Okay, we just continue our study on revelation here and then there's a couple of things that I'm going to point out. I'm not going to do an index study on revelation, but at least you'll have a good grip on the basics, which is probably the important thing. And I've decided to go ahead and have the ordination service. How many of you guys are going to go ahead and go through that, probably Benz and Rahm will probably, I don't know about Danny and Daryl, I don't know if you want to go through that or not. Pretty sure, I am. Okay, good. But anyway, I thought about having it either March or April. So you should be ready by then, I would imagine. Okay. I'm not sure how I'm going to do it yet, but we're going to do it. As a matter of fact, now that I mention it, I think what we'll do is have it during the regular service and you bite family and everybody and just come and get to see your game. So we'll probably have a pretty good crowd, I imagine. Anyway, in Revelation, chapter 1 is just the beginning of Revelation, the foundation that sets the scene, and it's what we call the past, and then chapter 2 and 3 represent the church age, the present. Chapter 4 and 5 is a picture of the church in heaven, the rapture, and then chapter 6, verses 1 through 17 is the picture of the first half of the 7-year tribulation the first three and a half years. And then you'll see something to a few things that we want to point out here. But the first thing we're going to point out is in chapter 7 which is a parenthesis. And then chapter 7 verses 1 through 8 is a parenthesis of 144,000 Jews that are chosen and they have a seal and God said don't hurt them. They're all Jews. Now, what would you place there? Turn it over to chapter four. Are they all mailed? All mailed, yeah. There's another picture of the same group of people in chapter four team. So turn it over there if you will. We'll take a brief look at this. I would someone say, I heard this one guy say people can't be saved after the crisis. Yeah, he's wrong. It's an idiot. And he's got a salvation right in his right hand. Well, he definitely hasn't been taught right, because we can go through the revelation and show you where people are saved out of the regulation. So I'll tell you why he comes up with that doctrine, self-righteousness, he's self-righteous. He believes he's saved, and once a rapture takes place, the people that are in the regulation aren't worthy to be saved because they miss a rapture. He just plain self-righteousness. Well, I think you don't even believe in a rapture anyway. Well, then he's really found out. Yeah, he's so. I'll tell you what I'd like to do. I'd like to go down and see if my son Kevin and Georgia probably, February, maybe sometime around there, Jane, where I don't know. But his pastor told me that when I came down, I was invited to speak in the church. And I found out that he can't explain why the church will not go into the trip to the tribulation. And so I'd like to bring a message on that because he's already asked me if I come, if I would do that, because he doesn't quite understand it. Yeah, so it's pretty nice, anyhow, Revelation chapter 14, we have the same group of people and I looked in Lola Lamb stood on Mount Zion and I'm going to ask you a question about this later, we have time. And with him 140 and 4000 having his father's name written in their foreheads and I heard a voice from heaven like the voice of many waters and like the voice of a great thunder and I heard the voice of Harper's harping with their hearts. And they sang as there were a new song before the throne, before the four beasts creatures and the elders. And no man could learn that song by the way, the elders represents the church. So the church is in heaven. And they sang a new song before the throne, and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand who were redeemed from the earth. These are they who were not defiled with women. So they are virgins. So what I want to point out is that Jehovah's Witnesses claim that they are the 144,000. Well, you've got to be a Jew and you've got to be a virgin. And I think that leaves them out. Well, it does in a way, but even their own Bible condemns them if you read it. So anyway, for they are not defiled with women, for they are virgins, these are they who follow the Lamb wherever he goeth. These were redeemed from among men the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb. And in their mouths was found no guile, for they were without pulp before the throne of God. Where does a guile be? Sin basically means basically a verbal blasphemy and so forth. Do you think these 144,000, they're going to be younger, like maybe from teenagers of like 20 year olds as they're going to be burdened, you know, because it's the hardest thing for guys to do. Well, they probably are, but my question is, we saw a picture of them in chapter 7. My question is, are they in heaven, were they killed during the tribulation, or are they on the earth? my question. I want you to think about that. Let's go back chapter seven. We'll answer that question later. Actually, I'll let you answer it. There are a couple of ways you could look at that. But in chapter seven, I want you to go about if you will, and in verse five, all the tribes of the nation of Israel, of the tribe of Judah, were sealed 12,000, the tribe of Ruben, 12,000. We probably talked about this before. I don't remember this. one tribe that we end. The tribe of Dan is not listed. That's all right. The tribe of Manasseh were sealed 12,000. So Manasseh replaced the tribe of Dan, of the 7, of the 144,000. Where is the land that is more than 12 tribes? No, there are 12 tribes. Manasseh was one of the sons of Joseph. Back in Genesis, remember Joseph? He had two sons and his father, Jacob, blessed Joseph, and he also blessed his sons, but Manasseh was the one that his father, Jacob chose as a ruler. Now, he must have knew something, but a lot of people don't know. Since The tribe of Nan is not listed here, of 144,000. Does that mean that he's lost his rights in the kingdom? Does that mean he's lost his rights? The tribe of Nan, the entire tribe of the 12. There's an answer for that. Well, the Israel has their rights in the kingdom to the land. Remember, the land that God gave him back in the Old Testament? But if the tribe of Dan's not listed, what rights do they have? And what rights do they not have since they're not listed? Since the tribe of Manasseh, which is really of the tribe of Joseph, his offspring, Joseph is actually going in and possessing more than the other 11 since his son is Manasseh. So there's a reason for all this. Then definitely messed up. So let's go back to Genesis chapter 35, if you will. And we'll begin there, and we'll take a look and we're going to answer that, so you will know. There's a reason why, and you need to know why. A few places we're going to go to here, but you'll see why Dan has lost, but not everything. So you'll see you'll get the whole answer. what's that yeah right yeah the chief of police said you're out of here I've been James to chapter 35 here's a couple places here where we have this tennis list of in verse 23 beginning in in verse 22 we have a list of the nation of Israel the 12 prize and verse 22 and it came to pass when Israel dwelt in the land that Ruben went and laid with Billah his father's copy by and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were 12. That's Israel. The sons of Leah, we have Ruben. Then we have Simeon or Simeon, how are you pronouncing? Levi, Judah, Isacar, Zebulon. So we have one, two, three, four, five, six. The sons of Rachel, Joseph and Benjamin, that's eight. And And then the sons of Bill are Rachel's handmade, with Dan and that's Tully, that's Ken. And the sons of Zilphah, Lee's handmade, Dad, and Asher, that's 12. But in Revelation, the one that's missing is Dan, and the one that's not mentioned is Manasa. Okay, good. Well, that did happen, but that's not the reason. But I'll give you the reason here. Turn over to, if you will, to get a lot of places to go. You can run me chapter 29 here, and try to be a good idea to write all these passages down, then you'll have them. Chapter 29, you can run me 29, 16, 17. Well, that's a pretty good guess, but that's really not the reason. And you can run me chapter 29, verse 16. Talking about Israel, for you know how we have dwelt well in the land of Egypt, and how we came through the nations which you pass by. And you have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them. Lest there should be among you, man or woman or family or tribe, whose heart turned at the weight of the day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations, there should be among you a root that beareth gall and word woe. Now we could read on, if you would, but we could read verse 19 and take the best when we hear the words of that purse and so forth. So let's go over if you will to Joshua chapter 19, verse 40, if you will. Now we're getting to all the reasons, we're getting to all the reasons chapter 19. Now there were cast some lots for their land, for their property, in verse 39, chapter 19 of Joshua, this is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Natali according to their families, the cities, and their villages. And the seventh log came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families. And the coast of their inheritance was Zora, S. Paul, and Mesha, and so forth, and so forth, verse 47. And the coast of the children of Dan went out to level for them. Therefore, the children of Dan went up to fight against Lesham and took it and smote it with the edge of the sword and possessed it and called Lesham Dan after the name of Dan their father. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families these cities with their village. First mistake they made is instead of waiting for the Lord to give them their possession, They went after something that didn't belong to them, first mistake. And then they finished with, turned over to Judges chapter 18, and then you see where they really filed up when they went in and took the land that didn't belong to them in chapter 18. And in those days, first one, there was no king in Israel. And in those days, the tribe of the daynights then sought an inheritance to dwell in. And more onto that day, all their inheritance had not fallen onto them among the tribes of Israel. So they were getting a little impatient at UREC that they took some of the land that didn't belong to them. And the children of Dan sent of their family, five men from their coast, mined out from Zora, from Eshtol to spy out the land and to search it. And they said on them, go search the land when they came to Mount Ephraim to the house of Micah lives there. When they were by the house of Micah, they saw or acknowledged, recognized the voice of the young man, the Levi, and they turned in there and said unto him, Who brought the hints and what makes now in this place and what has now here. In other words, what are you doing here? You don't have a right to be here. And the priest said unto them, And he said unto them, thus and thus deal with Micah with me, and had hired me and I am his priest. So they were talking to the priest and the priest said he was the priest of Micah. And they said unto him, ask counsel, we pray the of God, that we may know whether our way which we shall go shall be prosperous. And the priest said unto them, go and peace before the Lord is your way wherein you go. the five men who parted and came to the place and saw the people who were there and how they were well, and after the manner of the servant, quiet and secure so forth. Verse 8, and they came into their brethren to Zora and Nishtal and their brethren said unto them, what say ye? They said arise that we may go up against them. When we have seen the land, it is very good and behold is very good and are you still, but be not slothful to go to enter to possess the land. So they went to possess the land that God really hadn't given to them, but they went up to possess the land anyway. Verse 14, Then answered the five men who went to spy out the country, blaze, and sent them to their brethren. Do you know that there are in these houses an effod, a tariffum, and a graven image, and a molding image? Now, therefore, consider what he had to do. And they turned aside or tithered word, and they turned aside there and came to the house of the young man, the Levite, even without some micens, and salute him, and a 600-minute war, and so forth, so what the bottom line is, they took the land and the idols. So it would read the whole thing. Yeah, they took the idols, go down to verse 20. in verse 20. And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the tariffem, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people. So they turned and he parted and put the little ones in the cattle and the goods, the possessions, whatever before them, and when they were a good way from the house of Micah and so forth. So they took the idols, and they took everything, they took the land, and the idols looked there. Now we just read and do it around me, chapter 29, the God said, that's a no-no didn't it? But the tribe of Dan took them. And the priest, if you'll read the whole thing carefully, was a false priest. He was a false priest. And so in verse 26, we could read on down, but where not going to. But the bottom line is they took the idols, they took the property, they took the land, and they possessed the idols, which they were told not to do. So we see in Revelation that they did not have a name written, but turn over if you will, to Ezekiel chapter 37. We'll go to a couple places here. Being that God is not an unrighteous God, he's an honorable righteous God in chapter 37 of Ezekiel, let's see you here. 15 to 17. Go down here if you will. 15 to 17. I want you to go back if you will, verse 11, read, verse 11, chapter 37, any sin on the meat, son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. The whole they say, our bones are dried, and our hope is lost we are cut off on our part. They are at par. Prophecy and say to them, thus say to the Lord, God, behold my people, I will open your graves because you have come up out of your Well, if he's going to do that, then what about Dan? What about Dan? He's not mentioned in Revelation. Well, that's read on verse 15. And the word of the Lord came in to me saying, more over thou son of man, take thee one stick and write upon it. For Judah and for the children of Israel, his companions, then take another stick and write upon it, for Joseph to stick to be for him. And for all the house of Israel, his companions, and join them one to another into one stick and they shall become one in thy hand, the whole nation of Israel. So if he left out the name of Dan, turn up at Ezekiel, chapter 48, if you will. God is not an unrighteous God. And Ezekiel chapter 48, in the kingdom, in the kingdom, verse 48, verse 1. Now these are the names of the tribes from north end to the coast of the way of Hethlán, one goes to Hammock, or some of these names, the border of Damascus northward to the coast of Hammock, for these are its sides east and west, a portion for Dan. So Dan's going to get his portion, isn't he? He's going to get his portion, God already promised it to him. And by the border of Dan, from the east side to the west side, a portion for and then in verse 3 and that's how they. And then in verse 4, Manasseh and then in verse 5, Ephraim and then Ruben and Judah and on down and we have in verse 22 a possession for the Leviites and Judah and Benjamin and Samayin and Issaqar and Zebulon get verse 27 all the way All the way down, the nation of Israel is going to get their land. They will get their position. But what Daniel has lost in the kingdom is the right to rule. That's the only thing he's lost. That's why his name is not mentioned in Revelation chapter 7. Oh, definitely. I would say, well, I can't answer that deeply. But 144,000 out of a man, or 12,000 out of Manasseh, but Dan is not listed there. So whether or not they were saved, I don't, I can't answer that biblically. Biblically there is no answer for that. They were not sealed. But when it's all said and done, when the God sets up His kingdom, they still have an inheritance. So the tribe of Dan will definitely go into the kingdom according to Zephyl chapter 48. Verse 1. Because you'll see also that the name Manassa is also mentioned there. So Manassa will be in the kingdom? Well certainly part of the tribe of Joseph, naturally. But the tribe of Manassa will rule in the kingdom instead of the tribe of Dan. And that's the answer. Where's Dan the fillies, huh? Yeah. Those Danes are terrible, I think. Yeah, of course, there is another Daniel in the Bible too, but he did all right. I'm not going to answer this question, Revelation chapter 14, let's go back there, if you will. Remember I gave you something to think about here, and Revelation chapter 14, we have another picture of the 144,000, and they were they were males, they were all Jews, but the question I asked and we're not going to answer that this evening, I just want you to think about it for a while for a week. The 144,000, verse 1, and I looked in low eight lambs stood on Mount Zion, and with him 140 and 4,000. So I would ask myself the question, where is Mountain Zion? If I answered this question, where is Mountain Zion? Then I would ask myself another question. There was a lamb who stood on Mountain Zion, that's Christ, and they were with him. They had his father's name written in their forehead. You got to remember they were already sealed in chapter 7, right? Well, they were. And I heard a voice from heaven like the voice of many waters, the verse two, and like the voice of a great thunder, and heard the voice of Harper's harping the harps. And they sang a new song before the throne. Well, where's the throne? Yeah. Well, it kind of, kind of debatable isn't it? But, and before the four beasts and the elders, and no man could learn the song, except 144,000 in verse 3, the end verse, who were redeemed from the earth might ask myself another question. Of course, where's the throne? And they sang a song before the throne. I'd ask myself another question. Could I sing a song before the throne on this earth? Okay, but I'd ask myself that question. And then I'd ask myself another question. They were redeemed from the earth. Can you be redeemed from the earth and still be on the earth? I'd ask myself that question. Are they in heaven or are they still on the earth? So I'd ask myself all these questions if I was going to explain this. Wouldn't you? Because there needs to be an explanation, I think. So I'd ask myself all these questions in verse 4. Once again, we're told who they are. These are they who were not defiled with women for they are virgins. These are they who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These were redeemed from among men the first fruits unto God in the Lamb. Well, wait a minute. If they were first fruits, then why does the Bible say that Jesus Christ is the first fruits? Why does Bible say that. Why does the Bible say that those who rose with Christ when He rose at rose with Him were also the first fruits? Well, I don't think I'm going to let you guys think about that for a week. So, if they were first fruits, well, what does that mean? What does that mean? So, you have to answer that, right? Somehow or other, if you're going to teach this in somebody in the church, suppose you, let me ask you just the hypothetical. If you were the pastor of the church and you were going to teach on this, would you just, well, I'll just ignore that. Would that be proper? So I'd go through the Bible and I'd teach everything I knew about Revelation that made sense to me, but I'd ignore that. If you ever read a commentary and oftentimes you wanted an answer to a controversial question in the Bible, do you know that you won't find it in most commentaries, did you know that? because they don't know the answer a lot of times. Darrell? I was talking about the Bible and everything. In the United States, he might come to church at Sunday and we were talking about a revelation. That's the reason I got rid of this guy is because that book's hearing aid says there's a serious supposed to encourage you. He said, Revelation was the reason he got rid of God. I'll tell you honestly if Revelation scares him, there's no doubt in my mind that he will get saved. Yeah, there's a lot of time that I said you know, I said we're talking about Jesus in everything and he's been a former Muslim and he really wasn't Get the box. We really wasn't and I told him about Jesus. Jesus, you know, died in the front paper. I said that's not all that happened here. and he said, when he was alive for 33 years, it said, people showed the whole of law, and that's another reason why. Who's going to have to be, if he had his perfect right, and since this was 33 years, he was all from there. And he said, he did that, but he didn't tell him what we couldn't do. He did it first. And that's why he was tempted, because he had to fulfill everything along before he died. And then he's like, you know, I'm done explaining it to you like that. And so, you know, I'm going to come to church Sunday. Yeah, he's trying to come to church. That would be good. They don't know what it means for one thing. Well, we're just saying he's going to be right. He may think he's right with God. He just doesn't understand the whole thing. But he will. I wouldn't be surprised. Okay, now you've got all of them questions there. These were redeemed in verse 4 from among men, the first fruits unto God and to the land. What in the world is that mean? Now hold your place over here and let's see. We're out on a go. Hold your place here for just a second. Okay. And hold your place there and we'll go over to 1 Corinthians chapter 15, if you will. Yep, 1 Corinthians chapter 15. In verse 12, now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, I'll say something among you that there is no resurrection of the dead. But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen. And then on down to verse 20, if you will. Now is Christ risen from the dead and become the first groups of them that slept. Now back to Revelation here. These were redeemed from among men the first fruits unto God and to the land. Now remember something, if these are the first fruits, crisis of first fruits, the rapture has already taken place. The church has been raptured. Well wait a minute. No? I hope so. But there is an answer. It's really quite simple. I think, or that's my answer. My answer to me is simple. You They may come up with a different answer, I don't know. Now in verse 5, once again an end of their mouth was found no guile for they are without fault before the throne of God. Now this is Revelation chapter 14, this is a parenthesis by the way, this is a parenthesis in your Bible giving you a little more explanation of the 144,000 who they are, what they're doing, they're all about what they represent. Now with that in mind, turn back to Revelation chapter 6 if you will. And look if you will in verse 6, chapter 6 and verse 6. I'm giving you a lot of stuff you're thinking about, but you'll get it. Verse 6, and I heard a voice in the midst of the four beast creatures, living creatures, say, a measure of wheat for a penny, denarius, A measure for a penny. And three measures of barley for a penny. And see that I'll hurt not the pearl oil and the wine, okay. Now a lot of people, Dr. M. Ardingham and Dr. Max D. Yelts, they say that the oil and the wine are the rich. Well, I don't buy that. The oil and the wine are not the rich. Let me ask you a question. and the wine. What happens when you pick grapes? That's the fruit, right? That's really the first fruit, isn't it? The fruit of the fruit is the wine that you get from that's the wine. So first of all, you've got the fruit. That's, it gets ripe. You've got the grapes. Oil, let's suppose olive oil, probably they would, that's what they would look at, olive oil, that's what they, anyhow. So So the olive is a fruit, but the fruit of that fruit is the oil, right? So in my opinion, you might want to write down numbers chapter 18 verses 15, which mentions the oil and the wine, which represents Israel in numbers chapter 18. So the oil and the wine, in my opinion, is not the rich, God is, there is no reason why in Revelation chapter 6, God is going to spare the rich. I think I can prove that. Look in verse 15. The only reason I'm giving you this is to help you understand what chapter 14 is all about. Look in verse 15. The kings of the earth and the great men and the rich men and the chief captains and the mighty men and every slave, bond slave, bondman and every free man themselves is densing in the rocks of the mountains, so God's not sparing the rich, isn't it? No, he has absolutely done it. No, so the oil and the wine, I hate to disagree with Dr. Max Young, but I don't believe that's what that means at all. No, I believe the rich. All right, the oil and the wine represents the fruit of the fruit. That would be pretty hypocritical, doesn't it? Yeah, okay, now back to 14. A winemann, go here, if you will, to Chapter 7. Let's read this again. Okay, verse two, I saw another angel ascending from the beast having the seal of the living God and he cried with a lot of voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to her to hurt the earth and the sea, saying, hurt not the earth, neither the sea nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads, 144,000, right? Okay, now, so that's the oil in the wine. That's you all on the line. So first of all, you have the fruit which would be, in my opinion, the 144,000. I'm going to give you part of my explanation here. The fruit of the 144,000 are the those that they leave to Christ. That's why they are called. I'm going to give you part of the answer here. I'm going to give you a part of the answer, but not all of it, okay? So the fruits that they lead to Christ are the oil and the wine. They are in verse 4, the first fruits, but they're not the first fruits of the church or the rapture. They are the first fruits of those who go into the kingdom out of the nation of Israel saved, okay? Does that make sense? They are those who are saved out of the tribulation who go into the kingdom. So you have the first fruits and the fruits and the oil and the wine all represent the nation of Israel. So you have 144,000. Of course you have in chapter 11, the two witnesses, who start the whole thing, they witness for Christ. 144,000 get saved, they witness for Christ, and they multitude get saved during the tribulation. Now, we can prove that too, if we have to. We can prove that by going to various places. Let me give you some verses, okay? You can write these down. But in heaven, we have people in heaven. Let me give you a bunch of verses during the tribulation in chapter 14 verse 13 we have a picture here Let me see you. Okay, verse 13 Chapter 14 verse 13 and I heard a voice from heaven saying and to me right voices are the dead Who die in the Lord from henceforth Yes, they've a spirit that they may rest from their labors and their works do follow them. There's a picture of them people in heaven who come out of a seven-year tribulation, right? People get saved during the tribulation? If anybody can read that, say, nobody get to live during the tribulation. God be nuts, right? Yeah, me too. But there are so many verses in I'd like to know that too. How do they do it? But there are so many verses chapter 15, almost the whole chapter, actually verse one through five, is a picture of of a multitude in heaven in verse two when I saw that we're a sea of glass naked with fire and them that had gotten the victory over the beast and over his image and over his mark and over the number of his name standing on the sea of glass having the hearts of God there in heaven. It just means what's kind of heart meat explain I have a picture of a bit it's just in heaven there's not going to be you know I ever walk on hard nails or anything like it's going to be everything is going to be perfect. Okay, perfection. That's the best way. The standing on the sea of blacks. We're told that there are no seas in heaven. There's no seas. There's a river of life, but there are no seas. And the reason is, in my opinion, seas separate humanity. So in heaven, there won't be no separation. I think the river will put on a pair of hip boots and bill waiting in the river. And the verse 3, they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of Lamb sing. Great Martin, son of I, works, and so forth. Verse 4, who shall not fear the Old Lord and glorify that name for thou art holy? For all All nations shall come and worship before thee, for thy judgments are made manifest. By the way, that is in the kingdom, by the way, in the kingdom. That is not in heaven because there's going to be everybody out of every nation in heaven. There's no doubt about that. But during the kingdom, all nations will come and worship him literally. You see, anyhow, let me give you some more verses. I'm not going to read them in chapter 4, verse 4, 10-11, a picture of a multitude in heaven. In chapter 5, verse 8-11, people in heaven. Chapter 6, verses 9-11, chapter 7, 9-17. A lot of verses in Revelation that indicate there's going to be people in heaven. You know, the yoga, what this is, don't like to believe that people are in heaven today. They don't believe it. They just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they just, they believe, I thought they just believe that no matter what is going to be great with this. Sometimes sooner, they just feel that they're going to have this. Sometimes, they feel, they've changed their way of thinking. They think that there was going to be a, a resurrection. Someday, there'll be two resurrections, they believe in that. And everybody who is going to be in the kingdom, living during the kingdom, will be resurrected at one time. But the way they view it is kind of complicated and mixed up. That's why there are people believe it because they can't figure it out. But they believe that when you die, you just cease to know anything. Yeah, you don't go to heaven or hell. You just cease. And then when the reservation takes place, you are something again, which is kind of ignorant. They're all. They missed that point about the 144,000 in Virgin Hill. And how do they miss the point on salvation? Yeah, it's true. Yeah. Just plain ignorant. Yeah. Because it was interesting to hold worth of them like destroying their watchtower and everything. Yeah. They don't, that's the, that's the point and I think every pastor of every church teaches a I'll tell the people in the church, don't believe this because I say, yeah, I've told I remember a year ago when I started telling the young guys, like you guys remember when Bill and Jay and all those boys start coming at one time, I told them boys, I said, don't take my word for it, I'm just a man, go to the Bible and prove it and a lot of times they confronted me and pass it right on the grieve of that, that's fine, that's what I'm telling you to do, just because I say it, you don't have to agree with it. You see. Okay? But that's how the Job of the Weapons Church, the Mormon Church, most other churches, they just tell the people what to believe, and they, if you don't believe, immediately buy it. But if the Bible says it, I teach what the Bible says, I believe, and so forth. Okay? But anyhow, there's a lot of other verses in there. I'm not going to give you all of them. Chapter 11, verse 15 to 17. All through the book of Revelation, there are pictures of people in heaven. Now, there's one more thing I want to point out. Chapters 8 and 9, I don't know if I gave you this. We get back into the second half of the tribulation with the 7th seal. This is literal. 8 and 9 are not a parenthesis. They are not a parenthesis. We have the 7th seal. The first six seals are opened during the first half. The seventh seal is made up of seven trumpets, and the seventh trumpet is made up of seven vials. Now why would God say vial or bold? Because it represents pouring out of the wrath of God. Let me give you a verse to prove it out. That's why God says vial or bold. Give me a point of a thing out of a bold or a great out, doesn't it? Well, when God pours out the vials, they're going to pour right out. Look in verse 6, chapter 16, verse 1. And we can prove that. And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, go your ways and pour out the vials or bowls of the wrath of God upon the earth. Notice the words, pour out. You ever pour out a bucket of water? It hits the ground splash. And that's sort of, that's the picture that God gave us, that's why he uses the words vile and bold. They're poured out. Just pour them right out. So chapters eight and nine are a picture of the last half of the seven year tribulation, the first six trumpets. And then chapter 10 is a parentheses, chapter 11 is a parentheses. And the seventh trumpet is opened up in verse 15 of chapter 11. going to get in my next week. One more thing I want to point out before we close. If you think your prayers don't amount to anything, look if you will in chapter 5, verse 3, or verse 8, not verse 3. Verse 8, my threes look like eights. And when you're taking the book, scroll, the four beasts, and the four and twenty elders, remember now, the four and twenty elders represent the church. And we could prove that but we're not going to take time to do it. But that's what it represents. Fell down before the land, the churches in heaven, having every one of them hearts, and golden bowls, golden vials, full of odors and saints, which are the what? Prayers of saints. So your prayers, every saint, every prayer you pray means something to God. Look in chapter 6, if you will, in verse 10, and they cried with a loud voice saying, now these are those who are in heaven who were slain for the Word of God during the first three and a half years. And for the testimony would say, help, they cried with a loud voice saying, how long will Lord holy and true does thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth. And then look over in chapter 8, if you will, verses 3 and 4, chapter 3 and 4. Remember the prayer that these guys prayed under the altar? We just read, and the prayers of the saints, remember that that we just read? Okay, chapter 3, verse 8, or chapter 8, verse 3, and another angel came and stood at the altar having a golden sensor, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the Golden Malford, which was before the throne. The prayer in chapter 6 verse 10 is being answered. Remember they said, how long old Lord? Well, the prayers be an answer. And the smoke of the incense which came with the prayers of the saints, the send with us before God, out of the angel's hand, and the angel took the censor and filled it with fire upon the altar and cast it upon the earth, and there was voices and thunder claps and so forth and so forth. How long, O Lord, now? Your prayer is just been answered. So your prayers do get answered. On Sunday morning, of course, we open with the prayer and we close with the prayer, but during the service we have a prayer service. Not every church does that. Most churches save their Wednesday night for the prayer service. But the reason I do that, I have my reason. I do that because most of our congregation is here. If we do our prayer service on Wednesday night, they're going to miss it. The night we have five people, which is pretty good. Sometimes we have six, seven, eight, but we don't have the whole church here. I want our whole church to be a part of the prayer service when we pray for the families. pray for our nation, and that's the reason I do it. I take the time to do it. I think it's the right thing to do, and if the Lord doesn't want me to do it, He'll have to tell me because that's the reason I do that. And I know some people probably think, well, why did we do that? That's the waste of time. I want to sing another song. I want to do that. No, I'm not. I'm going to have our prayers served because I firmly believe that our prayers are an incense before God. When they rise up before it, Revelation tells is that, doesn't it? Your prayers are odor-insense before God. And so I do that so the whole congregation be part of it. And that's the reason I do it on Sunday morning. So, and I do a lot other things that are different. I joke a little bit. I like to have fun in church. And I know that I'm different, but that's the way it is. Yeah, you got to be, yeah, you got to be yourself. You got to be real. You got to be, you got to be, you got to be able to identify with the people that are, if you think you're better than they are, you've got a real problem. Yeah. So anyway, that's the reason I do what I do. I think our prayer is important. And teaching the Bible is very important. So if I didn't take time to study, I could teach. teach I'd be a jerk really but it's a privilege and not to be able to do it okay any questions yeah yeah I know we're not supposed to smoke I hit the throw that in yeah well they will it's not a fact it's happening real fast I think I think you and I are gonna see so many changes by the way the by the time our Our next president is elected, you're going to see so many changes in our world. We're headed towards a, I heard a guy on TV say something the other day where he compared our world to date to ancient Babylon. Babylon actually, it wasn't Babylon and Genesis was Babylon. You know what? He was right. He doesn't realize how right he really was. Okay, let's have word of prayer. word of prayer. You know, I saw another thing concerning them that Nancy Pelosi is soon a salvation army because they won't hire anybody. They wouldn't hire anybody that didn't speak English. Isn't that stupid? Nancy Pelosi, a congressman who has no business. Getting involved in what's telling the salvation. Yeah, things are going fast. Yeah. There's another thing they were saying that Santa needs to be then he's overweight. Did you see that one? Yeah. I'll tell you it's a crazy world and it's getting worse and worse fast. It really is. I want a big hello Santa me too. You know what I enjoy before we close with fair on Christmas when we have our Christmas dinner We have a tree up here and we put presents for the tree for the children to come to the kids I don't care for 30 years old if we get in present. I enjoy that and You know, I'm not gonna and I think last year somebody put lights on our tree didn't they? Well, some of the churches won't put up a tree with lights on it because it's terrible. I mean, good, bad for these churches. They just won't put lights on a tree. I get news for you folks. I like them. When our tree goes up and somebody put lights, I don't decorate it. I don't care who decorates it, and I don't care what they put on it. As long as there's something there for the kids to get a present on Christmas, on our Christmas time and the heck with your ideological guard because, you know, let's have work There, Lord, we just thank you for being able to serve you, trust you, believing you, and we thank you for your word, which gives us all the wisdom, all the knowledge, all the peace and joy of knowing that someday the Lord Jesus Christ is going to redeem this or judge it, and we'll be there with him to watch it all take place. glory saying it's going to be and we'll thank you for it in Christ's name Amen.