WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:03.160 So, Jeff, have you ever heard the term new and improved? Yes, 2 00:00:03.439 --> 00:00:05.599 And it's wonderful, isn't it. It is because new and 3 00:00:05.639 --> 00:00:08.039 improved means wow, it's going to be even better than 4 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:11.439 the last one. Yes, well, today we're talking about everything 5 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:13.160 being made new and improved. 6 00:00:13.199 --> 00:00:15.839 That's amazing. So he's Chris and I'm Jeff, and we're 7 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:31.399 the Bible guys. It's so Chris today. It's a segment 8 00:00:33.520 --> 00:00:36.439 I was waiting for. You usually introduce them. So today's 9 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:39.719 the day man, Every Friday, it's gonna be a good one. 10 00:00:39.759 --> 00:00:42.320 It's either what made Chris mad this week, which is 11 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:45.520 a delight, or what made Chris happy this week. And 12 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:48.799 we just love the fact that you're passionate about well everything. 13 00:00:50.119 --> 00:00:54.280 We're passionate about well everything. 14 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:58.600 Everything is. So today is what made Chris happy this week? 15 00:00:58.759 --> 00:01:02.320 Yeah, which I appreciate very much, kind of like Desiree. 16 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:05.959 I think it is. I think it is. Yeah, Yeah, 17 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:06.799 she did, she did. 18 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:07.439 She's the one. 19 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:08.439 By the way. 20 00:01:08.599 --> 00:01:10.879 As soon as I found out what a minute a 21 00:01:10.920 --> 00:01:14.239 minute ago that this was the segment, and I immediately 22 00:01:14.280 --> 00:01:17.159 said I have it because I woke up this morning 23 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:19.599 with a text for my wife. So this story is 24 00:01:19.599 --> 00:01:20.159 about my wife. 25 00:01:20.239 --> 00:01:20.959 I keep it clean. 26 00:01:21.120 --> 00:01:24.599 So it also involves my kids. Oh so we're good. 27 00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:25.000 Okay. 28 00:01:25.480 --> 00:01:29.879 So she had a bad day at work. Uh, it 29 00:01:30.000 --> 00:01:32.040 just it doesn't matter. She just had a bad day. 30 00:01:32.400 --> 00:01:34.280 And so then she comes home and then and then 31 00:01:34.439 --> 00:01:37.760 she she she apparently had to buy this cake and 32 00:01:37.799 --> 00:01:41.079 she was draft traveling all around. I think they must 33 00:01:41.079 --> 00:01:43.079 have went to I'm not even kidding it has It 34 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:46.599 was a specific like yellow cake, white frosting, whatever it was. 35 00:01:46.719 --> 00:01:48.319 And I think she went to seven. 36 00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:48.920 Or eight places. 37 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:52.359 And so she was very, very frustrated after a bad 38 00:01:52.439 --> 00:01:55.439 day work. She was still in her scrubs, right, and 39 00:01:55.480 --> 00:01:57.120 then she comes home and she says, I don't want 40 00:01:57.159 --> 00:01:59.920 to talk about it. Don't ask about it. And she said, ann, 41 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:03.680 we now have a membership to Costco And I said 42 00:02:03.680 --> 00:02:05.719 what and so And by the way, it wasn't even 43 00:02:05.760 --> 00:02:06.200 at Costco. 44 00:02:06.560 --> 00:02:06.680 Huh. 45 00:02:06.760 --> 00:02:09.159 So it ended up being somewhere else. So anyway, the 46 00:02:09.159 --> 00:02:12.560 point is is that she's overall just you know, having 47 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:13.719 a stressful time and so. 48 00:02:13.719 --> 00:02:15.800 And this is what made you happy this week. So 49 00:02:15.960 --> 00:02:17.199 I'm leading up to it, Okay. 50 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:19.960 So she goes up and goes to bed earlier than 51 00:02:20.000 --> 00:02:21.439 the rest of us. She's got to get up early, 52 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:25.520 and so we're downstairs and my son, who's usually not 53 00:02:25.919 --> 00:02:31.960 tuned in to what she's going through, says, I think 54 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:36.560 mom can use some cheering up. So Steven is the 55 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:40.240 one that instigated it, and so it ends up within 56 00:02:40.400 --> 00:02:43.319 twenty minutes, all of us are not letting her sleep. 57 00:02:43.400 --> 00:02:45.639 She's in the bed, the lights are out, but we're 58 00:02:45.639 --> 00:02:47.759 all on the bed. And then the cats jump up, 59 00:02:48.319 --> 00:02:50.560 and so it's quite literally all of us are on 60 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:53.800 the bed and we're just teasing her, laughing or tickling her. 61 00:02:54.080 --> 00:02:56.800 And then I ended up rubbing her feet, and then 62 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:59.400 and then she and then and then Stephen said, let's 63 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:01.479 all say something nice about Mom. What do you appreciate it? 64 00:03:01.520 --> 00:03:04.319 Because he's a mom. You had a bad day. So 65 00:03:05.039 --> 00:03:08.719 we go back downstairs and will play Super Mario Brothers 66 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:12.840 and Liz texts us ten thirty five pm and this 67 00:03:12.919 --> 00:03:16.840 is the text. You guys gave me so much joy 68 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:19.759 and happiness, and I'm just full of so much love. 69 00:03:19.800 --> 00:03:23.360 I can hardly go to sleep. Little teary dot dot 70 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:26.159 dom but that's typical. I think I needed all that 71 00:03:26.199 --> 00:03:31.719 you gave me. Thank you three hearts. Wow and so right, wow, 72 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:34.439 So it was just a really great moment. 73 00:03:34.639 --> 00:03:35.800 Oh that's so nice. 74 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:39.000 Yeah, okay, and she's crying listening to this, yes, because. 75 00:03:38.800 --> 00:03:40.919 She well, congratulations, Liz, you deserved it. 76 00:03:41.039 --> 00:03:41.319 Yeah. 77 00:03:41.520 --> 00:03:43.439 She listens to the Bible guys every morning. 78 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:46.560 Yeah, that's fantastic. Isn't that sweet? So we get to 79 00:03:46.560 --> 00:03:48.599 see this saying I think I prefer that what made 80 00:03:48.680 --> 00:03:49.639 Chris mads though. 81 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:51.759 They're more fun. 82 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:55.080 Yeah that was a little too sappy. Yeah, it's more 83 00:03:55.080 --> 00:03:57.439 fun when you're when you're mad about something that's so funny. 84 00:03:57.520 --> 00:04:01.240 Desire a take note, this isn't working for us. 85 00:04:01.680 --> 00:04:07.879 Cut the segment I hate sappy. 86 00:04:05.719 --> 00:04:08.120 Chris happy Chris doesn't work for me. We want to 87 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:14.039 go back to med Chris. Okay, Chris doesn't. 88 00:04:13.759 --> 00:04:15.879 Work for me. That's great. 89 00:04:16.199 --> 00:04:20.199 Okay, So hey, we are going to kind of we're 90 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:23.199 going to deal with what it's all about in the 91 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:27.959 end when Jesus talks about eternity. This is what we're 92 00:04:27.959 --> 00:04:30.399 going to talk about today. So this kind of flips 93 00:04:30.439 --> 00:04:33.879 some of our traditional beliefs about heaven upside down, right, 94 00:04:34.480 --> 00:04:37.000 the naked babies bouncing from cloud to cloud, playing harps 95 00:04:37.079 --> 00:04:40.800 and you know that kind of stuff. It's very, very different. 96 00:04:40.839 --> 00:04:42.800 So let's just talk about it. We're going to read 97 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:45.360 a lot of verses, but it's because the Bible does 98 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:47.959 a better job explaining itself than we do sometimes. So yeah, 99 00:04:48.079 --> 00:04:50.000 all the time, even though we are the Bible guys. 100 00:04:50.399 --> 00:04:53.560 So here you go. In Revelation chapter twenty one, we're 101 00:04:53.560 --> 00:04:56.680 going to read all of twenty one and then into 102 00:04:56.759 --> 00:04:59.720 twenty two because it's all the same thing. I don't 103 00:04:59.839 --> 00:05:01.959 know they put the chapter break there. Here you go. 104 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:03.839 It says, then I saw a new heaven and a 105 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:06.480 new earth for the old heaven, and the old Earth 106 00:05:06.519 --> 00:05:09.319 had disappeared, and the sea was also gone. And I 107 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:11.759 saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, coming down from 108 00:05:11.800 --> 00:05:15.040 God out of heaven like a bride beautifully distressed, addressed 109 00:05:15.439 --> 00:05:19.519 for her husband. I heard a loud shout from the throne, saying, look, 110 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:22.439 God's home is now among his people. He will live 111 00:05:22.480 --> 00:05:25.360 with them, and they will be his people. God himself 112 00:05:25.360 --> 00:05:27.560 will be with them, and he will wipe every tear 113 00:05:27.600 --> 00:05:29.839 from their eyes, and there will be no more death 114 00:05:30.040 --> 00:05:33.480 or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are 115 00:05:33.519 --> 00:05:36.839 gone forever. And the one sitting on the throne said, look, 116 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:39.639 I'm making everything new. And then he said to me, 117 00:05:39.680 --> 00:05:42.160 write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy 118 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:44.800 and true. And he also said it is finished. I 119 00:05:44.879 --> 00:05:47.560 am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning in the end, 120 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:50.600 to all who are thirsty, I will give freely from 121 00:05:50.639 --> 00:05:52.959 the springs of the water of life. All who are 122 00:05:53.000 --> 00:05:55.879 victorious will inherit all these blessings, and I will be 123 00:05:55.959 --> 00:05:59.839 their God, and they will be my children. But coward's unbelievers, 124 00:05:59.839 --> 00:06:04.360 the corrupt, murderers, the immoral, those who practiced witchcraft, idle worshippers, 125 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:06.720 and all liars. Their fate is in the fiery lake 126 00:06:06.759 --> 00:06:09.639 of burning sulfur. This is the second death. Then one 127 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:11.839 of the seven angels who held the seven bowls containing 128 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:14.079 the seven last legs, came and said to me, come 129 00:06:14.079 --> 00:06:16.040 with me. I'll show you the bride, the wife of 130 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:18.000 the Lamb. So he took me in the spirit to 131 00:06:18.040 --> 00:06:19.879 a great high mountain, and he showed me the Holy 132 00:06:19.959 --> 00:06:24.319 City Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God. It shone 133 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:26.959 with the glory of God and sparkled like a precious stone, 134 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:30.279 like jasper, as clear as crystal. The city wall was 135 00:06:30.360 --> 00:06:34.160 broad and high, with twelve gates guarded by twelve angels, 136 00:06:34.399 --> 00:06:36.279 and the names of the twelve tribes of Israel were 137 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:40.120 written on the gates. There were three gates on each side, east, north, south, 138 00:06:40.160 --> 00:06:43.199 and west. The wall of the city had twelve foundation stones, 139 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:45.240 and on them were written the names of the twelve 140 00:06:45.279 --> 00:06:48.480 apostles of the Lamb. The angel who talked to me 141 00:06:48.639 --> 00:06:51.439 held in his hand a gold measuring stick to measure 142 00:06:51.480 --> 00:06:54.240 the city, its gates, and its wall. When he measured it, 143 00:06:54.319 --> 00:06:56.360 he found it was a square as wide as it 144 00:06:56.439 --> 00:06:58.720 was long. In fact, its length and width and height 145 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:02.879 were each fourteen hundred miles. Then he measured the walls 146 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:04.879 and found them to be two hundred and sixteen feet thick, 147 00:07:04.920 --> 00:07:07.519 according to the human standard used by the angel. The 148 00:07:07.600 --> 00:07:10.480 wall was made of jasper, and the city was pure gold, 149 00:07:10.720 --> 00:07:13.000 as clear as glass. The wall of the city was 150 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:16.360 built on foundation stones inlaid with twelve precious stones. The 151 00:07:16.399 --> 00:07:19.879 first was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the 152 00:07:19.920 --> 00:07:24.160 fourth emerald, the fifth onyx, the sixth Carnelian, the seventh chrysolite, 153 00:07:24.199 --> 00:07:27.720 the eighth burl, the ninth topaz, the tenth crystal praise, 154 00:07:28.120 --> 00:07:31.879 the eleventh jacinth, and the twelve amethysts. The twelve gates 155 00:07:31.920 --> 00:07:34.199 were made of pearls, each gate from a single pearl, 156 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:37.279 and the main street was pure gold, as clear as glass. 157 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:39.639 I saw no temple in the city, for the Lord, 158 00:07:39.680 --> 00:07:42.240 God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. And the 159 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:45.040 city has no need of sun or moon, for the 160 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:47.680 glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is 161 00:07:47.720 --> 00:07:50.519 its light. The nations will walk in its light, and 162 00:07:50.519 --> 00:07:52.600 the kings of the world will enter the city and 163 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:55.319 all their glory. Its gates will never be closed at 164 00:07:55.319 --> 00:07:57.199 the end of the day, because there is no night there, 165 00:07:57.439 --> 00:07:59.480 and all the nations will bring their glory and honor 166 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:01.959 to the city. Nothing evil will be allowed to enter, 167 00:08:02.040 --> 00:08:05.600 nor anyone who practices shameful, idolatry and dishonesty, but only 168 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:07.879 those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of life. 169 00:08:08.160 --> 00:08:10.519 Then the Angel showed me a river with the water 170 00:08:10.600 --> 00:08:13.879 of life, crystal, clearest crystal, flowing from the throne of 171 00:08:13.920 --> 00:08:15.959 God and of the Lamb. And it flowed down the 172 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:18.040 center of the main street, and on each side of 173 00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:20.800 the river grew a tree of life, bearing twelve crops 174 00:08:20.839 --> 00:08:23.639 of fruit, with a fresh crop each month. The leaves 175 00:08:23.639 --> 00:08:26.360 were used for medicine to heal the nations no longer 176 00:08:26.720 --> 00:08:29.199 will there be a curse upon anything, for the throne 177 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:30.920 of God and of the Lamb will be there, and 178 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:33.720 his servants will worship him, and they will see his face, 179 00:08:33.919 --> 00:08:35.679 and his name will be written on their foreheads, and 180 00:08:35.679 --> 00:08:38.120 there'll be no night, there no need for lamps or sun, 181 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:40.360 for the Lord God will shine on them, and they 182 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:42.840 will rain forever and ever. And then the Angel said 183 00:08:42.879 --> 00:08:45.960 to me, everything you've heard and seen is trustworthy and true. 184 00:08:46.279 --> 00:08:48.639 The Lord God, who inspires his prophets, has sent his 185 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:51.320 angel to tell his servants what will happen? Happen soon? 186 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:53.759 Dude. 187 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:56.039 So, out of all the things we've read these past 188 00:08:56.039 --> 00:09:00.679 two weeks, either this is the most awesome thing that 189 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:03.879 we could ever read or John was high on something. 190 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:05.440 Yes, the Bostle job. 191 00:09:05.480 --> 00:09:07.159 Yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's just incredible. 192 00:09:07.240 --> 00:09:10.600 Yeah. We because right because this was after he was 193 00:09:11.039 --> 00:09:12.879 bold and old and exiled to the outers. 194 00:09:13.240 --> 00:09:14.919 I'm making a joke, and he was one hundred and something. 195 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:16.879 He was old at this point. 196 00:09:16.559 --> 00:09:21.120 But the things that he saw, we believe are literal. Yeah, 197 00:09:21.279 --> 00:09:23.279 And we believe that this is the description for the 198 00:09:23.279 --> 00:09:26.279 new Jerusalem. We believe it's the new Heaven, which which 199 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:28.879 may be a little different than when people think of Yeah. Right, 200 00:09:29.120 --> 00:09:31.840 So it's a place. It's a place with trees, right, 201 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:35.879 and you know in crops gates, which means people are 202 00:09:35.919 --> 00:09:39.279 collecting crops. They're not just floating around on some ethereal 203 00:09:40.080 --> 00:09:40.919 cloudy place. 204 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:41.240 Right. 205 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:45.440 It'll look very much probably like the earth that we 206 00:09:45.519 --> 00:09:46.159 are in now. 207 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:48.600 Yeah, it's a new heaven and a new Earth. Right, 208 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:51.600 and then so can I'll give you my theory. Let 209 00:09:51.639 --> 00:09:53.320 me give you my theory on this. So the Bible 210 00:09:53.360 --> 00:09:58.360 describes this city as fifteen hundred miles cubed, fourteen hundred 211 00:09:58.399 --> 00:10:02.440 miles cubed wide, fourteen hundred miles long, fourteen hundred miles high. 212 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:06.279 And he says, the Angel says, let me show you 213 00:10:06.320 --> 00:10:09.519 the bride. Who's the bride. The bride is the church. 214 00:10:09.559 --> 00:10:11.039 The bride is all those people who are at the 215 00:10:11.039 --> 00:10:13.519 marriage stop of the lamb. This is like the Limo 216 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:18.799 bringing the whole church. And they they are contained in 217 00:10:18.840 --> 00:10:23.399 this fourteen hundred mile cubed city on a spiritual realm, 218 00:10:24.399 --> 00:10:27.600 and God is bringing them to the new Earth, the 219 00:10:27.600 --> 00:10:31.000 physical realm. And do you remember, at the very beginning 220 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:34.240 in the garden, Adam and Eve walked with God every day, 221 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:36.639 every day, every day in the cool of the evening. 222 00:10:36.679 --> 00:10:41.799 The Bible says, so Adam and Eve, that's right. So 223 00:10:42.039 --> 00:10:47.159 Adam and Eve were able to live in both the 224 00:10:47.159 --> 00:10:51.159 spiritual realm and the physical realm as one realm. And 225 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:54.320 then they died. And when they died, they died spiritually 226 00:10:55.159 --> 00:10:58.000 right when they sinned, and so then they lost the 227 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:01.360 spiritual realm. That didn't destroy the spirit realm. We read 228 00:11:01.360 --> 00:11:03.960 about the dragon fighting against the woman and her child 229 00:11:04.000 --> 00:11:05.919 and all these things, all the spirits. There was war 230 00:11:05.960 --> 00:11:08.840 in heaven. All this stuff happens in the spiritual but 231 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:11.679 as humans, we only live in the physical realm right now. 232 00:11:12.120 --> 00:11:14.000 But what he's doing is he's bringing the Bride, the 233 00:11:14.080 --> 00:11:18.279 Church in the spiritual realm down and blending it into 234 00:11:18.679 --> 00:11:21.519 this new Earth. He's bringing us back to the paradise 235 00:11:21.759 --> 00:11:23.480 that he always planned. But he had to make it 236 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:25.840 new because we broke the old one. Right, he's bringing 237 00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:28.200 it back together. And I think the reason why it's 238 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:32.240 called New Jerusalem is Jerusalem is where Jesus died. Just 239 00:11:32.320 --> 00:11:36.000 outside of Jerusalem is where Abraham was about to sacrifice 240 00:11:36.000 --> 00:11:38.440 the son when God stopped him to depict the fact 241 00:11:38.480 --> 00:11:40.720 that the Father would sacrifice the son, and that God 242 00:11:40.759 --> 00:11:43.919 would provide himself a lamb. I personally believe that probably 243 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:47.440 somewhere around there was where Adam and Eve originally sinned, 244 00:11:47.720 --> 00:11:50.440 and then it all comes back to He fixed it there, 245 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:52.600 and then he's bringing it all back there. He's bringing 246 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:55.559 the church back to that place, and then we have 247 00:11:55.799 --> 00:11:58.000 the new Heaven of the New Earth combined. Because you 248 00:11:58.039 --> 00:12:02.679 can't just smash a fourteen hundred mid cubed city into 249 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:06.559 a planet. It causes problems, I heard, you know, the physics, 250 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:09.120 So that's difficult. So what he's doing is he's blending 251 00:12:09.120 --> 00:12:11.639 the spiritual and the physical, and he brought us back 252 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:13.799 to what he always planned. The garden was what he 253 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:16.440 always planned, and that's what he's bringing us back to. Yeah, 254 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:19.559 well it's pretty cool. Yeah, and that's all my opinion. 255 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:21.000 But that's what I believe is happening. Yeah. 256 00:12:21.000 --> 00:12:23.240 Well, I was just gonna say it fits regardless. That 257 00:12:23.360 --> 00:12:27.120 does fit, regardless of the details of that, right, because 258 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:29.320 I think those details are cool to think about, but 259 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:32.360 they're sort of unimportant because well. 260 00:12:32.159 --> 00:12:33.919 Thank you, sorry to waste your time. 261 00:12:35.240 --> 00:12:39.080 That's nothing. I got something more important. 262 00:12:39.399 --> 00:12:43.240 Waste time with my nothing story. 263 00:12:43.679 --> 00:12:46.039 I know, my opinions don't matter in this class. 264 00:12:46.080 --> 00:12:48.519 Too, is the thinking out that's nothing I had before. 265 00:12:50.159 --> 00:12:53.159 So uh no, no, I just met in the end. 266 00:12:53.960 --> 00:12:57.080 Uh it will not matter for you and for me, is. 267 00:12:57.080 --> 00:12:58.120 What I mean. No, no, Right. 268 00:12:58.200 --> 00:13:00.360 So in other words, the information is not what I'm 269 00:13:00.360 --> 00:13:03.600 saying is unimportant because it's important information. What I'm saying 270 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:07.519 is our experience of being there, regardless of how it 271 00:13:07.559 --> 00:13:10.399 plays out. I mean, how's that going to matter? 272 00:13:10.480 --> 00:13:10.759 Yeah, so. 273 00:13:12.240 --> 00:13:14.799 We're experiencing a new heaven, we're experiencing a new Earth. 274 00:13:14.919 --> 00:13:18.559 However that plays out, it's a good day, right, that's right. 275 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:20.679 But what you have is you have this holy city 276 00:13:20.759 --> 00:13:25.399 coming down from heaven and melding with this earth. And 277 00:13:25.440 --> 00:13:29.600 then what we know is that there's there's commerce, there's kingdoms, 278 00:13:30.200 --> 00:13:34.519 there's people coming and going, there's all of the things 279 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:40.440 of human society are represented or referenced or hinted at 280 00:13:40.559 --> 00:13:43.919 in these things. He's taken what was and he's making 281 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:46.559 them all brand new. It doesn't say that it's different, 282 00:13:47.159 --> 00:13:51.879 it's renewed. Right, And so when we get to heaven, 283 00:13:52.000 --> 00:13:54.679 it's not just going to be a perpetual worship service, 284 00:13:54.799 --> 00:13:56.480 is what I'm trying to say, no, worship is perpetually 285 00:13:56.480 --> 00:13:59.080 going to be going on, but there's all of the 286 00:13:59.159 --> 00:14:03.240 things necessary for human society will apparently be going It's 287 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:09.200 what the nations represent. Nations represent commerce, nations represent, collective work, 288 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:13.799 collective responsibility. God made humans to work all those things. 289 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:17.679 They're coming and going in and out of this capital city, 290 00:14:18.399 --> 00:14:20.639 and so it's not going to be this boring life. 291 00:14:20.679 --> 00:14:23.279 It's going to be the life you are dreaming for. 292 00:14:23.480 --> 00:14:26.600 It's the utopia everybody wishes they could make on this earth. 293 00:14:26.879 --> 00:14:28.960 But this earth is going to be destroyed, and he's 294 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:34.519 bringing us back to the full expression of humanity. With God, 295 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:36.559 I'll be with them and they'll be my people. 296 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:41.559 Well, just the simple fact that it says there's twelve trees, 297 00:14:41.919 --> 00:14:45.039 or there's two trees bearing twelve crops of fruit once 298 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:47.399 each month, and then it says the leaves were used 299 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:50.440 for medicine to heal the nations. Yeah, right, Then he says, 300 00:14:50.440 --> 00:14:52.559 of course, there's no longer be a crist upon anything. 301 00:14:52.759 --> 00:14:55.279 But the fact that there's leaves being used for something 302 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:58.039 indicates that there has to be a harvest, there has 303 00:14:58.120 --> 00:14:59.879 to be a gathering, then there has to be that 304 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:02.559 application for apparently something. 305 00:15:02.679 --> 00:15:05.000 Yeah right, So so. 306 00:15:05.240 --> 00:15:07.600 Horses there, Jesus comes back on it, which means somebody's 307 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:09.200 got to clean up after the horses. 308 00:15:09.120 --> 00:15:12.559 Right right, or or hopefully that will all be eliminated. 309 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:14.320 Yeah right, No more. 310 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:19.080 Well there's leaves, so that's sure. There's eating yeah, yeah, yeah. 311 00:15:19.200 --> 00:15:22.799 I think that it's I genuinely believe it's not that 312 00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:25.840 it's a different Uh, it's not going to be a 313 00:15:25.840 --> 00:15:28.320 different experience. It's going to be a seamless experience. I 314 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:32.039 think it's going to be life. Right. It's not that 315 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:33.759 God went, oh, you know what, I screwed up making 316 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:36.600 humanity and the society that they were supposed to build. 317 00:15:37.600 --> 00:15:41.440 Let me invent something else. He's not inventing something else. 318 00:15:41.639 --> 00:15:45.720 He's making it new, he's renewing it. And I think 319 00:15:45.799 --> 00:15:48.480 that he's bringing us back to this so all the 320 00:15:48.519 --> 00:15:51.080 things that are necessary for human society. And so what 321 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:52.679 I'm trying to say is Heaven's not gonna be boring. 322 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:55.080 It's not going to be just a big long church service. 323 00:15:55.320 --> 00:16:00.360 It's gonna you will fulfill your eternal purpose doing and 324 00:16:00.399 --> 00:16:03.519 being who you were always supposed to be and do. Right, 325 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:06.080 That's great, Yeah, I love it. And then the description 326 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:10.000 is phenomenal. Yeah so then and walking on gold. 327 00:16:09.799 --> 00:16:12.759 Right, as clear as glass, which is scared pure gold. 328 00:16:12.919 --> 00:16:16.960 Yeah, what's underneath? Yeah sou so. 329 00:16:17.039 --> 00:16:20.120 Then Revelation twenty two seven through twenty one. I want 330 00:16:20.120 --> 00:16:22.679 to read this. These are sort of the final words, 331 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:26.039 and it reminds us that Jesus is coming soon. Yeah, right, 332 00:16:26.320 --> 00:16:29.759 So this is of course John's still writing, and he's 333 00:16:29.759 --> 00:16:30.120 not high. 334 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:31.200 By the way, we. 335 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:33.639 Believe that he's John the Revelator. That's right, right, He's 336 00:16:33.639 --> 00:16:36.559 getting revelations, that's what that's right. 337 00:16:36.759 --> 00:16:37.159 That's why. 338 00:16:37.360 --> 00:16:39.720 That's why it's called revelation, by the way, because there's 339 00:16:39.759 --> 00:16:44.039 revealing information, right, and so it's a revelation. So here's 340 00:16:44.039 --> 00:16:46.360 how it reads. It says, look, I am coming soon. 341 00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:49.360 Blessed are those who obey the words of the prophecy 342 00:16:49.399 --> 00:16:51.879 written in this book. I John am the one who 343 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:54.600 heard and saw all these things. And when I heard 344 00:16:54.639 --> 00:16:57.080 and saw them, I fell down to worship at the 345 00:16:57.080 --> 00:16:59.480 feet of the Angel who showed them to me. But 346 00:16:59.559 --> 00:17:02.080 he said, no, don't worship me. I am a servant 347 00:17:02.080 --> 00:17:05.319 of God, just like you and your brothers and the prophets, 348 00:17:05.559 --> 00:17:07.799 as well as all of them who obey. What is 349 00:17:07.839 --> 00:17:10.720 written in the book Worship only God. Then he instructed me, 350 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:13.160 do not seal up the prophetic words in this book, 351 00:17:13.359 --> 00:17:15.799 for the time is near. Let the one who is 352 00:17:15.880 --> 00:17:18.200 doing harm continue to do harm. And let the one 353 00:17:18.319 --> 00:17:20.400 who is viole continue to be vile. And let the 354 00:17:20.440 --> 00:17:23.039 one who is righteous continue to live righteously. And let 355 00:17:23.079 --> 00:17:24.759 the one who is holy continue to live holy. 356 00:17:24.839 --> 00:17:25.119 Look. 357 00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:28.920 I'm coming soon, bringing my reward with me to repay 358 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:31.240 all the people according to their deeds. I am the 359 00:17:31.279 --> 00:17:34.599 Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the 360 00:17:34.680 --> 00:17:37.960 beginning and the end. Blessed are those who wash their robes. 361 00:17:38.160 --> 00:17:40.119 They'll be permitted to enter through the gates of the 362 00:17:40.160 --> 00:17:42.759 city and eat from the fruit of the tree of life. 363 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:48.039 Outside the city are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, 364 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:52.200 the murderers, the idle worshipers, to all who live a 365 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:55.799 life of a lie. I Jesus have sent my angel 366 00:17:55.839 --> 00:17:59.279 to give you this message for the churches. I am 367 00:17:59.519 --> 00:18:02.359 both the source of David and the heir to his throne. 368 00:18:02.359 --> 00:18:06.359 I am the bright morning Star, the Spirit and the Bride. 369 00:18:06.359 --> 00:18:09.960 Say come. Let anyone who hears this, say come, Let 370 00:18:10.039 --> 00:18:13.480 anyone who is thirsty come. Let anyone who drinks freely 371 00:18:13.960 --> 00:18:16.359 from the water of life. And I solemnly declare to 372 00:18:16.440 --> 00:18:20.119 everyone who hears the words of prophecy written in this book, 373 00:18:20.279 --> 00:18:23.519 if anyone adds anything to what is written here, God 374 00:18:23.559 --> 00:18:26.680 will add that person the plagues described. 375 00:18:26.240 --> 00:18:26.799 In this book. 376 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:29.079 And if anyone removes the words from this book of 377 00:18:29.079 --> 00:18:31.599 the Prophecy, God will remove that person's share in the 378 00:18:31.599 --> 00:18:33.720 Tree of life and in the holy city that has 379 00:18:33.759 --> 00:18:38.440 described in this book. He was faithful witnesses to all 380 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:42.839 these things. Yes, I am coming soon. Amen, Come, Lord Jesus. 381 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:45.680 May the grace of the Lord Jesus be with God's 382 00:18:45.960 --> 00:18:46.599 holy people. 383 00:18:46.960 --> 00:18:49.799 Yeah, you know the King James end that says, even 384 00:18:49.839 --> 00:18:51.279 so come quickly, Lord Jesus. 385 00:18:51.880 --> 00:18:55.039 Right, what a great it's a it's a great ending, 386 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:57.960 and it's a reminder to us, you know, And I 387 00:18:58.000 --> 00:19:01.759 think that it's just an exclamation point be reminded. Revelation 388 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:04.480 there's a lot of details, there's a lot of discussion. 389 00:19:04.839 --> 00:19:10.279 There's a lot of things that are you know, physical, literal, metaphorical. Right, 390 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:12.400 there's all these different things that are mixed in with 391 00:19:12.440 --> 00:19:14.960 the Book of Revelation, and it never gives any indication 392 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:18.839 when it's talking about you know, literal or metaphorical or symbolic. 393 00:19:19.160 --> 00:19:20.279 It doesn't give any indication. 394 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:22.720 So we're left to discuss all these things that are 395 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:23.400 all important. 396 00:19:23.799 --> 00:19:24.359 But keep in. 397 00:19:24.319 --> 00:19:27.880 Mind that it really comes down to just a few things, right, 398 00:19:27.960 --> 00:19:31.759 It points to a few things. Number one, Jesus is 399 00:19:31.799 --> 00:19:35.640 in charge of history. God's God's in control. Right, It's 400 00:19:35.680 --> 00:19:39.599 who God is. It's who God is. He's in control 401 00:19:39.680 --> 00:19:43.119