Revelation chapter seven spells out who these hundred and forty 179 00:08:45.840 --> 00:08:48.279 four thousand are. Yep, So he says, then I saw 180 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:50.720 four angels standing at the four corners of Earth, holding 181 00:08:50.759 --> 00:08:53.000 back the four winds, so they did not blow on 182 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:54.759 the earth or the sea, or even in any tree. 183 00:08:54.840 --> 00:08:56.840 And I saw another angel coming up from the east 184 00:08:56.879 --> 00:08:59.480 carrying the seal of the Living God. And he shouted 185 00:08:59.519 --> 00:09:02.039 those four angels who had been given power to harm land, 186 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:04.799 and see, wait, don't harm the land or the sea 187 00:09:04.919 --> 00:09:06.799 or the trees until we've placed the seal of God 188 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:09.240 on the foreheads of his servants. And I heard how 189 00:09:09.240 --> 00:09:11.360 many were marked with the seal of God. One hundred 190 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:13.440 and forty four thousand were sealed from all the tribes 191 00:09:13.440 --> 00:09:16.120 of Israel. Then it names the twelve tribes of Israel 192 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:19.679 Asher twelve thousand, Naptalia twelve thousand, Manassa twelve thousand, Simion 193 00:09:19.720 --> 00:09:23.960 twelve thousand, Levia twelve thousand, Isakar twelve thousand, Zebulun twelve thousand, 194 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:28.000 Joseph twelve thousand, Benjamin twelve thousand. After this, I saw 195 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:30.879 a vast crowd, too great to count, from every nation 196 00:09:31.240 --> 00:09:34.240 and tribe and people and language, standing in front of 197 00:09:34.240 --> 00:09:36.639 the throne and before the Lamb. They were clothed in 198 00:09:36.679 --> 00:09:38.679 white robes and held palm branches in their hands, and 199 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:41.600 they were shouting with a great roar, Salvation comes to 200 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:44.279 our God, from our God who sits on the throne, 201 00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:46.600 and from the Lamb. And all the angels were standing 202 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:48.600 around the throne and around the elders and the four 203 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:50.879 living beings. And they fell before the throne with their 204 00:09:50.919 --> 00:09:54.159 faces to the ground and worshiped God. And they sang Amen, 205 00:09:54.559 --> 00:09:57.480 Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and 206 00:09:57.559 --> 00:10:00.480 power and strength belonged to our God forever and ever. 207 00:10:00.559 --> 00:10:00.919 Amen. 208 00:10:01.399 --> 00:10:02.960 Then one of the twenty four elders asked me, who 209 00:10:02.960 --> 00:10:05.039 are these who are clothed with white? Where did they 210 00:10:05.039 --> 00:10:06.960 come from? And I said, sir, you're the one who knows. 211 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:09.279 Then he said to them, It said to me, these 212 00:10:09.320 --> 00:10:12.519 are the ones who died in the Great Tribulation. They've 213 00:10:12.639 --> 00:10:14.519 washed their robes and the blood of the Lamb and 214 00:10:14.559 --> 00:10:16.679 made them white. That is why they stand in front 215 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:18.360 of God's thrown and serve him day and night in 216 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:20.519 his temple. And He who sits on the throne will 217 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:23.919 give them shelter. They will never again be hungry or thirsty. 218 00:10:23.960 --> 00:10:25.799 They'll never be scorched by the heat of the sun. 219 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:28.279 For the Lamb on the throne will be their shepherd, 220 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:31.840 and he will lead them to springs of life giving water. 221 00:10:32.120 --> 00:10:35.080 And God will wipe every tear from their eyes. So 222 00:10:35.159 --> 00:10:36.960 it says that these one hundred and forty four thousand 223 00:10:37.480 --> 00:10:40.519 ultimately represent a multitude that can't be counted. So these 224 00:10:40.639 --> 00:10:43.039 hundred and forty four thousand from the twelve tribes are 225 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:48.159 out leading this uncountable number of people, and they are 226 00:10:47.679 --> 00:10:53.200 they are the martyrs that die who reject the Beast 227 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:56.679 or the Antichrist and are martyred because of it. 228 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:01.320 Yeah, and so again, the tribulation lasts years. So if 229 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:03.960 you're a person who believes like we sort of, you know, 230 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:09.639 we lean toward the rapture being pre tribulation. So even 231 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:12.240 though that there's theories of you know, mid tribulation or 232 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:17.799 post tribulation. So I believe that I think that evidence 233 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:22.120 points to that. So I think that, you know, those 234 00:11:22.159 --> 00:11:25.840 of us who already know Christ won't have to be 235 00:11:26.759 --> 00:11:29.360 worried about being in one hundred and forty four thousand, 236 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:32.799 and according to what I understand, I think that it's 237 00:11:32.840 --> 00:11:37.200 the people who have converted, who decide to repent, who turn, 238 00:11:37.600 --> 00:11:39.639 who've changed their mind all of a sudden, that's right, 239 00:11:39.919 --> 00:11:44.000 And all of a sudden, now they are now rejecting 240 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:46.240 the Beast, and everything is made clear to them. 241 00:11:46.440 --> 00:11:50.360 And there's a lot of ways that you can look 242 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:52.559 at that. Remember when we talked last week about how 243 00:11:52.559 --> 00:11:55.480 important numbers are. Yes, see right, they're very symbolic a 244 00:11:55.519 --> 00:11:57.799 lot of times, especially in the book Revelation. So the 245 00:11:57.919 --> 00:12:03.000 number twelve is a number of completeness, and so twelve 246 00:12:03.039 --> 00:12:08.080 thousand times twelve equals infinity, right, Well, one hundred and. 247 00:12:08.039 --> 00:12:12.200 Forty four thousand and so or infinity. 248 00:12:12.240 --> 00:12:15.559 I guess what I'm saying is it's the complete number 249 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:18.679 of the followers of God. I really believe that's what's 250 00:12:18.679 --> 00:12:21.960 talking about. It doesn't have to be just the one 251 00:12:22.039 --> 00:12:24.159 hundred and forty four thousand. And that's why that passage 252 00:12:24.200 --> 00:12:27.080 references this. After he sees the one hundred and forty 253 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:30.840 four thousand, he sees this massive multitude from all around 254 00:12:30.879 --> 00:12:33.039 the world before the throne of God, and it's I 255 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:36.919 believe it's the completeness of the followers. But they seem 256 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:41.039 to be the majority of them from Israel. Yeah, they're 257 00:12:41.120 --> 00:12:43.679 Jewish people who finally turn to the Messiah after the 258 00:12:43.720 --> 00:12:46.000 tribulation has begun. That seems to be it. 259 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:46.480 I don't know. 260 00:12:46.559 --> 00:12:48.639 I don't know for sure, but you know, there's a 261 00:12:48.639 --> 00:12:49.600 lot of different opinions. 262 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:52.360 Well, you know, I made a joke about infinity. But 263 00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:56.080 remember when Peter asked Jesus how many times you should forgive? 264 00:12:56.799 --> 00:12:59.200 And he said, should I forgive up to seven times? 265 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:01.039 Do you remember what Jesus said? 266 00:13:01.840 --> 00:13:04.120 He said seven seventy times seven right now. 267 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:06.799 He wasn't literally saying stop at four hundred and ninety 268 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:09.600 one times, right right right, the four hundred and ninety 269 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:12.120 five time, then you can say, I don't forgive you. 270 00:13:12.840 --> 00:13:16.360 It was infinity. He was saying, No, it's not seven times, 271 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:20.320 it's seventy times seven. He's referring to the fact that 272 00:13:20.519 --> 00:13:23.279 it's unlimited because you're not going to forgive somebody else. 273 00:13:23.279 --> 00:13:25.759 Seven is the number of God. So forgive like God forgives. 274 00:13:25.840 --> 00:13:29.360 Yeah, that's right, that's right. So numbers are significant, and 275 00:13:29.480 --> 00:13:33.200 there's it's no mistake that things. You know, when it 276 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:36.600 says there's twelve, there's twelve jewels on the crown, right, 277 00:13:36.720 --> 00:13:40.320 it represents the twelve tribes of Israel. It's the promise 278 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:43.279 that God made from the beginning with humanity, starting with 279 00:13:43.320 --> 00:13:47.679 Abraham through Jacob, through the twelve tribes. And so it's yeah, 280 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:50.080 it makes sense to me that God would use symbolic 281 00:13:50.159 --> 00:13:53.399 numbers for those who were, you know, the martyrs counted 282 00:13:53.399 --> 00:13:53.799 among them. 283 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:57.840 Sure, sure, so then it pivots a little bit. And 284 00:13:57.919 --> 00:14:01.200 so one thing that we're not going to do is 285 00:14:01.279 --> 00:14:03.559 we're not going chapter by chapter through the Book of 286 00:14:03.639 --> 00:14:08.799 Revelation and covering all of the different seals that get broken, 287 00:14:09.159 --> 00:14:13.639 the trumpets, the seven bowls. So there's seven seals where 288 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:16.879 finally Jesus is able to come and open the seal, 289 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:21.360 and then after that it starts to unpack these seven 290 00:14:21.879 --> 00:14:26.320 destructive plagues that begin to happen. When the seventh one happens, 291 00:14:26.360 --> 00:14:30.279 it rolls into the seven trumpets, and these seven trumpets 292 00:14:30.279 --> 00:14:34.840 blast and it unveils seven more horrific things that happen 293 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:36.600 on the planet. And then when you get to the 294 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:39.759 seventh trumpet, then the seven bowls begin to be poured 295 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:41.559 out of the seven files begin to pourt up, and 296 00:14:41.960 --> 00:14:45.039 basically what happens is the plugs are ramping up in horror. 297 00:14:45.720 --> 00:14:51.159 Literally every horror apocalyptic type movie Hollywood has ever been 298 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:54.519 able to put out are summed up in these things. 299 00:14:54.759 --> 00:14:57.039 Yeah, so, just to be clear, this all happens in 300 00:14:57.120 --> 00:15:00.720 the second half of the Tribulation, probably, which yeah, probably, 301 00:15:00.759 --> 00:15:03.600 that's right. Probably, that's what's most commonly. 302 00:15:03.200 --> 00:15:05.000 Interest Sure, the first three and a half years are 303 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:07.679 understood to be years of peace and prosperity, right, and 304 00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:09.240 then God really unleashes it. 305 00:15:09.399 --> 00:15:12.519 So that means if that's true, right, that means that 306 00:15:12.960 --> 00:15:16.639 twenty one horrible things on the planet happen in a 307 00:15:16.679 --> 00:15:19.879 three and a half year timeframe. Right. It's bad enough 308 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:22.480 if twenty one things happen in seven years, right, Right, 309 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:24.559 But if it's but if it's truly three and a 310 00:15:24.600 --> 00:15:28.720 half years, we're talking every couple of months something horrible happens. 311 00:15:28.919 --> 00:15:32.120 So the Seven Seals are seven like final conflicts. The 312 00:15:32.159 --> 00:15:35.960 seven Trumpets are final destructions, and the seven bulls represent 313 00:15:36.200 --> 00:15:39.559 God's final wrath. And and let's you want to just 314 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:41.799 I mean, there's not much to say about them other 315 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:44.679 than maybe list them. Yeah, yeah, you know, because what 316 00:15:44.679 --> 00:15:46.120 are you going to do to talk about. 317 00:15:46.039 --> 00:15:48.080 Well, I think there may be things if you've heard 318 00:15:48.120 --> 00:15:51.440 anybody talk about all this stuff, there are things maybe 319 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:54.200 you've heard before, Like, for instance, in the Seven Seals, 320 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:57.519 the first four of the Seven Seals are the four 321 00:15:57.559 --> 00:15:58.039 horsemen of the. 322 00:15:58.039 --> 00:15:58.919 Apocalypse, yep. 323 00:15:59.120 --> 00:16:01.879 Right, So you've got the Christ rolling out, then there's war, 324 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:06.120 there's famine, a quarter the people die as martyrs on 325 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:10.159 the planet, right, and then there's horrible earthquakes and the 326 00:16:10.200 --> 00:16:13.120 sun turns to blood and people have to run and 327 00:16:13.200 --> 00:16:15.720 hide and they're living in caves. This is just the 328 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:20.559 first seven, right, And there's the seven seals, and then 329 00:16:20.960 --> 00:16:24.000 when you get to the seventh seal, it's really announcing 330 00:16:24.720 --> 00:16:27.320 more is to come. And so understand that this isn't 331 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:30.080 God just unleashing his wrath for the sake of unleashing 332 00:16:30.120 --> 00:16:33.200 his wrath. God's desire is to get their attention. And 333 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:37.080 yet after each of these the Bible says multiple times 334 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:41.639 the people refused to turn to God. Right, So instead 335 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:45.399 of realizing, hey, it turns out everything God said was 336 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:48.360 going to happen is happening, and he's true. Some people 337 00:16:48.399 --> 00:16:51.279 do turn to Christ, but the huge majority of the 338 00:16:51.279 --> 00:16:55.240 planet does not. They double down in their anger and 339 00:16:55.279 --> 00:16:59.399 hatred towards God. So then seven trumpets, the final instruction 340 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:01.679 comes up. A third of the world's trees are burned 341 00:17:01.679 --> 00:17:04.720 because there's hail and fire mixed with blood falling from heaven. 342 00:17:04.759 --> 00:17:07.359 A third of the trees on the planet burn Hey, 343 00:17:07.359 --> 00:17:10.759 we just had a massive forest fire. There's going up 344 00:17:10.759 --> 00:17:14.079 in Canada, and when the wind turns, it makes the 345 00:17:14.119 --> 00:17:17.519 sky weird and people's breathing is bad all you know, 346 00:17:17.559 --> 00:17:20.039 as millions of Americans were struggling, they had to cancel 347 00:17:20.079 --> 00:17:22.440 baseball games because of the bad air quality. Right, you 348 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:24.720 imagine if a third of the trees and the planet 349 00:17:24.799 --> 00:17:29.359 are burning, and then something like a huge mountain falls 350 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:32.200 into the ocean, destroys a third of the ocean water. 351 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:37.400 There's a star falls from heaven, right, destroys a third 352 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:38.559 of all the fresh water. 353 00:17:38.400 --> 00:17:38.960 On the planet. 354 00:17:39.400 --> 00:17:45.640 The sun is struck in some way. I don't understand 355 00:17:45.680 --> 00:17:47.240 what this is, struck in some way. And then we 356 00:17:47.720 --> 00:17:50.640 lose a third of the light from the moon and 357 00:17:50.680 --> 00:17:54.400 a third of all the stars. And then these demonic 358 00:17:54.440 --> 00:17:56.519 locusts are released from the pit. 359 00:17:56.680 --> 00:17:57.599 Yeah, that's my favorite. 360 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:02.240 And they can't kill people, just torment people for five months, 361 00:18:02.279 --> 00:18:06.279 it says. And the torture is so bad on the 362 00:18:06.319 --> 00:18:10.079 planet people wish they could die and can't from it. 363 00:18:10.079 --> 00:18:10.720 It's it's horrible. 364 00:18:10.759 --> 00:18:14.119 And these these these sounds great. These demonic locusts are 365 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:16.880 are pretty scary. They got they got teeth like lions 366 00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:19.759 and bodies like horses, and they're wearing crowns. They got 367 00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:22.599 face kind of like a man. It's crazy, crazy stuff. 368 00:18:22.880 --> 00:18:26.839 And then these four angels are released from the from 369 00:18:26.880 --> 00:18:29.839 the Euphrates river, and uh, then they go. 370 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:31.920 And and and. 371 00:18:31.319 --> 00:18:34.799 And execute plagues on people. And I'm telling you that, 372 00:18:34.960 --> 00:18:37.039 and then the Seven bowls begin, and we just go 373 00:18:37.119 --> 00:18:41.160 on and on and on. It's really shocking that the 374 00:18:41.240 --> 00:18:44.000 devastation that's happening on the planet and yet some people 375 00:18:44.039 --> 00:18:49.480 turn to God, the huge majority double down and dig 376 00:18:49.519 --> 00:18:51.319 their feet in and fight against him instead. 377 00:18:51.519 --> 00:18:51.720 Yeah. 378 00:18:51.880 --> 00:18:57.400 Yeah, So you know, those things happen, and people repent, 379 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:02.440 people are martyrs, and the world definitely goes through a struggle. 380 00:19:02.920 --> 00:19:06.440 But then we get to when that comes to an end, 381 00:19:06.880 --> 00:19:11.279 Jesus returns, That's right, and so the visible return of Christ, 382 00:19:11.839 --> 00:19:15.480 and when he comes in the clouds, it is going 383 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:19.960 to announce a lot of different things, both you know, 384 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:23.359 in terms of battle and in terms of a wedding 385 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:25.920 and a honeymoon and all sorts of things happen at 386 00:19:25.960 --> 00:19:26.319 that point. 387 00:19:26.559 --> 00:19:29.519 So it's just racing towards the return of Christ. And 388 00:19:29.799 --> 00:19:32.119 if you go back and remember, you know, Matthew twenty four, 389 00:19:32.400 --> 00:19:34.319 Jesus is coming in the clouds the great power and 390 00:19:34.359 --> 00:19:37.880 glory and mighty trumpet blast. First, Thessalonians said Jesus is 391 00:19:37.920 --> 00:19:39.920 going to return. The Lord himself come down from heaven. 392 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:44.480 The commanding shout second Thessalonians, Jesus will kill the beast 393 00:19:44.759 --> 00:19:46.400 with the breath of his mouth and destroy him with 394 00:19:46.400 --> 00:19:47.279 splendor of his coming. 395 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:50.000 The whole picture is victory. It's victory. 396 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:52.039 So let's just read it because this is one of 397 00:19:52.079 --> 00:19:55.319 the coolest descriptions that Jesus. Remember when we read in 398 00:19:55.599 --> 00:19:59.119 Revelation one, this Christ. Okay, now he's up in his game. 399 00:20:00.599 --> 00:20:02.559 Something's read it. We don't have to really comment much 400 00:20:02.559 --> 00:20:06.480 on this, he says in Revelation nineteen. After all of 401 00:20:06.519 --> 00:20:09.359