Disclaimer about Revelation and just to remind you
I don't have all the answers.
I don't have all the answers I'm not
the final authority as we go through the
book of Revelation we need to search the
scriptures and let humility and truth guide us
and The reason I show different views is
so people aren't caught off guard Because a
lot of us were raised in a certain
setting in a certain belief system and so
that's kind of how we believe the book
of Revelation unfolds, but then there's others who
believe a little bit differently and The reason
is is because it's not crystal clear It
has different the there's a lot of allegory.
There's a lot of similes.
There's a lot of metaphors Analogies and then
there's a lot of things that are literal
and it's a hard book to interpret And
I don't want to be one of those
people that say well This is exactly how
it's going to unfold because no one truly
knows exactly how it's going to unfold other
than we know Jesus is coming again and
Are we to be ready and prepared?
He's gonna rule he's gonna reign and so
I'm gonna look at Revelation 6 But I
want to show you that there are there's
actually a few different views I know there's
a probably about six or so but the
four main prevalent views of the book of
Revelation and If you go back, you can
listen to me talk about some of these
all Millennialism is people like Sam storm a
lot of the Reformers We're all millennial.
They would believe there's no literal open Visible
1,000 year reign of Christ on earth
now all Millennials a little misleading because it's
they don't believe in a millennium They believe
that we're actually in the millennial type of
kingdom now again You can do a lot
of research and read more about how they
come up with this conclusion And then there's
historic pre-millennial ism historic pre-millennial ism
that Christ will return physically and visibly to
usher in the millennial reign and Then there's
post millennial ism.
I Kind of like this one, even though
I don't really I have some doubts about
it, but they believe things are going to
get better Oh, wouldn't that be good?
The ever-expanding progress of the gospel until
the world becomes markedly markedly Christian then Christ
returns So what happens though is it's easy
to poke fun at different things when we
live where we live now like oh How
could things get get better?
But if you go back?
1,500 years or even the Dark Ages
or when the Roman Empire Emperor Empire and
the Emperors around 2,000 years ago.
It was barbaric the things they did it
was it was Incredible.
So on one hand you can see how
now that the Gospels here in the Middle
East and China and the different areas And
here how a lot of things are getting
better but then we see it we're like
Things are getting worse from our perspective But
that is the the post millennial that's why
post means Jesus is coming later and then
also Dispensationalism the bottom right hand corner is
what probably many of you would believe I
would probably that's where I would lean because
I was raised with that teaching That would
be the Calvary chapels and a lot of
the dispensationalism Mir safar to you watch him
Jack Hibbs, of course and and all the
the Calvary guys It's the millennial reign of
Christ will begin After his return at the
end of a distinct seven-year period known
as a tribulation so what they teach is
there is a rapture and then the tribulation
comes and then Christ returns where others like
the post tribulation believe believers go through the
tribulation and Then Christ returns and you can
see and then we can get into preterism
which believes all the the prophecies have been
fulfilled which that's hard to believe you know,
and then there's partial preterism and the reason
there's different views is because Scripture is not
crystal clear on how these things because for
example There's no verse at all that says
we're out of here before the tribulation.
There's not a verse So what we do
is we pull in certain things We're not
to we're not to receive the wrath of
God and the church has to be removed
So God can have his plan with Israel
and we pull in, you know, Matthew 24
and let's go get Daniel Talking about the
70 weeks of Daniel and let's bring in
some Ezekiel and and let's put this here
And and this is this is our view
and then another group would say well No,
I think this is our view and you
can listen to my podcast I did a
podcast on my youtube channel with Sam storm
on all millennialism.
I did one.
I think we did one with on post
What tribulation where we're going to go through
the tribulation and there's books I've recommended on
all sides and the reason is Because great
men of God are divided and I just
want to equip people with what?
What not only the Bible teaches but what
are the different views out there and I
don't think it's being wishy-washy I think
it's being sincere and genuine and honest because
we truly don't know how it's going to
pan out That's why there is a view
known as pan trip.
I'm gonna see how it all pans out
and it's a healthy view because I See
all points to me have some a pretty
good Grip on what is going on and
they they just they look at things differently
And they view things differently and so people
have strong opinions on it, which is okay
That's why it gives us a great opportunity
to practice unity and realize that revelation is
relevant for every generation it's relevant for every
generation and personally, I like the the view
where we're gonna be out of here before
there's a tribulation and I like the view
and it's getting better things are getting better.
I wasn't that good, you know But what's
actually gonna play out and only God knows
and we can definitely see things moving toward
a one-world system We can definitely see
things moving toward a mark where you don't
buy or sell that that's pretty close I
mean kovat almost took us there.
Do you remember the talk?
Do you remember what they're saying without the
jab passport?
You might not be able to travel very
far restaurants wouldn't serve you I mean, it's
it's it's really close and then we can
see how they're wanting to shut the the
mouth of truth And if you say hate
speech if you say this and you can't
tell kids That they can't switch their gender,
especially in California parents can be punished.
I mean we have clearly lost our mind
we have delved into the waters of insanity
and So we can clearly see how all
this can happen We can see that there
will be looking for that one leader who
will tell us that there will be peace
and then when you get into how the
theologians break apart Daniel the 70 weeks of
Daniel and different things and and It's it's
it gets it gets a little convoluted because
there's so much information and we'd like to
know the when the why the how the
where and we want to try to Pinpoint
all these these areas of prophecy and it
gets a little challenging Now here's why this
is so important when Revelation when the book
of Revelation was written this plays a critical
role in our in our understanding of Revelation
and especially Revelation 6 when the book was
written plays an incredible role and If you
don't know why let me tell you why
briefly in 70 AD No matter what side
of the debate you're on we all can
agree on this I believe in 70 AD
a monument a monumentous important critical event took
place that even Jesus spoke about What happened
in 70 AD?
Jerusalem's destruction finally came not one stone was
left upon another stone Do you remember Jesus
talking about that as they're looking here at
this great temple?
He says hey the time is coming.
We're not one stone will be left upon
another it will be decimated and That came
about 40 years later after Jesus said that
in 70 AD Titus the Roman general came
in and conquered the city Just completely destroyed
it Now where people get?
Divided is after that when the disciples said
and when is the age of your coming?
And when is going to be the end
of the age or when is the time
of your coming when is going to be
the end?
Of the age so some people put that
in in a three-part series You know,
we have 70 AD and then we have
future events where others who would say it
all happened at one time Because Jesus said
I tell you the truth this generation will
not pass away until all these things are
Taken have taken place and fulfilled and so
what happened in 80 70 is This cataclysmic
event on Jerusalem and There were Jews a
million Jews were wiped out and if we
have time I'm hoping to get into Matthew
24 and we can kind of shed a
little bit more light on this So here's
where I'm going with all of this Some
would say that what I'm about to read
to you has already taken place It's already
taken place Because Jesus spoke about it and
These still judgments and the bowl judgments everything
up the bowl, but we're going to talk
about the still judgments Were upon the nation
of Israel in 70 AD now if the
book was written if Revelation was written in
70 AD or let's say prior to 70
AD Then John was writing to the Jews
about all these events that are going to
come upon the Jewish people not us Now
if the book of Revelation was written say
90 95 AD well game over That that
that doesn't work because 70 AD already happened
and John is writing 25 years later about
these cataclysmic Events obviously are going to happen
to us So you can see why they
did why the debate on when the book
of Revelation was written is pretty heated Because
it really if it was written prior to
70 AD then John could be talking about
Things that happened to the nation of Israel
But if it was written later, and so
how do we know because we don't know
when the book was written It doesn't say
when the book was written So what we
do is what some people do is they
look to early church fathers Irenaeus.
He actually lived within a few decades of
John and Then you have Eusebius Victorinus and
Jerome They all indicate that the vision given
John occurred during his incarceration on Patmos at
the hand of Domitia Domitia think I'm pronouncing
that right and places it approximately 95 AD
Okay, so early church fathers say that John
was on this island and they place it
around 95 AD However others say it's possible
that Irenaeus is referring to John himself So
John was on the island for a long
period of time all the way until 95
AD However, that doesn't mean he didn't have
his vision of Revelation earlier on around 69
say AD and this is going to talk
about the destruction of the Jewish nation and
Also in John Wesley's commentary John Wesley when
he lived the 1700s he said that Josephus
is history of the Jewish war is the
best commentary on the chapter of Revelation in
other words.
He's saying what Josephus wrote Around that time
is actually talking about what happened to the
Jewish Jewish people when Jewish when Jerusalem was
ransacked and destroyed Gets confusing doesn't it?
But that's why there are different views so
I'm going to put up a image up
there from pursuing truth Pursuing truth and so
here's why this is interesting John what we're
going to read here shortly in Revelation 6
for talks about the seven seal Well in
Josephus's work, he was a Jewish historian and
all those references He writes about things that
that could have taken place and they actually
talk about the seven second seal and The
trumpets and the other trumpets and the bold
judgments.
So all these judgments are not for us
They would say they already took place and
Josephus References them in his works written around
75 AD and this is what his works
look like Josephus's works right here.
You can read it from 2,000 years
ago So he says this is what happened
to the Jewish people a lot of dust
came out.
So this is what happened to the Jewish
people And it lines up with the bold
judgment some of the bold judgment some of
the seals being open and some of the
trumpets So this being poured out Happened in
80 70 it's not for us today And
that's what a lot of people believe and
then others believe that this is Going to
happen to us Well, then others would say
it's not because we're out of here based
on the rapture.
This is going to happen to future generations
or coming up shortly once the church is
lifted out of here and Again, I've went
into more detail.
You can go listen to the sermon series
on Revelation from the months prior But let's
talk about now Revelation 6 and Revelation 5
last week Jesus is given this scroll to
open so he's got this scroll to open
and it has seven Seals that are sealing
the scroll now was Jesus given a literal
big scroll With with you know these these
seals on its seals would be made out
of of Wax and melted and or is
that is that an imagery?
is that is that a metaphor or or
is it giving an analogy because the the
scroll could be The deed to the earth
many say and the deed to the earth
and he's the rightful king again He's gonna
open the seals and pronounce these judgments.
So is it a literal scroll?
That's what John saw But we know it
could be more spiritual and have spiritual ramifications
and so that's what Revelation 5 is Jesus
is given this scroll he's going because he's
worthy.
He's the only one worthy to undo these
seals and Pronounce the judgment on a world
that is Christ rejecting God Rejecting culture and
that could be us today is what some
would say.
So the throne room of heaven bows down
To Jesus in chapter 5 and they worship
this conquering King who will reclaim his rightful
spot and so we go into chapter 6
and the first seal is opened and he
said now I saw when the lamb Opened
one of the seals so he opens the
seal Who knows how if you can picture
a baby ever seen a scroll?
The seal is probably it's got to be
ripped off of the parchment and as he
opens this He hears this loud thundering voice
John come and see and I looked and
what did I see?
I saw a white horse Now these horses
that we're going to talk about four horses.
They're often called the four horsemen of the
Apocalypse you've heard that term before.
Okay, and that's where it comes from.
So this white horse Has a rider and
what is in the riders hand a bow
to shoot?
And he was given a crown.
So this this conquering person and he went
out conquering and to conquer so back to
the different views Some would say that and
right this is this is just truth.
Okay.
I'm not not speculating Roman generals often Rode
on white horses, so you could see how
some people say this is Titus coming in.
He's conquering he's got a bow, which is
which is military and That's what this represents
One view now, obviously I can't say that
because it doesn't say it and a friend
of mine who actually wrote a P He
has a PhD I think he wrote his
dissertation on the book of Revelation and he
sent me his book and I might have
him on the podcast At some point and
he even told me he goes I we
you know We don't know exactly how all
this is gonna pan out But here's you
know my thoughts on it and he actually
said that in his book.
I read it last night the white horse
That is coming and has a bow and
a crown.
That is the Antichrist And he goes out
on to make a point about it and
for the life of me.
I Don't know how in the world he
came up with that one I'm not saying
it's a Roman general representing Titus either, but
I'm sure not saying it's the Antichrist How
in the world do you come up with
this stuff?
And so that's my that's my beef about
the book of Revelation.
We can just kind of say hey, this
is You can't say that Now you can
say here's how it could be and here's
how it could unfold and here's what it
could mean But there's nowhere else in Scripture.
I cross-referenced.
I look I did these things I mean
Jesus comes back actually Riding a white horse
and on his head are many crowns and
the armies of the heaven followed after him
and out of his mouth Goes a sword
that he will rule the nations and judge
them now You could say more clearly that
this could be Jesus coming and so she
see that's why there's there's different views and
then what happens is people like to argue
and get in debates and show how much
they know and That's where pride can come
in and all we know here is there
is going to be a white horse Could
have been past tense could be future tense
and he had a bow and on it
and his crown and he went out conquering
And to conquer that's all it says That's
the first horse the second one when he
opened the second seal I heard the second
living creature say come and see and now
here's another horse He's fiery red He went
out and was granted to to him who
said on it to take peace from the
earth That people should kill one another and
there was given to him a great sword
So if that's for us today What does
that represent could it be that the Holy
Spirit is removed as some say I personally
don't believe the Holy Spirit will ever Be
removed no matter where the eschatology light lies
I believe that the Holy Spirit is not
the restrainer and Thessalonians.
I'll get into that later now It could
be I'm just saying my view I believe
the Holy Spirit is always acting because people
come to saving faith even during the tribulation
and we're going to read about the martyrs
and different things now you could argue different
things on that but Something was peace was
removed It looks like and what happened as
a result people began to kill themselves or
kill one another now, of course as my
mind thinks and sure many of you well,
that's People always kill people Stalin Hitler I
mean look around it's happening a lot.
So that this had to be significant So
it's either for us again future Futuristic view
or if you read into this that this
happened already in 70 AD with Titus conquering
Jerusalem, what would you do?
Well, what did Josephus say well, this is
actually pretty interesting.
He wrote this about the civil war among
the Jews There were beside disorders and civil
wars in every city and all those That
were quiet from the Romans turned their hands
against one another It was as if peace
left at first this quarrelsome temper caught hold
of private families who are against each other
and then it got into Barbaric there being
barbaric and iniquity and sin of the same
nation It didn't even differ from the way
the Romans slew them and it seemed to
be much a lighter thing to be ruined
by the Romans than by themselves So there
was great civil war there was unrest people
were killing each other So if Josephus is
talking about what happened to the Jews and
it did happen this this is all historical
fact nobody can deny this what we argue
about is where the application is and So
this is either a future event of peace
being taken from the earth or It has
to do with what Josephus actually wrote about
So then this third seal the third seal
is scarcity on the earth now I should
remind you that in prophecy and in things
like this.
There's always seasons where things repeat themselves There's
been famines and wars and leaders rising up
And so there's a continual pattern that will
always see these types of things But this
seal judgment being unleashed seems to be more
intense and so when he opened the third
seal I heard the living creature say come
and see and behold a black horse and
Who sent on the black horse?
He had a pair of scales in his
hand And so what were the scales it
said I heard a voice in the midst
of the four Living creatures saying a quart
of wheat for a denarius that's a loaf
of bread for a day's work and Three
quarts of barley for a denarius and do
not harm the oil and the wine So
there's coming again a futuristic view there's coming
a time of severe scarcity and What's challenging
is millions of people are already facing this
in Africa in different places North Korea the
starvation is incredible of what that leader does
and and so but we could see it
could be a time of Unparalleled unparalleled scarcity
And I'm surprised it's not getting worse based
on the food shortage you remember seeing all
those all the all the the food plants
that were the chickens and the cows and
the food processing plants and and Scarcity and
and Bill Gates buying up all this farmland.
I think he's the number one owner of
farmland now and And so you just see
what interesting for sure And so you can
see how there could be a time where
just you have to work all day just
to get a basic basic meal And of
course do not harm the oil and the
wine is a reminder many would agree that
there is going to always be a Very
rich upper-class controlling a lot of what
goes down below And I didn't want to
put it on here because I don't want
to I don't want to what I don't
want to do is say I'm Supporting one
view and I'm really trying to push this
view I would tell you what I believe
in what I what I don't and that's
what I'm trying to do I can see
a lot of a lot of good points
on all sides.
So what I try to do just stick
to the word Let's see what the word
says.
Let's see how things all pan out.
Let's be prepared.
Let's be ready for these types of things
So I would never tell oh, yeah all
this all this stuff already happened.
Don't worry about it Because here it does
horses could come and we are not prepared
if we think that it has already happened
However, and I didn't again I don't want
to show it but Josephus actually talks about
during that time where the price of wheat
and everything got so Expensive and scarcity so
when people say what they believe that this
was already fulfilled.
It's not they're not throwing caution to the
wind They're not hanging up their brains at
the door.
There is a lot of information that supports
Why they believe that and they've got some
they've got some really good points on this
issue So now here comes the fourth seal
fourth seal and You remember in tombstone?
He quoted this in Spanish, right?
What did he say?
He's coming a pale horse and he who
rides on it is death and hail falls
after him After just shot the wedding People
up and It's a it's a don't go
see the movie.
I saw it when I was younger I
don't remember if it was good or bad
now, but Yeah, that's what this is the
fourth seal when he opened the fourth seal
I heard the voice and this is the
One of the of all the seals.
This is the most Often quoted, you know
kind of cataclysmic The crescendo of these the
the four horsemen of the apocalypse, I don't
know if you ever seen any drawings of
them But they're pretty cool You know, it's
got the the horse the white horse and
the guy with the bow and then this
this pale horse It's not white.
It's that death.
It's the look of death If you've ever
if you've ever seen that look and I'll
still never forget I think I've told many
of you I saw my dad after he
had died at AV Hospital.
They pulled me in and He didn't survive
his heart attack And they still have the
tubes in his mouth.
He's just laying there in that color.
I'll never forget that color And just began
weeping and not having a final say He
actually died.
I'll be his age in September when he
died young man, and that's his color the
pale horse and The name on him who
sat on that horse.
His name was death and hell followed after
him We could break down Hades and Shaol
and there's different names the place of the
grave the place of the dead or Eternal
punishment and I'll get through that when I
get to the topic of hell but right
now Hades death and Hades followed after him
and Power was given to them over a
fourth of the earth to kill with sword
with hunger and with death and by the
beast of the earth So some say a
fourth of the entire population But again when
I looked at the Greek structure of the
words and it looks like a fourth of
the earth not the whole earth the fourth
of the earth and then within that fourth
Some were killed with the sword and hunger
and with death and the one that's challenging
for me is About all these questions for
23 years.
It's not like I've just you know, I've
studied I've studied Eschatology for 22 years I've
read all the different views and and the
nuances and and the preterist partial preterism all
millennial and But one thing that's always This
one is one of the things that has
caught me if this is in the future
A lot of people are going to die
by the beasts of the earth now That
doesn't happen much anymore.
What but that did actually happen a lot
in in Israel's day You'd see I mean
David fought a bear and a lion One
of the prophets was killed by a lion
on the road You would be killed often
by wild beast and when you would go
and tame a land you would you would
you would?
you would push the beast back and the
people would live and there was always this
this very difficult time of Dealing with the
beasts of the field and God would actually
pronounce judgment on people by the sword and
by the beast See the Lions the Tigers.
Have you like I've seen those things.
I'm like I couldn't I would lose He's
a big a bear claw.
You know, you see those things are grizzly
bears and a lion.
It's like you're toast and So the beast
so this is hard for me.
Okay, this is in the future Like are
all the zoo doors gonna be open and
or all that You know the grizzlies from
Alaska gonna come over or the and if
he was oh, no Shane It's not really
well, that's how it reads the kilt the
sword with hunger with death and the beasts
of the earth It's like this God's restraining
aspect is gonna be let loose now I'm
not saying it's not possible.
I'm just saying though this would go to
support that section would go to support more
of Something that would be in the past
Now I want to talk about this for
a minute I want to put the points
we've already covered I think the top two
This this one kind of drives me crazy
sometimes why is America not mentioned in prophecy
I hear this a lot Well, because we've
been raptured the majority of us or we've
been taken over by China and Russia which
Seems more likely now with the current administration,
correct?
It's it's and and and they use that
to to kind of base their eschatology on
it But I'll you know, I've always thought
Australia's not mentioned a prophecy neither South America
Neither Canada neither Great Britain neither is Mexico
why because often prophecy is centralized on Israel
Syria Turkey China hundred man million army crossing
Euphrates Russia.
It's all right there.
That's prophecy So this thing that America is
not mentioned Well, you've got to get rid
of a lot of continents and aren't mentioned
in is in in in prophecy and in
times prophecy It could be that God still
uses America to be that restraining force to
a certain degree for a certain time or
we could all fall underneath You see I
definitely going towards that one world type of
leadership Is it not and at that point
we and I don't know I've maybe something
tell me afterwards I've looked at I've tried
to follow this a little bit and Reputable
news sources came out where we recently July
signed over our sovereignty to the World Health
Organization For on the next plan Demick that
they can now shut down all Countries that
are part of it So if there's another
major break out We're not our sovereignty is
no longer in control the World Health Organization
is in control of America and many many
other nations that have signed over their sovereignty
in case of a Global pandemic and that's
why this topic is so fiery and you're
seeing it in the news with with Kennedy
Robert Kennedy and that he's upset the Democratic
Party's own party Because he's speaking the truth
about Fauci and all the different things and
and and and they used This this this
I'm telling you I'm telling you I'll go
on record if it was Obama in office
and not Trump You would have not saw
the lockdowns and do everything to the degree
you did without a shadow of a doubt
I've looked at the numbers.
I've studied.
I've listened to lots of different doctors.
It was a perfect storm now.
Was it legitimate, of course?
Were there precautions needed to some degree?
But the swine flu and things that used
to come they know it depends on who's
on office on how they want to tilt
the pandemic and how they want to influence
the nation and the world at large and
Especially when I started to see all the
people dying with Kovach not of it Died
of a heart attack.
Oh, but he had kovu better put a
kovat and Why are you giving hospital 16
,000 for a kovat patient or 30,000
thrown a ventilator?
Come on.
It would stop drinking the kool-aid Why
is that any different?
I mean you would see so many nurses
would tell me from UCLA and Bakersfield and
like shaking these people They don't have coat
there They have it but they're not in
here because of it and they're trying to
manipulate the numbers to get more money We
were we were schooled We were just taken
advantage of this is not conspiracy theory, let
me not grab my tin hat this is
truth this is all factual and So if
we did sign over our sovereignty again, I'm
trying to get some more information on it
you can see how it can all fall
underneath a one world system and if you
fill in The blanks you see it's going
to be pretty easy when they start to
go to what's the digital dollar?
Have you been following that at all the
cryptocurrency XRP when their lawsuit ripple when their
lawsuit and Meaning there.
It's not it's it's it's gonna be a
legitimate cryptocurrency They've already working with with Visa
and Wells Fargo and all the different major
banks and so They can just shut that
down PayPal recently did that on different people.
I listened to Nick Vodichek, you know him
without the arms and legs Anytime I think
I have problems I just think that poor
guy, but anyway, he's up on this little
thing He's at a pastor's conference, man.
He's talking about how his bank shut him
down And he's wanting to start another bank
at that time and get and they can
just con a Right, didn't they give him
some notice 30-day notice PayPal stop See,
it's just shut down just like this because
now you don't have the gold and silver
in your own cash Now you have it
in digital and then stop that digital dollar
cryptocurrency and Also, they'll probably have you exchange
yours.
They'll give you a certain amount and then
they say but you have to use it
within 30 days Those sneaky little devils because
they're being led by the devil and So
I see all this is going so a
lot of revelation I think is still coming
up and I should say Luke remind me
which is so true all the points Believe
all the different views believe that Christ is
still coming again There there's another return of
him coming he's coming and so that's what
we can all unite We should be united
on he's coming again.
Are you ready?
Hey, we might go through a lot of
this stuff I'm not gonna tell my kids.
Oh, don't worry about it.
This was for The Jews nothing applies says
actually things are getting better.
You don't have to worry We're going to
conquer the gospel is going to come out
strong and it could though there could be
a fight as far as truth and error
right and wrong light and darkness and in
this great cataclysmic event and and we do
see that there's a One-world type of
system coming and I'm going to get to
that as I get through revelation and to
talk about the millennial What are the different
views on that?
What's my thoughts on that but we can
see how there could be this massive one
world leader and at that point America's sovereignty
Doesn't even matter Doesn't even matter because if
we're all under One type of leadership all
under a digital dollar My thought about the
digital daughters what happens when the power goes
out for a while Hey, I can't access
my money And a lot of people are
speculating that on a Friday evening We'll all
find out the banks are down and they
come Monday.
We're did a digital dollar So it's just
good and that's why I don't like teach
this and get live in fear.
We should live in fear we should use
wisdom and and and Make right decisions, but
understand that man.
Look at where everything is going It's gonna
be unbelievable to see how it all pans
out That's why I guess I'm a pan
trip and so So the fifth seal and
the reason I would just talk to a
guy that at the first service to about
How many people how many Christians usually since
around I can go back if you read
books 1700s 1800s, you know like they would
sell everything even early night They would sell
everything and go live on a mountain and
wait for Jesus's return 1914 on this day
and and and so many people have been
let down by Fell prophecies and fell views
and why I thought this was going to
happen and even I hope I can get
more information from him But he was at
the first service.
He used to be kind of like a
Jehovah's Witness historian and Now he's a believer
because he sees all these fake prophecies all
these false things that how they view Jesus
is completely wrong It's always the Watchtower on
how anybody anybody tells you how to interpret
the Bible through their book run They can
offer commentary But they should point you to
the Word of God to the Word of
God Not what the Watchtower says now with
the Book of Mormon says because that is
error Interpreting truth and when air interprets truth,
they try to twist things to their belief
system.
I'm gonna better get out of that one
So when the fifth seal now the fifth
seal is being open and he saw under
the altar So John sees this fifth seal
open and under the altar all the souls
of those who have been killed for the
Word of God People have been killed for
the Word of God.
What a way to go What a way
to go My family doesn't like me saying
that this but they're okay, they're not here
to this morning I think but I'd rather
go that way then Then just dying a
slow death And so he saw these people
that were slain past and future.
I mean it could be that again Past
martyrs for sure But it could be he's
seeing future martyrs and they crowd cried with
a loud voice saying how long Oh Lord
Holy and true.
They reminded themselves that God is holy and
true.
How long will you judge and avenge our
blood or How long until you judge and
avenge our blood in other words?
recompense Retaliation, but I realized that waiting on
God is a universal struggle How long Lord
anybody saying that this morning How long Lord
how long Lord, but praise God?
We know at some point at some point
that breakthrough will come at some point that
deliverance will come at some point that healing
will Come even if it means not until
I die that final state of being healed
and set free, but there will come a
time Then a white robe was given to
all these different martyrs and he said listen
you need to rest a while God's vengeance
is not going to come just yet Not
until the number of your fellow servants, so
they're still believers Not until your feather fellow
believers who would be killed as they were
was complete So if this is during the
tribulation, it's talking about believers believers being killed
and Martyred and that there's a number that
is still not complete yet.
And so this is why When it comes
to the tribulation You know, I'm hope we're
out of here, but I can also see
that maybe we might go through it Because
there will be believers in the tribulation But
many people say well, we're not appointed into
God's wrath Well, no, God will not give
his wrath to us to believers in the
tribulation, but there are believers And people say
well they became believers after the during the
tribulation.
Well, nevertheless You said that believers aren't going
to go through God's wrath, but what about
these believers?
There's not consistency there.
There's not consistency there But again, I hope
we're out of there out of here, but
you never know you have to prepare for
either or So believers are being killed and
for me, this is hard this point is
hard to support the pre Tribulation rapture view
no need to argue with me after the
service I've looked at all views and that's
my conclusion if you want to do it
go start a church and start preaching And
I'm just saying I'm just I'm just wore
out from the debates and sorry my flesh
gets in there sometimes So chapter 6 continuing
verse 12 through 14 And I looked and
I looked when he opened the sixth seal
and behold there was a great earthquake and
the Sun became black as sackcloth and the
moon became like blood and I'm going to
read to you in a minute how this
is actually probably not physically happening.
It's imagery It's Old Testament imagery that John
is using.
He knows the Old Testament and that's how
God would describe his judgment coming as a
fig tree drops its late figs Then the
sky receded as a scroll and it's rolled
up and every mountain every island was moved
out of its place So Joel 2 10
gives an example of this on God's judgment
He said the earth shall quake before them
the heavens shall tremble and the Sun and
the moon shall be dark and The stars
will withdraw their shining see they'll use certain
language We know that all the stars didn't
aren't falling and all the stars are gone.
It's they how do you describe God's judgment?
How do you describe a cataclysmic event with
these types of?
illustrations Ezekiel 32 and when shall I put
thee out?
I will cover the heavens and I will
make the stars thereof dark I will cover
the Sun with a cloud and the moon
shall not give her light all the bright
lights of heaven Will I make dark?
Over thee and I will set darkness upon
the land sayeth the Lord thy God and
so you look at these these are all
cataclysmic types of imagery that they use the
writers used to Talk about God's judgment now
if you say no the Sun will Physically
become black and the moon will look just
like blood and all the stars of heaven
will fall to the earth I don't know
how we'd survive that but let's just say
and all these things will actually physically happen
Okay That's fine.
We can still agree to disagree and move
forward.
You see what I'm saying?
It's like okay that this is off if
this all every mountain and every island is
actually physically moved out of its place Hey,
it could happen.
I understand that but what I'm doing is
when you look at Scripture You have to
use Scripture to interpret Scripture.
And if I could give you Gosh, six
or seven other Isaiah other places where he
talked about the darkness and the stars shaking
and and you see these things throughout Scripture
that God uses this type of imagery and
Another you know, I just I know I
probably didn't put this in the right spot.
But if we put Luke 11 up there
the reason a lot of people some groups
say that a lot of what I just
read already happened in 70 AD when Titus
conquered Jerusalem and God judged the people of
Israel this verse is huge The current generation
of religious leaders approved of their fathers killing
the Prophet So that's the context of the
verse all these religious leaders of Pharisees the
Sadducees They approved of their parents grandparents killing
the prophets of God Because they made great
tombs for them and as a result Jesus
said The blood of all the prophets which
was shed from the foundation of the world
Able to I believe Zechariah who was killed
between the porch and the altar.
It's going to be required upon This generation
talking to them talking to them not us
and So this was that judgment that was
required Jerusalem was wiped out in 70 AD
So they would say and that is the
kingpin verse that they would use So now
back to Revelation 6 15 through 17 and
the kings of the earth the great men
the rich men the commanders the mighty men
Every slave and every free man hid themselves
in the caves and the rocks and the
mountains and said to the mountains and rocks
fall on us So is this going to
happen in the future?
Possibly that's a lot of rocks a Lot
of mountains, where do we find those maybe
driving up to Bishop Red Rock Canyon?
And so this could be a Time that's
coming up and they'll say fall on us
hide from us the face of him who
sits on the throne and the wrath Of
the Lamb, so they know it's God.
They're hiding from God's judgment and they're finding
wherever they can hide Now, I don't want
to do this again, but I want to
be honest here Josephus again Josephus is going
to describe He's going to describe the the
attempts of the zealots zealots lived in a
portion I believe was underneath Jerusalem there south
of Jerusalem and they were actually driven out
of the land of Israel.
So Now this is just historical fact.
I'm just reading what he said interesting nonetheless
He said this now the last hope of
those who supported the tyrants and those crews
of robbers who there who were with them
was they would go hide in the caves
in the caverns underground and They would he
would go on to say you can see
here that the whole city should be destroyed
in the Romans Have gone away that they
might come again and they escaped from them
They tried to hide from the Romans in
the rocks in the caves in the mountains
And this was no better than the dream
of theirs for they were not able to
lie hidden either from God or from the
Romans So they would go and they were
hiding the clefts of the rocks and they
would hide and they knew it was a
judgment of God upon Jerusalem So food for
thought there on all those Seals judgments and
we'll get back to getting back on track
next week with maybe I'll go into Matthew
24 when Jesus talks about You know this
this and he said that he said not
one stone will be left upon another stone
and that was completely wiped out in 80
70 But then he goes on to say
they asked well When is when is the
sign of your coming and and when is
the end of the age?
And if you look at a different gospel,
it makes it sound like that is all
one question But Matthew makes it sound like
it's three different ones and Jesus seems to
answer them differently But then a lot of
stuff in Matthew 24, I have questions about
I'm like, I don't think that was already
fulfilled There's a there's there's some chunk there.
And so that's why it gets a little
confusing We'll hopefully unpack that next week.
But on this theme of doomsday preppers on
this theme of doomsday preppers I'm gonna go
quick.
We're almost done.
There are five things.
Have you ever watched doomsday preppers?
I Think they prep for doomsday They build
bomb shelters.
They got tons of food and and and
that's kind of what they they get ready
for cataclysmic events like what I just read
and There's five things they say that are
a necessity and I want to share those
same same five things with you but not
from a physical perspective, but from a Spiritual
perspective number one.
They say you must have sufficient food and
for us we turn right to Job Where
he says I have not departed from the
commandment of God's lips I have treasured the
words of his mouth more than my necessary
food We need to be ready for these
things by going to God's Word and saying
that's the food.
I will consume.
That's what I will eat That's why I
will focus my mind on because either faith
is leading you or fear is leading you
Did you know you can't be led by
both Now we struggle with both sometimes right
we struggle I want more faith But but
if you're led by fear, you're gonna be
making a lot of unwise decisions in the
future You have to be led by faith.
Now, of course, I would encourage people to
have extra food.
They asked me that Do you think we
should have extra food?
Well, it's just wise You know, it's just
wise.
I Mean we can get into details on
the truckers and the fuel and food shortage
and all that But there's no problem in
having extra food Now be encouraged a lot
of us can go a long time without
food.
Did you know God gave us some storage
capacity?
You want me get into that?
It's called ketosis Right when your fat becomes
fuel That's the whole point of Having extra
is for extra times of need Number two,
they said make sure you have plenty of
water.
Don't go without water But we need the
living water Jesus said whoever drinks of the
water that I give him will never thirst
but the water that I shall give him
will become in him a mountain or I'm
sorry a fountain of Water springing up into
everlasting life.
Make sure you're drinking of the living water
That's why Christians are going to be prepared
for the end times We're gonna be we
might struggle with fear now and then and
what's going on?
But at the end of the day we
can go to sleep at night because we
know who's has our Life in the palm
of his hands.
We know who is sovereign and we drink
of the living water and They say you
must have enough ammunition Oh You must have
an ammunition have that Glock 9 millimeter ready
with about 400 rounds of ammunition that AR
15 with lots of rounds you better have
that 30 out 6 that 30 30 and
that that shield 9 millimeter You got to
have it all ready and that Glock and
the 357 Magnum by Remington and Winchester What
Does the Bible say for the weapons of
our warfare are not carnal But they are
mighty and God for pulling down strongholds casting
down arguments and every high thing that exalts
itself Against the knowledge of God bringing every
thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ
So the weapons of our warfare Now I
do believe personally in self-defense.
I think I could support it biblically easily
It's not that you're living in fear if
you're not trusting God, but sometimes God gives
us wisdom Right and somebody's gonna trying to
break in your house.
They might they might meet they might meet
their maker that's I Mean if you think
if there's through like no, we're just supposed
to like hey, come on No, I'm not
gonna do anything just you know, just I'm
a doormat whatever you want Whatever, you know,
we're actually called to restrain evil at some
point The Bible says if you don't even
provide for your family provide financially you're worse
than unbeliever how much more physically and spiritually
Well, we'll get into that but let's just
it's important.
Yes.
Okay, if you want to have stored ammunition
go for it.
Not a bad idea Shelter shelter shelter We
need shelter he who dwells in the secret
place of the Most High shall abide under
the shadow of the Almighty Where is your
shelter?
These guys they'll spend hundreds of thousands.
Yes and big underground bunkers.
Look we can live down here for a
year Yeah, but you're on your way to
hell Do you realize that a person is
on their way to hell without the Lord
Jesus Christ?
It doesn't matter what you do.
You can avoid hell on earth, but there's
still a greater hell We need to get
our focus, right?
Dwell in the secret place of the Most
High dwell and abide under the shadow of
the Almighty And all you need medical supplies.
Yes, you do.
You need medical supplies.
What is the best medical supply?
Jeremiah cries out.
Is there no balm and Gilead?
Is there no physician here?
Well, then why are my people sick?
Why are there no healing?
Why are they not being healed and set
free and God says my people have rejected
me Jeremiah Call them to repentance call this
nation back to me Return to me God
says and I will return to you.
That's your best medical supply.
Yes, you can have the Aspirin that moxicillin
the penicillin But do you do you have
God on your side?
If not, you can return to him today
just repent and renew your life and say
God I need you I humble myself before
you I am lost without you As we
just read the for the great day of
his wrath has come who is able to
stand it For the great day let that
sink in What I do know without a
shadow of a doubt that that the day
of God's wrath is coming Where the final
judgment falls and who is able to stand?
Listen, if you look at the Bible historical
accuracy the prophetic accuracy the archaeological accuracy the
scientific accuracy that changed lives the truth the
timeless truths for all time it Is consistent
there's without air that's why we call in
air inspired work of God He says that
day of wrath is coming and who is
able to stand in other words.
No one No one is able to stand
my thought this morning is stop playing games
with God Stop playing games with God and
I've talked to pastors before and the greatest
harvest They usually see is when they teach
through the book of Revelation So why does
it take fear to finally wake us up?
Why does it take fear to finally wake
us up And it's so funny people say
well you guys you just pass you just
talk about hell and you just try to
make people scared I just preached the word
and did you know Jesus did?
Did did you know Jesus preached more about
hell than heaven go check it out Go
read the Bible find out for yourself do
a little checklist every time you see it
He actually said don't fear man but fear
God who is able to cast both your
body and your soul in hell where worm
does not die in the flame is not
quenched Oh cities Bethesda Corazon if the good
works that were done and you were done
entire inside and they would have repented long
ago with sackcloth and ashes But it'll be
more tolerable for them than you on the
day of judgment Judgment judgment judgment.
It's not to condemn you.
It's to release you Don't you I'm under
judgment I need freedom.
Thank you for the cross.
That's how it works So if you're rejecting
it, that's on you The judgment is on
you because you want to stay under that
judgment and not repent that's on you not
God So that's God's fault.
He would know you what he says.
Hey, here's a here's a it's a free
gift.
That's the I'm gonna try not get sarcastic.
It's a free gift No effort.
No checklist.
No good works just believe and repent and
you will be saved and set free and
the Son of God who the Son of
God sets free is free Indeed and the
power of the Holy Spirit dwells your life
and now you can live for Christ and
the peace of surpasses all understanding Oh, yeah,
that sounds like bad news.
Oh That's so that's so dreadful Now I
will tell you the truth it doesn't make
life easier Because all hell is against you
the devil hates you The darkness is going
to try to surround you and shut you
up But you walk through that valley of
the shadow of death because you fear no
evil because you hold on to Christ every
step of the way Really take inventory of
your life and say do you truly know?
Do you truly know Jesus have I truly
repented and believed not just a good idea
Not just a concept because Jesus is you're
not going to go to heaven over a
concept You're gonna go to heaven