928 feet.
928.
Don't think we've ever had this thing before.
We are marching to a city on the
hill of Bionfair with its beauty and its
splendor that no other can compare, soon with
all the ransomed army, in their pure and
bright array, we shall gather in the morning
where the shadows flee away.
And I put an old-fashioned tune to
it this afternoon, and listen for it in
your heart.
We are marching on the hill of
Bionfair.
And let
me say this, that we in this place,
we read out of this old authorized version.
This book has been honored and blessed and
owned by God down through the ages.
Since King James ordered these scholars to prepare
this translation, it has been the most widely
used and the most blessed and honored of
God of all the translations.
And let me say this, that while I
will be here, and my elders who are
here with me, there will never be anything
else in this purpose.
You got that?
Quite clear.
Never be anything else.
And let me say this quite clearly and
definitely and plainly and rudely, that the Baptist
Union of England and Ireland, as they call
themselves, has nothing to do with this church,
nor never will.
We have no fellowship with them, and we
won't have any.
You got that quite clear now?
The Baptist Union of England and Ireland, as
they call themselves, they have nothing to do
with us.
And they never will.
We wouldn't leave alone.
You got that?
Just in case somebody tries to lead you
up a blind alley about us.
You know, when you go to America, it's
the label of Baptists.
It's a very large denomination, you know.
In fact, there was at one point, it
was the largest denomination in the world.
But that's not for us to crow about,
because when you go to America, you get
what's called Northern Baptists.
And then you get Southern Baptists.
Then you get Bible Baptists.
Then you get strict Baptists.
Then you get conservative Baptists.
And you get queer Baptists, you know.
And you get MMI, and then the Morgans.
So that it will be very easy to
find in some of the Baptist churches in
America, old moderns whom we wouldn't own for
a second.
So that if anybody says to you, there's
a Baptist in America, and he does this
and that, don't you get excited.
He has no truck with us, and we
wouldn't own him.
Sometimes when I go to England for to
preach, I couldn't go to the Baptist church
on Sunday.
There's an old teller, I have to go
to the Brethren.
And then he quibbles about doing it.
You don't think I would sit under an
old modernist, even if he called himself a
Baptist.
Not for a second.
So we're putting the score right.
We will use this blessed book that God
gave us through King James.
And there'll never be another one here.
As far as the Baptist Union of England
and Ireland, as they call themselves, is concerned,
we have no fellowship with them.
And we never shall.
Is that clear enough?
And if you get somebody who's a queer
Baptist, tell them we have a lot in
here too.
All right, we'll put the score right now,
maybe it will keep folks from leading you
off a blind eye.
We're going through the book of the Revelation,
and we're at chapter 5.
And we're going through from verse 6 this
evening, to the end of the chapter.
Book of the Revelation, chapter 5, commencing at
verse 6 and going through to the end
of the chapter.
It's a wonderful portion.
Those of you who have been coming week
after week, you know that chapters 4 and
5, the scene is set in heaven.
In chapter 4, we were taken up with
the transcendence of the throne for the whole
night, almost.
And saw the glory of this throne.
And we saw our Lord upon the throne,
the first and the last sitting upon the
throne.
But last week we learned something about the
triune God on this throne.
And we found out that once upon a
time the eternal Son of God left the
throne of God.
And the Son of God came to us
to be the Lamb of God.
And he had left the throne for the
purpose of atonement, for actual atonement.
And we learned last week that although he
was exalted and had gone back and sat
down again, again he left the throne.
This time not to become the Lamb, but
the Lion.
This time not to come to us, but
to stand before the throne.
And in the midst of all that surrounded
the throne, to take the book out of
the hand of him that was upon the
throne.
You see, he left the throne once upon
a time for actual atonement.
And came and died and rose again and
went back again.
And on this occasion he is leaving the
throne, not so much for actual atonement, but
for final adjustment.
The final adjustment of this planet of ours.
And from heaven as the Lion, he's going
to deal with sin.
And he's going to deal with satan.
And he's going to deal with sorrow.
And he's going to deal with suffering.
And he's going to deal with sinners.
And he's going to give this planet of
ours its final adjustment.
And make it a place for God's glory
for all eternity.
Now that's just as far as we've gone.
And in this chapter five we see him
in the midst of the throne.
Last week we looked at the importance of
the book that was in the hand of
God the Father.
And then we looked at the performance of
the Lion and that took us to verse
five.
Now we want to have a look at
the appearance of the Lamb this evening.
Verse six, John speaking said, And I beheld,
and I want you to mark the word
beheld very carefully this evening.
John has been translated to heaven and he's
getting this great vision.
He's beholding this.
I beheld, and lo!
In the midst of the throne, and of
the four beasts, and in the midst of
the elders.
You see we've got to set the scene
properly.
You want to see the throne?
And the Father is upon it just now?
And you want to see these four beasts
that we looked at the other night?
And we examined very carefully the business of
the beasts.
And they've got a lot to do with
this adjustment of us.
This final adjustment.
And you want to see these elders?
Twenty-four representatives of Old Testament faith from
the Twelve Tribes and the New Testament Church
under the Twelve Apostles.
And so this is the scene that's there.
You can see the throne, the hymn that
sits upon it.
You can see the four beasts, you can
see the elders.
I'm in the midst of these now.
Just in the midst.
What a wonderful vision it is.
Should a lamb of it have been slain.
Let's get this first of all.
You see, our Lord Jesus Christ is the
Lamb.
His past chains will be forever remembered.
It was Sir Robert Anderson who first said
this.
Sir Robert Anderson left time altogether, as it
were, and went away to the former foundation
of the world.
And he could see the Lamb slain in
the plan and purpose of God before the
foundation of the world.
And you know when God elected, because He
calls Christ, Man-elect.
When He chose Him to be the Lamb,
and in the mind and purpose of God
He was slain from before the foundation of
the world.
Sir Robert Anderson said, eternity past.
Knew no other future than Calvary.
You see, all God's plans were centered there.
And He was looking down through the tents
and the shadows and the parallels and pictures
of the old economy.
He was looking to the cross.
Eternity past.
Knew no other future.
And then Sir Robert Anderson came to hear.
And he could see eternity to come.
When the church is at home.
When all the saints have gathered in the
Lamb that felled them day.
You know, they will see the Lamb as
it is.
You see, eternity to come.
Will know no other past.
But Calvary had a pretty good thinking.
Eternity past.
Knew no other future than Calvary.
And eternity to come will know no other
past.
You see, Calvary is the center of everything.
And remember, Calvary covers it all.
You see, all heaven is seeing the Lamb.
All it had been slain.
But I think that we should get this
word in properly.
He says, I beheld and know in the
midst of the throne and of the four
beasts and in the midst of the elders
stood a Lamb.
We're not only thinking about the death of
Christ here.
A Lamb as it had been slain.
But we're thinking about the death and resurrection.
For this is the Lamb on His feet
again.
This is the Lamb standing in heaven for
you.
For you.
Standing to maintain you.
Standing to bring all the hopes that God
has given you to fruition.
We must never forget that He not only
died but rose again.
Yes, I think that you can see the
pains of the past are very much remembered
here.
And then it goes on to say, and
in the midst of the elders stood a
Lamb as it had been slain having seven
horns.
What a picture this is.
You know, this is His perfect power.
Seven is the number of perfection, isn't it?
And the horns always speak of power.
There's a farmer in the meeting and he's
got a big bull out there.
And I can tell you when he's coming
after you all out, and the head down
and the horns, I can tell you, you
need to be going.
See, I go out there sometimes.
And my son and I went away down
the field one day to cut a black
thorn stick.
There are black thorns away down there.
I don't know what I wanted the old
black thorn stick for anyway.
But that's another story.
But it was a way down in the...
Do you know that word?
I'll guarantee you can't spell it, but never
mind.
He was down in the shuck, and I
had him by the heels, you see, and
was letting him down to cut this thing,
when I heard something behind me.
And about ten feet away was this bull
with the head down and the eyes rolling.
And I gave him a chug and I
said, come on, boy.
And away we went.
And this bull started to go...
And he's slow at getting into gear, I
know, he's a big heavy thing.
But boy, when he gets into gear.
And you see, my son, he's a sort
of activist character.
He just runs up the side of the
hedge, puts his hand on a pole, vaults
over.
Go ahead, Dad, you're all right.
Well, I can't do it, so I used
to be able to do it.
I can't, so I got to run on.
And I'll tell you, by the time I
was getting up to the gate, this fellow
wasn't too far away.
And he hit the gate a lot of
her.
Yes, these horns speak of power.
And when you get seven horns upon a
lamb, you've never seen that, sure you haven't.
You see, this is speaking of Christ's perfect
power in heaven.
I wish we believed it.
You know, when he was going away, he
said to his disciples, All power is given
unto me in heaven.
Let me tell you that he has all
power tonight.
We see royal power parading on this earth
at times.
And we see dictatorial power parading.
And political power, and there's a few around
Ulster craving for it.
And we know all about financial power.
Some of these men with the millions can
nearly do as the like of putting Heath
into a fix just now.
Four and a half thousand million they drew
out yesterday.
Because Mr. Heath may throw the workmen around
with his law.
But the boys with money will have to
throw around.
Maybe he'll learn as he grows up and
somebody buys him a boat.
Let's get the hold of this.
That all power belongs to Christ.
Sometimes we think the thing is out of
hand.
It is not at all.
My dear friend, Christ is still on the
throne.
And all power in heaven and on earth
belongs to him.
Wish we knew more about this perfect power
which is seven horns.
And you know this is the great vision
that we have here.
Not only the past pains remembered and the
perfect power revealed.
But look at this.
Stood a lamb as it had been slain
having seven horns and seven eyes.
That makes it an unusual figure doesn't it?
A lamb, seven horns, seven eyes which are
the seven spirits of God or the fullness
of the spirit of God.
You know I think we need to see
this.
That this vision is telling us that his
past pains will be always remembered.
And that his present power is revealed.
And that his powerful perfection is recorded.
You know he sees everything.
He sees everything that's going on.
He's your heart you know.
Knows exactly your motives.
Looks down at Ulster.
Knows Dr. Paisley's motives.
Knows Bill Craig's motives.
Knows Faulkner's motives.
And pull any wool over his eyes you
know.
He can see.
There's a reminder about them they can see
you.
We should go slowly you know looking up
saying.
Thou God seest me.
All things are open and naked unto the
eyes of him with whom we have to
do.
We never block him.
But the revelation is here.
Yes.
This is the appearance of the lamb.
You can see his past pains.
Is remembered.
And his perfect power revealed.
And his powerful perception recorded.
And John tells the story in that place
he says.
And I beheld in the midst of the
floor and of the four beasts and in
the midst of the elders stood a lamb
that had been flamed.
Having seven horns and seven eyes which are
the seven spirits of God sent forth into
all the earth.
Looking up the earth.
And he came.
And took the book out of the right
hand of him that sat upon the throne.
What a mighty moment this must be.
You see this is the moment.
When the lamb of the lion of the
tribe of Judah.
Is going to take all the writings that
God hath in this book.
The writings that will bring judgment to this
earth.
When he puts out the antichrist.
And sin and sorrow and suffering.
And when he takes the book he becomes
a judge.
Of all the earth you know all judgment
is given unto the son.
And this will be one of the great
never to be forgotten moments of heaven.
When he takes the book out of the
hands.
Of him that sat upon the throne.
I think everybody there will sort of.
Just wait a moment you know.
Cause things are going to happen on earth
from that moment onward.
That a lot of people never dreamed of.
See when we are finished with this scene
tonight we will be starting next week if
God will.
In opening the book.
And then you will see the things happening
on earth.
The four white men we are dealing with
next week.
It is exactly what they mean to this
earth of ours.
And then we will go on through 6
and 7 and 8 and 9 and 10
and 11 and 12 and 13 and 14
and 15 and 16 and 17 and 18.
And all those chapters bring the things that
are coming out of this world.
I believe that the whole revelation just beginning
with the chapter 6.
Because all that we have been doing.
Seeing John on Patmos.
Seeing the church.
Seeing it translated.
Seeing the scene in heaven.
It is all an introduction.
The thing that God wants us to see.
Is only dealt with the introduction.
Now when he takes the book here.
Something else happens that we must take note
of.
Verse 8.
And when he had taken the book.
The four beasts.
And four and twenty elders fell down before
the Lamb.
Every one of them.
Having every one of them hearts.
And that only refers to the four and
twenty elders of course.
The beasts don't have any hearts.
As you would know.
And golden vials full of orders.
Which are the prayers of saints.
You know what the saints have prayed for
ages.
I hope you do.
Well for ages they have prayed.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done on earth as it
is in heaven.
Of course there has to be a lot
of things done on earth before it can
be fulfilled.
But they are going to be all presented
at that psychological moment.
And then the Lord is going to start
to make earth like heaven.
But there will be a lot of clearing
out to be done there.
Has to redecorate the whole house won't it.
And it says here speaking of these twenty
four elders.
And they sung a new song.
Now that's a very wonderful note that's there.
It's a new song and I've underlined that
for you.
The newness of the song.
Now what's new about it?
There's one or two songs in this book
you know.
You remember chapter one do you?
Well let's go back and have a look
at it.
Chapter one and John is writing.
See verse four.
John to the seven churches.
He's writing to these churches.
Verse five.
Armed from Jesus Christ.
He's writing to and he's writing from Jesus
Christ.
Who is the faithful witness and the first
begotten of the dead and the prince of
the kingdom of the earth.
And when he said all those wonderful things
you know he just burst into song.
Unto him that loves us and washed us
from our sins in his own blood and
hath made us kings and priests unto God
and his father.
To him the glory and dominion forever and
ever.
Now that's the song that John sang just
because his heart was turned.
In what sense is this on this other
page a new song?
It's not the same old song you know.
I know that when you look at it
you almost think it is but just take
a good look at it.
See verse nine in chapter five they sung
a new song saying.
Thou art worthy to take the book and
to open the seals thereof.
For thou wast slain and hast redeemed us
to God by thy blood out of every
kindred and tongue and people and nation.
And hast made us unto our God kings
and priests and we shall reign.
And the little word on in the old
original is the word over we shall reign
over the earth.
Now the two songs are not the same.
I know that John sang unto him that
loves us and washed us from our sins
in his blood and hath made us kings
and priests.
In fact when we come from chapter one
to chapter four you remember this.
There's four and twenty elders in verse ten.
Four and twenty elders fall down before him
that sat on the throne and worshiped him
that liveth forever and ever and cast their
crowns before the throne saying.
I know it's saying here.
Thou art worthy O Lord to receive glory
and honor and power for thou hast created
all things.
Now what's the difference between these songs?
Now in the third song that John sings,
John is singing about Christ's redeeming power.
And that's just as far as he goes.
Thou hast washed us and thou hast made
us kings and priests.
And in this fourth chapter the whole church
is saying, if it is not singing it
is at least saying.
It's talking about his creatorial power.
Do you get the difference?
It's redemption power that's in charge.
It's a creatorial power for thou hast created
all things.
Now when you come to chapter five it's
a new song because it not only goes
back to Calvary and talks about redemption by
blood and about us being made kings and
priests.
But it brings in this new bit.
We shall reign over the earth.
And it is talking about his millennial power.
And they never sung about that before.
Because we're going to reign.
What's this?
Not on the earth.
Over the earth is the word.
You see some people think that when we
rise to meet the Lord in the air
we shall be changed and our bodies will
be made like unto his glorious bodies.
What a moment it will be when we're
changed.
We'll be spirit beings from that moment.
We'll be eternal spirit beings.
We'll be mortals no more.
This mortal shall put on immortality at that
moment.
When you can't bring spirit beings in amongst
human beings.
That would make a mess of things.
When our Lord rose from the dead.
And we'll be made like him.
You know he can walk through the wall.
The doors were barred but he came into
them.
You can't have people walking through the doors
into humans' bedrooms can you?
You've got to spell it out sometimes.
No we're not coming to reign on the
earth.
We're going to reign over the earth.
And we'll be so changed.
That you know we'll be one with Christ
no matter where he is.
We say he's in heaven now on the
throne.
So he is.
But if you're spiritual enough you can get
this wonderful truth in your heart that he's
at your elbow.
But in the sweet by and by you'll
know it better when you're more spiritual won't
you?
This is a new song.
From that end that we're going.
It's the singing about his not only millennial
but his universal and his eternal power.
So that's the newness of the song.
And I want you to note this about
it going back to chapter 5 and verse
9.
Thou art worthy.
You know that's a great thing.
I'm waiting for the day when I'll be
able to sing this with this great crowd.
You see when this book was first seen
we've been through this.
It's set in verse 3 of this chapter.
No man in heaven nor in earth neither
under the earth.
No man in heaven or earth or hell
was able to open the book neither to
look thereon.
John even looked because there was no man
found worthy.
You see this book is the book with
all the writings of God's plans to put
this earth right.
And you know we've had so many people
down through the ages who thought they were
worthy to do this.
Hitler thought he could put it like he'd
put it into a mess.
And we have so many men clamoring in
us sir.
They're all going to put it right.
They can't do it.
We might as well own up to this.
They will all do it if you let
them be the boss.
But the trouble is that they're working with
humans that's not going to let them be
the boss.
There's only one who will put it right.
There's only one worthy anyone.
Because I'll tell you this.
He will.
Because there's a lot of bigotry in the
best of us.
I'll be singing one day.
God put this whole world right.
What a wonderful savior he is.
The government of the whole world will be
on his shoulder in that day.
And what a wonderful world we make it.
God will.
Yes the newness of the song and the
worthiness of the man.
And you look at this song.
Thou art worthy to take the book and
to open the seal of that off.
For thou hast slain and hast redeemed us
to God by thy blood.
He said on the line those three mean
words.
By thy blood.
Do you know what the Presbyterians are doing
now?
Taking the handbook and putting out all the
hymns with the blood in it.
Yes they are.
I wonder how they're going to sing in
heaven.
Because they're not be cutting it out in
heaven for the Presbyterians to do it.
My dear friend Jesus from hell and the
devil.
It is precious blood.
Let me say this to you just now.
That without shedding of Christ's blood you could
never get pardoned.
And if you're pardoned tonight.
It's only because of the efficacious power of
the blood.
And how dare you.
Go away with it.
My dear friends the man and woman.
Dear Presbyterian you want a blush.
Oh well Robert I'm through as long as
you come near.
Don't you think that I'm going flat with
it on me.
What are they singing in heaven?
Is that not enough?
That's as good an argument as I can
find.
How dare them cut it out on earth.
Of all they'd be glad to sing it
in heaven.
Yes you know their song.
It's the newness of the song and the
worthiness of the lamb and the preciousness of
the blood.
Do you know that the vastness of the
song.
Thou hast redeemed us to God by thy
blood.
Out of every kindred.
And tongue.
And people.
And nation.
Isn't that great.
Black.
And white.
And red.
And yellow.
And land.
And illiterate.
And high.
And low.
And rich.
And poor.
And Protestant.
And Catholic.
Somebody said to me, do you think that
the Roman Catholics are nice?
My you can just be absolutely sure.
You know they had a fellow here some
years ago who was a grocer.
Who used to take their goods to the
convent.
Going into the convent with a basket of
goods.
Which one?
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds in
the believer's ear.
Old man going past said.
That's a lovely hill you've got to live
in.
And here he dropped the goods you know.
You know what some of these bigoted Baptists
are don't you.
He says to him over him.
He says dear Tom.
I don't only know the hymn.
I know the one hymn.
He didn't think he'd ever hear that in
a convent.
Left the goods done.
They're all excited now.
He says dear Tom do you see.
He says I'm 73 years of age.
And I was saved when I was 70.
Just three years ago.
I've no home.
I've nowhere to go.
My day is nearly finished.
But I shall stay here and tell the
young nuns about the thing.
She'll miss me you know.
She'll run and argue with me that she
won't be in heaven.
God bless her.
The Lord will save them from everywhere just
the glorified name.
Out of the jungle.
From under the idols of the far east.
From the banks of the Ganges.
From every conceivable quarter of earth.
Bless these holy men.
This man is called man and woman by
his mighty grace.
Oh be there one day.
What a day it will be.
Yes the newness of the song and the
worthiness of the nun.
And the preciousness of the blood and the
vastness of the song.
And then the priestliness of the saints you
know.
Fath made us unto our God kings and
priests.
Sometimes you know we forget who we are.
We're sons and daughters of the living God.
We shall reign you know over the earth
with him.
Kings and priests.
I want you to get this bit into
your mind.
And we shall reign.
There's no doubts at all about it you
know.
We shall reign over the earth.
You see the Lord's going to put everything
out of this earth that's all wrong.
And there is going to be a millennial
reign where he shall reign.
Where the sun of its successive journeys run
for over one thousand years.
And while he's doing that down there we'll
be in the new Jerusalem reigning over the
earth with him.
Because he's going to have the heavenly people
and the earthly people you know.
Let me say it now you have them
for all eternity too.
What a song it is.
That's what makes it a new song.
And then John says, verse 11.
And I'm coming now onto the elegance of
the saints it should be.
And I thought that our lady secretary had
left the ass out.
And then when I looked up the notes
it was the old man that left the
ass out.
She's laughing now.
I was just sat for it.
And then when I looked it up it
was stupid again.
I confess it was me yes.
You're all right.
I shouldn't have put the ass in I
must have made a blunder.
But it is the elegance of the saints
that I really meant to put there.
You can put the ass on.
Because there are saints here.
Now watch this one.
And I beheld and I heard the voice
of many angels.
Let's get round about the throne and the
beasts and the elders.
And the number of them was 10,000
times 10,000 and thousands of thousands.
And one of our fellows here you know
counted up one night.
It's the way over a billion.
I took his word for it there's no
use for me arguing with him.
I wonder what a billion angels would look
like.
He could be a patch of ground for
them wouldn't he.
You know a fellow came to me once
and he said you think that there are
billions of angels I said yes I do.
And there will be billions of saints yes.
He said well God do legit a space
for these.
Well isn't it funny what some stupid wee
fellow would do.
Worry himself about God's problem.
I said you know if you look that
way we're 93 million miles from the sun.
Of course where our planet is going round
the sun here she's 93 million miles away.
But then when you go out to the
very end of our solar system the surface
of the planet is countless millions away.
And then there are about a million planets
and a million solar systems after that.
Oh you don't need to worry about space.
This fellow was troubling himself.
You know it was like a spritz.
You know what the word spritz means.
You ever go to catch spritz.
Some of you younger ones you don't know
about the spritz you know.
You know as a young fellow we used
to go into the old burn that runs
along the end of the road.
Throws us up over the knees.
Down into the water you know.
You catch them like this you know.
Just a wee tiny little bag.
Put them into the jar.
From home you know where about 6 of
them you think you were out on safari
all day.
Well you know this wee fellow that talked
to me about where would God get the
space.
I said to me you're like a spritz
boy in the Atlantic Ocean.
Afraid to take a gulp of water and
see if he would eat it all up.
People do give themselves unnecessarily troubles at times
don't they.
God is tons of space.
Yes but this is a great cloud isn't
it.
All these angels.
Now sing with a loud voice.
You'll notice that the saints were singing a
new song.
And the angels are saying worthy is the
lamb that was slain.
One night before I pointed out the difference.
You see you have the soul and the
four beasts and you have all the saints.
And the saints are looking into the Lord's
face and they're singing a new song.
Thou art worthy.
But the angels were at the back of
the church you know.
They're not singing.
They can't sing redemption songs.
It was him right there who was right
when he said and when I sing redemption
stories angels fold their wings.
For angels never knew the joy that my
salvation brings.
An angel never had the experience of being
washed in the blood of the lamb.
An angel never had an experience of being
brought out of darkness into light.
The angels never had the experience of being
born again.
So they cannot sing redemption stories.
Oh but they believe it all.
They stand away at the back of the
church and say worthy is the lamb.
Oh but the saints look into the face
and say thou art worthy.
You know I was watching Nixon the other
night.
I have to look at all the news
to see what's going on.
And in this crowning day for him you
know there were thousands upon thousands in that
great square before the White House.
And you could see the camera turned on
the one day and there were chairs and
there were waving flags and there were waving
hats because he was the new president.
But there was a wee woman by this
side that I was looking at.
She was looking at him and her eyes
were shining in awe and her whole being
was moved and I said to myself that
crowd out there, they're like the angels.
But the wee woman is like the bride.
It's her whole mind.
She's looking into his eyes and saying oh
they're saying worthy.
She loves him.
It's a great picture you know.
The angels which lay apart which lay in
the background saying that the Lord God is
worthy is the lamb that was claimed to
receive power and riches and wisdom and strength.
Now there's another saying here and we want
to be very careful with it because it
has got some of the pictures into trouble.
It's an elegant saying all right.
Now verse 13, just watch it.
And every creature which is in heaven and
that means every creature and on the earth
and under the earth it's all in heaven
and all on earth and all in hell
and all that are in them heard I
say blessing and honor and glory and power
be unto him that sitteth upon the throne
and unto the lamb forever and ever.
Now I want you to get this because
in this chapter the lion is before the
throne.
He's in the midst of these beasts and
these elders and he's before the throne and
he's taken the book out of the hand
and it's then the saints begin to sing
this new song.
And away at the back of the clothes
of the saints stand the angels and they
say worthy is the lamb.
Now I told you to watch the word
coming down verse 6 began and I beheld
you see verse 11 and I beheld and
I heard.
Now when it comes to this one he
doesn't behold it at all.
He says heard I verse 13 he just
heard this song.
You see I don't think this happened at
this time.
I think John in his prophetic role just
then he was in heaven and all these
other things he's seen I beheld them.
But he's allowed to hear an echo an
echo that comes away because everybody in earth
at that particular time won't be taking the
lamb.
If you look down the Antichrist the man
of Shemel put the root on the day
you know then every knee shall bow then
every tongue shall bow and John's just hearing
something that's away in the distance and even
all in hell and that means the demons
and the devil.
It'll be a terrible day for him when
he has to bow his knees and confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord and he will.
It's a tremendous thing this.
It's hard to picture it we'll do it
better still we'll make this look long and
I'll have to pick four boys up round
about here called the beasts four beasts four
beasts for once one of them must have
a face like a lion and one of
them must have a face like an ox
because the four beasts are tremendous.
One of them around here would do for
the eagle because he's baldy on the top
so he is.
Alright let's get the four beasts in round
here the throne and then the beasts and
then half way up the church and round
there the snake a scruffy lot looking from
here bolt of the fence now right away
at the back those are the angels what
a ragged lot of looking angels they are.
Now you see when the thing is set
you can see the lamb in the midst
before the throne you can see the beasts
falling down you can hear the streets sing
do you hear the angels sing on the
way out in the street not in the
picture at all where at the end of
the age there's a knackle call from every
creature and the song gets to
the end of the act one day he
will what a book we have next week
we start reading on the sixth chapter and
the four horsemen here's a hymn we've never
had in our lives before nine nine nine
that's not looking for trouble or anything nine
hundred and ninety nine hark hark the song
of the ransom the new made song of
praise the lord the lamb they glorified and
these the strains they raised glory to him
who loved us and washed us in his
blood and cleansed our souls from guilt and
sin by the pure living flood nine nine
nine and the tune is easy thank you
the lord part in my fear with our
blessing take us to our homes and safety
through jesus christ our lord amen
you