The book of the Revelation, and we are
at this great fourth chapter, and do remember
that in chapter eleven, verse thirteen, the seventh
angel sounded the trumpet.
And we have been looking at these trumpets
being sounded one by one, and this is
the seventh one, this is what is known
as the last trumpet.
And as the last trumpet was sounded we
found out that there was great excitement in
heaven, and then we got a lot of
items that would take place consecutively, but the
details of those items were not there.
But we start in this twelfth chapter to
get the details.
And here we see a woman on earth,
make no hesitation about it, while the twelfth
chapter begins like this, there appeared a great
wonder in heaven.
The word wonder is the word sign if
you look at the margin of your bible,
and this sign was given to all and
sundry who were in heaven.
And then a woman comes into focus, but
let's get it quite clear that the woman
is on earth, she's not in heaven, the
sign is only given in heaven.
Someone came to argue with me once and
said you know this woman is in heaven.
And I just turned the book up and
read the sixth verse, have a look at
the sixth one.
And the woman fled into the wilderness.
And I said to my friend, why would
you like to explain to me how there
is a wilderness in heaven.
But you look so stupid when you make
a statement and somebody turns up a simple
phrase.
I wonder do these people not really study
this before they make these tremendous claims.
Sometimes I think they don't you know, just
talk.
And I'm not very merciful to people who
just talk, because I think that you need
to shut their mouth for good and for
all.
It is quite clear to any intelligent person
that the woman is on earth, and of
course you can see here in the sixth
verse that the woman fled into the wilderness,
where she had the peace prepared of God,
that they should keep her there 8,203
score days.
Which if you count it up is 42
months or three and a half years.
And you don't have time, no days there,
no months either.
So the woman is on earth.
And she's on earth in a particular period.
That's how you tie it down.
She's not on earth in some part of
the world's history that we can't get the
hold of.
She's on earth after this particular part of
the three and a half years of tribulation.
And last week we went into the eleventh
chapter and found the two witnesses on earth
at the same time.
And the next time we'll hear if the
Lord will, we'll be going into the fifteenth
chapter and we'll find the beast on earth
for 42 months at the same time.
They're all here together.
And how people get it mixed up, I
wouldn't know.
That's how people can get it mixed up.
And you know, if there are any doubts
left, if you go on down to verse
thirteen you'll find this.
And then the dragon saw that he was
cast onto the earth.
And we'll go into the detail about the
dragon in a moment.
It's the old devil.
And he's being cast out of the heavenlies
now onto the earth.
He persecuted the woman.
There will be no persecution in heaven and
there'll be no devil there.
The woman is certainly on earth.
And she's on earth at that particular period
when the great tribulation is at its greatest
and the devil will be persecuting her.
And it took a long time last Tuesday
to discover who she was.
And I pointed out to the class there
are five great women in the scriptures.
Eve, of course, who is the mother of
us all in that sense, was a great
woman.
And, of course, Israel as the wife of
Jehovah.
She is brought before us again and again
as a Jewish woman, a woman that God
called and married.
She's the wife of Jehovah.
Of course, the Virgin Mary, the Blessed Virgin
Mary was a great woman.
Of course, the Bride of Christ, the Church,
the Bride.
And we should be able to differentiate between
the wife and the Bride.
Catholicia was the wife of Jehovah and the
Church is the Bride of Christ.
And then there's another woman mentioned that chapter
17, we'll come to that someday.
She's called the Scarlet Woman.
Because I have no hesitation in saying that
this is the Roman Church and the Roman
Church is a diabolical system on this earth,
whether you like it or not.
And I'll tell you God will deal with
it yet and we'll find out that he
will.
Now, out of these five, who is this
woman here?
Well, it's quite easy for the class to
know it can't be me who's brought back
onto the air in the midst of this.
And it's certainly not the Virgin Mary.
And it's certainly not the Church.
Because the Church is in heaven in chapter
5, praising the Lord.
Only two women left out of the five.
Israel, the Wife of Jehovah, and the Scarlet
Woman.
But when we shall examine the Scarlet Woman
in Revelation chapter 17, we will find that
she's riding the beast's feet on the back
of the Antichrist.
And for a while he will allow her
to ride.
You know, I'd be amused at some folk
who say the poop is the Antichrist.
It's the beast is the Antichrist and we
should prove that as our dead ease.
You don't think that the Roman Church will
ride the poop, do you?
Because you need to use a logic about
it.
Because I can tell you that the Scarlet
Woman, who is the Roman Church, is riding
the beast, who is the Antichrist.
And I think there's a great lot of
crap talked about the Pope not saying anything
on his behalf, you know.
But I'm telling you that he's not the
Antichrist.
The Antichrist will have to be a Jew
and we shall find the very tribe that
he comes from and all the rest of
it.
And so, if the Roman Church is riding
the beast, then we're just left with one.
And we had no troubles at all last
week discovering that this woman here on earth,
being persecuted and running into the wilderness, and
being preserved in the wilderness, is Israel.
Remember once upon a time, God preserved Israel
in the wilderness for 40 years.
And God will keep the remnant of Israel
in the wilderness again for three and a
half of the very worst that this world
has ever seen.
So we've already done all this in the
class last week and I can't take any
more time with it now.
I think you can see this.
I want to come to the crisis of
the child for a moment.
And we find this out, we'll read from
verse 1 just to get the proper connection.
And there appeared a great wonder in heaven,
a woman clothed with the sun, and the
moon under her feet, and upon her head
a crown of twelve stars.
And we went into that very carefully.
And she being this child tribe, prevailing in
birth, and came to be delivered.
And there appeared another wonder in heaven, and
behold a great red dragon having seven heads
and ten horns and seven crowns upon his
head.
And we'll take time with that in a
moment.
And his tail drew the third part of
the stars of heaven, and it cast them
to the earth.
And the dragon stood before the woman which
was ready to be delivered for to devour
her child as soon as it was born.
And I've called this, on your notes, the
battle of his birth.
You know, it's a great study and I'm
not taking time to do this this evening.
From that moment in the garden of Eden,
when God looked at the devil and said,
I will put enmity between thee and the
woman, between thy seed and her seed, it
or he shall bruise thy head, and thou
shall be allowed to bruise his heel.
And from the moment that the devil knew
that someone was going to be born into
this world, who would absolutely destroy him, he
was on the lookout all the time.
There was quite a time in history when
he wasn't very sure where the child would
come from.
Because I can tell you that the first
child that Eve had was King.
And I think that even Eve thought that
this was the one that would bruise the
serpent head.
She said, I've gotten a man from the
Lord.
And I think maybe the devil thought this
too.
And I can tell you this, that he
was behind Abel in this diabolical murder.
Because when Christ speaks of the devil, he
says, you were a murderer from the beginning.
And I think we could face this hatred
and this enmity right down through all the
pages of Scripture.
I'm sure that the devil had something to
do with the terrible thing that happened in
the days of Noah, when God had to
destroy the whole race.
Why the devil merely accomplished what he wanted
to accomplish, only that ask did some preserve.
I think it was the same in the
days of Esther, why the wicked Haman was
determined to blot out the whole Jewish race.
Only it didn't work, there were so many
who opposed him in the day.
And you can go on down through the
Scriptures, and you'll come to the time when
Christ was to be born in Bethlehem.
And the old devil knew now.
Knew where the Messiah would come from, and
knew where he would be born, and the
prophets had penned this, and he had learned
the truth of God.
And he, before the woman, should devour the
child.
That's what we're about to discuss.
Let's go back to Matthew's gospel.
Chapter 2, please.
The gospel by Matthew, and at the second
chapter.
Now, for the younger ones in the class,
I want to do this just once upon
a time, I can't remember when, but nevertheless
the Scriptures stand secure.
First one, Now when Jesus was born in
Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod
the king, behold there came wise men from
the east to Jerusalem.
Now when you say from the east, you're
thinking right out in the far east, you
know.
I think that these wise men came away
from Babylon, from Ur of the Chaldees, if
you like.
I want you to think properly.
You don't come in a minute from there
to Jerusalem.
You know, they came from Ur of the
Chaldees, and between Ur of the Chaldees and
Jerusalem, or Palestine, lies the Syrian desert.
Three thousand miles of burning sand.
And of course, in those days with camels
they wouldn't make a straight beeline across the
desert, they would get lost.
They would have to go up by the
little Euphrates and go right away north and
keep to the little bank the whole way.
And when you get to the point up
there, you can start going south towards Jerusalem,
and I can tell you it will take
you some time.
I can tell you the time it took
them actually.
It took them two years.
You watch the chapter we're in.
It says, Behold there came wise men from
the east saying, Where is he that is
born king of the Jews?
For we have seen his star in the
east.
They saw the star with the word away
out from the east, you know.
It didn't happen on Christmas morning or anything
like that.
The postcard was upside down sometimes.
Well, they'd seen the star in the east,
and I've come to worship him.
There's a lot of things in that.
You see the word born, where you see
that is born.
He was born, you know, just the way
you were born.
Oh, I know the conception wasn't like yours.
It was a malicious conception.
Oh, but the birth was just like yours.
He was born of a woman, you know.
And that word proves his humanity.
When you say, Where is he that is
born king, that would prove his royalty.
He was born king, you know.
When you say born king of the Jews,
that proves his nationality.
There's no argument he was a Jew.
Now, when they say, For we have seen
his star, you know, these were men who
studied the stars, and who knew a lot
more about them than Patrick Moore will ever
know.
And I want to say that he certainly
knows.
Sometimes I listen in to him talking about
the stars, and I fancy me listening to
Patrick Moore.
And he talks that quickly, and I really
keep up with him.
Let me say for him that he has
absolutely no degrees at all.
And yet I can see him losing all
the men of science at his damn age.
He's the man who knows his subject, and
I salute him as such.
Now, these men have seen this star.
This is a special star.
It had never been there before, and they
understood about it too.
We have seen his star.
If you take the word born, you can
see his humanity.
If you take the word king, you can
see his royalty.
If you take the word Jews, you can
see his nationality.
If you take the new star in the
heavens, you will see his superiority.
He was different from every other child.
God doesn't put a star in the sky
every time a child is born, you know.
This was somebody who was super, and they
knew that.
And they knew who he was.
King of the Jews.
So don't throw the star men out too
quick.
Watch this.
When you take the word born, you see
his humanity.
When you take the word king, you see
his royalty.
When you take the word Jews, you see
his nationality.
When you take the word star, you see
his superiority.
When you take the word worship, you see
his deity.
Now, they knew that he was God, you
know.
They had come to worship him.
You can't worship anyone who is not God,
you know.
When the Roman Catholics worshipped a plaster cast
on the wall, my dear friend, that's idolatry.
But they had come to worship this person.
He must be God, if you can worship
him.
God is a spirit, you know.
And they that worship him must worship him
in spirit and in truth.
And only God can you worship.
There's a lot of details in there.
See, you read far too fast.
You were as stupid as me, and had
to go slow.
You would do better, so it was.
Well, let's get on with the story.
Verse 3.
When Herod the king had heard these things,
he was troubled.
And all Jerusalem with him.
They can't understand all Jerusalem being troubled.
They can't understand old Herod being troubled.
He was the king.
They can't understand the Jews being troubled.
It was their Messiah that had come.
Verse 4.
And when he had gathered all the chief
priests and scribes of the people together, he
demanded of them where Christ, the Messiah, the
new king, should be born.
And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of
Judea, for thus it is written by the
prophet, prophet Micah, and thou Bethlehem in the
land of Judea art not the least among
the princes of Judea, for out of thee
shall come a governor that shall rule my
people Israel.
You see, the old scribes and priests knew
the scripture.
They knew that Micah had read this, and
they knew that the Messiah would be born
in Bethlehem.
They had no doubts at all about it.
Verse 7.
Then Herod, when he had privily called the
wise men, he brought them into the palace,
you know.
Brought them in privily.
He wants news.
I was very near going to say, to
take you to the palace to look for
news, but that wouldn't be altogether correct.
But in this day it was.
Then Herod, when he had privily called the
wise men, inquired of them diligently.
Now watch how he does this.
He wants to be sure about this.
What time the star appeared.
Now you just tell me what time the
star appeared the way out of Egypt.
You just tell me now.
And I can tell you just now that
it appeared two years before that, but you'll
find out as we read, you see.
And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said,
go and search diligently for the young child.
And you'll notice how the word just changed
there.
It is not the newborn baby now, you
know.
It is the young child, who is two
years old.
But I'll have to prove that.
Go and search diligently for the young child,
and when you have found him, bring me
word again, that I may come and worship
him also.
He had no notion of worshiping him, but
this is pure bluff.
When they had heard the king, they departed.
And oh, the star, which they saw in
the east, always get that bit in, because
it's a long time ago since they saw
it first, went before them, and came and
stood over where the young child was.
And this young child, when they saw the
star, they rejoiced with exceedingly joy.
And when they were come into the house,
because that is not the manger, you know.
It was a long time since the manger
began.
You'd better buy
now, read books.
You're not allowed to advertise.
Now let's get, this is very important here.
Verse 11.
And when they were come into the house,
mark it to house now, they saw the
young child with Mary, his mother.
Now is that the way you would write
things?
You were writing about the mother and child.
Would you put the child first, or the
mother?
I can tell you the way the Roman
church would write it.
Put the mother first.
I can tell you that your bible doesn't
give two whips about good grammar.
It's truth that matters.
And the young child, it says very carefully,
it says, and when they were come into
the house, they saw the young child with
Mary, his mother, and fell down and worshipped
her.
Not on your life, it doesn't.
He taught you that they worshipped her, on
pagan folk.
They worshipped him.
They were bothered too much about her.
After all, they worshipped him.
You can't worship her, she's not God.
Just for getting round to the place where
they would nearly tell you she's God.
Did I tell you about the time I
had the mission in Portobogli?
I used to go preaching with the fishermen
in the middle of the night.
And sometimes, you know, I went the way
down the old harbour there and sat on
the wall waiting on the boats.
And I was there by four one morning,
sitting on that wall, when the priest came
along.
Walked back again, had another look at me
and said,
what do you do?
I said, I'm preaching the gospel in the
little hall up the way there.
Oh, he said, you're a gospel preacher.
There are some things you wouldn't agree with
me on.
I said, sir, I would agree with you
on no things, never mind something.
He's a dear old fellow and he was
taking it all right.
He said, there's just the two of us.
Would you like to tell me some of
the things you don't agree with me about?
I said, I would love to, get up
on the wall beside me.
My opinion had come along and found me
with an old taste that tore in the
morning, to eat it up at the wall
beside me.
Well, let me ask you this, sir.
I said, do you pray to the Virgin
Mary?
He said, I don't.
I said, did you think she's God?
Oh, no, he said, I don't think she's
God.
I think she's the mother of God.
I said, do all the Roman Catholics in
Portoboro, do they pray to her?
Oh, yes, they do.
I said, and all the Roman Catholics in
Ballyholbrook and Ballywater and Malire and Donagherby and
Bangor.
Then I went the other way, Cloughy, Portosary,
Kirkcudden, Utna.
All the Roman Catholics in Ulster pray to
her and all in Ireland and all in
Scotland and all in England and all in
France and all in Germany and all over
the world.
It's a bit quieter now, you know.
I said, you know, sir, she's going to
hear them all at the one time.
She'll need to be gone.
Well, you never saw an old fellow getting
off a wall as quick in your life.
But off the wall, he stood out a
bit.
He said, you will disturb my faith.
I'll fix your faith for you.
I know these men who worship Mary.
I have all the respects of the day
for the Virgin Mary, you know.
Don't you make any mistakes about that.
I detest that book that some of you
have given out, because it takes the Virgin's
name out of it.
How dare you call her a girl.
The Holy Ghost inspired this word, Virgin.
How dare you destroy what God has inspired.
I think she's a blessed Virgin Mary.
It's what I respect.
Watch this very carefully.
And then they will come into the house.
They saw the young child with Mary, his
mother, and fell down and worshipped him.
And when they do put their treasures, they
presented unto him gifts, gold, French incense, and
myrrh.
I suppose because there are three things mentioned,
they must have thought there's just three men
here.
Now, watch what God did with them.
And being warned of God in a dream
that they should not return to Herod, they
departed into their own company another way.
They went back to the east, another way.
And when they were departed, behold, the angel
of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a
dream, saying, Arise and pick the young child.
And your angels are very careful how they
put things.
The angel said, Take the young child and
his mother.
And the young child is always first to
you.
And flee into Egypt, and be thou there
until I bring thee word.
For Herod will seek the young child to
destroy him.
You know, the devil was in Herod.
When the child was born, it took me
a long time to get round to that.
But I think this is worth doing for
the young people.
Verse 14.
When he arose, he took the young child
and his mother by night, and departed into
Egypt, and was there until the death of
Herod.
That it might be fulfilled which was spoken
of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out
of Egypt have I called my son.
Then Herod, when he saw that he was
not of the wise men, that's a disgrace,
was exceeding wroth, and sent forth and slew
all the children that were in Bethlehem, and
in the coast thereof, from two years old
and under.
Why did he do it from two years
old and under?
Because he had inquired diligently, and these men
told him the time, and it took them
two years to go right up the freighters
and right down again.
And if he's going to get this child
at all, he'll have to kill all the
children from two years old and under.
And he did, you know.
The devil was in him.
It's the old dragon that's at work.
I hope that's an exhibition of how to
read the scripture for us, because there's a
lot of things you would see if you
took your time.
Let's get back to the chapter.
Yes, this is the battle that is this
I was saying about.
You see the old dragon in verse 4,
at the end of the verse, he's standing
before, the dragon stood before the woman which
was ready to be delivered, for to destroy
her child as soon as it was born.
And he brought forth a man-child.
No trouble about that.
Who was to rule all nations with a
rod of iron?
And if you can't see who the man
-child is, I don't think I'm going to
be able to.
And who brought forth Christ?
Israel, according to the fact he came from
Israel.
This is the woman that he is.
Not the virgin, you know.
And you know, this child that's to rule
all nations.
When we come to chapter 19, have a
look at it just now.
Chapter 19, it says, verse 11, And I
saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse,
and he that sat upon him was called
Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth
judge and make war.
It says down there in verse 15, Out
of his mouth doth a sharp sword, that
with it he should smite the nations, and
he shall rule them with a rod of
iron, that is important, because that's her child,
you see.
So there is no problem at all.
This is Israel that's in the chapter.
This is Israel, who according to the flesh,
from whom according to the flesh Christ came.
And you see the devil was there to
devour them when he came.
And you see that he will eventually rule
the nations with a rod of iron.
And it says here, her child was caught
up unto God unto the throne.
Well, that should settle the matter.
I don't know that we need to go
on with this, because remember the church even
wasn't put on the throne.
Oh no, there's just one on the throne,
at the right hand of the majesty of
Christ.
It is our Lord Jesus.
You know when he rose from the dead
and eventually ascended, and went through the clouds
and then entered heaven itself, why all the
angels fell down before him.
What a sickness it is, as he went
up through the millions of myriads of bad
angels right to the throne, and a voice
came out of the excellent glory and said,
his power is now.
That's who was thinking about in the chapter.
Thinking about Israel.
Thinking about the battle at his death.
Thinking about the rights of his rulership.
Thinking about the gleam of his glory just
now.
Now, let's get some of the details in
of this old dragon that's here.
Verse three, and there appeared another wonder in
heaven, another sign in heaven, and behold a
great red dragon.
Now, why is the word red there?
For the younger ones, if you want to
know who the dragon is without much preaching,
look at verse nine.
And the great dragon was cast out, that
old serpent called the devil, and satan, which
deceives the whole world, he was cast out.
Yes, the devil, another name for him, just
dragon, serpent, satan, the devil.
Now, why red?
Because that's an inspired word, and you're not
allowed to do away with inspired words.
I can, I talk to the students in
the class.
You know, commas in the scriptures, and numbers
in the scriptures, are perhaps the most difficult
of all subjects.
You know, I know all about the numbers,
and I know about what all the numerical
prophets say about the numbers.
I learned my lessons there.
You see, one is, is just unity.
You remember that they were all of one
accord, one mind.
This is, this is unity.
And of course, two is relationship.
You see, how can two walk together except
to be agreed?
And if we're going to have fellowship, and
continual fellowship with God, we're not going to
agree with him.
Of course, three is trinity, isn't it?
Always trinity.
See, numbers say things, unity, relationship, fellowship, if
you like.
They say trinity.
Four, you know, when we talk about four,
we talk about the four wings of heaven,
we talk about the four corners of the
earth, we're talking about the whole world, you
know, when we talk about four.
When we talk about five, this is what
the numerical prophets do.
They say this is one and four.
They say this is God ruling the whole
world.
When you talk about six, they say this
is up the limits.
Six days start your liver, this is as
far as you can go.
When they talk about seven, they say this
is the perfect number.
I can go on, you know, and know
the numbers.
I can tell you it's the most dangerous
thing you ever did, because when they talk
about five, they say four and one are,
but I can make it three and two.
And I cannot set you up, which I,
you know, quite easily, because I can divide
the numbers a different way from you want
to.
So you've got to be very careful when
you come to numbers.
And don't go off the high springboard, thinking
that you know it all, because you know
one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight,
nine, ten, eleven, twelve.
Just take your time, you young fellows.
Now it's the very same with colours.
Very same with colours.
I think it's more difficult.
You know, supposing we were to take all
the colours in the book of the Revelation
along.
You know the colours in the book.
Oh, we're up at chapter twelve, you ought
to know a lot of them.
It would make you stand up now to
think how you've been getting on.
Well, you know there was a white horse,
don't you?
And there was a red one too.
And there was a black one.
White, red, black.
There was a pale one.
There was an emerald rainbow, a green rainbow.
You know, colours are tremendous and you can
get terribly mixed up.
Let me do this for you.
Where are we?
Let's go to chapter nineteen again, just for
a moment.
I didn't intend to do all this, but
it was just, this is what the Lord
wants to do to you.
Now, this is the marriage chapter.
Verse, verse seven.
Let us be glad and rejoice and give
honour to him, for the marriage of the
lamb is come and his wife is made
herself ready.
And to her was granted that she should
be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white.
There's your colour.
For fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
So that some of the prophetic numericalists, that's
what you call them, they work in numbers
and they work in colours, they say that
white always means the righteous.
At the marriage supper, of course, white means
the righteousness of the saints.
I remember going into a place in Canada
where an old fellow was giving a lecture
and he was talking about colour.
And he was talking about white, you know,
and white everywhere in the pictures is the
righteousness.
And then he left it open for questions,
you see.
And I suppose I shouldn't have done this,
but then I'm supposed to teach all them
something, you see.
And I said, you said that white is
always the righteousness.
He said, yes, yes, this is Revelation 19,
I knew that.
I said, the white was in Revelation 6,
because that's the Antichrist.
I said, you know, when the Pharisees were
here, the Lord Jesus said they need clean
the outside of the thing.
And he said, whited sepulchres was this the
righteousness of the saints.
Because if you started to argue with me
about colours, I would text you.
You'd be colourblind when I had finished with
it.
So don't go off your bean end about
either numbers or colours.
Let me be a bit more clear in
the scriptures and you'll not fall into any
trouble.
But there is one thing that sticks out
in the book of the Revelation and it's
this.
Let's go back to chapter 6.
And here are these four horses.
And this is the second one, verse 4.
And there went out another horse that was
red.
And there was given to him that sat
there on to take peace from the earth
that they should kill one another.
You remember when we were doing that?
I said, kill one another, that's not war,
that's civil war.
This is murdering.
And this is what Ulster is on the
verge of at times.
Civil war, murder.
And I would think that if Mr Heath
or Mr Wilson ever dared to give this
land away, there would be the greatest civil
war of all history.
I'm certainly sure of that.
And it's a thing I wouldn't like to
see.
And it's a thing I would preach against.
But it's a thing that if you're sensible,
you must see, it would happen.
However, I think that while they may be
foolish in many ways, both the two of
them have a lot of sense not to
do anything stupid.
I will think that.
Now, this means murder here, doesn't it?
Now, let's go from there to chapter 70.
And I don't want to waste time here.
This is this scarlet woman on this scarlet
-coloured beast.
You see this screen.
Tony carried me away in the spirit into
the wilderness.
And I saw a woman sit upon a
scarlet-coloured beast.
And the beast is full of names of
blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
And you can easily identify the beast.
And this is the Antichrist.
And the woman is riding the beast.
Now, what's the woman?
The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet
colour.
That's why I called her the scarlet woman.
Now, if you never knew who she was,
here is her name in verse 5.
Upon her forehead was the name written, Mystery,
Babel and the Great, the mother of harlots
and abominations of theirs.
And I saw the woman drunken with the
blood of the saints and with the blood
of the martyrs.
I would only need to ask this class,
go down through history, take out your Encyclopedia
Britannica and find out who is drunken with
the blood of the saints.
Go back and do it.
And it's not the communists.
I know they murdered one or two, maybe
a hundred or two.
And it's not Judaism.
I know they stoned Stephen and a few
others.
I'll tell you who's drunken with the blood
of the saints.
The Roman church.
The Roman church burned more men than I
can remember.
In the Inquisition, just you go back and
take out the book and have a look
at it.
Look up the word Inquisition.
And although I didn't like Britannica and Encyclopedia,
they wouldn't allow me.
You'll find out that millions, millions, oh let
me tell you, millions of the best men
and women who were ever walked this earth
in shoe leather were burned.
That's murder.
You see what I'm getting at.
This red horse, this red woman, this red
dragon.
Why did God say red?
Because he is a murderer.
And he's a murderer from the beginning.
There is no problem in that.
Let's get back to chapter 12.
You've got the word red, you've got the
word dragon, you know that.
Having seven heads, seven they say is the
perfect number.
Well, this is a statement of wisdom.
And you remember when we were doing the
devil.
You remember I pointed out that when he
was created, and he was created, you know,
it says in the day that thou was
created thou was full of wisdom.
He isn't a common five-head, you know,
he's full of wisdom.
It's too much for all of us.
And apart from the truth of this book
and the grace of God, we wouldn't be
able to manage it.
Yes, seven heads, you see, the ten horns.
And horns always speak of power, you know.
Yes, he's got mighty power.
And he's got crowns upon his head.
You see, the company that's with him, his
tale drew the third part of the stars
of heaven.
And we're not talking about the stars that
the wise men looked at now.
We're talking about the angels.
And the fallen angels, a third part of
all the angels, seem to fall with the
devil.
And this is the place where they're coming
down to earth.
You can see this.
Look away down at verse 9, and you
get the whole details.
The great dragon was cast out, that old
serpent called the devil and Satan, who deceives
the whole world.
He was cast out into the earth, and
the angels were cast out with him.
Look down at verse 12 quickly.
It says, Therefore rejoice, ye heavens, and ye
that dwell in them.
Because the saints are in heaven at this
time.
Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and
the sea, the folks that we leave behind
when the church goes.
For the devil is come down unto you,
having great wrath.
You can see his cruel face.
Because he knows that he has but a
short time.
You know, when he's cast out into the
earth, and won't be allowed to go into
the heavens, or into heaven anymore, my dear
friends, he will know that his time is
short then.
He knows what's in his book, you know.
You know, sometimes we go way back to
the book of Job, and we see all
the angels standing before God in heaven, and
they're going to report about their service, and
we find that Satan is standing with them.
Now, in those days, in the book of
Job, that's a good bit back, it's a
very old book, you know.
In those days, Satan could go into God's
throne, and he could accuse God's servants.
But there came a day when Jesus died,
and made the atonement, and the sacrifice for
sin, and rose again, and went back again,
and sat down again.
And from the moment he sat down, Satan
comes to him.
Satan is in the heavenlies.
We're talking about heaven and the heavenlies.
His whole army is in the heavenlies tonight.
My, at this moment, I wrestle not with
flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this
world, in heavenly places, wicked spirits.
And they all gather in round me to
try to cloud my thoughts, and disturb my
thinking, and my way of going.
That's who I battle with up here.
He's in the heavenlies.
I'll tell you this.
You see, when Christ went right back and
went in, the devil must be on his
feet from that moment.
Therefore he's in the heavenlies now.
But you know, the Lord is going to
leave the throne, and come to the earth.
He looked at us, the heavenlies.
And the moment he comes to the earth,
Satan goes to the earth.
Oh yes, that was a quantum idea.
And I'll tell you what's more.
The Lord will one day come to the
earth, and his feet shall stand on the
mount of Olives.
And the devil will go to the bottomless
pit.
Oh, he's under his feet.
No mistakes about that.
But the day that the Lord takes the
church home, and comes to the air, and
the devil comes to the earth.
I can tell you he's going to stir
up things down here, and he's going to
make it a hell for Israel.
It will be the day of desolation for
Israel.
I'll just tell you quickly, that's my show.
You know, this is something that's really thrilling
to me.
See verse 7, and there was war in
the heavenlies that were this.
There was war in the heavenlies.
And Michael and his angels fought against the
dragon, and the dragon fought against his angels.
And they failed not.
Neither was there a place found any more
in the heavenlies, and he was cast down
to the earth.
You know, the word war is in there.
And I can tell you that Michael will
go to war one day.
Let's go back to the book of Jude
for a moment.
Let's get a hold of who Michael is,
who we're talking about.
Verse 9.
Jude has only one chapter.
Yet, Michael, the archangel.
I want you to have a good look
at the words.
And remember, there are no archangels.
You know, if you looked at the words,
you would never make the mistake.
You see the word arch?
Well, you would know what it means, the
highest, don't you?
The highest angel.
There's only one of them, you know.
There's just one archangel.
Now, you would know by reading that just
now, that Michael, the archangel, is a great
personality, wouldn't you?
You'd have no trouble with that.
You would know this was a great personality.
God created the archangel Michael.
Now, it says, yes, Michael, the archangel, contending
with the devil disputed about the body of
Moses.
Now, it's funny that some of the boys
who admit that the archangel is a person
will not admit that the devil is a
person.
And I can't understand their mentality.
Because if you admit that the archangel is
a person, who do you think is contending
with the wind?
That's what they try to tell me, you
know.
No devil.
Great personality is arguing with something that's not
there.
I wouldn't like too much of that reasoning
in this class.
The boys that talk like that have no...
You can see Michael is a personality.
He's the archangel.
Then it is contending and disputing.
It is just a word, contending and disputing
with the devil.
Then the devil must be...
You know, they were contending and disputing about
the of Moses.
If he's the body of Moses, it's something
that's well worth thinking about.
I wonder when this argument took place.
You know, I believe this.
Of course, you know that Moses, there was
nobody at the funeral.
Only God.
Well, if God did your funeral, you're all
right.
In fact, it was God that buried Moses.
And nobody knows exactly where it was.
And you know, this is the time when
they're going to...
And the archangel is on the job.
Why?
Because he's a Jew.
Because you'll find that the archangel has a
commission from high heaven to look after the
Jews, even their dead bodies.
Don't make any mistakes about that.
I believe that God was going to bring
the body of Moses out of the grave.
I believe that our Moses would be his.
And you know, the old devil came around
to argue.
And I think the argument was this.
He says, you know, you can't raise them
because the purchase price is not paid.
And the archangel wouldn't rebuke him at all.
He just says, well, the Lord deal with
you.
You see, the thing was settled in the
mind and heart of God.
And actually, they were going to the Mount
of Transfiguration to talk about Christ deceased.
Talk about Christ's death.
But you want to get this bit into
your mind that he is the great prince
for the people of Israel.
Let's go to the book of Daniel for
a moment.
We'll not be back for another two weeks,
so we might as well have a night
of Daniel chapter 12.
Now, if you know Daniel chapter 11, you
remember we were through it.
And it talks about the Antichrist.
Look at verse 36.
Chapter 11, 36.
And the king shall do according to his
will.
He shall exalt himself and magnify himself above
every god and shall speak marvellous things against
the God of gods.
That's the man of sin in 2 Thessalonians
chapter 2.
Let's see verse 40.
Armed at the time of the end shall
the king of the skies push at him.
Like chapter 12 begins, armed at that time.
That's the 43 months, you know.
That's the tribulation.
At that time shall Michael stand up, the
great prince which standeth for the children of
my people.
Who is God talking to here?
Daniel.
Who is Daniel's people?
The Jews.
Ah, you won't find Michael in this book
except he's connected with Jews.
You see, he's the prince of Daniel's people.
He looks after them.
Even their dead bodies.
I'll tell you when they're in the tribulation
and the devil is going to give them
what for, it will be Michael who will
be fighting.
He'll cast them out because he knows that
he's just got a short time until the
Lord comes and puts him into the bottomless
pit.
That's the desolation of Israel.
Now when we come back on the 1st
of May, we're going to think about the
Antichrist himself, this great beast of Revelation chapter
15.
Because God's given us all these items to
go.
566, please, is a lovely hymn for us.
566, amid the trials that I meet, amid
the thorns that pierce my feet, one thought
remains supremely sweet, thou thinkest, Lord, of me.
566, please.
God, we
thank thee again for thy holy word.
And in my fear, take
us to our home safely, for thy holy
name's sake.