Dear Lord and Heavenly Father, we thank You for Your Word, we thank You for the truth, we thank You Lord that we can understand Your truth. The Bible is the truth, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. That's the foundation, the backbone of the Bible, the backbone of every belief should be, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved, plus nothing. And we just thank You for that. Teach us Your Word. Give us wisdom in Your Word and help us contend for the faith, as Jude said in Christ's name we pray. Amen. First thing we'll look at is I'm just going to be brief because I'm not going to do an in-depth study at the Book of Revelation. I just want you to be able to understand it, read it, and get a pretty good grip on your own. And I think most of you do. In verse 13 of chapter 1, I gave you notes on the other stuff there, most of the other stuff that's important. But in verse 13, in the midst of the seven candlesticks or lampstands, one light the sun of man clothed with a garment down to the foot and girded about the patch or breast with a golden girdle. That may not sound important, but it is. Now I touched this before, as anybody remember what we talked about when we talked about this verse before. anybody remember? Why is it important to know what that means? Well, turn your models to Daniel Chapter 7, verse 9, and Daniel Chapter 10 after that. We'll go to Daniel Chapter 7 first. Yeah, but that was a different type of a, that was a different type of a thing. That was, yes it was, but it was a different type of a thing. Chapter 7 verse 9. Didn't they put that in the heart too? No, they didn't put a girdle in the heart. The girdle was instituted by Moses. He was given directions for it from God and it was a girdle that they put about, about that the high priest put over his shoulders around his past the high priest was the only one who was allowed to wear it and he did that when he went into the holy of Holies so so anyhow we're going to show you the importance of why Christ was a girded about the breast with a golden girdle and it's very important really but like I said it and I gave you notes on this and the notes I just gave you but Daniel chapter seven verse nine will read that first in I beheld total thrones were a set or placed or a cast down and the ancient of days did sit Christ whose garment was quite a snow and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was like fiery fire and was wheels as burning fire. Wheel means the wheels are significant if you go to Ezekiel, the first couple of chapters, but the wheels means very simply that read the next verse, and I'll explain it as a very subtle. Okay? The wheels as burning fire, verse 10. A fire-issuing machine came forth from beforehand, a thousand, thousands, ministers unto them, and 10,000 times, 10,000 stood before him. The judgment was set, and the books were open. The wheels represent judgment. And because they're called wheels, they represent eternal judgment. And if you go to a Zekio, well, with the laws around the subject, we might go to a Zekio chapter 1, if you will. And if you go through a Zekio and also you might want to write down Proverbs chapter 20, verse 26. But in a Zekio chapter 1, go on down if you will, to verse 13, along with your brought to the subject that we'll take a minute to cover. As for the The likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps. It went up and down among the living creatures, and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning. And the living creatures ran and returned, like the appearance of a flash of lightning. As they beheld, the living creatures behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures with its four faces. The appearance of the wheels and their work was like the color of burrow, and they had one like this and their appearance and their work was as if it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. Now my interpretation of that is a wheel in the middle of a wheel and you're going to see that the wheel represents judgment because it's always associated with fire. Fire and judgment are fire is part of God's judgment. He judges by fire. Okay. And anyway, you notice that it says a wheel within a wheel, as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel. Well, my opinion is that represents the Trinity, God's Father, God's Son, yeah. Okay, all right, that's all right, when they went, they went up on the four sides and they turned not when they went. God's judgment doesn't deter. It goes where it goes. And as for their rims, they were so high that they were dreadful and their rims, of course your Bible might not say that, the school field, but rims were full of eyes around about them for, in other words, God sees everything, He judges everything, judgment doesn't escape God. The eyes were around about them and when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up And so forth and on down in verse 20, down in the last part of the whole verse. Wherever, wherever, whenever, whether the spirit must have gone, they went. And the spirits go, the wheels were lifted up beside them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheel. And so forth. Now if you go to on down the check, let's go over here to chapter 3. Let's see here. See if we can pick it up one more place here. Chapter 3, look in verse 1 if you will. Now we're on the subject of the wheel. Moreover, verse 1, he said to me, Son of Man, eat what thou findest, eat this book, scroll, and go speak into the house of Israel. So I opened my mouth and he called me to eat the scroll or the book. And he said unto me, son of man, son of man, calls thy belly to eat. and filled by a stomach with this book, no I'm translating the way schoolfield does, that I give thee, then did I eat it and it was in my mouth like honey for sweetness. Now if you go to Revelation chapter 10 verse 9 and you'll see that and also in another place their John was told to eat the word of God, right? So when he did, it was bittersweet. Why? Because the group of Lord of God is sweet, but after you eat it, you digest it's better because it's the truth, right? It judges us, the word of God. So he's talking about his word, the God, the word of God. And then on down, let's go skip a few. Now he's talking about judgment upon Israel, according to his word. In verse 10, moreover, he said to me, son of man, all my words that I shall speak unto thee, receive in thy heart and hear what thine ears. So number one is, speak the word And number two, receive the word. The problem is it becomes bitter when we have to give it out, doesn't it? Oftentimes the word becomes bitter after we receive it and it gets in down inside of us. So we're talking about so far, we have understood a few things we're talking about. Judgment according to his word, it's sweet, it's bitter, and it's bitterness. And it's a bitter sweet word of God because it judges. Now, let's go on down if you will. And I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that touched one another and the noise of the wheels beside them and the noise of a great rushing. So the spirit lifted me up and took me away and I went in bitterness in the heat of my spirit but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me. What was the bitterness? He was judging his real accordion to the Word of God. He hated to do it. Jeremiah had the same problem. So he wanted to hear what the judge is real no so the wheel represents God's eternal judgment It's a wheel of circle. It's eternal the wheel represents God's eternal judgment Because when you read about the wheels you also read about the fire the fire That's just not going back to Daniel chapter seven again, and take another look at it And then we could go through the Zechule and touch some other verses and Zechule that represents the same thing but in verse 9, back to verse 9 again in Daniel. I'd be held till the thrones were set, or the thrones were cast down, actually set in place. And the ancient of days did sit whose garment was white as snow and the hair of his head like pure wool. His throne was like the fiery flame and his wheels and his lightning, what's he talking about? A glorified Christ, but there's one thing missing. There's one thing missing. I saw about a glorified Christ, but there's one thing missing. But notice if you will, the answer to Danny's question. And his home was like the fiery flame and his wheels as burning fire. Who's he talking about? Glorified Christ, right? Okay. And you've got the wheels in Ezekiel, right? You've got the fire in Ezekiel, the eternal judgment. And you have the eyes. God sees nothing goes unjudged. The man before you're saved, after you're saved, whatever you do, and just like nothing goes unjudged. And so that's all he's trying to say. He said, well, how have we proved that? Very next verse. We already did. Okay. A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him. A thousand, thousands, a minister done to him. Ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. The judgment was set and the books were open. Notice the same thing. The judgment, the wheels, the glorified Christ and how does he judge according to his word. That's how he judges. There isn't a thing that man does, that is not judged according to the Word of God. Everything's in here. There isn't one sin, there isn't one lie, there isn't one thing, there isn't one false doctrine. And that's why I like to condemn it, that will not be judged by the Lord Jesus Christ according to His Word when He sits on His throne. And it'll begin, well it begins at death. But the real judgment begins at the judgment seat when every Christian is judged and then at the white throne when everyone who is lost is judged, the final judgment. Okay, did that answer your question? The wheels represent the eternal God and His eternal judgment. And that's my interpretation. You may go to a commentary by someone and get another one. I suggest that you do your own study and find the interpretation of the best suit you, but that's mine. Okay. Now then go to chapter 10 if you will, verses 4 and 5, and verses 4 and 5, once again Daniel saw Jesus Christ and in the 4 and 20th day of the first month, as I was by the side of the Great River which is Kiddick Hill or Hyde Hill, I don't know how you pronounce it. Okay, then I lift it up my eyes and look and behold a certain man clothed in women whose loins were golden girded with fine gold of youth as his body was like barrel. Notice the burl that we just read in chapter 7 verse 9 and so forth. His body was like the burl, his face like the appearance of lightning, his eyes like lamps, his fire and arms and feet in color like polished brass and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude. So once again we see the glorified Christ, but there's still something missing, isn't there? Notice if you will in this verse, he's girded about the loins with a golden girdle. Okay, do you notice all that now? Turn them over back to Revelation, if you will. Chapter 1, verse 13, Revelation chapter 1, verse 13, and note something, if you will. In the midst of the seven candlesticks, one like the Son of Man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girded and girded about the breast with a golden girdle. Notice the difference. He's girded about the breast when John saw him. When Daniel saw him, he was girded about the loins. Why? Before the cross. Yeah, it's that simple, isn't it? He was glorified but he hadn't went to the cross and shed his blood yet. He hadn't anointed the mercy seat in heaven yet. There's a mercy seat in heaven the Christ went on with his blood, and he brewed, fell sick. And after he went to the cross, shed his blood, he was our priest before him, and now he's our high priest who anointed the mercy seat. And the Old Testament priesthood were merely types of becoming Christ, pointed to Christ and the cross. But John saw another glorified Christ after the cross. Now, according to the Old Testament priesthood, if you go back and read that, read the references that I gave you, and you'll see that the Old Testament priest went in to the Holy of Holies, and he was girded about the breasts with this golden girdle. Just like Christ is today, they were types of Christ who went in to the Holy of Holies for you and I with his blood at the cross, you see. So that's what's significant about that first, okay? You get all that? Okay. Now we're going over to, we want to point out one more thing here. In Revelation chapter 5, verse 5, verse 4 and 5, another thing concerning the glorified Christ. And I gave you notes on this also, and I'm pretty sure that I put in your notes in your notes. Let's go to verse 1. Now I saw on the right hand of him to sit on the throne a book written with an on the backside sealed with seven seals and I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice who was worthy to open the seal or the book and loose and to loose its seals and no man in heaven nor in her neither under the earth was able to open the book neither to look up. No man I give you some notes in Isaiah chapter 59 verse 16 and 63-5. God said he looked and there was no man. In other words, a Catholic priest can't forgive your sin. Nobody can. The Virgin Mary can't do a darn thing. You know, there was no man worthy. Well, yeah, he can. He's different after all. Verse 4. And I went much because no man was found worthy to open and to read scroll near the book on it. Well, why would he leave? Because if there was no man able to open the book, guess what? The earth cannot be redeemed. And I'll show you why. John knew that. He knew that the earth could not be redeemed. And one of the others said unto me, we cannot behold the line of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, that prevailed to open the book and to lose its seven seals to scroll. And I beheld and low in the midst of the throne, and of the four beasts, creatures living creatures, in the midst of the elders through the land, as though it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth. Notice the seven eyes. God doesn't miss the thing, doesn't it? And he came and took the book of the right hand of him to sat upon the throne. And then we see that he began to open the seals. Now, what is it that gave Christ the ability or the power or the one who could open the book? Well, for one thing, he was God. For one thing, he shed his blood on the cross. For another thing, he rose from the dead. It didn't hold him. He prevailed over it. And he became the lion. When he came to earth the first time he came as a lamb to be slaughtered, then it is indeed you remember that I figured you would. Now let's go back to the Old Testament and we'll show you the Old Testament type of the title deed and what it all meant. He did absolutely very good. He paid the price for the curse. Remember the curse in Genesis. The curse that he put upon the earth, Jesus Christ paid for the price for the curse, some day there would be no more curse, but without Christ and His death on the cross, the shed blood that He shed, the book or the seal would never be opened. So very good. Go to Jeremiah chapter 32 and you'll see the Christ had the three qualities that it took to remain the earth in Jeremiah chapter 32. begin here, if you will, in verse six. You notice very, very, very, very important here. And Jeremiah said, the word of the Lord came unto me saying, it wasn't his relative who came to him. It was the word of the Lord. That's the important thing. Behold, the Son of Shalom, Dynapple, shall come unto thee, saying, buy my field that is in a suit, for the right of redemption is one thing Christ had was the right of redemption. This is a type of Jesus Christ and the Saviour's book, The Saviour's scroll, that only He could open because He is the lion and the lion, only He could do it, no man! So now my local son came to me in the court of the prison. According to the word of the Lord, and I remember it's the word of the Lord, but this didn't happen, because one of his relatives was born to buy the field. Right? And I said, I'm glad my field I pray to you is then taught which is in the country of Benjamin for the right of inheritance is done and the redemption is done by it for myself. Then I knew that this was of was the word of the Lord. Isn't that amazing? It was the Lord behind it. Why? Because he wanted to give us a type of the Lord Jesus Christ and the right of redemption. That's one down if you will. He had three things that Christ first of all he was a kinsman second of all he was willing and third of all he was able Christ had all three of those things and I give it to you though I'll give you those in your notes by the way so he said well then I knew this was of the Lord and I bought the field of Hannah Mel my Uncle son that was in an And I signed the deed and sealed it and took witnesses and weighed in the money and about. And I took the evidence of the purchase, both that was sealed according to law and custom and that which was open. And I gave the evidence, the deed of the purchase and the group, the senate. And I signed the deed and sealed it and took witnesses and weighed in the money and about. which was open. And I gave the evidence, the deed of the purchase under group, the Senate, the United and so forth and so on, my and all of a sudden, in the presence of the witnesses that signed the, that, uh, subscribe the book or signed the deed of the purchase before all the Jews are sat in the court of the prison. And, uh, I charge the group before them saying, that's the Lord of hosts who got a visual. Take these evidences, this evidence or deed of a purchase which is sealed and this deed which is open and put them in a certain motor vessel, that they may continue many days. No longer do that. Because it's a type of the title deed that the Lord Jesus Christ was holding that no man could open. And personally, between you and I, I think it's exactly the same one. That's my opinion, but I can't prove that liberally. That they may continue many days, for thus saith the Lord of hosts who got a visual, houses and fields and vineyards shall be possessed again in this land. Did you get that? That's the key verse. For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, houses and fields and and Vineyard shall be possessed again in this land. The Lord Jesus Christ is gonna resume the title deed. He's gonna open the seals after the judgment, by the way, of the seven-year judgment, and now go on back to Revelation, if you will. We'll go ahead and say it. How did the title go? No, I don't think so. I don't think anything like that happened. How did it change and he made it so it is in the first place right who got yeah, it was his well very simple Adam Just obey God. Yes, it disobeyed hands When Adam was created in the garden Adam and Eve that might have not missed a garden But they were put in a garden specifically, but the whole earth was absolutely perfect Absolutely perfect God created it that way then When Satan fell into chaos, then God re-created it absolutely perfect the same way that the first time, only when he was created, the second time he created heavens and earth as we know it. And then he told Adam not to fail, Adam failed, so God put a curse on the earth. Well, I don't think there was really a deed at that point. But I think in this case here, since God pronounced a curse on it, the title deed is just symbolic that we read about. although I think it was literal. There was a literal deed that they signed, a literal scroll, and then they sealed it. And it had seven seals on it. Even though it was literal, it was symbolic of Jesus Christ redeeming the earth when He comes back after the seven-year judgment. Most of this is just symbolic. And when he opened, as a matter of fact, if you read here about the seven sealed scroll that no one could open, it's a literal scroll. I don't know where it is, I don't know what it looks like, but it's a literal scroll and written on a scroll or is everything that's going to take place in Revelation. So when he opens the scroll to seven seals, everything that he has written in the scroll, I believe we are to have written in Revelation except the things he doesn't want us to know which whatever, you know. But when he opens, begins to open the seal, which he hasn't done yet, because it doesn't happened until during the rapture of the church, just before the chapter 6 begins. He hasn't opened it yet, but he will. And when he does, and whether, no, Adam doesn't have anything to do with the title deed, neither does Satan. I don't want to thank you for the title, but I don't want to thank you for the fact that he reads, takes over the land, and he says you have to be safe. They do. They do. He has to, the earth has to go through a judgment, and the people that in it have to go through judgment. It goes back to the wheels we were talking about in his ego. But Daniel brought up God's judgment, his eyes are everywhere. The wheel represents his eternal judgment. It's going to happen. It will happen. There's no stopping it and he wrote it down for us to leave it. So this is a perfect type, but you'll notice that in Jeremiah chapter 7, Jeremiah let us know specifically that this so that the lands will be possessed. Otherwise, and he found out basically, specifically, Israel possessing their land. And he asked open the seven seals because this is an Israeli, this is an Israeli commandment. The Jeremiah was Israel and that was there, that was how they bought and possessed land. So Hortoba, the Lord has to go through that in order to do it, as part of his law. he has to do it. But it's symbolic of this event here that happened in Jeremiah. Okay, you understand all that? Now, what the title deed has to do with God replying in the earth as he has to do it. I don't think he has to. It's just one of the things he's going to do to do it. And don't ask me why, I don't know, but I do know that he wrote it down for us to know it. And the other reason he can do that is because he is the glorified Christ that John saw in verse 13. He gave his blood, shed his blood, died on the cross, became the Lamb. Now he's the Lamb, you see. And so that's so anyway, you understand all that? Okay, now I've got something else I want to share with you. We have a few minutes here and I'm going to do what Joel Osteen doesn't. I have an article here and it's called, this is from voice and wilderness, these are devout Calvinists, self-righteous people. Some of them are good people, I guess. I don't have anything against them, but I really don't like their doctrine. But he said God's difficult plan of salvation. Now we tell you the disease you've been saved, don't we? What? Yeah. That's being an article. Now, I'm going to read it to you. I'm going to take a few minutes here. I saved myself by flying this to do this. It goes first Peter 418. And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the center appear? Then he said, we hear much about the simple plan of salvation. But we sometimes wonder if the simple plan we often hear about is truly God's plan. I wonder if it is. It seems though God's great and marvelous plan has been watered down by the devices of men's wisdom and made so simple that Satan must be leaping with glee. Is it simple or not? Is God's plan of salvation simple? It's a pregift, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and not shall be saved, or did He lie? No, did Paul lie when he told the flip in general in 1631, even Lord Jesus Christ now shall be saved? The word believe means faith. I already told you, Pistuel, to commit to trust, to give one credit for. It sounds simple to me, but not of your self-righteous. Okay, certainly, all must agree that the world's situation is a bad way. Satanism and non-Christian cults are flourishing among Orthodox Christianity is very rare that we hear of God's Way of salvation getting through to anyone and sad to say even among many fundamentalists salvation has been reduced to a mirror And I have turned a page here to a mere act of human will and praying a simple little prayer God is not is under no obligation to hear the flippant cry of anyone seeking peace for his conscience while continuing to rebel against God's holy law. Now, this I'm going to stop here. In other words, you cannot be saved and rebel against God's holy law. What law? He said, God is under no obligation to hear the flippant cry of anyone seeking peace for his conscience while continuing to rebel against God's holy law. Well, what do you mean by that? Turner burned pretty much. Now he goes on. Then he quotes Proverbs 28 verse 9. He that turned away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer shall be a vomination. Well, what in the world has the law got to do with putting my faith in Christ? Absolutely nothing. The law tells me that I'm a sinner. Reveals my I said, tells me that I need to be safe. That's what the law does. I mean, this is so ignorant. Yeah, nobody has a right to claim salvation who continues as sin as he did before. Is he right or wrong? Is there any way? You're going to see it anyway. Is there a way where the body is where he continues this? What he's saying is, no. No, he's saying that salvation, we know the salvation is free gift, right? But then if I sin, I don't have it. Then it's not a free gift any longer, is it? No. No, this guy's all wet. Never turtle. He's trying to say that he doesn't say him. You're right. And he's trying to say that he's saying because he doesn't say him. Let me read on. Be not deceived. He quotes Galatians chapter 6, verse 7 and 8. God is not mocked for whatsoever a man saw it. That shall he also reap. That's true, isn't it? That is true. I believe that. For whatsoever man and soul, that's the poor. He that's so to his flesh, shall all the flesh reap corruption. I agree with that. If you're a saved Christian, you reap to the flesh. That's what you're going to sow. That's absolutely true. Then there they do a salvation one way or the other though. But he that's so to the Spirit shall all the Spirit reap life everlasting. Now he's quoting the verse in Revelation chapter 6, verse 7 and 8 that was already written to Christians, people who were already saved, trying to get in the lead of Christian life. There's nothing wrong with that, but don't vote that first to tell someone that they're not saved because they're sinning. Not it's a joke. To come to Christ, to believe on Him in such a way that it becomes, now pay attention this, savingly effective is to turn ones back on the world and reject the esteem of our ungodly and sometimes religious friends by identifying ourselves with the despise and rejected Christ of Calvary. Nothing but a miracle of grace can work that in any of us. Do you understand all that rhetoric? Well, we have one of the great things. Yeah, in other words, he said to come to Christ to believe on him in such a way that it becomes savingly effective. Holy in other words, you can believe in Lord Jesus Christ, but it doesn't save you. It's not really defective unless you turn your back on the world and unless God's miracle saving grace works in you. That's normal Calvinist, Ritheric. You can't get saved unless God calls you. Well, we're going to take a look at that shortly. Yeah, I've got to quote something else from somebody else. We're going to take a look at that, too. Now, let me read on down here. And any quotes, first Corinthians, both any quotes, Ephesians chapter 2 verse 8, or by grace or you say through faith and that and all of yourselves you get to God. Well, you just counted it because that's you done me before you even wrote it. It's not to get to God if it's not going to be savingly effective unless you reject the world. Boy, these people, they really know how to, and the reason I write this is because, you know, when you get into the ministry, I get these things every month and I really enjoy reading it. literature from everybody. Everybody comes in on Sunday morning and gives me something to read. I don't know why, but they do. And that's okay. I enjoy it because I like knowing what's going on. But there's a couple more things I can read here, but I'm going to skip it. There are very few who truly believe what has just been stated down on one of them. But hey, I'll say that so many have been argue into believing that they are saved but have never been pricked in their hearts by by the Holy Spirit. Wait a minute. I don't know if I've been pricked in my heart or not, but I know I'm saved because I put my faith in Christ. I don't know what you're talking about. Saving faith is a work of grace that changes lives. Well, it should, but it doesn't always. It doesn't always. People take sides with Him against sin, how about you? Can you truthfully say you hate your old worldly ways and that God has taken first place among your priorities. Examine your heart. Could it be that your salvation is the easy, simple kind, which is based upon a presumptuous faith that does not work. Based upon a presumptuous faith that does not, you know what he's saying? Simple faith doesn't work. He's saying if you presume you're saved by faith, that doesn't work. Isn't that something? So I enjoy reading this tribe when I did it, but I like to go over and prepare it with the Bible. I just thought I'd share that with you because, well, I don't want to be going to hell or not, but he sure is self-righteous and his doctrines things. And if he really believes that if you're still singing, you're not saved, which is what he believes, I doubt very much if he's saved. I agree with you. I agree with you. If you don't believe that faith alone saves you, I doubt if you're saying Jesus Christ died on the cross shed his blood so that I could have forgiveness all I have to believe in him trust him and nothing else works. That's why the Greek translation of the word means the one to whom credit this do. Jesus Christ gets all the credit. Not me. Here's something I get occasionally Arthur gives me this. I don't I think he gets them in the mail. It's from something called, you ever hear of World Prophetic Ministries, or the King is coming telecast, Dr. Ed Pintson? Okay. He gets around. He's poking Jerry Falwell's college. Now he's writing a book with all of what's his name. Let me see here if I can remember the time to name your Tim LaHae, they're writing a book together. Okay. Now, he quotes, I'm going to give you a couple of things that I got from him. I believe he's probably saved, but some of his doctors, and I don't care for him. Now, he quotes, I want you to read, and he's talking about the end times and what these people do is they try to scare the Christian into basically buying their literature, more than anything. But, he quotes Matthew 21, 28, and he points this towards the Christian. The present day Christian, and if you're studying the Bible and you're looking at world events and you're concerned about prophecy which we are, we study Revelation and so forth with a lot of prophecy that Daniel, the Bible is all prophecy, then he quotes Luke 21, 28, and when these things begin to come to pass, then look up and lift up your heads where your redemption draws nigh. What's wrong with that? Well, no, no, that's not quite true. Some of the things that he's talking about have become the past many, many times over. But he's talking about Matthew chapter 24 and Luke chapter 21, where we read about, you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, right? Yes. Well, you do every day. Yes. Chapter 24, Luke 21, he's talking to Israel, and he's talking specifically about the seven-year tribulation. Okay, in Luke chapter 21, well let's go there, take your Bible, go over to Luke chapter 21. The verse is he quoted. Now we can go to Matthew chapter 24, but he specifically quoted Luke chapter 21 and verse 28. In verse 8, in Luke chapter 21 verse 8, we read the same thing in Matthew 24, as the disciples said, and when shall these things come to pass in verse 7 to Luke 21, you read the same thing in Matthew chapter 24. And he said, be not deceived, verse 8, verse 9, in Luke 21, when you shall hear of wars and commotions, be not terrified, these things must come on the path, but the end is not nigh. Then, sitting under them, nations shall rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom, great earthish, shabby and diverse places, and so forth. Well, this is all the beginning of the seven-year tribulation. There's going to be wars, there's going to be rumors of wars, there's going to be earthquakes, but at the beginning of the seven-year tribulation, it'll be turbulent. Absolutely turbulent. He's talking to the nation of his real. That's who he's talking to. The church won't even be here when that takes place. This is not a warning to the church. This is not a warning to the church. I don't know why people don't get that. They wanted to know when the kingdom's going to be here and said, all these things have come to the place. Are there going to be wars during our time? Yes. Are there going to be a turmoil, yes, earthquake, yes, but during the seven-year tribulation, they're going to be just terrible, terrible, terrible. One constant war, one constant battle. Verse 12, So before all these, they shall lay their heads on you, first you to deliver you up to Senegal's prison, so forth, so forth, and it shall turn to you for a testimony. Now, those are what he says, but before all these, before all these, okay, on down. Verse 15, I'll give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries shall not be able to gain state or truth. What does he mean by that? He's talking to his apostles and disciples, right? What did he talk to the Bible? Okay, that's what he's talking about. Verse 20, let's skip a few verses. And when you shall see Jerusalem, compassion with armies, compass with armies, then know that its desolation is nigh. Let them who are in Judea flee to the mountains and them who are in the midst of its depart. Who do you call about? Jerusalem is real, his nation. And let them who know that its desolation is nigh. Let them who are in Judea flee to the mountains and let them who are in the midst of its depart. Let not them that are in the country's inner end to it. For these are the days of vengeance. He's not talking about the church age. That all things which are written may be fulfilled. Now pay attention to that verse. He's talking about all things written in the Old Testament. Is there anything in the Old Testament concerning the church? No, it was a mystery. Absolutely. It was a mystery. The Old Testament prophecy didn't understand the church age. What makes that all about? I said, I don't understand this, the Lord said, seal it up, Daniel, just forget it. The time is not yet. You don't just go standing in your lot, he goes, Daniel, you're going to die, go standing in your lot, and wait. Okay? He's talking about the days of vengeance which are written in the Old Testament that they might be fulfilled. Then verse 23, Wollen to them there with child, then that nurse, from those days else should be garrickness test in the land and wrath upon this people. what people? Basically Israel, wrath upon this people and they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away back to them into all nations and Jerusalem shall be drawn down by the Gentiles. What until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled? There shall be signs in the sun and moon and stars upon the earth. What is this? Pond on Joel, right? chapter 2 and chapter 3 verses 1 and 2. Now then here's these two verses I think this notice this next verse. And then shall they see the son of man coming in a cloud? Is that the rapture of the church? No. Nobody's going to see the rapture. It takes place in the twinkling of the night. The only people who don't see the rapture are the people that are saved. The church. Nobody else will see it. They won't even know that happened. They'll know something happened because people are come up missing and then he goes quotes verse 28 now pay attention and when these things began to come to pass then look up and lift up your heads for your redemption draw nine whose redemption is real absolutely we can't use that verse to scare the Christian and bind your material and he probably believes I don't condemn, listen to him. I really don't. The only thing I say is when you listen to anything on TV, know your Bible well enough to understand whether they're right or know your Bible. They do, but they do. I know they do. Now, one more thing for the close. From the same organization, and this is a question and answer thing. He gets questions from people. In John 644, the question, Jesus said that no one could tempt him unless the Father draw him. Well, he did say that, right? Okay. Does this mean that God draws everyone at some time during his or her life? And how does this correlate with the un-evangelized people in the far reaches of the world? His answer, what Jesus meant in this verse is that mankind is so steeped in sin and wordless, whirliness, that an individual could never by himself come to salvation, or it not for divine health. This divine health comes in the form of the Father, drawing him by the power of the Holy Spirit. Now, he's partly true. Partly true. But not completely. You know, the people who remember the people of this magazine here, Calvinist, they believe You can't be saved unless the father draws you. They call that being chosen or predestined. Well, he's almost falling into their trap. But when you go on above me, we go a few minutes left. This is reflected later in a gospel of John, where Jesus says that when he sends the comfort of the Holy Spirit, he will approve the word of sin and righteousness and judgment. Well, he does. I believe that. I agree with that. Regarding the evangelized heathen, The Book of Romans indicates that God provides a certain amount of light to them. I agree with that. Romans chapter 1, verse 19 and 20, because that which may know of God is manifest in them in so forth, so forth. And the heavens declare the glory of God, Psalm chapter 19, verse 1. But is that how God draws people to the sun, to the Son of God? Is that how we are drawn? Well, let me just point out a couple things if I'm there. Yeah, here's how God draws people to be saved. In John chapter 3, verse 16, For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son. Whosoever, believe it on him, should not perish, but have everlasting life. How does God draw people? Yes, the sign of the cross after chapter 16 That's the only thing he didn't mention the wife he didn't know it John chapter 12 Verse 31 32 and then we'll close with this God gave his son the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross gave him Jesus said The only sign the world needs is a sign of Jonah. I'll be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth, right? Okay, now listen to what Jesus said John chapter 12 verse 31 now is the judgment of this world Now shall the Prince of this world be cast out by the way? That's Satan. Yes. Okay, remember the title being we just read about Okay, that's how oh no Next verse, and I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. How was he lifted up on the cross? Yeah, he was lifted up on the cross. Certainly was. Who lifted him up? God the Father. Yeah, he gave his son, didn't he? And so when he said there are no men, come and then follow us, the father draws him? Well, the father did. The man from his father put by me. Yeah, you know who everyone is going to have to answer? That's right, John 14, 6. No man can come without his father, but by me. Put it all together. How does God draw people by the corpus? The only sign anybody ever needs. Does the Holy Spirit have anything to do with it? Yes, I believe so. Yeah, people will approve the world of sin, the Holy Spirit that doesn't mean everybody listens to the Holy Spirit. the Holy Spirit has told everyone. The Holy Spirit has sought to it that everyone has some sort of a knowledge of Christ and the Cross. Yeah. Okay, that's it. Anyway, I thought I'd point that out. You want this material you can have it. But the idea is that a lot of people say, well, we're not the people that live in these generals, you know, whatever, they've never heard of, like, some way, somehow they've heard it. They have heard it? Yes. They have heard it. Do you know how many missionaries have been filled over them? That's not the same. Yeah. And not only that, if you study religions in the farthest, deepest Africa, Borneo, wherever, somewhere in their religious ceremony is the sign of the cross I've studied it. Somehow, some way there's something in there with reveals and reflects Jesus Christ and the cross somewhere in those ungodly sermons they perform where they don't they don't believe me they don't acknowledge but they don't have a few seats anyway I just thought I'd point to share all that with you because I get a kick out of going through that stuff and seeing the fallacies of self-righteousness, which is, thank God, I don't have any bad, because if I did, I'd be the biggest hypocrite that ever lived, because I know, but I'm not righteous in any way, shape or form. But anyway, it's a word of fair and will close. Dear Lord, we thank you for your word. We're not really condemning these people. Well, what made we are. We don't do it intentionally. All we're doing, Lord, is trying to get to the truth, study your Word, and just take you as your Word. You said, believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. We take you as your Word. Why would we add to it? And we just thank you for the ability to understand your truth in Christ's name. Amen.