Now then, tonight we find ourselves at the
commencement of chapter 19 and our last gallop
to the end, but on delivering what we
had to deliver last week as the frightening
judgment upon this harlot Babylon, mystery the great
mother of harlots, an abomination of the earth,
and in facing the fact that there are
so many options available as to which city
it could be, and we saw that if
we speculate, most people in most places could
fit their town into it.
In fact, the gentleman I had with me
from school last week on the way home
in the car, he says, isn't that funny?
I always thought it would be Los Angeles
because it so fitted our situation, and that
sent me into a lot of thinking, and
so in the course of the in-between
of the week, I went and had a
good study at the word Babylon in scripture.
Now it's very interesting that the first mention
of Babel or Babylon comes in Genesis and
the 10th chapter after the Noahic flood, which
was a judgment, and remember that we've seen
repeatedly throughout our study of revelation that as
in the days of Noah, so shall also
the days of the coming of the son
of man be, that we just need a
good study of the times of Noah to
have a good hint as to what it
will be like when Christ is about to
come or coming, and I noticed that after
the Genesis flood and the commencement of new
life, there is still the trail through of
something of the nature of the rebelliousness of
sinful man that passes through that flood, because
Noah and his sons are still in sin
-ridden bodies, though by grace they have avoided
the judgment and are now going to replenish
the earth, and in the ninth chapter of
Genesis, you have that awful sin of Noah
and the curse upon Canaan, and it's interesting
in the 10th chapter, we are given a
list of the descendants of Canaan, and in
verse 8 we read, and Cush begat Nimrod,
he began to be a mighty one in
the earth.
Now in Genesis 6, before God announced that
he was absolutely exhausted with man, it tells
us that men had began to be mighty
on the earth, and everything that's embodied in
the word Nimrod is depictive of that trail
through of the attitude of rebellion, independence, and
pride and go it alone in the life
of a person, and we read in verse
10, and the beginning of his kingdom was
Babel, and Erech and Echad and Calni in
the land of Shinar, which is the land
of the Babylonians, and so Babel was a
by-product of cursed Canaan, and was a
city built by man in defiance of God,
a re-establishment of a citadel of independence
of God, with a sense of, I shall
be my own master, and I shall build
and erect and create in life that which
no judgment of God can touch or affect.
Business will go on as usual.
Now you will find that Babylon trails its
way throughout the scripture in the Old Testament,
and in Isaiah, and in Ezekiel, and in
Daniel, you find that it is pictured as
a city that has an attitude of, I
shall rise again.
I have built this by my power, my
might, my strength.
It speaks in Isaiah of an attitude of
arrogance, pride, self-satisfaction, system, things, all that
they could build in that city.
Now what I did discover that was where
in the Old Testament Babylon was specifically a
place in a city.
By the time we come to Revelation, it
is not a place in a city.
It is a world system.
It is a world attitude and a world
system.
The great whore is that lady who has
deceived millions and deceived the whole world with
her delicacies.
In other words, it is the entire materialistic,
material-oriented world system that says, irrespective of
whether there's a God there or not, we
shall persist.
We will be independent.
We will survive this planet no matter what
happens.
We will go on.
It will be business as usual.
And I think that's why you'll find there
that there was that repeated shock upon the
world when they realized the marvel.
They staggered at the destruction of that system
because by that time, as it's getting like
that now, everybody seems to think that the
bettering of things in life equals the bettering
of life.
And people think that more things, more clothes,
nicer homes, bigger wealth, bigger wage, everything of
those kind of things is going to bring
the happiness they seek.
And they'll think that great civilizations is an
answer to man's need.
And that if we could just give them
everything, there would be no necessity for theft.
There would be no necessity for anything evil,
but they will be shocked to discover that
that's all an illusion.
And all of that is going to be
destroyed.
So what was a city in the Old
Testament is by the close of the New
Babylon, a system, a universal system and being
brought down to the ground and being crushed
once for all forever.
And by the end of that 18th chapter,
there was great rejoicing in heaven that at
last these things had gone.
Remember prior to Cain killing Abel, man did
not live in a settled, secured environment of
his own making.
He roamed freely in the garden of God.
It was Cain who murdered his brother and
his descendants who set up the first civilization
and started to deal in music, industry, things,
security, protect myself, because he felt he would
be avenged.
Therefore, protect yourself, no trust in God.
And in trying to protect himself, limited himself
from the freedom of the garden, from the
freedom of the planet.
And God is going to bring by the
end of the scriptures, man back to the
liberty where security will not be inside four
walls with the door locked.
It will be a freedom again to roam
freely in his new heavens and new earth
without fear of all of the things that
make us put all the locks on the
doors today.
And in the 19th chapter, and after these
things, the destruction of that then world system,
I had a great voice of much people
in heaven saying, hallelujah, salvation, glory, honor, and
power unto the Lord our God for true
and righteous are his judgments for he hath
judged the great whore, the world system, the
world Babylon, which did corrupt the earth with
her fornication and hath avenged the blood of
his servants at her hand.
And again they said, hallelujah, and her smoke
rose up forever and ever.
And the four and twenty elders and the
four beasts fell down and worship that sat
on the throne saying, amen and hallelujah.
And a voice came out of the throne
saying, praise our God, all ye his servants
and ye that fear him both small and
great.
And I heard as it were the voice
of a great multitude as the voice of
many waters and as the voice of mighty
thundering saying, hallelujah, for the Lord God omnipotent
reigneth.
Let us be glad and rejoice and give
honor to him for the marriage of the
lamb has come and his wife hath made
herself ready.
Now remember in Corinthians, Paul tells us in
2 Corinthians 11, he has espoused us to
one husband as a chaste virgin to Christ.
And we are going towards that great total
unity when we shall see him and claim
him as our own.
One of the most wonderful pictures in the
Old Testament is your servant going out seeking
a bride for the son at the request
of the father, Abraham, Isaac, the servant and
Rebecca.
And the servant is a good type of
the spirit who goes off into the world
to seek a bride for Isaac and gives
her the earnest of the spirit.
As it were in the gifts, the gifts
are a beautiful type of the earnest of
the spirit where he put bracelets and upon
her wrists and jewels upon her face and
ears.
And it was a little taste of all
of the wealth that she could have if
she would come and marry herself to a
man that she had never seen.
Then came that personal challenge, wilt thou go
with this man?
And she said, I will go.
And on the basis of the love gifts
started the long journey across the deserts to
meet the man she had never met before
to give herself to him in total.
And in seeing him ran and then became
his total wife.
And here you're seeing in type what is
being fulfilled here that at the present time
in this world system, you find the Holy
Spirit is seeking a bride for Christ.
And we are moving through our wilderness of
this world.
We've accepted the challenge.
I will go with this man.
I will take this Jesus to be my
lawful wedded husband.
And we're going towards one that we have
not yet seen.
But the very evidences of the things that
he has done in our life is enough
to make us say there is an inheritance
yet to get.
We're going towards it.
We're going to get it.
Yes, I will walk and walk till one
day I shall say, who is this that
come with towards me?
And they will say, it is my master's
son, thy husband, and we'll run and we
will meet him and we will become his
forevermore.
And here's that great scene in heaven where
the ceremony is ready.
And to her was granted that she should
be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white.
For the fine linen is the righteousness of
the church members.
Yes, an imparted purity as a gift from
Christ, who is the savior.
He supplies the wedding garment.
He has become a robe of righteousness as
the New Testament.
And he said unto me, write, blessed are
they which are called unto the marriage supper
of the lamb.
Now don't forget the gospel declaration of one
of the parables of the kingdom, that it's
like a rich father making a wedding for
his son.
And he sent out his servants to invite
those that were originally invited, but they made
light of it and excuses.
One said he had a wife that he
had to go to.
That meant more to him.
Another had some land that he had to
go and look after.
Another one was more interested in his merchandise.
In other words, the system of Babylon, where
life, the wife, land, merchandise, things, meant so
much more than this invitation to this great
wedding.
And they killed the servants in spite of
the fact that the invitation said, everything's ready.
You don't have to bring a thing.
It's all prepared.
Come freely.
And when Israel rejected that then invitation, out
went the great evangelistic command.
Go into the highways and as many as
you can find, invite to the wedding.
As many as, rich or poor, good sinners,
bad sinners, they can all come.
Whosoever will may come.
And if you remember in that parable, there
was at that wedding feast, someone who tried
to come in and he had not on
a wedding garment.
And the king went to him and said,
friend, how camest thou in thither not having
on a wedding garment?
And he was speechless because the answer to
that was he'd refused the one that was
an offer at the door.
Because in those weddings, in the day when
the parable was explained and declared, Jews were
dominated by Rome.
Families were in poverty.
Their wealth had gone.
And if you were invited to a wedding,
you probably couldn't accept because you know what
it is, ladies.
Well, I can't go.
I haven't got a dress.
I mean, look at me shoes.
You can't go to a wedding in shoes
like these.
And so people would have been declining the
offer.
And so if you were going to be
wealthy enough to arrange a wedding, you had
to make sure you had a similar garment
to give to everybody that came in at
the door and you offered them your free
will choice of a garment that you provided
for them so that everybody that came in,
whether poor or rich, clothes or naked and
were covered so that they could be in
the presence of this great ceremony and great
gathering.
And what happened there was there was someone
who felt that his own provision, his own
clothes, his own self-righteousness was enough to
get him there.
And he was thrust out into in outer
darkness.
But he was called friend.
The love of God had not altered for
that person.
They went into outer darkness by their own
choice.
That's why he ended that parable by saying
many are called, few are chosen.
And the reason for that is that many
refuse to come his way, insistent coming their
way or not at all.
But blessed are they which are called to
the marriage supper of the lamb.
And he said unto me, these are the
true sayings of God.
And I fell at his feet to worship
him.
And he said unto me, see thou do
it not.
I am my fellow servant and of thy
brethren that have the testimony of Jesus.
Worship God for the testimony of Jesus is
the spirit of prophecy.
And don't ever forget that vital phrase towards
the close of your entire New Testament, that
the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of
Jesus.
Learn to try the spirits.
And wherever you go and find people presenting
anything other than the person of the Lord
Jesus Christ is the sole sufficiency to get
a person into the kingdom.
It is not prophecy.
It is lies because the spirit of prophecy
is the declaration of Jesus Christ, the son
of God, the savior.
And the word Jesus, you shall call his
name Jesus, for he shall save his people
from their sins because he is the savior.
And there's no other name given under heaven
whereby men might be saved other than the
name of Jesus.
And so when people are running around offering
spirit, offering gift, offering miracle, offering deliverance, offering
all sorts of little things that sound so
attractive and with speedy cures and escapisms to
today's problems that bypasses the centrality of the
person of Jesus Christ and the testimony of
him who died on the cross and bore
the punishment for the sin of the whole
world and rose again to come and live
in you, it has nothing whatsoever to do
with the gospel or prophecy.
Because our real ministry is the witness and
the testimony about Jesus, the savior who alone
can save.
And I saw heaven open and behold a
white horse and he that sat on him
was called faithful and true and in righteousness
he doth judge and make war.
The entire revelation until now has not only
shown you the judgments of the savior on
the world that rejected him but his justification
for the judgments.
His eyes were as a flame of fire,
he burns through everything and on his head
were many crowns.
I'm convinced that when we shall see him
just as he looked at Peter and Peter
went out and wept bitterly.
I think when we see Christ we're not
going to weep but when he looks at
us with those eyes, do you know for
the first time in our life we're going
to agree?
We're just going to look at the Lord
and say yeah you're right.
At last I admit it you're right.
And there will be no more pretense, no
more sham, no more self-justification, no more
covering up of sins, no more giving the
impression that well I've been a Christian for
nigh on 60 years and I've never done
that Elsie.
Hey Elsie will be there, you'll be there,
you'll both look in his eyes and look
at each other and say it doesn't matter
now does it he's right.
And you'll just nod with agreement, you'll know
the absolute truth.
But how marvellous at last to be open
with one another and to know that we're
only in his presence through his blessedness, through
his willingness to get us there on the
basis of what he did for us and
not what we've done for ourselves.
How marvellous not to have to pretend anymore.
And on his head were many crowns and
he had a name written that no man
knew but he himself and he was clothed
with a vesture dipped in blood and his
name is called the word of God and
the armies which were in heaven followed him
upon white horses clothed in fine linen white
and clean and out of his mouth goes
a sharp sword the word of God says
Hebrews is like a two-edged sword and
it pierces to the dividing asunder of the
joints of the marrow of the soul and
the spirit and the body it just exposes
everything to its absolute reality.
It does today it will do so then
and it will be by the word of
his mouth that the entire nations will at
last agree.
They will look at those eyes as we
will and they'll agree we deserve this and
he shall rule them.
Yes he will judge them with us the
nations with a smite with that sword and
he shall rule them with a rod of
iron.
They're not going to get an easy escapism.
It won't be a sudden obliteration.
They are going to learn to live in
this same deteriorating old planet for a further
thousand years knowing that Christ is going to
see to it that he holds and consists
and keeps all things together for another thousand
years so anytime you go to bed at
night sleep well my children.
Banish the fears that between tonight and tomorrow
morning some political idiot may push a button
and man will maniacally release all their demonic
atomic weaponry and blow up the whole planet.
No they won't.
Heaven is going to keep that little joy
for itself and from any moment that you
breathe at any time day or night you
know that this planet will still exist another
thousand years because part of the judgment of
these people is that he's going to come
and he's going to force his reign upon
the nations.
They are going to acknowledge him whether they
like it or not with a rod of
iron he's going to rule them and all
their ambassadors and their rulers are going to
take their flights out to the middle east
to appear before the king of kings and
lord of lords and acknowledge he's right and
all the system of Babylon that permeated and
deceived the whole world was wrong and he'll
make them live with that knowledge for a
thousand years before the rebel and we have
the final great conflagration of war with those
that reject him.
And then he'll take care of this planet
and give us the new one as we'll
see in the 21st chapter.
And he had on his vesture and on
his thigh a name written king of kings
and lord of lords and I saw an
angel standing in the sun and he cried
with a loud voice saying to all the
fowls that fly in the midst of heaven
come and gather yourselves together unto the supper
of the great god.
Yes this is not to the the supper
of the lamb this is not the marriage
this is the fowls are there being invited
to a big feast that's about to take
place they can eat the carnage of the
destruction of the wicked that you may eat
the flesh of kings and the flesh of
captains and the flesh of the mighty men
and the flesh of horses and of them
that sit on them and the flesh of
all men both free and born both small
and great wealthy and poor alike slave or
free.
You know that text always flashes to my
mind as I drive to work in the
morning to see how many hedgehogs caught it
last night crossing the road and you see
the carrion crows in the middle of the
road pecking away at the innards of the
hedgehog.
Sorry if you've just finished fish and chips
tonight.
But every time I see these birds scavengers
out there cleaning up the debris of the
rabbit that never made it across the road
or the hedgehog it always comes to mind
that one day all of these birds are
going to have a big bountiful feast and
it will be dead men they're eating dead
men and I saw the beast and the
kings of the earth and their armies and
remember that beast is that big political leader
and the kings of the earth and their
armies gathered together to make war against him
that sat on the horse and against his
army.
It's no longer going to be detente with
the religious people it's going to be all
-out war to attempt for all and forever
to destroy this Christ and this God.
And the beast was taken and with him
the false prophet that wrought miracles before him
with which he deceived them that had received
the mark of the beast and then that
worshipped his image.
These were both cast alive into the lake
of fire burning with brimstone.
Goodbye miracle worker, goodbye mighty politician.
Enjoy the central heating.
Forever and ever and the remnant was slain
with a sword of him that sat upon
the horse which sword proceeded out of his
mouth and all the fowls were filled with
their flesh.
Just a word was enough to put them
to death and I saw an angel come
down from heaven having the key of the
bottomless pit and a great chain in his
hand and he laid hold on the dragon
that old serpent which is the devil and
satan and bound him a thousand years.
Yes he's not going to be active because
Christ is going to make the people remaining
learn that they could have lived in this
planet economically, ecologically, religiously.
They could have lived here as one family
happily had they acknowledged God as their king.
But this lesson is being taught to them
by a rod of iron.
It is not fellowship, it is not willing
and they're still in the sinful bodies and
by the end of these years there will
be a great rebellion as they move towards
the final rejection of him.
And he cast him into the bottomless pit
and shut him up and he set a
seal upon him that he should deceive the
nations no more till the thousand years should
be fulfilled and after that he must be
loosed a little season.
And I saw thrones and they that sat
upon them and judgment was given unto them
and I saw the souls of them that
were beheaded for the witness of Jesus and
for the word of God and which had
not worshipped the beast neither his image neither
had received his mark upon their foreheads or
in their hands and they lived and reigned
with Christ a thousand years.
And he already stated in the parables of
the kingdom in the gospels that there would
be those of his saints that would be
given positions to rule over peoples.
Yes the church that's the minority that people
laugh at now oh you've got one of
them next door in our street you know
one of them religious ones you know she
goes to church you know does she really
ah one of them I wouldn't go too
much near them you know they're dying out
give a hundred years and that lot will
have gone.
No they won't and I'll tell you this
we may be the laughable minority but one
day we will be judges and at that
time we will be sent by our Lord
and we will be given tasks during those
years on the earth and those people are
going to acknowledge we were right and we
will come into our own with our authority
and a God-given authority to be judges
on the earth.
Yes he's going to give us that joy
but the rest of the dead lived not
again until the thousand years were finished this
is the first resurrection.
In other words he's referring to all those
that are with him then are those that
are belonging to that first resurrection when the
rapture took place and those of us that
were alive were caught up to be with
him in the air the others came out
of the graves spirits were united with new
bodies that one's gone now there will be
through that thousand years there will be others
and those that came to faith through the
tribulation they will have to wait till the
end of that time for their opportunity.
Blessed and holy is he that hath part
in this first resurrection on such the second
death no power but they shall be priests
of God and of Christ and shall reign
with him a thousand years on this earth
and when the thousand years are expired satan
shall be loosed out of his prison and
shall go out to deceive the nations which
are in the four quarters of the earth
Gog and Magog to gather them together to
battle the number of whom is as the
sand of the sea and they went up
on the breadth of the earth encompassed the
camp of the saints about and the beloved
city and fire came down from God out
of heaven and devoured them and the devil
that deceived them was cast into the lake
of fire and brimstone where the beast and
the false prophet are and shall be tormented
day and night forever and ever so he's
going to have good company in his damnation
yes the great false prophet that deceived the
nations with his super spirituality will have in
his congregation to preach to forever and ever
his lies satan himself and the beast that
great political antichrist power and i saw a
great white throne and him that sat on
it from whose face the earth and the
heaven fled away and there was found no
place for them and i saw the dead
small and great stand before God and the
books were opened and another book was opened
which is the book of life and the
dead were judged out of those things which
were written in the books according to their
works now you begin to see why we
christians don't get away with it now we
seem to be chastised of our lord and
dealt with by our lord for the sins
that we commit now but the great thing
is once we have repented received his chastisement
and we've matured through it and become more
holy greater partakers of his holiness and learn
to behave ourselves those sins that we committed
that were forgiven they are forgiven and forgotten
there is no record but for everybody in
the world it seems to get away with
it commit murder and get away with it
commit rape and get away with it mug
somebody in the street and get away with
it yes today people do get away with
it they think but suddenly on that day
for those people that rejected the means of
blotting out their deeds from the book of
memory every little detail is on record my
i'm glad for the cross of christ i'm
glad for the forgiveness i'm glad there's no
record i drew the student's attention last monday
and doing genesis to the fact that noah
as a very senior believer sinned in his
old age but it was interesting that genesis
means beginnings and there you have the genetic
beginning of restoration and forgiveness as japheth and
shem went backwards and covered their father indicating
we neither want to see or know what
daddy has done and they hid and covered
the sin and you know that is never
mentioned again the rest of that man's life
nor when you turn to chronicles where we
are receiving god's version of history all over
again god never mentions that sin of noah
similarly if you read in samuel of the
sin of david with bathsheba read of his
life in chronicles where god is telling you
his viewpoint of man's history and you'll find
that he never mentions david's sin with bathsheba
because that was covered and forgotten forgiven but
these people suddenly discover the entire awful list
is still there that's why i never would
fail before finishing revelation to appeal to you
oh beloved make sure you've come to christ
and had your sins forgiven and that they
will be blotted out and no remembrance because
if you're just religious for the sake of
being religious they're still recorded in the book
they have to be blotted out by the
very blood of christ and the books were
opened which is the books with all their
works and the sea gave up the dead
that were in it death and the grave
gave up the dead that were in them
and they were judged every man according to
their works that's all those who died christless
all of those ages they're going to have
to stand before them and be judged for
what they did and in refusing the way
of escape and death and the grave were
thrown into the lake of fire this is
the second death and whosoever was not found
written in the book of life was cast
into the lake of fire it's marvelous to
think your names in the book and down
there in the flames they can talk about
being on fire to the false prophet and
he'll agree with them there will be a
full congregation for him to preach to as
they are tormented forever and i saw a
new heaven and a new earth now that
word heaven there means atmosphere i saw a
new atmosphere and a new earth for the
first heaven and the first earth were passed
away and there was no more sea and
i john saw the holy city new jerusalem
coming down from god out of heaven prepared
as a bride adorned for her husband yes
the one that men are making in israel
right now and fighting over let them fight
that's man's best effort to make a place
for god to live in and you never
saw such a mess in all your life
if you've been there the church of the
holy sepulchre is a sepulchre an absolute grave
never seen anything so deadly in all my
life where every denomination has stuck their bit
on and claim their corner to be the
most genuine part and it's just a conglomeration
of a mixed up piece of stucco and
brick work with every religion under the sun
claiming it everybody's got their own quarter in
the city everybody's making jerusalem the place of
god but listen this one's coming down and
not one human hand will have created this
one but god himself as a bride adorned
for her husband and i heard a great
voice out of heaven saying behold the tabernacle
the dwelling place of god is with men
that's where he's always wanted to be that's
why he made adam and now in these
last chapters you're going to see a reversal
of everything that happened when man fell into
sin god wanted to walk in the garden
in the cool of the day he wanted
to fellowship with the man that he'd made
because god is love and had to give
the love away and he created the creature
that he could give his love away to
but the creature ran and hit in the
trees the creature sinned the creature ended up
leaving the presence of god and from there
until this moment god has been working out
that great plan where he could once again
live amongst men god almighty longing to fellowship
with the crowning creation men that he made
in his own image and his tabernacle will
be with men and he will dwell with
them and they shall be his people and
god himself shall be with them and be
their god and god shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes and there shall be
no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither
shall there be any more pain for the
former things are passed away now would you
please note when that's going to take place
on the new heavens and earth and isn't
it interesting that the counterfeit false spirit of
prophecy these days is offering you all that
now come under the fullness of what we
want to offer you come under our little
denominational issue our spiritual gift and fervor now
and we'll tell you that you can go
out from our meeting and you will know
that you can not be dead anymore no
more sorrow crying no more pain everything of
that is finished the christian will not suffer
have no pains no need for tears it
will be superlative joy this disagrees with that
not very far from my very own home
a young man grew up in a house
meeting recently and dared to declare to the
people that i will never be sick nor
will i ever die i am afraid for
him because unless god in his mercy and
grace allows him to come to a knowledge
of the truth i can see nothing but
an early death so that those that may
believe his lie will see that he wasn't
telling the truth because it's after that he's
going to obliterate these things not now and
he that sat upon the throne said behold
i make all things new not men and
he said unto me right for these words
are true and faithful and he said unto
me it is done i am alpha and
omega the beginning and the end i will
give unto him that is a thirst of
the fountain of water of life freely he
that overcometh shall inherit all things and i
will be his god and he shall be
my son but the fearful and unbelieving and
the abominable and the murderers and the whoremongers
and the sorcerers and idolaters and all liars
shall have their part in the lake that
burns with fire and brimstone which is the
second death that crowd will not share all
of this they will have gone that will
be their portion and there came unto me
one of the seven angels which had the
seven vials full of the seven last plagues
and talked with me saying come hither and
i will show thee the bride the lamb's
wife and he carried me away in the
spirit to a great and high mountain and
showed me that great city the holy jerusalem
descending out of heaven from god having the
glory of god and her light was like
unto a stone most precious even like a
jasper stone clear and as crystal and had
a wall great and high and had 12
gates and at the gates 12 angels and
names written thereon which are the names of
the 12 tribes of the children of israel
on the east three gates on the north
three gates and the south three gates and
then the west three gates and the wall
of the city had 12 foundations and in
them the names of the 12 apostles of
the lamb for he has broken down the
wall of partition and at last he is
achieving what he set out to declare at
the of scripture he's the lord of hosts
of the whole earth and if you trace
the genealogies in genesis you discover that everyone
that's here now has a right to god
as their heavenly father and to come under
the grace of the same king of kings
and lord of lords and at last in
that new earth in new heaven your israel
and your family of the lamb are going
to be together on that new planet and
he that talked with me had a golden
reed to measure the city and the gates
thereof and the wall thereof and the city
lieth four square and the length is as
the large as the bread and he measured
the city with the reed 12 000 furlongs
the length and the breadth of the height
of it are equal and he measured the
wall thereof 140 and 4 cubits according to
the measure of man that is of the
angel and the building of the wall of
it was as jasper and the city was
pure gold like unto clear glass and the
foundations of the wall of the city were
garnished with all manner of precious stones the
first foundation was jasper the second sapphire the
third chalcedony the fourth and emerald the fifth
sardonyx the sixth sardius the seventh chrysolite the
eighth beryl the ninth topaz the tenth of
chrysophrasus and the eleventh adjacent and the twelfth
and amethyst and the twelve gates were twelve
pearls every several gate was of one pearl
and the street of the city was pure
gold as it were transparent glass and i
saw no temple therein for the lord god
almighty and the lamb are the temple of
it because all of these the tabernacle the
temple solomon's the rubbles all of these were
temporary dwelling places of god until he made
his great temple himself and his people together
in a oneness and the city had no
need of the sun neither of the moon
to shine in it for the glory of
god did lighten it and the lamb is
the light thereof and the nations of them
which are saved shall walk in the light
of it because here in this chapter what
you're seeing is that great conflagration of the
coming together to live happily on the new
planet all of those from every nation under
sun that was saved including israel and your
apostles that commenced the church your gentiles your
samaritans every ethnic group were all there and
they shall walk in the light of it
and the kings of the earth do bring
their glory and honor into it and the
gates of it shall not be shut at
all by day for there shall be no
night there and they shall bring the glory
and honor of the nations into it there
shall in no wise enter it anything that
defileth neither whatsoever worketh abomination or maketh a
lie but they which are written in the
lamb's book of life it's showing you the
purity it's not saying that there will still
be that evil around it's just showing you
the tremendous purity of the thing but you'll
notice that we're in genesis a garden was
shut and the presence to god was shut
man was put out now it's open day
and night freedom of access to god and
he's being allowed now everything that at one
time was put down as a result of
his sin and he showed me a pure
river of water of life clear as crystal
proceeding out of the throne of god and
of the lamb in the midst of the
street of it and on either side of
the river was there the tree of life
now remember in genesis he'd sent the angel
with a flaming sword to keep him away
from the tree of life now you're getting
back to it on that new planet new
earth access again to all the trees and
to the tree of life which bear 12
manner of fruits and yielded a fruit every
month and the leaves of the tree were
for the healing of the nations yes access
to the tree of life and as we
partake of god's provision and life there will
be a coming together of all of those
peoples and all of that lack of togetherness
will be there but babel babylon the world
system tried to create with one language in
one tower god brought to confusion but at
last instead of spreading the nations with different
languages across the earth because of sinfulness here
he's going to do that restorative work on
this new system of allowing us again one
language one unity one togetherness that's where your
unity comes in not now not now and
there shall be no more curse but the
throne of god and the lamb shall be
in it and his servants shall serve him
isn't that amazing that at last we will
want to serve happily and they shall see
his face and his name shall be in
their foreheads and there shall be no night
there and they need no candle neither light
of the sun for the lord god giveth
them light and they shall reign forever and
ever and he said unto me these sayings
are faithful and true and the lord god
of the holy prophets sent his angel to
show unto his servants the things which must
shortly be done behold i come quickly blessed
is he that keepeth the sayings of the
prophecy of this book and i john saw
these things now we're coming to the epilogue
the close of his writing and i john
saw these things and heard them and when
i heard and seen i fell down to
worship before the feet of the angel that
showed me these things then said he unto
me see thou do it not oh never
worship angels never worship them paul warned against
that he even said in galatians and if
anybody comes and says but last night an
angel said unto me don't let that impress
you with the spirituality and make you think
oh they must be better than me no
no they're servants of ours they are there
to serve us says see thou do it
not for i am thy fellow servant and
of thy brethren the prophets and of them
which keep the sayings of this book worship
god don't worship any other spirit in the
spirit realm worship god and he said unto
me seal not the sayings of the prophecy
of this book leave it open leave it
open for the time is at hand he
that is unjust let him be unjust still
he which is filthy let him be filthy
still he that is righteous let him be
righteous still and he that is holy let
him be holy still he's moved out of
his revelation now having been caught up in
the fourth chapter to see all this he's
now finished now he's being told hey life's
going to go on leave this open and
people are going to be what they're going
to be we now know what the outcome
will be if they do not pay attention
to the claim of christ upon their life
and he that is holy let him be
holy still behold i come quickly and my
reward is with me to give every man
according as his work shall be to the
saints of god their new earth and their
new heavens to those that reject me their
second death i am alpha and omega the
beginning and the end the first and the
last blessed are they that do his commandments
not that can save them but do them
that they may have the right to the
tree of life and may enter in through
the gates into the city for without our
dogs and sorcerers whoremongers murderers idolaters and whosoever
loveth and maketh a lie they are going
to be separated from god forever they're outside
and just as the rich man looked up
from the torments of his hell to abraham
and spoke up to him oh cool my
tongue for i am tormented in this flame
yes they'll have no part with us they
are outside of all of that i jesus
have sent my angel to testify unto you
these things in the churches not testify of
them in the world they wouldn't understand it
nor do they understand it i have sent
you to testify of these things unto the
churches and this is the first time the
word churches has come back in since john
was caught up as a representative of the
church in chapter four and verse one i
am the root and the offspring of david
and the bright and morning star and the
spirit and the bride say come and let
him that heareth say come and let him
that is a thirst come and whosoever will
let him take the water of life freely
for i testify unto every man that heareth
the words of the prophecy of this book
if any man shall add unto these things
god shall add unto him the plagues that
are written in the book and if any
man shall take away from the words of
the book of this prophecy god shall take
away part out of the book of life
and out of the holy city and from
the things which are written in the book
he which testify of these things saith surely
i come quickly amen even so come lord
jesus the grace of our lord jesus christ
be with you all amen and no better
way to end the revelation on reading all
of that awfulness that is what's going to
come upon the wicked than to say to
us hey the only way you're going to
guarantee you're going to get there is as
you partake of the grace of the lord
jesus christ and the grace of our lord
jesus christ be with you all we're going
to need it so be it god's riches
at christ's expense the only way to get
there for the spirit of prophecy is the
testimony of christ and we are to face
in these last chapters tonight the challenge of
which side are we going to settle with
the great whore of the world's system of
all its things and its delicacies and its
trinkets or are we going to settle for
none of that we're looking forward to our
garden yet to come sure we'll use the
things of the earth we'll use the things
of the world i'm happy for clothes i'm
happy for industry that makes them it would
be a rather unusual service tonight if i
gave revelation stark naked it would upset some
people so i'm happy that i can use
the things of the world but they don't
mean a great deal to me and i've
had to train my children in this life
not to lay hold on things and hold
on to them too tightly and i've had
to train them from a young age to
remember that that it's just things i remember
grace taking nearly two and a half to
three years to knit me an iron sweater
with all sorts of blackberries and twisted cables
and all sorts of things on it that
was marvelous to behold oh i loved that
and it went to missing and i said
after a month where is that iron sweater
of mine i put it out for washing
it's funny we can't think where it's been
i don't remember washing it and we searched
high and low and then we gave up
and some weeks later grace and sandra down
the garden tidying up and sandra looked across
to where we burn the rubbish old cardboard
boxes and junk and she says mummy doesn't
that look like the sleeve of daddy's iron
sweater sticking out below that black ash so
grace went down and says yes it looks
like it and pulled out the cuff that's
all that was left the cuff and suddenly
for some unknown reason they came to the
realization it had been dropped in a cardboard
box in the kitchen for washing and whether
it was grandma that put another box on
top or something we don't know but anyway
everything got carted down the garden flung on
the heap and left the bun so when
i come home from work that day sandra
met me at the door and burst into
tears and cried her eyes out and i
had to sit on my knee and try
to find out what it was all about
and she says we found the cuff of
your sweater it's all burned and i remember
saying to sandra it is just wool it
is just wool and we can always get
another and i say i heard grace saying
yes but i'm not taking three years to
knit it and i said no we need
another we'll go and get one we'll go
and get one but i had to teach
her at that young age it is only
wool it is not life or death these
things will come and go and we have
to decide in this world today the more
we hurtle towards the climax of the ages
where does our heart lie kissing the harlot
of babylon and the world system of one
upmanship and soaking everything up as though business
as usual whether god's around or whether he
isn't in our arrogance and in our pride
or are we going to end up saying
hey i'm treating it lightly the best for
me is yet to come i'm heading for
a new planet a new earth a new
atmosphere oh and there won't be the lancashire
fog there won't be any bronchitis anymore asthma
will be gone it's gonna be marvelous so
who wants all of these things our duty
and our service is until he comes be
inspired by these pages we've looked at to
be on the right side and to reach
and evangelize as many as we can to
make sure they're on the right side or
these things are going to come upon them
well we'll stop there and ask if there's
any last questions on what we've looked at
all down these weeks yes yes god hates
sin and doesn't forgive it ah there's a
difference between sin the principle that causes you
to commit the sins the fruit your sins
and iniquities i will remember no more but
the force that causes you to do that
the sin principle within you handed on down
through life from adam to now by natural
birth processes the sin nature is what god
hates and never forgives but he forgives what
we do because of that principle of sin
and he punished christ for the principle he
never forgave it he punished christ for it
that's why christ now forgives us for what
we do because he's already taken the punishment
for what we are sinful you see you
don't steal to become a thief it's because
you're a thief by sin nature that you
steal and you can be here all night
nobody ever get the idea that you're a
thief if you just keep your hands in
your own pockets it's only after you've stolen
that we know that you're a thief but
that's not the first time that you suddenly
become a thief you've probably been a person
that would do that all your life you
just advertise it by stealing you can be
a liar and never advertise you're a liar
if you don't tell a lie but the
minute you tell it we know what you
are she's a liar he's a liar why
they've advertised it by lying but basically they
are that by nature there's an idea within
people's minds that if i go out and
commit sin i become a sinner no no
we commit sins because we are sinful and
it's the sin that causes us to go
out and steal and cheat and do the
rest that jesus took the punishment for and
that god never forgives but we now come
knowing that he took the punishment for us
and we tell him all the things we
do wrong and those sins and iniquities are
forgiven and forgotten there's no record of and
the punishment that god hated sin he hated
it in jesus he punished jesus instead of
us here i would say that then i
would say from what i've observed that the
new age movement is more aligned with the
the false prophet than than uh the driving
force of the materialism of the world you
see when it is declaring that there will
be at that last time some sort of
acceptable religious face in life headed up by
your false prophet i would think that all
of that tends and lends towards that and
uh it will be in it but not
sort of as it were um the driving
force behind the babylon you see your your
false prophet is being deceived and empowered by
the beast and and behind the beast whom
he believes is satan himself so satan is
the force that's empowering the big political leader
who's empowering the false prophet and encouraging him
to bring about a world system of unified
religion based on things that are miraculous visible
tangible sensual whereas we live by faith not
by sight and so yes of course it's
going to be part of it uh and
i would say we have um i would
recommend to you i think there's a two
-hour cassette a video cassette on the new
church age movement by um mr hunt uh
jacob do you remember the name of that
tape we showed it to you about two
or three weeks ago you don't remember the
name of it you forget it i will
try to find out the title of the
tape and pass the information on to the
vicar and it's something worth looking at it's
two hours and it's really quite frightening to
see how very subtly coming in through the
church doors and into society all over are
things that are being presented as though it's
for physical and health recreation yoga meditation dietary
tm all of it supposedly couched in a
way that it looks like it's nothing to
do with religion this is for physical betterment
of a life and it's nothing more or
less than teaching you the hinduism and eastern
occultism and system and it's coming in in
a disguise so that if it was blatantly
presented as as hinduism you'd say i don't
want it but it's put in such a
fashion that you think it's for your health
and that it's nothing to do with a
spirit life but it's slowly teaching you to
open up to the spirit forces and it's
a very long uh tape it's about two
hours and uh but it is absolutely loaded
and once you see that it really puts
you on your mark and most of it's
about the new church age movement uh do
you remember if it included anything on the
ecumenical movement jacob he's not too certain but
anyway have a good watch at it it's
pretty intensive yes well you're happy you're three
three and a half years through your false
peacemaker being in the middle east and he
doesn't know that he's a false peacemaker to
him he's a genuine peacemaker going into the
middle east to try and keep the peace
in that mess and at that time those
to the north in the caucasus mountains your
gorgon may gorg from tubal and michak which
is almost equivalent to your tobolsk and moscow
and your soviets come down to knock the
peacemaker out and get israel as a side
issue and that war takes place then in
comes your east and your south and it's
just towards the end of that next three
and a half years that you find christ
coming back and putting that fight to a
stop by setting up this one thousand years
reign then after that there is the rebellion
against him and with the word of his
mouth he just blows that entire earth and
heavens pass away from him then he starts
judging all of those that rejected him then
there's the new planet new earth and we
come to live with him on it after
that david ma'am uh
all we know is that i explained at
the beginning of the study john has been
told to write what he saw and remember
that that man rich man said to abraham
uh touch my tongue because i am tormented
in this flame now the flame seemed to
be in his tongue more than anything else
uh john is trying to describe what he
saw not what he heard he's not talking
literally he's describing a scene that he saw
and to him it looked like a lake
of fire but it would be pretty indicative
of a place of perpetual torment more than
non-stop flames uh we have to wait
and find out there is no yes because
they are out as he said they're outside
outside is all those that rejected me and
they live to me the biggest torment is
that they're outside but they're now all convinced
evangelicals but on the wrong side of the
fence because they now all believe the truth
they all know that god exists christ exists
christ is the son of god there's god
the father god the son god the holy
ghost the church was right but it's too
late hmm
well well i think that when you get
there you're all going to be surprised anyway
uh to find that god does everything right
and he doesn't do anything heartless david well
i've never even bothered to think about it
because i have never studied scripture everything that
i've given you this week has been on
the basis of my reading of the book
of itself for years and i have not
saturated myself with the books that people have
written about the book but the book itself
and in the reading of the book itself
i have never come to a conclusion that
there are three possibilities i see myself escaping
the wrath to come i see myself belonging
to the marriage of the lamb and not
the wrath of the lamb i see myself
changed in a twinkling an eye or if
i'm already dead in the grave being caught
up to meet him in the air and
in my new body and i can see
that once the church is taken out of
the way all of this takes place with
all the rest of the scriptures confirming one
thing against the other and i suppose maybe
one of these days i'll go down dying
as the last pre-millennial man in the
world but i think that it will not
do much harm to myself in that respect
in that if i'm finally get to heaven
and find we're all wrong it'll be fun
because as i said we'll look at them
and we'll agree and uh but there's one
thing certain is that at the moment i
don't bog myself down trying to win the
issue i'm more interested in winning the people
for christ and one day we'll all find
out how silly we were about our theology
all right then back to the vicar i
thought we'd have to finish with 175 because
it finishes on the word crown because as
we've been listening to billy we found out
again that the most important thing is whatever
doctrines we hold that on a hill far
away stole an old rugged cross the emblem
of suffering and shame and i love that
old cross where the dearest and best for
a world of lost sinners was slain i've
told you i won't rattle i've told you
it's one of my favorite hymns because one
day i'm going to change the old rugged
cross for a crown